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"Ich bin der Zeitfänger." Mitten in der Nacht erwacht die 13-jährige Lara in einem düsteren Bootshaus, umgeben von einer Sammlung tickender Uhren. Aus der Dunkelheit tritt plötzlich ein Mann, der mit wirren Worten über Zeit und Engel spricht, bevor er sie mit ihrer Angst allein zurücklässt. Stunden später kommt Tina hinzu, die Lara zum Verwechseln ähnlich sieht – langes blondes Haar, dunkle Augen. Ihr Entführer kündigt an, dass noch zwei weitere Mädchen dazustoßen werden, denn er verfolgt einen finsteren Plan.

The year is 1999. Returning to practice after a suspension for stealing opioids, a young Scottish doctor takes the only job he can find: a post as a senior house officer in the struggling east London hospital of St Luke’s. Amid the maelstrom of sick patients, over-worked staff and underfunded wards a darker secret soon declares itself: too many patients are dying. Which of the medical professionals our protagonist has encountered is behind the murders? And can our unnamed narrator’s version of the events be trusted?

First, Patrick receives a DVD in the post. It shows footage of him and his wife, Ariana, walking, dressing, going to work - all filmed by cameras hidden in their house. Someone is clearly out to get him. And then the email arrives: GO ALONE. TELL NO ONE. DO WHAT WE SAY. OR SHE DIES. Patrick’s life is turned upside down. Suddenly this has become a matter of life and death.

Alastair Sheridan has it all. Wealth, good looks, a beautiful wife and children and, in the chaotic world of British politics, a real chance of becoming prime minister. But Alastair also has a secret. He’s a serial killer with a taste for young women. Only a handful of people know what kind of monster he is, and disgraced detective Ray Mason is one of them....

Accused of grassing up a fellow officer and driven brutally out of home and job, DI Grace Fisher is thankful to survive some dark times and find haven with the Major Investigation Team in Essex. Any hopes of a quiet start to her new life are dashed by the discovery of the body of a female student, last seen at a popular bar in Colchester. Grace has her first case. When a second student, also out drinking, is murdered and left grotesquely posed, the case becomes headline news. Someone is leaking disturbing details to a tabloid crime reporter. Is it the killer? Or a detective close to the case?

A multimedia designer is hard at work. His latest computer game heralds a new era in state-of-the-art graphics. But there's only one way to ensure that the death scenes are realistic enough. In an isolated field in Philadelphia, Detective Ciccotelli's day begins with one grave, one body and no murder weapon. It ends with sixteen graves, but only nine bodies and the realisation that the killer is going to strike again. When it's discovered that the murder weapons are similar to those used in medieval torture, Ciccotelli knows he's going up against the most dangerous opponent.

Kirby Cornell needs a break from everything; most of all, her slobbish housemates and the terrible thing they all did. Luckily, that hasn’t caught up with her just yet. Until a new message on their old group chat pops up: Everyone in the group chat will die. It’s the first text her ex-flatmate and social-media sleuth Esme has sent for ages, but that’s not the really weird thing. The really weird thing is, Esme died twelve months ago…

Heartbroken by a recent split, with her 30th birthday looming, she loses her job and her home in the same morning because of two swaggering, dishonest men - the boss who sexually harassed her and the flatmate sleeping with her behind his fiancée's back. But all Em can think about is catching a flight to attend her sister's wedding and see her dying mother. With a record-breaking heatwave, and a serial killer making the streets unsafe, London is completely gridlocked. Em's life has always been full of men getting their own way, and today the city teems with them standing between her and home.

In the midst of one of the worst winters Chicago has seen in years, the body of missing teenager Ella Reynolds is discovered under the surface of a frozen lake. She’s been missing for three weeks...the lake froze over three months ago. Detective Sam Porter and his team are brought in to investigate, but it’s not long before another girl goes missing. The press believes the serial killer Anson Bishop has struck again, but Porter knows differently. The deaths are too different. There’s a new killer on the loose.

"Die Therapie" von Sebastian Fitzek geht richtig unter die Haut! Der Psychiater Viktor Larenz lebt zurückgezogen in einem Ferienhaus auf der Insel Parkum. Seit seine Tochter Josy vor vier Jahren unter ungeklärten Umständen verschwand, erträgt er keine Gesellschaft mehr. Dann taucht eine schöne Unbekannte auf, die Wahnvorstellungen von einem kleinen Mädchen hat. Auch dieses verschwindet in ihren Träumen spurlos.

Als Elaine Dawson nach Gibraltar zur Hochzeit einer Freundin reisen will, werden sämtliche Flüge wegen Nebels gestrichen. Anstatt in der Abflughalle zu warten, nimmt sie das Angebot eines Fremden an, in seiner Wohnung zu übernachten und wird von diesem Moment an nie wieder gesehen ...

Daniel Kent has to get away. He's lost his job, his fiancée, his self-respect. The accident’s the final straw; Dan needs to make a new life in the sun. As soon as he sees the house, complete with gîte, in the picture-postcard region of the Dordogne, France, he knows this is his opportunity; not only to run his own dream business but also to escape the past. But shortly after arriving in the beautiful bastide town of Monpazier, strange things begin to happen.

How do you solve your own murder? Everyone believes Alex is in a coma, unlikely to ever wake up. As his family debate withdrawing life support, and his friends talk about how his girlfriend Bea needs to move on, he can only listen. But Alex soon begins to suspect that the accident that put him here wasn't really an accident. Even worse, the perpetrator is still out there, and Alex is not the only one in danger. As he goes over a series of clues from his past, Alex must use his remaining senses to solve the mystery.

Rachel searches through the night with her husband and Lucy’s older sister, desperate to find her child safe. The following morning, a body is found in the woods. But the nightmare is only just beginning.

Elaine Dawson ist vom Pech verfolgt. Als sie nach Gibraltar zur Hochzeit einer Freundin reisen will, werden sämtliche Flüge in Heathrow wegen Nebels gestrichen. Anstatt in der Abflughalle zu warten, nimmt sie das Angebot eines Fremden an, in seiner Wohnung zu übernachten - und wird von diesem Moment an nie wieder gesehen. Fünf Jahre später rollt die Journalistin Rosanna Hamilton den Fall neu auf. Plötzlich gibt es Hinweise, dass Elaine noch lebt.

Charlotte Links Klassiker jetzt neu: stimmungsvoll gelesen von Gabriele Blum. Franca Palmer ist am Ende: In ihrer Ehe kriselt es und der Alltag überfordert sie. Sie flüchtet auf die Kanalinsel Guernsey, wo sie sich in einem alten Rosenzüchterhaus einmietet. Bald entwickelt sich zwischen ihr und der Gastgeberin Beatrice eine distanzierte Freundschaft. Die ältere Frau lebt auf dem Anwesen mit Helene Feldmann zusammen, der sie Hass und Abneigung entgegenbringt. Die Gründe dafür bleiben für Franca zunächst im Verborgenen. Und eines Tages, es ist der 1. Mai, gibt es eine Tote in Le Variouf.

"Hilfe, mein Baby ist weg! Hier ist nur Blut ..." Ein Anruf schreckt die Berliner Polizei auf, denn das Gespräch endet abrupt, bevor die Anruferin identifiziert werden kann. Nur eine Person kann dem mysteriösen Hilferuf auf die Spur kommen: Matthias Hegel. Mit einer elektronischen Fußfessel versehen darf der geniale Audio-Profiler die U-Haft verlassen. Kaum draußen, kontaktiert Hegel erneut Bloggerin Jula, die ihm helfen soll den Säugling zu finden, bevor es zu spät ist.

Wenn die Gemeinschaft ein Zuhause bietet, die Familie Schutz verspricht und der Glaube Hoffnung schenkt, sind wir alle perfekte Opfer. Auf der Suche nach ihrer Mutter verschlägt es Audrey nach Velvet Cove. Eine Stadt, die niemals ihre Augen schließt und Geheimnisse zu wahren weiß. Wagemutig gräbt die junge Frau in der Vergangenheit und begibt sich damit in die Fänge des Bösen, denen sie nicht mehr entrinnen kann. Der fünfte Band öffnet die Pforten zur Hölle.

»Mami, sie ist weg ...« Gemma Ballantine macht sich morgens für die Arbeit fertig, als sie erlebt, wovor sich jede Mutter fürchtet: Die Haustür ist offen und ihre sechsjährige Tochter Katie ist verschwunden. Voller Angst beginnt Gemma eine nervenzerreißende Suche nach ihrem kleinen Mädchen.

I had it all: a fantastic husband, two great kids, an exciting career. And then, at the age of forty-three, I found out I would be dead before my next birthday. My mother also died at forty-three. I was seventeen, and she warned me that women would flock to my suddenly single father like stray cats to an overturned milk truck. They did. And one absolutely evil woman practically destroyed his life, mine, and my sister’s. I am not letting that happen to my family. I have three months, and I plan to spend every waking minute searching for the perfect woman to take my place.