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Mina Rose Cabot, age thirteen, disappeared walking home from soccer practice in Devon, Pennsylvania. Eight months later her body is found in Battery Park, New York, speared through the chest by a three-inch piece of wood. Lt. Eve Dallas knows that whoever took Mina is responsible for her death. But who took her and where has Mina been for eight long months?

When a select group of influencers and journalists receive an exclusive invitation to a luxury resort in the Maldives, it seems like the ultimate press trip. But when the island is cut off during a storm and people start dying, it looks like someone has murder in mind. Are the guests really who they seem to be, or does each one of them have a secret to hide? Something they would kill for?

Stories We Could Tell is a book about growing up and being young, about sex and love and rock and roll, about the dreams of youth colliding head-on with the grown-up world. Tony Parsons goes back to his roots for this deeply personal book, the story he has been waiting to tell.

The murder of jazz musician and social activist Markus Peña doesn’t come as a surprise to his estranged sisters. Melinda and Emily Peña know their controversial brother had enemies. After all, even they hadn’t spoken to Markus since their mother’s funeral two years ago. Who killed Markus? Was it someone trying to keep his latest protest song from publication? Was it the powerful and secretive uncle of his ex-girlfriend Rebecca? Or was it one of the other women Markus had callously abandoned?

In this part of a trilogy of stories, listeners are introduced to a young girl, a prostitute with a background that haunts her. With an Italian father and an American mother, our heroine is faced with life-changing decisions brought about by her new association with Emily. Emily is going to change the approach of the young girl to her trade as a prostitute. Why? Because call girls with reputations make more money than street prostitutes. What Emily doesn't know is the girl's background.

Vittoria, as she's known in Italy, is a small-time model and actress, recognisable but hard to place. Even though she's married to fading writer Frank Paris, Vittoria knows that she's really Vicki Wilson from Texas and that her deepest loyalty is to her brother, Johnny, who's been there for her from childhood, when he dealt decisively with the unwanted attention she got from other boys. Guided by Johnny, Vittoria enters the upper circles of Roman society. Before long, she's mingling with the high rollers, corrupt senators, and powerful movers.

Kriminalhauptkommissarin Franziska Frey steht vor einem verzwickten Fall: Ein angesehener Steuerberater wird brutal zusammengeschlagen und alle Hinweise führen ins düstere Rotlichtmilieu. Als verstörende Foltervideos auftauchen, wird klar, dass ein skrupelloser Serienkiller sein Unwesen treibt. Die Kommissarin enthüllt ein Netz aus Lügen, das ihr selbst zum Verhängnis werden könnte und muss den Täter stoppen, bevor er erneut zuschlägt. Während Franziskas Ermittlungen Fahrt aufnehmen, kämpft Richard Erdmann gleichzeitig darum, seine Tochter aus den Fängen des Milieus zu befreien. Doch für das Leben seiner Tochter muss er das eigene riskieren.

The investigation of LaShawn Tompkins's murder seemed straightforward enough. Upon his release from death row, the ex-drug-dealer returned to his old neighborhood where he was gunned down on his mother's doorstep. Just another case of turf warfare...at least that's what it looks like on the surface to Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont, who's been handed the assignment under the strictest confidence.

After being summarily thrown out of the DEA Task Force, Office Patrick MacKenna finds himself once again pushing a marked police car around on street patrol in the city of Syracuse, New York. The middle-aged cop is reevaluating his law enforcement career while solely taking care of his three children when he receives a call from the captain of the new Abused Persons Unit asking him to come on board. Mac deliberately passed on a transfer request to APU—but now he has a feeling that if he doesn’t take the captain up on her offer, he may never get back to wearing a gold shield again.

Three detectives arrive separately in the small Amish town of Lititz, Pennsylvania to investigate a string of murders. Soon into their investigation they discover that the townspeople are very strange, and uncooperative to say the least. After endlessly searching for clues the detectives have a sudden turn of events, when a bloody knife is discovered nearby that changes the course of the investigation completely.