Bird Mystery

It was New Year’s Eve the night that dead blackbirds descended, hours before 14-year-old Alex McCarthy's sister Olivia went missing from a party. Committed to finding out what happened to her sister within the previously safe walls of their subarctic Orkney village, Alex knows that dishevelled, sometimes intoxicated Detective Inspector Birkens is her best shot.

In Alexander, Jane Bolton is burying her husband; Willow Hollis is trying to bury her past; and the rock star, Jett Renick, is returning home. A wild spring will toss them all together when 13-year old Sassy Bolton is kidnapped. The search will uncover dark truths about the small Georgia town, and already broken hearts will be tested by the vicious storms of life.

When Jack discovers that someone is hurting local pets, he's determined that the Twitchers will solve the crime. But the Twitchers are more interested in the rare and endangered bearded vulture spotted heading for Aves Woods. Determined to prove himself, Jack sets off to investigate, only to find himself in deep water. Friendless and alone, Jack must use all his bravery and skills to not only stop a terrible crime, one that could put the bearded vulture in danger, but to prove to his friends that he's a deserving member of The Twitchers after all.

In a futuristic Tampa Bay, Skiptracer Dhata Mays and his sidekick, Lur Diaz, are on a job investigating a cheating lowlife. But after a deadly explosion and the woman who hired them disappears, nobody is safe. Suddenly, everyone is under suspicion, and the police are no longer there "to serve and to protect". Now, it's up to Dhata to take matters into his own hands and uncover a deep-rooted plot to escalate the tension between the humans and synths. He must stop the battle before it's too late.

Beverly Grady may just be the world’s loneliest woman. Her husband is dead, she hates her sister, and she has no friends—other than the birds she watches every day in her yard. When she finds out her late husband left behind mountains of debt, she has no choice but to downgrade her lifestyle, moving from her dream house to a cheap apartment in nearby Brookside Manor.

It's 1979, the Winter of Discontent, and Elizabeth Daton is a gun for hire whose career is brought to a shuddering halt when a job leaves a young girl hospitalized.

Strange things have been happening to Layah and her younger sister, Izzie, ever since their mother dragged them to a rain-soaked cottage miles from anywhere in the Lake District: there is a peculiar whistling at night, a handful of unusual feathers appear and a sudden, frightening banging at the door. And their mother is behaving very oddly. Layah is mourning the loss of her dear grandmother in Poland - and can almost hear her voice telling her the old myths, legends and fairy tales from that place.

When Marty is hired to do an appraisal at a storage unit and the residence of the wife of a Palm Springs detective, she has no reason to think that there would be a problem. The appraisal looked pretty run-of-mill with its small antique items and furniture, but that was before Marty discovered that all of the antiques had been stolen. And then several hours later her friend, Carl, who was appraising the antique books at the client’s residence, found the note. The note that caused an all-points bulletin to be issued for a man who was about to be murdered.

Detective Sergeant Jason Smith is days away from the end of his sick leave after a case that almost cost him his life when he gets a call from an old friend. His friend has been arrested for the murder of a student. He wants Smith to investigate the murder and prove his innocence. Smith is persuaded return to work. The student was killed with a bread knife. Ladybirds were scattered on his dead body.

Waking up in a brothel with no recollection of previous events, Tricia, an android, is on a desperate quest to find her true creators. Trapped in the hands of gangsters and slavers, she's done being abused and manipulated by the men of this world. But what she discovers after regaining her memory is more terrorizing than she ever realized. Now, it's up to a robot with a conscience to carry out an impossible mission. Will Tricia prevail, or is her fate already sealed?

In einer Sommernacht des Jahres 1941 beobachtet die 18-jährige Sofieke, wie ein Fallschirmagent in den besetzten Niederlanden landet. Der Student Gerhard soll für die Engländer spionieren. Er wird jedoch sofort festgenommen. Gerhard entgeht der Hinrichtung nur, indem er sich zum Schein bereiterklärt, als Doppelagent für die deutsche Spionageabwehr zu arbeiten. Arthur Seyß-Inquart, der mächtigste Nazi in den Niederlanden, ist Gerhards Nennonkel. Seine fröhlich-naive Tochter Dorli zeigt ihm den Palast, in dem sie jetzt wohnt.

Callie and Cash are back, and their world is about to explode. The scene is set as Callie and Cash are eating a late dinner upstairs at her restaurant, The Bronze Pig. It’s been a year since they saved her ex-husband’s life and subsequently had to take on unexpected, lethal adversaries. During that process—confronting kidnapping, murder and assassins burning down her restaurant—they came together, and unexpectedly, they discover that they care deeply, romantically, for one another.

Drei Einbrecher begehen jeder einen Einbruch - ohne sich zu kennen, brechen sie in derselben Nacht in dieselbe Villa ein. Sie haben ganz unterschiedliche Ziele und nachdem sie sich begegnet sind, macht sich jeder alleine auf die Suche. Schnell merken sie, dass sie sich verbünden müssen, um ans Ziel ihrer Wünsche zu kommen. Sie kommen einem Geheimnis ungeahnten Ausmaßes auf die Spur und geraten dadurch in Lebensgefahr.

Aus dem Todestrakt des ADX Bundesgefängnis in Florence, Colorado, werden verurteilte Killer entführt. In der Grenzregion der USA und Mexikos verschwinden Flüchtlinge, Schleuser und Gangster, die für ein ­Drogenkartell arbeiten, spurlos. Unheimliche, schwarz vermummte Gestalten verschleppen nachts Obdachlose aus dem Central Park in New York City. Wer ist für die Entführungen verantwortlich? In einem Schlafsaal, an einem unbekannten Ort, finden sich die Entführten wieder. Seltsamerweise ist der Raum unbewacht, was die verschleppten Männer zuerst verunsichert.

Eigentlich hat Michi Cordes dienstfrei. Eigentlich sollte jetzt der Kollege Ackermann hier im Swingerclub vor der erdrosselten Frau stehen, der der Mörder die Scham zu einem bizarren Korsett zusammengenäht hat. Und eigentlich müsste sich die junge Oberkommissarin jetzt nicht die schalen Witze ihres vorgesetzten Hauptkommissars anhören. Also eigentlich dürfte sich Michis Leben heute nicht ändern. Eigentlich! Aber diese Nacht ändert alles.

Dieses Hörbuch ist anders als alles, was Sie bisher gelesen haben. Nicht, weil drei Autoren drei Helden in drei Thrillern auf drei irrwitzige Trips schicken. Sondern weil die drei Autoren dabei ihre Helden tauschen. Ja, Sie haben richtig gelesen. Das Ergebnis dieser ungewöhnlichen Idee: Drei Novellen, wie sie, abgesehen von den Handlungen, unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten. Mehr noch.

Ein erschossener Nazirocker im Wildschweingehege in Ketsch, eine unmögliche neue Kollegin und eine Explosion in der Mannheimer Innenstadt. Ihren ersten Tag nach sechs Monaten Auszeit hatte sich Michi Cordes anders vorgestellt. Dann verschwindet auch noch ein Zeuge spurlos. Michi ahnt nicht, dass dieser Fall sie in nur sieben Tagen von zerstrittenen Kleintierzüchtern über die "Germanische Bruderschaft" bis in die Unterwelt von St. Petersburg führen wird. Um Leben zu retten, muss Cordes sich mit der Russenmafia verbünden.

Orphan Edie is sent by her art-dealer guardian to Knight's Haddon School, on a secret mission to find out whether Anastasia, a Russian princess, is being persecuted by the other girls. But what Edie uncovers instead is a dangerous mystery that only the girls themselves can solve.

Native American Fish & Wildlife Investigator Rhoda Deerwalker finds more than she bargained for when a routine bird smuggling case turns deadly. Rhoda teams up with a small town sheriff as events spiral out of control. This is Book one in the Felony of Birds series. Rhoda Deerwalker is not like any female investigator you've ever encountered, she's brave, vulnerable, and all too human. You'll want to read all three thrilling tales.

In der Kleinstadt Walkers Hill bricht das Chaos aus. Eine schier unglaubliche Welle der Gewalt brandet über die ländliche Gemeinde. Die Bürger, wie auch die Sicherheitsbehörden müssen hilflos zusehen, wie Menschen sterben. FBI-Agent Roger Thom eilt nach Walkers Hill um die Mordorgie aufzuklären. Doch auch er schwebt in Gefahr, dem Wahnsinn zum Opfer zu fallen. Eine alte Regionallegende scheint sich zu erfüllen. Ein Fluch, der vor Generationen ausgestoßen wurde, hält die Menschen in Atem.