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Laura is a perfectionist and extremely capable air ambulance doctor. As part of the ethics committee at the hospital, she is also the person who chooses whether critical care patients live or die. She's worked hard to get here. And then, one night, life overturns in a moment and the past threatens to shatter everything they hold dear in the present. Can even those we trust with our lives be dangerous in the right circumstances? And is there a limit to what we would do for those we love?

In the follow-up to best-selling Blood Defense, Samantha is hired as the legal advocate for Cassie Sonnenberg after a brutal stabbing left her father and brother dead, and her mother barely clinging to life. It's a tabloid-ready case that has the nation in an uproar - and Sam facing her biggest challenge yet. Why did Cassie survive? Is she hiding something?

When nineteen-year-old Jill Moss goes missing near the Utah-Arizona border, everyone has an opinion. Only Norma Gallagher, a search and rescue volunteer, knows the real story. Norma’s already found Jill, huddled in a cave and terrified that her abusive boyfriend, Jake, will kill her. If he ever sees her again. To protect Jill from a dangerous man, Norma quietly delivers the girl to her grateful parents in California, even though she’s conflicted. Keeping Jill safe and hidden from Jake, the press, and the public will be their secret. But secrets can’t last forever.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) is capitalizing on the neglect of war-weary world leaders. No one in Iraq is safe. Christians are herded like cattle. Whole communities are torn apart. Marine Cal Stokes has had enough. With the quiet support of US President Brandon Zimmer, Stokes and his closest friends return to the Middle East to take the battle to the enemy, even if it means being cut off from ever coming home. This is a about what's right, not what's popular, a moral imperative....

It’s 2025. Tanner Moore is at the top of his game in the high-stakes world of big technology. As C.T.O. of Paragon, the largest corporation in the world, Tanner is about to release the greatest convenience innovation in the history of eCommerce - drone delivery services to every inch of the globe. But when an interview with journalist Amy Noral is secretly recorded and published by the clickbait media, Tanner’s fall from grace is swift and brutal.

In a quiet home in the Fort Lauderdale suburbs, a woman psychically witnesses a murder. In a posh estate a few miles away, a man lies dead. The only clues are a collection of tarot cards sent to the victim's home and a nuisance call from a Fort Lauderdale woman who claims to have had a vision of the killing. For Detective Wayne Sheppard, the killing of famous criminologist Andrew Steele and the disappearance of his beautiful wife is about to test everything he has ever believed and everything he knows about logic, police work, and scientific truth.

Stan Mullens is an American mercenary in the Congo who sees himself as a good guy with a bad job. Stan's self-assigned mission to protect his long time brother-in-arms, Frank, takes a serious hit when their boss sends them on an unsupported mission into the jungle to track and kill Tonde Chiora, a former company employee accused of stealing vital company mining technology. As their mission takes them deep into the violent heart of the Congo, Stan soon discovers that his victim hasn't done anything to warrant being murdered.

Aparentemente, Carvalho viaja a Bangkok para atender el SOS de una vieja amiga, Teresa Marsé. Pero el oyente puede llegar a la conclusión de que huye de su mundo cotidiano, en el que la realidad le es insuficiente y le empuja a perseguir fantasmas, como el de Celia Mataix, asesinada con una botella de champán de marca desconocida, o el de su asesina, Marta Miguel, self-made woman de un pueblo de Salamanca.

En avril 1957, lors de la première visite officielle d'Elizabeth II à Paris, une série d'événements laisse à penser à un sabotage. Au même moment, deux morts atroces ont lieu à proximité de Buckingham Palace. Lorsque l'un de ses proches est impliqué dans l'affaire, la reine mène l'enquête depuis Balmoral avec l'aide de sa secrétaire particulière adjointe, Joan McGraw.

Two homicide detectives Turner Hahn and Frank Morales. One looks like a matinee idol out of the 1930s. The other a modern day version of a Neanderthal. Both extremely skilled in their chosen professions. They're the ones who catch the cases no one else want to touch. The hard ones; the ones with few clues. The ones which have no suspects. Or the ones which have a thousand suspects. It doesn't matter. If a killer or killers are out there waiting to be found. Bank on it. Turner and Frank will find them.

Fisheries officer Simone Lord is transferred to Quebec's remote Magdalen Islands for the winter, and at the last minute ordered to go aboard a trawler braving a winter storm for the traditional grey seal hunt, while all of the other boats shelter onshore. Detective Sergeant Joaquin Moralès is on a cross-country boat trip down the St Lawrence River, accompanied by Nadine Lauzon, a forensic psychologist working on the case of a savagely beaten teenager with Moralès' old team in Montreal.

It is the summer of 1989, and a controversial Supreme Court ruling has opened the door for states to enact stricter abortion laws. Pro-Life Florida Governor Michael Romano, who has built his political platform on morality, is determined to lead the nation in exploiting this first crack in Roe v Wade. But when his extramarital affair results in an unintended pregnancy, Romano is faced with the frightening prospect of losing all that defines his life—a beautiful, loving wife, a brilliant political career, and enormous wealth.

Bertram Sandell hopped into Allison’s car in heavy traffic, blond hair, blue eyes, a dimple, and a gun. He is being charged with murder, a crime he had nothing to do with. Later, Betsy Bryant is convicted of the murder she did not commit. Following Allison as she solves these miscarriages of justice takes us on a whirlwind tour of Tampa from Ybor City to Hyde Park with a side trip to Longboat Key. It is a hot, sizzling ride with Miss Lillian, New York’s classiest hooker, to Betsy Bryant who burns out husbands like they were wooden matches.

A serial killer is on the loose in Chicago. With a morbid signature, the murderer must be stopped before he kills again. Social worker Cassandra Welton and Detective Logan Trenton team up to find the killer. With every twist and turn, they wonder if they are on the right trail. How long will it take to make sure they have the right man?

La infancia de Naomi Bowes terminó bruscamente la noche en que siguió a su padre hasta el bosque que bordeaba la casa familiar y descubrió el oscuro secreto que ocultaba.Mantenía cautiva a una joven. No era la primera a la que había privado de su libertad ni la primera a la que pensaba matar.

"Ich stehe jetzt über Euch und ihr müsst begreifen, dass es so nicht weitergehen wird... " Nach einem perfiden Anschlag in Berlin geht die Polizei zunächst von Terrorismus aus. Doch schnell deuten die Umstände der Tat darauf hin, dass etwas ganz anderes dahintersteckt. Zahlreiche Menschen verlieren ihr Leben, aber die Schlagzeilen sind schnell wieder vergessen. Hauptkommissar Lewis Schneider wird eher zufällig in die Ermittlungen involviert und steht vor einem Rätsel. Die einzig brauchbare Zeugin scheint ziemlich unter Druck zu stehen und trotzdem ihr eigenes Spiel zu spielen.

Todo empieza con un hecho imprevisto, un homicidio involuntario. Un hecho absurdo, un accidente que poco a poco, inexorablemente, irá marcando la vida de los personajes de la novela. Héctor, el protagonista masculino, es un hombre incapaz de asumir verdaderos compromisos y responsabilidades, de involucrarse a fondo en sus relaciones. Las mujeres, sus mujeres, son tres.

These 10 short stories feature some of the homicide cases investigated by the South Side Precinct’s best homicide detectives Turner Hahn and Frank Morales. In this riveting collection, you'll find cases of murder, revenge, greed, and insanity, with a hint of the supernatural thrown in as a bonus.

In the woods of North Carolina, it awaits, ready to unleash a shocking plan of revenge. Soon, the victims will understand what it is to be helpless and alone. They will wish for mercy, but there will be none. Because actions have consequences, and someone must always pay.

Después de casi dos siglos, un precioso códice iluminado vuelve a un monasterio femenino situado a los pies de la cordillera Cantábrica. El Beato de San Andrés de Arroyo -hoy propiedad de la Biblioteca Nacional de Francia- regresa al cenobio que lo poseyó durante seiscientos años. Han sido incontables las gestiones necesarias para que las autoridades galas lo autoricen. Todos los esfuerzos se dan por bien empleados porque la obra es la pieza estrella de una exposición sobre la que descansan muchas esperanzas.