Duft und Pflege

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Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Abmessung: 13,5 cm
Von French, Tana

In ''Broken Harbour'', einer heruntergekommenen, halb verlassenen Wohnanlage außerhalb von Dublin, werden die Leicher zweier Kinder und ihres Vaters gefunden. Die Mutter schwer verletzt. Alles weist auf eine Verzweiflungstat des arbeitslosen Vaters hin. Scorcher Kennedy, der Star-Ermittler der Mordkommission, übernimmt den Fall und wird mit seiner eigenen, düsteren Vergangenheit konfrontiert.

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ON THE RUN

A young woman has been found, brutally murdered and left on gruesome display?in the ?safety? of her own home. The atrocity kicks off an investigation into a bizarre string of increasingly disturbing murders, all believed to be perpetrated by someone of unprecedented savagery and cunning.

As the city?s panic rises, civil attorney Teddy Mack is thrown headlong into the grisly homicide case?and into a world of dirty politics and corrupt justice, where deceptions are as deadly as a killer?s twisted secrets. Now, another woman is about to meet the same horrific fate as the others. To end a madman?s reign, Teddy must enter his maze?a place of unimaginable terror?and shocking revelations.

With his second thriller, L.A. Times bestselling author, Robert Ellis, delivers an explosive read with full-blown characters caught in a world stacked with twists and turns and an emotional intensity that burns white-hot.

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John Cray has a secret. For twelve years he has stalked and kidnapped women, setting them loose in the mountains of eastern Arizona, hunting them like animals, and taking their lives. He has left no clues. He is suspected by no one. Or so he thinks.

But now he has a problem. Somebody -- a woman whose name he doesn't know -- is stalking him.

She follows him when he makes his nightly rounds in Tucson. She watches him on busy streetcorners and in shadowy restaurants. She seems to know his secret. But if so, why hasn't she gone to the police?

Cray plans to turn the tables on his mysterious pursuer. He will become the predator, and she -- the prey. Once she's in his power, she will tell him who she is and what she's after. And then she will die.

But even Cray isn't prepared to confront the truth when he discovers it -- or to deal with the shattering implications of a past he had thought long buried and an obsessive madness he cannot control ...

"Stealing Faces is truly thrilling as well as chilling: I could not put this book down. Reading the first few chapters of this tale is like reading the climax for most thrillers and the excitement just keeps building. Michael Prescott knows how to keep readers' eyes glued to his pages.... I was completely hooked. Actually, more than completely hooked, I thought the lightning-paced thrills were going to give me a heart attack!" - Judith Flavell, The Mystery Reader

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The unlikely pairing of the psychopathic poet millionaire and his equally deranged hit man is doomed to terminate in a bloody conclusion. When it does their extraordinary story continues with the appearance of another wealthy lunatic who has his own list of victims. Into the journey of this manic duo arrives Welsh ex-detective Petroc Corrigan, hired to investigate a murder in France with a background of the daily machinations of the Bordeaux wine trade. He?s to encounter a collection of other difficult and dangerous characters and learn that might can definitely become right, and wrong can just as easily become right.

Ian Kennedy Martin has written several novels, three involving the hero of ?The Sweeney?, one of several TV series he devised. Here he has created a new police hero more complex and faulted than Jack Regan. Kennedy Martin is familiar with the novel?s setting of the French wine trade, having been both a Commandeur De Bordeaux and a Chevalier de Tastevan de Bourgogne.

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Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Von Slaughter, Karin

Als Special Agent Faith Mitchell vom Georgia Bureau of Investigation eines Abends nach Hause kommt, stolpert sie in einen Albtraum.Will Trent und Dr. Sara Linton müssen die Teile eines brutalen und komplizierten Falles zusammensetzen und einen Mörder finden, der nicht aufhören wird zu morden, bis die Wahrheit ans Licht gekommen ist.

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OVERVIEW:

This collection bring together all the Father Brown mysteries of G.K. Chesterton in a single, convenient, high quality, but extremely low priced Kindle volume!

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 ? 14 June 1936) was an English writer whose prolific and diverse output included philosophy, ontology, poetry, play writing, journalism, public lecturing and debating, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction, namely with his exceedingly popular Father Brown short stories.

Father Brown, a short, stumpy Catholic priest with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, has uncanny insight into human evil.
Father Brown solves his crimes through a strict reasoning process more concerned with spiritual and philosophic truths rather than scientific details, making him an almost equal counterbalance with Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, whose stories Chesterton read and admired. Father Brown was the perfect vehicle for conveying Chesterton's view of the world and, of all of his characters, is perhaps closest to Chesterton's own point of view, or at least the effect of his point of view.


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"Six people sat around a small table, seeming almost as incongruous and accidental as if they had been shipwrecked separately on the same small desert island. At least the sea surrounded them; for in one sense their island was enclosed in another island, a large and flying island like Laputa. For the little table was one of many little tables dotted about in the dining saloon of that monstrous ship the Moravia, speeding through the night and the everlasting emptiness of the Atlantic. The little company had nothing in common except that all were travelling from America to England. Two of them at least might be called celebrities; others might be called obscure, and in one or two cases even dubious.

The first was the famous Professor Smaill, an authority on certain archaeological studies touching the later Byzantine Empire. His lectures were accepted as of the first authority even in the most authoritative seats of learning in Europe. His literary works were so steeped in a mellow and imaginative sympathy with the European past, that it often gave strangers a start to hear him speak with an American accent. Yet he was, in his way, very American; he had long fair hair brushed back from a big square forehead, long straight features and a curious mixture of preoccupation with a poise of potential swiftness, like a lion pondering absent-mindedly on his next leap.

There was only one lady in the group; and she was (as the journalists often said of her) a host in herself; being quite prepared to play hostess, not to say empress, at that or any other table. She was Lady Diana Wales, the celebrated lady traveller."


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A gripping, action-packed short story available only as an eBook?from a master of character, crime, and urgent suspense.
 
Will Trent, a dedicated agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation for fifteen years, knows that there?s definitely such a thing as a cop?s intuition. Which is why he should have listened to his own.
 
While in an airport restroom at Atlanta?s Hartsfield-Jackson International, Will overhears a girl?s pleading, plaintive voice: ?Please, I wanna go home.? Something isn?t right here, thinks Will. He feels it in his gut. But he waits too long to act, and now the girl and the anxious, angry man she?s with have disappeared into the crowds at the busiest passenger airport in the world.
 
After a desperate search and with time running out, Will makes a call to his supervisor, Amanda Wagner. Will?s partner, Faith Mitchell, immediately sends out an abducted child alert. The entire airport will soon be grinding to a halt: Eighty-nine million passengers a year. Five runways. Seven concourses. Six million square feet of space that sprawled across two counties, three cities, and five jurisdictions. All shut down on a dime because Will has a hunch that he is certain is true: a girl, maybe six or seven years old, has been snatched from God knows where. And he intends to bring her back?no matter what it takes.
 
Includes an exclusive excerpt from Karin Slaughter?s thrilling new novel of suspense, Criminal.
 
PRAISE FOR THE CRIME FICTION OF KARIN SLAUGHTER
 
?Karin Slaughter is one of the best crime novelists in America.??The Washington Post
 
?Crime fiction at its finest.??Michael Connelly
 
?An absolute master.??Chicago Tribune
 
?Slaughter writes with a razor. . . . Better than Cornwell can ever hope to be.??The Plain Dealer
 
?Slaughter will have you on the edge of your seat.??Seattle Post-Intelligencer
 
?One of the boldest thriller writers working today.??Tess Gerritsen
 
?Move over, Catherine Coulter?Slaughter may be today?s top female suspense writer.??Library Journal (starred review)

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Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Von Patterson, James

Der Millionär Chaz Smith ist erschossen worden, mit einer Waffe, die sich in Polizeigewahrsam befand. Jeder könnte der Mörder sein, selbst die engsten Vertrauten der Polizei. Ein Fall für den ''Women''s Murder Club''