Humor Suspense

Dr. Ed's head is spinning: a long-lost 'son' has just been sent over to his office by the temp agency, his shopping-addicted wife seems to have disappeared, and the clinical trial that he is running for a revolutionary new anti-depressant might well be going off the rails. But we needn't worry about Dr. Ed: he is in control of everything, including himself.

Eine junge Frau wird im Central Park ermordet. Ein schockierender Anblick - auch für die erfahrene Polizistin Eve Dallas. Denn der Mörder hat seinem Opfer die Augen entfernt. Und es werden noch mehr Leichen mit diesem makabren Zeichen entdeckt. Eve Dallas steht vor einem Rätsel, bis ausgerechnet eine Hellseherin Hinweise liefert. Mithilfe ihres Ehemanns Roarke kommt Eve dem Psychopathen auf die Spur und entdeckt dabei ein schreckliches Geheimnis aus ihrer Vergangenheit.

A media billionaire’s daughter disappears following a massacre at a Belfast student party and nobody knows if she has been kidnapped or caught in the crossfire. A controversial new abortion clinic is firebombed, and a fire-and-brimstone church movement is blamed. Hired to both find the missing daughter, and prove the church’s guilt, Dan Starkey suddenly finds himself struggling to cope with two very different investigations...or could they possibly be connected?

When the legal system has disappointed, humbled, and humiliated you, there is still one arrow in your quiver. Call the Shortcut Man. Dick Henry, the Shortcut Man, is a purveyor of unlicensed, unofficial, and unauthorized justice. In Ipso Fatso, Dick follows the breadcrumbs leading into the lofty halls of power and influence in Los Angeles. Once there, Dick achieves the unexpected, but along the way settles a variety of scores and puts a number of bad guys in touch with their inner child.

Ian Bridges works as a hitman and is on permanent stand-by for West End gangster John Broad. He does maybe three or four jobs a year and spends the rest of his life desperately trying to find Mrs Right so he can settle down, but can't and it feels like the world is conspiring against him. He's about to find out he's right.

When a scandal cost him his high-paying job on Madison Avenue, ad man Jack Schiavone thought he could start over as a mattress discounter in beachfront Brooklyn. But his dream of a nice, quiet new life running a mattress store is about to get whacked. There’s a mob war brewing, and 'Mr. Mattress' quickly finds himself in the middle of it.

From best-selling author Barton Grover Howe comes the second installment in his Surfland adventures... Wild-mannered part-time reporter Jackson Poe doubts the idea of hot fun in the summertime - largely because the third attempt on his life in as many days left him coated in steaming mammal blubber. And that's just his work. On the personal front, Poe's nudist friend caught crabs (two pounds), a narcoleptic dog keeps shedding in his convertible, and his favorite coffee shop hovers on the verge of closing.

In regengepeitschter Nacht wird eine brutal ermordete junge Frau auf einem einsamen Gehsteig gefunden - und ein zweites Opfer kurz danach in ihrem eigenen Apartment. Die attraktive Eve Dallas, Lieutenant der New Yorker Polizei, entdeckt sofort einen Zusammenhang zwischen diesen Verbrechen. Beide Opfer sind schöne und höchst erfolgreiche Frauen. Ihr glamouröses Leben und ihre Liebesaffären waren Stadtgespräch. Ihre Verbindungen zu den Reichen und Berühmten beschert Eve dann auch eine lange Liste von Verdächtigen - inklusive ihres eigenen Liebhabers...

Elle Harrison is back! She and her pals Jen, Becky, and Susan travel to Mexico where Jen has arranged cosmetic surgery, after which she will recover in a plush hotel suite. But more is going on at the hotel than tummy tucks. Soon after they arrive, Elle sees the woman in the suite next door fall from her sixth floor balcony. When the room is later occupied by another patient, Elle finds her brutally mutilated body on that same balcony. Police question Elle as the last person to see these women alive.

Eve Dallas untersucht die brutale Ermordung eines jungen Liebespaares, als ihre Freundin Mavis sie um Hilfe bittet. Tandy Willowby, eine werdende Mutter aus Mavis' Geburtsvorbereitungskurs, ist spurlos verschwunden. Tandy war gerade von London in die USA ausgewandert und hat bislang nur wenige Freunde in New York. Ist sie womöglich entführt worden?

Eine erfahrene Polizistin kann wenig erschüttern. Doch diese Mordserie ist selbst für Lieutenant Eve Dallas ein Grenzfall. Nicht nur, dass der Täter besonders grausam vorgeht - die Spuren führen außerdem direkt in Eve Dallas' Haus: Ist der Butler ihres Mannes Roarke etwa ein Mörder? Eve kann das nicht glauben und stellt eine drängende Frage: Was geschah damals vor zehn Jahren? Allerdings ist irgendjemand eher bereit zu töten, als ihr eine Antwort zu geben...

My name’s Annie Graceland. Three things you should know about me: 1. I’m a Midwesterner living in LA. 2. I run my own baking business. 3. I talk to dead people and I figure out who murdered them. When Dr. Derrick Fuller - the know-it-all, self-help guru who ruined my marriage is murdered - guess who becomes a suspect? Now, I’m getting divorced, my baking business hits the skids, and Fuller’s ghost dogs my every step, nagging me to solve his murder.

An African safari camp in North Idaho? Won't happen, not if eco-activist Roadkill can convince his brother Ed Mustard to drop the plastic jar bearing his ex-wife's ashes and fight the developer. Together they face the wannabe big game hunter, his wacky minions and his fake preacher-in-a-pocket. Cue the docile water buffalo and the frozen wolf corpse and let the chaos begin!

"Sie war die erste und ihr Licht war rein!" Zusammen mit dieser Botschaft werden einer Journalistin eine Reihe professioneller Modelfotos zugespielt. Nur - das Model ist tot und liegt in der schwülheißen Sommerhitze New Yorks in einem Recycling-Container. Eve Dallas ermittelt gegen einen Killer, der nichts dem Zufall überlässt, denn sein Werk muss vollendet werden. Er hat eine Mission: Die Unschuld und Lebendigkeit ihrer Jugend einzufangen - mit einem einzigen Schuss.

Hochzeitsvorbereitungen sind schon mörderisch genug. Sie werden nicht friedvoller, wenn Lieutnant Eve Dallas währenddessen eine bestialische Verbrechensserie aufklären muss - unter höchst beklemmenden Voraussetzungen. Ihre beste Freundin wird des Mordes an einer der schönsten Frauen der Welt verdächtigt - und Eve Dallas, Lieutenant bei der New Yorker Polizei, nimmt die Ermittlungen auf...

Divertidísimo e interesante juego metaliterario en el que el autor Rafael Marín nos propone jugar con la literatura clásica. Sherlock Holmes, según su premisa, existió realmente, y hay una persona que recogió sus hazañas reales en un manuscrito; nada más y nada menos que un joven Charles Chaplin, que le hace las veces de asistente en un delicioso caso que mezcla realidad, ficción, literatura y, sobre todo, imaginación.

The Committee, an international cabal of industrialists and media barons, is on the verge of privatizing all information. Dear Diary, an idealistic online Underground, stands in the way of that takeover, using radical politics, classic spycraft, and technology that makes Big Data look like dial-up. Into this secret battle stumbles an unlikely trio: Leila Majnoun, a disillusioned non-profit worker; Leo Crane, an unhinged trustafarian; and Mark Deveraux, a phony self-betterment guru who works for the Committee.

When the palace of Arabesque's aide d'camp, a cat named the Tremblees, stumbles upon a translation of an ancient language that reveals the existence of a fabled stone, he vows to find it for reasons of greed and vengeance. With a dead dog stuck to a car bonnet, some burst luggage, a blind bus driver, and an enormous number of olives, it becomes a race for Oscar, his colleague Meesha, and the Tieress of Arabesque to prevent the Tremblees plunging Arabesque back into the Era of Bedlam.

There are only a few weeks left before an asteroid destroys the planet. It’s the countdown, and all of humanity is just waiting for the end. In Phoenix, AZ, the sheriff’s department and National Guard are battling for supremacy, gas is as good as cash, and elementary school kids are out for blood. Most people in town have become the worst versions of themselves. Except for Dutch Kovaks, private detective. Dutch wants to right some wrongs, help a few people in need, and use the days he’s got left for good. Most of all, he wants to track down a bottle of gin.

Three years ago, someone brutally killed four people on the scow Mygirl. In a crowded courtroom, Cecil Younger helped the accused go free. Now the man charged with the Mygirl murders has disappeared. As a new father, Cecil just wants to move on from the Mygirl killings, but finds he can't just walk away when more and more people associated with the case end up dead. Younger is certain someone is trying to finish the grisly job begun on the Mygirl. He must discover the truth behind what happened three years ago before he can settle what's happening now.