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"Undisclosed Location" is one of the best financial thrillers I've read. Power. Betrayal. Blood. In the shadowy world of global finance, revenge is a currency that demands its pound of flesh. When the most powerful banker in America faces his darkest secrets, the global economy hangs by a thread. The head of the Federal Reserve holds the world's financial fate in his hands. But behind closed doors, he's fighting a more personal battle. His past is a maze of murder and corruption, and his ex-wife, now a powerful figure in Venezuela's criminal underworld, wants him destroyed.

Os verdadeiros culpados nem sempre são os que estão atrás das grades. No primeiro dia de trabalho em uma prisão de segurança máxima, a enfermeira Brooke Sullivan aprende três regras cruciais: 1) tratar todos os detentos com respeito, 2) nunca revelar nenhuma informação pessoal e 3) jamais ser simpática demais com os presos. Ninguém sabe que Brooke já quebrou todas elas.

Twelve-year-old Tommy Bolton has only ever experienced the simple life: hang out with friends, crush on a pretty girl and enjoy summer vacation. Maybe finish the puzzle on the dining table and definitely avoid bossy Mrs. Gleeson at all costs. But then he wakes up one morning and his mom's whereabouts are unknown. His father is acting...different. And there's a woman in the basement. She's scared, alone, and asking Tommy to save her. But saving her would cost Tommy his entire simple life. And he's not sure she's worth it.

As the hunt for a series of gruesome murders intensifies, FBI Senior Special Agent Bradford Lee Ashley feces his toughest challenge yet: a murderer with multiple personalities, each more sinister than the last. Gripping and unnerving, this psychological thriller will keep you on the edge of your seat as you unravel the twisted web of deception and delve into the fragmented psyche of a killer determined to evade justice at any cost.

Vier gasten. Een luxe chalet. En een perfecte moord. Twee Britse mannen zijn vermist in het skioord La Madière in de Franse Alpen. De twee mannen, broers van 22 en 24 jaar, die nog niet bij naam genoemd zijn, waren met lokale gidsen buiten de piste aan het skiën toen ze bij slecht weer vermist raakten. Er werd onmiddellijk een zoekteam gelanceerd, maar tot nu toe is van geen van beiden een spoor gevonden. De jonge mannen verbleven met hun partners – die angstig op nieuws wachten – in een vakantiechalet. The Daily Mail, 29 december 1998.

Voor de fans van M.J. Arlidge, Robert Bryndza en Lisa Regan. De vijfjarige Cally wacht met smart tot ze het geluid van de voordeur en de vertrouwde stem van haar moeder hoort. Maar wanneer de deur eindelijk wordt geopend, is het niet haar moeder die binnenkomt. Er staan twee rechercheurs op de stoep en ze hebben slecht nieuws. Haar moeder wordt vermist. Docent Annabel Braddock is voor het laatst gezien in de plaatselijke pub met haar beste vriendin Jennifer. Maar niemand kan haar ondervragen, aangezien ze kort na Annabels verdwijning is aangereden en in coma ligt.

La acción transcurre en un futuro indefinido e imperfecto, donde el encierro domiciliario, cubrirse el rostro con velos o comunicarse mediante pantallas son parte de la normalidad vigente. Dieciocho escritoras a bordo del navío El Mañana son secuestradas por un grupo comando, privadas de sus experiencias y de sus palabras: borradas en un instante del universo literario. ¿Por qué es tan importante silenciarlas? ¿Hay un lenguaje exclusivo de ellas? ¿A qué le temen los que están en el poder?

Hun gav dig et liv. Nu vil hun have dit. Abby ønsker sig en baby mere end noget andet. Men efter flere år med mislykkede fertilitetsbehandlinger og adoptioner, der er gået i vasken, ser det ikke ud til, at hun har udsigt til at blive mor. Lige indtil hendes personlige assistent Monica kommer med et generøst tilbud, der vil få alle Abbys drømme til at gå i opfyldelse. Men det viser sig, at Monica ikke er den, hun giver sig ud for at være. Kvinden, der nu bærer Abbys barn, har en ubeskrivelig hemmelighed. Og hun skyr ingen midler for at få, hvad hun vil have.

Sur une île au large de Cherbourg, un vieil homme et une jeune fille vivent isolés, entourés de serviteurs et de gardes du corps, à l'abri de tout reflet ; en aucun cas Hazel ne doit voir son propre visage. Engagée pour soigner la jeune fille, Françoise, une infirmière, va découvrir les étranges mystères qui unissent ces deux personnages. Elle saura pourquoi Hazel se résigne, nuit après nuit, aux caresses du vieillard.

The worst thing to ever happen on Hemlock Circle occurred in Ethan Marsh’s backyard. One July night, ten-year-old Ethan and his best friend and neighbor, Billy, fell asleep in a tent set up on a manicured lawn in a quiet, quaint New Jersey cul-de-sac. In the morning, Ethan woke up alone. During the night, someone had sliced the tent open with a knife and taken Billy. He was never seen again. Thirty years later, Ethan has reluctantly returned to his childhood home. Plagued by bad dreams and insomnia, he begins to notice strange things happening in the middle of the night.

When Caz steps onboard the exclusive cruise liner RMS Atlantica, it’s the start of a vacation of a lifetime with her new love, Pete. On their first night they explore the ship, eat, dance, make friends, but when Caz wakes the next morning, Pete is missing. And when she walks out into the corridor, all the cabin doors are open. To her horror, she soon realizes that the ship is completely empty. No passengers, no crew, nobody but her. The Atlantica is steaming into the mid-Atlantic and Caz is the only person on board. But that’s just the beginning.

Sebastian Pana is a sin-eater, a shaman-like figure who can absolve the dead of their transgressions before they move on to the afterlife. But when a tear in the fabric of reality allows hideous beasts to invade the small arctic town he calls home, Sebastian must wage battle with them the only way he knows how: by unleashing the power of sin itself. Thus, the stage is set for an epic confrontation between the forces of good and evil, in which a mother monster strives to save the dying land around her.

Lisa Power is a tortured ghost of her former self. The author of a bestselling thriller called Thief River Falls, named after her rural Minnesota hometown, Lisa is secluded in her remote house as she struggles with the loss of her entire family: a series of tragedies she calls the “Dark Star.” Then a nameless runaway boy shows up at her door with a terrifying story: He’s just escaped death after witnessing a brutal murder - a crime the police want to cover up. Obsessed with the boy’s safety, Lisa resolves to expose this crime.

(وكم من العتمة نحتاجها لكى نشعر بوهج الضوء)

Her peculiar great-grandmother warned her of the family curse. But that's when she believed in magic, seventh tribes, and petal people. Not anymore. Cassandra Cleopatra Collard is all grown-up. Grown up and in trouble. At twenty-five, she finds herself in the tabloids of the local gossip column accused of starting a strange, freakish fire, along with bizarre cultist behavior unbefitting to her bible belt small town. Cass has no memory of the incident, just a gash on her palm in the shape of a seven.

When Eva's husband Samuel doesn't come home from a boys' night out, she thinks he's sleeping off his hangover at a friend's house. So she waits. And waits... Eventually, he sends her a text—he's met someone else and needs a few days to get his head together. Eva is devastated. How could he do this? How could he do it to their children? She'd thought her marriage was rock solid. She tries to go on with her life as best she can. But then things take a truly bizarre turn…

What does a boy do when his imaginary friends never die? Oliver (Olly) Frampton fights back his parting tears. It’s all his fault they fought. He stares into the blackness, terrified his mother will careen off the mountain at any moment in the storm. Ahead, police lights streak through the sky.

Ob bei einer außergewöhnlichen Busfahrt, während einer Ehekrise, in der Zirkusmanege oder in einer Geisterstadt im mittleren Westen der USA, überall stellt sich die Frage nach dem Leben und dem Tod, nach der Welt dazwischen und dem, was uns jenseits des weißen Lichts erwarten könnte. Ruben Schwarz lässt uns in mehr oder weniger kurzen Geschichten die Luft anhalten, bringt uns zum Schaudern und Bangen, aber auch zum Nachdenken. Die Angst vor dem Ende ist möglicherweise vollkommen unbegründet, denn vielleicht ist unsere Welt nur eine von vielen. Prädikat: Spannung garantiert.

Lauren Brooks thought she had left her nightmares behind. Years ago, she narrowly escaped a brutal attack that left her scarred and forever changed. Her assailant vanished without a trace, leaving Lauren to piece her life back together while the justice system failed her. But when a string of murders begins to mimic the grisly crimes of her past, Lauren finds herself thrust back into a world of fear and suspicion.

Ashley und Patricia könnten unterschiedlicher nicht sein: Die beliebte Musterschülerin Patricia arbeitet ehrgeizig auf ihren Abschluss hin und genießt ihr College-Leben in vollen Zügen. Außenseiterin Ashley hingegen verdrängt jeden Gedanken an die Zukunft. Mit Drogen versucht sie ihre Kreativität anzuregen und der Realität zu entfliehen. Doch ihre Trips geraten zunehmend außer Kontrolle...