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Em meio a uma viagem, Hercule Poirot é surpreendido por um telegrama solicitando seu retorno a Londres. Logo o famoso detetive belga embarca no Expresso do Oriente, que está inesperadamente cheio para aquela época do ano.

When prominent defense attorney Madison Lombardi drops dead on the street outside her office of a perceived heart attack, no one pays much attention . . . Except for her husband. When a second attorney, her law partner, drops dead a week later in almost the exact same spot, more people begin to pay attention, including police chief Wesley Johnston. Homicide detective Kate Gazzara, much to her dismay, is assigned what appears to be little more than a case of coinciding medical events. However, appearances can be deceiving, and Kate remains unconvinced by the notion of mere coincidences.

All Bob Hoon ever wanted was a good whisky, and some peace and quiet. But, when Hoon hears that his friend and MI5 agent, Miles Crabtree, has gone missing in the United States, he is dragged back into action once more. The hunt leads him to the Florida Everglades, and into conflict with the violent locals, the terrifying wildlife, and a Sheriff with a sinister agenda of his own.

In 1954, ex-escort Sunni Sinclair breaks free of Australia’s gangland, reinventing herself as a pub owner in a lawless mining town near Sydney. A champion of justice, she challenges societal norms, advocating for women’s rights and downtrodden miners.

After the defeat of Charles Fraction, things are going well for Matthew Riker. His relationship with Jessica has never been stronger, he has a team he can trust, and QS-4 is focused on making the world a better place. But when Riker and his team take a seemingly simple job to hand off a briefcase in a luxury hotel in Monaco, he finds himself up against a thief who has planned for every eventuality and is always three steps ahead. Things quickly fall apart.

Helmand, 2004: Afghanistan’s most lawless province, where nearly 90 per cent of the world’s opium is grown. Gangsters and warlords battle for supremacy in the lucrative trade, territories well-known, and fiercely contested. Well Diggers, an Anglo-Dutch NGO helping the farming community, comes under attack. One man is dead and another man is missing – suspected kidnapped, so head of security Ginger Jameson calls in his old friend Alasdair ‘Mac’ MacKenzie to help.

When detectives John Stone and Carmen Dehan, who run the Cold Cases Department at the 43rd Precinct in the Bronx, choose their honeymoon together, there are three things they are very clear on: There must be good steak and whisky, it must be remote, and they must forget about work, cold cases, and murder for two weeks.

Brad Kelly planned for weeks, set everything carefully in place. Then, he hit the Pioneer State Bank for $53,000. Will he kill to keep it?

Lonesome Jim Barkley had once been a town-taming law man. Now he was a man with a reward on his head, wanted for robbery and murder. The banker, Tade Wardow, knows this and thinks he can turn it to his advantage in a way that will also make Barkley money. Yet, for Barkley, there is another consideration, one more urgent than robbing Wardow's bank.

Earl Webb's telegram to General William Harding said it all: “Located John Fenner here using alias John Steen. Have hint he is planning Pensacola train robbery. Will try to pick him up before he leaves here. Please send requisition warrant at once.” That is, it said everything except the harrowing task of getting John Fenner back to Texas.

John Beckett's retirement plan had been simple: escape the perilous game of espionage and seek solace in the peaceful Portuguese town he'd visited in his youth. But fate, it seems, has other plans. What he finds in Sao Lourenco is a community paralyzed by fear and in the malevolent grip of the Silva family. After a chance encounter puts Beckett in the family's crosshairs, he is torn between the allure of a quiet life and the moral pull to help the town overthrow their cruel oppressors.

2003. Kabul has become a frontier city, Afghanistan's fledgling democracy struggling with crime and corruption as NATO coalition troops, gangs and warlords jostle for control. When the body of a British serviceman is discovered in the city's infamous tank graveyard, the Kabul Police reach out for support in their investigation. Alasdair 'Mac' MacKenzie, formerly of the Metropolitan Police, is seconded to the team.

Honolulu cuenta la historia de un hombre llamado John, que es enviado a Honolulu por su empresa para investigar a un empleado sospechoso de malversación de fondos. A medida que John se sumerge en la vida de Honolulu, descubre un mundo de corrupción, engaño y violencia. También conoce a una mujer llamada Fay, con quien comienza una relación amorosa. Sin embargo, la relación se ve amenazada por las circunstancias peligrosas que rodean a John y a la investigación que está llevando a cabo.

¿Qué haría usted si un día despertara amnésico en un cuerpo que no es el suyo? ¿Qué haría usted si cada vez que se quedara dormido su alma cambiara de cuerpo y se viera así obligado a ser, sucesivamente, un perista tramposo, una actriz bellísima, una niña solitaria, un policía mafioso, una yonqui reenganchada?

En la fachada del emblemático edificio de La Pedrera de Gaudí aparece colgado un cuerpo en llamas a pocos días de la consagración de la Sagrada Familia por el papa. Cuando los investigadores del crimen se encuentran en un callejón sin salida, el inspector Milo Malart —apartado del servicio por un expediente disciplinario— es reincorporado al Departamento de Homicidios para ayudar a aclarar el brutal asesinato.

¿Hasta dónde somos capaces de llegar si cruzamos los límites? Lis de Fez es una psicóloga diferente. Por sus cualidades, fue elegida para participar en un proyecto secreto que podría revolucionar el análisis de la mente humana. Pero eso fue antes de que una misteriosa mujer se suicidara delante de ella en un autobús y su vida cambiara para siempre. Ella está convencida de que la pesadilla que acaba de empezar tiene relación con el proyecto en el que trabajó, pero tendrá que demostrarlo. Y el primer paso para hacerlo es huir.

Jede Menge Action und Spannung garantiert der Thriller "Der Tempel" des australischen Bestseller-Autors Matthew Reilly! Professor William Race wird darin unvermittelt zusammen mit Soldaten der US-Armee auf einen geheimen Einsatz nach Südamerika geschickt. Er soll ein altes Schriftstück entziffern, welches wahrscheinlich den Aufenthaltsort einer Inka-Statue verrät. Die Zeit drängt, denn mithilfe des alten Artefakts könnte der kürzlich gestohlene Prototyp einer gefährlichen Waffe funktionstüchtig gemacht werden.

Oberst Morris Black hat nicht den besten Ruf in der Finanzwelt. Black ist das, was man heute eine "Heuschrecke" nennen würde. Er kauft Unternehmen preiswert auf und verkauft sie gewinnbringend weiter. Allerdings kommen immer wieder dabei, zufällig, wie es zunächst den Anschein hat, seine Geschäftspartner ums Leben, sobald sie hinter seine Machenschaften kommen und sich ihm in den Weg stellen. Ganz gleich, ob es sich um Entführer, Erpresser, Mörder, korrupte Politiker, Ärzte oder Geschäftsleute handelt.

Ernest Calvo, fill d'una família immigrant vinguda del sud d'Espanya, neix i creix en una ciutat industrial del Vallès Occidental, en la qual s'integra com el més català dels catalans. Mentre va relatant, amb nostàlgia i humor, la seva infantesa i la seva joventut -en què descobreix una cultura i una llengua que el fascinen i l'inquieten alhora-, es confessa autor d'una sèrie d'assassinats comesos entre el període que va del cop d'estat de febrer de 1981 fins als Jocs Olímpics de Barcelona del 92.

Tercera entrega de la Serie "Black Rock". ¿Cuál es la peor condena que le puede caer a un preso de Illinois? Ni la cadena perpetua, ni la inyección letal. El peor castigo es el destino a la prisión de Black Rock, una fortaleza de negros muros cuya localización exacta nadie conoce.