Krimi & Thriller

In Hollywood, Becky is a rising star; in Lake Falls, she's a fallen one.Becky Robinson was on cloud nine when she snagged her first recurring role on the hottest television show in Hollywood. But just as she was packing her bags for stardom, her world turned upside down. She discovers her credit in shambles, her identity swiped, and thousands in debt. Determined to clear her name and get back to her rising career, Becky follows the digital breadcrumbs to her hometown of Lake Falls, Texas. She plans to keep her return under wraps, not wanting her family and closest friends to know about her humiliation. But in a small town, secrets are a rare commodity and news of her arrival spreads like wildfire. Just when Becky thought things couldn't get worse, she stumbles upon her identity thief - DEAD. As the past resurfaces, and old faces reappear, Becky realizes the murder hits too close to home. In a town where everyone knows everybody's business, she must unravel the truth before her cozy hometown turns into a chilling crime scene.-----------------------------------Hometown Murder is the thirteenth installment in the Hollywood Whodunit cozy mystery series.If you love clumsy heroines, a Hollywood backdrop, quirky suspects, and an adorable rescue puppy this series is for you! Hollywood Whodunit Series OrderBook 1: Prime Time MurderBook 2: Stand-In MurderBook 3: Music City MurderBook 4. Trap Door MurderBook 5: Fool's Gold MurderBook 6: Holly Jolly MurderBook 7: Blue Suede MurderBook 8: Family Reunion MurderBook 9: Summer Vacation MurderBook 10: Sunlight Swindler MurderBook 11: Castle Island MurderBook 12: Fixer-Upper MurderBook 13: Hometown MurderBook 14: Big Apple MurderBook 15: Devil Wears Murder

Do you remember striving?All that effort.Trying so desperately to cajole or to bully yourself and the world into fitting, even approximately, one within the other.No more. Still haunted by the dreams you thought you knew you were pursuing?Welcome to the meantime.So what now?

Featuring tales collected from 'A Chorus of Chaos' and 'The Deathless Gods', 'Which Only the Dead Can Know' showcases Christopher Joyce's complete horror works.This omnibus edition includes tales of human depravity, supernatural phenomena, and legends of dark and deadly gods from the farthest reaches of the cosmos.

Jeff Townsend is a successful Black accountant: one of the few in his town. Humble, educated and efficient in his work, he soon becomes bored with the day-to-day of counting funds and often daydreams of an exciting more adventurous way of life. He turns to an elderly Black soothsayer to help him out of his dilemma, only to find that she is way ahead of him and steers him to incredible adventures he could have not forseen!

Summer flings between a pair of entitled New York debutantes and a pair of unlikely best friends, a wealthy geek, and a working class ranch hand, become real when their world crashes in a global pandemic that eventually kills over 70 percent of North America;s population. This apocalyptic novel may be considered soft porn by some, since it depicts premarital sex, free love, and nude bonding ceremonies with multiple couples. This story could be torn from tomorrows headlines.

A Ride to Panmunjon, first published in 1956, is a fictionalized account of American prisoners-of-war during the Korean conflict. Author Duane Thorin, himself a US Navy helicopter pilot and POW in Korea, drew on his experiences to write this book, in part to to illustrate interrogation and propaganda methods used by the communists, and how captured servicemen could best resist such efforts. Duane Thorin passed away on October 24, 2002.

Resurrection World, The Eden Project is a pre-Apocalypse science fiction novel about groups of humans who are resurrected on a terraformed world. The Eden Project is an effort by the Federation of Space-Faring Sentient Races to avoid an approaching extinction event to the Earth. The first, and largest group of humans died in London during the Black Plague, and the second group died in the Battle of Gettysburg and on a convict ship that sunk off Australia in the same year. The third group died in London and Pearl Harbor in December 1941. After the Royal Navy's Fleet's secret weapon has destroyed the barbarian airship, nothing stands between the fleet and the rebel colony. The bombardment of Bristol City will start at dawn tomorrow. Half of the Royal Marine landing forces have disembarked South of the city, and will attack the defenders from the rear when the signal rocket shows the bombardment has lifted. That signal will also start the landings by the main Marine forces. No mercy will be shown the rebels, or their barbarian allies. The American Republic's prototype Battle Cruiser's six guns are now the only thing left to confront the Royal Navy fleet's 480 guns.

China Sky, first published in 1941, is a romance by Pearl S. Buck set in war-time China. Dr. Gray Thompson, an American missionary doctor, works alongside Dr. Sara Durand in a hospital he has built in a small Chinese village, as Japanese forces approach. When Gray returns from a visit to America a trip, he shocks Sara (who is in love with him) by introducing his new socialite wife, Louise. In the midst of bombing attacks on the village, Dr. Thompson continues to help the local residents, and especially the insurgent leader Chen-Ta. To protect the hospital, a high-ranking Japanese prisoner gets a message to the Japanese commander which stops the bombing but, eventually, Japanese paratroopers land in the village, and fierce fighting ensues. China Sky was also the subject of a 1945 movie of the same name. Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938 and was the author of numerous novels, short-stories and works of non-fiction.

Ein romantisches Abendessen zu zweit und eine Leiche zum Dessert … Die erfolgreiche Cosy Crime-Reihe im idyllischen Pendle geht in die nächste RundeInspector Myrna Evans hat es nicht leicht mit den Männern. Als ihr romantisches Date im Nobelrestaurant mit einem Toten am Nebentisch endet, bittet sie Totengräberin Alethea Shaw um Hilfe. Das ungewöhnliche Ermittlerduo stößt schon bald auf ein Netz aus Geheimnissen, das es zu entwirren gilt. Der Tote namens Sean Dougan, seines Zeichens Restaurantkritiker, war alles andere als beliebt in Lancashire. Nicht selten sorgte er für Schließungen und weniger Einnahmen bei den Gastronomen. So ist es nicht verwunderlich, dass die Liste der Verdächtigen immer länger wird. Doch auf einmal steht Dougan quicklebendig vor den beiden und dementiert seinen Tod. Als ausgerechnet Theas True-Crime-Blog Licht ins Dunkel bringt, ist es beinahe zu spät …Weitere Titel dieser ReiheDie Tote vom Pendle Hill (ISBN: 9783987783487)Mord beim Krimidinner (ISBN: 9783987783494)Erste Leser:innenstimmen„Humorvoller Krimi gespickt mit Geheimnissen und Intrigen - eine gelungene Reihenfortsetzung."„Marlene Menzel bietet nicht nur eine packende Kriminalhandlung, sondern auch einen Einblick in die Welt der Restaurantkritik. Absolutes Must-read!"„Ein geniales Katz-und-Maus-Spiel! Dieser Cosy Crime hat mich von Anfang bis Ende gefesselt."„Spannend und unterhaltsam! Die Autorin schafft es immer wieder, die Lesenden auf falsche Fährten zu locken und dann mit überraschenden Enthüllungen zu schockieren."

L'histoire des deux révolutions qui ont extirpé la tyrannie du sol de la France et qui y ont fait germer la liberté, l'égalité, enfin la République; cette histoire ne pourra être bien composée que du rapprochement des mémoires isolés que produiront les principaux acteurs de la plus grande scène qui ait jamais eu droit d'étonner l'univers. Les journaux du temps, le plus souvent, ne peuvent rapporter que sur des aperçus pris au hasard, recueillis loin du théâtre des faits et sans montrer la filière des causes d'où sont sortis les différents résultats. Le témoin oculaire et le coopérateur des grands actes révolutionnaires est dans une position bien plus favorable pour transmettre la vérité aux générations futures.Si quelqu'un a suivi de près tous les mouvements de deux révolutions, je puis bien dire que c'est moi. Français, lisez ces mémoires et vous me verrez agissant dans toutes les circonstances éclatantes. Ce n'est point une vaine gloriole qui me fait mettre ces circonstances au jour, mais j'ai pour but d'utilité d'éclairer plusieurs points importants de l'histoire, de vous faire voir se dévoiler des manoeuvres qui vous apprendront à connaître les hommes, et que tel traître, dont le masque, au moment que j'écris, n'est point encore tombé, n'en a pas moins été une fausse idole à qui les contemporaines regretteront bien d'avoir prostitué leur encens. Enfin vous observerez plus que jamais qu'au milieu de toutes les perfidies qui nous ont assaillis, si l'on croyait encore à d'autres prodiges qu'à l'énergie et au courage des âmes libres, on affirmerait que ce n'a pu être qu'une puissance merveilleuse qui a sauvé la nation.

Pourquoi écrire ces pages ? - À quoi sont-elles bonnes ? - Qu'en sais-je moi-même ? Cela est assez sot à mon gré d'aller demander aux hommes le motif de leurs actions et de leurs écrits. - Savez-vous vous-même pourquoi vous avez ouvert les misérables feuilles que la main d'un fou va tracer ?Un fou, cela fait horreur. Qu'êtes-vous, vous, lecteur ? Dans quelle catégorie te ranges-tu ? dans celle des sots ou celle des fous ? - Si l'on te donnait à choisir, ta vanité préférerait encore la dernière condition. Oui, encore une fois, à quoi est-il bon, je le demande en vérité, un livre qui n'est ni instructif, ni amusant, ni chimique, ni philosophique, ni agricultural, ni élégiaque, un livre qui ne donne aucune recette ni pour les moutons ni pour les puces, qui ne parle ni des chemins de fer, ni de la Bourse, ni des replis intimes du coeur humain, ni des habits Moyen Âge, ni de Dieu, ni du diable, mais qui parle d'un fou, c'est-à-dire le monde, ce grand idiot, qui tourne depuis tant de siècles dans l'espace sans faire un pas, et qui hurle, et qui bave, et qui se déchire lui-même ?

"Mensonges" est un roman écrit par Paul Bourget, un écrivain français du XIXe siècle. Publié en 1890, ce roman explore les thèmes de la tromperie, de l'hypocrisie et de la vérité, mettant en scène des personnages pris dans des mensonges et des secrets.L'histoire tourne autour de la vie d'un écrivain, François Vernantes, confronté à des dilemmes moraux et à des mensonges qui bouleversent sa vie personnelle et professionnelle. Bourget explore les intrications complexes des relations humaines et de la morale, tout en dépeignant le conflit intérieur du protagoniste face aux mensonges et aux vérités qu'il découvre.Ce roman de Bourget aborde des questions profondes sur l'éthique et la nature humaine, tout en offrant une analyse subtile des tensions psychologiques et sociales de l'époque.

Der Hamburger Hauptkommissar Richard Bruns reist mit seiner Verlobten Karin zur Insel Neuwerk, um dort gemeinsam einige entspannte Urlaubstage zu verbringen. Doch nach dem grausamen Mord an einem Beschäftigten der Stackmeisterei ist es mit der Erholung schnell vorbei, denn er wird von seinem Vorgesetzten mit den Untersuchungen betraut. Bruns bekommt mit der jungen Kriminalbeamtin Deniz Yilmaz Verstärkung aus der Hansestadt. Schon bald deuten für die beiden Ermittler erste Hinweise darauf hin, den Täter unter den Gästen des Hotels Hus am Hafen suchen zu müssen. Noch während ihrer Befragungen geschieht ein zweiter Mord. Währenddessen recherchiert Oberkommissar Boris Gerdes im LKA Hamburg in der Vergangenheit des ersten Mordopfers und fördert dabei ebenso überraschende wie erschreckende Dinge zutage. Liegt hier der Schlüssel zur Aufklärung der Verbrechen?

In den Ruinen der Stadt Erenthrall gilt nur ein Gesetz: Töten oder getötet werden. Vom einstigen Prunk ist nichts mehr übrig, seitdem das Kraftnetz zusammengebrochen ist, das die Stadt mit magischer Ley-Energie versorgt hat. Besonders die Lumagier leben in diesen Zeiten gefährlich. Trotzdem machen sich die Magierin Kara und ihr Gefährte Allan auf den Weg in die einstige Stadt des Lichts, um den Wiederaufbau voranzutreiben. Doch dann wird Kara von den mächtigen Weißmänteln gefangen genommen, die ihre ganz eigenen Pläne mit der Stadt haben ... und dafür brauchen sie Karas Magie.

In London macht eine Bürgerwehr, der Club der Henker, Jagd auf böse Menschen - auf Pädophile, Mörder, Hassprediger - und erhängt sie. Mit diesen Fällen von Lynchjustiz beginnen für Detective Max Wolfe seine bisher schwierigsten Ermittlungen. Denn wie fängt man Mörder, die von der Öffentlichkeit als Helden gefeiert werden? Seine Spurensuche führt ihn tief unter die Stadt, in den Untergrund Londons mit seinen vielen stillgelegten Tunneln und Geisterbahnhöfen. Doch ehe Max den Club der Henker stellen kann, muss er am eigenen Leib erfahren, wie schmal der Grat zwischen Gut und Böse, Schuld und Unschuld ist ...

In the near-future metropolis of Oslo, life is more convenient than ever. People are connected to the Glow, a device offering everything one could need: money, food, clothing, medicine.But beneath the utopian surface lies a hidden web of surveillance and control. Enter Elin, an investigative journalist who stumbles upon a secret that could shake the very foundations of this digital society. Her discovery uncovers a powerful political figure behind the Push, a movement aimed at replacing traditional currency with digital cash. Digging deeper, Elin finds evidence of government-sponsored programs that track citizens' digital activities. With the help of a hacker, she discovers "The Eye," an AI at the center of this pervasive control system.Time is swiftly running out for Elin as she races against the clock to expose the truth, with danger lurking ominously at every corner. Unexpected plot twists reveal the depths of corruption at play. Will Elin's unbreakable determination be enough to expose the truth and save her life? Or will the omnipresent CBDC system finally claim its ultimate victory?"Surveillance Currency" is a riveting thriller that will have you questioning the cost of convenience in a world teetering on the edge of dystopia. It's a rollercoaster ride through a future that might just be around the corner - a future where freedom isn't what it seems, and where your only weapons against an invisible foe are courage, resilience, and the relentless pursuit of truth.

Packende Geschichten zu Nalini Singhs Gestaltwandlerserie und ihren erfolgreichen Engelromanen. In einer Welt voller Schönheit und Blutgier, in der Engel über Vampire und Sterbliche herrschen, in der Mediale versuchen, die Emotionen zu verbieten und Gestaltwandler um das Überleben kämpfen, brodeln die Gefühle - Rache, Hass und Leidenschaft. Jeder ist auf der Suche nach einer Liebe, die alle Grenzen überwindet ...

In der kleinen Universitätsstadt Guernon nahe Grenoble wird die grausam zugerichtete Leiche des Bibliothekars Rémy Callois entdeckt. Der ermittelnde Kommissar glaubt zunächst an einen Ritualmord, bis ganz in der Nähe ein weiterer Toter gefunden wird: der Krankenpfleger Philippe Sertys. Gezielt gelegte Spuren haben die Polizei zu ihm geführt.Zur gleichen Zeit versucht ein Inspektor in einem französischen Provinznest, das rätselhafte Verschwinden eines zehnjährigen Schülers aufzuklären. Als sich herausstellt, dass beide Kriminalfälle in Zusammenhang stehen, beginnt eine fieberhafte Spurensuche. Bald ist klar, dass die zwei Toten keineswegs unschuldige Opfer waren, und die ¿purpurnen Flüsse¿ erweisen sich als Chiffre für ein furchtbares Verbrechen ...

Kashgar; the Silk Road city on the edge of the merciless Taklamakan desert. When a bowl of peanuts tumbles from a market stall on a Kashgar side street, nobody could imagine that it will reverberate around the world.Ismail's little brother is arrested by the Chinese authorities. As the elder boy of a fatherless Uyghur family, young Ismail knows that he must somehow act to save him. He and his rag-tag gang of friends devise a daring plan, armed only with a few rusty rifles, a truck - and two borrowed camels.What he doesn't foresee is that his actions will ultimately involve an American senator, a Chinese general, a ruthless terrorist group, British Intelligence, the President of the United States, the might of the American Seventh Fleet - and a courtesan called See Wing.Ismail is a good boy. He certainly never meant to hold half the world to ransom.

The short narrative, or afsaana, is one of the most significant literary subgenres in Urdu literature despite having a comparatively recent history. This book 'Ulfat Dahshat aur Siasat (Love Terror and Politics)' contains a short story under contemporary Urdu fiction category and written by Dr. Saleem Khan

One missing baby. Two shattered families. Too many secrets to count.A baby girl disappears from her stroller parked outside a restaurant in Denmark while her mother eats lunch inside. Authorities are notified and a massive manhunt is launched.Two thousand miles away in Sardinia, Italy, a young man shows up with a newborn baby. He gives the baby to his wife, who is still grieving the loss of their stillborn child.A longtime boarder in the family home hears the news about a missing baby in Copenhagen and becomes suspicious when he learns that the young husband had recently returned from there. The boarder grapples with his loyalty and affection for his host family and doing the right thing for this baby. Interpol investigates and the shocking truth about the baby girl's identity is revealed.

Mired in a pit of depression so deep that he doubts he'll ever pull himself out, Matt Hoveling finds himself pushed up against the farthest edge of the North American continent possible, where a group of marginalised Vancouverites take him in as one of their own as they work to improve their own lives and the city around them. (345 pages) ------------- "What is wrong with you people?" Naz demanded to know. "How the hell did you win the Cold War? Cops like that are like shark's teeth. Break one off and another will just grow in its place. Stop acting like Rocky and Bullwinkle. Let Natasha - Where is my Boris? Why don't I have a Boris? - do the thinking for you. The solution is simple; you have a disappeared woman you want back. This Jewish Effie. You have a bad cop you want disappeared. The so-called Detective Dick. The answer is simple. Switch them. Disappear the cop, bring back Effie. Paint the town black." "What do you mean, 'Paint the town black?'" "Simple. I'm from Kazakhstan. Bad men have been making people disappear into Kazakhstan since Alexander Nevsky and his grandson, Ivan Kalita - 'little moneybags' -- bribed the Mongols' Golden Horde to leave Moscow alone and focus on rape, pillage and beheadings in Kazakhstan."Ivan the Terrible, Vasily the Dark, Stalin: they all sent their problems to disappear and die in Kazakhstan. There's only one solution when shits like your cop stain society so badly they can't be erased. You can never make it pure and white again. But that doesn't mean you can't do anything to start over. All you have to do is start from the other direction. Paint the whole thing black. You can paint over black just as well as you can paint over white."

June 1910. Charles Richard Crowningshield, a wealthy industrialist from Chicago, is sending his family east, to escape the summer heat. They arrive by private train, to the village of Woods Hole, a small fishing village on the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He's just purchased a new home there, high atop Juniper Point, a windswept promentary with views to sea and the Elizabeth islands beyond. But the house, built in 1880, a large Victorian mansion in the Queen Anne stylee, is a beautiful fixer-upper, lacking even the most basic of amenities, like indoor plumbing. Arthur Rouse, an illiterate Scottish foundryman with an almost preternatural relationship with machinary, has also been sent by his employer to set the situation to rights.

Hubba Bubba's Fish Camp in Po'thole, Florida is striving to become a bona fide Florida tourist destination with the addition of Miss Maisy, a pink flamingo, courtesy of Miss Trixie Delight, the star performer at Babes, Babes, and More Babes Gentlemen's Club.Because you can never have too many flamingos named after redneck restauranteur Hubba Bubba's favorite dancers - Miss Pinkie, Miss Lexie, and Miss Diamond, add in Miss Trixie Delight's murder, a convicted felon running for mayor, possible flamingo trafficking, and you have all the makings for a new craziness, murder, mischief, and mayhem in Po'thole.Can Parker Bell and the hormonal, always caffeine-and-sugar infused Lady Gatorettes enter their own mayoral candidate who may or may not be pink, frequently stands on one leg, and a tourist attraction?Clean, fun-filled, laugh out loud, over the top absurdity that it might just be true.

She's missing, and her mother knows who to blame. But nobody's listening. When the case falls to DCI Bob Valentine, however, he has no choice but to listen. Haunted by the girl's cold gaze and her mother's hurt, the detective soon finds himself at the centre of the most harrowing investigation of his police career. Uncovering a ring of ritualistic abuse that leads to the highest echelons of a degraded and Satanic society, Valentine wonders how the world could contain such evils. And then the bodies start to mount. And the demons' defenders appear. Can the detective fight on so many fronts? Can he even hope to find the missing, never mind the guilty? Her Cold Eyes is a harrowing journey down the most twisting, turning rabbit hole, where the screams from below might just be preferable to the ones above. Critical Acclaim for Books by Tony Black "Black has created a sympathetic and fascinating character in Valentine...Strong characters and tight pacing elevate this police procedural." -Publishers Weekly "Tony Black is my favourite British crime writer" -Irvine Welsh "If you're a fan of the Ian Rankins, Denise Minas and Irvine Welshes of this world, this is most certainly one for you" -The Scotsman "Black is one of those excellent perpetrators of Scottish noir: a compelling and convincing portrayer of raw emotions in a vicious milieu." -The Times "This up-and-coming crime writer isn't portraying the Edinburgh in the Visit Scotland tourism brochures." -The Sun "Taut, with a heart-wrenchingly honest protagonist and impressive literary style, it is among the best of the new Tartan Noir" -The Daily Mail "Irvine Welsh adores him, Ken Bruen can't praise him highly enough-Tony Black is the new Scottish noir king you need on your bookshelf" -Shortlist Magazine "An accomplished and impressive piece of tartan noir" -The List "Black's visceral prose makes this a superior offering in a crowded market" -Big Issue