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Tot nu toe heeft het Eddie Spinola niet echt meegezeten, niet in zijn liefdesleven en al helemaal niet in zijn carriere. Op zijn zesendertigste kan hij als freelance copywriter net het hoofd boven water houden in de jachtige drukte van Manhattan. Totdat hij zijn ex-zwager Vernon tegenkomt, van wie hij een klein, wit pilletje krijgt. Net ontwikkeld door een groot farmaceutisch bedrijf, vertelt Vernon, maar nog niet officieel geregistreerd. Een zogenaamde smart drug, aangeduid als MDT, die je energie geeft en je creatieve vermogens stimuleert. Direct merkt Eddie het effect: hij voelt zich geweldig en wordt superactief, zowel lichamelijk als geestelijk: zijn intellectuele vermogens zijn zozeer aangescherpt dat hij in korte tijd in staat is een verbazingwekkende hoeveelheid complexe informatie op te nemen en te verwerken. Met MDT kan Eddie de hele wereld aan en door een macabere samenloop van omstandigheden krijgt hij opeens een aardig voorraadje: als Vernon wordt vermoord, is Eddie in de buurt en kan hij de hand op een paar honderd pillen leggen. Met zijn scherpe geest en zijn briljante analytische vermogens weet Eddie snel veel geld te verdienen en in stormachtig tempo maakt hij naam op Wall Street. Totdat verontrustende bijwerkingen van zijn verslaving de kop opsteken in de vorm van blackouts, stukken tijd waarvan Eddie zich achteraf niets herinnert. En waarin hij weleens gruwelijke dingen gedaan zou kunnen hebben...

Durante un trabajo en un barrio residencial, el ladrón Luther Whitney se convierte involuntariamente en testigo de una escena espantosa: una mujer es asesinada frente a él, después de que su borracho amante intenta violarla. El disparo mortal es realizado por un agente de seguridad, encargado de proteger a su jefe. Su jefe no es otro que el presidente de los Estados Unidos. Para su asombro, Luther observa cómo los colaboradores presidenciales eliminan fríamente todas las pruebas del asesinato. Aunque logra escapar, no pasa desapercibido. Conmovido por esta manifestación de corrupción y abuso de poder, decide exponer al jefe de Estado. Se enfrenta al desafío de revelar la asombrosa verdad y hacer que la justicia prevalezca.

Naked Prey

'ANOTHER INSTANT COBEN BOLITAR CLASSIC' Michael J Fox For ten long years two boys have been missing. Now you think you've seen one of them. He's a young man. And he's in trouble. Do you approach him? Ask him to come home with you? And how can you be sure it's really him? You thought your search for the truth was over. It's only just begun.

Old crimes cause new murder in this novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning author, John Sandford. Before Lucas Davenport can find the answers, he will have to follow a trail back to another place, another time, and battle the shadows he discovers there - shadows that turn out to be both very real and very deadly.

The stunning new thriller from the New York TimesNo 1 bestselling author

Twenty years ago, four teenagers disappeared in the woods at a summer camp. Two decades later, everything changes... Paul Copeland's sister was one of the missing teenagers. Now raising a daughter alone, after the death of his wife, he balances family life with a career as a prosecutor. But when a body is found, the well-buried secrets of the past threaten everything. Could the victim be one of the missing teenagers? Could his sister be alive? Copeland has to confront so much he left behind that summer twenty years ago: his first love, Lucy; his mother who abandoned the family; and the secrets that his parents have been hiding...

Twenty years ago, top agents from the CIA and KGB banded together to bring down the Matarese Circle, an international cabal of powerbrokers and assassins whose sole objective was to achieve worldwide economic domination. Now the bloody Matarese dynasty is back--and the only man with the power to stop it may have already run out of time.... CIA case officer Cameron Pryce is hot on the trail of the new Matarese alliance. His only chance to terminate its ruthless activities is to follow the trail of blood money and stone-cold killers right to the heart of its deadly conspiracy. From the Hamptons to London's Belgrave Square, Matarese assassins have already struck with brutal efficiency, eliminating all who stand in their way. Their chain of violence is impossible to stop--until Pryce gets a rare break. One of the Matarese's victims survives long enough to whisper dying words that will blow the case wide open: the top secret code name for legendary retired CIA agent Brandon Scofield--the only man who has ever infiltrated the Matarese inner circle and lived to tell about it.

Een openbaar aanklaagster in Miami komt in gewetensconflict als ze de vermeende dader in een moordzaak herkent als de man die haar tien jaar eerder heeft mishandeld en verkracht.

Are your secrets safe . . . ? The blistering new thriller from the author of THE FACE OF DEATH and SHADOW MAN.

A beautiful woman walking into Myron Bolitar's office asking for help should have been a dream come true. Only this woman, Suzze T, is in tears - and eight months pregnant . . . Suzze's rock star husband has disappeared, and she fears the rumours questioning her baby's paternity have driven him away. For Myron, questions of fatherhood couldn't hit closer to home. His own father is clinging precariously to life, and the brother who abandoned the family years ago has resurfaced - with danger following close behind. Myron is soon forced to confront deep secrets in Suzze's past, his family's mortality - and his own . . .

First in a series of Emile Cinq-Mars novels, City of Ice portrays Montreal as a schizoid landscape, delineated by language, the playground of Russian criminals and American spies and a tough place for a policeman.

Comenzó con una promesa... A las 2:17 a.m., el teléfono suena en la mesita de noche de Myron Bolitar; al otro lado de la línea está Aimee Biel, una adolescente asustada que ha llamado al único adulto que le prometió ayudarla si alguna vez se metía en problemas. Pero la ayuda de Myron no será suficiente. Tropezando desde su cama en Manhattan, corre a recogerla de una fría esquina de la calle y llevarla de vuelta a un lugar seguro. Sin embargo, en contra de su mejor juicio, ella lo convence de dejarla en una dirección desconocida en los suburbios. Este es un error que lamentará, ya que el último saludo de Aimee desde un porche oscuro no es el final de la historia. Ella se da la vuelta y desaparece en la noche, aparentemente del rostro de la tierra. Impulsado por la culpa y la desesperación de su familia, Myron decide romper su voto de seis años y participar en la búsqueda. Pero su pasado no se enterrará tan fácilmente, ya que los problemas siempre lo han acechado, y sus seres queridos a menudo soportan las consecuencias. Ahora Myron debe decidir de una vez por todas quién es y qué defenderá si quiere tener alguna esperanza de rescatar tanto a Aimee como a sí mismo. Pero lo que no se da cuenta es hasta dónde llegarán las personas para proteger a quienes aman...

The modern master of the hook and twist, luring you in on the first page only to shock you on the last Dan Brown

Tia and Mike Baye never imagined they'd become the type of overprotective parents who spy on their kids. But their sixteen-year-old son Adam has been unusually distant lately, and after the suicide of his classmate Spencer Hill - the latest in a string of issues at school - they can't help but worry. They install a sophisticated spy program on Adam's computer, and within days they are jolted by a message from an unknown correspondent addressed to their son: "Just stay quiet and all safe." Meanwhile, browsing through an online memorial for Spencer, Betsy Hill is struck by a photo that appears to have been taken on the night of her son's death and he wasn't alone. She thinks it is Adam Baye standing just outside the camera's range, but when Adam goes missing, it soon becomes clear that something deep and sinister has infected their community...

When a sadistic hacker, code-named Phate, sets his sights on Silicon Valley, his victims never know what hit them. He infiltrates their computers, invades their lives, and lures them to their deaths. To Phate, each murder is like a big, challenging computer hack: every time he succeeds, he must challenge himself anew— by taking his methodology to a higher level, and aiming at bigger targets. Desperate, the head of The California State Police Computer Crimes Division frees Wyatt Gillette, imprisoned for hacking, to aid the investigation — against the loud protests of the rest of the division. With an obsession emblematic of hackers, Gillette fervently attempts to trace Phate’s insidious computer virus back to its source. Then Phate delivers a huge blow, murdering one of the division’s own — a “wizard” who had pioneered the Internet — and the search takes on a zealous intensity. Gillette and Detective Frank Bishop — an old-school homicide cop who’s accustomed to forensic sleuthing — make an uneasy team. But with a merciless and brilliant killer like Phate in their cross hairs, and his twisted game reaching a fever pitch, they must utilize every ounce of their disparate talents to stop him.

When she spots her ex-fiancé's photo on an online dating site, NYPD Detective Kat Donovan reaches out to him, hoping to rekindle the past, but her hope turns to suspicion and then terror as an unspeakable conspiracy is revealed.

A solid lie can build a successful life, but when the truth comes to light, everything can be lost. The Stranger appears out of nowhere—in a bar, parking lot, or store. His identity is unknown, and his motives unclear, but the messages he brings change everything. At a lacrosse parents' meeting, lawyer Adam Price is approached by the Stranger, who claims that Adam's wife has deceived him by faking a pregnancy. The man provides evidence to support his claim. After confronting his wife, she disappears, only contacting him via text, asking him not to search for her. Adam and his sons are devastated. The Stranger reveals more secrets, and soon after the murder of Heidi Dunn, a friend of one of the victims, Detective Johanna Griffin begins an investigation. She uncovers a group led by the Stranger and reaches out to Adam. The lawyer and the detective join forces to find Adam's missing wife. As they uncover more about her life, Adam realizes that nearly everyone around him harbors secrets, and the only way to discover the truth is to find the Stranger, even if it shatters his orderly world.

The heart-pounding new thriller from the bestselling author of the PREY novels

In the second Myron Bolitar novel from Edgar Award–winner Harlan Coben, a young woman’s tragic death spirals into a shattering drama of menace, secrets, and rage. Suddenly Myron is in over his head—and playing the most dangerous game of all.Once, Valerie Simpson’s tennis career skyrocketed; now, the headlines belong to a player from the wrong side of the tracks. But when Valerie is shot dead in cold blood and dropped outside the stadium at the U.S. Open, sports agent Myron Bolitar investigates the killing and uncovers a connection between the two players and a six-year-old murder at an exclusive mainline club. As Myron is drawn into the case—along with a dirty U.S. senator, a jealous mother, and the mob—he finds himself caught between a killer and the truth.

A woman from the past brings a whole lot of trouble... A brilliant Myron Bolitar novel from the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author of SIX YEARS.

Late afternoon, Virginia, and a woman is on the run. Her husband, a former US Senator named Lincoln Bowe, has been missing for days. Kidnapped? Murdered? She doesn't know - but she thinks she knows who's involved, and why. And that she may be next. Hours later, Jake Winter's mobile phone rings. An Army Intelligence veteran, Winter specializes in 'forensic bureaucracy'. The Pentagon, the FBI, CIA, Homeland Security - when something goes wrong, Winter kicks over rocks until he finds out what really happened. The White House is his main client, and the chief of staff is on the phone now. If Bowe isn't located soon, all hell will break loose. All hell breaks loose anyway when the blackened body shows up, barb-wired to a tree, missing its head. Just what did Bowe know that got him killed? And who exactly are the mysterious Watchmen shadowing Winter's every move? Can he survive long enough to find out?

The first Myron Bolitar thriller from the Number 1. bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix show Fool Me Once. Talent agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big time. So is Christian Steele, a footballer and Myron's prized client. But when Christian gets a phone call from a former girlfriend-a woman who everyone, including the police, believes is dead-the deal goes dangerously wrong. Trying to unravel the truth about a family's tragedy, a woman's secret, and a man's lies, Myron discovers the dark side of his business-where talent make you rich, but the truth can get you killed.

When Detective Lucas Davenport is called to the white-stuccoed house, he knows it's for no usual case. For one thing, the victim is Alie'e Maison: as models go, one of the biggest. For another, there are a few small complications. Such as the drugs in her body and the fact that one of Lucas's own men is a suspect. Such as the surprise they find when they search the house: a second body, stuffed in a closet. The whole case is going to be like this, Lucas knows - secrets piled upon secrets, the ground shifting constantly under his feet. But even he cannot suspect the earth tremors he is about to feel, when an old lover comes back into his life ... whose own secrets may be the most dangerous ones of all...

NOW A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER, AND OPTIONED FOR FILM WITH JULIA ROBERTS TO STAR IN AND PRODUCEIf your husband was murdered And you were a witnessHow do you explain it when he appears on your nanny cam?

Ben Truman, Chief of Police, heads down to Boston to follow the few fragile leads he has in the case. With the help of a retired cop who knows all the angles, he becomes embroiled in an investigation which has its roots in a sequence of deaths which began twenty years previously...

Un macabro asesino tiene a la ciudad de Hamburgo ente sus manos. El detective Jan Fabel se encuentra ante el caso más sanguinario y macabro de su historia profesional. Los cadáveres de dos mujeres a las que han arrancado los pulmones y las notas desafiantes de alguien que firma como «Hijo de Sven» son las únicas pistas de un asesino cuya motivación va más allá de la ira, acercándose a una suerte de ritual donde lo sagrado y lo monstruoso se dan la mano para teñir de escarlata toda la ciudad. Mientras Fabel avanza en la investigación, va quedando claro que se trata de algo mucho más complejo que el trabajo de un simple psicópata.

Dan is jeugdhulpverlener. Het telefoontje is zoals vele anderen: een dertienjarig meisje, vermoedelijk misbruikt, een adres en de opdracht poolshoogte te nemen. Als hij het huis betreedt en de tv-camera's ziet, de verslaggever tegen hem hoort schreeuwen over zijn seksuele omgang met een minderjarige en de politie hem in de boeien slaat, beseft Dan dat zijn leven voorbij is. Drie maanden later is Dan verdwenen, dood gewaand nadat de vader van het slachtoffer verklaarde de verkrachter van zijn dochter te hebben vermoord. Wendy, de journaliste die Dan voor de ogen van de natie wist te ontmaskeren, volgt op dat moment het verhaal van een vermist meisje uit een nabijgelegen wijk. Maar dan krijgt Wendy een vreemd telefoontje. Enkele lang verborgen geheimen komen bovendrijven, en Wendy vraagt zich af of ze destijds wel echt zo'n goed onderzoek heeft gedaan, of dat een onschuldige man het slachtoffer is geworden van een veel groter schandaal.

A man will do almost anything for ninety million dollars. So will its rightful owners. They found him in a small town in Brazil. He had a new name, Danilo Silva, and his appearance had been changed by plastic surgery. The search had taken four years. They'd chased him around the world, always just missing him. It had cost their clients $3.5 million. But so far none of them had complained. The man they were about to kidnap had not always been called Danilo Silva. Before he had had another life, a life which ended in a car crash in February 1992. His gravestone lay in a cemetery in Biloxi, Mississippi. His name before his death was Patrick S. Lanigan. He had been a partner at an up-and-coming law firm. He had a pretty wife, a young daughter, and a bright future. Six weeks after his death, $90 million disappeared from the law firm. It was then that his partners knew he was still alive. And the chase was on

Winner of the ITV3 Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read Award; shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey Dagger for Best Debut Crime Novel of the Year and the Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year Award, longlisted the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of the Year, longlisted for the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year Award.A twenty-nine-year-old man lives alone in his Glasgow flat. The telephone rings; a casual conversation, but behind this a job offer. The clues are there if you know to look for them.He is an expert. A loner. Freelance. Another job is another job, but what if this organisation wants more?A meeting at a club. An offer. A brief. A target:Lewis Winter.It's hard to kill a man well. People who do it well know this. People who do it badly find out the hard way. The hard way has consequences. An arresting, gripping novel of dark relationships and even darker moralities, The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter introduces a remarkable new voice in crime fiction. The second and third books in the trilogy: How a Gunman Says Goodbye and The Sudden Arrival of Violence - are out now.

Quinn Barry wants to become an FBI agent, even as she programs databases in the Edgar J Hoover building. While testing a new program her computer savvy turns up a mysterious DNA link among five gruesome murders.

The breakthrough thriller from a new talent in psychological crime ... Mark Nelson is a young police officer, newly assigned to the team of John Mercer - a highly-decorated and successful detective, and author of a bestselling true crime book based on his years of experience catching killers. Mackey is a legend in the force and it's a huge opportunity for Mark, who has dedicated his life to his job ever since the death of his girlfriend years before. When a man is found burned to death in his own home, Mackey's team is thrown into an investigation that grows darker and more complex at every turn. The evidence points to a man known as the Fifty-Fifty Killer. His targets are young couples, who he stalks and subjects to a single night of torture and manipulation, testing and destroying the love between them. Only one of them ever survives until dawn. And his victims include a former member of Mackey's team. Soon afterwards, a young man walks into a police station badly tortured and with his memory in tatters. He knows only that his girlfriend is still being held captive in the woods he's escaped from. But the team know that by fleeing, the man has sealed his girlfriend's fate. If they can't piece together his experience by daybreak then she will die in his place. However, all is not what it seems ...

Elena Waldren has a secret that she's built fences around for the last twenty-nine years and kept from everyone. Through her work with an aid agency, her fears about the plight of a young girl placed with a nearby family finally set her on a quest to uncover the past that she's pushed away for so long. A quest that leads her into the dangerous heart of Montreal's leading crime family, the Lacailles. The Lacaille brothers are at odds over their business aims for the future. Caught in the middle is the money-man holding the key to legitimizing their enterprises, Georges Donatien. But as much as Donatien could be their saviour, he is also the last witness to a murder that could bring their empire crashing down.

Hij bindt ze vast op bed en laat ze zonder eten of drinken volledig aan hun lot over. Wanneer nietsvermoedende vrienden contact opnemen, beantwoordt hij hun berichten zodat het lijkt of er niets aan de hand is. Zodra de jonge vrouwen overleden zijn, stuurt hij diezelfde vrienden een laatste bericht: jij hebt haar laten doodgaan... Detective Sam Currie moet de zaak van deze seriemoordenaar op zich nemen. Een van de verdachten is Dave Lewis. Dave heeft nog meer zorgen. De dood van zijn broer werpt nog steeds een schaduw over zijn leven. Ook zijn grote verloren liefde Tori laat hem niet los. Als zij in het ziekenhuis belandt, neemt Dave zich voor haar niet meer zo snel uit het oog te verliezen, ook als is hij intussen een voorzichtige relatie met internetdate Sarah begonnen. Dan blijkt Tori het volgende slachtoffer te zijn...

No sooner had supermodel Laura Ayers and Celtics star David Baskin said "I do" than tragedy struck. While honeymooning on Australia's Great Barrier Reed, David went out for a swim-and never returned. Now widowed and grieving, Laura's search for the truth will draw her into a web of lies and deception that stretches back thirty years... Also see: Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN [ACE] ACE #1 ~

Upon returning to her Southern hometown of Statlers Cross, Georgia, historian Gale Grayson encounters a mix of eccentric relatives and a dark, murderous scandal. Her journey back home reveals not only the complexities of her family's dynamics but also the hidden secrets of the community, blending historical intrigue with personal discovery.

The 8th April 1996 was a bad day for Karen Sharpe, the eighth anniversary of something so deeply buried she had hoped to forget it ever happened. Each year she tries to cope in whatever way she can. Most years she turns to booze. But this year that wasn't going to work. Sometime after midnight Phil Leech, her DS and partner, is executed in a military style killing, whilst Fiona Mitchell, his pretty 21-year-old informant, ends up on a South Pennine moor with bullets through her face and chest. Karen had been due to meet both when drink and memories intervened, preventing her from getting there. As the investigation begins, odd details keep forcing Karen to examine her own unclear memories. As she follows her instincts, and some very disturbing clues embedded in her own secret history, she must confront her past and act quickly if she is to prevent the seed of destruction planted eight years before from wreaking devastating and brutal consequences.

Barcelona. 22 cm. 377 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. See, Lisa 1955-. Traducción de Gemma Moral Bartolomé. Traducción de: The flower net .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 84-01-32733-4

Douglas Armstrong stevent af op zijn 35ste verjaardag. En aangezien alles wat tot nu toe misging in zijn leven, misging in een jaar met een vijf erin, bereidt hij zich voor op het ergste. Temeer daar zijn veel jongere vrouw Donna daartoe ook nog eens extra de aanleiding geeft......

Een Australische chirurg die vanwege het aanhangig maken van illegale handel in menselijke organen voortdurend in angst leeft, bouwt in zijn geboortedorp een nieuw bestaan op als criminoloog.

Politieman Harry Bosch wordt ingezet nadat in de heuvels bij Hollywood de twintig jaar oude botten van een schooljongen zijn gevonden.

Wanneer voormalig tennisster Suzze en haar man Lex een anoniem facebook-bericht ontvangen waarin wordt beweerd dat Lex niet de vader is van hun ongeboren kind, gaat hij ervandoor. Suzze, die op dat moment acht maanden zwanger is, vraagt haar vriend en vroegere agent Myron Bolytar om haar huwelijk te redden. Myron besluit te helpen, onwetend van de beerput die hij hiermee opent. Tijdens zijn zoektocht stuit hij op nog een persoon: zijn eigen schoonzus Kitty, die samen met Myrons broer jaren geleden heeft gebroken met de familie Bolitar. Omdat zijn vader op sterven ligt, moet Myron het contact met zijn broer juist proberen te herstellen. In de daaropvolgende race tegen de klok wordt hij geconfronteerd met de leugens die tot een breuk hebben geleid, inclusief de leugens die hij zelf ooit heeft verteld.

Beschrijving van wat mogelijk voorafging aan en volgde op het verhaal van de film "Casablanca" (1942).

Twee jonge paleontologen gaan op zoek naar hun verdwenen professor, die in Rusland sporen van nog levende Neanderthalers zou hebben gevonden.

Een psychologe en haar zuster, die privé-detective is, proberen dertig jaar na dato uit te zoeken of hun vader hun moeder heeft vermoord.