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It is June 1950 and a sleepy English village is about to be awakened by the discovery of a dead body in Colonel de Luce's cucumber patch. The police are baffled, and when a dead snipe is deposited on the Colonel's doorstep with a rare stamp impaled on its beak, they are baffled even more. Only the Colonel's daughter, the precocious Flavia, has the ingenuity to follow the clues that reveal the victim's identity.

Twenty years ago Helen Franklin did something she cannot forgive herself for, and she has spent every day since barricading herself against its memory. But her sheltered life is about to change. A strange manuscript has come into her possession. It is filled with testimonies from the darkest chapters of human history, which all record sightings of a tall, silent woman in black, with unblinking eyes and bleeding feet: Melmoth, the loneliest being in the world. Condemned to walk the Earth forever, she tries to beguile the guilty and lure them away for a lifetime wandering alongside her.

For more than 20 years Sultan Khan defied the authorities to supply books to the people of Kabul. He was arrested, interrogated, and imprisoned, and watched illiterate soldiers burn piles of his books in the street. In spring 2002, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad spent four months living with the bookseller and his family. As she steps back from the page and lets the Khans tell their stories, we learn of proposals and marriages, hope and fear, crime and punishment.

Here is a stunning novel set in the Tudor court, as the rivalry between Queen Mary and her half-sister, Elizabeth, is played out against a background of betrayal, conflict and passion.

Freya Lockwood has avoided the quaint English village in which she grew up for the last 20 years. That is until news arrives that Arthur Crockleford, antiques dealer and Freya’s estranged mentor, has died…and the circumstances seem suspicious. But when a letter from Arthur is delivered, sent just days before his death, and an ordinary pine chest concealing Arthur’s journals including reservations in her name are revealed, Freya finds herself sucked back into a life she’d sworn to leave behind.

Madison Montgomery wollte nichts als endlich ein ganz normales Leben führen. Doch Vincent Bishop Hayes zog sie in eine Welt aus Macht, Intrigen und Geheimnissen. Obwohl sie sich versprochen haben, immer ehrlich zueinander zu sein, verbirgt er seine Gefühle hinter meterhohen Mauern. Und immer, wenn Madison glaubt, auf dem Weg zur Wahrheit ein weiteres Puzzleteil gefunden zu haben, schlägt der Elite Kings Club alles, was sie zu wissen glaubt, in tausend Stücke. Werden die Geheimnisse um die Kings für immer zwischen ihnen stehen, oder kann Maddie Bishop endlich vertrauen?

Wie weit würdest du für deine große Liebe gehen? Als Taylor Jensen an ein und demselben Tag nicht nur ihren Job an einen Kollegen verliert, sondern auch ihren Freund beim Fremdgehen erwischt, hat sie von Männern erst einmal genug. Völlig verzweifelt läuft sie Daniel Grant in die Arme, der ihr ein Zimmer in seiner WG anbietet. Einst waren sie beste Freunde, aber ein männlicher Mitbewohner mit sexy Tattoos und einem unwiderstehlichen Lächeln ist das Letzte, was Tae jetzt gebrauchen kann.

Sie ist sein ungeschliffener Diamant. Er ist ihr schlimmster Albtraum. Yasmin Karam, die Tochter eines der reichsten Männer der Welt, hat noch nie Streit erlebt. Als ihr geliebter Vater erkrankt, ist sie fest entschlossen, ihn noch ein mal glücklich zu machen. Sein letzter Wunsch? Sie mit einem Mann seiner Wahl verheiratet zu sehen. Doch Yasmins Herz gehört bereits einem anderen. Einem Diener. Einer Straßenratte. Einem Mann, den ihr Vater niemals für würdig halten würde.

When a painting vanishes from a maritime museum, and a dead body is found nearby, the newly established Lockwood Antique Hunter’s Agency, Freya Lockwood and her Aunt Carole, are called to investigate. Following a lead that takes them aboard a glamorous antiques cruise sailing toward the Red Sea in Jordan, they quickly discover that the ships art gallery is filled with stolen antiquities. Each antique is also listed in Freya’s late mentor’s journals that detail unsolved cases. In chasing a murderer with a stolen painting, they may have found something more sinister than they could’ve imagined.

In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work and features many never-before-published pieces, international bestselling author and legendary creator of From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and other modern classics, Alan Moore, presents nine stories full of wonder and strangeness, each taking us deeper into the fantastical underside of reality.

When Katie Piper was 24, her life was near perfect. Young and beautiful, she was well on her way to fulfilling her dream of becoming a model. But then she met Daniel Lynch on Facebook and her world quickly turned into a nightmare.... After being held captive and brutally raped by her new boyfriend, Katie was subjected to a vicious acid attack. Within seconds, this bright and bubbly girl could feel her looks and the life she loved melting away.

In Poppy Page's mind, there are two types of women in this world: those who are faithful to their husbands and those who are not. Until now, Poppy has never questioned which she was. But when handsome, charming Matthew Gordon walks back into her life after almost two decades, that changes. Poppy makes a single mistake - and that mistake will be far more dangerous than she could imagine. Someone is going to pay for it with their life....

Das heißeste Date des Sommers! Carter Clynes ist Pilot und Playboy. In jeder Stadt hat er eine andere, etwas Festes sucht er nicht. Bis er Kendall trifft. Augenblicklich spüren die beiden eine magische Verbindung, und Carter überredet die junge Frau, ihn auf seinen weiteren Flügen zu begleiten. Es beginnt ein romantischer, turbulenter und herzzerreißender Trip, an dessen Ende Kendall die schwerste Entscheidung ihres Lebens treffen muss.

It is Egypt, 2000 BC, where death gives meaning to life. At the foot of a cliff lies the broken, twisted body of Nofret, concubine to a Ka-priest. Young, beautiful, and venomous, most agree that she deserved to die like a snake. Yet Renisenb, the priest's daughter, believes that the woman's death was not fate, but murder. Increasingly, she becomes convinced that the source of evil lurks within her own father's household.

Usually, this is where we'd tell you what this book is about. But with Chris Cleave, it's a bit different. Because if you've read The Other Hand or Incendiary, you'll know that what his books are about is only part of the story - what really matters is how they make you feel. Gold is about the limits of human endurance, both physical and emotional. It will make you cry. Gold is about what drives us to succeed - and what we choose to sacrifice for success. It will make you feel glad to be alive.

The stories and the people involved in the history of murder are stranger, darker and more compulsive than any crime fiction. There’s Richard Parker, the cannibalized cabin boy whose death at the hands of his hungry crewmates led the Victorian courts to decisively outlaw a defence of necessity to murder. Dr Percy Bateman, the incompetent GP whose violent disregard for his patient changed the law on manslaughter. Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in England in the 1950s, played a crucial role in changes to the law around provocation in murder cases.

Rebecca is widely regarded as Daphne du Maurier's finest novel. It tells the story of Manderley, an exquisite house with gardens down to the sea; its owner Max de Winter; and his new young wife. And, of course, Rebecca.

Es gibt Männer, die glauben, dass ihnen die Welt gehört. Graham Morgan, CEO von Morgan Financial Holdings, gehört zu ihnen. Wenn er etwas will, bekommt er es - so einfach ist es für ihn. Bis er Soraya trifft! Sie ist ganz anders als er und die erste Frau, die sich nicht von ihm einschüchtern lässt. Und so unterschiedlich sie auch sind, kann er sich doch nicht dagegen wehren, dass Soraya ganz unbekannte Gefühle in ihm weckt. Doch gerade als Graham beginnt, an eine gemeinsame Zukunft zu glauben, holt ihn seine Vergangenheit ein und droht, alles zu zerstören.

By day Judith Rashleigh is a put-upon assistant at a London auction house. By night she's a hostess in one of the capital's unsavoury bars. Desperate to make something of herself, Judith knows she has to play the game. She's learned to dress, speak and act in the interests of men. She's learned to be a good girl. But after uncovering a dark secret at the heart of the art world, Judith is fired and her dreams of a better life are torn apart. So she turns to a long-neglected friend. A friend that kept her chin up and back straight through every past slight. A friend that a good girl like her shouldn't have: rage.

Als eine geheimnisvolle Nachricht May Wexler in eine Bikerbar in der Innenstadt von New Orleans führt, weiß sie, dass etwas gewaltig schiefgelaufen sein muss. Sie denkt, der Notruf sei von ihrer Schwester, doch als May eintrifft, ist diese nirgends zu finden. Dafür ist May selbst plötzlich in Schwierigkeiten - sie trägt rosafarbene Espadrilles, hat einen Chihuahua in der Handtasche und gerät in einen Schusswechsel. Als ihr der große, muskulöse Ozzie zu Hilfe eilt, bleibt May nichts anderes übrig, als sich von ihm in Sicherheit bringen zu lassen.