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Tempe Brennan ist forensische Anthropologin in Montreal. Skelette und verweste Körperteile gehören zu ihrem Alltag. Als die 23-jährige Isabelle missbraucht, erdrosselt und zerstückelt in Müllsäcken aufgefunden wird, erinnert sich Tempe an einen Fall ein Jahr zuvor. Sie versucht, die beiden Verbrechen mit drei weiteren Leichen in Verbindung zu bringen. Doch Detective Luc Claudel nimmt sie nicht ernst.

Kinjo Heywood is one of the New England Patriots’ marquee players - a hard-nosed linebacker who’s earned his reputation as one of the toughest guys in the league. When off-field violence repeatedly lands Heywood in the news, his slick agent hires Spenser to find the men who he says have been harassing his client.

High atop a snow-covered hill, the stately old Wyatt mansion is perched like a crown, its stone spires pointing upward, its stained glass windows glowing like colorful jewels. Such opulence means success and, surely, happiness. But on the eve of wealthy philanthropist Cecil Wyatt's 80th birthday, all the money in the world won't bring back his missing grandson, William Wyatt. The only thing for certain: Foul play was involved.

Kinsey meets him in the local gym. Bobby Callahan is a scarred young man struggling back to life after a car forced his Porsche over the edge of a canyon, battering his body and muddling his memory. All he remembers is that someone, for some reason, tried to kill him. Desperate for clues about his own past life and certain he is being stalked, he asks Kinsey to protect him.

Dr. Eric Najarian. He's young, talented, and ambitious. He has all the qualities they're looking for at White Memorial Hospital. He doesn't know he's being watched. Judged. An elite clique of medical professionals thinks he has what it takes to join their secret club. All the young doctor has to do is agree to play by their rules... But Eric has already seen too much. A missing corpse. An unspeakable mutilation. A brutal abduction. It's only the beginning of a plot of terrifying evil.

A newly elected president faces the unexpected chance to nominate a new chief justice of the Supreme Court. His first choice is a nationally respected Court of Appeals judge, a woman whose nomination faces two serious obstacles: a long-held personal secret; and the prospect that a volatile abortion case- a trial pitting a 15-year-old girl against her pro-life parents- will come before the court. And the Senate majority leader is determined to thwart the president's nomination for reasons that cross the boundary between the political and the personal.

Die Zukunft des Landes entscheidet sich auf einer kleinen Insel im Wattenmeer. Sommerpause. Der Bundespräsident macht Urlaub auf Juist. Doch es gibt ernst zu nehmende Hinweise, dass ein Mörder auf ihn angesetzt wurde. Kriminalhauptkommissar Tinus Velten wird von Berlin auf die ostfriesische Insel entsandt, um das Sicherheitsteam vor Ort zu unterstützen. Und er hat noch einen zweiten, geheimen Auftrag: Offenbar gibt es einen Spitzel in den eigenen Reihen. Velten muss ihn so schnell wie möglich überführen - sonst wird sein erster Einsatz an der Nordsee tödlich enden.

When secretary Colleen Roper becomes pregnant by her boss, Michael, he whisks her away to Ravenwood, his opulent estate. Abruptly thrust into a life of luxury she’s never known, Colleen finds the immense house suffused with the memory of Michael’s wife, Joanna, who left months ago and haunts her imagination. With rooms she’s prohibited from entering and a staff that greets her with hostility, there is little room for a new mistress of Ravenwood. It’s not long before bones are unearthed in the grove across the street and Michael falls under the suspicion of detectives.

Cuervo is a pampered Nicaraguan moneyman, funding a guerrilla war from his cushy Miami penthouse. Sixto is his hulking, pistol-packing attendant, whose job satisfaction is on the wane. When an aging mobster enters their lives with a promise to help the rebel cause - with a planeload of chickens originally intended for voodoo sacrifice - a tense situation turns combustible. From the wickedly funny mind of Carl Hiaasen comes "The Edible Exile", a raucous story of sleazeball nihilists, lovable thugs, and jungle-weary freedom fighters who collide in a battle of wills, ego, and the almighty dollar.

Charlotte Arkendale was quite sure she knew all there was to know about men. After all, she'd made a highly lucrative career out of steering marriage-minded women away from untrustworthy members of the opposite sex. But nothing in Charlotte's considerable experience had prepared her for the arresting stranger who appeared on her doorstep to apply for the position of her new man-of-affairs.He claimed to be a respectable gentleman - discreet, unassuming, ordinary to the point of being dull. Yet something about the set of Mr. St. Ives's broad shoulders and the unrelenting determination that smoldered in the depths of his amber eyes warned Charlotte to be wary. For the strong-minded beauty was already embroiled in a wealth of danger.Two months earlier, Miss Drusilla Heskett had become on of Charlotte's clients. Now the woman was dead, murdered in her own home, and Charlotte feared that the killer may have been one of the suitors she herself had advised Miss Heskett to reject. Still, with the right man by her side, Charlotte was certain she could uncover the truth and bring Drusilla's killer to justice. But was the enigmatic St. Ives Mr. Right...or Mr. Wrong?

Superstar mystery novelist Grace McCabe needs to unwind after a grueling book tour, and visiting her sister, whom she hasn't seen in months, seems the perfect solution. But Grace is surprised to find the fastidious Kathleen living in a grungy Washington, D.C., neighborhood. Kathleen, reeling from a bitter divorce and the loss of her son, is saving every penny of her teacher's salary to hire a hotshot lawyer for a custody battle.

Schneller, härter, kälter. Vor acht Jahren wurde ihr alles genommen. Jetzt ist Zeit für die Rache. Zeit, ihren Todfeind das Fürchten zu lehren. 1989 führt Luzy Morgenroth auf Amrum das eintönige Leben einer Provinzpolizistin. Kaum jemand ahnt, dass sie vor langer Zeit eine Andere war. Doch als in einer Sturmnacht der Bruder ihrer besten Freundin spurlos von der Fähre verschwindet und sie sich fünf Killern stellen muss, die auf die Insel gekommen sind, verwandelt sie sich wieder in die Luzy von damals, eine Waffe. Kälter ist ein Hochspannungsroman auf Adrenalin.

Henry Cimoli and Spenser have been friends for years, yet the old boxing trainer has never asked the private eye for a favor. Until now. A developer is trying to buy up Henry's condo on Revere Beach - with a push from local thugs. Soon, Spenser and his apprentice, Zebulon Sixkill, are on the trail of a mysterious woman, a megalomaniacal Las Vegas kingpin, and a shady plan to turn a chunk of land north of Boston into a sprawling casino. As alliances shift and twisted dreams surface, the Boston political machine looks to end Spenser's investigation one way or another.

Before hypnotism, there was Mesmerism. And in 1894 Minneapolis, in the wake of a national financial crisis, spiritualism of every stripe is all the rage, and women are dying under mysterious circumstances. But until a new guest lands at the Bethany Home for Unwed Mothers, refusing to speak or explain her arrival, the sordid stories of unexplained deaths seem unconnected. Faith’s reticence is quickly interpreted as malevolence, setting the house abuzz with whispers of dark magic.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman writes unforgettable tales of crime and detection that expose the shadowy side of glittering Los Angeles. And in Evidence, listeners are once again in the dexterous grip of a master storyteller and stylist equally skilled at teasing your brain and taking your breath away.In the half-built skeleton of a monstrously vulgar mansion in one of L.A.’s toniest neighborhoods, a watchman stumbles on the bodies of a young couple–murdered in flagrante and left in a gruesome postmortem embrace.

"Sei ganz ehrlich: Wenn du dich nicht zwischen uns entscheiden müsstest, würdest du es dennoch tun?" Der Deal ist simpel: Ein Jahr lang soll die 19-jährige Cecelia zu ihrem entfremdeten Vater nach Triple Falls ziehen und in dessen Fabrik arbeiten, im Gegenzug erhält sie Zugang zu seinem Vermögen. Angewiesen auf das Geld, um ihrer kranken Mutter helfen zu können, willigt Cecelia ein – nichts ahnend, dass sie als Tochter des Chefs dort nicht den einfachsten Start haben wird. Doch das ändert sich, als sie Sean kennenlernt.

Er greift ein, als Scotland Yard versagt! Der Auftakt der neuen actionreichen Spannungsserie. Der ehemalige Polizist Robert Hoon kann kaum anders, als zu helfen, als ihn ein alter Freund bittet, seine Tochter zu finden. Immerhin hat ihm der Mann das Leben gerettet. Die Polizei hat den Fall bereits zu den Akten gelegt, solange es keine neuen Hinweise gibt – und die will Hoon nun liefern.

Marc Bowman, a highly successful computer consultant and software designer, walks into his job at a major tech company one morning only to find himself fired on the spot, stonewalled by his boss, and ushered out of the building. Then things get worse: An explosive argument drives his wife away and a robbery threatens to yank a million-dollar idea - and his whole future - out from under him. In a matter of hours, Marc has gone from having it all to being sucker-punched by fate.

In an apathetic society devoid of ethics or regulation, where fusing tech and flesh can mean a killing edge or a killer conversion, a massive conspiracy is unfolding that will alter the course of the human condition forever. With corporate meatheads on her ass and a necro-tech blight between her and salvation, Riko is going to have to fight meaner, work smarter, and push harder than she's ever had to. And that's just to make it through the day.

Etwas ist faul in Baronville, Pennsylvania. Die alte Industriestadt scheint dem Untergang geweiht: Die Zahl der Drogentoten steigt beängstigend schnell und eine Mordserie gibt FBI-Ermittler Amos Decker und seiner Kollegin Alex Jamison Rätsel auf. Eigentlich kann sich Decker, der seit einem Unfall vor vielen Jahren nichts vergisst, auf seine einzigartigen Fähigkeiten verlassen. Doch bei diesem Fall stößt der Memory Man an seine Grenzen.