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A high-tech business park on the Mediterranean coast is the setting for a most disturbing crime in this bestseller from the master of dystopia, J.G. Ballard.A disturbing mystery awaits Paul and Jane Sinclair when they arrive in Eden-Olympia, a high-tech business park in the hills above Cannes. Jane is to work as a doctor for those who live in this ultra-modern workers’ paradise. But what caused her predecessor to go on a shooting spree that made headlines around the world? As Paul investigates...
| Автор | Ali Smith |
A brilliant reworking of the detective story by the much-acclaimed Michael Chabon, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay’.In THE FINAL SOLUTION Michael Chabon has crafted a short, suspenseful tale of compassion and wit that reimagines the classic 19th-century detective story.In deep retirement in the English countryside, an 89-year-old man, vaguely remembered by locals as a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than with other...
| Автор | Michael Chabon |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.One by one the men who discovered and opened the tomb of King Men-He-Rah are beginning to die. Superstition spreads that they have been cursed by the dead king. Poirot is asked to investigate the supernatural deaths by a concerned mother. Hastings is left bewildered when Poirot asserts his belief in the supernatural…
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
Stylish, atmospheric psychological thriller following on from the Silver Dagger Award winner, Forty Words for Sorrow.A gruesome discovery in the wilderness above Algonquin Bay leads detectives John Cardinal and Lisa Delorme to a remote cabin that has served as an abattoir for a cold-blooded killer…But the woods hide other horrors and soon a second body is discovered, naked and shrouded in ice. When one of the victims is identified as an American the Mounties have to be called in, but it's the...
| Автор | Giles Blunt |
NEVER SAY DIETwenty years after her father's plane crashed in the jungles of Southeast Asia, Willy Jane Maitland was finally tracking his last moves. She recognised the dangers, but her search for the truth about that fateful flight was the only thing that mattered. Closing in on the events of that night, Willy realises that she is investigating secrets that people would kill to protect. And without knowing who to trust, the truth can be far from clear cut. . .PRESUMED GUILTYGuilty – until...
| Автор | Тесс Герритсен |
Der ehrbare Mr. John Scott Eccles übernachtet bei seinem Bekannten Aloysius Garcia. Als er des Morgens erwacht, findet er das Haus verlassen vor. Selbst die Dienerschaft ist nicht auffindbar. Wenig später erfährt er von der Polizei, daß sein Gastgeber in dieser Nacht auf freiem Feld ermordet wurde. Natürlich gerät Eccles in Verdacht. Nur Sherlock Holmes verfolgt eine ganz andere Spur…
| Автор | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
Der Kampf um Gotham City spitzt sich weiter zu und Two-Face plant den entscheidenden Schlag. Wird es ihm gelingen, sich die gesamte Stadt unter den Nagel zu reißen oder wird ihm Batman doch noch einen Strich durch die Rechnung machen können? Was ist mit dem Pinguin? Wird er noch ein Wörtchen in dieser Angelegenheit mitzureden haben?
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.The rather disgruntled pair is sequestered in the Grand Adlington Hotel having made a pig’s ear out of their latest case. But, whilst sipping mournful cocktails, with Tommy oddly dressed as a Parson, they are gleefully accosted by their old acquaintance Mr. Bulger who has London’s most beautiful stage actress, Gilda Glen, in tow. Feather brained and a little confused, Gilda takes Tommy for a real...
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
’A brilliant read’ B A ParisTwo sisters go missing.Only one returns.Getting people to believe you is easy. If you tell them what they want to hear. When my sister and I disappeared three years ago,they found Emma’s car at the beach. Some people believed she had gone there to find a party or meet a friend whonever showed. They believed that she’d gone for a swim.They believed that she’d drowned. Maybe by accident. Maybe a suicide.Everyone believed Emma was dead. As for me, well – now I’m back to...
| Автор | Wendy Walker |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Mr. Parker Pyne is going through a bit of a palaver trying to get to Beirut, what with his rusty linguistic skills and the less than comfortable arrangement on the aeroplane. But, with the help of an amused German pilot he soon navigates his way around. The pilot, Herr Schlagel’s thoughts are dominated by the mysterious and sudden death of one of his last passengers, a ‘flower’ who was in the company of...
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
Had she survived because of fate, coincidence or just luck?If Nina Cormier’s wedding had taken place, she would be dead. But after the bride was left at the altar, the church stood empty when the bomb went off. It wasn’t until a stranger tried to run her car off the road, however, that she realized someone wanted her dead. But who?That’s what Detective Sam Navarro needs to find out. . . fast. As a cop, he knows better than to become attached to the woman he’s trying to protect. But as a man. ....
| Автор | Тесс Герритсен |
A serial killer is on the loose. His target? Lone Western women lured to Hong Kong by the promise of easy money. As The Butcher's killing spree escalates, bags of mutilated body parts are found all over the island – and more girls are disappearing.Taking on his first homicide case, Detective Johnny Mann is determined to stop The Butcher's brutal reign. Haunted by the memory of his father's death by the Triads, he's the only man who can track down a killer who's paralysing the city with...
| Автор | Lee Weeks |
Amelia und George Price, ein junges Paar in den Flitterwochen, macht während seiner Reise durch das romantische Deutschland die Bekanntschaft von Elias P. Hutcheson, einem verwegenen Abenteurer aus Nebraska. Die Drei planen eine gemeinsame Besichtigung der Burg zu Nürnberg, in der die berühmte Eiserne Jungfrau, eines der grauenvollsten Folterwerkzeuge, das die Menschheit je ersonnen hat, ausgestellt wird
| Автор | Bram Stoker |
Die Gruselkabinett Hörspiel Box 23 beinhaltet die Geschichten: «Heimgekehrt» von Per McGraup, «Die Farbe aus dem All» von H.P. Lovecraft, «Mary Rose» von James Matthew Barrie und «Zimmer 13» von M.R. James.
| Автор | M.R. James |
After Moonrise, the elite detective agency, crosses into the dark side, but it can be dangerous when the living communicate with the dead…The picture Aurora Harper’s painting is so disturbing she’s convinced she’s witnessed a murder and suppressed the memory. Now she needs Detective Levi Reid to help her track down the victim – and the killer. But Levi’s dealing with his own issues, blacking out for no reason at all. They’ll step into the dark together…but are they ready for what they might...
| Автор | P.C. Cast |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings are on holiday at the opulent Grand Metropolitan Hotel in Brighton, where they meet the wife of a wealthy stockbroker. As they discuss the jewels worn by Mrs Opalsen, the great detective relates his experiences in cases which have concerned some of the best-known jewels in the world. Excited by his anecdotes, the wealthy matron eagerly offers to show him a very...
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
In a riveting exploration of the power the past wields over the present, critically acclaimed author Antoinette van Heugten writes the story of a woman whose child’s life hangs in the balance, forcing her to confront the roots of her family’s troubled history in the dark days of World War II… It’s the stuff of nightmares: Nora de Jong returns home from work one ordinary day to find her mother has been murdered. Her infant daughter is missing. And the only clue is the body of an unknown man on...
| Автор | Antoinette Heugten van |
A spine-chilling, mind-twisting new psychological thriller in which a writing circle is haunted by a serial killer, from the acclaimed author of Lost Girls.Some People Will Do Anything For A Good StoryNothing seems to be going right for journalist Patrick Rush. Recently widowed, he's now bringing up a young son by himself. At work, he finds himself demoted to anonymous TV critic. It's time to do something.So he joins a creative writing circle in hope of realizing a life-long dream – to write a...
| Автор | Andrew Pyper |
Zwei Wanderinnen machen in den Jämtland-Bergen im Norden von Schweden einen makabren Fund: die Hand eines menschlichen Skeletts. Ein Fall für die Reichsmordkommission, der sich auch Sebastian Bergman anschließt. Die Ermittlungen werfen viele Fragen auf. Doch Torkel, Sebastian und die anderen geben nicht auf und kommen allmählich dem Geheimnis auf die Spur.
| Автор | Michael Hjorth |
Der reiche Lebenmann Claude Champion wird erstochen. Kurz vor seinem Tod nennt er den Namen seines Mörders und dessen Motiv. Aber sagt er die Wahrheit? Pater Brown zweifelt daran und macht sich daran, dieses seltsame Verbrechen aufzuklären…
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Tom Fawley ist ein Medium. Er kann in die Zukunft blicken. Eines Tages sieht er den Tod seiner früheren Kommilitonen voraus – darunter auch den seiner Lebensgefährtin Helen.Der Tod sucht sich gnadenlos seine Opfer und das Team von Doktor Zephyre muss im Kampf mit der Zeit versuchen, die Visionen nicht Wirklichkeit werden zu lassen…
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Der Mensch ist des Menschen Wolf, schon mal gehört? Wir sind alle so verdammt zivilisiert. Kratzt man einmal an der Fassade, tritt gar Scheußliches zutage. Und geht's dazu um Sex und Fressen, dann ist der beste Freund vergessen.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
She’s watching you, but who’s watching her?Lily Gullick lives with her husband Aiden in a new-build flat opposite an estate which has been marked for demolition. A keen birdwatcher, she can’t help spying on her neighbours.Until one day Lily sees something suspicious through her binoculars and soon her elderly neighbour Jean is found dead. Lily, intrigued by the social divide in her local area as it becomes increasingly gentrified, knows that she has to act. But her interference is not going...
| Автор | Ross Armstrong |
The chilling, ghostly account of a doctor who is determined to find light in a lifeless body.Patient DL lies motionless in a small room at the end of a hospital corridor. She has suffered massive damage to her brain, and it's not clear whether she can see or hear the world around her.When Sarah Newman, the narrator of this ghostly tale, is charged with finding a spark of light in her lifeless body, she is drawn into a drama which extends far beyond the hospital walls. What accident befell DL to...
| Автор | Laura Spinney |