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Alain Wagner, ein unauffälliger, stiller Wissenschaftler liegt erschlagen neben der Festung Dräi Eechelen.
Inspecteur Carmen Meyer und Commissaire Marc Olinger haben kaum mit den Ermittlungen begonnen, als am selben Ort schon die nächste Leiche liegt.
Handelt es sich um einen Serienmörder, der sein Unwesen treibt? Ist auf Kirchberg niemand mehr sicher? Die Polizei sucht nach gemeinsamen Merkmalen zwischen den beiden Fällen. Doch dann hat Carmen...
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Dieses Buch entstand 2007, als Jutta Duwe ihre Akteneinsicht bei der Stasiunterlagenbehörde beantragte und geschockt feststellen musste, dass ihr gesamtes Leben in der DDR bis ins kleinste Detail dokumentiert war, hauptsächlich von 1977 bis zur Wende 1989.
Der Stasiapparat mit seinen zerstörerischen Methoden gegen das eigene Volk war derart widerlich, dass die Autorin sich entschloss, einen Teil ihres Lebens, welches heute zur jungen deutsch-deutschen...
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Atemberaubender und spannender Psychothriller:
Helen Toussaint scheint als Ehefrau eines erfolgreichen Rechtsanwaltes das perfekte Leben zu führen. Sie ist jung, attraktiv und wohnt mit ihrem Mann Nick und den zwei kleinen Kindern in einem schönen Haus. Doch als Nick Toussaint den zwielichtigen arabischen Geschäftsmann und vermeintlichen Geldgeber eines Terrornetzwerkes, Ahmed Al Shain, erfolgreich vertritt, ändert sich ihr Leben schlagartig.
Als...
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Im Jahr 1957 wurde ein achtjähriger Junge Opfer des seitdem so genannten Drachenfelsmörders. 60 Jahre später bringt ein erfahrener Kriminalist in seinem Ruhestand Licht in das Dunkel des ungeklärten Mordfalls und des sorgfältig gehüteten Ergebnisses der polizeilichen Ermittlungen.
Die Schilderung des Kriminalfalls und der Recherchen zur Arbeit der Strafverfolgungsbehörden beruht in Gänze auf Tatsachen. Die maßgeblichen Dokumente sind in Originalfassung...
45) Anger Management
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Have you ever felt disconnected, unsure of your place in the world? Have you ever felt that society glorified the imbecilic and that most civilized problems could be cured with common sense? Have you ever wanted to make your own justice for it and punish the corrupt and perverted that destroy our trust? What if you found a way to do it?Follow an unnamed narrator, through his daily life of work drugs and violence, finding ways he can exploit the loop...
46) The Polar Papers
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A few years after his wife is killed, private investigator Steve Blake is forced from his guarded life to track down a murderer. But he soon finds himself embroiled in an international plot that could cause an apocalyptic catastrophe if he can't crack the case. Determined to find the killer, Steve must face his own demons while fending off shadowy black-ops agents and deadly rogue spies. People are not who they first appear to be, unlikely alliances...
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Nachdem seine Frau und sein achtjähriger Sohn nach einem Urlaub auf Pernan weder zu ihm zurückkommen, noch sich bei ihm melden, beschließt Nicolas Corbyn selbst zur nordischen Insel aufzubrechen und seine Familie sicher nach Hause zu bringen. Auf der Insel angekommen, muss Nicolas jedoch feststellen, dass Pernan nicht der verträumte Urlaubsort ist, von dem stets geschwärmt wird.
Er fängt an zu begreifen, dass er mit jedem weiteren Tag, den...
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Can you always trust Kindness?
The ghost writer of her autobiography thought so. The government that made her Lady Kindness and its minister thought so too.
Kindness definitely believed it, but fact checking left some big questions unanswered.
Whatever Kindness believed, it does matter that you are who you say you are.
50) Los olvidados
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La vida de Lis Vázquez, una atractiva reportera sin demasiadas expectativas que malgasta su vida por los innumerables bares del céntrico barrio de Malasaña, cambiará para siempre tras la enigmática llamada de un antiguo amigo de la adolescencia. La posible desaparición de una pareja natural de Sempiterno, el pueblo donde la reportera pasó gran parte de su juventud, bajo un extraño símbolo pintado con tiza sobre el marco de su puerta, será...
51) Escape
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When Michael Rorke, a talented yet self-absorbed author, meets his untimely end in an accident, he awakens as a wanderer – a spirit caught between worlds, unsure of what afterlife, be it blissful or grim, lies ahead. In this liminal state, he is unable to return to the living and faces an uncertain path forward.
This twilight world is fraught with dangers, teeming with predators that prey on spirits like him. Michael's urgent quest for resolution...
52) Curiosity Kills
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In the heart of the town stands Bright House, ominously empty, with its owners too terrified to reside there. A dark curse has plagued the Bright lineage: no firstborn survives past their twenty-first birthday.
As Paula Bright, pregnant and determined, seeks to shield her unborn child from this malevolent fate, she stumbles upon a shadowy presence. This ancient evil, hidden within the house's very foundation, has claimed the lives of Bright descendants...
53) Phillimore Place
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Jessica Metcalf is the only child of Bob and Annie and was born and raised on Horton Road in the East End of London. She is beautiful, happy and has all the trappings that money can buy. Known as Jess to her friends and family but Mistress to her clients, she earns her living as a high class prostitute and dominatrix. Business is going from strength to strength, she enjoys her work and it's a lucrative career that has enabled her to purchase a swanky...
54) Busisiwe
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This follows on one of the kidnapped twins lives and follows how she moves on and finds her family and gets her revenge.
55) Never Forever
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As it becomes more apparent that Conner represents only the tip of the iceberg, Dana comes under increasing pressue to solve the mysetery of Conner's past. Drawing upon the assistance from her partner, Tobias, Conner's psychiatrist, Dr Coemen, and her motley collection of neighbours and friends, Dana realises that she may be the key to preventing a murderous spree of supernatural origins.Combining elements of drama, crime and the supernatural, Never...
56) Jamaica
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On the emerald green island of Jamaica, an unpredictable adventure awaits twins Ana and Nicky who travel there to celebrate their coming of age. Under the Caribbean sun, they anticipate a holiday filled with fun, freedom, and excitement. But the idyllic island harbours hidden dangers beyond their expectations.
As the twins revel amid the natural tropical beauty, the thin veneer of paradise soon peels away. Their riveting journey quickly becomes a...
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There are two main threads to the book: a modern crime story and the recollections of an 85-year-old woman with dark secrets in her past. Set during the British General Election of 1997 when Tony Blair swept to power, the story bounces back to the 1930s when another charismatic leader rose in Europe. That story is revealed through flashbacks to the life of a British Nazi sympathiser and her artist sister, both intimates of Hitler and Goering.In 1997,...
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Robert Goddard's international bestselling third novel is a masterful exercise in suspense set in Victorian-era England. On a mild autumn afternoon in 1882, thirty-four-year-old husband and father William Trenchard sits quietly at home when the creak of the garden gate announces the arrival of a mysterious visitor. The stranger claims he is Sir James Davenall, the former fiancé of Trenchard's wife, Constance. He was thought to have committed suicide...
59) Visions
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After unleashing the magic of her ancestors, Olivia Osborne finds herself plagued by visions. She will need those new skills and more as she and Silas Branch are thrust back to the case they knew was never finished. Under the moss-covered trees of a small town in Florida exists an ancient evil that hungers for more. Following the death screams of a young girl, Olivia uncovers the secrets of a killer. Larry Wayne Pittman confessed his crimes, but he...
60) Burial Ground
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Tammy and Greg meet at a party in the Perth hills and sneak away to a disused gravel pit to be alone. They are interrupted by two men burying something who then attack Greg and chase a naked Tammy throughout the night. She is found the next day, delirious and suffering hypothermia. She tells Detective Sam Collins and Jenny Markham what she witnessed and reports Greg's murder. But his body is found in a car wreck, and the crash report says he died...
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