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Als Miriam erfährt, dass ihr Bruder Gregor in einer psychiatrischen Klinik untergebracht wurde, fühlt sie sich wie vor den Kopf geschlagen. Leidet er wirklich unter Verfolgungswahn oder irren sich die Ärzte? Anfangs noch verwirrt und überfordert, verliert Miriam zunehmend den Glauben, dass der Klinikaufenthalt Gregor helfen wird. Immerhin deutet vieles darauf hin, dass ihr Bruder recht hatte. Auf der Suche nach dem geheimnisvollen Verfolger verstrickt sich Miriam immer mehr in Gregors Welt, bis sie schließlich niemandem mehr trauen kann.

She glances around as she locks the café door behind her. It's growing dark and the quiet street is deserted. Tired, she starts on her short walk home. She thinks she'll be safe inside within minutes, but the person watching from the shadows has other plans for her tonight... When the body of a young woman is discovered in a local playground in the center of Black Rock Falls, Sheriff Jenna Alton and her deputy David Kane rush to the scene. Jenna recoils with horror when she sees the body, dressed in a thin nightgown, her face covered by a terrifying Halloween mask. When the body is examined, red puncture marks are uncovered along her spine. Jenna makes a connection with a cold case where the killer tortured young women for years and was never caught. If the murderer has started killing again, Jenna knows it's only a matter of time before another body is found. Days later, when another victim lays slumped against the fence of a local landfill site, with the same puncture wounds and macabre mask, Jenna's fears are confirmed. A serial killer is back in town and they're picking off women one by one. Then, as a third body is found, Jenna finally gets the breakthrough she needs. Dirt found underneath the women's fingernails leads to a dangerous cave network in the mountains outside town. And once Jenna ventures into the dark, winding underground tunnels, will she find the person responsible for the deaths and take them down, or has she just walked into the killer's trap? Fans of Lisa Regan, Melinda Leigh and Kendra Elliot will be gripped by this crime thriller from USA Today bestselling author D.K. Hood. Prepare to stay up all night! **Each Kane and Alton book can be read as part of the series or as a standalone** What readers are saying about Kiss Her Goodnight:"Left me chilled to the bone... Must-read in this gripping and very addictive series." NetGalley reviewer, 5 stars "Exceptional... My word, I couldn't put this down... Compulsive reading and I couldn't stop and had to read to the end." NetGalley reviewer, 5 stars "Wow... Amazing... Fantastic... Bone chilling." B for Bookreview, 5 stars "Great book!... Filled with suspense, intrigue and great detective work... Highly recommended." NetGalley reviewer, 5 stars "A five-star read." Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars "Gripping... I was hooked... On the edge of my seat." NetGalley reviewer What readers are saying about D.K. Hood:"Oh my, oh my God... This is another cracking story!!!... This author really deserves the title of Queen of Suspense... She had chills running down my spine and I just couldn't stop reading. Incredibly, mind-blowingly brilliant!" B for Bookreview, 5 stars "What a fantastic book it is. Totally addictive. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough." Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars

Kurt Hammers liv holder på å falle sammen.Hans kone og barn har blitt brutalt myrdet, og Kurt Hammer må unnslippe fortiden sin. På samme tid går det en morder løs i Trondheim, og politiet står uten spor.I en historie som strekker seg fra Trondheim til Moskva, viser det seg at Kurt ikke er den eneste med en trøblete fortid.Kurt Hammer må pusle brikkene i livet sitt tilbake på plass, og samtidig lete etter brikkene etterlatt av morderen.Utgave med store teksttyper

For underworld enforcer Richard "Rico" Sanders, it seemed like an ordinary job: retrieve his gangster boss's stolen goods, and teach the person responsible a lesson.But the chase quickly goes sideways and takes Rico from the mean streets of Chicago to sunny Honolulu. There, the hardened hit man finds himself in uncharted territory, when innocent bystanders are accidentally embroiled in a crime.As Rico pursues his new targets, hunter and prey develop an unlikely respect for one another.Soon, he is faced with a momentous decision: follow his orders to kill the very people who have won his admiration, or refuse and endanger the life of the woman he loves?This is the large print edition of Pigeon-Blood Red, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.¿

For underworld enforcer Richard "Rico" Sanders, it seemed like an ordinary job: retrieve his gangster boss's stolen goods, and teach the person responsible a lesson.But the chase quickly goes sideways and takes Rico from the mean streets of Chicago to sunny Honolulu. There, the hardened hit man finds himself in uncharted territory, when innocent bystanders are accidentally embroiled in a crime.As Rico pursues his new targets, hunter and prey develop an unlikely respect for one another.Soon, he is faced with a momentous decision: follow his orders to kill the very people who have won his admiration, or refuse and endanger the life of the woman he loves?

You will never guess the ending!Am I pretty? Imagine being asked that question standing face to face with a killer. What would you answer? While her life is going from bad to worse, journalist Mary Mills receives a disturbing phone call from her father. Her brother was arrested, charged with murder.Mary decides to go back to her hometown of Cocoa Beach, Florida, which she left twenty years back and has never visited since. Working with her old friends in from High School, she tracks down the most disturbing and surprising killer this town has ever faced before a shocking conclusion turns everything upside down for them. Determined to solve the murder and to have her brother acquitted, Mary is forced to face demons from her past she never thought she would have to again. What Hurts the Most is a chilling, fast-paced story of the power of friendship, but also murder and revenge.It's the first in Willow Rose's new series about Mary Mills and her childhood friends from Cocoa Beach. It is full of the twists and turns that Willow Rose is known and loved for by readers all over the world.

This 20th Anniversary Edition offers the first fully revised version of Pablo D'Stair's cult thriller, unavailable for 15 years. From his secure building, in his respectable neighborhood, awaiting his wedding day, Timothy Spell has no need to be aware of or concerned by the crimes of a killer dubbed The Cleaver-Murderer. But beyond his locked doors, there lurks a fate which will control him, consume him, and leave the lives of all who encounter him irrevocably and gruesomely altered. Written to be 'A real shilling shocker, like a 70s-era Dario Argento giallo if one was co-authored by Andre Gide' (from the Author's Preface) CONFIDANT is an inimitable entry in the canon of existential noir.

ALIBI FOR A DEAD MAN A Bug and Roche Mystery You'd think robbing a bank would be an easy way to make money. Outside of the occasional shot fired at you, a bank is where the money exists, and is yours for the having. While this idea may be okay for the casual robber, it doesn't hold true for the professional. If you want the bucks, but don't want to get shot or do time in the nearest pen, then robbing banks is very hard. The best way to rob a bank is to be there when other people ain't and to leisurely load the dough into the handy bag you brought for the occasion. To be there when people ain't means a lot of planning, cause there are often people there, people with guns. So, if you want to make a living on other people's money then don't ever, and I mean ever, rob a bank during banker's hours, or even during waking hours. Rob a bank at night…

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Homicide cop Bobby Dunston's daughter has been kidnapped, taken in broad daylight on a city street in the middle of September. The kidnappers demand a million dollars and force Dunston to get the ransom from his friend Rushmore McKenzie. It soon becomes apparent to both of them that one of the kidnappers is childhood pal Scottie, a once aspiring drummer now gone astray, and that the kidnapping is payback for "crimes" they committed in their past.Of course McKenzie, a former cop and now unlicensed P.I., handles the ransom drop-off and the child is returned safely. But Scottie is soon brutally murdered (maybe that's Mac's fault and maybe it isn't) and someone takes out an open contract on McKenzie, using his own money to pay for it. Dodging attempts on his life from assassins of all shapes and sizes, McKenzie now has precious little time to uncover the mastermind behind it all if he's going to survive.Praise for MADMAN ON A DRUM:"Hate, revenge and old-fashioned greed propel Edgar-winner Housewright's stellar fifth mystery to feature former St. Paul, Minn., cop Rushmore McKenzie. Housewright's chivalric noir hero never fails to charm, whether mourning a St. Paul that's lost much of its colorful, if shady, past or busting a bestial dogfight entrepreneur out in the chilly countryside. Against a realistic Minnesota backdrop, this homage to Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer raises cutting questions about crime and punishment and today's price of friendship and loyalty. Of course, McKenzie knows it's all about money, but Housewright makes it so fresh and real it hurts." -Publishers Weekly, starred review"Housewright returns with another noir-tinged mystery starring St. Paul detective Rushmore McKenzie. Lots of narrative momentum and exciting scenes." -Booklist"McKenzie's subtle humor keeps the tension from boiling over, but don't expect any breaks in the action." -Minnesota Monthly

It's 1975. Johnny Riles leads a lonesome, whiskey-soaked existence on Colorado's high prairie. Abandoned by his parents, who moved away after Johnny accidentally shot his father, and absent his buffoonish younger brother, who has left home to star in the American Basketball Association, Johnny is an uncommonly unhappy man. Johnny is awoken from a depressive stupor after an autumn snowstorm leads him to cross paths with a brutal killer. Thus do his trials begin. The hunt for the killer splinters Johnny's psyche into dangerous and bizarre shards, driving him to beneath the stark western landscape--both literally and figuratively--to unearth the truths behind his nightmares, to search for vengeance, to bargain for his brother's soul, and to plead for a sober reason to live.

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LONDON CALLING is the first in a series of "Dharma Noir" novels, a new genre that shines a wisdom light on the Dark Age we now inhabit. JALU YOGI is a wandering Tibetan Buddhist master, amiable yet unpredictable with a taste for thriller-mysteries and bearing witness to the murkier side of modern life.Drawn to Europe when he hears about civil uprisings and brutal government backlashes, master sleuth Jalu finds himself drifting through the debris of post-Financial Crisis Spain.Jalu narrates the story of Virginia Blake, an elderly Englishwoman who spent most of her unremarkable life in Madrid but now finds herself and her bewildered companions embroiled in an international incident and a deadly game of cat and mouse through Andalucía. This exhilarating and often moving tale is stylishly subtle, simple yet profound, and lovingly dedicated to filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar. FAKE PRAISE INDEED: "The best novel I’ve ever read!" – The author’s elderly aunt. "Some people read for entertainment, some for insight. London Calling has it all." – A man in a university. "I felt so drawn into the whole thing I saw rainbows." – A woman who once photographed the Dalai Lama’s cat through a fence. "Bruno Nua may be the best author we’ve ever produced!" – The Ballyfermot People. "It’s the Buddha’s teachings pretending to be a novel. Don’t read it!" – Vatican Magazine ABOUT THE AUTHOR:BRUNO NUA is a Buddhist Philosopher from Ireland. Raised in a rough suburb of 1970s Dublin he says he came out as ‘queer’ at 15, studied classical guitar from 16 and – being "an insufferable narcissist and lover of French" – went to Paris alone for the Summer at 17. He fitted right in.Aged 18 in 1983, Bruno met Michael, the man of his dreams. They are still together and spend most of their time sitting side by side.Graduating with a Masters from Trinity College Dublin, Bruno was first a teacher in Ireland’s richest school then in Ireland’s poorest school.A student of the most eminent Buddhist masters for almost thirty years, he became a university lecturer in Philosophy, specializing in the Wisdom Teachings of the Buddha.Bruno says he now spends much of his time floating between Europe and Asia like a gypsy, and a mirror.

Maybe it was time I forgot about Nico Peterson, and his sister, and the Cahuilla Club, and Clare Cavendish. Clare? The rest would be easy to put out of my mind, but not the black-eyed blonde . . .It is the early 1950s. In Los Angeles, Private Detective Philip Marlowe is as restless and lonely as ever, and business is a little slow. Then a new client arrives: young, beautiful, and expensively dressed, Clare Cavendish wants Marlowe to find her former lover, a man named Nico Peterson. Soon Marlowe will find himself not only under the spell of the Black-Eyed Blonde; but tangling with one of Bay City's richest families - and developing a singular appreciation for how far they will go to protect their fortune . . . 'A beautifully rendered hardboiled novel that echoes Chandler's melancholy at perfect pitch' Stephen King'An exceptionally effective act of literary ventriloquism and entirely irresistible' Observer'First-rate noir . . . It's remarkable how fresh this book feels while still hewing close to the material on which it's based' New York Times