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In Baroness Emma Orczy's 1905 novel "The Scarlet Pimpernel", the year is 1792 and the French Revolution is complete. People die by the guillotine every day, often unjustly. Stepping in to right these wrongs and rescue the innocent is the elusive "Scarlet Pimpernel", a mysterious agent named for the red flower that is his signature. Meanwhile, foppish Sir Percy Blakeney and his French actress wife Marguerite are having marital difficulties when Marguerite...
2) The Willows
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The Willows is a novella by English author Algernon Blackwood, originally published as part of his 1907 collection The Listener and Other Stories. It is one of Blackwood's best known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. Horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. "The Willows" is an example of early modern horror and is connected within the literary tradition of weird...
3) Bad Men
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Saffy Huntley-Oliver has a secret. A secret that she is deeply ashamed of. It's not the fact that she's a serial killer in her free time. In fact, she's quite proud of that. After all she's only killing the bad men. She is making the world a better place.
No, her secret is far worse than that. Saffy has a messy, inexplicable, uncontrollable crush. So while she's busy plotting her next murder, she also has the much harder task of figuring out how...
4) Already Dead
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A new serial killer leaves a creepy signature at each crime scene: a burning candle. Psychic-and FBI Special Agent-Laura Frost must unearth why. But will her psychic vision lead her astray?
FBI Special Agent and single mom Laura Frost, 35, is haunted by her talent: a psychic ability which she refuses to face and which she keeps secret from her colleagues. While Laura gets obscured glimpses of what the killer may do next, she must decide whether to...
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The day of their dreams was nothing short of a nightmare.On the one-year anniversary of her wedding, Colbie Moore's life looks nothing like it should.Still grieving the loss of the man she meant to spend her life with, Colbie prepares for a weekend away to take her mind off her heartache, but the simple plan results in much more than she bargained for.A box of letters, meant for the bride and groom to open on their anniversary, is instead opened by...
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Perfect for fans of S. A. Cosby and Allen Eskens, Joe Pendergast must go all in one last time as he grapples with the ghosts of his past–and present–in this gritty, high-stakes thriller. Sixty-four-year-old Joe has known violence his entire life. For forty years, he's worked as an enforcer for loan shark and close friend Maxie Smith, breaking more than a few bones along the way. When Maxie abruptly fires him, Joe isn't sure where to lay the blame-on...
7) The Roommate
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From million-copy bestselling author Kiersten Modglin comes a psychological thriller with an ending you'll never predict... He thought his life couldn't get any worse. Wesley Gates is down on his luck.He's drowning in debt.His demanding career isn't letting up.And, to top it all off, after years of ignoring their failing marriage, his wife has had enough. Heartbroken and in desperate need of a place to stay while he gives his wife the space she's...
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Twenty years isn't enough to erase the sins of the past, but the future is even more terrifying in this thrilling read perfect for fans of Megan Collins and Julia Heaberlin. In 1997, Eve Foster's daughter, Kelsey, runs away to New Mexico and vanishes without a trace. Eve is convinced that she's the victim of a serial killer who's been hunting women in the region, but Kelsey's body is never found. Years later, Eve dies, leaving everything to her adopted...
9) Sensations
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Eleanor Nickerson developed technology that records and recreates human perception. Once labeled the 21st century's greatest gift, a worldwide crisis pits her against government attempts to control the experience and the underworld's exploitation of our need to feel. On April 27, 2024, Ellie faces the truth when pressed for a vision of her creation - "I am not a God." "But what if you were?" This psychological thriller creates a bounty of magical...
10) Recursión
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La realidad se ha roto.
Al principio parece un virus. Una epidemia que se extiende de forma incontrolable, enloqueciendo a sus víctimas con recuerdos de una vida que no es la suya. Pero no se trata de un patógeno y las consecuencias no afectan sólo a la mente, sino al propio tejido del tiempo.
En Nueva York, el detective Barry Sutton está investigando este extraño síndrome en un caso que pronto se entrelaza con el trabajo de una brillante...
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An unputdownable, totally twisted domestic thriller from million-copy bestselling author Kiersten Modglin.Spencer Edwards has a beautiful wife, two perfect children, and a sinister secret locked in his basement…When Andi Edwards discovers her husband isn't where he's supposed to be and isn't answering her calls or texts, a flurry of scenarios races through her mind.Is he hurt?Is he cheating?Is he dead?The truth, she soon finds out, is so much worse...
12) The Naked Face
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Judd Stevens is a psychoanalyst faced with the most critical case of his life.
If he does not penetrate the mind of a murderer he will find himself arrested for murder or murdered himself...
Two people closely involved with Dr. Stevens have already been killed. Is one of the doctor's patients responsible? Someone overwhelmed by his problems? A neurotic driven by compulsion? A madman? Before the murderer strikes again, Judd must strip away the mask...
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The first novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart, America's queen of crime This is the story of how a middle-aged spinster lost her mind, deserted her domestic gods in the city, took a furnished house for the summer out of town, and found herself involved in one of those mysterious crimes that keep our newspapers and detective agencies happy and prosperous. So says Rachel Innes, the spinster in question and one of the most remarkable heroines in American...
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One of the most influential novels of the nineteenth century, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment tells the tragic story of Raskolnikov-a talented former student whose warped philosophical outlook drives him to commit murder. Surprised by his sense of guilt and terrified of the consequences of his actions, Raskolnikov wanders through the slums of pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg trying to escape the ever-suspicious Porfiry, the official investigating...
15) Carneval
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Auf den Straßen tanzt das Volk, und das Einzige, was zählt, ist der Spaß an der Freud. Doch Oberkommissar Benni Scholz hat andere Sorgen, als den Karnevalswagen der Kölner Polizei herzurichten. Er hat zwei ungeklärte Morde in seinen Akten, begangen im letzten und im vorletzten Jahr. Beide Opfer waren nach ihrem Tod verstümmelt worden, ein Pfund Fleisch wurde ihnen aus dem Körper geschnitten. Und auch der Tag war der gleiche: Weiberfastnacht....
16) Chasing Zero
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"Non andrai a dormire finché non avrai finito di leggere i libri dell'AGENTE ZERO. I personaggi, magistralmente sviluppati e molto divertenti, sono il punto di forza di questo lavoro superbo. La descrizione delle scene d'azione ci trasporta nella loro rea
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Innerhalb weniger Wochen kommt es in ganz Europa zu Extremwetterereignissen - Starkregen, Erdrutsche und Sturmfluten bedrohen das Land. Wasser quillt aus den Abflüssen, Strommasten stürzen um, Kohle- und Atomkraftwerke werden überflutet. Die enormen Regenmassen reißen immer mehr Menschen in den Tod und zerstören die Infrastruktur des Landes, während die Politik nur tatenlos zusieht. Die Wolkenkundlerin Fjella Lange, der IT-Spezialist Arian Fischer...
18) Und es schmilzt
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Ein Hörbuch, das alles gibt und alles verlangt.
Ein Eisblock, eine totgeschwiegene Geschichte, eine Schlinge im Schuppen. Mit großer Zärtlichkeit und erzählerischer Brillanz nimmt Lize Spit den Leser in ihrem Roman "Und es schmilzt" mit auf eine verstörende Reise durch die grausame Unschuld der Jugend. Eine erschütternde Geschichte über Freundschaft, Familie und Verrat.
Mit einem Eisblock im Kofferraum fährt Eva in ihr Heimatdorf, das belgische...
19) I Know You
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A twisted domestic thriller in the vein of B. A. Paris and Shari Lapena that asks: How well do you know your friends? That picture you posted? I've seen it. That location you tagged? I've been there. I know everything about your life...And I'm going to destroy it. A recent transplant from sunny California, life in the London suburbs is not what Taylor Watson expected. Far from the West End shops and city lights she imagined, she finds herself pregnant...
20) Todesfalle
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Die elfjährige Jazzie versteckt sich hinter einem Sessel vor dem Mann, der eben ihre Mutter im Zorn erschlagen hat. Sie hat ihn sofort erkannt - er aber hat sie nicht gesehen. Kein Wort wird Jazzie sagen, denn nur so kann sie sich und ihre kleine Schwester vor dem Bösen schützen ...
Taylor Dawson ist mit einer Lüge aufgewachsen. In Baltimore will sie endlich die Wahrheit herausfinden über den Mann, den ihre Mutter ein Monster genannt hat: Clay...
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