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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Everything I want in a thriller. Sexy, shocking, and tense with an ending I never saw coming. Jeneva Rose is the queen of twists."—Colleen Hoover, #1 New York Times bestselling author
The highly anticipated new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and One of Us Is Dead
You've opened up your house and your heart to a total stranger ... What could
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"TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm-except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered one of the clients, an accountant he'd confronted with...
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Scot Harvath thrillers volume 22
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In the war-ravaged borderlands of Ukraine, a Russian military unit has gone rogue. Its members, conscripted from the worst prisons and mental asylums across Russia, are the most criminally violent, psychologically dangerous combatants to ever set foot upon the modern battlefield. With all attention focused on the frontlines, they have pushed deeper into the interior to wage a campaign of unspeakable barbarity. As they move from village to village,...
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Scarlet Pimpernel series volume 3
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In Baroness Emma Orczy's 1905 novel "The Scarlet Pimpernel", the year is 1792 and the French Revolution is complete. People die by the guillotine every day, often unjustly. Stepping in to right these wrongs and rescue the innocent is the elusive "Scarlet Pimpernel", a mysterious agent named for the red flower that is his signature. Meanwhile, foppish Sir Percy Blakeney and his French actress wife Marguerite are having marital difficulties when Marguerite...
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It's not such a beautiful day in the neighborhood ...
From the critically acclaimed author of the Logan West thrillers comes a can't-miss, brand-new novel that proves Matthew Betley is the modern master of the unputdownable page-turner.
For most of the citizens of Hidden Refuge, it's an ordinary Friday night in an ordinary American town. But when men claiming to be police officers show up at their doorsteps in the middle of the night, ordering them...
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'Local Woman Missing' is a riveting new thriller about a series of disappearances that rock a small Chicago suburb. Are these incidents connected? When one of the women shockingly returns 11 years later, everyone wants to know what happened to her, but no one is prepared for what they'll find.
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It's the perfect home for the perfect family: pretty Nora Howell, her handsome husband, their two teenage daughters, and lovable dog. As California transplants making a fresh start in Brooklyn, they expected to live in a shoebox, but the brownstone has a huge kitchen, lots of light, and a backyard. The catch: its previous residents were victims of a grisly triple homicide that remains unsolved. Soon, peculiar things begin happening. The pug is nosing...
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From the acclaimed author of Twenty Years Later comes a twisting, impossible-to-put-down novel of suspense in which a filmmaker helps clear a woman convicted of murder—only to find she may be a puppet in a sinister game. Fans of Freida McFadden and Alice Feeney will be left breathless by this unforgettable thriller that builds to a shocking conclusion...
The Girl of Sugar Beach is the most watched documentary in television...
The Girl of Sugar Beach is the most watched documentary in television...
9) Unmasked
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From New York Times bestselling author Cassia Leo comes a deliciously dark and sexy new enemies-to-lovers romantic suspense series. This audio contains Volume 1 of the Unmasked Series.
I was born into this world unwanted.
I spent the first hours of my life unloved.
I spent the first eighteen years of my life with the parents who tried to shelter me from the harsh reality of my existence.
But you can't un-write a sad story if the ending is literally...
10) Virgins
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A young Jamie Fraser learns what it really means to become a man in this Outlander prequel novella. Featuring all the trademark suspense, adventure, and history of Diana Gabaldon's #1 bestselling novels and the Showcase original series, Virgins is now available for the first time as a standalone ebook.
Mourning the death of his father and gravely injured at the hands of the English, Jamie Fraser finds himself running with a band of...
Mourning the death of his father and gravely injured at the hands of the English, Jamie Fraser finds himself running with a band of...
11) The Willows
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The Willows is a novella by English author Algernon Blackwood, originally published as part of his 1907 collection The Listener and Other Stories. It is one of Blackwood's best known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. Horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. "The Willows" is an example of early modern horror and is connected within the literary tradition of weird...
12) Recursión
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La realidad se ha roto.
Al principio parece un virus. Una epidemia que se extiende de forma incontrolable, enloqueciendo a sus víctimas con recuerdos de una vida que no es la suya. Pero no se trata de un patógeno y las consecuencias no afectan sólo a la mente, sino al propio tejido del tiempo.
En Nueva York, el detective Barry Sutton está investigando este extraño síndrome en un caso que pronto se entrelaza con el trabajo de una brillante...
13) The Naked Face
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Judd Stevens is a psychoanalyst faced with the most critical case of his life.
If he does not penetrate the mind of a murderer he will find himself arrested for murder or murdered himself...
Two people closely involved with Dr. Stevens have already been killed. Is one of the doctor's patients responsible? Someone overwhelmed by his problems? A neurotic driven by compulsion? A madman? Before the murderer strikes again, Judd must strip away the mask...
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"It isn't paranoia if it's really happening ... Anna Fox lives alone-- a recluse in her New York City home, drinking too much wine, watching old movies ... and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move next door: a father, a mother, their teenaged son. The perfect family. But when Anna sees something she shouldn't, her world begins to crumble -- and its shocking secrets are laid bare. What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is...
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The first novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart, America's queen of crime This is the story of how a middle-aged spinster lost her mind, deserted her domestic gods in the city, took a furnished house for the summer out of town, and found herself involved in one of those mysterious crimes that keep our newspapers and detective agencies happy and prosperous. So says Rachel Innes, the spinster in question and one of the most remarkable heroines in American...
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Innerhalb weniger Wochen kommt es in ganz Europa zu Extremwetterereignissen - Starkregen, Erdrutsche und Sturmfluten bedrohen das Land. Wasser quillt aus den Abflüssen, Strommasten stürzen um, Kohle- und Atomkraftwerke werden überflutet. Die enormen Regenmassen reißen immer mehr Menschen in den Tod und zerstören die Infrastruktur des Landes, während die Politik nur tatenlos zusieht. Die Wolkenkundlerin Fjella Lange, der IT-Spezialist Arian Fischer...
17) Das Rachespiel
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Frank Geissler glaubt an einen Scherz, als er die Website aufruft: Ein Mann, nackt, am Boden festgekettet, in Todesangst. Daneben ein Käfig voller Ratten, unruhig, ausgehungert. Frank kann den Mann retten, heißt es. Aber nur wenn er Teil des "Spiels" wird und seine erste Aufgabe erfüllt. Angewidert schließt er die Website, doch kurz darauf ist der Mann tot. Und Frank schon mittendrin. Mittendrin in einem Spiel, das ihn in einen Atombunker in der...
18) Blutadler
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In Hamburg versetzt ein Serienmörder die Bewohner der Hansestadt in Angst und Schrecken. Der Täter folgt einem Ritus, der aus der Zeit der Wikinger stammt und unter der Bezeichnung "Blutadler" bekannt ist. Hauptkommissar Jan Fabel wird mit der Aufklärung der brutalen Verbrechen betraut. Bei seinen Recherchen stößt er auf einen geheimnisvollen Kult, dessen Mitglieder vor keinem Opfer zurückschrecken ...
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Die Schwestern Jess, Courtney und Dani sind 14, 16 und 17 Jahre alt und leben auf einer rauen Farm in Kanada. Als ein Streit mit ihrem gewalttätigen Vater aus dem Ruder läuft, müssen sie fliehen. Doch ihr Pick-up bleibt in einem abgelegenen Dorf liegen, und bald finden sie sich in einem furchtbaren Albtraum wieder. 18 Jahre später versuchen die drei noch immer, die Geschehnisse des Sommers von damals zu vergessen. Doch dann verschwindet eine der...
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Spannend, beklemmend, einzigartig - der Bestsellerautor Frank Goldammer schreibt eine Ermittlerfigur, die es im deutschen Krimi so noch nicht gab.
Ein Stadtteil am Rande Dresdens ist in Aufruhr: Ein zwölfjähriges Mädchen ist spurlos verschwunden. Felix Bruch wird mit der neuen Ermittlerin Nicole Schauer auf diesen Fall angesetzt. Schauer merkt schnell, dass Bruch ein Einzelgänger ist, kein Wunder, denn er legt scheinbar keinen Wert darauf, von...
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