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Glückssucher in Berlin. Einen Nobelpreis wird er wohl nicht bekommen. Arne Murberg ist von schlichterem Gemüt. Nach einem Badeunfall in der Kindheit hat er Schwierigkeiten sich zu konzentrieren und komplexere Zusammenhänge zu erfassen. Aber Arne ist ein warmherziger, liebenswerter Mensch, der sich eine kindlich naive, offene Art bewahrt hat und voll Vertrauen auf das Leben blickt.

A community is left reeling after a teacher - Arnold Maager - is convicted of murdering his female pupil Winnie Maas. It seems the girl had been pregnant with Maager's child. Years later, on her 18th birthday, Maager's daughter Mikaela finally learns the terrible truth about her father. Desperate for answers, Mikaela travels to the institution at Lejnice, where Maager has been held since his trial. But soon afterwards she inexplicably vanishes.

The Strangler's Honeymoon is the penultimate gripping Scandinavian crime thriller in the Van Veeteren series by Håkan Nesser. Desperately lonely, 16-year-old Monica Kammerle has little idea of what she is getting herself into when she begins an affair with her mother's latest partner, the sophisticated Benjamin Kerran.... Months later, when a woman's strangled body is found, the Maardam police must discover who has committed this terrible crime.

As the realm struggles to maintain an uneasy peace after years of civil war and tyranny, a 12-year-old orphan called Mosca Mye and her loyal companion, a cantankerous goose, are about to become the unlikely heroes of a radical revolution. Mosca is on the run, heading for the city of Mandelion. There she finds herself living by her wits among cut-throat highwaymen, spies and smugglers. With peril at every turn, Mosca uncovers a dark plot to terrorise the people of Mandelion, and soon merry mayhem leads to murder....

December 2018, and free-spirited Influencers Bo Loxley and her partner, Zac, are living a life of wanderlust, travelling the globe and sharing their adventures with their millions of fans. Booked to spend Christmas in the Norwegian fjords, they set up home in a remote farm owned by enigmatic mountain guide Anders and his fierce grandmother, Signy. Surrounded by snowy peaks and frozen falls, everything should be perfect. But the camera can lie, and with every new post, the ‘perfect’ life Zac and Bo are portraying is diverging from the truth.

The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar start-up, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose start-up ‘unicorn’ promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood tests significantly faster and easier.

Solomon knew that he had one advantage. A pawn ticket belonging to a dead man tucked into his top pocket - the only clue to the truth.... An old soldier dies alone in his Edinburgh nursing home. No known relatives, and no will to enact. Just a pawn ticket found amongst his belongings, and 50,000 pounds in used notes sewn into the lining of his burial suit....

Janek Mitter stumbles into his bathroom one morning after a night of heavy drinking, to find his beautiful young wife, Eva, floating dead in the bath. She has been brutally murdered. Yet even during his trial Mitter cannot summon a single memory of attacking Eva, nor a clue as to who could have killed her if he had not. Only once he has been convicted and locked away in an asylum for the criminally insane does he have a snatch of insight – but is it too late?

One of Spain’s richest men is dying. But as he prepares his estate, his family is shocked to discover he is making plans to give away his wealth to a young woman they have never even heard of. Who is she and what hold does she have over him? Charlotte Fairfax is asked to travel to the troubled family’s home in Spain to get to the bottom of the mysterious bequest. It’s the week before her wedding but she is confident she has time - there’s only one reason an older man leaves his money to a beautiful woman, isn’t there?

It's been raining for days in Vigàta, and the persistent downpours have led to violent floods overtaking the Inspector's beloved hometown, sweeping across the land and leaving only a sea of mud behind. It is on one of these endless grey days that a man - a Mr Giuglù Nicotra - is found dead. His body discovered in a large sewage tunnel, half naked and with a bullet in his back.

Janek Mitter stumbles into his bathroom one morning after a night of heavy drinking, to find his beautiful young wife, Eva, floating dead in the bath. She has been brutally murdered. Yet even during his trial Mitter cannot summon a single memory of attacking Eva, nor a clue as to who could have killed her if he had not. Only once he has been convicted and locked away in an asylum for the criminally insane does he have a snatch of insight - but is it too late?

CeCe D’Aplièse, in her mid-twenties, has never felt she fitted in anywhere. Following the death of her father, the elusive billionaire Pa Salt – so-called by the six daughters he adopted from around the globe – she finds herself at breaking point. Dropping out of art college, CeCe watches as Star, her beloved sister, distances herself to follow her new love, leaving her completely alone. In desperation, CeCe decides to flee England and discover her past; the only clues she has are a black-and-white photograph and the name of a woman pioneer who lived in Australia over one hundred years ago.

At 59 years old, Valdemar Roos is tired of life. Working a job he hates, with a wife he barely talks to and two step-daughters he doesn't get on with, he doesn't have a lot to look forward to. Then, one day, a winning lottery ticket gives him an opportunity to start afresh. Without telling a soul, he quits his job and buys a hut in the remote Swedish countryside. Every day he travels down to this man-made oasis, returning each evening to his unsuspecting wife. Life couldn't be better, until a young woman arrives in paradise.

Sweden 2012. When Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti returns to work after a terrible personal tragedy, his boss asks him to investigate a cold case, hoping to ease him back gently into his police duties. Five years previously a shy electrician, Arnold Morinder, disappeared from the face of the earth, the only clue his blue moped abandoned in a nearby swamp. At the time his partner, Ellen Bjarnebo, claimed that Arnold had probably travelled to Norway never to return. But Ellen is one of Sweden’s most notorious killers.

It's December in the quiet Swedish town of Kymlinge, and the Hermansson family are gathering to celebrate father Karl-Erik and eldest daughter Ebba's joint landmark birthdays. But beneath the guise of happy festivities, tensions are running high, and it's not long before the night takes a dark and unexpected turn....

Adalbert Hanzon ist 73 Jahre alt, von Vergesslichkeit geplagt und hat mit der Welt abgeschlossen. Bis er in einer Apotheke jene Frau wiederzuerkennen glaubt, die einmal seine große Liebe war: Andrea Altman. Damals arbeitete er als Hausmeister, sie verliebten sich ineinander. Doch Andrea war bereits vergeben, ein Ausweg schien unmöglich, bis die beiden einen kühnen Plan fassten – bei dessen Umsetzung allerdings ein entscheidendes Detail schief ging. Seither blieb Andrea spurlos verschwunden. Adalbert bleibt der Unbekannten auf den Fersen.

Unos días antes de Navidad, la familia Hermansson al completo se reúne para celebrar los sesenta y cinco años de Karl-Erik, un padre encomiable y maestro jubilado, y los cuarenta de Ebba, su hija favorita. Unas horas después, se producen dos desapariciones inexplicables: primero, Robert, la oveja negra de la familia; al día siguiente Henrik, el hijo mayor de Ebba, quien desaparece en medio de la noche sin dejar rastro.

Una famiglia modello, gli Hermansson. O quasi. Pochi giorni prima di Natale sono riuniti per festeggiare un centocinquesimo compleanno: i sessantacinque anni di Karl-Erik, padre encomiabile e insegnante in pensione, e i quaranta di Ebba, la sua figlia prediletta. È l'occasione per ritrovare proprio tutti, perfino Robert, la "pecora nera" della famiglia: scrittore mancato (il suo romanzo, L'uomo senza un cane, è da dieci anni in attesa di pubblicazione), è assurto agli onori delle cronache per aver partecipato a un reality show di pessimo gusto, creando non poco imbarazzo ai suoi.

Håkan Nessers neuer Krimi um Intrigen und Mord im schwedischen Literaturbetrieb. Gibt es den perfekten Mord? Die Leser des erfolgreichen Autors Franz J. Lunde sind sich sicher: Wer einen Mord so schildert, muss ihn selbst begangen haben. Lunde, der an einem Manuskript mit dem Titel "Letzte Tage und Tod eines Schriftstellers" arbeitet, fühlt sich von seinem Publikum bedroht. Nach einer Lesung in Kymlinge ist er plötzlich spurlos verschwunden. Kurze Zeit später wird die bekannte Lyrikerin Maria Green vermisst. Auch sie hinterlässt ein rätselhaftes Schriftfragment.

Sein persönlichster Fall. Inspektor Barbarotti auf dem Abstellgleis? Als er nach einem persönlichen Schicksalsschlag zum ersten Mal wieder im Dienst erscheint, soll er zwei ungeklärte Mordfälle wieder aufnehmen. In deren Zentrum steht die mysteriöse Ellen Bjarnebo: die hat nicht nur ihren ersten Mann grausam ermordet, sondern wahrscheinlich auch ihren zweiten - der ist nämlich seit Jahren spurlos verschwunden. Doch ohne Leiche keine Mörderin.