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Taylor Lockwood spends her days working as a paralegal in one of New York's preeminent Wall Street law firms and her nights playing jazz piano anywhere she can. But the rhythm of her life is disrupted when attorney Mitchell Reece asks her to find a stolen document that could cost him the multimillion-dollar case he's defending...and his career as well. Taylor signs on...only to find that as she delves deeper and deeper into what goes on behind closed doors at Hubbard, White & Willis, she uncovers more than she wants to know.

Special Agent Constant Marlowe is tasked with taking over the investigation of an obsessed serial killer trolling the small town of Clark Valley in the quiet—and eerie—plains of the Midwest. Two female victims in quick succession, the same brutal MO, and every indication that victim number three is only days away. Also in the killer’s scope is Constant herself. When she interviews a local family who may be potential witnesses, she leads the devil to their doorstep, throwing their lives into chaos.

A festive street fair is underway in the shadow of the courthouse where a judge has just signed an extradition order. Paul Offenbach is escorted outside in handcuffs to a police cruiser—with another trick up his sleeve no one expects. In a matter of seconds, the killer is free, a hostage is taken from his family and Special Agent Constant Marlowe has lost her bid for justice. But is this the final chapter? As the lives of the guilty, the innocent and the vengeful converge, the winner remains uncertain.

A spring night in a small town in Wisconsin. . . . A call to police emergency from a distant lake house is cut short. . . . A phone glitch or an aborted report of a crime? Off-duty deputy Brynn leaves her family's dinner table and drives up to deserted Lake Mondac to find out. She stumbles onto the scene of a heinous murder. . . . Before she can call for backup, though, she finds herself the next potential victim.

In the wake of a disastrous firefight with a Mexican cartel, two El Paso police officers find themselves in a military hospital facing a debriefing about what went wrong. As their accounts unfold, Tony, a by-the-book cop, begins to believe that hotheaded Matt might have divided loyalties. Could he have intentionally led the team into a trap that saw the death of a beloved senior officer? Or is the truth even more terrifying than Tony dares to imagine?

A highway cop finds a memorial cross on the side of the road and a kidnapped girl in the boot of a car. The victim points Special Agent Kathryn Dance to a vicious online community. When further crosses appear it becomes a race against time to find the attacker before he can carry out his chilling plans in the cyber world and the real.

Megan's life isn't going well. It's also about to get worse. A drunken joke has left her having to see a tedious therapist. In his absence, the dynamically different Dr Peters takes over - or so Megan thinks. He manages to shock her innermost secrets out of her, and then he whacks a syringe into her arm before she has time to cry out. Aaron Matthews, alias Dr Peters, isn't having the best of times, either. Chance keeps sabotaging Megan's meticulously planned abduction. If he believed in luck, he'd be cursing his.

Zwei Wochen nach einem brutalen Mord in Manhattan ist Detective Amelia Sachs dem vermeintlichen Killer dicht auf den Fersen. Sie liefert sich mit ihm eine Verfolgungsjagd in einem Einkaufszentrum in Brooklyn, als es dort zu einem technischen Defekt an einer der Rolltreppen kommt - mit verheerenden Folgen. Die Stufen brechen ein, ein Mann stürzt und wird vom Getriebe zerquetscht. Kurz darauf erkennen Amelia und ihr Partner Lincoln Rhyme, dass es sich bei dem Ereignis keineswegs um einen Unfall handelte.

In Kansas entführen drei entflohene Schwerverbrecher einen Schulbus mit zwei Lehrerinnen und acht taubstummen Mädchen. Sie flüchten mit ihnen in einen abgelegenen ehemaligen Schlachthof und stellen ein Ultimatum: Im Austausch gegen ihre Geiseln wollen sie einen Hubschrauber – sonst stirbt jede Stunde ein Mädchen. Arthur Potter, psychologisch geschulter FBI-Spezialist, ist fest entschlossen, die Täter zur Strecke zu bringen. Während die Geiseln im Schlachthof durch die Hölle gehen, nimmt ein nervenaufreibendes Feilschen um ihre Leben seinen Lauf.

Jon Talbot is a history professor who makes sense of the past by examining facts. He also knows how to speculate about the what-ifs. Jon’s doing both following the death of his wife, Pax. Driving home late from a volunteer assignment, she plunged off a mountain highway and died. The police find nothing suspicious about the facts: a deer in the road, a blown tire, a broken neck. But the what-ifs are leading Jon down a twisting trail of secrets. After five years of marriage, he is finally getting to know his wife.

Ein neuer spannender Fall des Ermittler-Duos Lincoln Rhyme und Amelia Sachs. Seit einem Dienstunfall ist Lincoln Rhyme, das Superhirn der New Yorker Polizei, fast vollständig gelähmt. Neue Hoffnung auf Heilung macht ihm eine komplizierte Operation. Dazu reist er mit seiner Assistentin Amelia Sachs nach North Carolina in eine Spezialklinik.

A robbery goes awry. A female deputy is tortured and murdered. The killer, hiding in plain sight, has officials in rural Wisconsin under his thumb—except for Special Agent Constant Marlowe, on an unsanctioned mission to avenge her friend’s death. Constant isn’t letting a notorious sadist like Paul Offenbach get away. Traps are set. A cat-and-mouse game begins. Both hunter and hunted are ready to play.

Der Tatort, mit dem sich Amelia Sachs konfrontiert sieht, ist einer der schrecklichsten ihrer Karriere: In einem Juweliergeschäft wurden einem branchenberühmten Diamantenhändler sowie einem jungen Paar die Kehlen durchgeschnitten. Noch im Todeskampf hielten die Verliebten sich an den Händen. Der Killer macht offenbar Jagd auf Paare und lauert ihnen in ihren glücklichsten Momenten auf. Und er scheint fest entschlossen, auch alle Zeugen aus dem Weg zu räumen, die den Ermittlern Lincoln Rhyme und Amelia Sachs - selbst frisch verheiratet - helfen könnten, das Morden zu stoppen.

Ein gefährlicher Stalker versetzt ganz New York in Angst und Schrecken – der packende 15. Fall für Lincoln Rhyme und Amelia Sachs! Er kommt nachts in dein Haus. Er beobachtet dich, während du schläfst. Er trinkt deinen Wein. Er stiehlt wertlose Dinge. Er verbringt Zeit bei dir. Keine Tür kann ihn draußen halten. Keine Überwachungskamera kann ihn aufzeichnen. Und nun ist er bereit zu töten. Niemand in New York ist mehr sicher. Jetzt liegt es an Lincoln Rhyme, das Netz an Hinweisen zu entwirren und ihn aufzuhalten.

New Year's Eve, 1999. A grisly machine gun attack in the Washington, D.C. subway leaves dozens dead and the city crippled with fear. With a ransom note as the only scrap of evidence, Special Agent Margaret Lukasa calls Parker Kincaid, the top forensic document examiner in the country.

The number one priority for Bradley Reynolds of Maryland's Organized Crime Taskforce is Andre Hector Federico. The mob boss is old school - a devoted family man, treacherous as hell, and paranoid enough to have escaped Reynolds's sting. Now Reynolds has a new plan: enlist prize-winning crime novelist Alan Seybold to concoct a foolproof chapter-by-chapter scenario on how to lure Federico out of his safe zone and collar him. There's just one condition: Seybold has to play by the rules of real life.

Exclusive to Audible. Author of over 30 novels, three collections of short stories and a nonfiction law book - we invite Jeffery Deaver to the studios. Discussing his latest novel, The Steel Kiss, we are introduced to the often complex world of Lincoln Rhyme. Deaver explains his writing process, how the series has evolved and the research he has to undergo to write his gripping thrillers.

Steven Ross, a family man from a small midwestern town, has been arrested for murder. Evidence suggests he’s an accomplice of the sadistic killer Paul Offenbach. County district attorney Evan Quill believes in his heart that Ross is guilty, but as the trial unfolds, doubts emerge. He presses forward anyway, in a legal fencing match against a brilliant big-city defense attorney. Will Quill’s uncompromising beliefs put an innocent man in jail? Or will a misstep let a killer go free?

Things started out so sweet. Everyone was going to be rich. All because of Trunk Man. He was the guy Papa and his meatheads stuffed in the back of a stolen Nissan and drove to a forest preserve outside Detroit. He owed Papa big-time. To save his own sorry neck, Trunk Man made an offer: a million dollars in bonds tucked away in a safe. Boost it, split it, and toss Trunk Man from a roof. Easy.

A collection of short stories from number-one best-selling author Jeffery Deaver, including one new Lincoln Rhyme tale, previously unpublished in the UK.