"Calvin Sidey is a cowboy of the old-school, no-guff sort--steely, hardened, with his own personal code. It's the 1960s, and he's living off the grid in a stifling trailer on the prairie when his adult son, Bill, seeks his help. A mostly absentee father, and a virtual no-show as a grandfather, Calvin nevertheless reluctantly agrees to stay with his grandchildren for a week. He decamps for his son's dark and musty basement, to the small town where...

Spannend, beklemmend, überraschend – gelesen von Anna Thalbach und ihrer Tochter Nellie
Ein Albtraum scheint für die Familie Whitaker endlich beendet: Annas und Toms Tochter Julie, die mit 13 Jahren entführt wurde, steht als 21-Jährige plötzlich vor ihrer Haustür. Endlich wieder vereint – die Familie kann ihr Glück kaum fassen. Doch schon bald spüren alle, dass Julies Geschichte so nicht stimmen kann. Als Anna dann von einem...

I lost my basketball scholarship during my senior year at UDub. But I'm not letting that stop me. I'm training harder for a chance at a pro career, while I continue spinning tunes at the clubs on the side. No one's going to pull me away from my dreams. Not my family, and definitely not some obsessed female groupie who stalks me at almost all my gigs. But the more I see her every night, the more I'm tempted to sink my fingers into her thick, soft...

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES • “Gone for Good contains more plot twists than you can count, with a jarring revelation in nearly every chapter. . . . [Harlan] Coben has crafted a taut thriller with a slew of compelling characters. . . . As subtle as a shotgun, and just as effective.”—San Francisco Chronicle
As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the...

"Iris Walsh saw her twin sister Piper get kidnapped--so why does no one believe her? Iris narrowly escaped her pretty, popular twin sisters fate as a teen--kidnapped and trafficked and long gone before the cops agreed to investigate. Months later, Piper's newborn son Callum was dropped on their estranged mother's doorstep in the dead of night, with a note in Piper's handwriting signed simply, Twin. As an adult, Iris wants one thing--proof. Because...

"Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. But when a local kid whose brother has gone missing arm-twists him into investigating, Cal uncovers layers of darkness beneath his picturesque retreat, and starts to realize that even small...

In the fall of 1999, a twenty-two-year-old woman was discovered naked and bleeding on the streets of a small New Mexico town south of Albuquerque. She was chained to a padlocked metal collar. The tale she told authorities, of being beaten, raped, and tortured with electric shock, was unthinkable. Until she led them to 59-year-old David Ray Parker, his 39-year-old fiancé Cindy Hendy, and the lakeside trailer they called their "toy box". What the FBI...

"Answers to every mystery of the FAYZ are revealed, unexpected heroes emerge as sacrifices are made, and the Darkness is finally conquered by a force even more powerful than itself in this conclusion to the Gone series"--

"To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry, Maine, was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered, a good place to live. It was the children who saw--and felt--what made Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, It lurked, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each person's deepest dread. Sometimes It reached up, seizing, tearing, killing.... The adults, knowing better, knew nothing....