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Als Wren das Foto auf der Dating-App sieht, fühlt sie sich sogleich zu dem Mann mit dem melancholischen Lächeln hingezogen. Kurz darauf trifft sie Adam in einer Bar, und es ist vollends um sie geschehen. Doch dann meldet sich ihr Traummann plötzlich nicht mehr, und wenig später steht ein Polizist vor ihrer Tür. Er ist dem rätselhaften Verschwinden einer ganzen Reihe junger Frauen auf der Spur. Sie alle hatten sich über die App verliebt und wurden anschließend nie mehr gesehen.

Anche le brave persone a volte sono attratte dalle cose malvagie... La dodicenne Rain Winter è riuscita a sfuggire al suo rapitore mentre andava a casa di un amico. I suoi due migliori amici, Tess e Hank, non sono stati così fortunati. Tess non è mai tornata a casa e Hank è stato tenuto prigioniero prima di riuscire a scappare. Alla fine il loro rapitore fu catturato e arrestato ma, anni dopo, fu rilasciato. Poi qualcuno ha deciso di fare giustizia e l'ha ucciso a sangue freddo.

Ten years after Eloise Montgomery discovers her psychic abilities, she is a full-fledged working psychic, with a partner and a business. Now, in The Burning Girl, she's discovering some disturbing things: secrets about her genealogy that are, perhaps, best left in the past; that her granddaughter Finley has powers of her own; and that not all of Eloise's visitors actually want to be helped. Some of them are just looking for trouble.

Annie Powers lives a pampered life in a wealthy Florida suburb with a husband and a beautiful daughter. That happiness starts to fade when Annie feels the demons of her past creeping up on her. It's a past that she can't even recall, but recent events - the appearance of a familiar dark figure on the beach, the murder of her psychologist - trigger strange and confusing memories for Annie. She now realizes she has to quickly piece them together before her past comes to claim her and her daughter.

Isabel Raine thought she had everything–a successful career, a supportive family, and a happy marriage to the man she loved. Then one ordinary morning, her husband, Marcus, picks up his briefcase, kisses her good-bye, and simply vanishes.

Ridley Jones is being careful about where she steps and trying to get on with her life when a seemingly mundane act–picking up a few envelopes of prints at a photo lab–puts her at the nexus of a global network of crime. A shadowy figure of a man appears in almost every picture she’s taken in the last year, lurking just far enough away to make identification impossible. Now the FBI is at her door, some serious bad guys are following her every move, and the family she once loved and relied on is more distant than ever.

In the final installment of her Lydia Strong series, best-selling author Lisa Unger, writing as Lisa Miscione, brings us her most shocking and emotionally wrenching case yet. An NYPD detective visits Lydia and her husband, P.I. Jeffrey Mark, to inform them that Lily, one of Lydia’s former writing students, has been missing for more than two weeks. Before she disappeared, Lily had tried to get in touch with Lydia, seeking her help. Could this have had something to do with the death of Lily’s brother, which Lily refused to accept as a suicide?

Twelve-year-old Rain Winter narrowly escaped an abduction while walking to a friend’s house. Her two best friends, Tess and Hank, were not as lucky. Tess never came home, and Hank was held in captivity before managing to escape. Their abductor was sent to prison but years later was released. Then someone delivered real justice — and killed him in cold blood.

Der neue Gänsehaut-Thriller der NEW YORK TIMES-Bestsellerautorin. Die Autorin Rosie Lowan und ihr Ehemann Chad kommen in New York kaum über die Runden, als sie eine überraschende Nachricht erhalten: Chads verstorbener Onkel hat ihnen seine Luxuswohnung im historischen Windermere-Gebäude vererbt. Das junge Paar kann sein Glück kaum fassen. Doch schon kurz nach dem Umzug beschleicht Rosie ein beängstigendes Gefühl. Die vielen Kameras im Haus und die überfürsorglichen Nachbarn erscheinen ihr seltsam. Ebenso wie die Gerüchte um mysteriöse Todesfälle, die sich im Gebäude ereignet haben sollen.

Ein idyllisch gelegenes Cottage mit Whirlpool und Sternekoch. Hannah und ihr Mann Bruce freuen sich auf ein besonderes Wochenende in Gesellschaft guter Freunde. Doch schon bald ist die Stimmung im Cottage angespannt. Hannah spürt, dass Bruce etwas vor ihr verbirgt. Und als der Koch beim Abendessen unheimliche Geschichten über die Vergangenheit des Hauses erzählt, während draußen ein Sturm aufzieht, würde Hannah am liebsten wieder abreisen.