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Wentworth, Ohio: a small, friendly town where the Carver children bicker over sweets in the E-Z shop and writer Johnny Marinville is the only resident who minds his own business. On Poplar Street, apart from the impending storm, it's just a normal summer's day - with Frisbees flying, lawn mowers humming and barbeques grilling. As the paperboy makes his round, he is unaware of the chrome-red van idling up the hill....

Diplomatic immunity, n: freedom from arrest ... and submission to police regulations usually accorded by international law to diplomatic agents -- Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language From the most exciting writer of international thrillers since Robert...

Reformed jewel thief Jack Delaney was going straight - until he met sexy ex nun Lucy Nichols. Jack's in the funeral business and when he's sent to collect a body from a leper hospital, he finds it in Sister Lucy's care - and very much alive. Lucy's on a goodwill mission, hoping to smuggle the 'deceased' away from her dangerous ex, a Nicaraguan colonel with guns and goons aplenty. And it just so happens the colonel's also got several million dollars that could aid Lucy's quest to help mankind.

A classic Leonard thriller featuring Raylan Givens - the inspiration behind the hit show Justified. Palm Beach playboy Chip Ganz needs money - fast. He has spiralling debts, and his mother's gravy-train has just derailed. So he has a plan: He's going to find somebody rich, and take them hostage. With the help of an ex-con, a psycho gardener and the beautiful psychic Reverend Dawn, he chooses bookmaker Harry Arno as the lucky victim.

Two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together to confront a country changing beyond recognition. In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch, encroached upon from the north by the military. On the southern horizon are the mountains of Mexico, where one of the men is drawn incessantly in this story of friendships and passion, to a love as dangerous as it is inevitable.

Consider for a moment 55 words. It's an absurdly tiny number. No, it's an impossible tiny number. It's what O. Henry might have conjured up if he'd only had the back of a business card to write upon. You'll find murder and suspense, horror and intrigue, love and betrayal, plus distant worlds and inner demons. All in a measly 55 words!

Don't miss the latest book in the Arkady Renko series, THE SIBERIAN DILEMMA by Martin Cruz Smith, ‘the master of the international thriller’ (New York Times) – available to order now! AN ARKADY RENKO NOVEL: #3 'One of those writers that anyone who is serious about their craft views with...

Don't miss the latest book in the Arkady Renko series, THE SIBERIAN DILEMMA by Martin Cruz Smith, ‘the master of the international thriller’ (New York Times) – available to order now! AN ARKADY RENKO NOVEL: #2 'One of those writers that anyone who is serious about their craft views with...

A mesmerising tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is one of Stephen King's most beloved and iconic stories and it helped make Castle Rock a place listeners would return to over and over again. Suspenseful, mysterious and heart-wrenching, this iconic King novella, populated by a cast of unforgettable characters, is about a fiercely compelling convict named Andy Dufresne who is seeking his ultimate revenge.

The last time Florida motel owner George Moran was in the Dominican Republic he was in a uniform and people were shooting at him. Years later he's back looking for a girl he lost - and finding one he'd be better off without. But that doesn't matter to George while he's sleeping with beautiful Mary de Boya - only when he discovers his lover is the wife of a former death squad general in exile with mob connections.

Brought to you by Penguin. Jody Tiflin has the urge for rebellion, but he also wants to be loved. In THE RED PONY, Jody begins to learn about adulthood - its pain, its responsibilities and its problems - through his acceptance of his father's gifts. First he is given a red pony, and later he is...

Don't miss the latest book in the Arkady Renko series, THE SIBERIAN DILEMMA by Martin Cruz Smith, ‘the master of the international thriller’ (New York Times) – available to order now! AN ARKADY RENKO NOVEL: #4 'One of those writers that anyone who is serious about their craft views with...

Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count and rip apart language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable. When Frank is fatally stabbed, Lionel's world is suddenly turned upside down.

Rae Newborn is a woman on the edge: on the edge of sanity, on the edge of tragedy, and now on the edge of the world. She has moved to an island at the far reaches of the continent to restore the house of an equally haunted figure, her mysterious great-uncle; but as her life begins to rebuild itself along with the house, his story starts to wrap around hers. Powerful forces are stirring, but Rae cannot see where her reality leaves off and his fate begins. 

Don't miss the latest book in the Arkady Renko series, THE SIBERIAN DILEMMA by Martin Cruz Smith, ‘the master of the international thriller’ (New York Times) – available to order now! 'One of those writers that anyone who is serious about their craft views with respect bordering on awe'...

Auf der Suche nach der entlaufenen Nachbarskatze wagt sich Marie bis in einen alten und verlassenen Teil der Stadt. Marie nimmt ihren Mut zusammen und betritt ein besonders baufälliges Haus. Hat sich die Katze dort versteckt? Doch von dem Tier fehlt jede Spur. Als die junge Frau diesen unheimlichen Ort verlassen will, nimmt sie eine Bewegung wahr – und erschrickt: In einer Ecke kauert ein großer Wolf, der sie mit hungrigen Augen beobachtet. Vor Angst kann sich Marie nicht mehr rühren. Der Wolf reißt sein Maul auf - aber nicht, um das Mädchen zu fressen.

Nachdem Ivonne van der Burg, wie sich herausstellt, eine Viren und Genforscherin ist, dem Privatermittler Jan Hendrickson endlich die Wahrheit erzählt, wendet sich der Fall. Ivonne van der Burg hat Ihrem Mann Ronald einen Virus getestet. Dieser Virus verhält sich aber nicht wie gedacht. Ronald van der Burg verändert sich dramatisch. Er wird gefährlich. Nur mit Hilfe von Kriminalkommissar Martin Ziehkraut gelingt es, eine Katastrophe zu verhindern.

Actus, Ipietus und Lupites haben sich auf den Weg gemacht, den Zauberer, der das ganze Land unterjocht hat, zu finden und unschädlich zu machen. Auf dem beschwerlichen Weg treffen sie auf fremde, unbekannte Wesen, doch diese fremden Wesen sind nicht feindlich gesinnt. Sie wollen auch den Zauberer vernichten, da auch er vor den Völkern der Wesen nicht halt gemacht hat.

Die Geschichte beginnt in Altenthann in der Oberpfalz mit einem vermeintlich dramatischen Ereignis und führt den Schlösslbauern mit seiner Tochter Barbara nach Amerika. Eindringlich und anschaulich beschreibt Gitta Frank den Abschied aus der Heimat, die Überfahrt, die Pionierleistung der Einwanderer und den glücklichen Weg zurück nach Altenthann. gesprochen von: Sprecherin: Brigitte März, Schlösselbäurin: Claudia Kisslinger, Barbara: Gitta Frank, Schlösselbauer: Max Rix, Pichlmeier: Werner Müller, Sepp: Max Rix, Schaffner: Werner Müller, Verkäufer: Werner Müller.

Can you resist the depths of the human heart? It is 1958, and 17-year-old Landon is revelling in his youth: dating girls and even claiming to have been in love. He is a world apart from shy, reclusive Jamie Sullivan, a Baptist's daughter who carries a Bible with her schoolbooks, cares for her widowed father and volunteers at the orphanage. But fate will intervene.