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A wonderful collection of Christmas stories and poems celebrating all the warmth and joy of the holiday season. "Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus" is a kindly editor's reply to a young reader regarding the existence of Santa; "Silent Night" is the classic song read with meaning and reverence; "The Christmas Masquerade" is a charming tale of a magical Christmas Eve.

Il suffit d'un mystérieux email adressé à la journaliste d'investigation Gina Kane pour l'alerter sur les méthodes de REL, une célèbre chaîne d'info. L'auteure du message dénonce le harcèlement sexuel dont elle a été victime et prétend ne pas être la seule. Mais après ce message, plus rien.

The repercussions of ambitious reporting have derailed the career of KEY News legal correspondent Cassie Sheridan. A Washington insider, she is forced to the Miami bureau to wait out the end of her contract. While covering a hurricane that's moving up the west coast to Florida, she meets 11-year-old Vincent, who has just made a grisly discovery on the beach. In one week, Cassie traces the connection between Vincent's newfound "treasure" and a secret operation in the dark shadows of sunny Sarasota—a story that has national significance and maybe, just maybe will win back her reputation.

Mary Higgins Clark is a master storyteller who keeps her readers and listeners spellbound. Now, in her first two published stories, written in the 1950s, she draws on her career as a young Pan American Airways flight attendant to create these tales of adventure and intrigue.

Lane Harmon, assistante d'une grande décoratrice d'intérieur, se voit confier la décoration d'une maison bien plus modeste que celles auxquelles elle est habituée... Elle découvre que sa cliente n'est autre que l'épouse de Parker Bennett, un financier disparu deux ans auparavant, comme les milliards de dollars dont il assurait la gestion. Suicide ou disparition volontaire ? La police traque toujours l'argent et l'homme et certaines victimes sont bien déterminées à connaître la vérité, à n'importe quel prix. Lane, touchée par la fidélité inconditionnelle de Mme Bennett envers son mari disparu et par le charme de leur fils Eric, leur apporte son soutien sans se rendre compte qu'elle met en danger sa vie et celle de sa fille... Un suspense aussi glaçant que troublant.

Take a crime-filled tour of Manhattan with this collection of all-new mystery stories compiled and edited by Mary Higgins Clark - with contributions by Lee Child, Jeffrey Deaver, Ben H. Winters, and others.

Charming, insightful and immensely entertaining in its unique presentation of one of America's legendary figures, Mount Vernon Love Story, by famed suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark, shows the reader the man behind the legend, a man of flesh, blood and passion, and in the author's skilled hands, the story and the man come fully and dramatically alive.

Mary Higgins Clark's interest in George Washington was first sparked by a radio series she was writing in the 1960s, called "Portrait of a Patriot."

With a sense of swiftly mounting danger, and with the skill and insight into human nature that have made all Mary Higgins Clark's books major best sellers, Moonlight Becomes You is enthralling suspense.

In The Shadow of Your Smile, worldwide best-selling author Mary Higgins Clark weaves a spellbinding thriller revolving around a long-held family secret that threatens to emerge and take the life of an unsuspecting heiress.

Nicholas Spencer, charismatic head of the medical research company Gen-Stone, involved in the development of an anticancer vaccine, suddenly disappears. Early results of the vaccine seemed highly promising. Yet, coinciding with Spencer's disappearance is news that the FDA is denying approval.

Några dagar innan reportern Patricia Traymore ska göra ett inslag om en kvinnlig senator tar hon emot ett mycket underligt telefonsamtal. En okänd röst mumlar snabbt fram att Patricia inte får komma till Washington, att hon inte får göra ett program om senator Jennings och att hon absolut inte får bo i sitt gamla barndomshem. Patricia avfärdar samtalet som nonsens men när hon anländer till huvudstaden och sitt gamla hem vaknar skräcken till liv i henne. Vad var det egentligen som hände när hon var barn? Vem var det som ringde?

Murder for Love: Murder for Women is a collection of wickedly witty crime-of-passion short stories by some of the best women writers inside and out of the mystery field.

Ernie and Wilma Bean have finally made it! Their lucky number has won the special Christmas lottery. Wilma is out of town, though, and it's tough to keep news like that a secret for too long. It couldn't hurt to celebrate a little with Loretta Thistlebottom, could it? In another story, the country cabin where Mike spent so many idyllic summers with his grandmother ought to be the perfect place for his wife, Laurie, to recover from the nightmares of her childhood. But now that Mike and Laurie have arrived, what could be causing such an ominous feeling to come over both of them?

Nelle McDermott mister pludselig sin mand, Adam, da deres lystyacht eksploderer i New Yorks havn. Hun er dybt ulykkelig over tabet af sin elskede og plaget af skyldfølelse, for den sidste gang hun så Adam, havde de et voldsomt skænderi, og hun bad ham om ikke at komme hjem igen. Efterforskningen viser, at nogen havde anbragt en bombe om bord, og Nell, der tidligere har flirtet med den spirituelle verden, opsøger en clairvoyant for at komme i kontakt med Adam. Beskeden fra Adam er foruroligende og får Nell til at tvivle på deres kærlige forhold. Men er beskeden ægte?

Crime just seems to follow lottery-winning couple Willy and Alvirah Meehan wherever they go. But now Alvirah can sleuth to her heart's content! In this collection of stories, the couple is targeted and pursued by ex-cons after winning the lottery in "Plumbing for Willy," they discover the body of actress Fiona Winter in their New York apartment in "The Body in the Closet," and they help Cynthia Lathem solve the murder of her stepfather in "Death at the Cape." The aura of suspense remains sky-high in two additional stories, "Stowaway" and "Milk Run."

Sladrebladsjournalisten Ethel Lambston findes myrdet. Hun var elsket af få og frygtet af mange, og lige inden sin død nåede hun at fortælle omverdenen, at hun ville afsløre en række yderst pinlige skandaler inden for New Yorks modeverden. Nerve Kearney, datter af byens tidligere politidirektør, drages ind i efterforskningen af sagen. Det viser sig, at mindst tre mænd har haft god grund til at ønske Ethel Lambston død.

Solo desea huir de la humillante escena del arresto de su prometido la víspera de su boda. Celia Kilbride, experta en joyas, acepta un puesto de trabajo en el transatlántico Queen Charlotte para escapar de la atención pública. Allí conoce a Lady Emily Haywood, de ochenta y seis años, dueña de un collar de esmeraldas de incalculable valor que desea donar a un museo tras el crucero.

El cadáver de Kerry Dowling, de dieciocho años, aparece en el fondo de la piscina. Ninguno de los invitados a la fiesta que dio, aprovechando la ausencia de sus padres, ha visto absolutamente nada.

Den 31-årige Monica Farrell arbejder som børnelæge på et lille hospital i New York. Efter sin fars død har hun ingen familie tilbage, for hendes far var adopteret, og det lykkedes ham aldrig at opspore sine biologiske forældre. Men det bekymrer ikke Monica, for hun elsker sit liv, som det er og lever og ånder for sit arbejde.

La periodista Gina Kane recibe un correo electrónico de una tal «CRyan» describiendo la «terrible experiencia» que vivió mientras trabajaba en la famosa cadena de noticias REL News. «Y no me pasó solo a mí», afirma. Gina intenta ponerse en contacto con Ryan, pero, cuando esta no responde a sus mensajes, descubre que la joven ha muerto en un trágico (y extraño) accidente.