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Adelhaid Berg-Böhmermann ("ABB") ist die Kronprinzessin der amtierenden Kanzlerin Margot Heinkel - allerdings nur vordergründig, wie sich zeigen soll. Denn der öffentlichen Präsentation (und der Wahl zur neuen Partei-Vorsitzenden) folgt unter anderem im Rahmen einer stattfindenden Landtagswahl ein extrem düsteres, komplexes - und von Heinkel erwartetes - parteiinternes Intrigenspiel gegen ABB, das letztlich zu deren inszeniertem Rückzug als Parteivorsitzende und designierte Kanzlerkandidatin ihrer Partei führen wird.

Berlin vor der nächsten Bundestagswahl: Die amtierende Bundeskanzlerin Margot Heinkel hat ihren Rückzug aus der Politik für das Ende der laufenden Legislaturperiode angekündigt - womit das Rennen um ihre Nachfolge eröffnet ist. In einem geheimen Treffen vereinbaren Heinkels innerparteiliche Gegner einen ersten Schlachtplan, um das Rennen um ihre Nachfolge auch ganz sicher gewinnen zu können.

Im Amazonasbecken ist ein Forscher der Royal Botanic Society verschwunden, der für das Empire 50.000 Kautschuksamen beschaffen sollte. Mit der Unterstützung eines vorlauten Dolmetschers und einer Gruppe von Nuaraque-Indios nimmt Irene Adler die Suche nach dem Wissenschaftler und seiner wertvollen Fracht auf. Neben altbekannten Gegnern bekommt Irene es dabei mit einem neuen, gänzlich unberechenbaren Feind zu tun: dem brasilianischen Regenwald und seinen mannigfaltigen Gefahren.

Ex-policeman Galbraith is caught up in mystery and murder in these two gripping, fast-paced detective dramas. After a long career in the Flying Squad, veteran copper Bill Galbraith is hanging up his truncheon and saying goodbye to the police force. He's looking forward to a quiet life on civvy street - but his best friend, private investigator Tommy Evans, has other ideas.

With years of hard work, I've made the Rainbow Dorset University Unicorns football team the pride of the state. My reputation speaks for itself, so the school stays out of my way, and that's how I like it. If they can't handle my sparkle, they have no business in my shine. Now, there's someone new on campus—a washed-up hockey player hired to whip the team into shape. The school had the audacity to cut my budget to pay him!

Street gangs. Glamour models. Console jockeys. With tensions between mankind and the other species of the Ministerium at an all-time high, the human citizens of Kapamentis will take whatever cybernetic advantage they can get. But when a string of patients wind up dead from infected implants, the next step in human evolution might not be as safe as it seems.

Thaddeus Cutter's life is on the mend. His detective business is growing, he's dating a sim-coder named Sakura, and he still has a roof over his head. If the dark, neon world of Kapamentis wasn't suffering its worst storm in decades, he'd say he had it pretty good. When a woman shows up at his door asking him to investigate her abusive husband and his shady business partner, Thaddeus assumes he's got an easy case on his hands. But when somebody close to the investigation is murdered, Thaddeus becomes the prime suspect, and he soon falls foul of both the law and the lawless.

After leaving my toxic boyfriend, I flee to my family vacation home in Swallow Cove. This takes me directly into the path of broody bar manager Brooks Riggins. He's large and intimidating, but with a protective streak that I didn't see coming. When my ex gives me trouble, Brooks tells him to take a hike. Not only that, he also claims to be my new man. Brooks is as straight as they come, but he's ready to step up and play the part.

Meet Thaddeus Cutter. He's a two-bit private detective struggling to get by on Kapamentis – a high-tech alien metropolis whose citizens consider humans little more than vermin. There's no sun, it rains all the time, and business is so bad he can't even afford the rent.

Aliens are stealing human souls to reincarnate them as slaves in another dimension. How do I know? I'm one of them. My people have perpetuated this atrocity unchecked for thousands of years. And you know what the worst is? We're helped by humans with authority. People you look up to. And more importantly, people you believe. You are promised paradise, you get hell. My narcissistic father is central to this scam. Well, I've had enough. It must stop. My friends and I are going to bring him down. Him and all the others.

Moscow, 1993. The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union have brought unimaginable change to Russia. With this change come new freedoms: freedom to travel abroad and to befriend Westerners, freedom to make money, and even the freedom for an underground gay scene to take root. Encouraged by the new climate of openness, twenty-one-year-old Kostya ventures out of the closet and resolves to pursue his dreams: to work in the theatre and to find love as his idol Tchaikovsky never could.