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‘Definitely a white-knuckle read.’ Guardian She survived the fire. But the nightmare’s only just beginning. Marina Esposito wakes on a gravel path, dazed, bruised — and alone. Behind her, the cottage is burning. Inside: her husband, Detective Phil Brennan, unconscious. Her father-in-law...

A secret buried beneath the chapel. A killer who’s waited decades to strike. DCI Brendan Moran shouldn’t be back on duty. The Irish detective is barely holding it together after a crash that nearly killed him—when a body is discovered in the chapel at Charnford Abbey. The monks won’t...

Pourquoi un pilote d'hélicoptère, ancien héros de guerre, a-t-il été retrouvé assassiné dans une maison close du Cumbria, au nord de l'Angleterre ? Pourquoi l'enquête a-t-elle été confiée par le MI5 à Washington Poe et Tilly Bradshaw, chargés au sein de la National Crime Agency, de...

Vic Hale is the biggest podcaster in the nation; he hates everybody, but is loved by millions. Susan and Hawk can't stand him but Spenser goes way back with Vic's father Tommy, and he believes it's all an act. So when Vic comes to Spenser for help, Spenser can hardly deny him. After all, he...

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...

The critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling Declan Walsh series continues... “The house always wins…” When builders strip back the foundations of a former gentlemen’s club casino in the City of London, they uncover a hidden basement — and a corpse that’s been waiting a...

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.

Morderczy zew krwi... Nad Wisłą dochodzi do makabrycznego odkrycia: zostaje znaleziona para odciętych kobiecych nóg. Sprawą zajmuje się w nadkomisarz Konstanty Podbiał z komendy stołecznej, wspomagany przez piękną i młodą współpracowniczkę. W tym samym czasie dziennikarz Tomasz Horn podejmuje nową pracę. Nie jest to szczyt jego marzeń, ale sytuacja w kraju po wygaśnięciu pandemii także i jego zmusiła do wielu ustępstw. Wkrótce bohaterowie łączą siły, by dojść do zaskakującej prawdy.

Recovering gambling addict-turned FBI Agent Cassidy Wilde is summoned when a killer leaves a mysterious, single playing card at the scene. Finding herself trapped in the center of a diabolical case that summons her worst memories, Cassidy must keep it together to save the next victim in what is another hand in a deadlier game….

When US Marshal Alexa Chase begins receiving enigmatic messages that seem to come from beyond the grave, she's thrust into a cold case maze that reveals a classified government terror. Teamed up with a BAU agent, Alexa must piece together history's dark experiments to stop a present-day killer who's perfected the art of remaining unseen.

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.

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.

Nobody likes The Complaints - they're the cops who investigate other cops. Complaints and Conduct Department, to give them their full title, but known colloquially as 'the Dark Side', or simply 'The Complaints'. Malcolm Fox works for The Complaints. He's just had a result, and should be feeling...

On an ordinary spring day, Special Agent Faith Mitchell of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation returns home to a nightmare. Expecting to find her mother minding Faith's new baby daughter Emma, she is horrified to discover Emma locked in the shed, her mother's safe open, her gun missing and a...

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...

Edinburgh is about to become the home of the first Scottish parliament in 300 years. As political passions run high, DI John Rebus is charged with liaison, thanks to the new parliament being resident in Queensbury House, bang in the middle of his patch. But Queensbury House has its own, dark...

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.