VIEWS
Author: Kling, Marc-Uwe
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2025 | Pages: 272 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 89608
A shocking crime - and everyone will see it
16-year-old Lena Palmer disappears without a trace. Three days later, she reappears in a disturbingly brutal video that goes viral at breathtaking speed.
BKA Commissioner Yasira Saad is tasked with finding Lena and identifying the perpetrators. She has little time, as violent demonstrations are already taking place in German cities. A right-wing extremist group called ''Active Homeland Security'' is rapidly gaining support. Can Yasira arrest the perpetrators before the lynch mob strikes and the rule of law begins to falter?
Der Sündenbock
Translated title: Jack Reacher #25 - The Sentinel
Series: Book 25
Author: Child, Lee
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2024 | Pages: 412 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 88285
Translated
As usual, Reacher has no destination and all the time in the world. He ends up in a town near Pleasantville, Tennessee.
But it's anything but pleasant.
When Reacher sees four men ambush Rusty Rutherford, a recently fired IT manager, he intervenes. Rutherford is caught in a deadly conspiracy involving a cyberattack, cover-up, and murder. Reacher knows there's more to the story and decides to stick around.
Rule one: if you're in trouble, keep Reacher by your side
Killer Potential
Author: Deitch, Hannah
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2025 | Pages: 400 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 89616
Translated
Evie Gordon tutors the daughter of a wealthy Beverly Hills family. Until one day she finds her parents dead in their backyard: Mr. Victor drowned in the pool, his wife killed with a rock. As Evie tries to alert the police, a voice calls for help from the house. In a closet under the stairs, Evie finds a woman bound, injured, and dehydrated. She frees the stranger, but when Victor's daughter arrives, Evie beats her in self-defense and panic.
Evie and the stranger are no longer witness and victim, but suspected murderers on the run.
The press condemns Evie as a brutal killer, while online she is celebrated as a class warrior. To prove her innocence, she must find the real culprit. But who is the stranger who doesn't speak a word and who is now Evie's only ally?
Code Kill - Ein tödliches Spiel
Translated title: Code Kill - a Deadly Game
Author: Klein, Hendrik
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2025 | Pages: 368 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 89609
Maximilian Ryf is the manager of the new Seewind Manor hotel, located on the small island of Greifswalder Oie off the coast of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Five guests have been invited to the opening ceremony. As soon as they arrive on the island, an unusually severe storm rages, making it impossible for guests and staff to leave the safe hotel walls. After a short time, a series of strange events begin to occur. Max suffers more and more from severe headaches, and the guests have the oppressive feeling of being watched and manipulated. When a member of staff is found brutally murdered in her staff quarters, panic finally breaks out. A clear message has been left on her door: ''Number 1''. Security camera recordings show that a figure wearing a harlequin mask is in the hotel. Who will manage to escape, and for whom will it be GAME OVER?!
Infinity Falling - Mess Me Up
Series: Book 1
Author: Sprinz, Sarah
Genre: Romance
Year: 2024 | Pages: 542 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 88298
Actress Aven Amenta feels most alive when she's stepping into other people's lives. But after a stalker invades her privacy, the 20-year-old is eager to hide away. The move to Vancouver for the blockbuster Infinity Falling seems like the perfect escape. However, she's surprised when Hayes Chamberlain, a former boy band star with a media frenzy, is cast in the male lead role. While Aven hoped to avoid the spotlight, she finds it increasingly hard to stay away from Hayes. But as their connection deepens, Hayes realizes that being with Aven could put her in danger
Wiederholung
Translated title: Repetition
Author: Hjorth, Vigdis
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2025 | Pages: 160 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 89628
A woman walks through the forest, and everything she wants to forget returns to her. Breath by breath, she approaches the sixteen-year-old girl she once was. The first kiss at a party. The first overwhelming rush that made her body feel so light. The mother who watches over her with eagle eyes and controls her insatiable hunger for life. The father who distances himself further and further.
In her new novel, which was awarded Norway's most important literary prize, the Critics' Prize, Vigdis Hjorth returns to her major life themes: She tells of a young woman's painful battle with a family secret, of the struggle for her own truth, and of how some memories haunt you until new recognition is possible. An essential, universal book by Norway's most important contemporary author
Der Lehrer - Will er dir helfen oder will er deinen Tod?
Translated title: The Teacher - Does He Want to Help You or Does He Want Your Death?
Author: McFadden, Freida
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2025 | Pages: 400 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 89607
Translated
Lesson 1: Once you walk into school, trust no one.
Eve Bennett actually has a good life. She is a math teacher at the local high school and married to Nate, who teaches English there. But last year the school was rocked by a scandal involving a student. And this year that student is in Eve's class. Addie can't be trusted; she lies and hurts people. But no one knows the real Addie. No one knows the secret that could destroy her. And Addie would do anything to keep it that way. Her only bright spot this school year: her new English teacher, Nate Bennett
Kein Zurück
Translated title: No Turning Back
Author: King, Stephen
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2025 | Pages: 640 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 89619
Translated
The police consult private investigator Holly Gibney. An anonymous letter has announced a series of murders. The first victim is an innocent woman, holding a piece of paper in her hand. The name on it refers to a juror who participated in the conviction of an innocent man stabbed to death in prison. The insane perpetrator is randomly killing substitute victims instead of the jurors as an ''act of atonement.'' Those guilty of the innocent's death should suffer,'' it was said. The killing continues. While Holly feverishly pieces together the puzzle, she also has her hands full fending off attacks on a feminist for whom she is acting as a bodyguard. Everything seems to be heading toward one massive catastrophe
Riss im Sein
Translated title: Rupture in Being
Author: Hegerl, Ulrich
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2025 | Pages: 495 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 89633
More and more people are becoming believers and following a new religious group; natural constants are changing in inexplicable ways. Suddenly, the research of CERN takes center stage. It's as if a crack has run through the foundations of the world. Deeply disturbing, incomprehensible things are penetrating and disrupting people's inner and outer lives. More and more people are having mystical experiences and are feeling the steel mesh of the surveillance state; the orbits of the Earth, the Moon, and satellites are changing; a spacecraft carrying the two astronauts Roy (NASA) and Andrej (Roscosmos) gets lost and drifts into the darkness of space. Do the particle collision experiments at CERN, the spearhead of scientific research, have anything to do with these changes? Is the scientifically influenced worldview crumbling?
Warum willst du jetzt schon gehen?
Translated title: Why Do You Want to Leave Now?
Author: Santos de Lima, Gabriella
Genre: Romance
Year: 2024 | Pages: 320 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 88290
Everything that glows burns out eventually.
Helena loves romance novels and excels at writing. Her dream comes true when she enrolls at the prestigious Schloss Sankt Zander artist's boarding school.
There, she meets Arthur, a brooding indie singer with a troubled soul, and her fantasy seems to come to life: beach walks, secret meetings at the castle - everything is enchanting. But why is Arthur sometimes so distant and unresponsive? Romance novels always end happily, don't they?
