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Im Jahr 1974 wurde die Ostküste der USA in einen Rausch der Angst versetzt. Alle verriegelten ihre Fenster und Türen und hatten Angst, das nächste Opfer des auffallend gut aussehenden, aber tödlichen „Casanova-Killers“ zu werden. Und er war auf dem Vormarsch.

In 1974, the US East Coast was whipped up into a frenzy of fear. Locking their windows and doors, everyone was terrified of becoming the next victim of the strikingly handsome but deadly “Casanova Killer”. And he was on the move.

Jaleesa, Kai, Ilya and Dani are online best friends, and superfans of the hit TV show City of Night. Fantasising about the show in their chatroom, they find an escape from their troubled small-town lives. Everything changes when Chloe, make-up artist to the show's star Alice Temple, enters the chat. When Chloe tells them Alice is in danger the four resolve to save her, and make their way to California. But fantasy is quickly overtaken by reality. Alice's troubles, they discover, will shine the spotlight on all of them. And not in a good way.

In Lindsay Hunter’s achingly funny, fiercely honest second novel, Eat Only When You’re Hungry, we meet Greg—an overweight fifty-eight-year-old and the father of Greg Junior, GJ, who has been missing for three weeks. GJ’s been an addict his whole adult life, disappearing for days at a time, but for some reason this absence feels different, and Greg has convinced himself that he’s the only one who can find his son. So he rents an RV and drives from his home in West Virginia to the outskirts of Orlando, Florida, the last place GJ was seen.

Charlie and Nao are strangers from different sides of the tracks. They should never have met, but one devastating incident binds them together forever. A man is dead, and now they are unwilling accomplices in his murder. There's only one thing to do: hit the road in the victim's twin cab ute, with a bag of stolen gold stashed under the passenger seat. Suddenly outlaws, Nao and Charlie must make their way across Australia's remote outback using only their wits to survive. They'll do whatever it takes to evade capture and escape with their lives.

Needing to escape her abusive marriage, Hadley flees with her two kids, knowing it might be her only chance. A woman who can’t even kill a spider, Hadley soon finds herself pushed to the limits as she fights to protect her family. Grace, new mother of baby Miles, desperately wants to put her rough past behind her for good, but she finds it impossible when her path crosses with Hadley’s, and her quest for a new start quickly spirals out of control and turns into a terrifying flight for survival.

Divorced single mom Rae Wilkinson hopes her new home will be the fresh start she needs. After all, the small Wisconsin town has a lot to offer—good schools, outdoor fun, and friendly neighbors. Well, all but one neighbor. Dean Caldwell is a bit of a grump. Or, he is to Rae, the beautiful woman who moves in next door with her young daughter. There’s nothing but tension between Dean and Rae after her arrival. She’s sweet and endearing; he’s nothing but a grouch. But seeing how charming he is with her daughter, Rae can’t stop herself from swooning.

In this fast, fun, and dead-sexy male/male new-adult caper from multiaward-winning author Josh Lanyon, twentysomething Jefferson Blythe gets lost, gets found, falls in love, and comes out…all in the span of one wild summer. After his first relationship goes disastrously awry, Jeff Blythe uses his savings to tour Europe—the old-fashioned way. Armed with his grandfather's 1960 copy of Esquire's Europe in Style, Jeff sets off looking for adventure but finds much, much more than he bargained for….

When Michelle Deckers is convinced she has lost everything, she gets into her old Volvo and leaves. Destination: unknown. On the Portuguese coast, she meets Isa, a Frenchwoman travelling around with her little daughter in a Volkswagen van. Their friendship is immediately put to the test: a man's horribly mutilated body washes up on the beach. What has happened to him? And why is Isa suddenly behaving so strangely? Then a second death occurs, no stranger this time. Before Michelle realizes it, the most dangerous ride of her life begins.

Lucy Stark is on the run. After making one wrong turn and witnessing a violent crime that left a woman dead, Lucy became a target. So, she packed up and moved to the beaches of the New Jersey shore.

Harry Booth ist ein Kind, gerade einmal neun, da erkrankt seine Mutter schwer an Krebs. Um die hohen Arztrechnungen begleichen zu können, greift er zu ungewöhnlichen Mitteln: Er bricht im Schutz der Nacht in die leerstehenden Häuser der Reichen ein. Harry erweist sich als ebenso klug wie talentiert, und er schätzt den Adrenalinrausch bei seinen Abenteuern. Doch versteht er sich als Dieb mit festen Regeln: niemals Aufsehen erregen, niemals lange bleiben, nur von denen nehmen, die es sich leisten können. Bis er auf Miranda Emerson trifft und über die Liebe zu ihr alle Vorsicht vergisst.

Brenna Garrett needs time to think about a major decision but finds herself bringing Benjamin Montgomery with her. The problem? He's her best friend's twin, so there's no escaping that familiar face. Benjamin didn't want to leave his family in a lurch, but Brenna isn't the only one who needs a break. Only a drunken mistake leads to a night of passion with unintended consequences. When it turns out they can't walk away, they'll have to make a choice: Remain just friends or start something new and possibly risk everything. Including themselves.

From the outside, Frank and Grace seem to have the perfect family. He’s a loving husband, she’s a devoted wife, and together they have two happy children. But appearances can be deceiving. A strange series of misfortunes has left them reeling: an unexplained break-in, a catastrophic handgun accident, and a bizarre poisoning that’s left Grace feeling especially unnerved. Packing up their RV for a move across the country, they’re ready for a fresh start, expecting to leave all their problems safely behind.

Welcome to another typical summer in Florida, the season of the storms. Serge Storms. That loveable serial killer, an under-under-medicated dispenser of truth, justice, and trivia, is back with a vengeance. And not a weirdness-laced moment too soon. His cherished home state is about to take a beating, and from far more than the way-too-routine conga line of hurricanes bearing down on the peninsula. Corpses have begun turning up at a disturbing rate, even for Florida.

Jocelyn is ready to get married—and more ready to have fun. She plans a bachelorette trip to North Wales, where she can forget about her strained relationship and focus on the tension among friends instead. It’s a welcome distraction. Her friend Rowan used to be the wild child. But after having a kid of her own and losing the father in a tragic accident, she’s now the ever-responsible single mother, cautious in every way. Except one.

Charlie receives an assignment to drive a teen runaway girl back to her home in Arizona. It’s about a six hour drive each way, and all she has to do is deliver the girl back to her mother, enjoy a night in a nice hotel, turn around and drive back. She’ll be home in plenty of time to bake the Thanksgiving pies with Elsa and settle into the holiday season back in Albuquerque. Or not.

Mato, Shelby, and Stephanie are history and occult nerds with an obsession for all things dark and spooky. Our aim is to talk about the unnatural, the occult, and all things bump in the night and how they attribute to real life historical events and the sociology behind human fears. With every step we take into the past, we're bringing future context with us, and making sure we handle content with as much care and respect for the victims as we possibly can. So come, join us, passengers, on our roadtrip to the grave.

Rainy Cain, a tough, troubled high school senior, desperately wants to escape the confines of her life in Minneapolis. When her increasingly unstable mother suddenly commits suicide, Rainy thinks she has found her chance. Instead, her father, Sam - who she had always believed died before she was born - escapes from prison and abducts her, taking her on a cross-country trek in pursuit of millions of dollars that he believes her mother had kept from a botched robbery years earlier. On their heels the whole way is a young Minneapolis detective intent on bringing Rainy safely home.

Just another true crime podcast, except we will be taking our listeners on a roadtrip across the US (and maybe international waters who knows). Join Troy and Shan every Sunday as they discuss true crime and the occasional spooks through each of the 50 United States. Make sure to buckle up, grab your iced coffee cause we are going on a murder roadtrip!

Harry Booth ist ein Kind, gerade einmal neun, da erkrankt seine Mutter schwer an Krebs. Um die hohen Arztrechnungen begleichen zu können, greift er zu ungewöhnlichen Mitteln: Er bricht im Schutz der Nacht in die leerstehenden Häuser der Reichen ein. Harry erweist sich als ebenso klug wie talentiert, und er schätzt den Adrenalinrausch bei seinen Abenteuern. Doch versteht er sich als Dieb mit festen Regeln: niemals Aufsehen erregen, niemals lange bleiben, nur von denen nehmen, die es sich leisten können. Bis er auf Miranda Emerson trifft und über die Liebe zu ihr alle Vorsicht vergisst.