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On 14th June, 2007, the King of Sweden disappears. In 1994 South Africa dismantles six missiles developed during its brief nuclear weapons programme. In 1961 Nombeko Mayeki is born in a Soweto shack. Seemingly destined for a life nasty, brutish and short, her path takes an entirely unpredictable turn. Because really this story is all about the seventh South African missile - the one that was never supposed to have existed. The one that Nombeko knows far too much about.

Det är den kallaste vintern på decennier och kylan slår hårt mot det lilla jämtländska samhället Svartviken. Byns uppskattade luciafirande står för dörren, men själva lucian, sextonåriga Ebba Lindgren, dyker inte upp till sin egen kröning. Hon lämnade hemmet för att gå de femhundra meterna till kyrkan, men kom aldrig fram. Nya och gamla konflikter blossar upp när alla plötsligt misstänker alla. Efter fem dagar lägger polisen i Östersund ner sökandet efter Ebba. Dagen därpå hittas hennes lärare brutalt knivhuggen till döds i sitt kök.

A grandfather who lives abroad returns home to visit his adult children. The son is a failure. The daughter is having a baby with the wrong man. Only the grandfather is perfect - at least, according to himself. But over the course of 10 intense days, relationships unfold and painful memories resurface. The grandfather is confronted by his past. The daughter is faced with an impossible choice. The son tries to write himself free. Something has to give.

Jonathan Shade and Kelly Chan reunite with Brand, the former Sekutar warrior, and Esther, the ghost who has an unbreakable bond with Shade. They set out for California to stop powerful wizard Harry Winslow from stealing life energy from his parents. But the Barbary Coast is a dangerous place where life is cheap. Their paths will cross with thieves, cutthroats, crimps, prostitutes, gangs, magic, and a supernatural threat. Time is running out on their mission, and one thing is certain - not everyone is going to get out alive.

The Damned (Sarah Roberts Book Thirty-One) Sarah Roberts and her boyfriend are driving across the U.S. when a random stop at a Wyoming gas station turns their road trip into a nightmare. A frantic woman jumps into their car and begs Sarah to drive her to safety. Before Sarah can respond, the woman’s pursuers snatch her from the vehicle—and grab Sarah, too. When Aaron returns with coffee, Sarah’s missing, and there’s blood spatter in the car. Police suspect foul play and believe Aaron may be involved. Vivian tried to warn her, but Sarah had to handle things her way. This time, she ...

A simple case for a new beginning. That's all Jonathan needs. Some easy, little supernatural problem to gain Kelly Chan's trust, and keep her from walking out of his life forever. The case goes from simple to deadly when Jonathan's actions wake an evil entity with murder on its agenda. The only way to stop it is to call in reinforcements from the Manhattan branch of Dragon Gate Industries (DGI). But calling DGI means dealing with the head of the division - Jonathan's older sister.

A husband armed with a sword hacks apart his wife in a Denver grocery store. There are dozens of witnesses, and the crime is captured on the security cameras. To the police, it's an open-and-shut case. To Naomi, the daughter of the couple, it's evidence of dark magic. She hires her ex-lover, a private investigator named Jonathan Shade to prove her father is innocent.

A movie stuntman dies performing a stunt on location, but the police call it an accident. His girlfriend Angela is a low-level wizard, and when she finds a witch's spent hex bag at the crime scene, she knows it's murder. Jonathan Shade and Kelly Chan take the case and go undercover to do stunts for the movie while they track down the murderer, but as always, not everything is what it seems.

En augustimorgon hittas den tjugofemårige landslagsstjärnan i fotboll, Henrik Borg, död i sängen i sin sommarstuga utanför Ystad. Det mesta tyder på att det är ett naturligt dödsfall, men en detalj förbryllar polisen: på Henrik Borgs bröst, under hans knäppta händer, ligger en blå ros. Inom en vecka, men på helt andra ställen i Sverige, påträffas ytterligare två dödsfall under likadana omständigheter: en fyrtiosjuårig pilot i Kiruna och en ung kvinnlig dansare i Göteborg.

When the security director of the powerful corporation Nebulaco dies under mysterious circumstances, courier Sai Collins has one last top-secret delivery to make on his behalf. Sai has come a long way from her street-kid childhood, but she has her secrets - namely that she’s a cyber-psi, a computer telepath who can connect to the grid without hardware. A talent she’s going to desperately need.

Kathryn Winchester, 33-years-old, has already lost three husbands to violence. The first died in the ravages of the War Between the States, the next died in a gambling hall in Hays, Kansas, and the third was killed in a pointless gunfight in Montana. Now her fourth husband, Ira, has been mysteriously gunned down and lies near death on the floor of their Idaho ranch house.

Mort Dansing was lost between two worlds: he was a white man raised by Apaches. After Dansing's village was destroyed and his wife murdered, he returned to white society, hoping to punish the traitor who led the killers to the village encampment.

Findes verden, eller gør den ikke? Findes tiden, eller gør den ikke? Findes der en ‘gud’, eller gør der ikke? Holger Bech Nielsen, dansk højenergifysiker på internationalt niveau, gør status efter et langt liv i fysikkens tjeneste. Han har søgt og søgt efter mening, men hvad har han fundet? I "Teorien om alt" fortæller den pris-vindende fysiker om sit liv og sin gerning - og ikke mindst om sit utrættelige forsøg på at finde Teorien Om Alt - at forklare, hvordan hele universet hænger sammen, og måske også, hvordan mennesket passer ind i ligningen.

When I was a child, I loved old men, and I could tell that they also loved me. And so we meet our deliciously incisive narrator: a popular English professor whose husband, a charismatic professor at the same small liberal arts college, is under investigation for his inappropriate relationships with his former students. The couple have long had a mutual understanding when it comes to their extramarital pursuits, but with these new allegations, life has become far less comfortable for them both.

Four men gather in Stockholm. Each has existed on the fringes of Stockholm society. Each has a past that just won't let him go. Then a plan falls into their laps. A plan to steal millions from the largest cash facility in Sweden. At first the scheme seems foolproof, every contingency covered, every detail planned perfectly. But is everyone involved who they say they are? Can they ever really hope to pull off such an extraordinary crime?

The Ultimatum (Sarah Roberts Book Twenty-Five) When the daughter of a powerful crime boss goes missing, the boss orders a series of deadly interrogations. He calls upon Sarah Roberts with an ultimatum with no clear answers to what happened to his daughter. Either she finds his daughter, or there will be consequences involving her child. Faced with this, Sarah plans a retaliation like nothing she has ever done before. No one threatens her daughter without repercussions. But when those retaliation plans backfire, people close to her get hurt, making her rethink her strategy. Then, the FBI ...

Överläkaren Erik Jensen försvinner obegripligt i kulverten under en nattjour på Sundsvalls sjukhus. Kommissarie Johan Axberg kopplar snabbt ihop fallet med psykiatrikern Thomas Hoffman, som försvann spårlöst på samma plats tre dygn tidigare. När Hoffman senare hittas brutalt mördad i ett skogsparti tyder allt på att han har hållits fången i ett par dygn för att sedan bli ihjälslagen. I både Hoffmans och Jensens fall har gärningsmannen lämnat efter sig en dominobricka.

In the conclusion of the three-volume time travel sequence, Jonathan Shade is sent back to 1926 to kill an upstart wizard named Henry Winslow. Henry wants to die because in order to achieve his goal of immortality, he must first achieve resurrection. Jonathan Shade and Kelly Chan are part of a larger plan playing out across time, and while Henry Winslow is a major player, there's someone else acting as the mastermind, and his name is Jonathan Shade.

Jonathan Shade's old friend, Sharon, shows up with the master of time, Chronos, to send Jonathan and his team into the past to find and kill Winslow. Jonathan and Kelly arrive in Egypt during the reign of King Tutankhamun. As they appear from nothing, they are mistaken for gods, but when Tut is murdered during a chariot race, things get out of control.

The world is sinking. Slowly, day by day, the continents are vanishing under the waves. In a city by the sea, a priest admits to himself that he has lost his faith. Lost and alone, he sets out to find his brothers. Did they keep the faith? Perhaps their stories will help him figure out his own. Gospels of the Flood is an audio drama starring Peter Wingfield (Highlander: The Series, Holby City, Sanctuary). Written and directed by Jonas Kyratzes (The Talos Principle, The Eternal Cylinder). Music and sound design by Chris Christodoulou (Risk of Rain, The Sea Will Claim Everything).