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Max Tudor thought he'd left the world of deceit when he resigned from MI5 to become an Anglican priest. Then his bishop asks him to return to his Oxford college, St Luke's, to investigate the death of its chaplain, and Max realizes there's no leaving the past behind. At first, Max agrees with the official police verdict of death by natural causes. The Rev. Ace Graybill was as harmless a man as ever lived. It's difficult to see how he managed to cross anyone capable of murder.

Nolan was still alive; his wounds healed and his money was safe - all $800,000 of it. It was Nolan’s birthday, and he was sitting happy. Until Planner was killed. Planner was an eccentric antique dealer; Planner had the $800,000 in his safe. But now he was dead, and the money was gone. Caught up in the sizzling crossfire of double-dealing, danger, and death, Nolan was up against the “Family” again.

A Pakistani intelligence officer secretly communicates with a Mexican drug cartel. A lobbyist is assassinated in the suburbs of Northern Virginia. A US senator receives death threats from a shadowy group. There is a connection. And Max Fend has only days to discover what it is. The chase leads CIA asset Max Fend from the Pacific coast of Mexico to the plains of Wisconsin, home of the largest air show in the world - Oshkosh. Beneath the drone of old warbirds and sleek aerobatics aircraft, Max and his partner, Renee, uncover clues that point to a global conspiracy.

For Lieutenant Reim of the Stasi, life in East Berlin is a satisfying blend of days behind a desk and nights in front of a bottle. But, when a senior officer has a messy affair, it falls to Reim to do the clearing up. It should be a straightforward job; lean on a few people to get them to shut up, intimidate neighbors, bribe officials, and appeal to the socialist conscience of party members. But, when Reim starts his interrogations, he realizes his boss is hiding more than just a lover.

Six months have passed since Jessica's encounter with the mysterious serial-killing coven of witches and the death of her mentor, Erne. Her nightmares about her mother and the witchcraft that undid her have only gotten worse, but she's doing what she can to stay focused. Her homicide squad, now under new leadership, has been given a murder case and a new series of disappearances to investigate. A young woman's corpse has washed up on an icy beach, and two famous Instagram influencers have gone missing at the same time.

The CIA has learned that the Kremlin is about to launch a sophisticated propaganda operation aimed at discrediting and disrupting the United States and ultimately restoring Russia to great nation status. Intercepted intelligence suggests that the operation will hinge on a single, breaking news event in Eastern Europe, supported by a sustained campaign of disinformation and cyberattacks.

Someone is hacking into hospital databases and holding them for ransom, bringing Britain's healthcare system to its knees. Seal Team Six operator Victoria "Tori" Bennett - fresh off a covert mission in Mexico where she evened the scales of justice by spilling a lot of blood - is sent to weed out the hacker. She figures this mission will be easy enough. It's probably some teenager in his bedroom who will scream the second he sees he's busted, right? Wrong.

Max Anger is a man on the edge. The former fighter in an elite band of special-ops soldiers in Sweden, Anger is haunted by battle scars, a childhood spent in the Stockholm archipelago, and his own mysterious family past. Now behind a desk at Vektor, a think tank conducting research on Russia, he’s met his match - and fallen in love - with fierce fellow operative Pashie Kovalenko. Like all of Vektor, she’s set her sights on the tenuous future of her country.

When SEC Investigator Barrett Johnson uncovers a sinister scheme to profit from America’s downfall, he knows he has to act fast. Someone is making secret financial trades from the Middle East that could only benefit in the event of a catastrophic terrorist attack on America. But when the CIA refuses to listen, Johnson realizes only one other person in the world can help him: The Hangman, an elusive assassin now more known for the noose left wrapped around his victim’s neck than his brilliant banking skills.

Former special-ops soldier and now an analyst for the think tank Vektor, Max Anger would kill to move on from the scars of his past - if only for the sake of Pashie, his girlfriend and fellow operative, who wants out of the battle zone. For them, a normal life is just one more dangerous uncertainty. Especially now that evil is hitting closer to home. Sofia Karlsson of the Swedish police wants Max’s help in a high-profile and high-stakes murder investigation: the hunt for a serial killer stalking the streets of Stockholm, who’s eliminating his victims in gruesome ways.

Mord in Aix-en-Provence. Der betagte Postangestellte René Rouquet wurde in seiner Wohnung ermordet. Hier hatte der berühmte Maler Paul Cézanne einst seine letzten Lebensjahre verbracht. Rouquet hatte eine alte Leinwand entdeckt, auf der eine junge Provenzalin dargestellt ist. Ein echter Cézanne? Aber wer ist die lächelnde Frau auf dem Gemälde? Und wer hat Rouquet ermordet? Richter Antoine Verlaque und die schöne Juraprofessorin Marine Bonnet stehen vor einem komplizierten Fall ... Ein charmanter Krimi voller Lavendelduft, Kochkunst und Liebe.

Der Münchner Exkommissar Max Raintaler und seine Freundin Monika feiern Geburtstag im "Da Giovanni", ihrem gemeinsamen Lieblingsitaliener und Stammlokal. Beide sind seit Jahren eng mit Giovanni befreundet, Max spielt zudem mit ihm Fußball. Der gemütliche Abend wird gestört, als der Italiener mit zwei jungen Männern in Streit gerät, die Max jedoch kurzerhand hinauswirft. Am nächsten Tag liegt Giovanni erschlagen in seinem Restaurant. Sofort macht sich Max auf die Suche nach dem Täter.

Stephen Leeds ist vollkommen gesund. Es sind seine Halluzinationen, die alle ziemlich verrückt sind – Exklusiv als Audio-Original. Stephen Leeds ist ein Ein-Mann-Expertenteam und ein Genie mit beispiellosen geistigen Fähigkeiten, das in nur wenigen Stunden ganze wissenschaftliche Disziplinen erlernen kann. Diese Fähigkeiten haben jedoch ihren Preis. Stephen muss sein Gehirn aufteilen, wobei jede seiner neuen Fähigkeiten mit einem »Aspekt« verbunden ist – einer Halluzination, die sein Verstand erzeugt. Und jeder Aspekt hat sein Eigenleben, einschließlich eigener Persönlichkeit.

Mord im Luxus-Hotel Endlich Urlaub! Untersuchungsrichter Antoine Verlaque und seine Freundin, die Juraprofessorin Marine Bonnet, haben ein Hotel für die Reichen und Schönen auf der Insel Sordou unweit von Marseille gebucht. Die Sonne, das Hotel, die Küche, die Liebe - alles ist großartig auf Sordou. Dann wird einer der Hotelgäste, einst ein berühmter Schauspieler, von der charmanten jungen Marie-Thérese am Strand gefunden.

Sonne, Wein und Mord. Auf dem Weingut Beauclaire werden teure, alte Weine gestohlen. Außerdem treibt in der Gegend um Aix-en-Provence ein brutaler Frauenmörder sein Unwesen. Für Untersuchungsrichter Antoine Verlaque und seine Freundin, die attraktive Juraprofessorin Marine Bonnet, bleibt keine Zeit mehr, die Schönheit des provenzalischen Sommers zu genießen ... Ein Kriminalroman mit südfranzösischer Atmosphäre, Spannung und charmantem Personal.

Es stirbt sich schöner in der Provence. Professor Moutte von der theologischen Fakultät der Uni in Aix-on-Provence wurde ermordet. War der Täter einer der Bewerber um sein Amt und seine schöne Wohnung? Oder war es einer der Studenten, die auf ein hochdotiertes Stipendium hoffen? Untersuchungsrichter Antoine Verlaque und seine Freundin Marine Bonnet stehen vor einem komplizierten Fall ... Südfranzösische Atmosphäre, Kochkunst und Liebe in einem wunderschönen Provence-Krimi.

Ein lauschiger Abend im Biergarten. Die Abendzeitung wird an den Tisch gebracht, an dem Franz Wurmdobler mit seinen besten Freunden und Kollegen eine kleine Feier wegen seiner bevorstehenden Pensionierung ausrichtet. Der Aufmacher der Zeitung: Franz soll in jungen Jahren ein Mädchen vergewaltigt haben. Max Raintaler und sein Kollege Bernd Müller glauben nicht an Franz‘ Schuld und nehmen die Ermittlungen auf. Dabei geraten sie in einen Strudel von Mord und Lügen in der Welt der Schönen und Reichen. Es wird gefährlich!

Former CIA Russia expert Max Geller is recovering from an intense mission while lying low in Australia, enjoying his sudden wealth in the company of his new girlfriend. But his beachy bliss is short-lived when Max, while relaxing by the ocean, is ambushed by the CIA.

The Truth Doesn't Always Set You Free. In 1987, the dirty war that will last twelve years and kill thirty thousand Peruvians finally reaches up through the Andean cloud forest for Nina and her family. Nina's father is shot by soldiers, her mother raped, and her brother lost to the shadowy ranks of Shining Path guerrillas. And when Agustín Malqui, the village pastor, files a legal complaint against the military, it's no surprise when he disappears in the middle of the night - just another casualty of the military regime.

San Francisco, 1979. When ex-con PI Colleen Hayes is hired to find a missing person, she discovers an international vigilante group hunting down ex-Nazis. A World War II banknote and a 1942 SS ID of a German officer long thought dead lead her to Italy, where she uncovers a secret project hatched in a concentration camp. Colleen has no choice but to push ahead if the killing is to stop and justice prevail.