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When teen martial artist Angela Farr took on the role of Solace's resident hero, she expected it to be dangerous but also doable. Drug dealers, gangsters, and a triad of Mafia families, she can handle, but when her friend-turned-enemy Trevor Pratt returns to Solace as ARSON, everything changes. Last year, Angela lost Trevor's game, and he murdered her stepfather; now, ARSON has a new game with new rules and even higher stakes. With the help of her friend Victoria and billionaire sponsor Ben, Angela must uncover Trevor's deadly game before the whole city goes up in flames.

One fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighbourhood escalates into tragedy. ‘Boys just being boys’ turns out to be true only when those boys are white. Suddenly, at just 16 years old, Amal Shahid’s bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn’t commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words, his art. This never should have been his story. But can he change it?

On February 22, 1853, 15-year-old Niels Nelson is prepared to be executed on Gallows Hill. The master carpenter comes to measure Niels for his coffin. The master baker bakes bread for the spectators. The messenger posts the notice of execution in the town square. The poet prepares his best pen to record the events as they unfold. A fly, Niels' only companion in the cell, buzzes. A dog hovers by his young master's window. A young girl hovers, too, pitying the boy. The executioner sharpens his blade.

Dunkel. Mystisch. Geheimnisvoll. Der neue große All Age-Roman von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Elisabeth Herrmann führt an den nördlichen Polarkreis. Vardø, eine kleine Stadt weit über dem Polarkreis. Der Mord am reichen norwegischen Waldbesitzer Olle Trygg verstört alle, auch Ravna Persen, gerade frisch als Praktikantin bei der örtlichen Polizeidienststelle gelandet. Keiner nimmt sie ernst, als sie am Tatort glaubt, Hinweise auf einen samischen Hintergrund der Tat zu finden - einen Strich in der Erde.

Enjoy three stories of romance, mystery, and the magic of Christmas! THE OXFORD STREET COFFEE HOUSE DETECTIVES Two young women and one young man lead unobtrusive lives working at a Victorian coffee house, for the owner Mr. McDougal. But when a famous painting is stolen, they must assume their other identities--for they moonlight as apprentice detectives under the employ of Mycroft Holmes. THE ROOKS OF MISSELTHWAITE - PART 1: IN THE FORGOTTEN GARDEN Lilias Lennox and her sister Evelia have lost everything. Their parents are dead, their brother is serving in India, and now their sole ...

An agent's work is never done. Hot-shot recruit Gaia Moore has just managed to close one case — and find her way back into the FBI's good graces — when the Lollipop Murderer strikes again. Every minute that passes with the killer on the loose puts more innocent women in danger.Gaia and Kim are closing in on the killer. But when all leads point to the same suspect, Gaia is thrown off balance — and into conflict with her partner. Because Kim's theories incriminate the one person she desperately wants to trust.

Catherine is dead. At least that's what the FBI claims. They say there's no point investigating the strange disappearance any further. Instead they want Gaia to stay in Quantico to carry on the search for the Lollipop Murderer.

Wally was adopted from a Russian orphanage as a child and grew up in a wealthy New York City family. At 15, her obsessive need to rebel led her to life on the streets. Now the 16-year-old is beautiful and hardened, and she's just stumbled across the possibility of discovering who she really is. She'll stop at nothing to find her birth mother before Klesko - her dark-eyed father - finds her. Because Klesko will stop at nothing to reclaim the fortune Wally's mother stole from him long ago.

The third novel in Elizabeth George's young-adult series. This genre-bending work combines Elizabeth's flair for crime and suspense novels with the paranormal. Late summer on Whidbey Island after nine weeks of no rain and fire season has arrived...along with a fire starter who soon begins tormenting the residents of this peaceful Pacific Northwest idyll with fires that escalate in intensity. Becca King and her friends, Jenn and Derric, are at the county fair when the third fire starts in a shed housing animals.

Ali Cross has always looked up to his father, former Detective and FBI Agent Alex Cross. While solving some of the nation's most challenging crimes, his father always kept his head and did the right thing. Can Ali have the same strength and resolve? When Ali's best friend Abraham is reported missing, Ali is desperate to find him. At the same time, a string of burglaries targets his neighbourhood - and even his own house. With his father on trial for a crime he didn't commit, it's up to Ali to search for clues and find his friend.

Die heiß ersehnte Fortsetzung von "One of Us Is Lying"! Es ist ein Jahr her, seit Simon starb. Maeve ist inzwischen in ihrem Abschlussjahr an der Bayview High. Simons Tod und dessen Folgen sind langsam verwunden. Da wird der friedliche Schulbetrieb wieder ausgehebelt: Ein anonymes Wahrheit-oder-Pflicht-Spiel hält die gesamte Schülerschaft in Atem. Jeder, der nicht mitspielt, wird bloßgestellt. Doch als Maeve an der Reihe ist, weigert sie sich, mitzumachen - das virtuelle Spiel, ausgerichtet von "DarkestMind", macht sie extrem misstrauisch.

Seine ersten beiden Einsätze haben den 14-jährigen Connor Reeves nachdenklich gestimmt. Will er wirklich weiterhin einen Job ausüben, der ihn regelmäßig in Lebensgefahr bringt? Colonel Black, sein Vorgesetzter, hält es für sinnvoll, Connor eine Auszeit zu gönnen. Er schickt ihn als Begleitung einer Diplomatenfamilie auf Safari nach Afrika. Doch was als vergnügliche Urlaubsreise beginnt, gerät bald völlig außer Kontrolle... "Bodyguard - Der Hinterhalt" ist der dritte Teil der actionreichen Bestseller-Serie von Chris Bradford.

Two years have passed since anyone has heard from Katie, and her last proof of life lays heavy on the hearts of those who are looking for her. An island is now her prison, in a land she knows nothing about. With her remains the last of Midas’s captives, but they and she are fading fast. Meanwhile, Jared continues the search for the last of his people. Having assumed the identity of Jack Warner, Jared has infiltrated Midas’s crew to depths thus far unreached. But he has yet to come face to face with the man who stole his childhood. With a cover identity as thin as a razor’s edge, Jared...

Young FBI agent Chevie Savano arrives back in modern-day London after a time-trip to the Victorian age, to find the present very different from the one she left. Europe is being run by a Facsist movement known as the Boxites, who control their territory through intimidation and terror. Chevie's memories come back to her in fragments, and just as she is learning about the WARP program from Professor Charles Smart, inventor of the time machine, he is killed by secret service police.

From the moment of his birth, Elliot’s life has been governed by fear of almost everything, even of his own fear - a beast that holds him prisoner in his room. The beast is kept at bay, though not eliminated, with a daily regimen of pills. But on Christmas Eve, a mix-up at the pharmacy threatens to unleash the beast full force, and his mother must venture out in a raging snowstorm to a store that should be only minutes away. Hours later, when she still hasn’t returned, Elliot sees no choice but to push through his terror, leave the house, and hunt for her.

Band 2 rund um die junge Profilerin Cassie, von der Bestsellerautorin der "The Inheritance Games"-Reihe. Die 17-jährige Cassie durchläuft eine Eliteausbildung des FBI – dank ihrer besonderen Begabung: Sie kann anderen Menschen ihr Wesen regelrecht am Gesicht ablesen. Und sie ist nicht die einzige in ihrem Team mit ungewöhnlichen Fähigkeiten. Ihr zur Seite stehen ein menschlicher Lügendetektor, ein Mathegenie, ein Spezialist im Deuten menschlicher Gefühle – und der Sohn eines Serienmörders.

Thomasine Lisowski has always hated her grandmother’s farm. A dark presence hovers over it. She’s thankful they moved to the city when she was younger, but now she and her parents are back for a funeral and that dark aura is stronger than ever. A ghost leads Thomasine to suspect there’s more to the farm than just her imagination going wild. Mysterious murderers and a cult-like mindset stain the Lisowski name. This trip to the country might be Thomasine’s last - because the family plans to never let her leave.

Ten years ago Jess lost her mother to the Magpie Man, an infamous serial killer who is still at large and planning to kill again. She's going to use her new platform as the star of a YouTube reality series to catch him. That is, if he doesn't catch her first. Jess' online show means that everyone is talking about her mother's murder case. But fame comes with its downsides. The whole world is watching her every move. And it's hard to know whom she can trust.

Milly, Aubrey und Jonah Story haben ihre legendäre Großmutter Mildred Margaret Story nie kennengelernt. Grund dafür war, dass ihre Eltern schon vor langer Zeit von der High-Society-Matriarchin enterbt worden sind. Da erhalten die Cousins eine Einladung: Sie sollen den Sommer auf dem Anwesen ihrer Großmutter auf der Insel Cape Cod verbringen. Die Eltern der drei sehen darin die große Chance, sich wieder auszusöhnen. Doch schnell wird klar, dass Mildred Margaret Story andere Pläne verfolgt - und dass die Familiengeschichte dunkle Abgründe birgt.

When Auto mechanic Sawyer Taft's estranged grandmother offers her a six-figure contract to participate in debutante season, Sawyer's first instinct is to run a mile. But then she realizes her grandmother's offer might mean solving the biggest mystery of her life - her father's identity. So she signs on the dotted line and braces herself for a year of makeovers, big dresses and even bigger egos. However, Sawyer doesn't expect to find a group of fellow debutantes with scandalous, dangerous secrets of their own.