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We all recognise them. Those who exist just on the fringes of society. Who send prickles up the back of our necks. The charmers. The liars. The manipulators. Those who have the potential to go that one step too far. And then take another step. Jessamine Gooch makes a living from these people. Each week she broadcasts a radio show looking into the past lives of convicted killers, asking if there was more that could have been done to prevent their terrible crimes.

Eine alte Farm, eine einsame Landschaft, ein düsteres Geheimnis aus vergangener Zeit. Mit tödlichen Folgen für die Gegenwart...

Philippa Watson, a good-natured yet troubled 17-year-old, has just moved to Washington, DC. She’s lonely until she meets Judy Peabody, a brilliant and tempestuous classmate. The girls become unlikely friends and fashion themselves as intellectuals, drawing the notice of Christine Martins, their dazzling English teacher, who enthralls them with her passion for literature and her love of noirish detective fiction. When Philippa returns a novel Miss Martins has lent her, she interrupts a man grappling with her in the shadows.

Cord Cassjen ist überglücklich, sein Sohn Caspar hat das Licht der Welt erblickt. Aber seine Frau Silvana leidet an einer postpartalen Psychose, sieht sich und vor allem das Baby von allen Seiten bedroht. Und dann passiert das Unfassbare - Cord wird erschossen, Silvana ist mitsamt dem Säugling verschwunden. Die Kommissare Renke Nordmann und Nola van Heerden stehen vor einem Rätsel: Gab es vielleicht doch den großen Unbekannten, vor dem Silvana sich so sehr fürchtete?

A notorious stretch of highway is rife with serial killers, unsolved murders and missing-persons cases. The FBI, knowing it must crack this Bermuda Triangle of death, assigns its most brilliant mind—and flawed agent—Rylie Wolf, to dive headfirst into this road of danger. Rylie must tap her brilliant instincts to decode these cases and enter the twisted mind of killers—while battling demons from her own dark past.

Three cozy mysteries that are out of this world...Running the best little UFO-themed B&B in the Sierras takes organization, breakfasting chops, and a talent for crime solving in this collection of the first three books in the Wits' End cozy mystery series. The truth is out there...Way out there in this hilarious collection of quirky cozy mysteries. Beam up this boxed set today!

On a notorious stretch of highway rife with serial killers, victims are appearing across multiple state lines, seemingly no link between them. Rylie, pitted against territorial police departments, must tap her brilliant mind to crack the riddle and save the next victim before it’s too late.

Ein tragischer Cold Case, eine alte Schuld und ein düsteres Geheimnis! Sussex 1985: Holly Moore führt ein trostloses Leben im düsteren Waisenhaus Morgate. Für ein wenig Zuneigung würde die einsame Teenagerin alles tun. Als sie einem jungen Mann begegnet, der sich aufrichtig um sie zu sorgen scheint, keimt Hoffnung in ihr auf. 2015: Jo Hamilton blickt auf eine lange Karriere bei der Polizei zurück. Als die Leiche eines jungen Mädchens entdeckt wird, holt sie ein 30 Jahre alter Cold Case wieder ein.

A notorious stretch of highway is rife with serial killers, unsolved murders, and missing-persons cases. The FBI, knowing it must crack this Bermuda Triangle of death, assigns its most brilliant mind - and flawed agent - Rylie Wolf, to dive headfirst into this road of danger. Rylie must tap her brilliant instincts to decode these cases and enter the twisted mind of killers - while battling demons from her own dark past.

On a stretch of highway in the Pacific Northwest known for the country’s highest number of serial killers, cold cases pile up across state lines, stumping the local police. An elite FBI unit is formed, with brilliant special agent Rylie Wolf at its head—and this time she must crack the case of a string of hitchhikers who’ve gone missing. Are they all the work of a single killer? And can she save the next one before it’s too late?

Against all odds, Bobbi Logan, a statuesque transgender woman, has become one of Chicago's most celebrated hair stylists and the owner of one of the city's poshest salons. Then, her impossibly perfect life falls apart. In the space of a few weeks, the Great Recession drags her business to the brink of failure, her beloved ex-wife needs help in facing a terrible tragedy, and a hateful police detective storms back into her life, determined to convict her of the five-year-old murder of John Strand.

What began as an innocuous advice column for Celeste Cleary has transformed into an all-consuming obsession, and her former existence as a scientist now feels like a distant memory. As she immerses herself in the troubles of others-at times solving their dilemmas with messages from beyond the grave-an ability that has invaded her life since the hit-and-run accident that nearly killed her months before, Celeste grapples with the news that the accident may have been attempted murder.

In Caught You, Rylie, still haunted by a near miss with a murderer during her childhood, tries to avoid facing her past while hunting down this new killer. When the case leads her down an endless rabbit hole, she’s forced to look for answers in unlikely places, even turning to people she hoped to never speak to again. But she can’t open up to her partner about what happened—and the clock is ticking before this killer strikes again. In a game of cat and mouse, can Rylie battle her demons and piece together the answers in time? Or will her demons drive her over the edge?

Susan Witsend, owner of the best little UFO-themed B&B in the Sierras, is absolutely, positively, not going to get involved in another murder case. Not with her small-town sheriff threatening jail time if she interferes in one more investigation. So when her neighbor is murdered, Susan exerts all her willpower to stay out of the sheriff’s business. But her neighbor’s daughter, Clare, needs Susan’s help. Clare’s been experiencing lost time, a sure sign of alien abduction. Helping Clare is only neighborly...and totally not interfering.

On a stretch of highway in the Pacific Northwest known for the country’s highest number of serial killers, cold cases pile up across state lines, stumping the local police. An elite FBI unit is formed, with brilliant special agent Rylie Wolf at its head—and Rylie is summoned urgently to a region where unsuspecting accidents have converged with murders. Can she find the link?

On a stretch of highway in the Pacific Northwest known for the country’s highest number of serial killers, cold cases pile up across state lines, stumping the local police. An elite FBI unit is formed, with brilliant special agent Rylie Wolf at its head—and this time Rylie is summoned to a lonely stretch of highway where active and cold cases converge. Has an old killer re-surfaced?

Antonia Scott ist speziell. Sehr speziell. Sie ist keine Polizistin und trägt keine Waffe. Und dennoch hat sie Dutzende Verbrechen aufgeklärt. Seit einem tragischen Vorfall weigert sie sich jedoch, ihre Wohnung in Madrid zu verlassen. Aber genau dazu soll Inspector Jon Gutiérrez sie bewegen. Denn Antonia ist die vielleicht intelligenteste Frau der Welt und die Einzige, die den aktuellen Fall lösen kann: Ein skrupelloser Täter hat es auf die Reichsten und Mächtigsten des Landes abgesehen. Er hinterlässt keinerlei Spuren, und die Polizei ist völlig ratlos.

Wenn der Bullerbü-Urlaub zum Albtraum wird: Der neue Thriller der Meisterin der Gänsehaut-Atmosphäre. Spätestens nach dem ersten Twist werden Sie dieses Hörbuch nicht mehr aus der Hand legen können! Als Henrik und Nora mit ihrem fünfjährigen Sohn Fynn ins schwedische Västernorrland fahren, erwarten sie einen idyllischen Urlaub. Doch bereits bei ihrer Ankunft spüren sie, dass die verlassene Ferienhütte etwas Bedrohliches umgibt. Der Eindruck bestätigt sich, als im angrenzenden Wald ein jahrzehntealtes Kinderskelett gefunden wird. Dann verschwindet Fynn.

Als Kriminalhauptkommissarin Conny Fesser undercover auf einer Vernissage des Gangsterbosses Maxim Kutzow eingesetzt wird, hält sie das für einen Routineeinsatz. Drogenhandel, Schmuggel, das Übliche. Als sie dort auf junge Mädchen trifft, die nicht freiwillig anwesend zu sein scheinen, erwacht in ihr ein furchtbarer Verdacht – betreibt Kutzow auch noch Mädchenhandel? Conny setzt sich in den Kopf, die Sache aufzuklären und Kutzow hinter Gitter zu bringen. Doch der vermeintliche Routinefall stellt sich schnell als Sumpf heraus, in dem niemand ist, was er vorgibt – inklusive Conny selbst.

Former NYPD detective Shana Merchant is a skilled Senior Investigator keeping New York's beautiful Thousands Islands community safe. She's also bound by blood to a serial killer. And after months of concealing the truth from the world as she hunted Blake Bram down, her secret is finally out. Shana just wants to get on with her life and win back her community's trust. But as Alexandria Bay fills up with tourists in advance of the annual festival known as Pirate Days, a visitor goes missing, and the case threatens to destroy not just the celebrations, but what remains of Shana's reputation.