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Exiled to four years in Siberia, but hailed by the end of his life as a saint, prophet, and genius, Fyodor Dostoevsky holds an exalted place among the best of the great Russian authors. One of Dostoevsky’s five major novels, Devils follows the travails of a small provincial town beset by a band of modish radicals - and in so doing presents a devastating depiction of life and politics in late 19th-century Imperial Russia.

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Dostoevsky’s Underground Man is a composite of the tormented clerk and the frustrated dreamer of his earlier stories, but his Notes from the Underground is a precursor of his great later novels and their central concern with the nature of free will. Initially musing on his “sickness” and the detested notion of self-interest, the maladjusted and willful Underground Man turns to a series of incidents from years earlier.

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Former investigator, Thomas Ravnsholdt—known as Ravn—drifts like wreckage along Copenhagen's harbour, numbed by cheap liquor and old wounds. But his peace is shattered when a desperate young woman shows up, pleading for help: her brother has vanished after stealing millions. The trail leads Ravn from the windy docks of Copenhagen to Berlin, where ghosts of the Cold War still linger: Stasi files, double agents, and brutality that never truly came to an end. Ravn soon realises that the missing is not merely lost, but ensnared in a deadly web.

A grieving detective on the edge. A missing woman. And a serial killer hunting in the shadows of Stockholm's cobbled alleys. Criminal investigator Thomas Ravnsholdt – known as Ravn – is adrift after the brutal murder of his wife. But when a friend pleads for help finding a missing young woman, Ravn is pulled back into a grim world he swore he'd abandoned. His search crosses the cold waters between Denmark and Sweden, leading him to the stark and forbidding scrapyards of Stockholm, where victims are preserved like grotesque trophies.

Den unge danske læge Maja Holm er fra Norge vendt hjem til Danmark - til barndommens kvarter for at give sit eget barn en tryg opvækst. Men intet er som før. Idyllen er brudt i kvarteret, hvor der på bare tre måneder er blevet dræbt tre drenge. En uhyggelig profil af Danmarks første seriemorder tegner sig: alle tre drenge er blevet fundet med et glansbillede med Peter Pan-motiv i hænderne. Vil Peter Pan snart igen flyve ind ad vinduet til et nyt børneværelse? Maja Holm bliver hurtigt involveret i de dystre begivenheder på allernærmeste hold.

"Sort sne falder" er en højdramatisk konspirationsthriller. Da den skandaleramte politiker Peter Levin bliver udsat for et attentatforsøg, vendes et knusende valgnederlag til en sympatisejr for det lille midterparti Demokratisk Koalition. Partiet får magten til at vælge landets næste statsminister. PET-chef Nikolaj Storm og kriminalkommissær Katrine Bergman fra drabsafdelingen efterforsker attentatet, der peger mod miljøkaktivister på den yderste venstrefløj.

I de mindste byer findes de største hemmeligheder. Nogle gange så store, at det er nødvendigt at dræbe for at bevare dem. Den unge danske læge Maja Holm flygter til en afsides norsk kystby efter et forlist parforhold. I en blanding af døgnlange vagter og medikamenter fra sin egen lægetaske er hun ved at køre sig selv i sænk. Da en af hendes patienter dør af en overdosis, aner Maja, at der ligger mere bag. I sin søgen efter svar indleder hun et umage samarbejde med den lokale tv-journalit Stig Norland.

En bilbombe dræber treogtyve personer på en fashionabel restaurant i det indre København. Alt tyder på et terrorangreb, men endnu har ingen taget ansvaret. Nikolaj Storm, der er chef for PET's enhed for kontraterrorisme, sættes i spidsen for efterforskningen. Med sin nyoprettede task force forsøger han at finde frem til gerningsmændene, men han plages samtidig af samvittighedskvaler over ikke at have forhindret angrebet.

Late one night, newly promoted Inspector Cecilie Mars makes a fatal choice that has far-reaching consequences. Her misstep has been captured on film, and now an anonymous figure threatens to reveal everything unless she follows their cunning plan. Drawn into a sinister scheme involving blackmailing and vigilantism, Cecilie is forced to consider just how far she is willing to go to ensure justice. At the same time, it slowly dawns on her that the unknown figure might not be so unknown after all...

Former detective Ravn has turned his back on the police to work as a private investigator. Hired by wealthy businessman Ferdinand Mesmer to find his estranged son, Jacob, Ravn thinks it's a straightforward missing-person case. But Jacob isn't just missing. He's the leader of a secretive community living in isolation on a decaying farm on a remote island. Ravn soon realises that Ferdinand's motives are far from paternal, and that Jacob's dangerous charisma has pushed his followers to the brink.

Seventeen years ago, two boys committed an unthinkable crime and vanished into new identities under witness protection. Now, a series of brutal attacks on women is shaking the city, and Ravn's client fears his old friend is the perpetrator. As Ravn digs deeper, he's drawn into a dangerous game of cat and mouse, where nothing is as it seems and everyone has something to hide.

Byron Katies Methode der "Wahrheitsfindung" hat bereits Hunderttausenden geholfen, ihr Leben einfacher zu machen, Stress abzubauen und mit sich selbst und anderen liebevoller umzugehen. In diesem Hörbuch wendet sie ihre vier einfachen Fragen auf den Bereich der Partnerschaft an, von der Paarbeziehung über enge Freundschaft bis zu kollegialen Beziehungen.

Kriminalbetjent Thomas Ravnsholdt, kaldet Ravn, bliver sendt på sygeorlov fra Station Citys specialenhed, efter hans kæreste, Eva, er blevet brutalt myrdet under et hjemmerøveri. Fuld af selvbebrejdelse over Evas død har Ravn søgt tilflugt på sin gamle motorbåd i Christianshavns kanal. Her bor han sammen med hunden Møffe, en aldrende engelsk bulldog med kroniske maveproblemer.

En morderisk forsvindingssag vækker fortidens rædsler til live. "Savnet" er en højspændt krimi om en ensom mand, der begår underslæb for at rejse til et hemmeligt møde i Berlin, men forsvinder sporløst. Thomas Ravnsholdt bliver gennem mandens søster Louise involveret i eftersøgningen og må sande, at flere enlige mænd er forsvundet på mystisk vis i den tyske hovedstad. Det bliver til en nervepirrende jagt på sandheden og gerningsmanden, som står bag.

Dr Maja Holm seeks solace in a desolate Norwegian coastal town, fleeing a turbulent past. But as her gruelling work hours and self-medication take their toll, she teeters on the edge. When a patient's mysterious death raises suspicions, Maja's intuition sparks a daring alliance with local TV journalist Stig Norland. Together, they plunge into the town's secrets, racing against the impending polar storm. But as Maja peels back the layers of the town's dark façade, one question looms: will exposing the truth cost her everything—including her life?

Justice may not be enough... Amidst a spree of violent murders targeting women in Denmark, Police Commissioner Cecilie Mars is pulled into the shadows of a hidden underworld. Tracing these heinous acts back to a long-forgotten rape, Mars is pointed towards a sinister group of men bound by a deep hatred for women: incels. As her relentless approach earns her foes within the police force and at home, Mars quickly becomes the target of the very rage she's hunting

Ondskaben kender ingen grænser. Den erfarne privatopdager Ravn får sin mest uhyggelige sag til dato, da en klient beder ham finde en gammel skolekammerat, som han ikke har haft kontakt med i 17 år. En række bestialske overfald på kvinder, der ryster København har givet klienten mistanke om, at hans skolekammerat står bag, fordi overfaldene minder om det, som han og kammeraten begik på en lille pige tilbage i 1993, og som endte fatalt.

En mordbrand viser sig at have forbindelse til både en mystisk sekt og til de højeste kredse i det danske erhvervsliv, da Ravn får en tilsyneladende banal sag: Han hyres af den velhavende direktør Ferdinand Mesmer, som er ekspert i ledelsesstrategi, til at finde Mesmers forsvundne søn Jakob, der for 10 år siden grundlagde den nu skandaleramte sekt "Guds udvalgte".