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"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.

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.

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.

George Olsen's life is one big lie. As a witness in a mob-money-embezzlement-operation-turned-deadly, he lives within the WITSEC program and has had plenty of trouble adapting to life. Never look back: It’s one of the sacred rules within the WITSEC program. But when he hears an old flame has moved back to New Mexico and is in danger, he is forced to return to his old stomping grounds only to discover that decision could prove to be fatal.

"Tout a changé si vite. Trop vite. Je n'ai pas le temps de m'adapter à une situation qu'il faut déjà franchir le palier suivant. Je suis terrifiée à l'idée qu'un jour, je ne réussisse plus à grimper." Enflammer les foules, Alana en rêve depuis son plus jeune âge. Son frère, Alexz, l'y prépare d'ailleurs avec acharnement. Mais le jour où le célèbre Nate Vance leur propose de quitter Moscou pour embarquer sur sa tournée anglaise, c'est une descente aux enfers qui s'amorce.

US Marshal David Crockett Hall and Texas Ranger John Barclay Armstrong have set out chasing men, each for their own reasons. When their paths converge in Kansas, they discover the men they were following separately have now joined together and are heading for a giant payday somewhere, but where, the two lawmen don't know. This story is about camaraderie, friendship, hardship, and an unerring desire to complete their jobs at any and all costs.

Mitch O'Reilly, has been hired by big time Hollywood director T.J. Mooney to follow his son Austin, who is starting an acting career without riding the coattails of his powerful father. T.J. isn't happy his beloved son has changed his last name and chooses to live in a sketchy apartment and not the family mansion in Bel Air. To Mitch, it's another routine stakeout until Austin’s body is found on the hill below the Hollywood sign.

Dernier représentant d'une entreprise de nains de jardin rachetée par une holding américaine, Xavier Barthoux mène une vie bien rangée entre la tournée de ses clients, son épouse, son chien et sa résidence secondaire des Cévennes. Mais quand il découvre une fissure dans le mur de sa maison, c'est tout son univers qui se lézarde... Animé par une unique obsession, réparer la fissure, il entreprend un périple extrême et merveilleux jusqu'à l'autre bout du monde.

Cold War superspy Evan Tanner lost the ability to sleep on a battlefield in Korea. So where the heck has he been since the '70s? Frozen. Cryogenically. A Tanner-sicle. Which he never thought would happen when he walked into a basement in Union City, New Jersey, more than a quarter century ago. Now he's unthawed and ready to rumble, and his somewhat addled, former super-secret boss, "the Chief", is glad his favorite operative's active again.

Successful entrepreneur and success guide Theo Prodromitis offers a powerful yet intuitive roadmap for tapping into the balanced sweet spot between hustle and flow - one that will change your business and your life. By sharing her own compelling stories and accessing the wisdom of Eastern and Western philosophical traditions, Theo coaches those with a growth mindset to level up by looking within. What do I really want? How can I serve?