4 5 Stars

Das Finale der Reihe »A Good Girl's Guide to Murder«. Am Ende dieser Mystery-Reihe wirst du nie wieder auf dieselbe Weise über brave Mädchen denken … Pip steht kurz davor, aufs College zu gehen, doch sie wird noch immer davon verfolgt, wie ihre letzte Ermittlung endete. Nach ihrem viralen True-Crime-Podcast ist sie an Online-Todesdrohungen gewöhnt, aber sie kann nicht anders, als eine anonyme Person zu bemerken, die sie immer wieder fragt: Wer wird nach dir suchen, wenn du diejenige bist, die verschwindet? Schon bald eskalieren die Drohungen, und Pip erkennt, dass ihr jemand auch im echten Leben folgt. Als sie Verbindungen zwischen ihrem Stalker und einem örtlichen Serienmörder entdeckt, der vor sechs Jahren gefasst wurde, fragt sie sich, ob vielleicht der Falsche hinter Gittern sitzt. Die Polizei weigert sich zu handeln, also bleibt Pip nur eine Möglichkeit: Sie muss den Verdächtigen selbst finden – oder das nächste Opfer werden. Während sich das tödliche Spiel entfaltet, entdeckt Pip, dass in ihrer Kleinstadt alles wieder zum Ausgangspunkt zurückkehrt … und wenn sie die Antworten nicht findet, wird sie diesmal diejenige sein, die verschwindet …

Pip ist keine Detektivin mehr. Mit der Hilfe von Ravi Singh hat sie einen True-Crime-Podcast über den Mordfall veröffentlicht, den sie letztes Jahr gemeinsam gelöst haben. Der Podcast ist viral gegangen, doch Pip besteht darauf, dass ihre Tage als Ermittlerin hinter ihr liegen. Aber sie wird dieses Versprechen brechen müssen, als jemand, den sie kennt, verschwindet. Jamie Reynolds ist verschwunden – in derselben Nacht, in der die Stadt eine Gedenkfeier zum sechsten Jahrestag der Todesfälle von Andie Bell und Sal Singh veranstaltete. Die Polizei wird nichts unternehmen. Und wenn sie nicht nach Jamie suchen, wird Pip es tun und dabei weitere dunkle Geheimnisse ihrer Stadt aufdecken ... und diesmal hört jeder zu. Aber wird sie ihn finden, bevor es zu spät ist?

Opposites certainly attract for the stranded pop star and small-town baker in this charming slice of romance from the author of the TikTok sensation The Cheat Sheet. Amelia Rose, known as Rae Rose to her adoring fans, is burned-out from years of maintaining her "princess of pop" image. Inspired by her favorite Audrey Hepburn film, Roman Holiday, she drives off in the middle of the night for a break in Rome . . . Rome, Kentucky, that is. When Noah Walker finds Amelia on his front lawn in her broken-down car, he makes it clear he doesn't have the time or patience for celebrity problems. He's too busy running the pie shop his grandmother left him and reminding his nosy but lovable neighbors to mind their own damn business. Despite his better judgment, he lets her stay in his guest room—but only until her car is fixed—then she's on her own. Then Noah starts to see a different side of Rae Rose—she's Amelia: kindhearted and goofy, yet lonely from years in the public eye. He can't help but get close to her. Soon she'll have to return to her glamorous life on tour, but until then, Noah will show Amelia all the charming small-town experiences she's been missing, and she'll help him open his heart to more. Amelia can't resist falling for the cozy town and her grumpy tour guide, but even Audrey had to leave Rome eventually.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781476776880 From the acclaimed author of Forever, Interrupted and After I Do comes a breathtaking new novel about a young woman whose fate hinges on the choice she makes after bumping into an old flame; in alternating chapters, we see two possible scenarios unfold—with stunningly different results. At the age of twenty-nine, Hannah Martin still has no idea what she wants to do with her life. She has lived in six different cities and held countless meaningless jobs since graduating college. On the heels of leaving yet another city, Hannah moves back to her hometown of Los Angeles and takes up residence in her best friend Gabby’s guestroom. Shortly after getting back to town, Hannah goes out to a bar one night with Gabby and meets up with her high school boyfriend, Ethan. Just after midnight, Gabby asks Hannah if she’s ready to go. A moment later, Ethan offers to give her a ride later if she wants to stay. Hannah hesitates. What happens if she leaves with Gabby? What happens if she leaves with Ethan? In concurrent storylines, Hannah lives out the effects of each decision. Quickly, these parallel universes develop into radically different stories with large-scale consequences for Hannah, as well as the people around her. As the two alternate realities run their course, Maybe in Another Life raises questions about fate and true love: Is anything meant to be? How much in our life is determined by chance? And perhaps, most compellingly: Is there such a thing as a soul mate? Hannah believes there is. And, in both worlds, she believes she’s found him.

Ona je přesně tím, co celý život lovil. On je přesně tím, za co se celý život vydávala. Do království Ilya patří jen výjimeční — mimořádní, nadaní, Elity. Síly, jimiž Elity po desetiletí disponují, jim velkoryse nadělila Morová rána, ačkoli ne všichni měli to štěstí, že nemoc přežili a zároveň získali odměnu. Ti, kdo se narodili jako Obyčejní, jsou právě takoví — obyčejní. A když král nařídil vyhnat všechny Obyčejné, aby zachoval svou elitní společnost, stala se absence schopnosti náhle zločinem — a z Paedyn Grayové tak osud učinil zločinkyni a nutnost zlodějku. Přežít ve slumech jako Obyčejná není nic snadného a Paedyn to ví lépe než většina. Otec ji od dětství učil až přehnané všímavosti, a tak se v přeplněném městě vydává za Jasnovidku a snaží se co nejlépe splynout s Elitami, aby zůstala naživu a vyhnula se potížím. Snáz se řekne, než udělá. Když Paedyn nic netušíc zachrání jednoho z ilyjských princů, ocitne se ve Zkouškách očištění. Tato brutální soutěž má předvést síly Elit — právě to, co Paedyn postrádá. Jestli ji nezabijí Zkoušky a soupeři v nich, pak to jistě udělá princ, k němuž začíná něco cítit, pokud odhalí, čím je — naprosto Obyčejnou.

Srdce, které je třeba chránit. Dluh, který je třeba splatit. Hra, kterou je třeba vyhrát. Poté co Donatellu Dragnovou pohltil kouzelný svět Caravalu, se jí konečně podařilo uniknout otci a zachránit svou sestru Scarlett před katastrofálním dohodnutým sňatkem. Dívky by měly slavit, ale Tella ještě není volná. Uzavřela zoufalou dohodu s tajemným zločincem a to, co mu Tella dluží, se dosud nikomu nepodařilo získat: pravé jméno Legenda, mistra Caravalu. Jedinou šancí, jak odhalit Legendovu totožnost, je vyhrát Caraval, a tak se Tella znovu vrhá do legendární soutěže — a do cesty vražednému dědici trůnu, tragickému milostnému příběhu a síti tajemství… včetně tajemství své sestry. Caraval vždy vyžadoval odvahu, důvtip a oběti, ale teď hra žádá víc. Pokud Tella nedokáže splnit svou dohodu a předat Legendovo jméno, ztratí všechno, na čem jí záleží — možná i svůj život. Pokud však vyhraje, Legenda i Caraval budou navždy zničeny... Vítejte, vítejte v Caravalu… hry teprve začaly.

Eine Liebe, für die es sich zu kämpfen lohnt. Ein Traum, für den es sich zu sterben lohnt. Ein Ende, auf das es sich zu warten lohnt. Zwei Monate sind vergangen, seit die Schicksalsmächte aus einem Kartenspiel befreit wurden, zwei Monate, seit Legend den Thron für sich beansprucht hat, und zwei Monate, seit Tella herausgefunden hat, dass der Junge, in den sie sich verliebt hat, nicht wirklich existiert. Während Leben, Reiche und Herzen auf dem Spiel stehen, muss Tella entscheiden, ob sie Legend oder einem ehemaligen Feind vertrauen will. Nachdem sie ein Geheimnis aufdeckt, das ihr Leben auf den Kopf stellt, wird Scarlett das Unmögliche tun müssen. Und Legend muss eine Entscheidung treffen, die ihn für immer verändern und prägen wird. Caraval ist vorbei, doch vielleicht hat das größte Spiel von allen gerade erst begonnen. Diesmal gibt es keine Zuschauer – nur diejenigen, die gewinnen werden, und diejenigen, die alles verlieren werden. Willkommen, willkommen zu Finale … alle Spiele müssen einmal enden.

9 years after the battle of Hogwarts, the war still rages on and everyone is much changed since their days at Hogwarts. Hermione is the most lethal soldier in The Order, spending her days on rescue missions to free captured Muggleborn slaves and fight on the front line. For years, she's been meeting in secret with a spy within Voldemort's ranks to exchange information. But, when she's captured and made prisoner at Malfoy Manor, of all the dark and evil ways she'd envisioned Malfoy would torture her, she never quite imagined anything this horrific.

Alice Sun has always felt invisible at her elite Beijing international boarding school, where she’s the only scholarship student among China’s most rich and influential teens. But then she starts uncontrollably turning invisible—actually invisible. When her parents drop the news that they can no longer afford her tuition, even with the scholarship, Alice hatches a plan to monetize her strange new power—she’ll discover the scandalous secrets her classmates want to know, for a price. But as the tasks escalate from petty scandals to actual crimes, Alice must decide if it’s worth losing her conscience—or even her life. In this genre-bending YA debut, a Chinese American girl monetizes her strange new invisibility powers by discovering and selling her wealthy classmates’ most scandalous secrets.

Seventeen-year-old Cassie Hobbes has a gift for profiling people. Her talent has landed her a spot in an elite FBI program for teens with innate crime-solving abilities, and into some harrowing situations. After barely escaping a confrontation with an unbalanced killer obsessed with her mother’s murder, Cassie hopes she and the rest of the team can stick to solving cold cases from a distance. But when victims of a brutal new serial killer start turning up, the Naturals are pulled into an active case that strikes too close to home: the killer is a perfect copycat of Dean’s incarcerated father—a man he’d do anything to forget. Forced deeper into a murderer’s psyche than ever before, will the Naturals be able to outsmart the enigmatic killer’s brutal mind games before this copycat twists them into his web for good? With her trademark wit, brilliant plotting, and twists that no one will see coming, Jennifer Lynn Barnes will keep readers on the edge of their seats (and looking over their shoulders) as they race through the pages of this thrilling novel.

DAISY Grey is the embodiment of sunshine after a storm, a believer in silver linings, and the kind of girl who can find magic in the everyday. In the midst of heartbreak, she’s arrived at Coastal U to be one with the ocean, hoping to dive deep into her studies and rediscover the joy of riding the waves. Until one fateful morning, she finds a sleeping stranger on the beach. A man who’s in serious need of a wake\-up call. ELIO Reynolds is something of an enigma. Alone by choice, he's found solace in the quiet of the coast and the companionship of his loyal dog. But there's more to him than meets the eye. With his only friend off at graduate school, he immerses himself in the online world of AfterDark, a place where he’s often forced into the limelight. When confronted by a medical condition, Elio finds an unexpected ally in Daisy. Although he may be a virtual stranger, she jumps at the opportunity to lend a helping hand. Soon enough, their shared space becomes a sanctuary. Two fractured hearts. One unlikely connection. When the waves of the past come crashing in, can they find a way to stay afloat?

Από τη συγγραφέα της πολυεκατομμυριούχας μπεστ σέλερ σειράς Οδηγός φόνου για καλά κορίτσια και του Five Survive έρχεται ένα νέο μυστηριώδες θρίλερ εμπνευσμένο από αληθινά εγκλήματα, για ένα κορίτσι αποφασισμένο να αποκαλύψει τη συγκλονιστική αλήθεια για την αγνοούμενη μητέρα του, ενώ γυρίζει ένα ντοκιμαντέρ για την ανεξιχνίαστη υπόθεση. Φώτα. Κάμερα. Ψέματα. Η δεκαοχτάχρονη Μπελ έχει ζήσει όλη της τη ζωή στη σκιά της μυστηριώδους εξαφάνισης της μητέρας της. Πριν από δεκαέξι χρόνια, η Ρέιτσελ Πράις εξαφανίστηκε και η μικρή τότε Μπελ ήταν η μόνη μάρτυρας, όμως δεν θυμάται τίποτα. Η Ρέιτσελ έχει χαθεί, θεωρείται νεκρή εδώ και πολύ καιρό, και η Μπελ εύχεται όλοι απλώς να προχωρούσαν παρακάτω. Όμως η υπόθεση ανασύρεται από το παρελθόν όταν η οικογένεια Πράις συμφωνεί να συμμετάσχει σε ένα ντοκιμαντέρ αληθινού εγκλήματος. Η Μπελ ανυπομονεί να τελειώσουν τα γυρίσματα, να επιστρέψει η ζωή στην κανονικότητα. Και τότε συμβαίνει το αδύνατο. Η Ρέιτσελ Πράις επανεμφανίζεται και η ζωή δεν θα είναι ποτέ ξανά φυσιολογική. Η Ρέιτσελ έχει μια απίστευτη ιστορία για ό,τι της συνέβη. Απίστευτη, γιατί η Μπελ δεν είναι σίγουρη ότι είναι αληθινή. Αν η Ρέιτσελ λέει ψέματα, τότε πού βρισκόταν όλον αυτόν τον καιρό; Και θα μπορούσε να είναι επικίνδυνη; Με τις κάμερες να συνεχίζουν να γράφουν, η Μπελ πρέπει να αποκαλύψει την αλήθεια για τη μητέρα της και να μάθει γιατί η Ρέιτσελ Πράις επέστρεψε πραγματικά από τους νεκρούς... Από την παγκοσμίως αναγνωρισμένη συγγραφέα Χόλι Τζάκσον έρχεται ένα καθηλωτικό αριστούργημα για την αναζήτηση της αλήθειας από ένα κορίτσι και τον τρόμο που κρύβει η ανακάλυψη του ποια είναι πραγματικά η οικογένειά σου.

In New York City where we lay our scene, two rival witch families fight to maintain control of their respective criminal ventures. On one side of the conflict are the Antonova sisters, each one beautiful, cunning, and ruthless, and their mother, the elusive supplier of premium intoxicants known only as Baba Yaga. On the other side, the influential Fedorov brothers serve their father, the crime boss known as Koschei the Deathless, whose community extortion ventures dominate the shadows of magical Manhattan. After twelve years of tenuous coexistence, a change in one family’s interests causes a rift in the existing stalemate. When bad blood brings both families to the precipice of disaster, fate intervenes with a chance encounter, and in the aftershocks of a resurrected conflict, everyone must choose a side. As each of the siblings struggles to stake their claim, fraying loyalties threaten to rot each side from the inside out. If, that is, the enmity between empires doesn’t destroy them first.

Author of The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in 1960s Florida. Elwood Curtis has taken the words of Dr Martin Luther King to heart: he is as good as anyone. Abandoned by his parents, brought up by his loving, strict and clear-sighted grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But given the time and the place, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy his future, and so Elwood arrives at The Nickel Academy, which claims to provide 'physical, intellectual and moral training' which will equip its inmates to become 'honorable and honest men'. In reality, the Nickel Academy is a chamber of horrors, where physical, emotional and sexual abuse is rife, where corrupt officials and tradesmen do a brisk trade in supplies intended for the school, and where any boy who resists is likely to disappear 'out back'. Stunned to find himself in this vicious environment, Elwood tries to hold on to Dr King's ringing assertion, 'Throw us in jail, and we will still love you.' But Elwood's fellow inmate and new friend Turner thinks Elwood is naive and worse; the world is crooked, and the only way to survive is to emulate the cruelty and cynicism of their oppressors. The tension between Elwood's idealism and Turner's skepticism leads to a decision which will have decades-long repercussions. Based on the history of a real reform school in Florida that operated for one hundred and eleven years and warped and destroyed the lives of thousands of children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating, driven narrative by a great American novelist whose work is essential to understanding the current reality of the United States.

Can you stop a murder after it’s already happened? It is midnight on the morning of Halloween, and Jen anxiously waits up for her 18-year-old son, Todd, to return home. But worries about his broken curfew transform into something much more dangerous when Todd finally emerges from the darkness. As Jen watches through the window, she sees her funny, seemingly happy teenage son stab a total stranger. She doesn’t know who the victim is, or why Todd has committed such a devastating act of violence. All she knows is that her life, and Todd’s, have been shattered. After her son is taken into custody, Jen falls asleep in despair. But when she wakes up… it is yesterday. The murder has not happened yet—and there may be a chance to stop it. Each morning, when Jen wakes, she is further back in the past, first weeks, then years, before the murder. And Jen realizes that somewhere in the past lies the trigger for Todd’s terrible crime…and it is her mission to find it, and prevent it from taking place.

She’s got his back. Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. Or a ballpoint pen. Or a dinner napkin. But the truth is, she’s an Executive Protection Agent (aka "bodyguard"), and she just got hired to protect superstar actor Jack Stapleton from his middle-aged, corgi-breeding stalker. He’s got her heart. Jack Stapleton’s a household name—captured by paparazzi on beaches the world over, famous for, among other things, rising out of the waves in all manner of clingy board shorts and glistening like a Roman deity. But a few years back, in the wake of a family tragedy, he dropped from the public eye and went off the grid. They’ve got a secret. When Jack’s mom gets sick, he comes home to the family’s Texas ranch to help out. Only one catch: He doesn’t want his family to know about his stalker. Or the bodyguard thing. And so Hannah—against her will and her better judgment—finds herself pretending to be Jack’s girlfriend as a cover. Even though her ex, like a jerk, says no one will believe it. What could possibly go wrong??? Hannah hardly believes it, herself. But the more time she spends with Jack, the more real it all starts to seem. And there lies the heartbreak. Because it’s easy for Hannah to protect Jack. But protecting her own, long-neglected heart? That’s the hardest thing she’s ever done.

Willkommen, willkommen zurück in der geheimnisvoll bezaubernden Welt von CARAVAL! Kehre zurück zur legendären Magie und dem verspielten Zauber in dieser wunderschön illustrierten Feiertagsnovelle. Schneeflocken fallen. Einladungen treffen ein. Und Feiertagsmagie wirbelt durch die Hauptstadt des Meridianischen Reiches. Es ist der Abend vor dem Abend des Großen Feiertags. Scarlett Dragna plant eine spektakuläre Feiertagsfeier für die Stadt. Donatella sucht nach dem perfekten Geschenk. Julian sieht in Grün lächerlich gut aus. Und Legend … Nun, leider ist Legend kein Freund des Großen Feiertags. Tella hofft, dass ihr perfektes Geschenk seine Meinung ändern wird. Unglücklicherweise hat sie dieses perfekte Geschenk noch nicht gefunden. Aber es ist der Abend vor dem Abend des Großen Feiertags … bestimmt wirbelt irgendwo Feiertagsmagie umher. Willkommen, willkommen zurück in der Welt von Caraval, in der selbst Feiertage nicht so sind, wie sie scheinen. Diese reizvolle Novelle spielt nach Stephanie Garbers CARAVAL-Reihe, die auf Platz 1 der NEW-YORK-TIMES-Bestsellerliste stand, und nimmt Leserinnen und Leser mit auf das ultimative Feiertagsabenteuer voller Uhrwerkjungen, vergifteter Süßigkeiten, schelmischer Schneekugeln, Fröhlichkeit und – wenn Tella es durchsetzt – Liebe. Wunderschön illustriert von Rosie Thorns, ist SPECTACULAR die perfekte Ausgabe für Sammlerinnen und Sammler, Leserinnen und Leser, Träumerinnen und Träumer sowie Liebhaberinnen und Liebhaber von Feiertagsmagie.

The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center is a forthcoming title from St. Martin's Press.

Da liget af en ung kvinde bliver fundet i et forladt hus midt i Los Angeles National Forest, befinder drabsdetektiv Robert Hunter sig i et rædselsvækkende, tilbagevendende mareridt. Nøgen og bundet til to parallelle træpæle var offeret blevet sadistisk tortureret, før hun mødte en ulidelig smertefuld død. Al huden var revet af hendes ansigt – mens hun stadig var i live. I nakken var der indskåret et mærkeligt dobbeltkors: signaturen på en psykopat kendt som Krucifiks-morderen. Men det er umuligt. For for to år siden blev Krucifiks-morderen fanget og henrettet. Kan der derfor være tale om en efterligningsmorder? Eller kan det utænkelige være sandt? Er den rigtige morder stadig derude, klar til igen at påbegynde et ondskabsfuldt og voldeligt drabstogt, hvor han tilsyneladende udvælger sine ofre tilfældigt og håner Robert Hunter med hans manglende evne til at fange ham? Hunter og hans uerfarne partner er på vej ind i et mareridt hinsides al forestillingsevne.

When Lauren and Ryan’s marriage reaches the breaking point, they come up with an unconventional plan. They decide to take a year off in the hopes of finding a way to fall in love again. One year apart, and only one rule: they cannot contact each other. Aside from that, anything goes. Lauren embarks on a journey of self-discovery, quickly finding that her friends and family have their own ideas about the meaning of marriage. These influences, as well as her own healing process and the challenges of living apart from Ryan, begin to change Lauren’s ideas about monogamy and marriage. She starts to question: When you can have romance without loyalty and commitment without marriage, when love and lust are no longer tied together, what do you value? What are you willing to fight for?

Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since. Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees. Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?