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Nordsee, Nebelschwaden und ein nächtlicher Notruf. Der schwerreiche Unternehmer und Kunstliebhaber Alexander von Holten wird eines Nachts erschossen im Inselmuseum von St. Peter Ording aufgefunden. Er liegt zu Füßen der „Goldenen Magdalena“ - einer historischen Galionsfigur von großem...

At this dead hour of the morning, the lorry park is deserted. It is a bitterly cold night, with rain falling and an edge of snow, and under the sickly yellow lighting the great lorries and tarpaulined trailers are dark and bulky as huddled beasts. For the last six months, Callan has been...

Detective Norman is out of retirement and back on the beat in a rainy Welsh seaside town. Llangwelli might be short on sunshine, but it’s certainly not short on murders . . . Norman may seem a bit old-fashioned, but he’s always willing to learn from his band of misfit recruits. A body in the...

Avril 2032. À quelques jours du premier tour de l'élection présidentielle, Adam Dumézil, le principal collaborateur du président de la République française, est retrouvé grièvement blessé chez lui, à côté...

A wickedly dark police procedural with a hint of the supernatural, this crime novel is Dinuka McKenzie meets The Bluffs. When Detective Sergeant Anastasia Brown is sent to investigate a grizzly murder in a small NSW town, she welcomes the chance to run from heartbreak and humiliation. But she...

They should have made sure he was dead. DI Hope Fenton is haunted by the abduction of her son Noah eight years ago. It shadows every investigation she works with her ex-husband, forensic scientist Dr Adam Fenton. One down. When a supposed overdose victim is found to have received a postcard...

A sadistic killer, vigilante justice, and a disturbing calling card… When a young woman is found tortured and murdered, Detective Rob Loxley attends the scene and finds an unusual calling card beside the innocent victim. A Poppet. This small handmade doll is out of place in the scene but...

Der junge Fahrradkurier Jace Damon erledigt gerade den letzten Auftrag vor Feierabend, als er plötzlich von einem Auto gejagt wird. Schüsse fallen und Jace kommt nur knapp mit dem Leben davon. Was immer in dem Umschlag steckt, den Jace für den Strafverteidiger Lenny Lowell ausliefern soll - irgendjemand ist bereit, ihn dafür zu töten. Als er Lenny Lowell zur Rede stellen will, findet Jace ihn tot in seinem Büro - ermordet. Für Jace beginnt ein verzweifelter Wettlauf mit der Zeit.

Endlich werden die geschassten Ermittler Bennie Griessel und Vaughn Cupido wieder in den Rang von Captains zurückversetzt. Doch die Freude währt nicht lang, denn bald fordert ein komplizierter Fall die volle Aufmerksamkeit der beiden: Ein ehemaliger Polizeisergeant ist bei einem bizarren Unfall gestorben. Hat der Vorfall etwas mit dem explodierten Wohnwagen zu tun, in dem ebenfalls ein Mann zu Tode kam? Griessel und Cupido läuft die Zeit davon: Das erste Treffen eines Ausschusses der BRICS-Staaten steht unmittelbar bevor. Es soll ausgerechnet hier in Stellenbosch stattfinden.

In der Nacht vom 2. auf den 3. März 2006 verschwand der Polizist Sergio Puchetta im Dienst in einer einsamen Gegend in La Pampa, Argentinien. Nach einer groß angelegten Suche nach dem vermissten Polizisten wurde er nach 18 Stunden am Rande eines Feldwegs sitzend wiedergefunden. Nachdem er sich erholt hatte, fing er an, eine unglaubliche und gruselige Geschichte über sein Verschwinden und die Geschehnisse in jener Nacht zu erzählen.

Bei der Durchsicht ungelöster Fälle seines Vaters, Chief Inspector Anthony Stafford, stößt Kenneth auf einen Eintrag über einen makabren Leichenfund von vor 10 Jahren. Damals wurde der Torso eines jungen Mannes aus der Themse geborgen. Am Ufer stießen die Ermittler auf Kerzen und andere Kultgegenstände, die auf einen möglichen Ritualmord hindeuteten. Die Identität des Toten konnte nie geklärt werden.

Als die Kommissare Steinbeißer und Fendt am Ostersonntag zu einem Tatort gerufen werden, bietet sich ihnen ein schreckliches Bild. Im friedlichen Klostergarten, zwischen bunten Ostereiern und Frühlingsblumen, liegt die Leiche einer jungen Frau. Wie sich bald herausstellt, handelt es sich bei der Toten um Pia Jütten, eine der Mütter, die am Morgen die Eier für die Kinder verstecken sollte. Doch als die Ermittlungen fortschreiten, wird schnell klar, dass die Sache doch nicht so einfach ist, denn je mehr über die Jüttens zutage tritt, desto rätselhafter scheint der Fall zu werden.

Brought to you by Penguin. The fourth Jackson Brodie novel: literary crime from the prizewinning number-one bestselling author of Big Sky and Transcription. A day like any other for security chief Tracy Waterhouse, until she makes a shocking impulse purchase. That one moment of madness is all it...

The eerie discovery of a corpse and skeletal remains in a submerged cavern plunges Detective Bridgette Cash into a sinister underworld. As she unravels the mystery connecting the two victims, Bridgette finds herself alone and vulnerable, facing a twisted killer determined to keep the secret buried. With time running out and the stakes higher than ever, can Bridgette survive long enough to bring justice to those who suffered and uncover the shocking truth?

Disgraced Detective Dave Slater is stuck on gardening leave, down in the quiet Hampshire town of Tinton, with just one last chance to redeem himself. He must search for mousy young journalist Ruth Thornhill. Months ago, she vanished from her home, her London job, her life. But the Met don't want to know. Now Slater's boss slips him the file, asking him to investigate discreetly, with the help of an unlikely new assistant. Bedraggled fifty-something Detective Norman Norman.

Special Agent Constant Marlowe is in pursuit of “Mr. X,” a key player in organized crime. Her mission is to collar him and flip him into a cooperating witness. The only problem? Marlowe doesn’t know who he is or even what he looks like. It doesn’t help that the trail has led her to a farming community in the nether land of Downstate, those stretches of Illinois where endless fields of late-season corn block the truth…and any sign of coming threat.

Death is reporter Jack McEvoy's beat: his calling, his obsession. But this time, death brings McEvoy the story he never wanted to write - and the mystery he desperately needs to solve. A serial killer of unprecedented savagery and cunning is at large. His targets: homicide cops, each haunted by a murder case he couldn't crack. The killer's calling card: a quotation from the works of Edgar Allan Poe. His latest victim is McEvoy's own brother. And his last...may be McEvoy himself.

It is Acting Detective Superintendent Nick Dixon’s wedding day. Gig rowers find a body floating in Bridgwater Bay and when the victim is identified as a serving police officer, executed at point blank range with a 3D printed gun, the assistant chief constable is soon knocking on Dixon’s door—wedding night or not. It is the third such killing in as many weeks, but the first two victims were drug dealers, with no apparent connection to the dead officer other than the murder weapon itself.

Special Agent Emily Slate has faced her share of demons, but never has one been so personal. When a cryptic letter arrives on her doorstep written in her dead mother’s handwriting, Emily discovers she isn’t prepared to face the consequences of what it might really mean. Desperate for a distraction, she takes the first case that will get her out of town: a mysterious death in a quaint New Hampshire skiing town. But as soon as she and her partner Zara arrive, they realize this is going to be their most challenging case yet.

FBI Special Agent Emily Slate is no stranger to tragedy. After losing her husband three months ago, then botching the biggest case of her career, she’s barely escaped a full suspension. Determined to get her life back on track or die trying, she takes a seemingly impossible case in hopes she can turn her fortunes around. But as Emily arrives in the small Virginia mountain town and dives into the mystery, she discovers the remains of a woman, buried, with her eyes sewn shut. 

Special Agent Emily Slate is a woman on a mission. Someone is sending her letters written in her dead mother’s handwriting, and she’s not about to stop until she finds out why. But when she receives a mysterious phone call from town where she grew up, Emily doesn’t believe it’s a coincidence. After all, where better to start tracking down the person who wrote the letters than in her own hometown?

Special Agent Emily Slate is a woman on the hunt. After returning home from the town of Stillwater, she’s more haunted than ever. Ghosts she thought she’d laid to rest have suddenly reared their heads, and the only person who can answer her questions has disappeared. Meanwhile, a Federal Judge’s daughter is reported missing and it’s up to Emily to find her. As she dives into the case, she discovers a clever and twisted mind working against her and every minute that passes could mean it’s too late for his victims.

In the heart of Scotland's whisky country, a killer lurks amongst the casks. When renowned distillery guide Hamish Durie drops down dead during a whisky tasting, seemingly poisoned by his family's own liquid gold, DCI Bone is thrust into a world where tradition and treachery collide.

The abduction of two teenagers from their Vegas wedding isn’t a case Detective Lazarus Holloway wants to take—it’s one he has to take. His only clue is a bracelet, etched with a Mayan symbol of death and vengeance—two things the detective is familiar with. With no other leads, Lazarus enlists the help of guardian ad litem Piper Danes. They’ve got a complicated history, but Piper shares his compulsion to save children in need, no matter the personal cost. Unfortunately, that cost gets higher with every new revelation.

When the chief suspect in the notorious Peek-a-boo cop killer case blew himself up, almost taking lead investigator DCI Duncan Bone with him, the psychologically damaged detective thought his days on the force were over. But when another PC is abducted and murdered in the same deranged Peek-a-boo fashion, Bone is persuaded to return to lead the new investigation. But as Bone and his team hunt a copycat killer, and with time running out before yet another cop is slain, Bone’s terrifying past returns to tear open old wounds and push him to very edge of the abyss.

With the ink still drying on her Quantico diploma, FBI Special Agent Allie Bishop finds herself thrust into her very first case. A series of gruesome murders has rocked her hometown community of Gig Harbor, WA, and Allie has been entrusted with finding the villain. She's spent years clawing her way out of her father's evil shadow. No longer the frightened young girl who stumbled onto his brutal crimes, Allie must uncover a sinister evil lurking within the corridors of her old high school.

When a beautiful, wealthy student is found dead in her room in Oxford's most prestigious college, Detective Inspector Bridget Hart is called to investigate. The murdered girl appeared to have no enemies, yet was killed in a brutal and bloody assault. Haunted and driven by her own personal tragedy, newly promoted DI Bridget Hart has a lot to prove as she leads her first murder case. Her investigation uncovers a tangled web of lies, lust and ambition, and brings her into conflict with powerful interests.

Beneath Norfolk’s wide skies and rugged coastline, darkness never sleeps. DI Tom Janssen returns to confront a new wave of crimes that cut through the calm of the countryside. A body discovered in the shadow of an ancient monument, a seaside town gripped by fear, and a killing that strikes close to home—each case challenges his instincts and tests the strength of his team. As secrets unravel and loyalties are tested, Janssen must navigate a path through deception and danger.

Forse dipende dalla struttura fisica solida, resistente, eredità di miseria e fatica, ma per Arcadipane mollare è fuori questione. Perciò, quando in un cantiere alla periferia di Torino vengono alla luce le ossa di dodici corpi - uomini e donne uccisi con un colpo alla nuca - e una squadra specializzata in crimini della Seconda guerra mondiale lo taglia fuori dal caso, lui non ci pensa nemmeno a farsi da parte. Comincia da questo indizio la sua indagine parallela, nella quale coinvolge Isa, una giovane agente dal carattere impossibile, e Corso Bramard, suo vecchio capo e maestro.

A remote island on lockdown. A killer on the loose. There is no escape for Inspector Jimmy Perez in Blue Lightning, the fourth Shetland mystery from Ann Cleeves. Now a major BBC One drama, Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall. Shetland detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming...