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"For Melanie Drake, school guidance counselor in a small Virginia town, the day's challenges typically involve a playground scuffle or a student skipping school. It's worlds away from her previous career as a vital part of the Office of Special Investigations. There, she devoted herself heart and soul to covert operations, the riskier the better. Since leaving, Melanie has cherished her peaceful, calm existence, with her two beloved retired service...
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"A tense, compelling thriller with completely gasp-worthy twists." —Nita Prose, #1 bestselling author of The Maid
An ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patient's frightening past in this chilling thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Local Woman Missing and Just the Nicest Couple....
An ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patient's frightening past in this chilling thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Local Woman Missing and Just the Nicest Couple....
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Mejor Primera Novela, CrimeReads
Finalista del Premio Edgar a la Mejor Primera Novela
Bobby Saraceno tiene un padre afroamericano a quien nunca conoció y una madre blanca que, por momentos, desearía no conocer. Criado por un abuelo racista e intolerante decide ocultarle la verdad de su familia a todos. Es el año 1995 y en la ciudad de Pittsburgh a sus veintidós años Bobby se hace pasar por blanco. Aaron es su mejor amigo y acaba de salir de...
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Silver Medal Winner for best terrorist thriller in the 2013 Readers' Favorite Annual International Award Contest.Imagine a couple young hacktivists, both former members of the internet freedom fighters group Anonymous, and one of them an ex-black ops officer, breaking away and creating a militant group of anarchists committed to social change. But social change precipitated by acts of violence against CEOs of major corporations responsible for crimes...
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Vengeance Is Mine is the story of the Calloway brothers, William and Samuel. As young boys, they idolized their father, who served his country in the Marine Corps. Thomas Calloway was a standout student and football player for the Crimson of Harvard University. He became a distinguished lawyer and married the love of his life. He provided a sturdy foundation for his two boys to follow in his footsteps. William is brilliant like his father, with an...
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The oldest and most dangerous organization in the world is rearing its head in the city of Chicago. It's been in existence since the dawn of man, and now secretly serving as members are some of the most prominent people in the city who have sold their souls for worldly goods. Unnatural occurrences of killings and deaths are a result, and what is dubbed the M.O.T.B. (Mark of the Beast) murders prompt homicide detective Lt. Christian to seek help from...
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But the perpetrator does not know about her lack of recall. When he finds her again, he must kill her to save himself.A young business owner stuck with a wife whose only communications are lies, finally has had enough of her fabrications. He perceives only one solution to his problem. Tec and his crew find physical evidence of both crimes buried on Mount Lemmon.Meanwhile one of Tec's earlier cases has come back to haunt him. Julie, the killer Tec...
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In dieser Geschichte geht es um eine junge aufstrebende Journalistin, die versucht, ein politisches Netz voller Korruption und Intrigen zu entwirren.
Bei ihren Recherchen trifft sie den smarten Fabrikarbeiter Joshua. Es kommt zu einem schweren Unglück und sie beschließen der Sache gemeinsam auf den Grund zu gehen.
Dabei geraten sie immer wieder in gefährliche Situationen, die Melissa und Joshua einander näher bringen. Unterstützung bekommen...
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Dieses Buch entstand 2007, als Jutta Duwe ihre Akteneinsicht bei der Stasiunterlagenbehörde beantragte und geschockt feststellen musste, dass ihr gesamtes Leben in der DDR bis ins kleinste Detail dokumentiert war, hauptsächlich von 1977 bis zur Wende 1989.
Der Stasiapparat mit seinen zerstörerischen Methoden gegen das eigene Volk war derart widerlich, dass die Autorin sich entschloss, einen Teil ihres Lebens, welches heute zur jungen deutsch-deutschen...
10) Looking Back
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Fear is only the beginning.Rena's mother left her a roadmap to freedom. This is the beginning of a story of disappearance, built on bravery and hard choices.Book One in a three part series, formerly published in part as Borderlines.
11) Jamaica
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On the emerald green island of Jamaica, an unpredictable adventure awaits twins Ana and Nicky who travel there to celebrate their coming of age. Under the Caribbean sun, they anticipate a holiday filled with fun, freedom, and excitement. But the idyllic island harbours hidden dangers beyond their expectations.
As the twins revel amid the natural tropical beauty, the thin veneer of paradise soon peels away. Their riveting journey quickly becomes a...
12) Gothic Revival
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The Psychological Thriller Inspired by the Creation of Frankenstein
Chris, Anne, Fiona, and Lauren were inseparable friends while earning MFAs in Creative Writing. Years later they've grown apart and are surprised to receive an invitation to a reunion from the fifth member of their group, Eric, a successful screenwriter. Eric flies them to a remote lake villa where he reveals his new obsession: their group is a modern version of the famous one from...
13) If It Kills Me
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Her dad's song became her song-a slave's song, a wary song of anger without the means of expression, a song of surviving--a song of escape.Like any slave, she'd do what she had to do."Dad," she whispered. "Somehow, I'll get home. If it kills me, I'll get home."
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Robert Goddard's international bestselling third novel is a masterful exercise in suspense set in Victorian-era England. On a mild autumn afternoon in 1882, thirty-four-year-old husband and father William Trenchard sits quietly at home when the creak of the garden gate announces the arrival of a mysterious visitor. The stranger claims he is Sir James Davenall, the former fiancé of Trenchard's wife, Constance. He was thought to have committed suicide...
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Atemberaubender und spannender Psychothriller:
Helen Toussaint scheint als Ehefrau eines erfolgreichen Rechtsanwaltes das perfekte Leben zu führen. Sie ist jung, attraktiv und wohnt mit ihrem Mann Nick und den zwei kleinen Kindern in einem schönen Haus. Doch als Nick Toussaint den zwielichtigen arabischen Geschäftsmann und vermeintlichen Geldgeber eines Terrornetzwerkes, Ahmed Al Shain, erfolgreich vertritt, ändert sich ihr Leben schlagartig.
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16) Escape
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When Michael Rorke, a talented yet self-absorbed author, meets his untimely end in an accident, he awakens as a wanderer – a spirit caught between worlds, unsure of what afterlife, be it blissful or grim, lies ahead. In this liminal state, he is unable to return to the living and faces an uncertain path forward.
This twilight world is fraught with dangers, teeming with predators that prey on spirits like him. Michael's urgent quest for resolution...
17) Alligator Allan
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an abused man who turns into a badass on the run from the law in Louisiana. Based on the song Amos Moses.
18) Timeslip
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The US Army has developed a secret base in the outback of Australia with the aim of controlling time travel.
When a young Australian man, Matthew Fraser, inadvertently interferes with the Army's latest experiment, he is ruthlessly hunted down and captured. After exhibiting the ability to bounce back a few minutes in time, Matthew is used as a pawn by the Army while they try to replicate his power of time travel.
Meanwhile, terrorists hatch a plot...
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Im Jahr 1957 wurde ein achtjähriger Junge Opfer des seitdem so genannten Drachenfelsmörders. 60 Jahre später bringt ein erfahrener Kriminalist in seinem Ruhestand Licht in das Dunkel des ungeklärten Mordfalls und des sorgfältig gehüteten Ergebnisses der polizeilichen Ermittlungen.
Die Schilderung des Kriminalfalls und der Recherchen zur Arbeit der Strafverfolgungsbehörden beruht in Gänze auf Tatsachen. Die maßgeblichen Dokumente sind in Originalfassung...
20) Curiosity Kills
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In the heart of the town stands Bright House, ominously empty, with its owners too terrified to reside there. A dark curse has plagued the Bright lineage: no firstborn survives past their twenty-first birthday.
As Paula Bright, pregnant and determined, seeks to shield her unborn child from this malevolent fate, she stumbles upon a shadowy presence. This ancient evil, hidden within the house's very foundation, has claimed the lives of Bright descendants...
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