Inhalt: When a body is found floating in a canal, strangely disfigured and with multiple stab wounds, Commissario Brunetti is called to investigate and is convinced he recognises the man from somewhere. However, with no identification except for the distinctive shoes the man was wearing, and no reports of people missing from the Venice area, the case cannot progress.
Brunetti soon realises why he remembers the dead man, and asks Signorina Elettra if she can help him find footage of a farmers' protest the previous autumn. But what was his involvement with the protest, and what does it have to do with his murder? Acting on the fragile lead, Brunetti and Inspector Vianello set out to uncover the man's identity. Schlagworte:Englisch, Krimi Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 357 S. Standort: Zoa Leo ISBN: 978-0-09-956484-3
When you 'fix' people for a living - terminally - it's hard to get close to anyone.
Now he's finally met the woman of his dreams.
But there are two problems.
She's his boss's wife.
And Olav's just been hired to kill her. Schlagworte:Englisch, Englische Literatur, Thriller Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 172 S. Standort: Zoa Nes ISBN: 978-1-78470-382-0
Inhalt: Deacon Novak has returned home. The experienced FBI Agent knows that his move to Cincinnati's Major Crime Enforcement Squad will be challenging, but the greater challenge will be saving his younger brother before he becomes the kind of criminal Deacon is chasing.
Faith Corcoran has escaped her identity. Being a therapist to victims of sex crimes was rewarding, but her work with their offenders has jeopardized her life. Her move represents a chance to build a new life in the empty old house her grandmother has left her.
What Faith doesn't know is that a killer has made the house his playground, taking girls into the basement and murdering them. And now Faith is about disturb his fun.
With a murderer focused on her, Faith is going to have to put her trust in Deacon if she's going to survive. Because this killer is always closer than she thinks....
The first in a brand new series and Karen Rose at her tense, tantalising and thrilling best. Schlagworte:Englisch, Englische Literatur, Thriller Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 690 Seiten Standort: Zoa Ros ISBN: 978-0-7553-8998-8
Inhalt: Sasha Riggs is a reclusive artist, haunted by vivid dreams that she turns into extraordinary paintings. Desperate to understand her visions, she finds herself drawn to the Greek island of Corfu.
She has only just arrived when she encounters Bran Killian, an Irish magician with a warm charisma and secrets dancing in his eyes. Sasha has never met Bran before, but she knows him only too well - because this is the man from her dreams. The man she seems fated to be with...if she can find the courage to accept who she really is.
Sasha soon discovers that four other strangers have been lured to the island. Like Bran, they are all searching for a mysterious jewel known as the fire star - before it falls into the wrong hands. Together, they might just succeed. But first they must learn to trust one another, and reveal their deepest secrets.
On the sun-drenched island of Corfu, love and magic are sparked into life. And for Sasha, nothing will ever be the same again. Schlagworte:Englisch, Englische Literatur, Liebe Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 352 Seiten Standort: Zoa Rob ISBN: 978-0-349-40781-4
Inhalt: New York's Lombardo's Steak House is famous for three reasons - the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police's fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hit. Seated at a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad-boy. In the chaos, he accidentally captures a key piece of evidence that lands him in the middle of an all-out war between Italian and Russian mafia forces. NYPD captains, district attorneys, mayoral candidates, media kingpins, and one shockingly beautiful magazine editor are all pushing their own agendas - on both sides of the law. Back off - or die - is the clear message Nick receives as he investigates for a story of his own. Heedless, and perhaps in love with his beautiful editor, Nick endures humiliation, threats, violence, and worse in a thriller that overturns every expectation and finishes with the kind of flourish only James Patterson knows. Schlagworte:Englisch, Englische Literatur, Spannung Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 484 Seiten Standort: Zoa Pat ISBN: 978-0-09-952534-9
Inhalt: Leigh doesn't like to talk about her sister.
About the night that tore them apart.
About what they did.
But someone else is about to.
How far will Leigh go to protect her family? Schlagworte:Englisch, Englische Literatur, Krimi Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 458 Seiten Standort: Zoa Sla ISBN: 978-0-00-830355-6
Night is falling in the West Country as murder detective Jack Caffrey arrives to interview the distraught victim of a car-jacking.
What he hears horrifies him. The car was taken by force, and on the back seat was a passenger. An eleven-year-old girl. Who is still missing.
Before long the jacker starts to communicate with the police. And Caffrey becomes certain that he is planning to take another car. And another child.
Who is the car-jacker? How is he choosing his targets? And - most urgent of all - can Caffrey find where the child has been hidden?
Before it's too late ... Schlagworte:Englisch, Englische Literatur, Thriller Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 558 Seiten Standort: Zoa Hay ISBN: 978-0-553-82435-3
Inhalt: Set in seventeenth-century France, against a backdrop of witch trials, regicide and religious frenzy, this is the story of Juliette, one-time actress and rope-dancer, who is forced by circumstance to abandon the travelling life and seek refuge among the sisters of the remote abbey of Sainte Marie-de-la-mer. Schlagworte:Krimi Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 429 S. Standort: Zoa Har ISBN: 978-0-385-60364-5
Anchor House is the coastal home where Naomi and her husband raised their two girls. Now widowed, Naomi is building a new life alone, but the arrival of Ellis next door is bringing some long-awaited fun back too.
Naomi's daughters are very different: Martha is determined and driven like her father, while Willow is a free spirit. The three women have always been close, but that doesn't mean they don't have secrets of their own. There are things Naomi has kept from her girls, like the fact that her marriage to their father wasn't quite what it seemed... Schlagworte:Drama Schicksal, Englisch, Englische Literatur, Familie Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 439 Seiten Standort: Zoa Jam ISBN: 978-0-00-841373-6
Inhalt: Discovering that her naive aunt Philomena is being swindled by a con man, financial planner Ariana Warfield enlists the assistance of the handsome Lucian Hawk to unmask the fraud, never expecting a passion that could change her life forever. Reprint. Schlagworte:Englisch, Liebe Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 218 S. Standort: Zoa Kre ISBN: 978-0-373-80694-2
Inhalt: It's just a voice plucked from the air: 'The American wants a hundred million dollars'.
For what? Who from? It's 1996, and the Soviets are long gone. But now there's a new enemy. In an apartment in Hamburg, a group of smartly-dressed young Saudis are planning something big.
In the morning they gave Reacher a medal, and in the afternoon they sent him back to school.
Jack Reacher is fresh off a secret mission. The Army pats him on the back and sends him to a school with only three students: Reacher, an FBI agent, and a CIA analyst. Their assignment? To find that American. And what he's selling. And to whom. There is serious shit going on, signs of a world gone mad. Schlagworte:Englisch, Englische Literatur, Thriller Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 496 Standort: Zoa Chi ISBN: 978-0-85750-271-1
Inhalt: In this dramatic story E. M. Forster depicts, with sympathy and discernment, the complicated oriental reaction to British rule in India, and reveals the conflict of temperament and tradition involved in that relationship. Schlagworte:Indien, SL, Spannung Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 362 S. Standort: Zoa For ISBN: 978-0-14-043258-9
Inhalt: Imagine the sexiest man you can think of. He's a walking stag weekend. He's a funny, disrespectful, fast, confident, irreverent pub crawl. He is also completely unscrupulous. He's about to destroy Connie's peace of mind, her plan for living happily ever after with her loving husband Luke. What will happen if her husband finds out? What will happen if he doesn't? Connie doesn't know the answers ... yet. Schlagworte:Englisch, Englische Literatur, Erotik Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 365 S. Standort: Zoa Par ISBN: 978-0-14-029065-3
Inhalt: Lexi wakes up in a hospital bed after a car accident, thinking it's 2004 and she's a twenty-five-year old with crooked teeth and a disastrous love life.But, to her disbelief, she learns it's actually 2007 - she's twenty-eight, her teeth are straight, she's the boss of her department - and she's married! To a good-looking millionaire! How on earth did she land the dream life??!
She can't believe her luck - especially when she sees her stunning new home. She's sure she'll have a fantastic marriage once she gets to know her husband again. He's drawn up a 'manual of our marriage', which should help.
But as she learns more about her new self, chinks start to appear in the perfect life. All her old colleagues hate her. A rival is after her job. Then a dishevelled, sexy guy turns up... and lands a new bombshell. Schlagworte:Englisch, Liebe Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 443 S. Standort: Zoa Kin ISBN: 978-0-552-77527-4
Inhalt: Perfect for fans of James Patterson and Karin Slaughter, this is the second gripping instalment of the Sacramento series from Sunday Times bestseller Karen Rose. An explosive crime thriller, Say No More will keep you gripped until the final page.
If they ever catch you, say nothing. Admit nothing. Never tell.
Mercy Callahan never thought she'd be able to talk about her past. When she arrives in Sacramento to make peace with her brother Gideon, and to help find the brutal cult that took away her childhood, she is finally ready to talk. But when Ephraim Burton - the man who made her life a living hell - follows her there, she realises she might never be safe.
Rafe Sokolov would do anything to have Mercy back in his life and would go to any length to protect her. But when it becomes apparent that Ephraim is more determined than ever to get Mercy back, even Rafe might not be able to stop the trail of destruction he leaves in his wake. As Ephraim draws near, it's clear it's not just Mercy who is in danger; those closest to her are firmly in his sights.
Will Mercy sacrifice herself to help bring Ephraim down? Or will he finally get what he's always wanted... Schlagworte:Englische Literatur, Thriller Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 583 Seiten Standort: Zoa Ros ISBN: 978-1-4722-8342-9
Inhalt: Auf der Suche nach dem Mörder ihrer Schwester ist MacKayla Lane in eine von Dämonen bestimmte Parallelwelt geraten. Nun muss sie endlich das mächtige, fleischgewordene Buch vernichten, um das Vordringen der Monster in die reale Welt aufzuhalten. Schlagworte:Englisch, Mystery Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 593 S. Standort: Zoa Mon
Inhalt: Marjorie Hardy has three assets - brains, courage and beauty - but this isn't nearly enough, she discovers, when she falls in love with Robert MacLaren, heir to a Scottish whisky empire. Her family is poor and her accent and upbringing are totally wrong for Robert's calculating stepmother. Schlagworte:Frauen Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 538 S. Standort: Zoa Swi ISBN: 978-0-7515-1919-8
Inhalt: She knows how many miles lie between her new home in New York and her new boyfriend Sam in London.
She knows her employer is a good man and she knows his wife is keeping a secret from him.
What Lou doesn't know is she's about to meet someone who's going to turn her whole life upside down.
Because Josh will remind her so much of a man she used to know that it'll hurt.
Lou won't know what to do next, but she knows that whatever she chooses is going to change everything. Schlagworte:Liebe Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 472 Seiten Standort: Zoa Moy ISBN: 978-0-7181-8319-6
Inhalt: Bruno Courreges is Chief of Police of the lovely town of St Denis in the Dordogne. His main wish is to keep the local people safe and his town free from crime. But crime has a way of finding its way to him.
For thirty years, Bruno's boss, Chief of Detectives Jalipeau, known as J-J, has been obsessed with his first case. It was never solved and Bruno knows that this failure continues to haunt J-J. A young male body was found in the woods near St Denis and never identified. For all these years, J-J has kept the skull as a reminder. He calls him 'Oscar'. Schlagworte:Englische Literatur, Krimi Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 339 Seiten Standort: Zoa Wal ISBN: 978-1-78747-776-6
Inhalt: Celebrated by The Times as one of the 50 Greatest Crime Writers, Donna Leon brings Venice to life in the twenty-second Brunetti novel of this bestselling series, where our detective must uncover the mystery.
When making routine enquiries into a possible bribery case that could embarrass the mayor - a humiliation Vice-Questore Patta is very keen to avoid - Commissario Brunetti receives a call from his wife, Paola, who is evidently very upset. The middle-aged deaf mute with the mental age of a child who helped out at the Brunetti's dry cleaners has been found dead - an 'accidental' overdose of his mother's sleeping pills - and Paola is distraught by the news. To the neighbourhood he was just the 'boy' who helped out, but nobody knew much about him - not even his name. That a soul could have lived such a joyless life is too much for Paola to bear, and she asks Guido if he can find out what happened. Schlagworte:Englische Literatur, Krimi Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 342 Seiten Standort: Zoa Leo ISBN: 978-0-09-958498-8
Inhalt: The One Plus One is the beautiful, poignant and utterly compelling new novel by the internationally bestselling author Jojo Moyes.
One single mum. With two jobs and two children, Jess Thomas does her best day after day. But it's hard on your own. And sometimes you take risks you shouldn't. Because you have to...
One chaotic family. Jess' gifted, quirky daughter Tanzie is brilliant with numbers, but without a helping hand she'll never get the chance to shine. And Nicky, Jess' teenage stepson, can't fight the bullies alone. Sometimes Jess feels like they're sinking...
One handsome stranger. Into their lives comes Ed Nicholls, a man whose life is in chaos, and who is running from a deeply uncertain future. But he has time on his hands. He knows what it's like to be lonely. And he wants to help...
One unexpected love story. Schlagworte:Buch-Patenschaft 2016, Liebe Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 537 S. Standort: Zoa Moy ISBN: 978-1-4059-1818-3
Inhalt: Trevor Benson never intended to move back to New Bern, North Carolina. But when a mortar blast outside the hospital where he worked as an orthopaedic surgeon sent him home from Afghanistan with devastating injuries, he comes to regroup in the dilapidated cabin inherited from his grandfather.
Trevor isn't prepared to fall in love, yet from their very first encounter, Trevor feels a deep connection with deputy sheriff Natalie Masterson. Though she seems to reciprocate his feelings, Natalie remains frustratingly distant.
Further complicating his stay is the presence of a sullen teenage girl, Callie. Claiming to be 17, she works at the local store and keeps to herself. Discovering that she was once befriended by his grandfather, Trevor hopes Callie can shed light on the mysterious circumstances of his grandfather's death, but she offers few clues - until a crisis triggers a race that will uncover the true nature of Callie's past. Schlagworte:Englisch, Englische Literatur, Liebe Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 368 Seiten Standort: Zoa Spa ISBN: 978-0-7515-8081-5
Inhalt: The glamorous capital city of Italy is brought to startling life in The Rome Affair, a compelling summer novel by Karen Swan.
1974 and Elena Damiani lives a gilded life. Born to wealth and a noted beauty, no door is closed to her, no man can resist her. At twenty-six, she is already onto her third husband when she meets her love match. But he is the one man she can never have, and all the beauty and money in the world can't change it.
2017 and Francesca Hackett is living la dolce vita in Rome, leading tourist groups around the Eternal City and forgetting the ghosts she left behind in London. When she finds a stolen designer handbag in her dustbin and returns it, she is brought into the orbit of her grand neighbour who lives across the piazza - famed socialite Viscontessa Elena dei Damiani Pignatelli della Mirandola. Though the purse is stolen, Elena greets the return of the bag with exultation for it contains an unopened letter written by her husband on his deathbed, twelve years earlier.
Mutually intrigued by each other, the two women agree to collaborate on a project, with Cesca interviewing Elena for her memoirs. As summer unfurls, Elena tells her sensational stories, leaving Cesca in her thrall. But when a priceless diamond ring found in an ancient tunnel below the city streets is ascribed to Elena, Cesca begins to suspect a shocking secret at the heart of Elena's life. Schlagworte:Englisch, Englische Literatur, Liebe Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 480 Seiten Standort: Zoa Swa ISBN: 978-1-5098-3802-8
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