New Releases by Peter Abrahams

Drei geniale Thriller von Stephen Kings Lieblingsautor! DER NACHHILFELEHRER: Als Scott und Linda Gardner bei ihrer Suche nach einem Nachhilfelehrer auf Julian Sawyer treffen, können sie ihr Glück kaum fassen – denn Julian ist klug, kultiviert und versteht sich auf Anhieb mit ihrem rebellischen Teenagersohn Brandon. Nicht nur Brandon profitiert von Julians gutem Einfluss, auch Linda und Scott hören bald auf die fachkundigen Ratschläge des jungen Mannes. Nur Ruby, die 11-jährige Tochter der Gardners, traut der perfekten Fassade des unerwarteten Familienzuwachses nicht. Doch als Julian endlich sein wahres Gesicht zeigt, ist es schon längst zu spät ... DER IDEALE EHEMANN: Einst galten der geniale Roger und die schöne Francie Cullingwood in der Bostoner High-Society als das Traumpaar schlechthin. Doch aus Roger ist ein eitler und herrschsüchtiger Mann geworden, weshalb Francie Trost in den Armen des charmanten Radiopsychologen Ned sucht. Als Roger von Francies Affäre erfährt, sinnt er auf Rache. Sein Ziel: Das perfekte Verbrechen zu inszenieren. Doch selbst einem Genie passieren Fehler. Fehler mit fatalen Folgen ... DAS WUNSCHKIND: Die frischgebackene Mutter Nina Kitchener ist starr vor Schreck, als sie im Bett ihres Babys die leblosen Knopfaugen einer Puppe erblickt – von ihrem Sohn fehlt jede Spur. Traumatisiert und geschockt von der Untätigkeit der Polizei, stürzt sich Nina selbst in die Ermittlungen. Ihre erste Spur führt sie zur Kinderwunsch-Klinik, in der ihre Befruchtung stattfand, denn die Identität des anonymen Samenspenders könnte etwas mit der Entführung zu tun haben. Als sie dort erfährt, dass sie ihr Schicksal mit einer weiteren Mutter teilt, ahnt Nina Schreckliches ... Mord, Rechenschaft, Begehren und Vergeltung – abgründige Psychospannung des amerikanischen Bestsellerautors für alle Fans von K.L. Slater und Michael Robotham!

Während die Welt vom Frieden singt, sucht eine junge Frau verzweifelt nach ihrer Tochter ... Los Angeles, 1960er: In einer dunklen Nacht im November tritt für die alleinerziehende Mutter Jessi Shapiro der Albtraum ein: Ihre Tochter Kate kehrt nach einer Verabredung nicht nach Hause zurück. Sofort fällt ihr Verdacht auf Pat, ihren unzuverlässigen Ex-Mann, doch als sie zu seinem Haus in Venice Beach fährt, fehlt von den beiden jede Spur. Stattdessen bietet sich ihr ein seltsamer Anblick: kryptische Botschaften auf der Küchentafel und eine Wohnung, die hastig verlassen wirkt. Eine besorgniserregende Nachricht auf dem Anrufbeantworter bestätigt ihre schlimmste Befürchtung: Kate schwebt in Lebensgefahr. Panisch kontaktiert sie die Polizei, doch die Beamten erkennen den Ernst der Lage nicht. Jessi zieht die Konsequenz und macht sich allein auf die Suche, die sie quer durchs Land führt und Jahrzehnte zurück – nach Woodstock und in den tödlichen Dschungel Vietnams – bis hin zu einer schockierenden Wahrheit, die Jessi alles kosten könnte ... »Abrahams schmückt seinen komplexen Plot mit glaubhaften, sympathischen Protagonisten, platziert sie vor einen Hintergrund aus 60er-Jahre-Musik, Drogen und auf den Kopf gestellten Idealen und schafft damit ein Meisterwerk.« – Publishers Weekly Eine düstere Verschwörung, die ihren Anfang 1969 auf dem legendären Woodstock Festival nahm ... Ein rasanter Thriller für Fans von Lee Child!

Ein kleines Detail, das alles in Frage stellt ... Delia war eine Schönheit, klug und lebenslustig – bis sie bei einem schweren Unfall tragisch verstarb. Seit fünfzehn Jahren trauert der renommierte Bildhauer Roy nun schon um seine Frau, deren Tod eine Wunde hinterließ, die trotz neuer Beziehungen in seinem Leben nie wirklich verheilt ist. Als er mit Lungenkrebs diagnostiziert wird, beschafft sich der eitle Roy Einblick in seinen Nachruf – und stößt bei seiner illegalen Recherche auf Ungereimtheiten, die ausgerechnet den Tod seiner geliebten Frau betreffen. Kurz darauf wird der Verfasser des Nachrufs ermordet – und Roy ahnt, dass sich ein tödliches Geheimnis zwischen den Zeilen versteckt, das ihn dazu zwingt, mit seinen Fragen ganz am Anfang einzusetzen: Wer war seine Frau wirklich? Wie ist sie gestorben? Ist sie gestorben? »Mit ›Dear Wife‹ ist dem amerikanischen Autor ein gut konstruierter und spannender Thriller gelungen, dessen einfühlsame Sprache überzeugt.« Frankfurter Neue Presse Atemlose Spannung und schockierende Wendungen – ein Thriller für Fans von Harlan Coben und Dennis Lehane

From head to toe, elbow to ankle, How Your Skeleton Works expertly guides you through the different parts of the body. Including the body’s 206 bones, each page has a colour artwork to illustrate the featured body part. Alongside general text on the body part, there are detailed annotations to explain particular details about the artwork.

La rappresentazione dell’Anatomia umana normale che ci viene fornita dalle tecniche di imaging è fondamentale per la diagnostica clinica ma anche per l’Anatomia di base; le ricostruzioni tridimensionali rese possibili dalle apparecchiature di tomografia computerizzata e di risonanza magnetica consentono di apprezzare la volumetria e la spazialità degli organi. Le immagini in vivo sono complementari ai disegni e alle dissezioni da cadavere nello studio dell’Anatomia di base: comprendere l’Anatomia radiologica e “cross-sectional” è un modo di avvinarsi concretamente alla futura attività professionale.

This essential companion to Bailey & Love''s Short Practice of Surgery covers the clinical conditions most commonly encountered by medical students, junior clinicians,and surgeons in training. This is clinical anatomy at its best ! Structured by body region, each chapter includes plentiful clinical photographs and images supplementing the high-quality anatomical diagrams, using the best modality to demonstrate anatomical relevance. Highlighted descriptions of clinical relevance emphasise the integrated approach so central to current teaching practice, and facilitated by the wealth of both clinical and anatomical experience of the distinguished author team.

Discover how the individual parts of the human body function and work together: in this accessible and fascinating examination, you can navigate through the body from head to toe, looking at each individual area. Clear, jargon-free text describes the function of individual parts of the body.

Arranged according to the body''s different structures and systems, How The Body Works is a highly detailed guide that will appeal to general readers and students alike.

A woman must untangle a dark enigma that dates back to World War II in order to find her kidnapped son in this riveting international thriller from Peter Abrahams, aka Spencer Quinn, author of the Chet and Bernie Mysteries Rachel Monette arrives home to a scene of unspeakable violence: Her French-born husband, Dan, is dead—the victim of a savage stabbing—and her five-year-old son is missing. A neighbor claims she saw a rabbi taking Adam away. But there are no synagogues in Williamstown. The only clue is a letter Rachel finds in Dan''s safety deposit box. Written in 1942, it''s about the reassignment of three German soldiers to a place called Camp Siegfried in the supposedly unoccupied western part of North Africa. Convinced that the murder and abduction are related to a book Dan recently completed about German-occupied countries during World War II, Rachel travels to North Africa and then on to Israel, where a mass murderer hiding in plain sight is determined to keep the horrors of the past buried forever.

The monster storm "Bernardine" did more than devastate the tiny Gulf Coast community of Belle Ville. It uncovered suppressed evidence that exonerates a man wrongly imprisoned for murder. Twenty years ago Nell Jarreau identified Alvin "Pirate" DuPree as the murderer who killed her boyfriend right in front of her—and she later went on to marry the detective, now the police chief, who made the arrest. She and Clay raised a daughter and had a happy life—but now Pirate is free, leaving Nell haunted by doubt, guilt, fear . . . and troubling hints that a rot may be festering at her own family''s core. For the sake of her sanity, her marriage, and the safety of those she loves, Nell must uncover the truth about a nightmare that will not end. But the search is leading her into twisting dark alleys she might never escape from . . . where a wild card ex-con waits in the shadows.

QB of the varsity football team. Passing grades in all his classes. Dating the hottest—and smartest—girl at school. Summer job paying more than minimum wage. Things in Cody''s world seem to be going pretty well. Until, that is, his girlfriend, Clea, is sent off to boarding school across the country, and a torn ACL ends his high school football career. But bad things come in threes—or in Cody''s case, sixes and twelves—and the worst is yet to come. While limping through town one day, Cody sees a newspaper heading: "Local Girl Missing." Clea, now his ex, has disappeared from her boarding school in Vermont, and the only clue is a letter she sent to Cody the morning of her disappearance. With that as his guide, Cody sets out to find out what happened. Once in Vermont, he unearths the town''s secrets—and finds out that football isn''t the only thing he''s good at. Reality Check is another edge-of-your-seat suspense novel by the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author of Down the Rabbit Hole.

"A terrific yarn, full of smart detection and hip good humor" (Stephen King) Behind the Curtain is the second book in the Echo Falls mystery series by bestselling crime novelist Peter Abrahams, following the acclaimed Down the Rabbit Hole. Perfect for middle school readers looking for a good mystery. In this "deliciously plotted, highly satisfying adventure" (Kirkus), the Sherlock Holmes-loving eight-grade heroine, Ingrid, starts to see some alarming signs of trouble in her home. Her dad is surfing the internet in search of a job when Ingrid had no idea his job was in jeopardy. Her brother, Ty, is trying to succeed on the high school football team—perhaps at the cost of his health. And Ingrid''s beloved soccer coach is replaced by an icy newcomer who seems a little too savvy to be in it for the postgame pizza. True to her hero, Sherlock Holmes, Ingrid begins fishing around to find out who''s really pulling the strings in her hometown of Echo Falls. But one morning, while en route to the dreaded MathFest, Ingrid is kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a car. Even if she escapes, will anyone believe her story? The third and final book in this Edgar Award-nominated series is Into the Dark. Sherlock Holmes for Kids: Eighth-grader Ingrid Levin-Hill lives by the master detective''s rules of observation, but noticing too much is exactly what gets her into serious trouble. Small Town Secrets: Behind the perfect facade of Echo Falls, Ingrid uncovers a web of secrets involving her own family, the high school football team, and a mysterious newcomer. Pulse-Pounding Suspense: Locked in the trunk of a moving car, Ingrid has to rely on her wits to escape. But getting out is only the beginning of her problems. A Hero No One Believes: After her terrifying ordeal, Ingrid''s biggest challenge isn''t finding the culprit—it''s getting a single person, from her parents to the police, to believe her story.

When the director of her school play suddenly has an accident, her shoes go missing, and things in town start becoming more strange with every passing moment, Ingrid must find a way to get to the bottom of the matter in order to set things right in her small community of Echo Falls once again. Reprint.

Presents five short stories about teens who stay up all night, written by award-winning authors.

A husband hunts for the secrets behind his wife''s death in this ingenious new novel from the Edgar Award-nominated author who has Ra truly remarkable talent for writing psychological thrillers of enormous powerS ("Denver Post").

A young woman who hopes to give up her bartending job to become a successful writer, Ivy Seidel falls under the spell of Vance Harrow, convicted for a terrible crime, while teaching writing to inmates at a maximum security prison.

Fussballtraining, Theaterproben, Familienprobleme und zuletzt auch noch ein Mord. Ingrid ist die letzte, die das Opfer lebend gesehen hat. Sie beschliesst das Verbrechen auf eigene Faust aufzuklären.

Ingrid est footballeuse et actrice. Le jour où son chemin croise celui de Katie la Fêlée, elle est obligée de devenir aussi détective. Car Katie est assassinée. Pire, Ingrid a vu l'assassin. Et cerise sur le gâteau : elle a oublié ses Puma rouges sur le lieu du crime. L'emploi du temps d'Ingrid se complique. Elle doit éloigner les soupçons du commissaire Strade qui la surveille de près, rassurer sa mère qui la trouve bizarre, dénoncer le vrai coupable et surtout récupérer ses chaussures au plus vite

“Peter Abrahams is my favorite American suspense novelist.”—Stephen King “Mackie dreaded the mail.” From this simple beginning, Peter Abrahams opens the curtains on a mesmerizing world down on the Mexican border, a world of complex and passionate people whose ambitions will lead them on a relentless collision course, a desert world that rises to the mythic in Their Wildest Dreams. The suspense will grab you and not let go, the surprises will shock you, but in the end it will be the wonderful characters who linger in your mind. Characters like Mackie Larkin, a suburban mother desperate for money, who finds she can earn it as a stripper; Kevin Larkin, her ex-husband whose get-rich-quick schemes left her with a mountain of debt, and who now dreams up an even better one; Lianne, their beautiful, impulsive teenage daughter, for whom almost anything, even bank robbery, is possible; Jimmy Marz, the wrangler she loves, who gets a dangerous onetime offer that could take him to the life he’s always wanted; Buck Samsonov, the charismatic strip-club owner building a southwestern empire in the lawless style of a 19th-century robber baron; Clay Krupsha, a twenty-first-century captain of detectives in a border town where no crime is what it seems; and Nicholas Loeb, a struggling mystery writer whose encounter with an unstable muse entangles him in a web of true crime more mysterious than anything he imagined. Utterly original, multilayered, and marked by the gripping suspense, sharp wit, and fascinating psychological insights for which Peter Abrahams has been acclaimed, here is a major work—a riveting story of modern-day desperadoes living their wildest dreams.

Roy Hill married the girl of his dreams, dotes on his eleven-year-old son, and is next in line for a big promotion in the Atlanta office of a global corporation. Then, almost imperceptibly at first, everything starts to unravel. He losing control of his life. When his best friend joins a Civil War reenactment group, spending his weekends in camps where the year is forever 1863, Roy finds the idea laughable . . . even though he is the descendent and namesake of a Confederate Civil War hero. But when he visits the regiment just to be polite, something unexpected happens, gradually opening Roy’s eyes to the secret of a distant conflict that never ended–and leading him down a path that grows more menacing at every turn. With his job disappearing in a way he could never have foreseen, his whole life slipping out of control, Roy falls deeper and deeper into the Rebel past. A strange and powerful idea takes hold: that his life went wrong long before he was born, in the fateful campaigns that preceded the burning of Atlanta. Among the men, a hard-core splinter group is formed–with Roy at its center. On an ancient battlefield, the once-clear lines between reenactment and reality begin to disappear. When his son is taken hostage is it real? When the old muskets fire will they still fire blanks? Or will a bloody history come stunningly to life? An extraordinary novel about the fate of men and women no longer in step with the rhythms of the modern world, marching back into Southern history to make things right, Last of the Dixie Heroes is Peter Abrahams’s most dazzlingly original work yet.

When a baseball star fails to bring victory to his team, Gil Renard, an outraged fan who has lost everything except his fanatic passion for baseball, decides to murder him. The novel follows the murderer, a knife salesman, as he infiltrates the world of the fallen hero to make things right. By the author of Pressure Drop.

It was more than a white lie. It was deception on a grand scale. But the motive was admirable--to save the bright future of a deserving young man. And the victim, too, was deserving--an arrogant billionaire who would hardly notice his loss, crumbs from a vast fortune. All the plotters needed was a believable story, desperate and frightening, but false. Nothing bad was supposed to happen. They were only crying wolf. But what if the wolf were real? For Nat, a shining all-American boy with blue-collar roots, acceptance to New England''s exclusive Inverness College seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. The chilling events that follow are nothing like what he imagined. It begins at Christmas break. Nat, unable to afford going home for the holidays, remains alone on the deserted campus. Alone--until he meets Grace and Izzie Zorn, twin sisters who, although biologically identical, are utterly different. Thrown off by the irresistible attraction of this astonishing pair, Nat''s moral compass starts to fail him. How could it not, as he enters a seductive new world of private Caribbean islands, personal jets, and endless possibility? A world where folly, even crime, now seems like a good idea. When classes resume, Nat and the twins fall under the influence of a charismatic philosophy professor with dangerous ideas and a secret of his own. His teachings will be used to justify a bold scheme, plotted deep beneath the school in the lair of a forgotten social club, banished for almost a century. But someone in the underground shadows is listening, someone who thinks he deserves a future just as bright as Nat''s. Suddenly, a risky but basically innocent game will take a horrifyingturn. An intricate, tightly coiled plot, relentless tension, stunning reversals, and vividly rendered characters as real as people you know. Peter Abrahams weaves these powerful elements into a masterpiece of psychological suspense. Folly quickly turns to crime in Crying Wolf.

The Coyaba Chronicles: Reflections on the Black Experience in the Twentieth Century is both personal memoir and a powerful meditation on what W.E.B. Dubois defined at the beginning of the century as the problem of the colour line; of the relations between the lighter and darker races of man. Using Dubois as a point of departure, Abrahams writes passionately, about the inherent wrongness of racial hatred and contemplates such timeless questions as: Why was colour the most crucial issue of our century? and When will we get over the deep psychic and emotional damage done by the racial experience? This is one of the major themes of the memoir - the quest for an intellectual identity - a challenge that faces people of colour in first and third-world countries.