Dark Thriller

DCI Boaz Matthias isn't a Christmas person. He never has been. Not since he discovered the truth when he was seven. Christmas is a lie and a con, and nothing is ever going to change his mind. Being given a temporary six-week assignment isn't helping his mood either - as it means Christmas with the family. The only good thing is the accidental meeting of someone he thinks he could grow very fond of.

Late-summer wildfires are a fact of life in Montana. But as an inferno nears Wellington, Matthew Redd gets the unusual call that a team of smoke jumpers has suddenly gone dark. As head of the county’s fledgling search and rescue team, Redd drops into the fire zone and finds way more than he bargained for: a killer has taken out the smoke jumper team along with two civilians, and only a terrified young boy is left as witness. Redd and little Jack narrowly escape the raging fire, and Redd calls in Gavin Kline, now acting director of the FBI, to investigate the bigger forces at play.

Dive into the chilling depths of "Crushed Devotion," the riveting sequel to "Ruptured Hearts." As the compelling saga of Raven, Damon, Rosie, and Oscar reaches its gripping conclusion, a new chapter unfolds—the heart-wrenching love story of Lily and Zayn, a narrative just beginning to unfurl.

FBI Special Agent Carly See, a star in the elite BAU unit, hides a terrible secret: She can speak with the dead. The murder of her sister, still unsolved, plunged her life into grief and awakened a new power within her. Sometimes messages come from direct contact, other times in dreams. All of it feels like a curse—until Carly realizes she can harness her new skills to solve cases. But her abilities are unreliable, and Carly must use her brilliant mind to complete the puzzle—all while struggling to keep her secret from her colleagues.

Special Agent Mia North is a rising star in the FBI—until, in an elaborate setup, she’s framed for murder and sentenced to prison. When a lucky break allows her to escape, Mia finds herself a fugitive, on the run and on the wrong side of the law for the first time in her life. She can’t see her young daughter—and she has no hope of returning to her former life.

It's the pharmaceutical breakthrough of the millennium. DruTech Industries proudly presents N-SOM, a pill that completely replaces eight hours of sleep. Feel totally refreshed, both physically and mentally, in just fifteen minutes a night. The profit potential is boundless. Mankind's productivity will go through the roof. One third of a person's life could be recovered, for only ten dollars a dose. The FDA sends CDER agent Dr. Bill May to green light N-SOM for American use. The pressure, both political and monetary, is tremendous.

Morgan Stark is a renowned surgeon, acclaimed by his colleagues for his brilliance as a diagnostician. But when his close friend and protégé resident is murdered, Morgan feels compelled to help the FBI decipher the trail of medical clues and bring the killer to justice.

Naked. Incoherent. Covered with blood. That's how Detective Frank Blackburn finds her - a beautiful Jane Doe brandishing a pair of scissors near the scene of a brutal murder. Is she the perpetrator? Or is she the only eyewitness to the handiwork of Vincent Van Gogh, a twisted serial killer with an "artistic" bent? To find out, Blackburn takes her to renowned psychiatrist Dr. Michael Tolan. But Tolan has problems of his own. One year ago today, his beloved wife, Abby, was savagely slaughtered by the very same serial killer.

After years of abandonment, Raven Hall has been restored to its former glory. For one night only, it is playing host to an evening of murder mystery. The guests have gathered. The roles have been cast. But someone is playing a sinister game, one with devastating consequences. And as the guests are about to discover, the truth is much darker than fiction.

Do you ever wonder what would happen if Hitler had won the Battle of Dunkirk? Colonel Sir Edward Ware is about to find out when Rommel pushes him off the French beach with all his troops and then beats him to Britain in 1940. The chase ends up in Coronado, California, land of palm trees, the rich and famous - and swastikas! It's all ahead for the Republican Convention of 1940 in Philadelphia where a dark horse candidate is being selected with plenty of Nazi involvement.

Der zweite Band der "Dark-Iceland"-Serie - erstmals im Hörbuch. Atemberaubend schön liegt das Fischerdörfchen Siglufjörður im rauen Norden Islands da. Doch die Idylle täuscht: Der Tod von Elías Freysson hat die Gemeinde zutiefst erschüttert, war er doch ein beliebter Freund, auf den immer gezählt werden konnte. Doch jemand muss ihn so sehr gehasst haben, dass er ihn mit einem Holzpfahl erschlug... Der junge Polizist Ari sieht sich während der Ermittlungen plötzlich mit einem Wirrsal aus Menschenhandel, Willkür und Gewalt konfrontiert.

When a young boy goes missing, DCI Will Blake and his team are led into the little-known subterranean world beneath the Wirral. But the investigation unearths the body of a man who has been missing for almost 60 years. Ernie Hughes, lead singer of the little known Merseybeat band Arthur and the Galahads, disappeared one November in 1964, the night before the band were off to chase their dreams in Hamburg. It appears that Ernie’s death was violent. Blake’s investigations take him back to the heady days of The Cavern Club and Liverpool during the swinging '60s.

The world has gone to hell and it isn't coming back. It happened in a year: starvation, gangs of kids with guns, and every adult in the world dead from the sickness. Houses are now mausoleums. Civilization lies in the hands of children who've never had to feed themselves or survive a winter without gas or electricity. Most will die. Others - a bare few - will tread a different path.

On a steaming night in 1977, New York City is plunged into darkness and two boys, Joe and Robbie, are abandoned by their mother, Lois. Forty years to the day after this unforgivable moment, Joe is a hard-drinking ADA and Lois has resurfaced: Joe wakes from another alcoholic fog to learn she’s been found murdered on a Coney Island beach.

Indiana Sebring's life takes a sinister turn when her ex-fiancé, Jacob Ballentine, emerges as the prime suspect in a series of violent crimes. As the chilling truth unravels, Indiana grapples with the shocking revelation, and her existence becomes a twisted puzzle of past love and present danger. Local news reporter Stella Foxworth, hungry for her breakthrough moment, uncovers a connection to the killer that hits uncomfortably close to home. Stella's relentless pursuit of the truth propels her down a dangerous path, each step bringing her face-to-face with the darkness lurking in the shadows.

The Chicom/SAA war is ravaging California, turning the once beautiful state into a West Coast wasteland. With the surge into Oregon and Washington underway, only small pockets of Resistance survive. Logan, Skylar, Harper, Ryker and the Madigan family make up one of those pockets. While the Resistance in Five Falls prepares to hold their ground at all costs, a much larger army is headed their way, one that will make the Chicoms look tame by comparison.

Dare to enter a killer’s mind. The heart-pounding serial killer thriller that will leave you breathless. A teenage girl is brutally murdered in an idyllic lake community. In over his head, the local sheriff calls upon the Behavior Analysis Unit’s best profiler, Scarlett Bell, to find the murderer. Is a serial killer stalking Coral Lake? Now Scarlett faces a killer unlike any she’s encountered. Bloodthirsty. Cunning. Insane. Another girl goes missing, and the special agent must stop the killer before time runs out.

FBI Special Agent Emily Slate is no stranger to tragedy. After losing her husband three months ago, then botching the biggest case of her career, she’s barely escaped a full suspension. Determined to get her life back on track or die trying, she takes a seemingly impossible case in hopes she can turn her fortunes around. But as Emily arrives in the small Virginia mountain town and dives into the mystery, she discovers the remains of a woman, buried, with her eyes sewn shut.

Sun, sand and champagne. It sounds like the perfect vacation, until the disappearances started. Local women are vanishing from the Caribbean island of St. Solomon and no one seems to know why. Even worse, the local authorities aren’t doing anything about it. Determined not to let these disappearances get any worse, Special Agent Emily Slate goes undercover for the first time since her life was turned upside down, determined to find out who could be behind it all.

In the seedy underbelly of the nation’s capital, a drug deal gone wrong ignites a firestorm which threatens to pull the entire city into a gang war. Special Agent Emily Slate, still investigating the possibility she may still have living family is brought in to help determine who is killing criminals and why. Someone is looking to position themselves as the new leader of the criminal underworld. The only question is who would be so brazen? And can she stop the backlash before innocent people are caught in the crossfire?