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From J. A. Jance's New York Times bestselling Brady and Walker novels, federal investigator Dan Pardee, Brandon Walker's son-in-law, crosses paths with Sheriff Joanna Brady as he traces the bloody path of a merciless serial killer across the Southwest in this intense thriller.
Driven by a compulsion that challenges his self-control, the man calling himself Charles Milton prowls the rodeo circuit, hunting young women. He chooses those he believes...
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-- The New York Times Stewart Bedford is willing to cooperate with a blackmailer to protect his beloved wife. But when he wakes up in a daze to find the man shot dead with Bedford’s gun and his blond escort missing, he’ll need some help from defense lawyer Perry Mason . . . This mystery is part of Edgar Award–winning author Erle Stanley Gardner’s classic, long-running Perry Mason series, which has sold three hundred million copies...
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Edward Garvin is a very successful businessman with a very unhappy ex-wife-who wants his money. So Garvin calls on lawyer Perry Mason to protect his company from her schemes, and ensure the divorce they'd gotten in Mexico is actually finalized.
This whodunit is part of Edgar Award—winning author Erle Stanley Gardner's classic, long-running Perry Mason series, which has sold three hundred million copies and serves as the inspiration for the HBO...
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"A charming mystery." - Publishers Weekly on book one in the Dr. Bannerman Vet Mystery series
It's springtime in rural Manitoba, and the snow has finally left the exotic animal farm when an ostrich finds and swallows a shiny object. (Because this is what ostriches do.) Cue veterinarian and amateur sleuth Dr. Peter Bannerman, who surgically removes the object, which looks like an ancient Viking artifact. Soon after, people around are horrified by...
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"Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I'm not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I'm Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I'd killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it's a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let's get started"--...
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Liebe Leserinnen und Leser,
es erwartet Sie beste Unterhaltung!
Rosalies und Salvatores Herzen wurden beide gebrochen. Doch eine turbulente italienische Großfamilie, eine neue Stelle in Konstanz, einige schräge Kolleginnen und Kollegen, eine patente Schwester, eine listige alte Dame aus dem sizilianischen Adel, eine Damenbridgerunde und der Bodensee sorgen für Abwechslung und Heilung. Finden Rosalie und Salvatore trotz ungünstiger Ausgangsbedingungen,...
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It's almost Christmas, but all is not merry for Oak Pointe, Louisiana homicide detective Caleb Bourque. Someone is killing prostitutes who frequent a women's outreach center called Magdalen House. On each body the killer leaves a calling card-a sprig of mistletoe.After Joanna Chatelaine, one of the center's founders, is killed, her sister Jamie starts receiving phone calls and messages, threatening her life if she doesn't close Magdalen House.Can...
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Wittenham Park Manor. Dark, imposing, and impossibly expensive to maintain. The cash-poor Lord Gilroy has tried everything to raise some capital, to no avail. When Lady Gilroy goes bankrupt, Lloyd's calls in its debts, and an unethical realtor threatens to claim his land, the hapless aristocrat is forced to open the manor for an Agatha Christie Murder Weekend. The paying guests are a suspicious lot: Priscilla Worthington, the actress who keeps a bottle...
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Der Blick auf unser Leben erscheint plötzlich in einem anderen Licht. Alles verändert sich. Drei Geschichten erzählen von zufälligen Begegnungen, von Verlieren und Finden, von Sehnsucht, Hoffnung und Entscheidungen, von Geheimnissen und der Flüchtigkeit des Glücks.
Dominik ist ein erfolgreicher Geschäftsmann, dessen Ehe nur noch von seiner kleinen Tochter Clara zusammengehalten wird. Sein Leben gerät ins Wanken, als er seine große Liebe wiedertrifft....
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A winding adventure that begins in an exotic, teasing location. Richard Austin Freeman introduces the reader to the delights of an extraordinary jewel heist. Hollis is a retired soap manufacturer, richer than Croesus and some say mad. Obsessed with amassing precious stones and bullion, Hollis chooses a strong room to deposit his dazzling hoard. But, when he discovers that he's the victim of an elaborate and enigmatic robbery, even though the room...
11) Teardown
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Johnnie LoDuco has finally gotten work, but between a nosy neighbor and jewel thieves out for vengeance, the overtime may just kill him.
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Clare Curzon sets her crimes in the leafy Thames Valley, a lovely enough part of old England where one of the old villages seem right out of a nineteenth-century painting. But, people are the same mix of good and bad whatever scenery surrounds them, and Superintendent Mike Yeadings has as much human dissolution to deal with as if he policed the London streets. Searching for a killer in The Body of a Woman, the superintendent and his sergeants, Beaumont...
13) Keltenland
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Nach ihrem blutigen Einsatz in Osttirol, kehren die beiden Brüder, Sergio und Max, in ihre alte Heimat, ins schwäbische zurück. Der illusionslose, wortkarge noch Europol-Polizist Max, der das Recht vertritt, aber Gerechtigkeit sucht und der empathische, humorvolle Genussmensch Sergio, der junge Rentner. Hier im geschichtsträchtigen, beschaulichen Oberschwaben wollen sie mit ihrer Family die Rente genießen. Doch auch hier, auf dem historischen...
14) The Glass Wall
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One freezing February evening, a Filipino barman named Ramon witnesses someone plunging from the seventh story of a luxury penthouse. Instead of calling the police, he heads straight for the apartment from which the body has fallen. It belongs to an old woman with a mysterious past, who could not get out of bed by herself.
Superintendent Mike Yeadings and Sergeant Rosemary Zycynski lead the investigation. Searching for a link between a teenage drug...
15) The Blind Barber
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Brilliant detective Dr. Gideon Fell embarks on an adventure of murder and mayhem on the high seas in Golden Age mystery master John Dickson Carr's suspenseful tale A vicious killer is loose aboard the majestic liner Queen Victoria and four people are determined to track him down. But they are as wholly unprepared for the heavy weather and high seas as for crime-solving and its strange circumstances-a blood-soaked stateroom, a lethally sharp razor,...
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In der Einleitung nimmt Elke Burtscher Bezug auf Naturwesen im Allgemeinen. Sie geht zum einen auf die Entfremdung von der Natur ein, um im Anschluss mit der Beschreibung des Geistes der Natur einen Bogen hin zur persönlichen Beziehung zu Mutter Natur, zum Kontakt zu Wesenheiten der Natur und zu Pflanzenwesenheiten zu spannen. Das Kernthema kommt durch Gedichte und Illustrationen zum Ausdruck. Anhand von Graphit-bzw. Kohlezeichnungen lässt Elke...
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Zwei Kölner Senioren im Jahr 2127 in Not.
Die neue Onko-Regierung in Köln will alle alten Menschen ab 70 aus dem Straßenbild verschwinden lassen, weil sie zu kostenintensiv geworden sind. Die Zukunft gehört den Kindern und den jungen Menschen.
Daher sind sie jetzt auf der Flucht und auf der Suche nach einer neuen Heimat.
Ob die wohl in Ouranopolis in Griechenland ist?
18) To Wake the Dead
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Hailed by Agatha Christie as "the king of the art of misdirection," John Dickson Carr presents a thrilling murder mystery that has the redoubtable Dr. Gideon Fell tracing clues from London to Sussex to South Africa. Mystery novelist Christopher Kent accepts a friend's outlandish bet and sets out to travel from Johannesburg to London with nothing but the cash in his wallet and the clothes on his back. He arrives with twenty-four hours to spare, his...
19) The Edge
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Awoken in the middle of the night by a banging barn door, farm manager Ned Barton braves the storm to investigate. Inside, he finds the mutilated body of a woman displayed like a sacrificial trophy on bales of straw.
Superintendent Mike Yeadings of the Thames Valley police is faced with multiple murder as three related bodies are discovered in the manor house: an entire family massacred, except for a missing boy. The hunt for him, whether as prime...
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Als Cotter am Strand von Tarifa einen ertrunkenen Marokkaner findet, lässt ihn das nicht mehr los. Er folgt den Spuren des jungen Mannes und gerät immer tiefer in das Schicksal der Flüchtlinge aus Afrika und ihres oft grausamen Endes im Mittelmeer.
In diesem Roman setzt sich der Afrikafreund Claus G. H. Mayer fundiert mit den Hintergründen der Bootsunglücke und des Flüchtlingsstroms aus Afrika auseinander. Einfühlsam und mit viel Herz zeigt...
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