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Night ferry

Alisha Barba's dreams of being a detective were shattered when a murder suspect broke her back across a brick wall. Now on her feet again, with her police career in limbo, she receives a message from an old school friend, Cate Beaumont, who is eight months pregnant and in trouble. On the night they arrange to meet, Cate is mown down by a car that kills her husband instantly. As paramedics fight to save her life they discover there is no baby. Her pregnancy is an elaborate lie, a cruel deception. Why? What happened? As Alisha sets out to answer these questions she is drawn deeper and deeper into a dangerous quest that will take her from the East End of London to Amsterdam's red light district and into a murky underworld of sex trafficking, slavery and exploitation. A gripping thriller, with twists at every turn.

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  • "Alisha Barba's dreams of being a detective were shattered when a murder suspect broke her back across a brick wall. Now on her feet again, with her police career in limbo, she receives a message from an old school friend, Gate, who is eight months pregnant and in trouble. On the night they arrange to meet, Gate is mown down by a car. As paramedics fight to save her life they discover that there is no baby. Her pregnancy is an elaborate lie, a cruel deception. Why? What happened? As Alisha sets out to answer these questions she is drawn deeper into a dangerous quest that will take her from the East End of London to Amsterdam's red light district and into a murky underworld of sex trafficking, slavery and exploitation."
  • "At their school reunion, Alisha Barba's pregnant friend Cate tells Ali that someone is after her baby, but when Cate and her husband are struck by a car and killed leaving the event, Ali learns that Cate was faking her pregnancy. Ali and an old colleague, Vincent Ruiz, set out on an investigation that takes them from London to Amsterdam's red-light district in search of answers."
  • "Alisha Barba's dreams of being a detective were shattered when a murder suspect broke her back across a brick wall. Now on her feet again, with her police career in limbo, she receives a message from an old school friend, Cate Beaumont, who is eight months pregnant and in trouble. On the night they arrange to meet, Cate is mown down by a car that kills her husband instantly. As paramedics fight to save her life they discover there is no baby. Her pregnancy is an elaborate lie, a cruel deception. Why? What happened? As Alisha sets out to answer these questions she is drawn deeper and deeper into a dangerous quest that will take her from the East End of London to Amsterdam's red light district and into a murky underworld of sex trafficking, slavery and exploitation. A gripping thriller, with twists at every turn."@en
  • "L'inspecteur Alisha Barba, revenue au sommet de sa forme après avoir eu la colonne vertébrale brisée, reçoit l'appel à l'aide de Cate, une amie d'enfance. Le soir de leurs retrouvailles, Cate, enceinte, est fauchée par une voiture et son mari tué. Alisha débute une enquête la menant de l'East End londonien aux quartiers chauds d'Amsterdam dans le monde souterrain du sexe et de l'esclavage moderne."
  • "Ein psychologischer Thriller der Extraklasse Detective Constable Alisha Barba traut ihren Ohren nicht: Beim Ehemaligen-Treffen ihrer Schule in London fleht ihre hochschwangere Freundin Cate, zu der sie jahrelang keinen Kontakt mehr hatte, Alisha an, ihr zu helfen: Jemand sei hinter ihrem ungeborenen Baby her, erklärt Cate. Wenige Stunden später wird sie mit ihrem Ehemann Felix von einem PKW überfahren. Das Paar erliegt seinen Verletzungen noch in derselben Nacht. Die Polizei hakt das Ereignis als Unfall ab, doch Alisha weigert sich, daran zu glauben - zumal sich herausstellt, dass Cate ihre Schwangerschaft nur vorgetäuscht hatte. Alisha ermittelt auf eigene Faust im Milieu zwielichtiger Adoptionsagenturen, und ehe sie es sich versieht, gerät sie in ein Dickicht aus Sex und Gewalt."
  • "Police detective Ali Barba receives an urgent letter from her estranged friend Cate. Startled by the letter's alarming tone and eager to atone for egregious past actions, Ali meets Cate at their high school class reunion. The obviously pregnant Cate begs Ali to stop those who are trying to take her baby. But the plot takes a bizarre twist when a careening car kills Cate -- and Ali discovers the truth about Cate's pregnancy."
  • "Attending her high-school reunion at the request of her long-estranged friend, Cate, Ali Barba, a Sikh detective with the Metropolitan Police, suddenly finds herself investigating Cate's death after she and her husband are run down by a hit-and-run driver."@en
  • "Attending her high-school reunion at the request of her long-estranged friend, Cate, Ali Barba, a Sikh detective with the Metropolitan Police, suddenly finds herself investigating Cate's death after she and her husband are run down by a hit-and-run driver."
  • "Als een vrouwelijke detective van Indiase afkomst de moordenaar van haar voormalige, zwangere schoolvriendin zoekt, krijgt ze te maken met babyhandelaren en draagmoeders."
  • "Police detective Ali Barba receives an urgent letter from her estranged friend Cate. Startled by the letter's alarming tone and eager to atone for egregious past actions, Ali meets Cate at their high school class reunion. The obviously pregnant Cate begs Ali to stop those who are trying to take her baby. But the plot takes a bizarre twist when a careening car kills Cate and Ali discovers the truth about Cate's pregnancy."@en
  • "Police detective Ali Barba receives an urgent letter from her estranged friend Cate. Startled by the letter's alarming tone and eager to atone for egregious past actions, Ali meets Cate at their high school class reunion. The obviously pregnant Cate begs Ali to stop those who are trying to take her baby. But the plot takes a bizarre twist when a careening car kills Cate--and Ali discovers the truth about Cate's pregnancy."@en
  • "Detective Alisha Barba hadn't heard from her long lost friend Cate in years, but when she receives a frantic letter pleading for help, she knows she must see her."@en

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  • "Krimis, Thriller, Spionage"
  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@tr
  • "Adventure fiction"
  • "Adventure fiction"@en
  • "Roman à suspense"
  • "Powieść australijska"@pl
  • "Powieść kryminalna australijska"@pl
  • "Large type books"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Roman policier"

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  • "Nocny prom"@pl
  • "Nocny prom"
  • "La clandestine"
  • "Todeskampf : Psychothriller"
  • "Ferry de medianoche"
  • "Ferry de medianoche"@es
  • "Éjjeli kompjárat : [bűnügyi regény]"@hu
  • "Night ferry"@en
  • "La clandestine : roman"
  • "Éjjeli komprárat"
  • "Ölüm yolculuğu"@tr
  • "Todeskampf : Thriller"
  • "The night ferry"
  • "The night ferry"@en
  • "Todeskampf Psychothriller"
  • "Todeskampf : thriller"
  • "Nachtboot"
  • "The Night Ferry"@en
  • "The Night ferry"
  • "Todeskampf : psychothriller"
  • "Nattfärjan"@sv
  • "Todeskampf : Roman"
  • "The night ferry a novel"@en
  • "Todeskampf"
  • "Todeskampf Thriller"
  • "Todeskampf Thriller ; gekürzte Lesung"
  • "The night ferry : a novel"
  • "The night ferry : a novel"@en

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