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Private Investigator Martina Monroe has no room for grief. Nearly a year after she failed to prevent her husband’s death, a battered woman depends on her for safety. But when she arrives too late and finds the female dead, the tormented detective’s only solace is a deeper relationship with the bottle. Struggling with sobriety and doing her job, Martina still has to protect another client battling a stalker. And if she doesn’t get her act together soon, one more victim may pay the price for her mistakes.

A fascinating collection of travellers' tales, featuring weird innkeepers, ghouls and ghosts, robbers and murderers, card sharpers and confidence tricksters, dead bodies in odd places....the very thing for anyone busy planning a vacation this year....

PI Martina and Detective Hirsch accept the new sheriff’s request to reopen a ten-year-old serial killer case. Not that they could refuse. One victim was the sheriff’s brother, a married father of two. The case is strange. Someone has murdered three successful men within a six-month time period. There were no suspects and no motive. The only connection is their cause of death. The links are thin and the motive is unknown, but Martina and Hirsch know better than to ignore the similarities.

Six weeks ago, Jess was picking up the shattered pieces of a bitter divorce, just trying to numb the sting of betrayal. Now she’s standing over a dead body, the gun still warm in her trembling hands wondering how it all went so wrong. Rewind to the night she first stumbled across a tattered box crammed with old pop-star memorabilia: relics of her teenage obsession, the only bright spot in her tumultuous youth. But buried beneath the ticket stubs and fan magazines lurks a secret that sends a chill through her veins and a warning she can’t ignore.

My Korean Mom is a bittersweet love letter from Mary H. K. Choi to her mother that hopes to convey the frustration, shame, loyalty, and searing adoration that's part and parcel of being the kid of an immigrant. It's not as if she could tell her mother to her face how much she loves her. That's just not how it's done.

In a world gone wrong, heroes and villains are not always easy to distinguish and every individual has the ability to contribute something powerful. In this stunning collection of original and rediscovered stories of tragedy and hope, the stars are a diverse group of students, street kids, good girls, kidnappers, and child laborers pitted against their environments, their governments, differing cultures, and sometimes one another as they seek answers in their dystopian worlds.

Auf seiner Suche nach Hilfe im Kampf gegen die Galaktischen Händler erhält Perry Rhodan bei einem Ausflug in die Unendlichkeit von ES, dem Geisteswesen des Planeten Wanderer, eine geheimnisvolle Waffe - den Fiktivtransmitter - mit dessen Hilfe er den Springersippen eine schwere Schlappe beibringen kann. Doch die Patriarchen der Springer geben nicht auf.

Die Milchstraße ist nach Jahren der Unterdrückung wieder frei, die Macht der Ewigen Krieger gebrochen. Die Menschen und die Angehörigen anderer Sternenvölker machen sich gemeinsam an den Wiederaufbau. Doch die nächste Bedrohung nähert sich. Ganze Sonnensysteme materialisieren im Leerraum zwischen den Galaxien. Wie es aussieht, stammen sie aus einem fremden Universum. Ihr Auftauchen löst den sogenannten Strangeness-Schock aus. Menschen werden verwirrt, Raumschiffe schwer beschädigt, Welten verwüstet.

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume Five is the fifth instalment of our wide-ranging classic collections. Volume Five features 14 essential works that reach across Europe, America, and Russia - from Twain to Dostoyevsky to Austen - to bring together some of the most influential authors of the 18th and 19th century. Read by a cast of incredible narrators, this is a chance to expand your listening by going deeper into some of your favourite authors' works and find your new favourite piece of classic literature.

In the world of speculative fiction… Your favorite authors… Have selected best new voices of the year.

When a friend phones H. K. Hales one Christmas Eve in a panic and asks for help, he is somewhat bemused. The caller is due to be married the next day and cannot possibly get there on time. H. K. rises to the challenge of driving him at top speed to Ashby-de-la-Zouch. It seems like they might be in with a chance of getting there on time, until the car breaks down nine miles short and they are forced to try to find an alternative mode of transport.

SonicMovies are premium audios with strong vocal performances enhanced by music and sound effects to such an extent they sound like movies. Included here are 13 tales from H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, and more.

This candid and darkly witty memoir recounts an exhilarating life - and a few close brushes with death. With remarkable sangfroid and a humorist's eye for absurdity, H. K. Roy describes his many strange and risky exploits in his long career with the CIA. Whether he was pursuing Soviet and Cuban spies, running "denied area" operations in Eastern Europe, hunting Bosnian War criminals, or providing actionable intelligence to US government and coalition forces in Iraq, Roy usually found himself at the right place at the right time.

One thing has always been clear to Isabelle Bennett: she wants to find true love. She's always been a hopeless romantic, losing herself in the pages of books when men in the real world inevitably disappoint. But she still dreams of finding her soulmate, and after meeting Reid Lawson, she wonders if she finally has. Neither of them can deny the chemistry they feel. However, after a conversation gone wrong, they hide their feelings for each other, claiming there's no way they could ever be more than friends.

Comedy, mystery, classic horror, children's stories, adventure and more! The range of titles available in the complete fourth season of The Classic Tales Podcast is unparalleled! It contains 29 audiobooks, including two complete novels and three newly recorded stories. It's over 39 hours long!

With his promotion to a field operative, “Twigs” thought it was finally his time to step into the spotlight and be the hero he always wanted to be. However, when he finds himself working alongside "Shiver", the most dangerous woman in the whole megatropolis of Umbrae, he soon realizes that he might just be the sidekick.

Nach wie vor sind Perry Rhodan und seine Begleiter in der Vergangenheit gestrandet, über 50.000 Jahre von ihrer eigenen Zeit entfernt. Verzweifelt ringen sie um ihre Rückkehr, denn die bedrohte Menschheit in der Gegenwart benötigt dringend ihre Erkenntnisse. Doch dann erhalten die Terraner unerwartete Unterstützung. Trotz dieser Hilfe gehen die Auseinandersetzungen in der Vergangenheit weiter.

Eine immer noch zeitgemäße Science-Fiction-Oper: "Die Dritte Macht (Perry Rhodan Silber Edition Nr.1)" von Clark Darlton und K. H. Scheer bildet den Start der berühmten Perry-Rhodan-Saga. Josef Tratnik liest die abenteuerliche Geschichte mit viel Leidenschaft und macht das Hörbuch für Sie zu einem ganz besonderen Vergnügen!

On February 20, 1945, the second day of the assault on Iwo Jima - one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific theater in World War II - Private Jack Lucas, who was only 17, and three other Marines engaged in a close-proximity firefight with Japanese soldiers. When two enemy grenades landed in their trench, Lucas jumped on one and pulled the other under his body to save the lives of his comrades. Lucas was blown into the air as his body was torn apart by 250 entrance wounds. He was so severely wounded that his team left him for dead. Miraculously, he survived.

When beloved local teacher and devoted mother, Claire Nelson, is discovered murdered in her kitchen, stab wounds covering her delicate pale skin, FBI Special Agent Val Costa is drawn out of retirement. Claire’s two children are in pieces, and Val won’t rest until they have the justice they deserve. Battling nightmares about the serial killer she escaped just weeks ago, Val has her work cut out for her. A church regular, Claire was adored by her neighbours and spent her spare time helping the homeless. Who would want to hurt this beautiful soul?