Kansas. Uno scuolabus viene bloccato da tre evasi che non hanno più niente da perdere: otto bambine sordomute vengono prese in ostaggio insieme alle loro insegnanti e trascinate in un vicino mattatoio. Il capo degli evasi, un sadico pluriomicida, minaccia di uccidere una persona ogni ora se le sue condizioni non verranno accettate, e Arthur Potter, il negoziatore mandato dall'FBI, ha solo dodici ore per convincerlo a rilasciare gli ostaggi. Dodici ore per trovare la giusta linea di trattativa e imparare a ragionare con la testa dell'assassino. Ma mentre si gioca questa estenuante guerra psicologica, all'interno del macabro mattatoio Melanie, un'insegnante sordomuta, si rivela un aiuto insperato.

From the international #1 bestselling author—a sensational thriller in which a beautiful young star is stalked by an obsessive fan who thinks her big hit song was written just for him.

Kayleigh Towne’s music career is just reaching new heights with her huge hit single “Your Shadow”—but increased fame is also bringing unwanted attention. An innocent exchange with one of her fans, signed with an “XO,” leads Kayleigh into the dangerous and terrifying realm of obsession.

Edwin Sharp thinks Kayleigh’s songs contain messages that speak directly to him. Despite her clear rejection and threats from lawyers and law enforcers, he remains convinced that “Your Shadow” was written just for him, and he announces he’s coming for Kayleigh. Then a potentially fatal accident occurs at the concert hall where Kayleigh is rehearsing for a triumphant hometown performance, and she is convinced that someone—maybe Edwin—was there watching her from the darkness.

Speeding along over just three short days, this nail-biting thriller is filled with terrifying twists that will hold readers in rapt suspense until the final shocking revelation.

The page-turning New York Times bestseller from Jeffery Deaver's “simply outstanding” (San Jose Mercury News) Lincoln Rhyme series!

The FBI has recruited forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme and his protégée, Amelia Sachs, to capture “the Ghost,” a homicidal immigrant smuggler. But when they corner him aboard a cargo ship, the bust goes disastrously wrong and the Ghost escapes. Now the killer must eliminate two families who witnessed his flight before they jumped ship and vanished. . . . Searching New York City's Chinatown, can Rhyme and Sachs find the Ghost's targets before he does?

From Jeffery Deaver's “simply outstanding” (San Jose Mercury News) Lincoln Rhyme series comes this acclaimed New York Times bestseller!

Forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme is called in to work the high-profile investigation of a killer who seemingly disappeared into thin air just as the NYPD closed in. As the homicidal illusionist baits him with grisly murders that grow more diabolical with each victim, Rhyme and his protégée, Amelia Sachs, must go behind the smoke and mirrors to prevent a horrific act of vengeance that could become the greatest vanishing act of all. . . .

Catapulted into sudden fame by her beauty and talent, country pop artist Kayleigh Towne turns for help to Special Agent Kathryn Dance to stop a sadistic stalker who is targeting the people closest to the singer. By the best-selling author of The Bone Collector. (suspense). Simultaneous.

€ 31,70

When a ruthless curator at San Francisco's McFall Art Museum is murdered, his wife is the primary suspect. She is tried, convicted, and executed. Ten years later, Jon Nunn, the detective who cracked the case, is convinced that the wrong person was put to death. With the help of the dead woman's friend, he plans to finally uncover the truth. Solving this case may be Nunn's last chance for redemption . . . but the shadowy forces behind this murder will stop at nothing to silence the past forever.

ONE GRIPPING STORY WRITTEN BY TWENTY-SIX TOP AUTHORS

Jeff Abbott • Lori Armstrong • Sandra Brown • Thomas Cook • Jeffery Deaver Diana Gabaldon • Tess Gerritsen • Andrew F. Gulli • Peter James • J.A. Jance Faye Kellerman • Raymond Khoury • John Lescroart • Jeff Lindsay • Gayle Lynds Phillip Margolin • Alexander McCall Smith • Michael Palmer • T. Jefferson Parker Matthew Pearl • Kathy Reichs • Marcus Sakey • Jonathan Santlofer Lisa Scottoline • R. L. Stine • Marcia Talley

Each of these bestselling writers brings his or her distinctive voice to the narrative, building the tension to a shocking, explosive finale. No Rest for the Dead is a thrilling, page-turning accomplishment that only today's very best authors could achieve.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver's fan favorites Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are on the trail of a killer whose weapon of choice cripples New York City with fear—in The Burning Wire now only $14.99.

The weapon is invisible and omnipresent. Without it, modern society grinds to a halt. It is electricity. The killer harnesses and steers huge arc flashes with voltage so high and heat so searing that steel melts and his victims are set afire.

     When the first explosion occurs in broad daylight, reducing a city bus to a pile of molten, shrapnel-riddled metal, officials fear terrorism. Rhyme, a world-class forensic criminologist known for his successful apprehension of the most devious criminals, is immediately tapped for the investigation. Long a quadriplegic, he assembles NYPD detective Amelia Sachs and officer Ron Pulaski as his eyes, ears and legs on crime sites, and FBI agent Fred Dellray as his undercover man on the street. As the attacks continue across the city at a sickening pace, and terrifying demand letters begin appearing, the team works desperately against time and with maddeningly little forensic evidence to try to find the killer. Or is it killers?

     Meanwhile, Rhyme is consulting on another high-profile investigation in Mexico with a most coveted quarry in his crosshairs: the hired killer known as the Watchmaker, one of the few criminals to have eluded Rhyme's net. Juggling two massive investigations against a cruel ticking clock takes a toll on Rhyme's health. Soon Rhyme is fighting on yet another front—and his determination to work despite his physical limitations threatens to drive away his closest allies when he needs them most….

Internationally bestselling author Jeffery Deaver delivers the latest sensational thriller in his wildly popular Kathryn Dance series.

Newsweek calls Jeffery Deaver a “suspense superstar,” and in his new novel, he lives up to the accolades once again as he sets his heroine Kathryn Dance on a quest to stop an obsessive stalker from destroying a beautiful young country singer.

     Kayleigh Towne is gorgeous with a voice that is taking her to the heights of the country pop charts. Her hit single “Your Shadow” puts her happily in the spotlight, until an innocent exchange with one of her fans leads Kayleigh into a dark and terrifying realm. The fan warns, “I'm coming for you,” and soon accidents happen and people close to Kayleigh die. Special Agent Kathryn Dance must use her considerable skills at investigation and body language analysis to stop the stalker—but before long she learns that, like many celebrities, Kayleigh has more than just one fan with a mission. 

     A former folksinger, Deaver has written the actual song, 'Your Shadow.' Listeners will be able to download it from his website, JefferyDeaver.com.

SCHUTZLOS - DEAVER JEFFERY - Random Germania

La giovane Taylor Lockwood divide le sue giornate tra il lavoro di praticante in un prestigioso studio legale di New York e le serate come pianista jazz nel locali più pittoreschi della città. Ma la sua vita cambia all'improvviso quando uno degli avvocati dello studio, l'intrigante Mitchell Reece, le affida un compito a dir poco delicato: scoprire chi ha rubato il prezioso documento che potrebbe distruggergli la carriera e mandare a rotoli un affare milionario. Sedotta dal fascino dell'imperscrutabile Reece, Taylor accetta l'incarico. Ma più scava nei segreti della Hubbard, White & Willis, più la posta in gioco si fa alta: perché qualcuno è disposto a tutto pur di veder realizzati i propri sinistri piani, e la sete di verità che sprona Taylor a proseguire nelle indagini rischia ogni ora di più di esserle fatale. In una New York torbida e scintillante, tra i jazz club pieni di fumo e gli asettici palazzi in cui si gioca la spietata partita del potere, Deaver dà vita a un thriller pieno di personaggi e situazioni inedite, di tensione e di atmosfera.

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James Bond ha poco più di trent'anni e una cicatrice di otto centimetri gli solca la guancia destra. Ha combattuto valorosamente in Afghanistan, lavora per l'ODG, un dipartimento speciale dei servizi segreti inglesi, guida una Bentley Continental GT ed è a cena con una splendida donna che lo sta annoiando con i suoi tormenti di pittrice incompresa, quando un messaggio sullo smartphone lo chiama all'azione. Poche ore dopo è in Serbia, alla periferia di Novi Sad, dove qualcuno è deciso a far precipitare nel Danubio un treno che trasporta isocianato di metile, la sostanza chimica responsabile della morte di migliaia di persone a Bhopal... Dalla Serbia a Londra, da Dubai al Sudafrica, 'Carta Bianca' trascina il lettore in un viaggio imprevedibile alla scoperta degli intrighi e dei traffici inconfessabili alla radice dei conflitti che insanguinano il mondo di oggi.

JAMES BOND as you've never seen him before . . . in the smashing new thriller and #1 international bestseller from JEFFERY DEAVER

A Night Action alert calls James Bond away from dinner with a beautiful woman. Headquarters has decrypted an electronic whisper—plans for a devastating attack:

Casualties estimated in the thousands, British interests adversely affected.

James Bond, in his early thirties and already a veteran of the Afghan War, has been recruited to a new organization. Conceived in the post-9/11 world, it operates independent of MI5, MI6, and the Ministry of Defense, its very existence deniable. Its aim: to protect the Realm, by any means necessary.

And Agent 007 has been given carte blanche to do whatever it takes to fulfill his mission. . . .

More than twenty New York Times bestselling authors team up to create a first-rate serial novel -- a collaboration that combines the skills of America's greatest storytellers to produce a gripping, spellbinding mystery.

 

“The lineup of writers who have contributed to this mystery is akin to the Murderers' Row of the 1927 New York Yankees. There is not a weak spot in the bunch.”

—David Baldacci, from the Introduction

 

Alexander McCall Smith. Sandra Brown. Faye Kellerman. J.A. Jance. Jeffery Deaver. Kathy Reichs. Lisa Scottoline. Jeff Lindsay. These are only a handful of the names that make up the all-star lineup of authors behind No Rest for the Dead, a tale of vengeance, greed, and love that flows seamlessly, in the words of David Baldacci, “as it passes from one creator's mind to the next.”

 

When Christopher Thomas, a ruthless curator at San Francisco's McFall Art Museum, is murdered and his decaying body is found in an iron maiden in a Berlin museum, his wife, Rosemary, is the primary suspect, and she is tried, convicted and executed. Ten years later, Jon Nunn, the detective who cracked the case, is convinced that the wrong person was put to death. In the years since the case was closed, he's discovered a web of deceit and betrayal surrounding the Thomases that could implicate any number of people in the crime. With the help of the dead woman's friend, he plans to gather everyone who was there the night Christopher died and finally uncover the truth, suspect by suspect. Solving this case may be Nunn's last chance for redemption … but the shadowy forces behind Christopher's death will stop at nothing to silence the past forever.

 

In this innovative storytelling approach, each of these twenty-five bestselling writers brings their distinctive voice to a chapter of the narrative, building the tension to a shocking, explosive finale. No Rest for the Dead is a thrilling, page-turning accomplishment that only America's very best authors could achieve. 

 

From the Introduction of No Rest for the Dead:

There is always that case, the one that keeps me awake at night, the one that got away. It'll always be there, gnawing at the edges of my mind. It doesn't matter that ten years have passed, it doesn't matter that the case is officially closed. An innocent woman was executed, I was the one who helped make it happen, and on the sad night when the needle was inserted into her arm, injecting her with death, part of my life ended too.

            It never felt right, never made sense. Sure, there was motive and opportunity, there was the physical evidence. But if you met her, if you knew her the way I got to know her . . . It wasn't until later, after I'd taken a step back from the case, that I realized it had angles I hadn't seen, layers I hadn't uncovered, back when it mattered, back when I could have saved her….

   

With contributions from:

David Baldacci (Introduction)

Jeff Abbott

Lori Armstrong

Sandra Brown

Thomas Cook

Jeffery Deaver

Diana Gabaldon

Tess Gerritsen

Andrew F. Gulli

Peter James

J.A. Jance

Faye Kellerman

Raymond Khoury

John Lescroart

Jeff Lindsay

Gayle Lynds

Philip Margolin

Alexander McCall Smith

Michael Palmer

T. Jefferson Parker

Matthew Pearl

Kathy Reichs

Marcus Sakey

Jonathan Santlofer

Lisa Scottoline

R.L. Stine

Marcia Talley

Behind the well-known U.S. security organizations— the FBI and CIA among them—lies a heavily guarded, anonymous government agency dedicated to intelligence surveillance and to a highly specialized brand of citizen protection.

Shock waves of alarm ripple through the clandestine agency when Washington, D.C., police detective Ryan Kessler inexplicably becomes the target of Henry Loving, a seasoned, ruthless “lifter” hired to obtain information using whatever means necessary. While Loving is deft at torture, his expertise lies in getting an “edge” on his victim—leverage—usually by kidnapping or threatening family until the “primary” caves under pressure.

The job of keeping the Kessler family alive falls to a man named Corte, a senior federal protection officer known as a “shepherd.” Uncompromising, relentlessly devoted to protecting those in his care and a passionate board game aficionado, he applies brilliant gaming strategy to his work. For Corte, the reappearance of Loving—the man who, six years earlier, had tortured and killed someone close to him—is also an opportunity to avenge his friend's death. The assignment soon escalates into a fast-paced duel between Corte and Loving, a dangerous volley of wits and calculated risks.

As he shepherds the Kesslers to a concealed safe house, Corte must anticipate Loving's every step as the lifter moves in on his prey, and with the help of razor-sharp investigator Claire DuBois and his longtime ally, FBI agent Paul Fredericks, pinpoint which of Kessler's seemingly insignificant cases has triggered Loving's return. As the team digs deeper, each of the Kesslers comes under close scrutiny, and in captivity their family bonds are stretched to the breaking point—as the lifter draws near, Corte must ultimately choose between protecting his charges and exposing them to a killer in the name of long-awaited revenge.

Jeffery Deaver has been selected by Ian Fleming Publications to write the new James Bond thriller that will publish on June 14th. The plot of the new novel—which features a contemporary setting and brings Fleming's legendary 007 character firmly into the modern age—is being kept tightly under wraps until publication. Stay tuned…

The Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways—not in memoriam, but as announcements of his intention to kill. And to kill in particularly horrific and efficient ways: using the personal details about the victims that they've carelessly posted in blogs and on social networking websites.

The case lands on the desk of Kathryn Dance, the California Bureau of Investigations foremost body language expert. She and Deputy Michael O'Neil follow the leads to Travis Brigham, a troubled teenager whose role in a fatal car accident has inspired vicious attacks against him on a popular blog, The Chilton Report. As the investigation progresses, Travis vanishes. Using techniques he learned as a brilliant participant in multiplayer online role-playing games, he easily eludes his pursuers and continues to track his victims. Among the obstacles Kathryn must hurdle are politicians from Sacramento, paranoid parents, and the blogger himself, James Chilton, whose belief in the importance of blogging and the new media threatens to derail the case and potentially Dance's career. It is this threat that causes Dance to take desperate and risky measures...

In signature Jeffery Deaver style, Roadside Crosses is filled with dozens of plot twists, cliff-hangers, and heartrending personal subplots. It is also a searing look at the accountability of blogging and life in the online world. Roadside Crosses is the third in Deaver's bestselling High-Tech Thriller Trilogy, along with The Blue Nowhere and The Broken Window.

“The face of war is changing.

The other side doesn't play by the rules much anymore.

There's thinking, in some circles,

that we need to play by a different set of rules too …”

 

James Bond, in his early thirties and already a veteran of the Afghan war, has been recruited to a new organization. Conceived in the post-9/11 world, it operates independent of MI5, MI6 and the Ministry of Defense, its very existence deniable. Its aim: To protect the Realm, by any means necessary.

A Night Action alert calls James Bond away from dinner with a beautiful woman. Headquarters has decrypted an electronic whisper about an attack scheduled for later in the week: 

Casualties estimated in the thousands, British interests adversely affected.

And Agent 007 has been given carte blanche to do whatever it takes to fulfill his mission . . . 

 

The new thriller by Master of the Mind Game

JEFFERY DEAVER

featuring

JAMES BOND

as you've never seen him before.

A latest James Bond thriller is set in the present day and finds the iconic British spy engaging a horrific modern villain in a cat-and-mouse chase that takes him from the Balkans and London to the African Continent. By the best-selling author of The Bone Collector. Simultaneous.

€ 21,70

From The Bone Collector to the brand-new James Bond masterwork, “there is no thriller writer today like Jeffery Deaver”(San Jose Mercury News)!

John Pellam had a promising career as a Hollywood stuntman, until a tragedy sidetracked him. Now he's a divorced, hard-living location scout who travels the country in search of shooting sites, and pulling his camper into any small town brings out the locals seeking their fifteen minutes of fame. But behind an idyllic locale in upstate New York is a hotbed of violence, lust, and conspiracy, and Pellam is thrust into the heart of an unfolding drama and the search for a killer when a brutal murder has him hunting down justice on behalf of a dear friend.

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Lincoln Rhyme is back, on the trail of a killer whose weapon of choice cripples New York City with fear.

The weapon is invisible and omnipresent. Without it, modern society grinds to a halt. It is electricity. The killer harnesses and steers huge arc flashes with voltage so high and heat so searing that steel melts and his victims are set afire.

When the first explosion occurs in broad daylight, reducing a city bus to a pile of molten, shrapnel-riddled metal, officials fear terrorism. Rhyme, a world-class forensic criminologist known for his successful apprehension of the most devious criminals, is immediately tapped for the investigation. Long a quadriplegic, he assembles NYPD detective Amelia Sachs and officer Ron Pulaski as his eyes, ears and legs on crime sites, and FBI agent Fred Dellray as his undercover man on the street. As the attacks continue across the city at a sickening pace, and terrifying demand letters begin appearing, the team works desperately against time and with maddeningly little forensic evidence to try to find the killer. Or is it killers . . . ?

Meanwhile, Rhyme is consulting on another high-profile investigation in Mexico with a most coveted quarry in his crosshairs: the hired killer known as the Watchmaker, one of the few criminals to have eluded Rhyme’s net.

Juggling two massive investigations against a cruel ticking clock takes a toll on Rhyme’s health. Soon Rhyme is fighting on yet another front—and his determination to work despite his physical limitations threatens to drive away his closest allies when he needs them most . . .

Megan Collier è una ragazzina 'difficile': timida, solitaria, piena di rabbia. Rabbia soprattutto nei confronti dei genitori, Bett e Tate, divorziati da poco e troppo presi da se stessi per accorgersi di lei. Fortuna che ora c'è il dottor Peters, il suo nuovo psicanalista. Gli sono bastate poche sedute per stregare Megan: con il suo sguardo magnetico e la voce ferma e suadente, è il solo che riesca a far crollare le barriere della ragazza. Finché un giorno, all'improvviso, Megan scompare. Adesso i suoi genitori dovranno per forza accorgersi di quella figlia che non si erano mai preoccupati di conoscere, e che forse ha voluto fuggire proprio da loro. Ma Megan non è scappata: ben presto, infatti, dietro la sua sparizione si profila una lucida trama di ricatto e vendetta, ordita da qualcuno in grado di tenere in scacco Megan, e abilissimo a scavare nel passato della famiglia Collier. Se vogliono salvare la figlia, e scoprire chi li ricatta e perché, Tate e la sua ex moglie dovranno scendere negli inferi del proprio passato, camminando loro stessi, insieme al misterioso ricattatore, in bilico sul sottile confine tra realtà e follia.

La notizia raggiunge Lincoln Rhyme nella sua casa-laboratorio di Central Park West: l'Orologiaio, l'unico criminale a essergli sfuggito, è stato avvistato all'aeroporto di Città del Messico. Rhyme sta già pregustando l'occasione di regolare i conti con la sua nemesi, quando al quartier generale dell'NYPD scatta l'allarme per un caso che richiede il suo intervento. Perché in pieno centro a Manhattan un autobus di linea è stato colpito da una violenta scarica elettrica che lo ha ridotto a una carcassa di metallo incandescente. La scena del crimine non lascia dubbi: qualcuno si è divertito a giocare con la rete elettrica della città, e quello che poteva sembrare un incidente è in realtà un attentato riuscito solo a metà. Poco dopo, infatti, il misterioso attentatore si fa vivo con la polizia per avanzare la sua esorbitante richiesta: una riduzione dei consumi elettrici così drastica da condannare New York alla paralisi. Mentre la task-force guidata da Rhyme segue la pista di un gruppo di ecoterroristi, i blackout e gli incidenti letali si moltiplicano, la città precipita nel caos e la minaccia elettrica rivela tutto il suo devastante potenziale distruttivo. Solo Lincoln Rhyme può sperare di sventare il piano criminale di chi sta trasformando New York in una gigantesca trappola mortale. Ma prima di incastrare il colpevole, Rhyme dovrà affrontare i fantasmi più reconditi della propria coscienza e del proprio passato. Evitando di lasciarci la pelle.

After an early morning machinegun attack by a madman called the Digger leaves dozens dead in the Washington, D.C., subway, the mayor's office receives a message demanding twenty million dollars by midnight or more innocents will die. It is New Year's Eve, and with the ransom note as the only evidence, Special Agent Margaret Lukas calls upon retired FBI agent and the nation's premier document examiner Parker Kincaid to join the manhunt for the Digger—or for hundreds, the first moments of the new year will be their last on earth.

Behind the well-known U.S. security organizations— the FBI and CIA among them—lies a heavily guarded, anonymous government agency dedicated to intelligence surveillance and to a highly specialized brand of citizen protection.

Shock waves of alarm ripple through the clandestine agency when Washington, D.C., police detective Ryan Kessler inexplicably becomes the target of Henry Loving, a seasoned, ruthless “lifter” hired to obtain information using whatever means necessary. While Loving is deft at torture, his expertise lies in getting an “edge” on his victim—leverage—usually by kidnapping or threatening family until the “primary” caves under pressure.

The job of keeping the Kessler family alive falls to a man named Corte, a senior federal protection officer known as a “shepherd.” Uncompromising, relentlessly devoted to protecting those in his care and a passionate board game aficionado, he applies brilliant gaming strategy to his work. For Corte, the reappearance of Loving—the man who, six years earlier, had tortured and killed someone close to him—is also an opportunity to avenge his friend's death. The assignment soon escalates into a fast-paced duel between Corte and Loving, a dangerous volley of wits and calculated risks.

As he shepherds the Kesslers to a concealed safe house, Corte must anticipate Loving's every step as the lifter moves in on his prey, and with the help of razor-sharp investigator Claire DuBois and his longtime ally, FBI agent Paul Fredericks, pinpoint which of Kessler's seemingly insignificant cases has triggered Loving's return. As the team digs deeper, each of the Kesslers comes under close scrutiny, and in captivity their family bonds are stretched to the breaking point—as the lifter draws near, Corte must ultimately choose between protecting his charges and exposing them to a killer in the name of long-awaited revenge.

NACHTSCHREI - DEAVER JEFFERY - Random Germania

Torna Lincoln Rhyme, il personaggio più amato del maestro della suspense Jeffery Deaver, in un thriller teso e incalzante, percorso dalla sottile scossa della paura --- La notizia raggiunge Lincoln Rhyme nella sua casa-laboratorio di Central Park West: l’Orologiaio, l’unico criminale a essergli sfuggito, è stato avvistato all’aeroporto di Città del Messico. Rhyme sta già pregustando l’occasione di regolare i conti con la sua nemesi, quando al quartier generale dell’NYPD scatta l’allarme per un caso che richiede il suo intervento. Perché in pieno centro a Manhattan un autobus di linea è stato colpito da una violenta scarica elettrica che lo ha ridotto a una carcassa di metallo incandescente. La scena del crimine non lascia dubbi: qualcuno si è divertito a giocare con la rete elettrica della città, e quello che poteva sembrare un incidente è in realtà un attentato riuscito solo a metà. Poco dopo, infatti, il misterioso attentatore si fa vivo con la polizia per avanzare la sua esorbitante richiesta: una riduzione dei consumi elettrici così drastica da condannare New York alla paralisi. Mentre la task-force guidata da Rhyme segue la pista di un gruppo di ecoterroristi, i blackout e gli incidenti letali si moltiplicano, la città precipita nel caos e la minaccia elettrica rivela tutto il suo devastante potenziale distruttivo. Solo Lincoln Rhyme può sperare di sventare il piano criminale di chi sta trasformando New York in una gigantesca trappola mortale. Ma prima di incastrare il colpevole, Rhyme dovrà affrontare i fantasmi più reconditi della propria coscienza e del proprio passato. Evitando di lasciarci la pelle.