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Teil 9: Der schwedische Millionär und Kunstsammler Peer Johannesson geht bei einem Kanuausflug auf dem Skatelövfjorden über Bord. Wahrscheinlich ein Herzinfarkt. Aber die Leiche wird nicht gefunden. Johannessons Anwalt handelt ungewöhnlich schnell und lädt noch am Tag des Unfalls - ohne Wissen der Witwe - vier Männer nach Växjö zur Testamentseröffnung ein. Als drei dieser "Erben" tags darauf eintreffen, ist der Anwalt tot. Und das Testament...

Jack Reacher is back, dragged into what looks like a series of grisly serial murders by a team of FBI profilers who aren't totally sure he's not the killer they're looking for, but believe that even if he isn't, he's smart enough to help them find the real killer. And what they've got on the ex-MP is enough to ensure his grudging cooperation: phony charges stemming from Reacher's inadvertent involvement in a protection shakedown and the threat of...

Suburban wife and mother Elizabeth Gaines Ellis worries that she is somehow the cause of a series of brutal deaths, but no one will take her fears seriously except the private investigator digging into her past.

From the author of the Master Chefs Series, PULSE Series, DESIRE Series, SESSIONS, Barely Legal, The Blue Room Series, Saving You Saving Me, and the Protege Series, comes...HEAT! Bobby Cummings went to Paris to study at the same international culinary institute as his sister Taryn Cummings. Instead of taking it seriously as she did, he wanted to sample all the goods in Paris, especially the pretty girls there. Why not? He was 19 and the world was...

When the tomb of St. Tancred is opened at a village church in the English hamlet of Bishop's Lacey, its shocking contents lead to another case for eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce. Greed, pride and murder result in old secrets coming to light, along with a forgotten flower that hasn't been seen for half a thousand years.

Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) is best known as the innovator of the English detective novel, whose sensational novels, plays, and short stories were hugely popular in the Victorian Era. Today, readers enjoy Collins' intricate and suspenseful plots, and his penetrating social commentary on the plight of women and domestic issues of the time. Unfortunately Collins suffered from rheumatic gout, for which he took the opiate laudanum, and which eventually...

"Since leaving the Office of Special Investigations, Melanie Drake has cherished her peaceful, calm existence. Then a call comes from her former supervisor, Rich Patterson. He needs her back for a highly specialized assignment. An international group of billionaires is known to meet regularly for decadent dinners, and they always hire high-class escorts for the occasion. Infiltrating those meetings could yield information vital to national security....

Idealistic Nikhil, a wealthy Bengali landowner, encourages Bimala, his tradition-minded wife, to venture out into the world. Bimala's gradual political awakening leads to her attraction to charismatic Sandip, a revolutionary who stops at nothing - neither robbery nor murder - to achieve his ends. Their love triangle unfolds against the backdrop of the 1905 Partition of Bengal, during India's long fight for independence from British rule. This brilliantly...

Originally published in 1859, "Adam Bede" is the first novel by George Eliot, which was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans. Eliot was one of the leading British writers of the Victorian era, as well as a noted journalist, poet, and translator. "Adam Bede" concerns a small, tight-knit, and fictional rural community called Hayslope and the romantic drama that develops between four of its young residents: the title character Adam, a young carpenter, the...

« Il est glaçant, sadique, macabre. » Zachary Jeff'Ossen Ross, un tueur en série dans la même veine meurtrière que Norman Bates. J'ai un trouble du dédoublement de la personnalité. J'ai la conviction qu'on est deux à vivre dans ma tête, deux individus distincts. Moi, le bon gars, citoyen irréprochable ; et lui, ce psychopathe dont j'entends la voix et dont je vois le reflet démoniaque dans le miroir. Il me sourit. Il hante mon esprit...