Humorous Thriller

What looks more impressive on a resume? Nosy amateur sleuth or struggling no-name actress? Neither one pays the bills, and Becky Robinson has a lot of bills. So, when she's invited to the reading of her rich uncle Al's will, she daydreams about her inheritance. The problem, Becky doesn't have an uncle Al. And she never met the deceased. The mysterious stranger leaves her a ceramic flamingo with a hidden message. Turns out her fake uncle was murdered, and she was hired from the grave to find whodunit.

Erzi ist erst sieben Jahre alt und braucht dringend Geld. Mithilfe ihres Bruders steigt sie in das Erpressergeschäft ein und beginnt zunächst Gartenzwerge zu entführen. Als ihr Großvater seine Enkelin zu sich nach Berlin holt, muss sich Erzi in dortigen mafiaähnlichen Jugendgangs behaupten und plant den ultimativen Coup.

When you look into the abyss...the abyss looks into you. After dumping the body of a serial killer on my former boss’s desk, I handed in my cop badge, which I’ve replaced with an FBI badge. Yep, I’m a Fed. I work for Special Affairs, a clandestine department tasked with policing the occult underground. In the meantime, my personal life is a disaster zone. There’s a Yakuza boss who wants to kill me, and my crazy Hellicorn is going through an existential crisis. But it’s the evil warlock who is making my life a living nightmare.

My name's Jane Butterworth. For me, the paranormal is just a day job. I work at the Blue Moon Investigation Agency, a firm that specialises in cases that no one else will take, cases that start at strange and unexplainable and tier rapidly south from there.

Hot on the success of her first case, British female sleuth Daisy Dunlop can count the offers of work on one finger. An empty bank account and the need to prove to her business partner, private investigator Solomon Liffey, that she is an asset, not a liability, calls for drastic measures. Terror has to be overcome as she answers a plea to find the one thing that gives her night sweats and flashbacks. An animal. A missing stud poodle, to be exact.

There’s a new craze at Dread Wood High. Flinch is a game of fear. The more you scare your friends, the more points on the app you get. At first it’s fun, but soon fun is replaced by fear. And Angelo and his friends notice that everyone is behaving more and more strangely every day—almost as if something is taking over their brains. With the fair arriving in town, adrenaline and excitement levels are high. But who are the people behind the super-creepy clown masks? With fights breaking out and Flinch in full force, it’s time for the final showdown at the Fear Ground.

Charmant und bitterböse wird hier die Geschichte einer jungen Frau erzählt, in deren Körper ein Dämon haust. Akuma heißt der Plagegeist. Ein dauergelangweiltes, launisches Wesen aus den Tiefen der Hölle, das immer einen Spruch auf Lager hat. Er kann witzig sein, sogar freundlich, doch ein Dämon bleibt ein Dämon und so ist es nicht leicht für Kjara, ein normales Leben zu führen. Denn in Akuma lauert eine dunkle Seite, eine wilde Seite, geifernd nach Gewalt, Blut und Rache.

Derald Grake destroys his life the moment he decides to sell the family home. After capturing the American dream, this father of 4 hopes to solve the complex formula of buying low and selling high. Witness one ‘normal’ family embark on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey involving, among other surprises, assassins, meth, murder, and the end of Amazon. Wrapped inside this intriguing mystery are eye witness accounts and compelling evidence to separate truth from fantasy. Follow the clues, sort through the lies, and put the pieces together of this twisted reality.

Eddie Morales finds his lowly R&D life completely upended when his Boise-based biotech firm dispatches him to Puerto Malogrado, a tiny but tumultuous country in South America where the international media is accusing their experimental potatoes of causing a bizarre medical crisis. Eddie unwillingly arrives in South America only to find his plans for a quick resolution thwarted when he gets caught between the two sides of an impending revolution, each hoping to capitalize on the potato scandal in order to seize power.

El hecho de crecer con habilidades telepáticas hizo que Sookie Stackhouse se diera cuenta pronto de que había secretos que prefería no conocer. Y ahora que ha crecido, va a descubrir que tampoco le gustaría tener que ver algunas situaciones como, por ejemplo, a Eric Northman bebiéndose la sangre de una joven. Hay bastantes cosas que Sookie querría decirle a Eric al respecto, pero tiene que guardar silencio. Felipe de Castro, el rey vampiro de Luisiana, de Arkansas y de Nevada, está en la ciudad.

Vikki Victoria, Anfang 40, lebt als bekannte Künstlerin in der Nähe des Viktualienmarkts in München und ist ihres Lebens froh. Bis eines Morgens zu unchristlicher Zeit (vor 12 Uhr!) ein Anruf von ihrem Ex-Freund Wolf kommt: Der Toni, der Vikki jahrelang Morddrohungen geschickt hat, ist aus dem Gefängnis ausgebrochen. So muss sich die Vikki au-gen-blick-lich in Sicherheit bringen. Doch wohin? Natürlich in die alte Heimat, nach Übertreibling. Mit wehender Perücke und dem Motorradrocker Wolf an ihrer Seite beginnt für sie eine eine absurde Odyssee, bei der Vikki Victoria alle Register ziehen muss, um zu schützen, was sie liebt.

Maggie Lennon’s summer teaching break has just begun when she learns her sister, Rhoda, has suffered a debilitating injury. Maggie races to the rural Florida town of Eugenia to help but quickly realizes she has stepped into a literal and virtual swamp of dysfunction. When a producer for a national television competition comes to Rhoda’s church to vet the choir, Maggie’s other sister, Cheryl, joins them to audition. Together, the three women encounter a host of quirky and questionable characters as they weave their way through chaos, ex-cons, and conspiracies. 

It's basically the worst school detention ever. When classmates (but not mate-mates) Hallie, Angelo, Gustav and Naira are forced to come to school on a SATURDAY, they think things can’t get much worse. But they’re wrong. Things are about to get seriously scary.

Brownie Snoddy is visiting the Snoddy mansion for spring break! Where Brownie goes, mayhem is sure to follow. He’s got his hands on a fedora and a stack of hard-boiled mystery novels, and he's ready to squirt metal at the nearest evil perpetrator, even though his reliable stun gun has been appropriated. When Janie, the niece of Willodean Gray, the beauteous sheriff’s deputy, shows up to participate, all heck breaks loose. Even Bubba and Miz Demetrice can’t stop the serious sleuthing of Brownie and the dame!

Brownie has returned to the Snoddy Estate. His mother is seven months pregnant, ordered to bed rest, and in desperate need of Brownie-free time. So off Brownie goes to visit the Texas Snoddys! It’s the middle of November, he’s 10 years old, and they’ve taken away his homemade Taser. How much trouble could there possibly be? Two men have decided to kidnap Brownie for the rumored Civil War gold the Snoddys reputedly have. And that was their mistake, because no one with a brain in their head kidnaps Brownie Snoddy. No one. 

Dieses Weihnachtszeug hat immer noch ein beschissenes Karma. Es ist schon wieder Weihnachten im Thüringer Wald und der verrückte Bürgermeister Blaschke hat sich diesmal etwas ganz Besonderes ausgedacht. Es soll ein Krippenspiel geben, allerdings mit echten Menschen und Tieren. Der altersschwache Dorfochse erlebt den Heiligabend dann aber leider nicht mehr, also müssen kurzerhand zwei Dörfler ins Kostüm gesteckt werden.

On a foggy night in the French Quarter... Brandy and Jiff were on a walk when they met him. Why did he hand her a note? There was something strange about the fellow. His clothes and hat made him look like a newspaper man from the '60s. But it was what he had typed on that piece of paper that deepened the mystery. A sort of prediction, that claimed three things would happen and they couldn’t stop it. Who was he? Why did Brandy believe him? She had always been good at reading people.

Es ist Advent auf Sylt. Ernst Mannsen hat zwar nichts gegen Weihnachten, aber die Insel ist ihm ohne Touristen zu leer, die Tage sind lang und dunkel. Seine Frau Gudrun freut sich hingegen auf den Weihnachtsmarkt, aufs Schmücken des Hauses und auf die Weihnachtsfeiertage mit der Familie. Als der gelangweilte Ernst erfährt, dass der Filialleiter der Bank mitsamt den Spenden für die bedürftigen Kinder verschwunden ist, ergreift er seine Chance auf Abwechslung: Er wird sich um das Problem kümmern! Und das Geld für die Weihnachtsgeschenke beschaffen.

He was just another man with a drinking problem, only alcohol transformed him into a violent pork-beast named Piggly Swiggly, and since he's always drunk, his human side hasn't seen the light of day in years. After yet another rampaging bender, Piggly wakes up in a jungle metropolis full of floating crocodiles, greasy bacon addicts, and worse: prohibition. Trapped in this strange teetotaled town, he must keep his buzz going or else revert to his weak and vulnerable human form. But even then, Piggly Swiggly's depravity may prove to be his own undoing.

How could anybody steal a dog like Gizmo...? When petty criminals "Flash Harry" Smith and Jack ("The Lad") Jones start nicking dogs, they soon realise they’ve bitten off more than they can chew...Their victim, Elizabeth Parker-Smyth, is a high-flying movie producer with a Grand Design of a house and a designer dog to match. Their hostages, Gizmo and Doodle, are the co-stars of her next film: "Nobody’s Poodle". Their nemesis, Annie Capello, is a quirky, big-hearted pet detective, who tracks the dognappers through cyberspace and finds herself entangled in their shenanigans.