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Following hot on the heels of his rescue of Carmel's mayor from the ship Wicked Joe in Monterey Noir, Barker once again finds himself in a hot mess of danger and intrigue. From an encounter with the disturbing Easter Bunny Man at Pacific Grove's famous Lover's Point to a diabolical plot by the homeless denizens of Deadrent Kingdom, trouble is never very far from Barker and his collection of loyal canines. And mystery has a way of following this strange man who deliberately chooses to live in the margins of society.

This anthology is the latest collection of time-travel romance sci-fi short stories from prominent, award-winning sci-fi authors including Nina Allan, Carrie Vaughn and Seanan McGuire. Follow time travellers of all genders as they go backward and forward in time, sometimes to save the one they love, other times as a sacrifice and others simply because it's their job.

Im viertklassigen Hotel Nordstern wird ein Mann mit einem Dolch ermordet. Am Tatort entdeckt Kommissar Maigret einen seidenen Damenstrumpf unter dem Bett. Auf der Suche nach dem fehlenden zweiten Strumpf macht er sich auf eine Reise durch die Damenwelt des Hotels, um die Mörderin oder den Mörder zu finden.

"Merde", sagt der Kassierer Maurice zur Verwunderung seiner Frau mit tonloser Stimme, bevor er tot zu Boden sinkt. Erschossen. Der Fall will Kommissar Maigret einfach nicht aus dem Kopf gehen. Denn man tötet nicht die kleinen Leute und erst recht nicht auf diese Weise.

Das kleine Hotel wird auch Herberge der Ertrunkenen genannt, weil öfter Autos im nahen Fluss landen. Als ein junges Paar die Böschung herabstürzt und verschwindet, deutet alles auf einen Unfall hin. Doch als im Kofferraum eine Leiche gefunden wird, wittert Kommissar Maigret ein Verbrechen.

Eine Schneiderin schickt Maigret einen verzweifelten Hilferuf. Denn ihr Geliebter, Albert, soll bei einem Einbruch auf dem Boulevard Beaumarchais jemanden erschossen haben und die verzweifelte junge Frau erhält seitdem Drohbriefe.

Childhood playmates in Mississippi, in the 1950s, grew up to find themselves on opposite sides of the racial conflagration, during the early days of integration. Years later, one of them, now a civil rights lawyer, returns to his boyhood home to confront unresolved issues from his complicated past. A poignant, heartrending story of loss, brokenness, guilt, and possible redemption - this listen invites comparison with the political divisiveness of the present day.

Un roman initiatique, une fable enracinée, une course folle pour la liberté, un cri d'amour à la nature et surtout, un appel à la vie intérieure. Quelque part dans les Alpes, la Grande Vallée bat au rythme des saisons. Dans les mois chauds de transhumance, accompagnant leurs bêtes sur les flancs de la montagne, les bergers savourent leurs joies pastorales au milieu de la nature intacte. Le tour d'horizon est somptueux, entre les neiges éternelles qui éblouissent le regard et le vert qui, plus bas, inonde les vallons.

Niralya May, a wealthy socialite who never strayed from her rigid calendar, was scheduled to be on the east side of the lake collecting rent from her cottage tenants. Instead, she was found face down in a ditch - on the opposite side of the lake - murdered. According to her handsome trophy husband, Mrs. May wouldn’t be caught dead on the west side of the lake on a Tuesday! Yet she was, and it’s no mistake that she is well and truly dead.

On Thursdays, Nelson, Ashley and Mum head out to the bank. But not just any old bank - the food bank. With its shining tins and packets of food stacked from floor to ceiling, Nelson thinks it's the best kind of bank there is. But there's a thief in town, and the shelves of the food bank are getting emptier each day, leaving people hungrier than ever. For the sake of his family and everyone else's, Nelson needs to make them stop. But can he and his friends really be the ones to catch the bank robber?

Inspired by Peter Moffat's popular BBC One show, Silk, this compelling courtroom drama returns to Shoe Lane Chambers, but from a different perspective. Rather than focussing on the lawyers, it centres on the people who can make or break their careers—their clerks.

Here's the book that started it all: A Girl Called Honey - and if listening to the saga of Honor Mercy Bane brings you a small fraction of the fun we had writing it, you'll be back right away to scoop up So Willing and Sin Hellcat.

Das Kulthörspiel jetzt auch digital. Das Weihnachtshörbuch für alle kleinen und großen Hörer. Ein LITERA - Klassiker.

An action-packed, laugh-out-loud, high-energy story for boys and girls featuring adults taken over by aliens and a brave group of kids who must work together as a team to stop them! Brothers Trey and Jax spend after-school hours rehearsing with their street dance collective the Fly High Crew, until the evening they see a green beam of light flash out of the sky and are thrown into an out-of-this-world adventure! Aliens have landed and are mind-controlling all the teachers and adults: can the Fly High Crew work together as a team and save the day?

An immersive anthology of stories examining home and belonging, with an introduction from former Waterstones Children’s Book Prize category winner Sharna Jackson, Happy Here features stories and poems by 10 Black British authors exploring themes of family, friendship, laughter, magic and peril - in different genres and styles, but all about joy.

"Je ne vous ai pas demandé qui vous étiez. Mais quoi. Quel genre littéraire ?" Voilà comment Max, 33 ans, est accueilli dans un bâtiment froid et austère avant de comprendre qu'il vient de mourir dans un accident de voiture. Il n'est ni au Paradis, ni au Purgatoire, mais à l'Inspiratoire où les morts doivent choisir un genre littéraire afin d'inspirer un auteur sur terre. Ils sont ainsi réincarnés en personnages de roman. Sous le choc de sa mort brutale, Max a plus de questions que de réponses. Il est, ce que l'on appelle, un "Indécis".

A homeless hero with the crime-solving skills of Sherlock Holmes. Not every hero lives in a mansion or works from a smoky, hard-boiled office. Enter Barker, a mysterious man with no memory of his past. Ferociously handsome and acutely observant, Barker makes his home under the soggy planks of Old Fisherman's Wharf along California's foggy Central Coast. His closest friends are an assortment of stray dogs, ranging from a large Rottweiler to a tiny Shih-Tzu, who live with him. Adventure and intrigue have an uncanny knack for crossing Barker's path.

Discover the new daring tales of inspiration from over 50 iconic British icons today, who have each harnessed their curiosity and ambition and turned it into their own superhero power.

Broadway Can Be Murder started out to be a novel based on Johnny Midnight, a TV series which everyone has long since forgotten. Except, of course, that nothing manages to be forgotten in the Internet Age. I, whose job it was to knock out 50,000 words of Johnny Midnightish prose and dialogue, had forgotten when it ran and who was in it, but Google took no time at all to remind me that the title role was played by Edmund O’Brien, and that the series ran during the first nine months of 1960. I was in New York, newly married, living at 110 West 69th Street.

When the SOS came from his pardner, Holt Spainhower knew he had to hit leather for Main City, but he hated like hell to do it. Spainhower had used his fast gun to clean up plenty of other towns, and he was tired of all the killing. But there was something even more sinister about Main City. And when Spainhower met murder on the road to that frontier town, he began to realize just how violent a job lay before him.