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Am Strand von Puget Sound wird ein großer Metallcontainer angespült, aus dem menschliche Schreie dringen. Die Küstenwache verständigt Lou Boldt von der Polizei in Seattle. In dem Container befinden sich neun halb verhungerte Chinesinnen und drei Leichen. Ganz offensichtlich handelt es sich um illegale Einwanderer, und Lou beginnt mit seinen Ermittlungen, um den skrupellosen Menschenhändlern das Handwerk zu legen. Doch die Verbindungen der Schlepperbande reichen weit in die höchsten Kreise hinein, und nur wenige haben ein Interesse an dem, was Lou ans Tageslicht bringen möchte.

Working for the homeless on the streets of Seattle, police psychologist Daphne Matthews uncovers a disturbing trail of mutilation among the women in her care. Turning for help to her ex-lover police sergeant Lou Boldt, she finds herself into a high-tech, organ stealing industry.

In this riveting and adventure-packed follow-up to the award-winning New York Times bestseller Peter and the Starcatchers, Peter leaves the relative safety of Mollusk Island - along with his trusted companion, Tinker Bell - for the dark and dangerous streets of London. On a difficult journey across the sea, he and Tink discover the mysterious and deadly Lord Ombra, who is intent on recovering the missing startuff - celestial dust that contains unimagined powers. In London, Peter attempts to track down the indomitable Molly, hoping that together they can combat Ombra's determined forces. But London is not Mollusk Island; Peter is not the boy he used to be; and Lord Ombra - the Shadow Master - is unlike anything Peter, or the world, has ever seen. Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson have done it again - written a compulsively readable, magical, impossible-to-put-down tale that will delight readers of all ages.

Police sergeant Lou Boldt heads a special task force within Seattle's Homicide Bureau to find the Cross Killer - a serial murderer who has eluded police for six months and paralyzed the city.

While Ridley Pearson's Lou Boldt series seems to have run out of steam lately, his new stand-alone thriller shows this perennial best-selling author at the top of his form. It begins with a taut prologue introducing federal marshal Roland Larson and his protected witrness, Hope Stevens, whose testimony will send the Romero crime family to jail if she ever makes it to court. When Hope walks away from the witness protection program, she takes Larson's heart with her; he hesitates just long enough to regret it; and spends the next six years searching for her. Then she surfaces again in connection with the disappearance of another protected witness, a computer expert who holds the safety of everyone in the program in the top secret software program he developed. Noone wants access to that program more than the Romero family, and Hope Stevens is the first and most important target of their wrath. As a member of the elite Fugitive Apprehension Task Force, Larson races the clock to find the man whose knowledge threatens the life of the woman he still loves...and the child he never knew he had. A heart-pounding thriller that's impossible to put down, this is Pearson's best to date. --Jane Adams

Soon after Peter, an orphan, sets sail from England on the ship Never Land, he befriends and assists Molly, a young Starcatcher, whose mission is to guard a trunk of magical stardust from a greedy pirate and the native inhabitants of a remote island.

Ein Serien-Kidnapper macht die Vereinigten Staaten unsicher und stürzt zahlreiche Familien in Angst und Verzweiflung. In den Betten seiner Opfer hinterläßt er stets eine Spielzeugflöte, was ihm den Spitznamen „Der Rattenfänger“ eingebracht hat. Lieutenant Lou Boldt von der Kriminalpolizei in Seattle wird beauftragt, dem Kidnapper das Handwerk zu legen. Doch das ist nur eines der Probleme, mit denen Boldt zu kämpfen hat. Denn zugleich muß er seiner an Krebs erkrankten Frau beistehen, die sich einer kräftezehrenden Chemotherapie unterzieht. Beistand erfährt er vor allem von Seiten einer jungen Polizeipsychologin. Die Situation spitzt sich zu, als Boldt eine Affäre mit der attraktiven Kollegin eingeht und der „Rattenfänger“ seine Tochter entführt. Auf der Jagd nach dem Kidnapper wird immer deutlicher, daß einflußreiche Kreise - auch in den Reihen der Polizei - ihre Finger im Spiel haben.

Known for his meticulous, fascinating research, as well as his ability to create exciting plot twists that inevitably, a month or two later, seem to have anticipated real-life headlines, Ridley Pearson has genered praise as a "master" of the suspense novel. In Middle of Nowhere, the "Blu Flu" has struck the Seattle Police force and a majority of the officers are on a unofficial strike, with the exception of a few, including Detective Lou Boldt, who is committed to the job. When a string of robberies and the brutal assault of a female cop rock the city, the pressure of isolation threatens Boldt's psyche and his marriage. With the help of psychologist Daphne Matthews and Sergeant John LaMoia, Boldt is able to make progress on both the assault and the robberies, but things soon spin out of control, and Bodt's refusal to drop the case puts his own life at risk. Filled with the fast-paced, spiraling action that has made Pearson's previous novels "irresistable" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) works of suspense that "grip the imagination" (People magazine), this offering from "the best thriller writer alive" (Booklist) is certain to keep the reader breathless.

At the turn of the twentieth century, Ellen Rimbauer became the young bride of Seattle industrialist John Rimbauer, and began keeping a remarkable diary. This diary became the secret place where Ellen could confess her fears of the new marriage, her confusion over her emerging sexuality, and the nightmare that her life would become. The diary not only follows the development of a girl into womanhood, it follows the construction of the Rimbauer mansioncalled Rose Redan enormous home that would be the site of so many horrific and inexplicable tragedies in the years ahead. The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red is a rare document, one that gives us an unusual view of daily life among the aristocracy in the early 1900s, a window into one womans hidden emotional torment, and a record of the mysterious events at Rose Red that scandalized Seattle society at the timeevents that can only be fully understood now that the diary has come to light. Edited by Joyce Reardon, Ph.D. as part of her research, the diary is being published as preparations are being made by Dr. Reardon to enter Rose Red and fully investigate its disturbing history.