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Last Seen Wearing is the second Inspector Morse novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series. After leaving home to return to school, teenager Valerie Taylor had completely vanished, and the trail had gone cold. Until two years, three months and two days after Valerie's disappearance...

When decomposed human remains are discovered in a suitcase behind a locked door in the home of an elderly man, Detective Karen Hart thinks the facts speak for themselves. That is, until she finds the warning: It’s time to pay for your crime. The body belongs to a former teacher, Oliver Fox, who vanished from the village thirty years earlier. Hart’s instincts tell her there is something untoward about this rural Lincolnshire community—especially when she uncovers evidence suggesting that, although Fox was a victim, he certainly wasn’t innocent.

There's a serial killer targeting the streets of Newcastle, seemingly picking his victims at random but subjecting them all to the same torturous end. When the Chief Inspector on the case goes missing, it falls on DCI Ryan to track down the man who is brutally murdering women and goading the police to 'catch me if you can'. As everyone becomes a suspect, Ryan and his team get drawn further and further into the case, but for Ryan the nightmare gets closer to home than he could ever have imagined.

Detective Sergeant Kate Redman investigates the kidnapping of Charlie Fullman, the newborn son of a wealthy entrepreneur. It seems a straightforward case, but as Kate and fellow officer Mark Olbeck delve deeper, they uncover murky secrets and multiple motives for the crime. The case brings up painful memories of Kate's own past secrets. As she confronts the truth about herself, her increasing emotional instability threatens both her career and the possibility that they will ever find Charlie Fullman alive.

When the body of troubled teenager Elodie Duncan is pulled from the river in Abbeyford, the case is at first assumed to be a straightforward suicide. Detective Sergeant Kate Redman is shocked to discover that she'd met the victim the night before her death, introduced by Kate's younger brother Jay. As the case develops, it becomes clear that Elodie was murdered.

Brought to you by Penguin. Read by award-winning narrator Jeff Harding. **NOW A MAJOR PRIME TV SERIES STARRING ALAN RITCHSON** Jack Reacher walks alone. No job, no ID, no last known address. But he never turns down a plea for help. Now a woman tracks him down. A woman serving at the very heart...

A new ‘Christie for Christmas’ – a full-length novel adapted from her acclaimed play by Charles Osborne. Following Black Coffee and The Unexpected Guest comes the final Agatha Christie play novelisation, bringing her superb storytelling to a new legion of fans. Clarissa, the wife of a...

Emery Hazard and his partner, John-Henry Somerset, have solved their first case together. The brutal murders that rocked the quiet town of Wahredua have been put to rest. Hazard, however, finds his life has only grown more complicated as he adjusts to his new home. Living with Somers, whom he has been drawn to since high school, makes "complicated" the understatement of the year.

A shocking discovery of human bones reopens an almost fifty-year-old cold case—and rips apart the lives of a group of friends—in a riveting novel by Loreth Anne White, the Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestselling author of The Maid’s Diary. When human bones are found beneath an old...

WINNER OF THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2023 'The most joyously exciting novel I've read in years . . . [The] sense of fun and adventure . . . allied to a remarkable lightness of touch over nightmarish subject matter, makes for the kind of novel that inspired me to write...

¿Cómo se puede atrapar a un asesino que no deja rastro? La víctima ha recibido una sola puñalada, precisa, en el vientre; y, a primera vista, cualquiera diría que ha sido un robo frustrado. Una trabajadora social, madre cariñosa, se ha perdido en un acto de violencia sin sentido. Pero, para la detective Kim Stone, las cuentas no cuadran. Cuando una drogadicta local aparece asesinada con una herida idéntica, Kim intuye que se enfrenta al mismo homicida.

SHE’S OUT OF UNIFORM BUT SHE’S STILL IN THE LINE OF FIRE. Discover a thrilling new Scottish crime series starring Detective Helen Carter. Detective Helen Carter is called to a crime scene: a barmaid, Tina French, has been strangled. Murdered on her way home from work to look after her sick...

In this thrilling novel from New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly, Harry Bosch teams up with LAPD Detective Renée Ballard to face the unsolved murder of a runaway, and the fight to bring a killer to justice.​ Detective Renée Ballard is working the night beat—known in LAPD...

A known prostitute is found stabbed to death in a shabby corner of Abbeyford. Detective Sergeant Kate Redman and her partner Detective Sergeant Olbeck take on the case, expecting to have it wrapped up in a matter of days. Kate finds herself distracted by her growing attraction to her boss, Detective Chief Inspector Anderton; until another woman's body is found, with the same knife wounds. And then another one after that, in a matter of days.

Louise Rick, la detective de homicidios novata, debuta en este emocionante best seller internacional: el número uno que lanzó la increíble carrera de la escritora Sara Blædel hasta alcanzar los tres millones de ventas. Una joven aparece estrangulada en un parque y un periodista ha sido asesinado en el patio trasero del Hotel Royal de Copenhague. La detective Louise Rick se encarga del caso de la joven, pero muy pronto se ve envuelta en la resolución del otro homicidio: su mejor amiga, la periodista Camilla Lind, conocía al hombre asesinado.

A man is found bludgeoned to death in woodland by the village of Canwick, and the close-knit community is sent into shock. Detective Karen Hart, still haunted by the tragic loss of her husband and daughter nearby, is brought in to investigate the horrific murder. It soon becomes clear that dark secrets lie behind Canwick’s unspoiled appearance. When Hart begins to suspect that a modern-day slavery ring has been hiding in plain sight among the villagers, she faces a race to find proof before the culprits slip from her grasp.

Running from a life she didn’t choose, in a city she doesn’t know, Sukanya, a young Thai girl, loses herself in the vastness of Tokyo. With her Bangkok street smarts and some stolen money, she stays ahead of her former captors who will do anything to recover the computer she took. After befriending Chiho, a Japanese girl living in an internet café, Sukanya makes plans to rid herself of her pursuers, and her past, forever.

Mitten in der Nacht wird Tara Kronberg vom LKA in die Oberlausitz gerufen. Unter einem stillgelegten Hochkohlebunker hängt ein Mann an einem Seil. Aus seiner Kehle fließt Blut, ihm fehlt die rechte Hand. Das Opfer stammt aus einer Aussteigergruppe, die sich in dem ehemaligen Tagebaugelände niedergelassen hat. Tara stößt nicht nur auf Schweigen, sondern auch auf einen Ort, an dem vor fünfundzwanzig Jahren drei Menschen spurlos verschwanden.

Cuando unos pescadores encuentran los restos mutilados y horriblemente desfigurados de una mujer, recae en el inspector Tom Janssen y su equipo averiguar cómo terminó en el agua y si su muerte fue consecuencia de un crimen o de un trágico accidente. La víctima es identificada como Susan Cook, una mujer que desapareció hace nueve años y que todos creían muerta. Sin embargo, la autopsia revela que murió hace tan solo dos días. Este descubrimiento despierta en algunos de los que la conocían asuntos que creían zanjados tiempo atrás.

Aimee Bregman had an enviable job as head of marketing for an up-and-coming CBD-infused beer that was taking the tri-state area by storm. Everything was going right. But when her longtime mentor, Rita, sets up a business meeting with an important influencer, her life crashes all around her. The casual meeting over drinks suddenly devolves into a shouting match between all parties, and any chance of a new business relationship is over before it begins. Hours later, the NYPD shows up at Aimee's apartment, questioning her about Rita's abrupt disappearance - foul play suspected.