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When one of the guests at the Fireside Inn is murdered, Max becomes a person of interest because the dead guest had complaints about the inn and was threatening to go public. The police also have discovered that the victim was killed by a left-handed assailant,and they think Max is probably the killer because he is starring in a play entitled The Left-Handed Man. Even though Max tries to convince them that he is actually strongly right-handed, the police chief is determined to prove Max to be guilty, and the only way he can save himself is by discovering who is the real Left-handed Man.

Why would a nurse’s aide terrified of heights hurl herself from a 20th-story rooftop in Queens? Why would an attractive librarian with a water phobia be found naked and floating face-down in the Astoria Park swimming pool? How did the scantily clad body of a young bookstore clerk with a horror of snakes end up inside a Central Park Zoo cage with a 200-pound python? NYPD Detective Max Segal, strung out from a devastating divorce, is determined to find the killer before more women die.

When Max and Sandra moved to North Carolina, they walked into a world of ghost, witches, and curses. Over the years, and with the help of the ghost of 1940s detective Marshall Drummond, they have fought to build a life for themselves. But now, it all goes on the line. No fight from their past can match what awaits when the Hull family and the Magi Group go to war. Caught between the magic and muscle of these groups, Max and Sandra will have to call in all the help they can find if they are to survive.

For many years, Max Porter and his team have been caught between Mother Hope and Grandma Mobley, two witches that hated each other for over a century. Both witches hold power and both are dangerous. But now, their hatred has finally boiled over, and that power is about to be unleashed. Now, Max finds himself the rope in a tug-o-war that threatens to destroy his budding family, if not all of North Carolina. He will have to risk everything he knows and loves, push himself further than ever before. Because Max Porter will be in the fight of his life. And his death.

The unimaginable has happened: A series of terror attacks across the U.S. happened. Will Max be drawn back into the world of international intrigue?

Max Fisher used to run a computer company; Angela Petrakos was his assistant and mistress. But that was last year. Now Max is reinventing himself as a hip-hop crack dealer, and Angela is back in Ireland hooking up with a would-be record setter - in the field of serial killing. Will their paths cross again?

Die halbe Küchenmannschaft des herrlich gelegenen Chiemgauer Seehofs in Bad Endorf wird auf grausame Weise umgebracht. Hotelchefin Maria Hochfellner beauftragt den Exkommissar und jetzigen Privatdetektiv Max Raintaler mit der Aufklärung des mehr als rätselhaften Falls. Das passt gut, denn sein Freund, Hauptkommissar Franz Wurmdobler befindet sich ausgerechnet hier auf Diät-Kur. Beide stürzen sich beherzt in den Fall mit vielen Verdächtigen und wenig brauchbaren Spuren.

Emma Moon is out. She's served nine years hard time for an armed robbery that killed two men and enriched many more. But Emma’s never talked; she's never revealed who was with her on the day of the robbery or who killed both men. And she's never given up the money. And now she's free. But everything has gone: her family; her share of the money and her faithless loser of a husband. So now Emma Moon is in a hurry. Because it's payback time

Career campaigner Fraser Neal continually clashed with local businessmen, most recently over the council's selling publicly-owned social housing in the Docklands to private developers and displacing vulnerable residents. Until he's found dead in an alley behind Tennessee Fried Chicken's wheelie bins. Neal was also a police informant – or so he said. DS Max Lomax of Special Operations says he wasn't. No one believes him.

Ein lauschiger Abend im Biergarten. Die Abendzeitung wird an den Tisch gebracht, an dem Franz Wurmdobler mit seinen besten Freunden und Kollegen eine kleine Feier wegen seiner bevorstehenden Pensionierung ausrichtet. Der Aufmacher der Zeitung: Franz soll in jungen Jahren ein Mädchen vergewaltigt haben. Max Raintaler und sein Kollege Bernd Müller glauben nicht an Franz‘ Schuld und nehmen die Ermittlungen auf. Dabei geraten sie in einen Strudel von Mord und Lügen in der Welt der Schönen und Reichen. Es wird gefährlich!

CIA Agents in South and Central America are suddenly dying under mysterious circumstances or are disappearing without a trace. Who is behind the deaths? How does anyone even know that these men are with the CIA? Is there a traitor inside the Agency, or has the Agency's communications system been compromised? Or both? And why are CIA Agents being targeted? And why only those in Central and South America?

Former special-ops soldier and now an analyst for the think tank Vektor, Max Anger would kill to move on from the scars of his past - if only for the sake of Pashie, his girlfriend and fellow operative, who wants out of the battle zone. For them, a normal life is just one more dangerous uncertainty. Especially now that evil is hitting closer to home. Sofia Karlsson of the Swedish police wants Max’s help in a high-profile and high-stakes murder investigation: the hunt for a serial killer stalking the streets of Stockholm, who’s eliminating his victims in gruesome ways.

Dresden im November 1944: Die Bevölkerung leidet unter den immer bedrohlicher werdenden Kriegsumständen - da wird die grausam zugerichtete Leiche einer Krankenschwester gefunden. Schnell heißt es: Das war der Angstmann, der nachts durch die Stadt schleicht. Kriminalinspektor Max Heller hat bei der fieberhaften Suche nach dem Täter mit dem Kriegschaos zu kämpfen - aber auch mit seinem linientreuen Vorgesetzten. Und die Hoffnung, der Frauenmörder sei bei dem katastrophalen Bombenangriff im Februar 1945 umgekommen, zerschlägt sich.

When high football star Max Bell falls victim to a hit-and-run, local reporter Ray Harper engages in an all-out pursuit for the driver who left him for dead in the middle of a busy suburban Detroit road. Harper investigates and makes a shocking discovery that connects the crime to a prominent suburban Detroit political figure.

When Max Kane gets word that a retired Navy SEAL friend of his has been picked up for suspicion of murder, he rounds up his sister and they drive to NAS Corpus Christi, Texas to discover the truth...Max must fight JAG lawyers who don’t seem interested in alternative theories, as well as an old friend who might have been too drunk to know if he killed his former wife. As everything seems to be stacked against this highly-decorated SEAL, Max relentlessly fights for the truth. Can he return his friend’s stolen honor and find the killer?

The CIA gets a new lead, a lead which indicates there is a well-financed global organization that has been funding terrorism around the world, including acts of terror committed on U.S. soil. The CIA teams with Mossad to destroy this newly identified enemy before it can rise to power. Again.

Auf einer Beerdigung steht Fallanalytiker Max Bischoff plötzlich einer Frau gegenüber, die seiner großen Liebe Jennifer Sommer zum Verwechseln ähnlich sieht. Aber Jennifer ist seit fünf Jahren tot. Und Max gibt sich noch immer die Schuld daran. Die Begegnung lässt ihm keine Ruhe, und er spricht die Unbekannte an. Sie ist ebenso erstaunt wie er, es gibt keine Verbindung zu Jennifer.

This second novel in the Max Bader series finds Max and friends in New York accidentally drawn into the investigation of heroin trafficking, child prostitution, and murder in a corrupt Manhattan Police Department, an indifferent Catholic Church, and a university hospital complicit in the crimes. Confronted with overwhelming odds and with few people they can trust, dare they seek justice?

Der Anruf kommt unerwartet. Eine Ex-Kollegin bittet Fallanalytiker Max Bischoff um Hilfe. Ihr Neffe wurde des Mordes beschuldigt und hat sich daraufhin das Leben genommen. Mit 22. Ein Schuldeingeständnis? Oder die Tat eines Verzweifelten? Max sichtet die Fakten, die Beweislast ist erdrückend, aber nichts passt zusammen. Kein Motiv, vollkommene Willkür. Und dann die vage Verbindung zu einem anderen Fall. Ist das der Durchbruch? Max Bischoff lässt nicht locker, aber das Finden des Mörders wird zu einer unerträglichen Herausforderung, die ihn bis an seine Grenzen bringt.

Dresden, 18. Juni 1953, ein Tag nach dem blutig niedergeschlagenen Arbeiteraufstand in der DDR: Max Heller wird zu einem Todesfall in einem Betrieb für Wärmeisolierungen gerufen. Dem dortigen Betriebsleiter wurden brutal die Atemwege mit Isolierwolle verstopft. Unter Mordverdacht gerät eine ehemalige Angestellte, die von sich selbst behauptet, eine frühere KZ-Aufseherin und jetzt Spionin für den Westen zu sein. Doch Heller glaubt ihr nicht. Zumal alle Angestellten des kleinen Betriebes hartnäckig die Aussage verweigern.