Contemporary Political Mysteries

New Orleans detective Ethan Delancey has a mission to solve a senator's murder. Putting Laney Montgomery - the sole witness, who now has a cold-blooded killer on her heels - under his protection? Pure instinct. Every hour pushes her deeper into danger. The only way to ensure her safety - and capture a criminal - is to keep her close. Neither expects the flare of desire that pushes them over the line between professional and personal.

Years ago, police detective Kevin McClain was captured and tortured when he was an airborne ranger in Somalia. Now, years later, the mutilation murder of a homeless man brings back a flood of unpleasant memories. At the same time, FBI agent Felicia Knight is busy tracking down a terrorist cell purportedly set to strike in our nation’s capital on the eve of the presidential election. What neither McClain nor Knight realizes is the two cases are secretly connected by a sinister plot more diabolical and far-reaching than either of them can imagine.

Zum 90. Geburtstag des großen Schriftstellers und Bestsellerautors John le Carré. Julian Lawndsley hat seinen Überflieger-Job in London drangegeben für ein einfacheres Leben als Buchhändler in einem kleinen englischen Küstenort. Kaum ist er ein paar Monate dort, stört ein abendlicher Besucher seine Ruhe. Edward, ein polnischer Emigrant, der auf Silverview lebt, dem großen Anwesen am Ortsrand, scheint viel über Julians Familie zu wissen und zeigt großes Interesse an den Details seines neuen kleinen Unternehmens.

England's most ruthless Queen. Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, is a determined woman who plots and schemes an astonishing path between two equally powerful men in 12th-century Europe, a woman who can manoeuvre and manipulate to safeguard her own lands as effectively as any power-grasping lord. Eleanor is single-minded in her struggle to keep her inheritance intact, leading her to reject one husband and take another who will fulfil her desires.

A bomb threat is made at a provincial Austrian village station. An unattended bag placed next to three messages: 'repent!', 'first and final warning!' and 'next time it will be for real!' But no one takes it too seriously, not even the police. Then a teacher in the village thinks he recognises his favourite pupil, Daniel, on a wanted notice in a newspaper.

Paris, 1981: Die Hauptstadt der ehemaligen Kolonialmacht ist für viele vietnamesische Flüchtlinge der rettende Hafen nach einer langen Irrfahrt über die Weltmeere. Auch der namenlose Ich-Erzähler und sein bester Freund Bon haben es aus ihrer Heimat nach Europa geschafft. Auf der Suche nach einem Job geraten sie an die vietnamesische Drogenmafia. Als Dealer machen sie ein gutes Geschäft, und der Ich-Erzähler, ein ehemaliger kommunistischer Spion, profitiert von einem Wirtschaftssystem, das er eigentlich ablehnt.

My own people, Anoza not humans, came in the night to kill me, to kill my unborn child, to finish an ancient evil. Only Dallas Blake, wounded and bleeding, stood against them, but he did. It was all that we could do to just fight for our very lives, but that was not the end of it. The evil ones had kidnapped my father. How much worse could this get? To rescue my father, the five moons would be pitted against unknown forces with technology a million years more advanced.

Evil men conspired to have a starship destroyed to hide the evil they had done. They intended for its crew to disappear forever without a trace. They flew an unmarked ship into space docks and marked it for destruction. They thought that was the end of it, but in all of that chaos, the anoza found me. They chose me to save the Five Moons. I didn’t know any of that when I bought a ship that was never meant for sale. I didn’t know any of that when I first stepped foot upon its decks and changed everything.... But I know it now. And save the Five Moons? Damned straight I will. I am Dallas Blake, outworlder to the nines.

The UK referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU was a political showdown the British PM, Jeremy Hartley, thought he couldn’t lose. But the next morning both he and the rest of the country woke in a state of shock. America meanwhile has its own unlikely presidential candidate, the brash showman Ronald Craig, a man that nobody thought could gain office. Throw into the mix the cunning Russian President Igor Popov, with his plans to destabilise the West, and you have a brilliant alternative account of the events of 2016 that led to Brexit and America welcoming its own new leader.

Das Leben der amerikanischen Ärztin Samantha O'Neal gerät jäh aus den Fugen, als eines Nachts fünf schwerbewaffnete Araber in der Notaufnahme des Krankenhauses auftauchen und ihre medizinische Hilfe erzwingen. Um ihre Flucht nicht zu gefährden und die Versorgung ihres Verletzten zu gewährleisten, nehmen sie Samantha als Geisel und verschleppen sie in den Jemen. Einzig und allein der geheimnisvolle Abdul, der ebenfalls zu den Entführern zählt und zu dem sie sich magisch hingezogen fühlt, steht ihr bei.

A former FBI cryptologist and now Tangipahoa Parish Deputy Sheriff, Haley Browder, has begun a nice quiet lifestyle living and working on a bayou north of New Orleans. That is, until an FBI Agent, Serena Keith, is discovered murdered and dumped in the swampy bayou. Haley is recruited by the FBI in DC to decipher the murdered agent's cryptic investigative notes that were prepared just before her murder.

In Men of Conviction, Lionel Ross tells the fascinating tale of three desperate and disparate young men, released from prison on the same day. They are Hussein, the Islamist preacher of Jihad; Wayne, the burglar and Dovid, the religious Jew and 'one offence fraudster'. Men of Conviction is their story over the ensuing ten years.

"Hans käpp föll ner på gatan. Han vinglade till på stolen. Solen lyste rakt ner i hans gamla förvridna ansikte och i det silvervita håret, hans mun var halvöppen. Yrkesinstinkten fick henne att rusa tvärs över gatan och fram till den gamle och kontrollera hans puls.” I samma stund som en äldre man faller ihop framför henne tar sjuksköterskeinstinkten över. Terese Lindholm ser till att få mannen till ett sjukhus så snart som möjligt. Vad hon inte vet är att hon precis räddat livet på mångmiljonären Jonathan Davies.

Set in a near future America, the world is a bit different. Powerful houses run the politics, and hence, the country, from behind the scenes. Sworn fealty to a powerful house can bring the average person a decent paying job in a world where society is scrambling to hold itself together. Sheila, a smart lass from Tennessee, sees through this BS and is trying to open the public's eyes to this power shift.