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With followers numbering in the hundreds of thousands, a hot group of friends, and a famous boyfriend, the glamorous life that fitness influencer Cleo has always wanted is within her grasp. Then just before joining her boyfriend for a holiday in the mountains, Cleo and a young woman named Rebecca set off in a canoe on a deserted lake. An hour later, Rebecca is found dead in the water and Cleo has gone missing. When word gets out, Cleo is going viral, but for all the wrong reasons.

Victoria is raised in a crumbling house in England by her working-class aunt and uncle, until her academic brilliance gains her entrance to Cambridge. There, she meets her first true friend, Deb, a spacey aristocrat, and the girls create their own tiny bubble within Cambridge's strict class system. Until Deb disappears. In her search for her friend, Victoria finds an unlikely ally - a police officer named Julie. They travel the countryside, visiting sites of suicides, murders, and accidents. But eventually, Julie's emotional demands overwhelm Victoria.

ERSCHIENEN ALS BUCH, EBOOK & HÖRBUCH. Sir Arnold, ein reicher Müßiggänger, langweilt sich schier zu Tode. Seit auch seine Mutter starb, ist er alleine in seinem großen Haus im Südosten Englands, nur sein alter Diener Henry, eine Köchin und ein Hausmädchen sind um ihn herum. Zur großen Party zu seinem 40sten Geburtstags bekommt er überraschenden Besuch eines lang vermissten Freundes, SEINES Freundes Pasquale, nicht nur eine Jugendliebe. Eine lange Geschichte. Die Geschenke sind meist flüssig, teilweise überflüssig.

When Rosie and Jules discover a ground-breaking clinical trial that enables two women to have a female baby, they jump at the chance to make history. Fear-mongering politicians and right-wing movements are quick to latch on to the controversies surrounding Ovum-to-Ovum (o-o) technology and stoke the fears of the public. What will happen to the numbers of little boys born? Is there a sinister conspiracy to eradicate men at play?

Chi è Mario M? Scopri le sue origini, la sua storia, le sue avventure, il suo vissuto, com'è diventato l'uomo che è oggi! Cinque volumi per emozionarti, diversi stili narrativi, un susseguirsi di emozioni senza sosta.

Set in a near future America, the world is a bit different. Powerful houses run the politics, and hence, the country, from behind the scenes. Sworn fealty to a powerful house can bring the average person a decent paying job in a world where society is scrambling to hold itself together. Sheila, a smart lass from Tennessee, sees through this BS and is trying to open the public's eyes to this power shift.

Emily Lime and her equally palindromic dog Otto live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (zip code 11211), in a warm community of friends and fellow artists. Her life becomes more complicated when she falls in love with Marcus, a dog walker and fellow Scrabble nut whose father is Emily's shady ex-husband, who wants the lovable Emily dead. A mystery unravels, a valuable lost cache of paintings is found, and Emily's life changes in ways she could not have anticipated.

It begins with a chance meeting in a bar.... Temporarily homeless, Neal MacIntyre is invited by a charitable stranger to spend the night at his apartment. "I'm going to tell you something I've never told anyone else", Neal says to his new acquaintance. "I always thought of myself as an honest man. I would have said a man of principle...." And with those words, Neal introduces an eerie tale of betrayal that leads to murder....

It's been a year since Leo Stanhope lost the woman he loved and came closing to losing his own life. Now he is determined to keep his head down and stay safe. But Leo's hopes for peace are shattered when the police unexpectedly arrive: a woman has been found murdered at a club for anarchists, and Leo's address is in her purse. When Leo is taken to the club by the police there is a man there from his past who knows Leo's birth identity. And if Leo does not provide him with an alibi for the night of the killing, he is going to share this information with the authorities.

When Marcie met Jason Maddox, she couldn’t believe her luck. Becoming Jason’s second wife catapulted her into the elite world of high society. But underneath the polite, old money manners, she knows she’ll always be an outsider, and her hard-won life hangs by a thread. Then Jason’s widowed boss brings back a new wife from his trip to London. Young, beautiful, reckless – nobody can take their eyes off Keisha. Including Jason.

The Award winning short story 'The Cellist ' follows the story of a young musical protege Adolphina, as she attempts to evade the the clutches of the Gestapo in war torn Paris. Is she part of the resistance? Can she trust her mentor, lover and confidante Claudia? What dark family secrets has her Uncle kept from her?

Against all odds, Bobbi Logan, a statuesque transgender woman, has become one of Chicago's most celebrated hair stylists and the owner of one of the city's poshest salons. Then, her impossibly perfect life falls apart. In the space of a few weeks, the Great Recession drags her business to the brink of failure, her beloved ex-wife needs help in facing a terrible tragedy, and a hateful police detective storms back into her life, determined to convict her of the five-year-old murder of John Strand.

If you're reading this, you've likely thought that the world would be a better place without you. A single line of text, glowing in the darkness of the internet. Written by Ashley Lutin, who has often thought that, and worse, in the years since his wife died and his young son disappeared. But the peace of the grave is not for Ashley—it's for those he can help. Ashley Lutin has constructed a peculiar ritual for those whose desire to die is at war with their yearning to live a better life.

Decisa a cominciare una nuova vita, Ebba fa ritorno a Valö, la splendida isola della sua infanzia affacciata sulle casette bianche e le rocce scoscese di Fjällbacka, nell’idillio dell’arcipelago svedese. Vuole rimettere a posto la colonia che le appartiene e che non ha più rivisto dal giorno in cui, una vigilia di Pasqua di molti anni prima, la sua famiglia scomparve nel nulla, lasciando dietro di sé solo una tavola apparecchiata a festa e una bambina di un anno che vagava smarrita. Nessuno li rivide più; nessuno fu mai in grado di stabilire cosa fosse realmente accaduto.

Coroner Jenny Cooper investigates… A tragic accident or a terrible crime? When Flight 189 plunges into the Severn Estuary, Coroner Jenny Cooper finds herself handling the case of a lone sailor whose boat appears to have been sunk by the stricken plane, and drawn into the mysterious fate of a ten year-old girl, Amy Patterson, a passenger on 189, whose largely unmarked body is washed up alongside his.

El amante alemán, primera novela del poeta y narrador Julián Martínez Gómez, es un libro que divierte, emociona y sorprende en cada página. A través de dos historias paralelas que trascienden el espacio y el tiempo, 'El amante alemán' habla de la distancia, de la familia, del retorno a los orígenes y, sobre todo, del amor: un amor sin límites capaz de vencer cualquier adversidad.

Physical therapist Veronica Hawthorne isn't satisfied with her marriage to Roger, a military soldier. Veronica has recently discovered Roger's pastime, and it's putting a strain on their marriage. While Roger was deployed, he met someone, as well as Veronica.

Una novela de gran intensidad amorosa entre los dos chicos protagonistas, aderezado con la vertiginosa intriga que supone la entrada en escena de un asesino en serie y los extraños métodos que utiliza con sus víctimas. Todo ello enmarcado en el paralelismo entre la ciudad de Torrelada, brillante y espaciosa, y el barrio de Oseras, peligroso y empobrecido.

Catherine Hernandez's most gripping and affecting novel yet, Behind You is inspired by a horrifying chapter in Canadian history and follows fictional characters terrorized by a fictional perpetrator. Alma is a Filipina woman who works as a film editor for a cheesy True Crime series featuring the most notorious killers of the 20th century called Infamous. On the surface she seems to live a good life with her wife Nira and teenage son, Mateo. But there is so much left unsaid.

"Manchmal reicht es eben nicht, sich an das Gesetz zu halten." Vom Detective Inspector bei Scotland Yard zum Privatschnüffler innerhalb weniger Tage... Einige würden diese Entwicklung als Karriere-Crash bezeichnen. Ryan Branigan ist da anderer Ansicht. Für ihn gibt es einen sehr guten Grund, sein Leben in ruhigeres Fahrwasser zu steuern und statt Kapitalverbrechen aufzuklären, untreuen Ehepartnern hinterherzujagen. Bis ein seltsamer Kauz in seinem Büro auftaucht, um Ryan einen noch sonderbareren Auftrag zu erteilen.