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Lorsque le TGV Milan-Rome arrive à quai, la police fait une macabre découverte : tous les passagers de la classe affaires sont retrouvés morts. Si les premiers indices orientent l'enquête vers un attentat, la commissaire adjointe Colomba Caselli, muscles d'acier et âme fragile, est persuadée du contraire. Pour elle, seul Dante Torre, l' "Homme du silo", est capable d'y voir clair dans ce brouillard de mensonges et de fausses pistes.

Two patients in comas, not expected to live: when they both recover, sharing the same bizarre symptom of blue urine, it’s a medical miracle that Dr. Roger Clark cannot explain. One of the patients happens to be Sharon Wilder, a beautiful Hollywood starlet. When she offers Dr. Clark the chance to accompany her to the private Caribbean island called Eden, he has to accept—if only to learn more about the bioengineering company Advance, Inc., and their promise to make your wildest dreams come true.

Charles Raynaud has found the perfect cover for his smuggling operation running out of Mexico, because how many customs agents are going to want to inspect a carton of venomous snakes? When Raynaud runs into his old Yale buddy Richard Pierce, a chance to play bodyguard feels like even easier money.

Beneath the sands of the Egyptian desert lies treasure beyond imagining. And when a professor of archeology finds clues to the location of a Pharaoh's lost tomb in ancient hieroglyphs, he hatches a plan to find the burial site - and plunder it.

September 1858: An Antarctic whaler stumbles across an aged wreck, her frozen crew guarding a priceless treasure.

The company chairman lay on the cold ground of the woods, his eyes unseeing, his orange hunting jacket punctured by a rifle bullet at close range. Around him stood the four executives with whom he had been hunting, each with his or her own complicated agenda, each with a reason not to be sorrowful about the man's death.

Cleary, North Carolina, is a sleepy mountain town, the kind of place where criminal activity is usually limited to parking violations. Not so, lately. Four women have disappeared from Cleary over the past two years. And there's always a blue ribbon left near the spot where each of the women was last seen. There are no bodies, no other clues, and no suspicion as to who their abductor might be. And now, another woman has disappeared without a trace.

American radiologist Peter Ross just wanted a vacation. But when he meets the beautiful Angela Locke on a Spanish beach, he soon finds himself caught in a murderous crossfire between rival gangs seeking a precious artifact. From Barcelona to the rain-swept streets of Paris, from the towers of the Alhambra to its darkest catacombs, Peter Ross is an ordinary man in desperate circumstances: racing to uncover a secret lost for centuries, before he becomes its next victim.

Ein Cold Case. Ein ermordeter Verdächtiger. Eine missverstandene Zeugin. Ein Fall für Kommissarin Sheridan Holler. Ein unerwarteter Fund auf dem Friedhof: In einem Grab wird ein Toter entdeckt, der dort nicht hingehört. Die Ermittlungen führen Kommissarin Sheridan Holler von der Mordkommission Liverpool zu einem Cold Case. Vor sieben Jahren wurden zwei Frauen niedergeschossen, eine starb, eine überlebte knapp. Der einzige Verdächtige war ein Kleinkrimineller – der Tote im Grab.

As an expert handler of venomous snakes - and a smuggler of rare artifacts - Charles Raynaud is accustomed to danger. So the job body-guarding an old acquaintance about to come into a fortune shouldn't make him break a sweat. But when the attempts on the man's life nearly get Raynaud killed, he's left wondering: is he the killers' real target...?

Une enquête de Léon Sadorski, le sinistre et fascinant inspecteur des renseignements généraux. Le pire des salauds, le meilleur des enquêteurs. Paris, mars 1943. Une femme est arrêtée dans un bistrot du 10e arrondissement. Elle aurait franchi la ligne de démarcation munie de faux papiers, pour un trafic de métaux précieux. L'inspecteur principal adjoint Léon Sadorski voit dans cette enquête une parfaite occasion de s'enrichir. Mais il a d'autres soucis, notamment protéger Julie, la lycéenne juive réfugiée chez lui depuis la rafle du Vél' d'Hiv.

Shelby Cox never intended to become a bookseller, so when the former editor returns to her hometown of Alexandria Bay, nestled in upstate New York’s breathtaking Thousand Islands region, to take over her aunt’s bookstore, she has no idea what to expect. To her amazement, she discovers that she now owns a 50 percent share in Bayside Books and will also run the store’s second location in the majestic castle on nearby Blye Island.

Bellamy Lyston was only 12 years old when her older sister Susan was killed on a stormy Memorial Day. Bellamy's fear of storms is a legacy of the tornado that destroyed the crime scene along with her memory of what really happened during the day's most devastating moments. Now, 18 years later, Bellamy has written a sensational, best-selling novel based on Susan's murder. Because the book was inspired by the tragic event that still pains her family, she published it under a pseudonym to protect them from unwanted publicity. But an opportunistic reporter for a tabloid newspaper discovers that the book is based on fact....

No one has benefited more from AI and Machine learning than the con artist.

The plan: to rob the Reina, a super-luxury hotel off the coast of Spain. The crew: three seasoned criminals with the skills to pull off the heist of the century. The edge: every aspect of the scheme has been simulated in a computer, down to the last variable.

Als Privatdetektivin in Vancouver hat Ashira Cohen schon einige Fälle gelöst. Daher scheint es bloße Routine zu sein, als sie ein verschwundenes Mädchen aufspüren soll bis die Sache eskaliert. Ein Schlag auf Ashs Hinterkopf tut nicht nur weh, sondern enthüllt ein seltsames Tattoo und sie verfügt plötzlich über magische Fähigkeiten, die sie eigentlich gar nicht haben dürfte. Als wenn das nicht verstörend genug wäre, hat sie nun keine andere Wahl, als mit Levi Montefiore zusammenzuarbeiten, ihrem Rivalen seit Jugendzeiten.

Diver James McGregor is used to exploring sunken ships. But there's something strange about the wreck of the Grave Descend. No one aboard tells quite the same story about what happened. Then there's the mysterious cargo they were carrying....

On a secret island in the Caribbean, bioengineers have devised a vacation resort like no other, promising the ultimate escape. But when Dr. Roger Clark investigates, he discovers the dark secret of Eden Island and of Advance Biosystems, the shadowy corporation underwriting it...

Grounds for Murder is the first in a new mystery series featuring protagonist Jeannie Wolfert-Lang. When Jeannie won’t sell her farm, someone tries to kill her. Who wants her land enough that they’d attempt to kill a 60-year-old widow? Jeannie must now grapple with ghosts from her past and solve the mystery.

Kriminalkommissær Van der Valk har - efter at være blevet forsøgt myrdet - trukket sig tilbage fra sit virke som opklarer. Men et helt livs politiarbejde har sat sig sine spor i kommissæren, der, da han snubler over en mystisk sag fra en antikvitetsforretning, ikke kan nære sig for at dykke ned den. På egen hånd graver han dybere og dybere ned i sagen, der snart udvikler sig til en regulær tragedie Nicolas Freeling, engelsk kriminalforfatter; født under navnet Nicolas Davidson (1927-2003).