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From the author of The Memory of Running-a beautifully crafted story of a man who returns home to discover the truth about his past Featuring the warmth and authenticity that made The Memory of Running such a major success, Traveler wraps a beautifully written ode to friendship within a...

Benjamin Kunkel’s brilliantly comic debut novel concerns one of the central maladies of our time–a pathological indecision that turns abundance into an affliction and opportunity into a curse.Dwight B. Wilmerding is only twenty-eight, but he’s having a midlife crisis. Of course, living a...

Rock star Castor Greaves and his model girlfriend vanished twenty years ago after an infamous gig in Soho. According to urban myth they’re still alive - holed up somewhere by the Golden Road, a fabled music-industry 'disappearing' service - so when PI Kenny Gabriel is hired to solve the notorious case, he knows he’ll need to watch his back. But Kenny’s life is in danger already: a brain tumour is messing with his mind, and he may well have nothing to lose. Stalking the seedy clubs and backstreets of Soho, he makes a gruesome discovery....

It seemed straightforward enough. Sean had now consumed so much alcohol that everything seemed perfectly reasonable. He'd started planning the job already. The first problem was how to do it. Thirteen thousand pounds in an envelope seems a fair price for a man's life. Particularly if you don't know the man, he seems a nonentity and you quite fancy his wife. And there's no chance of being caught.

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?

Gerächt ist gerecht. Amtsrichter Siggi Buckmann hat sich geschworen, für Gerechtigkeit einzustehen – notfalls nach Feierabend. Als sein einstiger Mentor tot in einem Waldstück aufgefunden wird, macht er sich auf die Suche nach den Schuldigen. Schneller als gedacht, handelt er sich dabei Ärger mit einer dubiosen Immobilienfirma, der russischen Mafia und dem Sohn des Ministerpräsidenten ein. Die einzige Verbündete gegen seine neuen Feinde ist die kluge Journalistin Robin Bukowsky. Aber kann er ihr wirklich trauen? Vieles scheint dagegen zu sprechen.

Gerächt ist gerecht. Amtsrichter Siggi Buckmann hat sich geschworen, für Gerechtigkeit einzustehen – notfalls nach Feierabend. Als sein einstiger Mentor tot in einem Waldstück aufgefunden wird, macht er sich auf die Suche nach den Schuldigen. Schneller als gedacht, handelt er sich dabei Ärger mit einer dubiosen Immobilienfirma, der russischen Mafia und dem Sohn des Ministerpräsidenten ein. Die einzige Verbündete gegen seine neuen Feinde ist die kluge Journalistin Robin Bukowsky. Aber kann er ihr wirklich trauen? Vieles scheint dagegen zu sprechen.

Wenn es Frühling wird in Glaubenthal, kommt der schöne Peter ins Dorf. Der Bäcker - von allen geliebt in der Region. Eine seiner größten Fans war Tante Herta. Doch die steht nicht wie sonst als erste am Wagen, sondern liegt mausetot im Vorgarten. In ihrem Alter nichts per se Unwahrscheinliches. Aber sie ist splitterfasernackt! Da muss sich die alte Huber mal wieder die Ärmel hochkrempeln und losermitteln. Auch wenn das zeitlich gar nicht passt, schließlich steht ihr Geburtstag vor der Tür, zu dem sich gegen ihren ausdrücklichen Wunsch Gäste angemeldet haben.

Working with the cops has always been a challenge for Charity Deacon. Too many rules get in the way of catching the bad guys. Now she’s been hired by the RCMP to help get an out-of-control mob boss off the streets.

Spannung und eine Prise Humor an der Küste Nordfrieslands. Sie haben es bis ins Finale geschafft: Zehn Frauen um die vierzig hoffen auf den begehrten Titel der Sylter Libelle. Gewinnen soll die Bewerberin mit dem imposantesten Leben. Wenige Tage vor der Wahl der Schock: Simone Eriksen, die heimliche Favoritin, liegt tot auf einer Salzwiese bei Keitum. Dem ersten Eindruck nach erlag sie einem Angriff von Galloway-Rindern. Doch der Leichenbeschauer stellt fest: Sie starb durch menschliche Gewalt. In der Gruppe der Bewerberinnen galt Simone als Außenseiterin.

"Stell dir vor, deine größte Lüge wird plötzlich wahr … Was würdest du tun?! Berenice ist Tierkommunikatorin und kann mit schwierigen Pferden telepathisch Kontakt aufnehmen – behauptet sie zumindest. In Wirklichkeit schummelt sie sich durchs Leben und zieht den Leuten mit ihren Lügengeschichten das Geld aus der Tasche. Bis sich eines Tages tatsächlich ein sprechendes Pony bei ihr meldet: Berenice soll helfen, einen verschwundenen Pferdekumpel aufzuspüren. Ehe sie sich versieht, ist sie einem handfesten Skandal auf der Spur, stolpert von einer peinlichen Situation in die nächste.

Meet Sam Applewhite, a security consultant with no staff, no resources, and some big jobs to tackle. When an armed robber targets a local bank, things quickly go wrong and hostages are taken. Sam’s stage magician dad is in the firing line and no magic tricks are going to get him out of this situation. The police say they’ve got things under control, but Sam knows there’s something strange going on. Why has a law-abiding man suddenly turned to crime? How can it be an armed robbery if the robber has left his gun at home? Sam has to put the pieces together before it’s too late.

Ellis Coldwater is a pretty easy-going bank robber. Wendy Larkin is a pretty woman—a little shy, a little nervous, and a little married. What happens when these two get together “on the job”? Whose recipe for living life will lead to the most happiness, the most laughter, and the least amount of jail time? Our tale jumps in immediately as this novel adroitly rolls up its sleeve to expose the funny bone of crime, love, right, wrong, the pursuit of money, happiness, the vagaries of humanity that gives life meaning.

Meet The Nearly Dearly Departed Club. Four random strangers thrown together with only one thing in common. They’re all dead. Or maybe not....

Mary Shields is a moody, acerbic probation officer dealing with some of Glasgow’s worst cases, and her job is on the line. Liam Macdowall was imprisoned for murdering his wife, and he’s published a series of letters to the dead woman, in a book that makes him an unlikely hero - and a poster boy for Men’s Rights activists. Liam is released on licence into Mary’s care, but things are far from simple. Mary develops a poisonous obsession with Liam and his world, and when her son and Liam’s daughter form a relationship, Mary will stop at nothing to impose her own brand of justice.

Bumping Off Fat Vinny is a lighthearted look at the attempts of authors Margaret Stanton, Danny Garrett, and Maria Mancuso make to do away with a scoundrel who seemingly has more lives than a cat. It confirms the old adage that the best laid plans of mice and men sometimes do, in fact, go astray.

Henry, a New Yorker left destitute by circumstance and obsession, is plucked from vagrancy by a shadowy outfit whose primary business is arranging for staged murders of anxiety-ridden clients unhinged by the “events downtown” and seeking to experience - and live through - their own carefully executed assassinations. When Henry joins this nefarious crew, which includes a beautiful blonde tattooist named Tulip, contortionist twins, and a woman referred to only as “the knockout”, he becomes inextricably linked to its ringleader, the mysterious herring connoisseur Mr. Kindt.

Aldo is determined to become a better person. His best pals Dougie and Craig and the four-legged love of his life, Bruce the Staffy, do their best to keep him on the path to redemption, but his lawless nature and chaotic home life propel him into a series of comical, exhilarating, occasionally brutal adventures.

Meet Martin, a broke British drama teacher trying to make ends meet in a picturesque Irish town. Saddled with a subprime mortgage containing terms & conditions that even loan sharks would disapprove of, he seeks a deadly escape route. A healthy payout would be some consolation should anything happen to his dear wife, like being bitten by the viper housed in his terrarium (It’s like a corner of Arizona but in the good room). Enter Laura, a beautiful staff nurse and medieval weaponry expert who has ruthless plans of her own. None of them involve being murdered.

When builder Mark Poynter discovers a murder on his worksite all of his financial problems suddenly seem a lot closer to home: was this a warning his debts are overdue? Suspected of being the killer and worried at being the intended victim, the murder only makes Mark's money problems worse, leading him to turn to the local villain, Hamlet, who has his own unique repayment plan in mind for Mark. When two more deaths plunge him even further into debt, Mark finds himself faced with a choice - help the police and clear his name or help the villain and clear his debt.