Decompression
"Theo is a middle-aged author with writer's block; his partner Jola is a beautiful and privileged soap star who wants very much to be taken seriously. In an attempt to save her dying career, Jola is determined to land the lead role in a new film...
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"Theo is a middle-aged author with writer's block; his partner Jola is a beautiful and privileged soap star who wants very much to be taken seriously. In an attempt to save her dying career, Jola is determined to land the lead role in a new film about diver and underwater model Lotte Hass. The couple travels to Lanzarote and hires diving instructor Sven, paying him a huge sum for exclusive tuition. As a sinister love triangle develops, events rapidly get out of hand. But whose story can we trust - Sven's or Jola's?"--Publisher description.
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The truth and other lies
a novel
"On the surface, Henry Hayden seems like someone you could like, or even admire. A famous bestselling author who appears a modest everyman. A loving, devoted husband even though he could have any woman he desires ... But Henry Hayden is a...
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"On the surface, Henry Hayden seems like someone you could like, or even admire. A famous bestselling author who appears a modest everyman. A loving, devoted husband even though he could have any woman he desires ... But Henry Hayden is a construction, a mask. His past is a secret, his methods more so. No one besides him and his wife know that she is the actual writer of the novels that made him famous. For most of Henry's life, it hasn't been a problem. But when his hidden-in-plain-sight mistress becomes pregnant and his carefully constructed facade is about to crumble, he tries to find a permanent solution, only to make a terrible mistake"--(Provided by publisher.)
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The trap
I know who killed my sister. I wrote this book for him. Twelve years ago, Linda's sister Anna was murdered. Her killer was never caught, but Linda saw him. Now, all these years later, she's just seen him again on TV. He's become a well-known...
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I know who killed my sister. I wrote this book for him. Twelve years ago, Linda's sister Anna was murdered. Her killer was never caught, but Linda saw him. Now, all these years later, she's just seen him again on TV. He's become a well-known journalist, and Lindaua famous novelist and infamous recluseuknows no one will believe her if she accuses him. She does the only thing she can think of: she sets a trap, writing a thriller called Blood Sisters about the unsolved murder of a young woman. When Blood Sisters is published, Linda agrees to give just one media interview. At home. To the one person who knows more about the case than she does...
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The mattress house
a Kovacs & Horn investigation
Sorry
Kris, Tamara, Wolf, and Frauke are four young friends with too much time on their hands and one big idea: an agency called Sorry. Unfair dismissals, the wrongly accused, jilted lovers: everyone has a price and the Sorry team will find out what that...
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Kris, Tamara, Wolf, and Frauke are four young friends with too much time on their hands and one big idea: an agency called Sorry. Unfair dismissals, the wrongly accused, jilted lovers: everyone has a price and the Sorry team will find out what that is. It's as simple as that. The idea catches on like wildfire and the quartet are soon raking in the cash, doing the emotional dirty work for fat cats, businessmen, and the romantically challenged. But what they didn't count on is that their latest client would be a killer.
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Alone in Berlin
"Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different ways: the bullying Hitler loyalists the Persickes, the retired judge Fromm and the unassuming...
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"Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different ways: the bullying Hitler loyalists the Persickes, the retired judge Fromm and the unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel. Then the Quangels receive the news that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France. Shocked out of their quiet existence, they begin a silent campaign of defiance, and a deadly game of cat and mouse develops between the Quangels and the ambitious Gestapo inspector Escherich. When petty criminals Kluge and Borkhausen also become involved, deception, betrayal and murder ensue, tightening the noose around the Quangels' necks ..."--Publisher's description.
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Prezent
Zusammenfassung: Milan Berg stoi na światłach, kiedy nagle obok niego zatrzymuje się samochód. Na tylnym siedzeniu przerażona dziewczynka rozpaczliwie przyciska do szyby zapisaną kartkę. Wołanie o pomoc? Milan nie może jej odczytać, bo... nie umie...
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Zusammenfassung: Milan Berg stoi na światłach, kiedy nagle obok niego zatrzymuje się samochód. Na tylnym siedzeniu przerażona dziewczynka rozpaczliwie przyciska do szyby zapisaną kartkę. Wołanie o pomoc? Milan nie może jej odczytać, bo... nie umie czytać. Rzuca się w pościg rowerem, ale z samochodu wysiada normalna rodzina... Przeczucie mówi mu jednak, że dziewczynka jest w śmiertelnym niebezpieczeństwie... Musi ją odszukać. Otrzymuje zaskakujący prezent. Potem będą następne... I ofiary. Milan rozpoczyna rozpaczliwą i szaleńczą podróż, która prowadzi go w głąb własnej przeszłości. Na końcu dowie się, że prawda bywa tak przerażająca, że nie da się z nią dalej żyć. A niewiedza jest największym prezentem na ziemi.
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