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Róisín Burns has spent years becoming someone else; her life in New York is built on lies. A figure from her Belfast childhood flashes up on the news; Brian Lonergan has also reinvented himself. He is now a rising politician, but scandal is brewing in Ireland and Róisín knows the truth...

Ever since the tragic death of his parents, Porsche's life has been a balancing act between attending college and bartending to support his younger brother and pay off his deadbeat uncle's gambling debt. When he witnesses a gang of thugs attacking a handsome young man in the alley behind his bar, he's reluctant to intervene--until he's offered fifty thousand baht to help the stranger escape. The stranger is known as Kinn, the second son of a notorious crime family.

„Misterul din Valea Boscombe” este o povestire polițistă scrisă de Arthur Conan Doyle, în care Sherlock Holmes investighează uciderea unui proprietar de teren găsit mort lângă un lac din Valea Boscombe. Deși toate dovezile par să indice un tânăr drept principalul suspect...

With Kant deposed, Porsche is installed as the new head of the Minor Clan, finally putting the conflict between the Theerapanyakul family's clans to rest... Or has it? Now, all Pete wants is to live a happy life with Vegas, Macau, and baby Venice. Unfortunately, Vegas has been part of this organization long enough to know that there's no such thing as happily ever after if they're still stuck beneath the Major Clan's heel. Yet, it may be possible to secure that happiness for his little family... if he puts his trust in the mysterious master.

Die Abenteuer des Sherlock Holmes (Originaltitel: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) sind eine Sammlung von zwölf Kurzgeschichten von Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Die Geschichten wurden ursprünglich von Juli 1891 bis Juni 1892 im Strand Magazine veröffentlicht, der Sammelband mit Illustrationen von Sidney Paget erschien am 14. Oktober 1892 in Großbritannien und am 15. Oktober 1892 in den USA. Im Zentrum der Handlung stehen Sherlock Holmes und Dr. John Watson, die seltsame Verbrechen aufklären. Dabei bedient sich Holmes seiner Methode von Deduktion, die ihn so gut wie immer an das gewünschte Ziel bringt.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories were published in the Strand Magazine in Great Britain, and Collier's in the United States. The book was first published in February 1905 by McClure, Phillips & Co. (New York) then on 7 March 1905 by Georges Newnes, Ltd. (London) and was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had "died" in "The Final Problem".

The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 short stories featuring the fictional detective. The story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories were published in the Strand Magazine in Great Britain, and Collier's in the United States. The book was first published in February 1905 by McClure, Phillips & Co. (New York) then on 7 March 1905 by Georges Newnes, Ltd. (London) and was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had "died" in "The Final Problem".

Pete has finally escaped Vegas—but walking away from him is proving harder than he ever imagined. The violence, the captivity, the chaos... it should have left nothing but scars. So why can't he stop thinking about the man behind the madness? Meanwhile, Porsche is spiraling. A photograph and a cryptic message hint at a devastating truth: Kinn's family may be tied to his own parents' deaths. The closer Porsche gets to the truth, the more uncertain everything becomes—including his love for Kinn.

Pete has been missing for two weeks, and Kinn, Porsche, and the rest of the Major Clan are left to assume the worst—if Pete's mission spying on the Minor Clan has gone south, he's as good as dead. The Minor Clan never take prisoners, and their cruel oldest son Vegas is especially ruthless. Little do they know Pete is still alive, chained up at Vegas's mercy. He doesn't feel like he's been spared a worse fate, though: He'd take death over being forced to warm Vegas's bed. Or at least, that's how he feels at first.

Dieses Hörbuch versammelt einige der bekanntesten Meistererzählungen des Autors in neuer Bearbeitung und aktualisierter Übersetzung: -Das gefleckte Band (»The Speckled Band«) -Der Daumen des Ingenieurs (»The Engineer's Thumb«) -Der vornehme Junggeselle (»The Noble Bachelor«) -Das...

Dieses Hörbuch versammelt einige der bekanntesten Meistererzählungen des Autors in neuer Bearbeitung und aktualisierter Übersetzung: Ein Skandal in Böhmen (»A Scandal in Bohemia«) Die Liga der Rothaarigen (»The Red-Headed League«) Der rätselhafte Mord von Boscombe Valley (»The Boscombe...

Some killers are made through years of systematic abuse. Some killers are the product of the societal misfortune of not being able to escape the worst portions of the lowest economic areas. Then there are the killers like Mercy. The rare ones. The ones who are born evil and are drawn to violence and the suffering of others with the same natural inborn instinct that allows any predator to hunt.

From the moment Dr. John Watson takes lodgings in Baker Street with the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, he becomes intimately acquainted with the bloody violence and frightening ingenuity of the criminal mind. In A Study in Scarlet, Holmes and Watson's first mystery, the pair are summoned to a south London house where they find a dead man whose face is a twisted mask of horror. The body is unmarked by violence, but on the wall a mysterious word has been written in blood.

In the sweltering summer heat of the Louisiana delta, internationally famous stage-magician turned FBI consultant, Sophie Quinn, is closing in on the man who murdered her sister. The River Killer. But just when Sophie thinks she’s ahead, a new player appears to make her wonder if all the progress in her investigation hasn’t been part of someone else’s game. Messages and clues embedded in the crime scenes of a new string of killings make Sophie question her own sanity and wonder if the ghosts of her past are much, much closer than she’d feared.

After years of being viewed as plain and boring, university student Eleanor is thrilled when the beautiful Cheyenne notices her and starts showering her with attention. Soon, the lines between friendship and love become blurred, at least for Eleanor. Until she realises that Cheyenne’s love isn’t unconditional … Years later, Eleanor’s life has changed completely. After moving to LA to pursue her dreams, she now lives mostly in isolation. Her days are spent locked up in her hotel suite, dreaming up revenge fantasies.

London, 1988. Young prostitute, Devlin Hunter is distraught when her best friend Roxy is found murdered, pushing her back into drug addiction. After a snuff film is uncovered depicting Roxy’s death by a masked killer, the police struggle for leads.

Life was good for Daniel until he grew up and saw his father for what he really was - a monster! The death of his girlfriend and family was more than Daniel Horwitz could take. The blame for his grief rested totally on his father, Frank Horwitz. It was time for him to pay for his crimes, and Daniel had devised a plan to collect.

The King of Bohemia engages Holmes to recover an indiscreet photograph, by means of an elaborate stratagem discovers the photograph's hiding place...

When Sir John Magill, the wealthy Irish industrialist, fails to show up at his hometown on a well-publicised visit, neither his family nor the Belfast police can explain his disappearance. Foul play is suspected when his bloodstained hat is discovered, and Scotland Yard is called in. With his characteristic genius for reconstruction, Inspector French evolves a gruesome theory about what happened to the elderly man, but his reputation - and that of Scotland Yard - will depend on finding out who was responsible.