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1954 untersucht der US-Marshall Edward Daniels mit seinem Partner Chuck Aule das rätselhafte Verschwinden einer Patientin aus dem auf der Insel Shutter Island untergebrachten Spezialgefängnis für geistesgestörte Schwerverbrecher. Edward Daniels hat außerdem ein privates Interesse an dem Auftrag: Er vermutet den Mörder seiner Frau Dolores, Andrew Laeddis, auf Shutter Island. Vom ersten Moment an haben die beiden Marshalls das Gefühl, dass die Gefängnisleitung etwas zu verbergen hat. Der Verdacht, dass verbotene Experimente an den geisteskranken Kriminellen durchgeführt werden, verdichtet sich.

Joe Coughlin is nineteen when he meets Emma Gould. A smalltime thief in 1920s Boston, he is told to cuff her while his accomplices raid the casino she works for. But Joe falls in love with Emma - and his life changes for ever. That meeting is the beginning of Joe's journey to becoming one of the...

The basis for the blockbuster motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island by New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane is a gripping and atmospheric psychological thriller where nothing is quite what it seems. The New York Times calls Shutter...

The New York Times bestselling novel from Dennis Lehane is a gripping, unnerving psychological thriller about the effects of a savage killing on three former friends in a tightly knit, blue-collar Boston neighborhood. When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were...

The basis for the blockbuster motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island by New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane is a gripping and atmospheric psychological thriller where nothing is quite what it seems. The New York Times calls Shutter...

Med "Under bordet" vender Dennis Lehane tilbage til gaderne fra New York Times-bestselleren "Mystic River". Marv bestyrer en bar, der fungerer som bank for mafiaen. I baren arbejder Bob, som redder en sølle hundehvalp og møder en arret kvinde. Kun en tåbe ville finde på at røve den bar, hvor New Englands hårdeste gangstere kanaliserer penge - under bordet - i den underverden, som hersker i Bostons barmiljø. Historien skydes i gang med høj kaliber, da to tåber røver Marv's Bar, og den skrider med stor hast over isen i Bostons grå, urbane snelandskab.

Septiembre de 1954. En un islote llamado Shutter Island, frente a la costa de Boston, se alza un conjunto de edificios de aspecto siniestro: se trata de un hospital psiquiátrico cuyos internos, todos hondamente perturbados y sometidos a una vigilancia estricta, han cometido algún crimen grave. El agente federal Teddy Daniels y su ayudante, Chuck Aule, son enviados allí porque una de las reclusas, Rachel Solando, parece haberse evadido de algún modo incomprensible de una celda cerrada a cal y canto. La única pista es una hoja de papel con una serie de números y letras sin significado aparente.

Exit Wounds is a thrilling anthology of crime stories written by masters of the genre, including Dean Koontz, Val McDermid, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, Elly Griffiths, Dennis Lehane, Joe R. Lansdale, and others.

Den hyllade New York Times-bästsäljaren är tillbaka med ett mästerverk i klass med Mystic River. Sommaren 1974 eldar värmeböljan på rashatet som redan kokar i den irländskdominerade slumförorten Southie där den ensamstående mamman Mary Pat levt hela sitt liv. Samma natt som hennes...

Featuring a foreword by bestselling novelist Dennis Lehane, Blood in the Desert gathers, for the first time, the finest of English's published essays and reporting alongside new work, including the haunting title piece, which has never before appeared in print. A former New York City taxi driver...

Sixteen-year-old Amanda McCready has disappeared. Her anxious aunt contacts Patrick Kenzie to investigate. It is not the first time she has gone missing, as Patrick well knows - he was the investigator who worked on her case when she was kidnapped before, as a four-year-old.But this is not a simple case of a runaway girl.

There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected. When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up their street. One boy got in the car, two did not, and something terrible happened - something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever. Twenty-five years later, Sean Devine is a homicide detective. Jimmy Marcus is an ex-con who owns a corner store.

The Drop follows lonely bartender Bob Saginowski through a cover scheme of funelling cash to local gangsters -- 'money drops' -- in the underworld of Boston bars. Under the heavy hand of his employer and cousin Marv, Bob finds himself at the centre of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an...

Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to find an escaped murderer named Rachel Solando. As a killer hurricane bears down on the island, the investigation deepens, and the questions mount. How has a barefoot woman escaped from a locked room? Who is leaving them clues in the form of cryptic codes? And what really goes on in Ward C? The closer Teddy gets to the truth, the more elusive it becomes.

Rachel's husband adores her. When she hit rock bottom, he was there with her every step of the way as she slowly regained her confidence, and her sanity. But his mysterious behaviour forces her to probe for the truth about her beloved husband. How can she feel certain that she ever knew him? And was she right to ever trust him?

Joe Coughlin is untouchable. Once one of America's most feared and prominent gangsters, he now moves effortlessly between the social elite, politicians, police, and the mob. He has everything he could possibly want: money, power, a beautiful mistress, and anonymity. But in a town that runs on corruption, vengeance, and greed, success can't protect Joe from the dark truth of his past - and ultimately, the wages of a lifetime of sin will finally be paid in full....

Un soir de l’été 1974, Jules, la fille de Mary Pat Fennessey disparaît dans le South Boston. Personne ne l’aidera, la communauté irlandaise est plus désunie que jamais. Elle devra partir seule à la recherche de la vérité. Un thriller passionnant et un beau portrait de femme.

Boston, 1974. Die Stadt kocht. Künftig sollen schwarze Kinder mit Bussen in weiße Schulen gebracht werden und vice versa. Angst geht um und Hass. Eines Nachts kehrt Mary Pat Fennessys 17-jährige Tochter Jules nicht nach Hause zurück. Mary Pat beginnt Fragen zu stellen, stößt auf Schweigen und Widersprüche, bis sie versteht: Man hat ihr das Letzte genommen, was ihr in dieser Welt Halt gab. Außer sich vor Schmerz macht sie sich auf, um Rache zu nehmen an den Verantwortlichen – und um ihre eigene Schuld abzutragen. Um jeden Preis.

Eine Frau springt in den Tod. Karen Nichols war jung, erfolgreich und bis vor Kurzem noch Patrick Kenzies Klientin. Ein harmloser Fall von Stalking, um den Kenzie nur wenig Aufhebens machte. Nun packt ihn das schlechte Gewissen, denn vielleicht hätte er Karens Tod verhindern können, hätte er sorgfältiger ermittelt. Doch sein Gegner ist ein genialer Psychopath, der selbst Kenzie das Fürchten lehrt.

Die Detektei Kenzie & Gennaro ist geschlossen, zu tief sitzen bei ihnen die entsetzlichen Ereignisse ihres letzten Falls. Doch der schwerreiche Magnat Trevor Stone weiß sich zu helfen. Er entführt das Duo, um sie von der Dringlichkeit seines Anliegens zu überzeugen: Seine Tochter Desiree zu finden, die nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter in die Fänge einer korrupten Sekte geraten ist. Die Zeit ist knapp, denn auch Stone hat nicht mehr lange zu leben.