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Vier Leichen. Zwei Ermittler. Ein rätselhaftes Verbrechen. Am Heiligabend wird DCI Mackenzie Jones zu einer Schießerei in einem abgelegenen Farmhaus gerufen. Ralph Mallender glaubt, seinen Vater tot in der Küche liegen gesehen zu haben. Als drei weitere Leichen gefunden werden, wird klar, dass sich ein weihnachtliches Familientreffen zu einer grausamen Tragödie gewandelt hat. Zunächst scheint der Fall offensichtlich zu sein: Ein erweiterter Selbstmord von Ralphs jähzornigem Bruder. Bis neue Beweise Mack daran zweifeln lassen, dass er der wahre Täter ist.

Après un boulot bâclé qui a laissé une traînée sanglante derrière lui, le tueur à gages John Milton fait ce qu'il n'a jamais fait auparavant : il se cache. Disparaissant dans l'agitation de l'East End londonien, terré dans un appartement, Milton se voit impliqué dans la vie chaotique d'une mère, Sharon, et de son adolescent tourmenté, Elijah. Tous deux sont piégés dans une guerre de territoire de plus en plus sanglante opposant deux gangs rivaux.

An Underground carriage in London is destroyed by a suicide bomber. The injured and the dead litter the platform. But as a crowd forms at street level, Michael Pope knows that this is only the beginning. Pope, head of top-secret Group Fifteen, is tasked with finding the perpetrators of this atrocity and bringing them to justice, any way he can. He knows that the answers to many of his questions will lie at the end of the money trail, but he also knows that whoever funded and organised the attack will kill again for their freedom.

Private investigator Atticus Priest is employed by a disgruntled ex-husband to dig up dirt on his estranged wife. But when she goes missing after swimming in the River Avon, Atticus uncovers a conspiracy between five lifelong friends that goes back years. The friends did something when they were younger that they're not proud of. It's something that would land them in a world of trouble if it ever came to light. Something they've been trying to bury ever since. But Atticus finds one secret and then the next.

John Milton är ett spöke. Han brukade vara Nummer ett. Det farligaste lönnmördaren i Grupp Femton, gruppen som tog över när diplomati inte längre gav resultat. Nu är Milton Hennes majestäts mest jagade person – en anonym ensamvarg med dödliga förmågor. När han arresteras efter ett slagsmål på krogen i Texas så är den sista han förväntar sig ska hjälpa honom med borgen en glamorös agent från den ryska säkerhetstjänsten. Milton utpressas till att jaga rätt på sin föregångare i gruppen, den förre Nummer ett.

Things in Southwold get off to a bad start! Max has to do extra lessons while Charlie has been roped into helping with the decorating. Meanwhile Lucy loses an important race to a new girl in her school, Miranda Fitchwitherington, who seems to enjoy being as mean as possible to Lucy and the rest of the gang. And there is more bad news–when the gang meet Captain Tom, walking his own dog, Pugly, he tells them about an outbreak of pet thefts in the area.

Beatrix Rose hat ihre Todesliste fast abgearbeitet. Vier sind tot und es bleiben nur mehr zwei Personen über. Ihre Feinde wissen, dass sie kommt. Die Jägerin wird zur Gejagten. Im spannenden Abschluss der fulminanten Trilogie müssen Beatrix und ihre Tochter gegen ihre Feinde in Nordafrika, New York und schließlich den Sümpfen von North Carolina kämpfen. Es ist eine actiongeladende, rasante Achterbahnfahrt, die eine todbringende Auftragskillerin der mächtigsten Privatarmee der Welt gegenüberstellt. Die Chancen stehen schlecht für Beatrix. Genau so, wie sie es am liebsten hat.

Vor zehn Jahren stand Beatrix Rose an der Spitze eines geheimen Todeskommandos, um die schmutzige Arbeit für die britische Regierung zu machen. Als sie herausfand, dass der Leiter des Kommandos korrupt war, sandte dieser fünf Auftragsmörder, um sie auszulöschen. Aber sie scheiterten. Schwerer Fehler. Auf Beatrix’ Todesliste standen sechs Namen. Um zwei hatte sie sich schon gekümmert und jetzt hatte sie Nummer drei im Visier.

Im Stil von Jason Bourne und Jack Reacher stellt der actiongeladene Thriller "Kaltblütig" den Lesern Beatrix Rose vor, eine aufregende Heldin auf einem tödlichen Rachefeldzug. Als gefährlichste Auftragskillerin in einem Todeskommando der Regierung ist Beatrix nicht die Art Mensch, die du gegen dich aufbringen solltest. Von ihrem Team betrogen und in einen Hinterhalt gelockt, ist sie in den Untergrund getrieben worden und plant ihre Rache.

They gunned down her husband and kidnapped her daughter, and now the debt needs to be repaid. It's a blood feud she didn't start but is going to finish. Beatrix has already crossed one name off her Kill List. Her second target is a mercenary being held hostage by Somali terrorists. Can she infiltrate the most dangerous failed state on the planet and scrub him off the List, too?

Bryan Duffy is Witness X - a government agent implicated in a national scandal and banished to Spain until the agenda can be moved on. But when North Korean hit men attack a seeming innocent on the streets of London, Duffy is called back to the fold. He is tasked with finding the woman's assailants and bringing them to justice. Why has the woman been attacked? Duffy investigates and finds himself sucked into a whirlwind of action and mayhem that is particularly well suited to his special set of skills....

Mark Dawson's Group Fifteen Files. Quick, lightning-paced, action.

They call him 'Scorpion'. No-one knows his real name, and the only people who have seen his face are dead. He works for the highest bidder, and he's never missed a target.

The assassin appears in London with the name of an investigative reporter on his list. But has Scorpion met his match? The reporter has a protector - John Milton. And Milton might be the only man in the world more dangerous than him.

But when a video is sent to the local newspaper showing the deceased man engaging in a compromising act with a minor, Atticus realizes that there's much more to this case than he initially thought. Is it blackmail? Suicide? Or murder? Two more bodies are found and two more videos are sent to the press. Atticus and his former colleague, detective chief inspector Mackenzie Jones, race against time to identify the culprit before he can strike again.

John Milton är en mästare, som förfinat sina talanger – i att mörda. Det är honom den brittiska regeringen anlitar för att röja undan de allra värsta: rikets fiender, de som varken M15 eller militären kan få stopp på. Men år av mördande i rikets tjänst tär på en. Milton plågas av mardrömmar ­– spöken från hans förflutna hemsöker honom om natten. Han bestämmer sig för att nästa uppdrag ska vara hans sista, innan han påbörjar sin botgöring för allt han orsakat.

John Milton har hållit sig undan i ett halvår. Han dyker upp igen i Ciudad Juárez i Mexiko och blir omedelbart indragen i ett brutalt krig mellan två drogsyndikat som styr över gränsområdet. Milton räddar livet på en ung idealistisk journalist som gängen försöker avrätta. Det enda sättet att skydda henne är att smuggla in henne till Texas. Milton måste skydda henne tills de kan göra den farliga resan och samarbetar med de få hederliga poliserna i stan och en prisjägare med grumliga motiv.

Nine months ago, Beatrix Rose had her family brutally taken from her. Now all that matters is getting her daughter back. And Beatrix is no ordinary mother - she’s a skilled assassin who will do whatever it takes to find her child. Danny Nakamura deserted his post in Vietnam and disappeared into Hong Kong’s Walled City, vowing never to go home again. Decades later, his health failing, he’s suddenly found a reason to return to LA: the discovery of a daughter he never knew he had. But getting home won’t be easy....

Bjorn Thorsson joined the Special Air Service to forget the horrors of his childhood. He killed for Queen and country, and he was good at it. He quits the army and settles down, looking for a quieter life. When his beautiful sister, Gudrun, finds herself in trouble with the owner of a hedge fund, Bjorn promises to get her out of danger. But there’s another factor in play. Group 15, a clandestine government agency, has plans for the financier, and Bjorn is in their way. Bjorn must outwit the Group in the streets of London and in the Highlands of Scotland if he is to protect his sister and survive.

Max is distraught when he receives a letter from the school telling him he has to go on a weekend of cycling and camping for the Duke of Wellington awards scheme. But things vastly improve when his friends agree to come with him. It isn't long before they find adventure–or adventure finds them... They make a friend called Byron and set up camp in a forest near to his home. But that night they wake to see strange lights and a fierce wind blowing through the trees.

Beatrix Rose has worked her way through her Kill List. Four are dead and just two remain. But now her enemies know she has them in her sights. The hunter becomes the hunted. In a thrilling conclusion to the breakneck trilogy, Beatrix and her daughter must fight them in North Africa, New York and finally in the swamps of North Carolina. It's a lightning-paced roller-coaster of action that pits a deadly assassin against the might of the most powerful private army on the planet.

Joe can't believe his luck when his dad rents a castle for their Easter holidays—but is devastated when his mum receives a better invitation and the trip is cancelled. Determined to have his holiday, Joe develops a plan to go with his friends instead. The castle is everything the friends had hoped for, but it's not long before they hear strange noises underground and notice yellow eyes lurking in the forest. And when Sherlock falls through some rotten boards and into an old well, they discover an ancient box, containing a 200-year-old notebook and an incomplete treasure map.