Management Thrillers

A man turns up dead in his own apartment, locked in his closet, his body crawling with poisonous spiders, and the Boston police are stumped. As all of their leads collapse, they are dreading the killer will strike again. Desperate, the police have no choice but to turn to Boston’s most brilliant and controversial homicide detective - Avery Black. Now retired, Avery, in a low point in her own life, reluctantly agrees to help with the case. But when other bodies start turning up, Avery can’t help but wonder: Is there a serial killer on the loose?

In Cause to Save, serial killer Howard Randall has escaped, and the entire city of Boston is on edge. Women are turning up gruesomely murdered, and everyone suspects Howard is at it again. When Boston’s most brilliant and controversial homicide detective - Avery Black - is herself stalked - and when people close to her are brutally killed, one by one - it seems the city’s worst fears are confirmed. But Avery is not so sure.

JET - Ops Files chronicles the early years of Maya, who would go on to become the Mossad's deadliest operative: the assassin known as Jet.

With their fearless crime-fighting, good manners, and manly fashion sense, the Hardly boys are the pride of Feyport, Illinois. In A Ghost in the Closet, dark-haired, muscular Frank and his lovable kid brother, Joe, return from a gay trip to Europe to find that their parents - world-famous detective Fennel P. Hardly and his wife, Mrs. Hardly - have been kidnapped! Even worse, so have six poodles from the Lake Merrimen Dog Show! Pals Nancy Clue, Cherry Aimless, R.N., and Police Detective Jackie Jones help the Hardly boys track down the criminals.

Dans Avant Qu’il Ne Voie, Mackenzie White, agent du FBI en formation, fait de son mieux pour prendre ses marques au sein de l’académie du FBI à Quantico, tout en essayant de faire ses preuves en tant que femme et transfuge du Nebraska.... Espérant être à la hauteur afin de devenir agent du FBI et laisser pour de bon sa vie dans le Midwest derrière elle, Mackenzie cherche à faire profil bas et à impressionner ses supérieurs. Mais tout change lorsque le cadavre d’une femme est retrouvé dans une décharge publique.

Discover the possible origins of Doctor Who with this dramatized audiobook of the 1905 vintage sci-fi novel, Doctor Omega. Despite being written nearly 60 years earlier, the startling similarities start with 'the Doctor', and his two companions in the Cosmos are clear and continue with their fantastic voyage to the planet Mars! This unabridged audiobook is read by John Guilor, who portrayed William Hartnell's first doctor in the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who.

Burke is back, but still lurking in the shadows, unable to return home. He is prowling the unfamiliar streets of Portland, Oregon, in search of a runaway teen. By all accounts, Rosebud Carlin is a happy, well-adjusted girl. She doesn’t fit the profile of the runaway kids Burke knows so well... and once was. But there’s something about her father....

"Una ragazza sola" ("Un thriller mozzafiato con l'agente dell'FBI Ella Dark"—Audiolibro 1) è il romanzo di debutto di una serie da tanto attesa, firmata dall'autore bestseller numero 1 oggi negli Stati Uniti, Blake Pierce, il cui migliore audiolibro, "Il killer della rosa" (scaricabile gratuitamente) ha ricevuto oltre 1.000 recensioni a cinque stelle. L'agente dell'FBI Ella Dark, 29 anni, si trova davanti alla grande occasione di raggiungere il sogno della sua vita: entrare nell'Unità di Crimine Comportamentale. Ella ha un'ossessione nascosta.

In the lush world-banking capital of Geneva, Switzerland, three friends from Harvard Business School find their lives and their work unexpectedly intertwined. Catherine and Majid are handling investments for clients with dubious pedigrees. When their friend Rafe shows up in Geneva, he claims to be just another start-up hedge fund manager. But Rafe, after a moral awakening, is now an undercover agent with the US Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, and he’s in Geneva secretly investigating his old friends, one of whom was his former lover.

Shadow Soldiers is a series of novellas focused on exploring the world of the soldier, especially how their code of ethics is affected by the challenges of real evil in the world today. More morality plays than action-adventures, these episodic stories ask the audience to judge their role in the world's challenges. Uncovering each challenge to our society, Sarge finds the right mercenaries to fight the evil. Creating Warrior Cadre Management (WCM), he builds a diverse team of mercenaries, soldiers, and spies to take on the evil that festers in our world.

Der Schatz des Maharadscha ist eine wunderbar skurrile Kriminalgeschichte, die am Fuße des Himalaja spielt. Der Erzähler lernt Mr. Fulton kennen, eine sonderbar hagere Gestalt, die den Umgang mit Menschen scheut. Er gewinnt Fultons Vertrauen und stellt bald fest, dass dieser ein ganz besonderes Interesse für Edelsteine zu haben scheint. Doch warum ist er an diesem gottverlassenen Ort? Und was verbirgt er in seinem schäbigen Bungalow? Der Erzähler will dies unbedingt herausfinden.

Van Bibber ist ein "man about town" - ein Mann, der das Stadtleben kennt. Als die Dame seines Herzens ihn versetzt, geht er kurzerhand zu einem Boxkampf, um dann ziellos durch die Straßen zu flanieren - wohlgemerkt, kurz vor Sonnenaufgang. Verdächtige Geräusche an der Tür eines Gebäudes erwecken sein Interesse, und so lernt Van Bibber einen ganz besonderen Einbrecher kennen.

Anna Mavrides has been burdened her whole life by the violent visions she had as a young girl. When she decides decades later to write a book about those visions and her family’s connection to the spirit world, it becomes an instant bestseller, but it ultimately triggers a chain of events that would have her charged with the brutal murder of her childhood friend.

When journalism prodigy Carson Stewart’s life comes crashing down in an ethics scandal, he sets out to rebuild his reputation in a desperate act that tests his journalistic integrity. Accepting a freelance job, Carson wields his cynical pen to break a story featuring Clara Becker, a popular US representative. His course is interrupted, however, when he meets an attractive and cunning congressional aid who is not afraid to shed light on the condition of Carson’s integrity and purpose.

Generation Blend ventures deep into the technology age gap and provides real-world solutions to combine the best that younger and older workers have to offer. It explores how generational attitudes toward technology affect issues as diverse as recruitment and retention, employee training, management decision-making, collaboration, knowledge sharing, work/life balance, and ordinary workday activities.

Gibt es das perfekte Verbrechen? Nun, vielleicht - wenn da nicht das unüberwindliche Begehren wäre, jemandem von eben diesem perfekten Verbrechen erzählen zu wollen.

Karel Čapek, zu Recht einer der berühmtesten und beliebtesten tschechischen Autoren, hat die Welt nicht nur mit dem Begriff des "Roboters" bereichert - er hat auch zahlreiche Krimi-Kurzgeschichten geschrieben, die an Witz und Raffinesse ihresgleichen suchen! Mit dabei: Der gestohlene Kaktus, Das Verschwinden des Herrn Hirsch, Tschintamanin und Vogel, Vom Kassenknacker und vom Brandstifter, Der gestohlene Mord, Der Fall mit dem Kind, Die Geschichte vom Heiratsschwindler, Das Gericht des Herrn Havlena, Die Briefmarkensammlung, Der Geschworene.

Eine spannende Kriminalkurzgeschichte mit einem der berühmtesten Gentleman-Gauner aller Zeiten: Arsène Lupin! Dieser begeht gerade eines seiner eleganten Verbrechen: Er will die berühmte schwarze Perle der Gräfin stehlen, während diese schläft. Doch als er sich den Weg in ihr Boudoir gebahnt hat, macht er eine grauenhafte Entdeckung.

Mit Auguste Dupin schuf Edgar Allan Poe einen der ersten Detektive, dessen Fälle er in drei Geschichten erzählte. Die zweite handelt von einer Parfumverkäuferin namens Marie Roget, die tot bei der Seine aufgefunden wird. Nur Dupin kann noch helfen.

Mit Auguste Dupin schuf Edgar Allan Poe einen der ersten Detektive, dessen Fälle er in drei Geschichten erzählte. Die dritte handelt von einem verschwundenen Brief - und der Frage, wo man einen solchen am besten verstecken kann. Auguste Dupin hat eine Antwort - und sie liegt sehr nahe.