Suspense Law

"Bist du in Noah verliebt?" Bei jeder anderen hätte Mercedes die Arme verschränkt, die Brust herausgeschoben und ihre Gefühle herausposaunt. Doch es war Cora, die fragte, Cora – tapfer, zerbrochen und wunderschön. Es war Cora, die Noah ebenso sehr liebte wie sie selbst. Und deshalb log Mercedes – und mit dieser Lüge verlor sie ihn. Sie war Freundin, Brautjungfer, Patentante. Sie war der Fels in der Brandung für ihre beiden besten Freunde – bis zu dem Augenblick, als das spröde Fundament ihrer Welt in sich zusammenbrach und sie alle fielen und fielen.

David Taggert steht, so oft er kann, im Ring und hat doch nichts, wofür es sich zu kämpfen lohnt. Aber das ändert sich schlagartig, als sich Millie Anderson trotz ihrer Blindheit als Tänzerin in seiner Bar bewirbt. Nichts an Millie ist gewöhnlich, und David ist vom ersten Augenblick an fasziniert von ihr. Auch Millie hat in ihrer Vergangenheit Dinge erlebt, an denen sie beinahe zerbrochen wäre. Und so lässt sich David auf den wichtigsten Kampf seines Lebens ein...

The award-winning author of Anybody's Daughter is back with a gripping tale of passion, deceit, and murder. Miles Slade looks every bit the successful lawyer, but his swanky office and designer suits hide some desperate truths. A flailing law practice. Massive debt. A dying sister in need of expensive care.

If it moves away from you, it's food; if it moves toward you, you're food. The 1957 murder of an undercover cop in a New York City housing project has unexpected ties to the unsolved disappearance of a young father walking home in those same projects with his son, Angelo, on Christmas Eve six years before. The only witness to the cop killing is Angelo, now 13, while on his way to seek his own revenge in the early morning hours. The killers know he saw them.

A college student is framed for a huge bank robbery and ends up on trial for murder when a bank official is found dead in the vault. UCLA student Fred Fuller is pleased with his new part-time job as a bank messenger for Bank USA. The job pays well, the hours are perfect, and many of the bank tellers he works with are young and pretty. When one of the tellers takes a special interest in Fred, he struggles to remain faithful to his girlfriend, Maria.

Pirate fever sweeps through the town after an opportunistic treasure hunter shows up looking to lay claim to Blackbeard's lost gold buried somewhere in Tupelo Landing. When the (probably) world-famous Desperado Detectives - Mo and Dale and Harm - are hired by Mayor Little's mother to find the pirate loot for her, and the high-stakes race for riches is on! But that's not the only treasure hunt in town. Mo LoBeau unearths shocking new clues that may lead to her long-lost Upstream Mother - in the riskiest, scariest, and possibly richest case of her life.

Someone wants Paige Bristow’s wolf sanctuary gone…and Paige dead. Officer Reece Campbell and his K-9 partner, Maverick, are the only ones she can turn to, but she never told him he was the father of her daughter. As the attacks escalate, Reece must uncover the perp and keep himself from falling for Paige all over again. But will the truth between them cost everything?

Eigentlich wollte Max nur einen kurzen Blick in sein Lieblingsspiel werfen, doch plötzlich steht er mitten in den Straßen von Los Carros! Fasziniert will er sich gerade umschauen, als er von Piper, der jungen Anführerin einer Autoschrauber-Gang, über den Haufen gerannt wird. Was als harmloser Zusammenstoß beginnt, entwickelt sich zu einem rasanten Abenteuer. Denn Piper hat mächtige Feinde, die es jetzt auch auf Max abgesehen haben! Um einen Weg zurück nach Hause zu finden, muss Max ihr helfen, den Gangstern das Handwerk zu legen.

DCI Seth Hannen had worked hard for his pension, doing his best to run from his past whilst giving loyal service in the Thames Valley and Metropolitan Police forces. He sold his soul to his career, wrecking two marriages and becoming estranged from his only son.

Brand-new lawyer Michael O'Brien has no clue the case his law firm handed him is a total loser. That's because he would rather chase women, play basketball, or do almost anything other than practice law. O'Brien is struggling with the drudgery first-year associates face, especially since it's the swinging '70s in San Francisco.

Alexandria Anastasia King, aka Alex, is a woman with new-found wealth, freedom and a mission in life. A bad marriage and the murder of a friend put her on the path to make things right in the world…in her own, unique way. With friend and mentor Jack Sterling, ex-intelligence operative, they establish KING Consulting. It’s an enterprise she describes as, ‘a business people tend not to talk about, but everybody wishes they had on speed dial’. Under Jack’s guidance she learns hand-to-hand combat, firearms and knife skills, preferring a Heckler and Koch .45 and KA-BAR combat knife.

Ibland händer det riktigt mystiska saker i Stockholms skärgård - fråga bara Tonya. När hon är ute på segeltur med lillebror Stefan och mammas pojkvän PeO så dyker det upp en ö från tomma intet. På den lilla ön står det två män och plötsligt drar den ena upp en pistol och skjuter den andre! Har Tonya och Stefan precis blivit vittnen till ett mord? Innan de hinner förstå vad som hänt så försvinner ön lika snabbt som den dykt upp. Men en ö kan väl inte bara sluta existera? Vad är det egentligen som händer i skärgården?

As a pizza detective, Colin Kingsley, a.k.a. Mark Anchovy, has survived murderous criminals, bloodthirsty henchmen and some questionable modes of transport. He now has a much more worrying problem: his younger sister is working as his apprentice. Coaching seven-year-old Alicia for her exams to join the Golden Spatula League would be challenging enough. But the siblings must head to Japan to track down the missing English eccentric Lord Bobo - former host of the hit '90s gameshow Battered by the Butler - before he winds up dead.

He’s used to catching crooks, not proving their innocence. Can this Hawaiian investigator say aloha to the real killer? Edgar Allan “Poe” Rutherford knows his personal connection to a crime boss is wrong. But when she needs his PI expertise to solve a reopened cold case, he can’t refuse the woman who feels like family. The only catch...the police are convinced she’s the murderer.

La última entrega de las hilarantes aventuras de la detective juvenil Teresa Pi, más conocida como Tres Catorce. En esta ocasión se dan cita el mundo de la moda con los bajos fondos en una trama que llevará a Tres Catorce a cruzarse con trenes descarrilados, asesinatos, millones robados y citas a ciegas.

Piger, der forsvinder i Echo Ridge, kommer sjældent hjem igen ... Echo Ridge er en lille by, og Ellery har aldrig været der før, men hun har hørt meget om den, for det var der, hendes moster forsvandt som 17-årig. Og for blot fem år siden blev byen landskendt, da årets homecoming queen blev myrdet. Nu skal Ellery bo der sammen med sin tvillingebror hos sin bedstemor, som hun knap nok kender. Byen er fuld af hemmeligheder, og nogen truer med at gøre årets homecoming lige så farlig, som den var for fem år siden. Efterhånden som Ellery lærer mere om Echo Ridge, står det klart: alle skjuler noget.

Det er næsten et år siden, at Makani Young flyttede ind hos sin bedstemor langt ude på landet i Nebraska, og hun er stadig ved at finde sig til rette i sit nye liv. Og hun er stadig jaget af sin fortid i Hawaii. En efter en bliver hendes medstuderende på byens lille high school myrdet i en række brutale drab, og imens politiet jagter morderen, breder uhyggen og usikkerheden sig, og Makani bliver tvunget til at forholde sig til sine egne mørke hemmeligheder. Forfatteren Stephanie Perkins er tilbage med et forfriskende bud på den klassiske slasher-genre. Fyldt med blod.

Elizabeth Webster is happy to stay under the radar (and under her bangs) until middle school is dead and gone. But when star swimmer Henry Harrison asks her to tutor him in math, it's not linear equations Henry really needs help with - it's a flower-scented, poodle-skirt-wearing, head-tossing ghost who's calling out Elizabeth's name.

University is supposed to be the best time of your life. But Imo’s first week is quickly going from bad to worse. A stalker is watching her flat, following her every move, and Imo suspects that her new roommates are hiding dark secrets. When one of them suddenly disappears, the trauma of Imo’s recent past comes hurtling back to haunt her. And she begins to realise just how little she knows about the people she lives with....

Twenty-nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln has spent his entire adult life running from his past - from the poverty of the dirt-floor log cabin where he was raised, from the dominion of his uneducated father, and from a failed early courtship. But now, Lincoln's past is racing back to haunt him. It is the summer of 1838, and Springfield is embroiled in a tumultuous, violent political season. All of Springfield's elite have gathered at a grand party to celebrate the Fourth of July. Spirits are high - until a prominent local politician is assassinated in the midst of fireworks.