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    Quiet in Her Bones (eBook, ePUB)
    In this gripping thriller set in New Zealand, New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh takes you into the twisted world of an exclusive cul-de-sac located on the edge of a sprawling forest.When socialite Nina Rai disappeared without a trace, everyone wrote it off as another trophy wife tired of her wealthy husband. But now her bones have turned up in the shadowed green of the forest that surrounds her elite neighborhood, a haven of privilege and secrets that's housed the same influential families for decades.The rich live here, along with those whose job it is to make their lives easier. And somebody knows what happened to Nina one rainy night ten years ago. Her son Aarav heard a chilling scream that night, and he's determined to uncover the ugly truth that lives beneath the moneyed elegance . . . but no one is ready for the murderous secrets about to crawl out of the dark.Even the dead aren't allowed to break the rules in this cul-de-sac.Praise for A Madness of Sunshine:'Singh puts her previous writing experience to great effect in this accomplished novel' Sunday Times 'An atmospheric read with a compelling sense of the spectacular rugged landscape' Guardian
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    The Shopkeeper: A Steve Dancy Tale , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 538min
    In 1879, Steve Dancy sells his New York shop and ventures west to explore and write a journal about his adventures. Though he's not looking for trouble, Dancy's infatuation with another man's wife soon embroils him in a deadly feud with Sean Washburn, a Nevada silver baron. Infuriated by the outrages of two hired thugs, the shopkeeper kills both men in an impulsive street fight. Dancy believes this barbarian act has closed the episode. He is wrong. He has interfered with Washburn's ambitions, and this is something the mining tycoon will not allow. Pinkertons, hired assassins, and aggrieved bystanders escalate the feud until it pulls in all the moneyed interests and power brokers in Nevada. Can the former city slicker settle accounts without losing his life in the process? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rusty Nelson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bimo/000876/bk_bimo_000876_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Warlock: A Novel of Possession , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 465min, (USK 18)
    Allen Barrow, a shy bank clerk, dresses out of discount stores and has a small penis that embarrasses him. One night at a noisy, popular bathhouse in Manhattan, he meets Destry Powars - commanding, vulgar, seductive, successful - who pulls Allen into his orbit and won't let go.Destry lives in a closed, moneyed world that Allen can only glimpse through the smoky windows of popular media and tabloids. From generations of impoverished drifters, Powars has been chosen to learn a secret language based on force, deception, and nerve.But who chose him, and what does he really want from Allen? What are Mr. Powars' dark powers? These are the mysteries that Allen will uncover in Warlock, a novel that is as paralyzing in its suspense as it is voluptuously erotic. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard McConnell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/221780/bk_acx0_221780_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Arrogant Playboy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 408min
    Playboy. Noun. A moneyed man who spends his time enjoying himself, especially one who acts irresponsibly or is sexually promiscuous. Synonyms: ladies' man, philanderer, womanizer. See Also: Beckham King. Beckham King. Noun. Synonyms: None. Vanity wrapped in arrogance and tied with a wicked-intentioned bow. Obnoxiously attractive. Wildly talented in the sack. Everything a girl could want in a one-night stand. Don't ask him to commit. Don't expect a phone call. You only get one night. And God forbid you're the one girl deemed worthy of a reprise...Because you won't stand a chance. When an arrogant playboy's mind is set, there's abso-f--cking-lutely no changing it. Author's note: This is a full-length standalone romance novel with a HEA, no cheating, and no cliffhanger. Enjoy! xo ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Angela Moore, George Wickham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/028325/bk_adbl_028325_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mortal Grace: Vince Cardozo, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1162min
    Murder and religion collide in this compulsively readable police procedural by the bestselling author of Privileged Lives and Deadly Rich. Suffer the children… The first body is found in a hamper in the woods. Her feet were tied with a leather belt. There are traces of incense on her dismembered body, candle wax on her skin, and strange crumbs on her lips. As more butchered adolescent corpses turn up - the victims of a serial killer whose signature is the communion wafer left in each one's mouth - the evidence leads NYPD lieutenant Vince Cardozo into the sacred and moneyed world of Manhattan's exclusive parishes. Desperate to find the monster who preys on vulnerable runaways, Cardozo uncovers a conspiracy that reaches to the city's highest levels of power. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christian Rummel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017606/bk_adbl_017606_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Forgotten: A Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 780min
    Rina Lazarus and her husband, LAPD Homicide Lieutenant Peter Decker, are shocked by an outrage that cuts close to the spiritual heart of their family. Rina's small storefront synagogue has been desecrated with anti-Semitic graffiti and grisly Nazi death camp photographs. The alleged perpetrator is 17-year-old Ernesto Golding, a "rich kid" obsessed with haunting suspicions about the origins of his Polish paternal grandfather. Then Ernesto is found brutally murdered, along with his therapist, Dr. Mervin Baldwin, at an exclusive nature camp that caters to moneyed, troubled children. For Decker and his wife, unraveling the truth behind Ernesto's violent death becomes more terrifying with each sinister twist. For lethal secrets with roots in the horrors of a past genteration are coming to the surface, propelling Peter and Rina into a ghastly world of ruthless parents and damaged youth - and toward a dark evil and its ultimate retribution. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mitchell Greenberg. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/002755/bk_harp_002755_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dark Rooms: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 704min
    The Secret History meets Sharp Objects in this stunning debut about murder and glamour set in the ambiguous and claustrophobic world of an exclusive New England prep school. Death sets the plot in motion: the murder of Nica Baker, beautiful, wild, enigmatic, and only 16. The crime is solved, and quickly--a lonely classmate, unrequited love, a suicide note confession--but memory and instinct won't allow Nica's older sister, Grace, to accept the case as closed. Dropping out of college and living at home, working at the moneyed and progressive private high school in Hartford, Connecticut, from which she recently graduated, Grace becomes increasingly obsessed with identifying and punishing the real killer. Compulsively readable, Lili Anolik's debut novel combines the verbal dexterity of Marisha Pessl's Special Topic in Calamity Physics and the haunting atmospherics and hairpin plot twists of Megan Abbott's Dare Me. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eileen Stevens. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/004342/bk_harp_004342_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    And Sometimes I Wonder About You: A Leonid McGill Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 538min
    In New York, if you have a problem no one else can solve, you call Leonid McGill. Ex-boxer, hard drinker, in a business that trades in cash and favours, McGill's an old-school PI working a city that's got fancy all around him. When McGill is approached by a small-time office manager, he declines the case. He has better things to do than track down the man's long-lost cousin, who is about to inherit millions. But then McGill's office is broken into, and his potential client is found dead. Soon McGill finds himself drawn into the underbelly of an establishment family and a Pandora's box of secrets and lies.Taking you from the moneyed haunts of uptown to the shady corners of downtown, Mosley is the Chandler of Obama's America and one of the finest crime writers in the world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Prentice Onayemi. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/000837/bk_orio_000837_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    To Let: The Forsyte Saga, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 581min
    This third novel concludes John Galsworthy's Forsyte saga, the monumental chronicle of the moneyed Forsyte family, whose values are at war with its passions.In To Let, Irene's son Jon and Soames' daughter Fleur, now both 19 years old, fall in love. But when Jon learns of the past feud between their families, he decides that he cannot marry Fleur. To drive her from his mind, he travels to America with his mother Irene. Fleur now throws herself at her long-standing admirer, Michael Mont, a fashionable baronet's son, and the two are married.Soames Forsyte learns that his second wife, Annette, has been unfaithful to him, and is left desolately contemplating the sale of Robin Hill. When Timothy Forsyte, the last of the old generation, dies at the age of 100, the Forsyte family begins to disintegrate.John Galsworthy received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1932. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Case. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/002254/bk_blak_002254_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Sterling's Way: Lawmen & Outlaws series , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 293min
    Jack Sterling isn't having a good day. A swindler has stolen family property from his elderly grandmother and Jack has taken the law into his own hands to steal it back. Only the stagecoach he intends to rob is under fire, forcing him to rescue the very occupants he’d planned to rob. One glance at the beautiful woman inside nearly has him forgetting why he’s there in the first place.   Kristen March has fled Boston to avoid an arranged marriage between moneyed families. She’d rather take her chances on the untamed frontier than marry a man she doesn’t love. But the Wild West proves to be more adventure than she anticipates when her stagecoach comes under attack.   Not only does handsome Jack come to her rescue, he makes it clear he plans to court her. But both are keeping secrets that could tear them apart for good. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lawrence Didsbury. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/113282/bk_acx0_113282_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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