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Manche Schuld tilgt nur der Tod – ein neuer Fall von Kindle-#1-Bestsellerautor Thomas Herzberg. Der Zirkus Bernadetti schlägt sein jährliches Winterlager nahe Husum auf. Doch ein Leichenfund macht die Pläne für die erste Vorstellung zunichte. Ein neuer Fall, der die Kripo Husum und vor allem die junge Polizistin Michi Greve vor ungeahnte Herausforderungen stellt. Ihr eigensinniger Chef kennt die Zirkusleute schon seit seiner Jugend. Parallel muss sich Michi um einen ganz besonderen tierischen Pflegefall kümmern. Sämtliche Spuren führen in den Zirkus.

Ein Killer auf Rachefeldzug. Eine Ermittlerin getrieben von ihrer Vergangenheit. Der neue Thriller von Kindle-#1-Bestsellerautor Robert Dugoni Detective Tracy Crosswhite, die auch in heiklen Situationen ihre Gefühle immer unter Kontrolle hat, gerät während eines Verhörs völlig aus der Fassung. Denn der Verdächtige Erik Schmidt hat Verbindungen zu dem Psychopathen, der damals ihre Schwester ermordet hat. Seine verstörenden Bemerkungen lassen Tracys Trauma aufleben.

For MI5 officer Liz Carlyle, the nagging complications of her private life are quickly forgotten at Monday’s counter-terrorism meeting. An invisible may have entered mainland Britain. An ‘invisible’ is a terrorist who is an ethnic native of the target country, who can cross its borders unchecked and move about unnoticed – the ultimate nightmare. By the time they're identified, it may be too late. The intelligence operation that follows will test Liz to the limit. Who or what is the target? Where and who is the invisible? With each passing hour the danger increases.

Three years ago, Detective Sergeant Anjli Kapoor faced her most terrifying case—the brutal kidnapping and murder of two young girls, each found with posies in their pockets. The prime suspect, local florist Thomas Blackthorne, committed suicide, leaving the case unresolved and haunting Anjli ever since. Now, history seems to be repeating itself. Another child has vanished, with all signs pointing to the same twisted killer. But how can it be, when the prime suspect is dead?

Ein Mord ohne Opfer. Eine stumme Zeugin. Am Strand unterhalb des Holnis Kliffs wird eine stumme junge Frau aufgefunden, blutverschmiert und nackt. Ohlsen und sein Team entdecken auf der einsamen Halbinsel eine geheime Kultstätte und jede Menge menschliches Blut, aber kein Opfer. Die Spur führt zu einer spirituellen Gruppe, die nach dem frühmittelalterlichen Völven-Kult lebt. Ohlsen holt sich Rat bei Archäologin Fria Svensson, die aber gerade eine andere Sorge umtreibt: Der nette neue Lebensgefährte von Mitbewohner Marten scheint ein gefährliches Doppelleben zu führen ...

New Year’s Day. A dog walker is enjoying the early morning calm in Birmingham’s Woodgate Country Park. At first he thinks it’s some old rubbish. His dogs are always digging up trouble. But it’s a mummified body. The victim is Nathan Troy, an art student who disappeared twenty years ago. Days later, a second body is found. This time it’s a fresh kill. And the ligature marks on the victim’s neck are identical. It’s been twenty years, but after all this time, forensic psychologist Kate Hanson knows that Nathan’s killer is back.

In the dim morning light, Orkney’s Skaill Bay is the backdrop for a calamity of nature’s making. When forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod joins the rescue efforts as a volunteer, she uncovers more than she bargained for: a human skeleton entombed in a stone crypt. The grave is believed to hail from the Viking Age, but Rhona's analysis of the content points to more recent and sinister evil. And a shadow is thrown over the investigation when the skeleton is finally identified, as unsettling connections between the victim and the very people trying to solve the case come to light.

Recent Afghan refugee Kamela Ahmadi was last seen exiting her place of work three weeks ago. The local police have yet to open a case, while her older, domineering husband seems unconcerned. Kamela’s closest friend, however, is convinced Kamela would never willingly leave her three-year old daughter. At her insistence, missing persons expert Frankie Elkin agrees to take up the search through the broiling streets of Tucson. Just in time for a video of the young mother to surface—showing her walking away from the scene of a brutal double murder.

It’s Los Angeles in the new year of 1950. The Communist Scare is heating up. Gangsters vie for control of the town. The Hollywood studios are feuding with the unions. Then a dead body with its eyes gouged out turns up.

Recent Afghan refugee Sabera Ahmadi was last seen exiting her place of work three weeks ago. The local police have yet to open a case, while her older, domineering husband seems unconcerned. Sabera's closest friend, however, is convinced Sabera would never willingly leave her three‑year old daughter. At her insistence, missing persons expert Frankie Elkin agrees to take up the search through the broiling streets of Tucson. Just in time for a video of the young mother to surface—showing her walking away from the scene of a brutal double murder.

Officer Naomi Cranston was framed for stealing cocaine from the evidence locker and coerced—through threats to her young son—into not fighting the charges. After five years in prison, she has tried to put the ordeal behind her, but the crooks who framed her have returned, this time demanding she move drugs along with her flower shop’s deliveries. They threaten her son once again, but this time she’s not capitulating quietly. She hires Broussard Investigations to protect her and her son, to prove her innocence, and to put the real bad guys away.

When Ruth Galloway arrives to supervise the opening of a coffin containing the bones of a medieval bishop, she finds the museum’s curator lying dead on the floor. Soon after, the museum’s wealthy owner is also found dead, in his stables. DCI Harry Nelson is called in to investigate, thrusting him into Ruth’s path once more. When threatening letters come to light, events take an even more sinister turn. But as Ruth’s friends become involved, where will her loyalties lie? A

Als in einem Fischerboot die Leiche des Journalisten Jerry Markham entdeckt wird, ruft man Hilfe vom Festland: Anstelle von Jimmy Perez, der noch unter dem Tod seiner Verlobten leidet, soll die junge Willow Reeves auf den Shetlands ermitteln. Trotz seiner Apathie regt sich Widerstand in dem Detective. Die junge Kollegin ist ihm entschieden zu forsch. Das ungleiche Paar begibt sich auf Spurensuche: Markham, Sohn aus reichem Haus, war als Frauenheld bekannt. Er hatte die Inseln nach einem Skandal verlassen müssen. Warum also war er zurückgekehrt?

Der zweite Fall für Kommissar Nils Trojan und Profilerin Carlotta Weiss. Vor einer Klinik in der Uckermark wird ein schwer verletztes 17-jähriges Mädchen abgelegt. Wie sich herausstellt, handelt es sich um Lilly Steiner, die seit einem Jahr als vermisst galt. Lilly ist traumatisiert und kann keine Aussage dazu machen, wo sie sich aufgehalten hat. Ihre einzige Erinnerung ist, dass sie unter Raben gelebt und angeblich deren Sprache erlernt hat.

Zum ersten Mal im Hörbuch: der siebte Fall von Hercule Poirot. Ein Unbekannter taucht bei Poirot auf und bricht vor ihm zusammen. Wer ist der Mann? Und ...

Band 4 der SPIEGEL-Bestsellerreihe: die dunklen Machenschaften von Hildurs Familie reichen bis in die Gegenwart. Hildur Rúnarsdóttir dachte, in ihr Leben als Kriminalpolizistin in den Westfjorden von Island wäre endlich Ruhe eingekehrt. Da stirbt eine alte Freundin ihrer Mutter auf merkwürdige Weise, und auf dem elterlichen Anwesen am Meer entdeckt man vier Menschenskelette. Hildur forscht nach, obwohl sie gerade eigentlich in einem Misshandlungsfall auf einem Kreuzfahrtschiff ermittelt.

Jake Sawyer is suffering. After a bruising confrontation with a cruel killer, he has isolated himself in a remote cottage in the bleak and beautiful northern Peak District. Facing an uncertain future, he resumes his covert investigation into his mother’s murder, and enters therapy to explore his lack of primal fear response. When an ex-TV personality is found murdered, from a single stab wound to the heart, Sawyer suspects a ritualistic element. But then a second victim is found, and he forms a terrifying theory about the killer’s twisted logic.

When the Dawson family is found slaughtered in what appears to be a tragic murder-suicide, it seems like another heartbreaking case of a man pushed to the edge, taking his wife and children with him before ending his own life. But DI Alec McKay has doubts. Why was a mysterious BMW spotted at the Dawsons’ holiday home that day, and why are its owners also now dead? What’s behind the erratic behaviour of the new senior investigating officer? And, most disturbingly, who is sending out packages containing toys taken from the crime scene?

Bridgette’s much-needed vacation takes a chilling turn when psychopath Alex Hellyer escapes prison, determined to settle old scores. Cut off from the world in a remote lodge, Bridgette becomes the unwitting target of Hellyer’s rampage. With limited resources and no backup, she has to rely on her wits to survive a deadly game of cat and mouse.

When a body is discovered in a picturesque South Devon village, DI Wesley Peterson is called in to investigate. The victim, Barry Brown, is a celebrity ghostwriter and the theft of his laptop suggests that the motive for murder may lie in his work. While Wesley investigates Barry's famous clients, Wesley's teenage son Michael joins family friend, Dr Neil Watson, on an intriguing excavation of a crashed World War Two plane on Dartmoor.