'Suspense gegarandeerd.' de VolkskrantEen zwaar verminkt lijk wordt ontdekt in de kluis van een zilverwinkel. In eerste instantie denkt de politie dat het lichaam dat van eenveroordeelde crimineel is, maar niet iedereen is het met die theorie eens. Decima Mullins roept de hulp in van privédetective Cormoran Strike en zijn zakenpartner Robin Ellacott. Ze is er namelijk zeker van dat het lichaam in de zilverkluis dat van haar plotseling verdwenen vriend is – de vader van haa...

The Calhoun Women return in #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts’s A Man for Amanda. Home renovations get complicated when a woman finds herself in unfamiliar territory with a skillful, hands-on contractor.To keep their family mansion, the Towers, standing tall on the coast of Maine, the Calhouns have hired local architect Sloan O’Riley to perform long-needed repairs. Amanda Calhoun is responsible for overseeing Sloan’s work, and whil...

The world watched with fear in November 1979, when Iranian students infiltrated and occupied the American embassy in Tehran. As the city exploded in a fury of revolution, few knew about the six American embassy staff who escaped into hiding. For three months, Ken Taylor, the Canadian ambassador to Iran—along with his wife and embassy staffers—concealed the Americans in their homes, terrified that Ayatollah Khomeini would find out and exact deadly consequences.January 28, 2010, mark...

Robert Musil (1880 - 1942) was an Austro-Hungarian novelist and essayist, known for his masterpiece "The Man Without Qualities." He was born on November 6, 1880, in Klagenfurt, Austria, during the era of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.Musil, influenced by the philosophical and cultural currents of his time, stood out for his keen observation of society and his profound psychological analysis. His most famous work, "The Man Without Qualities," is a monumental novel that examines the d...

“When it comes to true romance, no one does it better than Nora [Roberts],” (Booklist). And in The MacGregors’ novel One Man’s Art, the #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers a story of how one woman’s love gives a man the strength to let go of his haunted past.A lighthouse keeper on the shores of Maine, Grant Campbell convinced himself he was content with being alone, free of the harmful entanglements that bind people. Then Genevi...

From USA Today bestselling and ITW Thriller Award-winning author Robert Swartwood, the entire four-book series in the best-selling Man of Wax series: Legion, Man of Wax, The Inner Circle, End Game. Nearly 1,600 pages of page-turning suspense!"Man of Wax grabs you by the throat in the first chapter and never lets go. A suspense-filled thrill ride with plenty of shocks along the way. Read it!" —F. Paul Wil...

'O****ne of today's best detective series' LA TIMESThe minefield of Elvis Cole's past is coming back to haunt him - with a vengeance...Six months after nearly losing everything to the men who kidnapped his girlfriend's ten-year-old son, Elvis Cole is slowly coming back to life - when he receives an ominous phone call from the LAPD. An unidentified body has been found in a seedy Los Angeles alley. The only clue the cops have is a packet of n...

AVAILABLE DIGITALLY FOR THE FIRST TIMESometimes you find what you're looking for just when you least expect it...A slow drawl was all Amanda Calhoun heard when she walked into the wall of denim and muscle that was Sloan O'Riley. The handsome architect has been hired to renovate The Towers - the Calhoun family's beloved but crumbling mansion. Known as the responsible Calhoun sister, Amanda finds Sloan's easygoing, almost arrogant attitude infuriating, but his irresistible sm...

From USA Today bestselling author Robert Swartwood, a heart-pounding conspiracy thriller of riveting mystery and suspense.A message courier pushed into the path of a train. A young woman commits a terrible act of violence. A family man puts a gun to his head.John Smith suspects these aren't random events — someone engineered them. But who — or what? And why is John Smith their next target?PRAISE FOR LEGION AND ROBERT SWARTWOOD"Legion is an excellent thriller...

From USA Today bestselling and ITW Thriller Award-winning author Robert Swartwood comes the exciting second book in the Man of Wax Trilogy ...Two years ago Ben Anderson woke up in a rundown motel, three thousand miles from home, his family missing, and the words LET THE GAME BEGIN written in blood on the back of the bathroom door.Now, with his past life gone, Ben has become a soldier in Carver Ellison's army against Caesar.But when a missio...

From USA Today bestselling and ITW Thriller Award-winning author Robert Swartwood comes the much-anticipated and thrilling conclusion to the Man of Wax Trilogy.Two years ago Ben Anderson woke up in a rundown motel, three thousand miles from home, his family missing, and the words LET THE GAME BEGIN written in blood on the back of the bathroom door.Two years ago, everything changed. Not just for Ben and his family, who he believed was lost forever, ...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA dismembered corpse is discovered in the vault of a silver shop. The police initially believe it to be that of a convicted armed robber - but not everyone agrees with that theory. One of them is Decima Mullins, who calls on the help of private detective Cormoran Strike as she's certain the body in the silver vault was that of her boyfriend - the father of her newborn baby - who suddenly and mysteriously disappeared.