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The Zero is a groundbreaking novel, a darkly comic snapshot of our times that is already being compared to the works of Franz Kafka and Joseph Heller. From its opening scene—when hero cop Brian Remy wakes up to find he's shot himself in the head—novelist Jess Walter takes us on a harrowing...

Cat in an Alien X-Ray takes the Las Vegas gang on a science-fictional roller-coaster ride, as Midnight Louie, feline PI, and company encounter UFO enthusiasts, conspiracy nuts who are too bizarre even for tin foil hat therapy. An Area 51 attraction on the Strip threatens to bring more than starry-eyed enthusiasts to town. Once again it is up to that furballed PI Midnight Louie to keep his crew in line and save them from the attack of the creatures from the beyond...or common criminals that prey on the innocent.

Das süßeste Fachwerkhaus der Welt, wie der Hildesheimer Umgestülpte Zuckerhut schon einmal genannt wurde, beherbergt Paula Anders' Spezialitätengeschäft Bittersweet: Schokolade und Kaffee. Nur einige hundert Meter weiter klaffen in der Dombaustelle tiefe Löcher in der entweihten Erde. Als auf den Stufen zur Krypta ein Toter mit einer mysteriösen Schokoladentafel in der Tasche gefunden wird, steckt Paula plötzlich in Verstrickungen und Korruption, denen auch ihre Jugendliebe Pater Thomas nicht entrinnen kann.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author and Queen of Suspense launched her career with this “indescribably suspenseful” (San Francisco Chronicle) classic thriller following a woman whose past holds a terrible secret. Nancy Harmon long ago fled the heartbreak of her first marriage, the...

The attractive green-eyed detective Michael Book has found romance with handsome blue-eyed blonde artist Jack Page in his carriage-house studio on Nottinghill Lane in charming Bluewater City on Rainbow Lake. But secrets abound as they begin to explore and restore the hidden secret garden that has been discovered on the property. Mysteries grow amidst the flowers and, possibly, a historic murder, too.

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lords of Finance, a magnificent and timely reckoning with the first truly global financial calamity and the famous banking family at the center of the whirlwind Over the course of the 1850s and 1860s, during the first era of globalization, the...

No mystery is too great for super-sleuth Cam Jansen and her amazing photographic memory! Mysteries follow super-sleuth Cam Jansen everywhere she goes...even to the museum. Cam and her class are on a fild trip at the museum when Cam discovers that some bones are missing from a dinosaur skeleton...