THEIR GOAL – THE MOON THEIR MISSION – DEATH. From the rocket base at Peenemunde the Nazis fired the deadliest and most accurate weapon the world had ever seen – the intercontinental V2. But even as the V2 clawed the heart out of London, German High Command was working on the ultimate deterrent – Hitler’s last manic bid to change the course of the war.MI6 agent Jan Memling is one shot ahead of the Gestapo, but he must break out. He must convince a sceptical Britain of the Reich’s threat before the mailed fist reaches beyond the Earth to trespass in heaven and launch death from the stars… VENGEANCE 10 is a searing moonshot of a thriller by high-velocity author Joe Poyer, ranging from the sun-blasted lunar plains to the power-crazed bunkers of the Nazi elite.‘Mr Poyer is very, very good.’ALISTAIR MACLEAN

An Eve Dallas investigation. New York in the year 2058 is very different from the New York of today. Guns have been outlawed but lasers can kill, and the police still have a hefty job to do. Two men are discovered murdered. They have links – both with each other, and with Eve's new husband, Rourke.

Locke Vinetti is a high school junior, disenchanted and more than a little hostile. In fact, for years he's had a lousy social life because of a problem he has with his anger-a force he calls "the venom." Ever since he was eight years old and bit off a piece of a classmate's nose, he's been something of a loner. But all that is about to change when he goes out with his one friend, Randall, to meet some of Randall's crew hanging out at Riverside Park. Because in addition to meeting his kindred spirit, Casey-who has his own problems with his own kind of venom-Locke meets the spikey blue fairy-haircut Goth girl of his dreams. And if their relationship is going to work, he knows he has to rid himself of the venom once and for all. Interspersed with comic book adventures of the fantasy anti-hero alter-ego Locke has invented for himself, Venomous is a fast-paced, funny, and ferocious read about one teenage boy's struggle with his inner demons.

Cassie Burke fue apuñalada y toda su familia asesinada en la pequeña ciudad de Bowers Inlet veintiséis años atrás. La policía cree que atraparon al hombre responsable de las muertes, pero nunca al hombre que comenzó a estrangular mujeres poco después.Conocido como el Estrangulador de Bayside, mató a trece mujeres antes de desaparecer. Hoy, Cassie es una detective en el pequeño cuerpo de policía de Bowers Inlet. Ella y el jefe de policía Craig Denver no están preparados para el horror que está a punto de desatarse en la ciudad cuando el Estrangulador de Bayside vuelve con una venganza.La escritora de crímenes verdaderos Regan Landry todavía repasa los archivos de su padre recientemente asesinado cuando descubre viejos mensajes que dicen ser del Estrangulador. Regan se pone en contacto con el FBI, quiénes envían al agente Rick Cisco a Bowers Inlet para ayudar a Cassie en la investigación. Para Cassie, la vuelta del asesino le trae horrorosos recuerdos, pero aquellos recuerdos pueden ser capaces de revelar la verdad.

A primera vista, Monika y Maj-Britt son diametralmente opuestas.Como médico jefe, Monika es una mujer realizada y extrovertida, mientras que Maj-Britt -una solitaria con graves problemas de sobrepeso- aniquila moralmente a todo asistente social que se le asigna.No obstante, tienen una cosa en común, un pasado amargo que las obliga a rechazar a quienes tratan de aproximarse a ellas. Hasta ese momento, ambas mujeres han vivido sus vidas sin conocerse, pero el cambio está a la vuelta de la esquina. Un hecho inesperado pondrá en marcha una cadena de sucesos que hará inevitable el encuentro de ambas y las empujará a una situación límite. ¿Serán capaces de reconciliarse con su pasado y con la vergüenza? ¿O será necesario sacrificar algo por el camino?Vergüenza es un inquietante drama psicológico en torno a la complejidad de las relaciones humanas y a la dificultad del ser humano por zafarse del pasado. Karin Alvtegen confirma con esta novela su posición destacada dentro del panorama actual de las letras escandinavas.

After an overhaul of leadership at the FBI’s New York field office, A. X. L. Pendergast is abruptly forced to accept an unthinkable condition of continued employment: the famously rogue agent must now work with a partner.

Pendergast and his new colleague, junior agent Coldmoon, are assigned to investigate a rash of killings in Miami Beach, where a bloodthirsty psychopath is cutting out the hearts of his victims and leaving them with cryptic handwritten letters at local gravestones. The graves are unconnected save in one bizarre way: all belong to women who committed suicide.

But the seeming lack of connection between the old suicides and the new murders is soon the least of Pendergast’s worries. Because as he digs deeper, he realizes the brutal new crimes may be just the tip of the iceberg: a conspiracy of death that reaches back decades.

Un homme se réveille au fond d’un gouffre, deux inconnus et son fidèle chien comme seuls compagnons d’infortune. Il est enchaîné au poignet, l’un des deux hommes à la cheville et le troisième est libre, mais sa tête est recouverte d’un masque effroyable, qui explosera s’il s’éloigne des deux autres.Qui les a emmenés là ? Pourquoi ?« Une intrigue simple, mais un suspense en béton qui nous rappelle que l’efficacité se passe de toute sophistication. »Julie Malaure — Le Point« Sans aucun doute [son thriller] le plus réussi. »François Aubel — Madame Figaro

A new name in terror flies circles around the competition.Vicious bat attacks moving southward along the Hudson River prompt Nancy Joyce, a bat scientist who works for the Bronx Zoo, to investigate. When the attacks move into the New York subway system, Manhattan police detective Robert Gentry becomes involved. Joyce and Gentry team up to determine what is causing this unusual behavior. What they discover will keep listeners pinned to their seats and clawing for more.

“A surprising page-turner… Compelling. Highly recommended.”

—Library Journal (starred review), Debut of the Month

An astronaut returns to Earth after losing her entire crew to an inexplicable disaster, but is her version of what happened in space the truth? Or is there more to the story… A tense, psychological thriller perfect for fans of Dark Matter and The Martian.

After Catherine Wells’s ship experiences a deadly incident in deep space and loses contact with NASA, the entire world believes her dead. Miraculously—and mysteriously—she survived, but with little memory of what happened. Her reentry after a decade away is a turbulent one: her husband has moved on with another woman and the young daughter she left behind has grown into a teenager she barely recognizes. Catherine, too, is different. The long years alone changed her, and as she readjusts to being home, sometimes she feels disconnected and even, at times, deep rage toward her family and colleagues. There are periods of time she can’t account for, too, and she begins waking up in increasingly strange and worrisome locations, like restricted areas of NASA. Suddenly she’s questioning everything that happened up in space: how her crewmates died, how she survived, and now, what’s happening to her back on Earth.

Smart, gripping, and compelling, this page-turning sci-fi thriller will leave you breathless.

The bodies are found in towns and cities around Kitsap County, Washington. The victims had nothing in common – except the agony of their final moments. But somebody carefully chose them to stalk, capture, and torture – a depraved killer whose cunning is matched only by the depth of his bloodlust. But the dying has only just begun. And next victim will be the most shocking of all!

The first novel to be translated into English from one of Japan's rising literary stars; a tale of murder and desperation set in a desolate seaside town, in online chat rooms and love hotels – with a cast of characters all pushed to the razor's edge.January 6, 2002. The body of a female insurance saleswoman is found in the southernmost region of Japan, at a spot rumored to be a home to ghosts. Shortly thereafter Yuichi, a young construction worker, is arrested by the Nagasaki police on suspicion of murder. What then unfolds – from multiple points of view – are the events that led up to and follow the murder, as Yuichi and his lover try to elude the police. Moving back and forth in time, the riveting narrative tells the stories of the victim, the murderer, and their families – people of all classes, occupations, economic levels, and emotional situations – stories that come together to give us a unique, visceral, and indelible sense of contemporary Japanese society.Here is the first appearance in English of a writer who is poised to electrify the American reading public.

“Viral is a world-class thriller.”-Vince FlynnTwo brothers race to stop a political mastermind’s massive bioterrorist plot in this terrifying espionage thriller.In remote pockets of the Third World, a deadly virus is quietly sweeping through impoverished farming villages and shanty towns with frightening speed and potency. Meanwhile, in Washington, a three-word message left in a safe-deposit box may be the key to stopping the crisis—if, that is, Charles Mallory, a private intelligence contractor and former CIA operative, can decipher the puzzle before time runs out.What Mallory begins to discover are the traces of a secret war, with a bold objective—to create a new, technologically advanced society. With the help of his brother Jon, an investigative reporter, can he break the story to the world before it is too late—before a planned ‘humane depopulation’ takes place?As the stakes and strategies of this secret war become more evident, the Mallory brothers find themselves in a complex game of wits with an enemy they can't see: a new sort of superpower led by a brilliant, elusive tactician who believes that ends justify means.

Estamos en 1987. Simultáneamente y en dos lugares distintos -Irlanda y Estados Unidos- se produce un acontecimiento similar: sendas muchachas quedan embarazadas sin dejar por ello de ser vírgenes. Aunque insólito, el hecho no parece ir más allá de lo meramente curioso, sin embargo, es posible que constituya parte de un plan sobrenatural de dimensiones cósmicas, algo ya anunciado setenta años antes, en Fátima. Se trata de la famosa y desconocida tercera profecía que la Virgen María hizo a los tres pastorcillos portugueses: el Segundo Advenimiento. El hecho conmociona a la Iglesia, empezando por su cúpula, el Papa. Los interrogantes se suceden: ¿Es un fraude?, ¿de las dos muchachas, o sólo de una de ellas? ¿Cómo debe interpretarse el supuesto fenómeno? Y, sobre todo, ¿por qué dos vírgenes?… Sobre la base de esta trama, audaz y original, James Patterson ha escrito una novela sobria, tensa, inquietante, en la que, en medio de un clima de pesadilla, el terror alterna con el prodigio y el desconcierto con la esperanza. Una novela cuya lectura es imposible abandonar, una vez empezada. Una novela, también, imposible de olvidar. Porque la amenaza de caos, de catástrofe para la humanidad, que representa su tema es un escalofrío implantado en el ánimo del lector, un pánico de efecto seguro y duradero.

Dezember 2012. In den USA breitet sich rasend schnell eine gefährliche Epidemie aus, ganz L.A. steht bereits unter Quarantäne. Genetiker Dr. Gabriel Stanton und Maya-Forscherin Chel Manu suchen unter Hochdruck nach einer Möglichkeit, die tödliche Krankheit aufzuhalten. Sie glauben, dass ihnen ein alter Maya-Codex weiterhelfen kann. Ein Codex, der aus einem Tempel in Guatemala entwendet und in die USA gebracht wurde - von dem Mann, der später als Erster erkrankte. Was hat es mit diesem Werk auf sich? Haben die alten Maya es mit einem tödlichen Fluch belegt, der die gesamte Menschheit ausrotten wird?Dustin Thomason studierte Anthropologie und Medizin in Harvard und machte seinen M.D. an der Columbia University. Er ist ein Teil des Erfolgsduos Caldwell/Thomason, das mit seinem Thriller DAS LETZTE GEHEIMNIS die Bestsellerlisten stürmte. Außerdem schrieb und produzierte er mehrere TV-Serien, u. a. LIE TO ME. Thomason lebt und arbeitet in Venice Beach, Kalifornien.Für die Originalausgabe:Copyright © 2012 by Dustin ThomasonTitel der amerikanischen Originalausgabe:»12.21«

La nueva novela de Qiu Xiaolong retoma las andanzas protagonizadas por el Inspector Chen en su anterior gran éxito, Muerte de una heroína roja. En esta ocasión, Chen ha de investigar la misteriosa desaparición de la bailarina Wen Liping durante su regreso a China desde Estados Unidos. La vigorosa trama policial propicia la radiografía de un país en plena mutación, sirviéndose de un personaje que está ya en las antologías del género: un amante de la literatura que resuelve intrincados enigmas en tanto recita proverbios de Confucio y moderna poesía china. El estilo de Xiaolong ha hecho ya las delicias de miles de lectores en todo el mundo. A pesar de su juventud se trata de un autor contrastado, cuyo futuro se adivina enormemente brillante.

'The summer had been long hot and bloody. Fall, with its cooler temperatures was coming. Maybe people wouldn't be as inclined to kill each other. But she doubted it.' Eve Dallas' latest homicide case is a particularly vicious case. A young mother, Elisa Maplewood, is found raped and strangled in the park, her body naked but for what appears to be a red ribbon tied around her neck. As Eve starts investigating Elisa's friends and relations, an offer of help comes from an unlikely source. The only reason Eve agrees to meet with psychic Celina Sanchez is that she is a friend of a friend. But Celina claims to have experienced visions of the killer and can recite precise details of the case – details that the police have kept to themselves. She is also no glory-hunter – she doesn't want her name released to the media. Haunted by the visions of death that she sees, all she wants to do is help Eve catch the criminal so that she is left in peace. Though Eve remains sceptical of Celina's abilities, she serves the greater good, and she will use all the resources she can to track down the killer before he strikes again…

Un’agghiacciante incursione nel lato più oscuro dell’assistenza sanitaria, nel fatidico incrocio tra il valore supremo dell’esistenza umana e i cinici interessi del mondo finanziario, capace di subordinare la vita e la morte alla pericolosa seduzione del denaro. Dopo lunghi anni trascorsi nei corridoi di un grande ospedale di Boston, Angela e David Wilson, un’affiatata coppia di medici, decidono di abbandonare la frenesia della metropoli per trasferirsi, con la figlioletta Nikki gracile e malata, in campagna, in una tranquilla cittadina del Vermont. La bellezza e la serenità del luogo, insieme all’affettuosa accoglienza dei suoi abitanti, appaiono un sogno divenuto realtà, destinato a infondere un’ondata di entusiasmo alle loro esistenze: verdi distese di prati, laghi cristallini incastonati in una cornice incantevole di montagne, al posto dell’inquinamento e della criminalità della città. E, nello stesso tempo, si profila per entrambi i coniugi la possibilità di lavorare in un centro gestito in modo dinamico e moderno, dotato di attrezzature all’avanguardia. Ma dopo il primo magnifico, romantico autunno, a Bartlet comincia a profilarsi un paesaggio spoglio e desolato, che rivela, dietro i tristi scheletri degli alberi, oscure e macabre macchinazioni...A poco a poco, poi a un ritmo sempre più rapido, il paradiso terrestre dei Wilson si sgretola: numerosi pazienti con strani sintomi cominciano a morire misteriosamente, inquietanti trame si nascondono nelle stanze del loro ospedale; un incubo mortale li minaccia... Coinvolti in un sistema medico criminale, nel quale la polizia non intende indagare, Angela e David dovranno combattere con le loro sole forze per non essere travolti dall’orrore e salvaguardare così la felicità della loro famiglia.