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On a balmy evening in late March, Kata hosts a party on her husband's superyacht. Tables cover the massive deck, adorned with orchids, champagne bottles, name cards of famous people, while uniformed staff flank a red carpet on the landing dock. This night marks the attainment of something she's wanted for a long time: acceptance into the glittering world of high society. But some around Kata are full of resentment and closer to home than she could have ever imagined.

A new killer is stalking the streets of London’s East End. Though newspapers have dubbed him 'the Torso Killer’, this murderer’s work is overshadowed by the hysteria surrounding Jack the Ripper’s Whitechapel crimes. The victims are women too, but their dismembered bodies, wrapped in rags and tied up with string, are pulled out of the Thames - and the heads are missing….

Dr Thomas Bond, Police Surgeon, is still recovering from when Jack the Ripper haunted the streets of London - and a more malign enemy hid in his shadow. Bond and the others who worked on the gruesome case are still stalked by its legacies, both psychological and tangible. Now the bodies of children are being pulled from the Thames, and Bond is about to become inextricably linked with an uncanny, undying enemy.

Nate Beckett has spent his life fighting wildfires instead of the lies and rumors that drove him from his Colorado hometown. His mother begs him to come back now that his father has been released from prison, but it isn’t until he’s sidelined by an injury that he’s forced to return and face his past. But that means facing Brenna, too. Fourteen years ago, Nate was in love with the preacher’s daughter. When Pastor Strickland discovered Brenna defied him to sneak out with Nate, the fight between Strickland and Nate’s drunken dad was loud - and very public.

After being mugged by a pair of pensioners outside the Darby & Joan Club, the Reverend Timothy Carswell has had enough of his rough, tough inner-city parish. Convinced that someone so meek would be better suited somewhere quieter, the Bishop packs him off to a nice, sedate residential neighbourhood where nothing ever seems to happen. However, unbeknownst to the vicar, his apparently respectable new parish is a hotbed of passion, paranormal experimentation and geriatric prostitution.

When Zeke’s sister-in-law Rachel Caen was found dead on Christmas Eve, her family assumed that she had taken her own life. Now five years later, one of the emeralds that Rachel was wearing at the time of her death is discovered at a stonecutter’s house in Portland, Oregon. With his brother Simon under suspicion for Rachel’s murder and stealing the emeralds, Zeke and detective Sarah are under pressure to clear his name. But with troubles of their own and in need of a place to hide, the duo return to Zeke’s hometown where a spiritual force helps Sarah find another emerald....

When police stop Dustin Webb with a warrant to search his trunk, he knows there’s been a mistake. He’s former military and owns a security firm. But he’s horrified when the officers find explosives, and he can’t fathom how they got there. Criminal attorney Jamie Powell was Dustin’s best friend growing up. They haven’t spoken since he left for basic training, but she’s the first person he thinks of when he’s arrested. Jamie knows she’s putting her career on the line by defending an accused terrorist, but she’d never abandon him.

In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani sought asylum in Australia but was instead illegally imprisoned in the country’s most notorious detention centre on Manus Island. He has been there ever since. This book is the result. Behrouz Boochani spent nearly five years typing passages of this book one text at a time from a secret mobile phone in prison. Compiled and translated from Farsi, they form an incredible story of how escaping political persecution in Iran, he ended up trapped as a stateless person.

Sarah Bennett has two secrets: she sees ghosts, and she is in love with a spy. When Sarah takes a job with occult expert Dr Matthew Geisler, he promises to help her understand the sorrowful spirit that seems to have attached itself to her. As Sarah struggles to cope with the ghostly presence, she runs into Zeke, the man who left her six months earlier and is recovering from injuries suffered in an alleged accident. But Zeke has secrets of his own, and when an attempt is made on Geisler’s life, Sarah finds herself caught in a struggle between the living and the dead.

Was hältst du von den zehn Geboten? Ein biblischer Schrecken zieht durch die schöne Stadt Luzern und bereitet dem Ermittler Thomas Kramer und seinen Kollegen von Tag zu Tag mehr die Hölle auf Erden. Denn das mörderische Wesen, das sie jagen, ist ihnen immer mindestens um einen oder gar zwei Schritte voraus, und es scheint auch stets zu wissen, wohin sie sich mit ihren zunehmend von Verzweiflung geprägten Untersuchungen wenden. Diverse private Verwicklungen, unnachsichtige Pressevertreter, sture Vorgesetzte und eigene Kümmernisse machen das Ganze vor allem für Thomas Kramer nicht leichter.

On the one-year anniversary of her mother's murder, Sarah has been summoned home. She returns to Bennett House, hoping to put the broken pieces of her life back together. But when another murder occurs shortly after her arrival, Sarah once again finds herself a suspect, as she is drawn into a web of suspicion and lies. In order to clear her name, Sarah must remember what happened the fateful night her mother died. But as she works to regain her memory, the real murderer watches, ready to kill again to protect a dark family secret.

Er will ihr nah sein, noch näher, immer noch näher. Bis es irgendwann nicht näher geht. London, Fundbüro des öffentlichen Nahverkehrs. Lester Sharp kümmert sich um herrenlose Fundsachen: Handys, Schlüssel, Portemonnaies - besonders gern um Kleidungsstücke und medizinische Gerätschaften. Er ist auch privat ein Sammler und Sonderling, der sich schwer tut mit Frauen und zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungen. Als er der jungen Erin begegnet, weiß er zunächst nicht, wie er sich verhalten soll – findet aber schon bald eine Möglichkeit, ihr nah zu sein.

Sarah Meyer has lived a rather interesting life. Conjoined with a Demon that won't let go, she has been under the protective custody of the Sisters of San Francesco. Under the guidance of her mentor, Father Lucian, she helps solve some of the world’s most terrifying paranormal mysteries. These are her stories.

Thirteen-year-old Loyal Raines is supposed to stay close to home on a hot summer day in 1934. When he slips away for a quick swim in the river and finds a dead body, he wishes he'd obeyed his mother. The ripples caused by his discovery will impact the town of Beverly, West Virginia, in ways no one could have imagined.

She wasn't supposed to be there tonight. I took her because I had no other choice, but as I carried her from her home dripping wet and wearing nothing but a towel, I knew I would be keeping her. I'm going to make her tell me everything I need to know. Then, I'm going to make her mine. She'll sob as my belt lashes her bottom, and she'll scream as climax after savage climax is forced from her naked, quivering body, but there will be no mercy, no matter how shamefully she begs.

For all who believe in the unseen comes this gift of Miracles - two stand-alone stories now together for the first time. You'll savor these stories from award-winning, best-selling author Terri Blackstock that reveal how thin the wall really is between heaven and earth...and how God remains a God of miracles even today.

Larry Brent wird als reicher Playboy getarnt nach Irland auf die Insel Inishkea geschickt. Dort soll er Kontakt mit David McCorkan, einem reichen Verleger, aufnehmen. Seit über sechs Monaten wird dort eine junge Studentin vermisst, die spurlos verschwunden ist. Es folgen noch andere Reisende… Auf der Insel scheint es ein tödliches Geheimnis zu geben, dass X-RAY-3 versucht zu lösen... Er ahnt nicht welches animalische Grauen ihn erwartet!

Chris Fellowes' family history of war heroism has been called into question, threatening to end his father’s career. It’s up to Chris to prove the truth, so he enlists the help of Lilly Collins, a university researcher, to help find evidence that his great grandfather destroyed a German submarine during WWII. Chris is strongly attracted to Lilly, but a previous bad marriage makes her slow to yield to romance. They travel to Britain, Europe, and Canada to research the truth.

Dem adeligen Junggesellen Lord Robert St. Simon widerfährt während seiner Hochzeitsfeier das wohl schrecklichste Unglück, das einen Mann treffen kann...

Mimi Rutherfurt erhält unerwarteten Besuch einer verzweifelten älteren Dame. Lady Cynthia Craven glaubt ihren Verstand zu verlieren. Seit einigen Tagen scheint es auf dem Landsitz der Familie zu spuken. Warum jedoch scheint dies nur die Hausherrin zu bemerken? Versucht jemand die Dame des Hauses in den Wahnsinn zu treiben oder wird ihr Heim tatsächlich von Geistern heimgesucht? Mimi zögert nicht lang und bietet ihre Hilfe an.