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Harry Hole három éve visszavonult a nyomozói munkától, a rendőrtiszti főiskolán tanít, kiegyensúlyozott életet él. Ám a boldogság vékony jég, amely bármikor beszakadhat az ember lába alatt?Amikor egy fiatal nőt brutálisan meggyilkolnak a fővárosban,Mikael Bellman rendőrfőkapitány személyes okokból Harry segítségét kéri. Hamarosan újabb hasonló gyilkosságtörténik, Harry pedig sutba dobva élete szerelmének és önmagának tett ígéretét belevetimagát a munkába. Mindössze két nyom van, amelyenelindulhatnak: az első áldozat nyakán lévő sebekben talált rozsda- és festékmaradványok, valamint a tény, hogymindkét nő társkereső oldalak rendszeres látogatója volt.Harry azonban valami mást is lát. Valamit, amimegragadja a figyelmét, és arra ösztökéli, hogy mit sem törődve a kockázattal újra a nyomába eredjen agyilkosnak, aki egyszer már túljárt az eszén.

Christian Thydell régi álma válik valóra, amikor megjelenik első regénye, A hableány, és ő egy csapásra országszerte ismert író lesz. A hirtelen jött népszerűség azonban lerántja a leplet Christian féltve őrzött titkáról is: a férfi másfél éve fenyegetőleveleket kap. Ezzel egy időben egyik legközelebbi barátja nyomtalanul eltűnik, a rendőrség azt sem tudja, él-e, hal-e, mígnem három hónap múlva a jég alól húzzák ki a holttestét. Patrik Hedström nyomozó összefüggést sejt a két eset között, de támpontokhíján a nyomozás igencsak döcögősen halad. Felesége, Erica Falk aki jól ismeri Christiant, hiszen ő fedezte fel írói tehetségét a saját szakállára kezd kutakodni, és tárja fel az igazságot, ami szörnyűbb, mint valaha is gondolta..

Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his 'counting house' when he suffered an agonising and sudden death. On later inspection, the pockets of the deceased were found to contain traces of cereals.Yet, it was the incident in the parlour which confirmed Jane Marple's suspicion that here she was looking at a case of crime by rhyme

Kinder verschwinden spurlos. Niemand meldet sie vermisst ...¯>Was wird er mit uns machen, wenn er zurückkommt?< Die Angst flackerte auf in den Augen seines Bruders. Sie wussten, dass bald alles vorbei war. Aus diesem Bootshaus gab es kein Entrinnen.®Niemand hatte die verwitterte Flaschenpost beachtet, der Hilfeschrei in ihrem Inneren war ungehört verhallt. Jahre später gelangt das verblasste Schriftstück ins Sonderdezernat Q in Kopenhagen. Die Materialanalyse zeigt, dass die Botschaft mitmenschlichem Blut geschrieben wurde. Die Entzifferung der Buchstaben führt Carl Morck und seinen Assistenten Assad auf die Spur eines entsetzlichen Verbrechens - und in Bereiche der Gesellschaft, die ihnen beiden einigermaáen fremd erscheinen 

Amikor Cassie Jensent beszállítják a St. Catherine Kórház intenzív osztályára, Alice Marlowe főnővér elámul afiatal és gyönyörű nőtől, aki valamiért ismerősnek tűnik neki, de egyelőre nem tudja, miért.De aztán Alice megdöbben, amikor olyasvalamit fedez fel, amit Cassie mindenki, még az odaadó férje és családjaelőtt is titokban tartott - ez a titok pedig mindent megváltoztat.Frank ugyanennek a kórházi osztálynak a betege. Bezártság-szindrómában szenved: ugyan mindent lát és hall,ami körülötte történik, azonban nem tud kommunikálni. Idővel rájön, hogy Cassie élete még mindig veszélybenvan, és miközben a rendőrség tovább nyomoz, hogy kiderítse, valójában mi történt a lánnyal, egyedül Franktudja a teljes igazságot. Senki más nem ismerheti meg - ő viszont nem tudja elmondani

Bereft of the three people she has held most dear - her mother, her husband and her daughter - Celia is on the verge of suicide. Then one night on an exotic island she meets Larraby, a successful portrait painter and through a long night of talk revealshow she is afraid to commit herself to a second chance of happiness with another person, yet is not brave enough to face life alone. Can Larraby help Celia come to terms with the past or will they part, her outcome still uncertain?

Agatha Christie's ingenious murder mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.Luke Fitzwilliam could not believe Miss Pinkerton's wild allegation that amultiple murderer was at work in the quiet English village of Wychwood - or her speculation that the local doctor was next in line.But within hours, Miss Pinkerton had been killed in a hit-and-run car accident. Mere coincidence? Luke was inclined tothink so - until he read in The Times of the unexpected demise of Dr Humbleby...

An old-fashioned London Hotel is not quite as reputable as it makes outWhen Miss Marple comes up from the country for a holiday in London, she finds what she's looking for at Bertram's Hotel: traditional decor, impeccable service and an unmistakable atmosphere of danger behind the highly polished veneer.Yet, not even Miss Marple can foresee the violent chain of events set in motion when an eccentric guest makes his way to the airport on the wrong day

Eric Packer, a fiatal milliárdos egy átlagosnak tűnő áprilisi napon kilép New York-i lakásából, és beszáll a csúcstechnikával és luxuscikkekkel fényűzően berendezett fehér limuzinjába. Ezen a napon két komoly küldetés áll előtte: világrengető spekulációstámadást kell intéznie a japán jen ellen - és el kell jutnia Manhattan túlsó végébe a fodrászához.Ericnek hol az amerikai elnök motoros kísérete, hol egy zenészbálvány temetési menete, hol egy erőszakos politikai tüntetés állja útját. A kocsi kényelmes bőrülésén egymást váltják a látogatók: biztonsági, műszaki és pénzügyi szakértők, sőt Ericmenyasszonya és szeretője is, miközben a limuzin az egyre bizonytalanabb jövő felé araszolgat.A könyvből David Cronenberg készített nagyszabású, lehengerlő filmet Robert Pattison és Juliette Binoche főszereplésével.

THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. GET READY FOR THE BIGGEST THRILLER OF 2018! What did she see? It's been ten long months since Anna Fox last left her home. Ten months during which she has haunted the rooms of her old New York house like a ghost,lost in her memories, too terrified to step outside. Anna's lifeline to the real world is her window, where she sits day after day, watching her neighbours. When the Russells move in, Anna is instantly drawn to them. A picture-perfect family of three,they are an echo of the life that was once hers. But one evening, a frenzied scream rips across the silence, and Anna witnesses something no one was supposed to see. Now she must do everything she can to uncover the truth about what really happened. Buteven if she does, will anyone believe her? And can she even trust herself? `Astounding. Thrilling. Amazing' Gillian Flynn `One of those rare books that really is unputdownable' Stephen King `Twisted to the power of max' Val McDermid `A dark, twistyconfection' Ruth Ware `An incredible debut. I loved it... a brilliant page turner' Jane Harper, author of The Dry

The ninth thrilling Miss Marple mystery As Miss Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine, she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever happened. Eventually, her interest was arousedby an old soldier's yarn about a murderer he had known. Infuriatingly, just as he was about to show her a snapshot of this acquaintance, the Major was suddenly interrupted. A diversion that was to prove fatal.

An elderly stroke victim dies without having arranged a will...Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity andthe means to administer the fatal poison.Yet, inside the hostile courtroom, only one man still presumed Elinor was innocent until proven guilty: Hercule Poirot was all that stood between Elinor and the gallows...

Agatha Christie's famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to 'get rid of' her estranged husband.Now the monstrous man was dead. And yet the great Belgian detective couldn't help feeling that he was being taken for a ride. After all, how could Jane have stabbed Lord Edgware to death in his library at exactly the same time she was seen dining withfriends? And what could be her motive now that the aristocrat had finally granted her a divorce?

Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernise the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse, she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairsIn fear, Gwenda turned to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts. Between them, they were to solve a 'perfect' crime committed many years before.

Az Egyiptomi Múzeum lépcsőjén, Kairó kellős közepén, Tomás Noronhát megszólítja egy vadidegen nő. A neve Ariana Pakravan, iráni, és nála van egy régi, kiadatlan kézirat másolata. Ezen egy furcsa cím és egy rejtélyes vers áll.A váratlan találkozás hihetetlen kalandokba sodorja Tomást, amelyek során belekeveredik az iráni nukleáris válságba és Albert Einstein legfontosabb, ám befejezetlen tudományos felfedezésébe, amely minden idők legnagyobb rejtélyéhez vezet. Egy szerelmitörténet, egy árulás, egy könyörtelen hajsza, egy spirituális keresés: mindez elvezet minket a misztikusfelismerésig. A regény a legfrissebb és leghaladóbb szellemű fizikai, kozmológiai ésmatematikai felfedezéseken alapszik. Az isteni formula megdöbbentő utazásra invitálja az olvasót

Unpleasant things are going on in an exclusive school for girls - things like murderLate one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion, while the rest of the school sleeps. There, among the lacrosse sticks, they stumble upon the body of the unpopular games mistress - shot through the heart frompoint blank range.The school is thrown into chaos when the 'cat' strikes again. Unfortunately, schoolgirl Julia Upjohn knows too much. In particular, she knows that without Hercule Poirot's help, she will be the next victim

For an instant the two trains ran together, side by side.In that frozen moment, Elspeth witnessed a murder. Helplessly, she stared out of her carriage window as a man remorselessly tightened his grip around a woman's throat.The body crumpled. Then the other train drew away.But who, apart from Miss Marple, would take her story seriously?After all, there were no suspects, no other witnesses... and no corpse.

At an apparently respectable dinner party, a vicar is the first to dieThirteen guests arrived at dinner at the actor's house. It was to be a particularly unlucky evening for the mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington, who choked on his cocktail, went into convulsions and died.But when his martini glass was sent for chemical analysis, there was no trace of poison - just as Poirot had predicted. Even more troubling for the great detective, there was absolutely no motive

To understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning. But where exactly was the beginning?Was it the savage blow to the back of Father Gorman's head? Or was it when the priest's assailant searched him so roughly he tore the clergyman's cassock? Or could it have been the priest's visit, just minutes before, to a woman on her death bed?Or was there a deeper significance to the violent squabble which Mark Easterbrook had himself witnessed earlier?Wherever the beginning lies, Mark and his sidekick, Ginger Corrigan, may soon have cause to wish they'd never found it

A dentist lies murdered at his Harley Street practiceThe dentist was found with a blackened hole below his right temple. A pistol lay on the floor near his outflung right hand. Later, one of his patients was found dead from a lethal dose of local anaesthetic. A clear case of murder and suicide. But whywould a dentist commit a crime in the middle of a busy day of appointments?A shoe buckle holds the key to the mystery. Now - in the words of the rhyme - can Poirot pick up the sticks and lay them straight?

Mrs Packington felt alone, helpless and utterly forlorn. But her life changed when she stumbled upon an advertisement in The Times which read: 'ARE YOU HAPPY? IF NOT, CONSULT MR PARKER PYNE'.Equally adept at putting together the pieces of a marriage or the fragments of a murder mystery, Mr Parker Pyne was possibly the world's most unconventional private eye - and certainly its most charming.

Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her. With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery,Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he'd overheard back in Jerusalem: 'You see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?' Mrs Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he'd ever met. Another Christie classic which takes a series of turns thatkeep listeners guessing to the end. Starring John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot.

Captain Hastings recounts 18 of Poirot's early cases from the days before he was famous...Hercule Poirot delighted in telling people that he was probably the best detective in the world. So turning back the clock to trace eighteen of the cases whichhelped establish his professional reputation was always going to be a fascinating experience. With his career still in its formative years, the panache with which Hercule Poirot could solve even the most puzzling mystery is obvious.Chronicled by hisfriend Captain Hastings, these eighteen early cases - from theft and robbery to kidnapping and murder - were all guaranteed to test Poirot's soon-to-be-famous `little grey cells' to their absolute limit.

Egy spanyol paleográfus a Vatikáni Könyvtárban az egyik legrégebbi fennmaradt Biblia-kéziratot, a CodexVaticanust tanulmányozza. Hirtelen zajt hall a sötétben. Egy alak ráveti magát, és elvágja atorkát. Az olasz rendőrfelügyelő, Valentina Ferro, ahíres portugál történész-kriptoanalitikust, Tomás Noronhát hívja segítségül a holttest mellett talált különösüzenet megfejtéséhez. Az esetet két másik gyilkosság követi. A nyomozás során Tomás ésValentina a Biblia rejtélyeinek kanyargós ösvényéntalálja magát. Ezen az ösvényen pedig eljutnak a Szentföldre, és meg sem állnak az Újszövetség utolsó titkáig.Jézus Krisztus valódi identitásáig. José Rodrigues dos Santos regénye valós adatokon,kutatásokon és idézeteken alapul. A szerző ismét bebizonyítja, hogy a rejtély nagymestere. Az utolsó titoktöbb mint regény: lerántja a leplet az Újszövetség legnagyobb rejtélyéről

A message from a dead acquaintance prompts a bus tour to an unknown crime...In utter disbelief Miss Marple read the letter addressed to her from the recently deceased Mr Rafiel - an acquaintance she had met briefly on her travels.Recognising in MissMarple a natural flair for justice, Mr Rafiel had left instructions for her to investigate a crime after his death. The only problem was, he had failed to tell her who was involved or where and when the crime had been committed. It was most intriguing.

One enemy spy knows the secret of the Allies' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthless assassin-code name: The Needle-who holds the key to the ultimate Nazi victory.Only one person stands in his way: a lonely Englishwoman on an isolated island, who is coming to love the killer who has mysteriously entered her life.Ken Follett's unsurpassed and unforgettable masterwork of suspense, intrigue, and dangerous machinations of the human heart.

A striking novel of truth and soul-searching.Returning from a visit to her daughter in Iraq, Joan Scudamore finds herself unexpectedly alone and stranded in an isolated rest house by flooding of the railway tracks.Looking back over the years, Joan painfully re-examines her attitudes, relationships and actions and becomes increasingly uneasy about the person who is revealed to her...Famous for her ingenious crime books and plays, Agatha Christie also wrote about crimes of the heart, six bittersweet and very personal novels, as compelling and memorable as the best of her work.

On a French golf course, a millionaire is found stabbed in the back...An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face downwards in a shallow grave on a golf course.Butwhy is the dead man wearing his son's overcoat? And who was the impassioned love-letter in the pocket for? Before Poirot can answer these questions, the case is turned upside down by the discovery of a second, identically murdered corpse...