Krimi & Thriller

When Detective Sergeant Tony Martin suspects his boss, Rob Dean, of tampering with evidence connected to a guard's murder at the Port of Auckland, he has no idea the homicide is linked to a trafficking ring smuggling migrants into New Zealand. Soon after the Port killing, a neighbour discovers Tony lying in a pool of blood in his backyard. Summer, Tony's wife, refuses to accept the police report that her husband's assailant was a passing opportunist and carries out her own investigations. She soon becomes suspicious of Rob Dean, believing he is involved in organised crime and had possibly arranged her husband's assassination. Summer's experience as a crime reporter and police media advisor, plus her determination to solve her husband's death, brings her in close union with Tony's friend and colleague, Detective Sergeant Mick Randall. But is Mick a friend or foe? The deepening relationship between them is about to make or break Summer.Can a Bed and Breakfast in St Heliers Bay save the day?

Welcome to Lone County, Arkansas, where every corner holds a secret, and the past is never really buried.Disgraced ex-detective Harper Adams has traded her badge for a desk job at her father's law firm, a move as dull as the small town she's returned to. But things take a turn when a local woman wants to declare her missing husband dead, five years after his mysterious disappearance.With her father's firm representing the missing man's wife, Harper seizes the opportunity to delve back into her investigative roots. Her search leads her back to James Malcolm, a former crime boss turned tavern owner, who has his finger on the pulse of every shadowed corner. His offer to help with her investigation catches her by surprise.Why would a former criminal offer his help unless he has something to gain?

Can't go forward without going back. Cold Warriors return to Berlin to settle old scores.This place, West Berlin, was then (1980-1989) an enclave: an island of the free democratic West in the heart of communist East Germany.As such, it was a refuge for many: young German men avoiding compulsory military service in the Bundeswehr, migratory birds, asylum seekers from the communist east, immigrants, shipwrecked people, anarchists, artists, people who loved differently or thought differently.West Berlin was perfect for any runaway.And perfect for every spy.Twenty years later, the Wall has fallen and the world has moved on.The past is past.No one cares or even remembers.Except the men and women who had lived through that time, for whom the past is an open, festering wound, a great burning mystery.Who was the mole among them?Were they manipulated and by whom?For whose interests have they really wrecked their lives?Find out. Pick up your copy today.

Joshua ist der Sohn eines angesehenen Mannes. Geld und Macht interessiert ihn nicht. Er will ein glückliches Leben, welches er sich mit Ethan aufbaut. Mit der Adoption ihres fünfjährigen Sohnes scheint ihr Glück komplett. Doch der Besuch einer unbekannten Person stellt sein ganzes Leben in Frage.Was hat das alles zu bedeuten und wird er sein Glück aufrecht erhalten können?

Auf der Suche nach Kultur und Tugenden wurden hier zwölf Erzählungen verfasst. Sie sind nicht erfunden, sie stellen nur vereinfacht Geschehnisse dar, die Menschen seit Anbeginn der Zeit erleben. Das Spektrum reicht von kritischer Reflexion bis zu originellen Begebenheiten.

Ich unterscheide mich von anderen Menschen, was damit zu tun hat, dass ich sehen kann, welches Erlebnis die Anderen im Leben am meisten geprägt hat, wenn ich nur ihre Schlagader berühre. Ich kann sehen, was sich unter ihrer Maske verbirgt. Das Problem ist nur, jedes Erlebnis von ihnen wird auch automatisch meines. Ich brauche sie und dennoch wünschte ich, es wäre anders. Euch mag es wie eine Gabe vorkommen. Ihr würdet wahrscheinlich durch die Welt gehen und es genießen, über alle Bescheid zu wissen. Doch glaubt mir, manchmal würde man lieber nichts wissen, anstatt alles. Ich muss damit leben, Tag für Tag, Jahr für Jahr, Jahrhundert für Jahrhundert. Und es gibt nichts, was daran etwas ändern könnte.

A daring CIA operation threatens chaos in the Kremlin. But can Langley trust the Russian at its center?

Dreizehn ist im Tarot der Tod, die Dreizehn wird oft als böses Omen gedeutet und die 13. Stunde ist die Geisterstunde. Goethe und Morgenstern haben über den Totentanz gedichtet, Georg Kreisler meint, der Tod müsse ein Wiener sein. Und was ist nach dem Tod? Jenseits - Reinkarnation?Der Autor hat Skurriles, Tiefsinniges, Humorvolles und Nachdenkenswertes zum Thema zusammengetragen.

The Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise or The Dash For Dixie is an adventure novel written by Louis Arundel. The book follows the story of three young boys, Jack, Mark, and Paul, who embark on a thrilling journey down the Mississippi River in their motorboat. The boys are determined to reach New Orleans and participate in a regatta, but they encounter several challenges and obstacles along the way.As they navigate the treacherous waters of the Mississippi, the boys must contend with dangerous currents, unpredictable weather, and hostile locals. They also cross paths with a group of smugglers who are up to no good. With their quick thinking and resourcefulness, the boys are able to outsmart the smugglers and foil their plans.Throughout their journey, the boys learn important lessons about courage, teamwork, and perseverance. They also develop a deep appreciation for the beauty and majesty of the Mississippi River and the people who call it home.The Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise or The Dash For Dixie is a thrilling and action-packed novel that will keep readers on the edge of their seats. It is a must-read for anyone who loves adventure, suspense, and the great outdoors.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

The winner of the Colorado Book Award is "a fantasy I didn't want to put down" (SF Revu) Brutal imprisonment has broken Aidan McAllister. His music is destroyed, and with it the visions he once gave a kingdom ravaged by dragon war. Now, he risks his hard-bought freedom to uncover the truth behind his incarceration-and to meet his enemy face-to-face...

Readers can't help but get entangled in this USA Today bestselling series.The follow-up to Death by Cashmere: next in the new mystery series set in a tight-knit seaside community. When young fiber artist Willow Adams visits Izzy Chambers's knitting studio, she's immediately embraced by the Seaside knitters, and they see the monthly arts event at Canary Cove as a perfect place to showcase Willow's work. But the idyllic summer in Sea Harbor turns somber when the body of Nick Peabody-owner of a popular gallery-is found in a community garden. Soon all Nick's secrets begin to surface, and the residents of Sea Harbor realize they didn't know him at all. And when Nick's will reveals that his entire estate has been left to Willow, the knitters find that Willow has some dark secrets of her own...

Djupt inne i den småländska skogen bor elvaårige Staffan med pappa Tobias. Situationen för Staffan är svår. Pappa super. Mamma utnyttjar honom för egna syften. I skolan blir han mobbad och slagen. Samtidigt hopar sig mysterierna. Varifrån får pappa sina pengar? Och vem är den okände man som spionerar på Staffan då han vandrar skogsvägen hem? Efter en rad anmälningar till socialtjänsten tar den nyutexaminerade socionomen Edvard sig an ärendet att utreda Staffans situation. Polis, skola och psykiatri involveras snart i ärendet. Frågorna hopar sig och Edvard tvingas allt närmare ett avgörande. Ett avgörande som oundvikligen kommer få ödesdigra konsekvenser.Tystnadens älskare, stjärnornas vän är en ovanlig spänningsroman där läsaren på nära håll följer med socialtjänsten i utredningsarbetet med barn och familjer. Romanen skildrar med kritisk udd barn och föräldrars relation till samhället och skyggar inte för de svåra frågor som hela tiden är närvarande i detta spänningsfält.

From the land of the midnight sun, a compelling and dark thriller by Sweden?s master of crime fiction: The autumn gloom comes quickly on the Swedish city of Gothenburg, and for Detective Chief Inspector Erik Winter the days seem even shorter, the nights bleaker, when he is faced with two apparently unrelated sets of perplexing crimes. Mysterious assaults on college students in Gothenburg?s parks are carried out in the dark of the night, while during the day toddlers are abducted from their nursery schools and quickly returned, seemingly unharmed, before anyone even notices they are missing. Investigating these bizarre cases, D.C.I. Winter and his team follow their scant leads to ?the flats,? the barren prairies of rural Sweden, whose wastelands conceal crimes as sinister as the land itself. Winter must deduce the labyrinthine connections between the cases before the culprit?or is it culprits??closes in on his own family. Haunting and psychologically astute, Frozen Tracks is another triumph from the award- winning master of Swedish noir.

Alice Ellis is a Midwestern refugee living in Manhattan. Still recovering from a painful divorce, she depends on the companionship and camaraderie of tightly knit circle of friends. At the center of this circle is a rock band struggling to navigate New York's erratic music scene, and an apartment/practice space with approximately fifty key-holders. One sunny day, Alice enters the apartment and finds two of the band members shot dead. As the double-murder sends waves of shock through their lives, this group of friends begins to unravel, and dangerous secrets are revealed one by one. When Alice begins to notice things amiss in her own apartment, the tension breaks out as it occurs to her that she is not the only person with a key, and she may not get a chance to change the locks.Jane Smiley applies her distinctive rendering of time, place, and the enigmatic intricacies of personal relationships to the twists and turns of suspense. The result is a brilliant literary thriller that will keep readers guessing up to its final, shocking conclusion.

In the third Friarsgate Inheritance novel, New York Times bestselling author Bertrice Small takes us back to the sensuality, drama, and intrigue of King Henry's sixteenth-century court to tell the story of the daughter of one of her most beloved characters.The eldest child of Rosamund Bolton and heiress to the Friarsgate manor, Philippa Meredith is devastated when she discovers that the man she sought to marry has rebuffed her. But it is this sudden change of fortune that sweeps the spirited beauty back to her place in the court of Queen Katherine of Aragon-and into the arms of Crispin St. Clair, the Earl of Witton. But when Philippa stumbles onto a plot to assassinate King Henry VIII, their very love is tested as they attempt to unmask those who are plotting to tear the royal court asunder.

What kind of a person would kidnap two children?That is the question that haunts Wexford when a five-year-old boy and a twelve-year-old girl disappear from the village of Kingsmarkham. When a child's body turns up at an abandoned country home one search turns into a murder investigation and the other turns into a race against time. Filled with pathos and terror, passion, bitterness, and loss, No More Dying Then is Rendell at her most chillingly astute.With her Inspector Wexford novels, Ruth Rendell, winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award, has added layers of depth, realism and unease to the classic English mystery. For the canny, tireless, and unflappable policeman is an unblinking observer of human nature, whose study has taught him that under certain circumstances the most unlikely people are capable of the most appalling crimes.

It has been said that Victor Hugo has a street named after him in virtually every town in France. A major reason for the singular celebrity of this most popular and versatile of the great French writers is Les Misérables (1862). In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean-a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert-Hugo achieves the sort of rare imaginative resonance that allows a work of art to transcend its genre.Les Misérables is at once a tense thriller that contains one of the most compelling chase scenes in all literature, an epic portrayal of the nineteenth-century French citizenry, and a vital drama-highly particularized and poetic in its rendition but universal in its implications-of the redemption of one human being.

Based on a short story by Alistair MacLean, Rendezvous conjures up the darkest days of the war in the Mediterranean, and the nail-biting drama of a secret life haunted by the fear of betrayal and capture.

It's no picnic for an indigo child; you can forget living a normal life. Traveling to galaxies while asleep, constant premonitions, and battles with Satan and evil entities to prevent them from luring every soul to Hell. The population is always nagging you for information, ridiculing you, and calling you offensive names on a daily basis. This book describes the life of an indigo child trying to live a normal life. The book is based on true events, or maybe fictional events. Some choose to believe, while others don't. You decide. But rest assured, Satan and evil entities are real. It's a constant battle between good and evil, and good does not always win.