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Ein extrem intelligenter Serienmörder versetzt ganz New York in Angst. Neben jedem der grausam ermordeten Opfer hinterlässt der eiskalte Verbrecher seine unverwechselbare Visitenkarte: eine kleine, laut tickende Standuhr...

Fear kills - the fourth electrifying Kathryn Dance thriller by master of suspense and number-one best-selling author Jeffery Deaver. One mistake is all it takes. Busted back to rookie after losing her gun in an interrogation gone bad, California Bureau of Investigation Agent Kathryn Dance finds herself making routine insurance checks after a roadhouse fire. But Dance is a highly trained expert in body language: Her most deadly weapon is her instinct, and they can't take that away from her.

James Bond genießt einen romantischen Abend mit einer hinreißend schönen Frau. Da erreicht ihn ein dringender Alarm: Ein Lauschposten hat eine verschlüsselte Botschaft abgefangen, die einen unmittelbar bevorstehenden Anschlag ankündigt. Es wird mit Tausenden von Todesopfern gerechnet. Britische Sicherheitsinteressen sind unmittelbar betroffen. Die höchsten Regierungsstellen wissen, dass nur noch James Bond die drohende Katastrophe abwenden kann.

Jeffery Deaver loves writing short stories. "All bets are off," he says. "Short stories are like a sniper's bullet. Fast and shocking. I can make good bad and bad badder, and most fun of all, really bad seem good." And that is exactly what he does in these 17 superb tales. This is a collection of short stories that is instantly gripping and impossible to leave alone, taking your breath away time and time again. Nothing is as it seems...

Ex-Detective Lincoln Rhyme ist nach einem Arbeitsunfall querschnittsgelähmt und zieht sich immer mehr zurück. Bis ein Serienkiller die Stadt in Angst versetzt: an jedem Tatort hinterläßt er einen Hinweis auf seinen nächsten Mord. Lincolns Interesse wird geweckt - denn langsam kommt ihm der Verdacht, daß er den Mörder kennen muß.

Daniel Pell is a contemporary Charles Manson. A petty criminal with a history of anti-social behaviour, he had a group of women living with him in a quasi cult in central California. Eight years ago, he and another man viciously slaughtered a family for no apparent reason, though the three women in his "family" were absolved of any part in the deaths. Now, present day, Pell has escaped and interrogator and analyst Kathryn Dance must find out where he is and why he's staying near the prison he escaped from.

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.

A highway patrol trooper notices something strange on the side of the road: a homemade cross, fashioned as a memorial. Except the date being 'remembered' is the following day - the day the police find a kidnapped teenage girl in the trunk of a car, left for dead. Special Agent Kathryn Dance, the kinesics expert with the California Bureau of Investigation, is on the case.

Colter Shaw is a career ‘reward-seeker’, making his living travelling the country and locating missing persons. So when a woman disappears, he quickly takes the case. As he investigates, he suspects that she was fleeing a bad marriage, and he follows her trail to a secret retreat in Indiana. As events take one surprising turn after another, Shaw begins to wonder if there's more to this mysterious woman than meets the eye.

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.

They are calling it the 'million-dollar bullet': a sniper shot from a near-impossible distance. But there is no crime-scene investigation, no evidence, and no co-operation from the local Bahamian police. Ambitious New York district attorney Nance Laurel won't let it go. This murder has all the hallmarks of a contract killing, and she has evidence that the order came from the highest levels of the US government.

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.

New York City is thrown into chaos by the assaults of the Bone Collector, a serial kidnapper and killer who gives the police a chance to save his victims from death by leaving obscure clues. The cops go to Lincoln Rhyme, an ex-NYPD forensics expert left paralysed after an accident on the job. Rhyme reluctantly postpones his ambitions towards suicide and puts together a forensic investigation team, enlisting as his eyes and ears young police officer Amelia Sachs.

The Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways -- not in memoriam, but as announcements of his intention to kill. And to kill in particularly horrific and efficient ways: using the personal details about the victims that they've carelessly posted in blogs and on social networking websites.

Wyatt Gillette, a cyber genius who's never used his phenomenal talent for evil, is sitting in a California jail doing time for a few harmless computer capers when he gets a temporary reprieve - a chance to help the Computer Crimes Unit of the state police catch a super hacker called Phate who's using his ingenious program, Trapdoor, to lure innocent victims to their death by infiltrating their computers.

Qualvoll stirbt ein junges Mädchen in einer New Yorker Musikschule. Der Täter flieht in einen fensterlosen Probenraum. Drinnen fällt ein Schuss, bevor die Polizei das Zimmer stürmen kann. Es ist leer… Für Lincoln Rhyme, den gelähmten Ermittler, und seine ambitionierte Partnerin Amelia Sachs ist sofort klar: Es war nicht der letzte Mord dieses Täters.

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.

Ellie Kohl has been kidnapped by the infamous unsub DK – the Deadline Kidnapper. The last woman he took was nearly killed. There is no negotiating with this man – the only way to get her back is to pay the ransom. But her husband’s business is failing and he can’t raise the funds. Investigator Colter Shaw is her last chance. Can he find her before the Deadline Clock strikes?

This collection of short stories from king of suspense Jeffery Deaver grips with every listen. An aging actor attempts to revive his career by entering a celebrity poker game for a reality TV show. A successful crime writer dies under seemingly natural circumstances, but for one cop, doubts are lingering. Lincoln Rhyme is at the end of the line, or is it just another twist in the tale?

Ein Konzert in einem Nachtclub endet in einem Albtraum, als der Feueralarm ausgelöst wird. Bei einer Massenpanik sterben viele Menschen. Dance stößt auf Beweise, die infrage stellen, dass es sich um ein Unglück handelte. Ein Psychopath hat offenbar die Angst der Gäste ausgenutzt, um seine perversen Bedürfnisse zu befriedigen. Dance ist sich sicher, dass er wieder zuschlagen wird.