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Meet Katie Milk - she's brave, funny, has an active imagination and is about to go off to boarding school for the first time. At first she can't imagine having a worse roommate than Bernadette Kelly but soon Katie has more important things to worry about . . . Are there really mad nuns in the attic and why does Chiquita Morris cry all the time? Is Chiquita's mother really a famous fashion model, as she claims or is she just trying to get attention?

Guy Langman can't be bothered with much. But when his friend Anoop wants Guy to join the forensics club with him in the (possibly misguided) hopes of impressing some girls, Guy thinks why not. They certainly aren't expecting to find a real dead body on the simulated crime scene they're assigned to collect evidence from. But after some girlish, undignified screaming, the two realize it is indeed a body. Which means they have stumbled across a real, dead murder victim. Meanwhile, Guy has been looking into the past of his father - a larger-than-life character who recently passed away.

Verbal abusers are highly intelligent people who tend to tell their victims what they want to hear in a caring way that allows the abuser to hide the true meaning of the message.

Violet Winters was a master criminal. A one-woman crimewave. Until lockdown happened. Now she’s stuck in the house catching up on box sets and ordering crap off the internet. And then she finds out about The Lakehouse. A former rehab facility, the residents have been thrown out and replaced with a roll-call of some of the most dangerously stupid celebrities in this hemisphere all indulging in a torrent of excess while the rest of the world cowers in their beds.

Nach ihren letzten Ermittlungserfolgen kehrt endlich Ruhe ein in Tjarkshusen an der Nordsee - denkt Ino Tjarks. Doch seiner Haushälterin Gerda Janßen ist langweilig, weshalb sie sich einer Theatergruppe anschließt, die im Gasthaus "Zur Robbe" probt. Als Gerda nach einer Probe gemeinsam mit Ex-Kommissar Traugott Fürchtenicht nach Hause radelt, fallen die beiden beinahe über eine Leiche: Hannes Grassmanns, der wenig beliebte Hauptdarsteller ihres Theaterstücks, wurde überfahren.

Ein liebenswürdiger Delikatessenhändler wird zum Mörder wider Willen – der neue Roman von Stephan Ludwig, dem Autor der Kult-Bestseller-Reihe "Zorn". Norbert Heinlein, Delikatessenhändler in dritter Generation, legt größten Wert auf Qualität und Tradition. Seine Kundschaft geht ihm über alles, er bedient sie mit ausgesuchter Höflichkeit. So auch seinen neuen Stammkunden Adam Morlok, einen charismatischen Geschäftsmann. Bis Morlok eines Tages durch ein Versehen Heinleins tot zusammenbricht. In seiner Panik lagert Heinlein Morloks Leiche kurzerhand im alten Kühlhaus im Keller zwischen.

Southern California, 1996: a peaceful, scenic day in the coastal community of Santa Monica, except that there is a meter maid lying next to the sidewalk–dead. Fresh from a messy divorce case, North Hollywood private investigator Clive Wilts is on the case to find the killer before the bodies start stacking up and the city streets become a parking free-for-all.

In the height of summer, it’s not just holidaymakers who are drawn to the seaside town of Skegness. Desperate thieves and callous killers are searching for a hidden treasure, and they don’t care who they hurt in their quest to claim it. The most important question of all is if Sam can get to the bottom of this mystery before those closest to her are put in further danger?

Berlin: a man wakes up in a trash can with no idea who he is. He's taken to hospital for treatment. Then people start trying to assassinate him. The man has to find out why, how to get them to stop, and what the CIA has to do with all this. There's also the little problem of working out who he used to be, and why that changed. Meanwhile, his girlfriend Piper and best friend Lance are trying to find him.

Die Einteiler einer mächtigen Zeitung halten bei ihren Kolporteuren kräftig die Hand auf, wenn es darum geht, wer den besten Verkaufsplatz ergattert. Das Geschäft boomt, das Nebeneinkommen ist beträchtlich, die Kolporteure halten still. Doch dann wird ein Einteiler tot aufgefunden. Kottan vermutet den Täter im Kreis der ausländischen Zeitungsverkäufer, doch es gibt auch noch eine andere Spur.

Charity Deacon has never been one to back down from a challenge, even if it means putting herself in harm's way. When a local small-time crime boss is framed, she knows that there's more lurking in the background. To make matters worse, Charity's partner, Detective Paul Grewal, disappears when she needs him most.. As the stakes get higher and the danger increases, Charity must navigate a complex world of lies and deceit to uncover the truth and bring justice for her client.

Schönheit geht unter die Haut. Der Tod trifft ins Mark. Aufgrund ihrer Undercover-Identität als ehemalige Schönheitskönigin wird die CIA-Agentin Fortune Redding verpflichtet, zusammen mit dem Möchtegern-Hollywoodstar Pansy Arceneaux einen Schönheitswettbewerb in Sinful, Louisiana, zu leiten. Es dauert jedoch nicht lange, bis zwischen den beiden die Fetzen fliegen. Als Pansy tot aufgefunden wird, ist Fortune die Hauptverdächtige. Ganz klar, dass sie den wahren Täter finden muss, ehe ihre Tarnung auffliegt.

Esiste il lavoro dei sogni, e poi esiste il lavoro che il destino decide per te. Fortunata vorrebbe fare la pasticciera e, quando può, si rifugia nel laboratorio di Mario, un amico che le insegna l’arte dei dolci. Suo padre Emilio, però, è il titolare di un’agenzia di pompe funebri, e per mandarla avanti ha bisogno di lei, del suo talento nella preparazione dei defunti. Sempre a contatto con la morte, di cui si prende cura nel migliore dei modi, Fortunata insegue la vita e non chiede altro che essere libera di scegliere il proprio futuro.

L'affaire de la Logia a beau être close, elle n'a pas pour autant épargné le fameux Justan Lockholmes. Un mois plus tard, alors que de terribles cauchemars le hantent, il va devoir reprendre du service aux côtés d'un tout jeune officier de police, et cela, qu'il le veuille ou non ! Un orphelin noyé, une énigme prométhéenne et une pintade bien peu digeste. Voilà que Justan plonge dans une histoire passablement compliquée !

Frau Komarek, eine alte, allein stehende Frau, erhält Drohbriefe. Was zuerst wie eine alltägliche Gemeinheit aussieht und für Kottan eigentlich kein Fall ist, beginnt sich zuzuspitzen. Plötzlich wird ein Mord entdeckt. In einer Wiener Schrebergartensiedlung sehen sich Kottan und seine Kollegen einer Wand aus Schweigen und Feindseligkeit gegenüber.

Excuse me if I'm feeling sentimental. I might die tonight. My name is Candy Tran. Before I was hunting down serial killers and feeding men to alligators, I was a normal, church-going, tax-paying citizen. Before all of this. I've been given a chance to tell my story, so please, listen closely. This is going to take a while.

Jeb Jefferson loses his job, and the perfect solution to his economic reality is unconventional, illegal, and uncompromising. Jeb's clown is a smart, methodical bank robber. He gets away with it until his girlfriend begins to suspect him.

In modern-day America, Dez is a former lawyer and teacher - an ephebophile with a proclivity for teenage girls hiding out in a trailer park with his latest conquest, Chloe.

Having been in and out of courtrooms (and therapists' offices) for a number of years, Dez is adrift, at odds with a society that persecutes him over his desires. From his couch one afternoon, Dez watches an interview with Jasper Ulrickson, a doting father and loving husband whose heartrending memoir, Lessons from My Daughter, has become a national best seller.

A work of purest fiction and the world’s first arctic gothic horror, The Reeking Hegs is a bristling adventure story of the dramatic kind with a high-thrill quota with every listen. The action takes place among the crashing ice packs, tidal waves ,and frozen desolation of old Ugzcyk, a remote city somewhere north of latitude 66 ruled by the despotic solid King Solid Fume, III, and menaced by the threatening horror of The Hegs.

After surviving an attempt on his life in Paris, Sherlock Holmes returns to London, where the great detective is almost immediately enlisted by his brother to secure the safety of the delegates at a top-secret peace conference. With Europe a veritable powder keg in the years before World War I, Holmes understands any misstep on his part could prove fatal and possibly plunge the continent into war. However, after pledging to do his utmost for "King and Country", Holmes suddenly finds himself overwhelmed by an onslaught of cases.