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On average, 23 people per year disappear without a trace from cruise ships. Five years ago it was your wife and child who vanished while at sea. Never before has anyone come back. Until now. A high concept thriller.

The gripping new novel from the master of the dark psychological thriller, Sebastian Fitzek.Milan Berg is standing at a set of traffic lights when a car stops next to him. In the back seat he sees a frightened young girl. Desperate, she presses a piece of paper against the window. A cry for help? Milan can't read it - because he's illiterate, a secret that he's managed to hide for most of his life. But he understands the meaning of the note: the girl is in mortal danger.When he begins to search for her, Milan begins a nightmarish odyssey that ends with a cruel realisation: sometimes the truth is too terrible to live with - and ignorance is the greatest gift on earth.With a twisty, gripping non-linear storyline that charts one man's descent into a real-life nightmare, The Gift is perfect for fans of Chris Carter and Lars Kepler.

The gripping dark psychological thriller by Sebastian Fitzek.Music is her life. 15 songs decide how long it lasts.A month ago, fifteen-year-old Feline Jagow disappeared, presumed abducted, on her way to school. Her distraught mother asks private investigator Alexander Zorbach, a former police detective, to discover her whereabouts.Despite a month having elapsed since her disappearance, Feline's music playlist was changed just a few days ago. Could a seemingly innocuous list of songs contain a hidden clue to where the girl is being held - and how she can be rescued - or is the truth something more sinister?Zorbach needs Alina Grigoriev's help, but enlisting the medium will prove difficult given their shared past. The mystery of the playlist plunges Zorbach into a horrifying nightmare, in which the chances of survival for everyone involved are close to zero.

Bestselling author Sebastian Fitzek sends you on an ingeniously disturbing journey with his brand new psychological thriller.A missing child. A desperate father. A terrible secret.Guido T has already confessed to two horrific child murders and led Berlin police to the bodies. The police are sure he is also the kidnapper and murderer of six-year-old Max, who disappeared without trace a year ago.But now the killer is staying silent. The investigators have no reliable evidence, so Max's parents have no certainty and are unable to say goodbye to their son.Everything changes when one investigator makes an unbelievable offer: he can have Max's father placed in the psychiatric prison hospital where Guido T is imprisoned - as a fake patient.Max's father agrees. He plans to force the child killer into a confession. Because nothing is worse than uncertainty.Or so he thinks. Until he, as an inmate, learns the gruesome truth...Reviewers on Sebastian Fitzek:'Fitzek's thrillers are breathtaking, full of wild twists' Harlan Coben'Fitzek is without question one of the crime world's most evocative storytellers' Karin Slaughter

The second in a powerfully unsettling trilogy by the master of the psychothriller, Sebastian Fitzek.Dr Suker is one of the best eye surgeons in the world. He is also a psychopath who abducts women to sexually abuse them. Before he rapes a woman, Suker carefully removes her eyelids. So far, all the victims of the twisted doctor's crimes have committed suicide shortly thereafter. The police are unable to proceed against him due to the lack of evidence.When another woman is abducted, her mother turns to Alina Gregoriev for help. Gregoriev, the blind physiotherapist, has been considered a medium since her abilities helped capture an infamous serial killer. She reluctantly gets involved in the Suker case - and is drawn into a whirlpool of madness and violence that also engulfs her old friend, police officer turned journalist Alexander Zorbach.Reviewers on Sebastian Fitzek'Fitzek's thrillers are breathtaking, full of wild twists.' Harlan Coben'Fitzek is without question one of the crime world's most evocative storytellers' Karin Slaughter

The startlingly powerful psychological thriller by international bestselling author Sebastian Fitzek.Twelve-year-old Josy has an inexplicable illness. One day she goes to her doctor's surgery and disappears without trace.Josy's father Viktor withdraws to an isolated island in order to deal with the tragedy. It's there he is visited four years later by a beautiful stranger. Anna Glass is a novelist who suffers from an unusual form of schizophrenia: all the characters she creates for her books become real to her. Her latest work features a young girl with an unknown illness who has disappeared without trace...Could her delusions really describe Josy's last days? Reluctantly, psychiatrist Viktor agrees to become Anna's therapist in a final attempt to uncover the truth. As the past is dragged back into the light, the sessions and their consequences become ever more terrifying.Reviews for Sebastian Fitzek'Fitzek's thrillers are breathtaking, full of wild twists.' Harlan Coben'Fitzek is without question one of the crime world's most evocative storytellers' Karin Slaughter

The first in a powerfully unsettling trilogy by the master of the psychothriller, Sebastian Fitzek.First he kills the mother, then he kidnaps the child. The grieving father is given 45 hours to search. If the child isn't found, they die, captive.The press call him the Eye Collector. Because the horror doesn't end with the murders. Every body discovered has had the left eye removed.When evidence implicates police officer turned journalist Alexander Zorbach, who has championed the case against the Eye Collector, he becomes the main suspect.Meanwhile, a mysterious witness comes forward. Alina Gregoriev, a blind physiotherapist, claims to be able to see into the lives of her patients simply by touching their body. She says she treated the Eye Collector yesterday.Perfect for fans of Adrian McKinty, John Marrs and Chris Carter.Reviews for Sebastian Fitzek'Fitzek's thrillers are breathtaking, full of wild twists' Harlan Coben 'Sebastian Fitzek is simply amazing. I truly hope that one day I will be able to create suspense and plot twists in the way only Sebastian can. A true Master of his craft' Chris Carter'Fitzek is without question one of the crime world's most evocative storytellers' Karin Slaughter

A psychopath has taken over the city's leading radio station and is holding everyone inside hostage. For each hostage he calls a number from the phonebook, at random. If they answer with a specific slogan, a hostage goes free. If they don't, a hostage dies.

A violent snow storm forces Berlin's most exclusive psychiatric clinic into lockdown - trapping a dangerous psychopath inside - in the chilling new thriller from international bestseller Sebastian Fitzek.

A terrified plane passenger is given an impossible choice: persuade the pilot to crash the plane, killing everybody on board, or your daughter dies, in the twisted new thriller from international bestseller Sebastian Fitzek.

You live in a quiet neighbourhood. You know that he will never find you here. All you've done is taken in a parcel for a neighbour. You have no idea what you've let into your home.

As a young man, Leon Nader suffered from insomnia. As a nightwalker, he even turned to violence during his nocturnal excursions and had psychiatric treatment for his condition. Eventually, he was convinced he had been cured - but one day, years later, Leon's wife disappears from their flat under mysterious circumstances. Could it be that his illness has broken out again? In order to find out how he behaves in his sleep, Leon fits a movement activated camera to his forehead - and when he looks at the video the next morning he makes a discovery that bursts the borders of his imagination. His nocturnal personality goes through a door that is totally unknown to him and descends into the darkness....

My name is Simon. I'm 10 years old. I'm a serial killer.Robert Stern, a successful defence lawyer, doesn't know what lies in store for him when he agrees to meet a new client in a derelict estate on the outskirts of Berlin. To his astonishment, the defendant is a ten-year-old boy - Simon - a fragile child with a chronic illness who insists that he was a murderer in a former life. Stern's surprise quickly turns to horror as he searches the cellar Simon has directed him to and discovers the skeletal remains of a man, the skull split with an axe - just as Simon told him he would.But this is only the beginning, as Simon tells Stern where to find even more victims whose bodies have lain undisturbed for years. Suddenly, the present feels murderously dangerous as well...The Child is a darkly twisting, page-turning thriller that will make your heart pound with adrenaline.