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On a bloodstained mattress in a grimy flat, a man lies dead. A terrified girl kneels over his body. It doesn't take DS Katie Maguire long to identify the murder victim: he's a cruel and powerful pimp she's been trying to convict for years. It's Katie's job to catch the killer. But with men like this dead, the city is safer – and so are the frightened young women who are trafficked into Cork. When a second pimp is horrifically murdered, Katie must decide. Should she do her job, or follow her conscience and allow the killer to strike again?

In Blarney, Cork, an old millworker's cottage guards its secrets. In 1921, a mother, father, and their two young children disappeared from this house. Now their mummified bodies have been discovered under the floorboards. As DS Katie Maguire investigates a ninety-five-year-old murder, the flames of old family rivalries flare up once more, catching Katie in the crossfire. Will catching the killer mean losing her life?

In a nursing home on the outskirts of Cork, an elderly nun has been suffocated in her sleep. Another sister from the same convent is found floating in the Glashaboy river. The nuns were good women, doing God's work. Why would anyone want to kill them? A child's skull is unearthed in the garden of the nuns' convent, and DS Katie Maguire discovers a fifty-year-old secret that just might lead her to the killer.

In a secluded cove just outside the reaches of the city of Cork, a woman wakes up buried in the sand, unable to pull herself free. DS Katie Maguire of the Cork Garda is soon tracking the terrifying gang of torturers who call themselves the High Kings of Erin. Is Maguire losing her touch? Or is somebody close to her less trustworthy than they seem?

Han var en af spydspidserne, der med skudsikker vest og hånden på pistolen, rykkede ud i de år, hvor København blev hjemsøgt af bankrøvere og hårdkogte bander, som plyndrede juvelerbutikker. Han var med til at opklare en omfattende sag om kunstsvindel, som førte ham ind i kredse, man ikke normalt forbinder med svindel for millioner. Hans filosofi er enkel: Forbrydere skal fanges og stilles for en domstol.

Die zentrale Figur ist Monika Steingeister, deren Lebensgeschichte vom 10jährigen Mädchen, Einzelkind aus gut situiertem Hause, bis hin zur Studentin und Teilzeitprostituierten glücklicherweise im realen Leben eher die Ausnahme sein mag, aber dennoch gut nachzuvollziehen ist. Seitenhiebe, insbesondere auf Politiker und Lehrer und, wenn man so will, exemplarisch reduziert, das gesamte Establishment, stehen für die scheinbar ungeplante Absicht des Autors, profane, kritische Beobachtungen in eine kriminalistische Story zu verpacken und sie dem Leser dadurch subtil "unterzujubeln".

Über Ostfriesland liegt brütende Hitze, als am Strand von Dornumersiel eine vom Sand verschüttete Leiche gefunden wird. Hauptkommissar David Büttner übernimmt die Ermittlungen und trifft dabei unverhofft auf seinen Assistenten Sebastian Hasenkrug, den er eigentlich fernab im Sommerurlaub vermutete.

Louise Blackwell er en erfaren efterforsker fra Bristol, der efter en uheldig hændelse er blevet forflyttet til den lille kystby Weston-super-Mare, hvor der ikke sker ret meget. Da liget af en ældre kvinde med stigmata-lignende sår i håndfladerne bliver fundet på stranden, kastes Louise ud i sin første sag. Kort tid efter bliver en præst fundet dræbt i en nærliggende kirke. Det står snart klart, at der er tale om et religiøst hævnmotiv, og at der kan være planlagt flere mord. Samtidig bliver det sidste offer holdt fanget i en grotte på en lille ø ud for kysten.

Die Tote war eine zugezogene Grundschullehrerin, systematisch dehydriert und anschließend im Meer entsorgt. Als weitere Frauen verschwinden, zeichnet sich ein grausames Muster ab: ein Täter, der seine Opfer wie Versuchsobjekte behandelt und ihre letzten Stunden akribisch dokumentiert. Während Lena tiefer in den Fall eintaucht, muss sie nicht nur gegen einen brillanten Psychopathen ankämpfen, sondern auch gegen die Dämonen ihrer eigenen Vergangenheit.

Flere par er fundet myrdet forskellige steder i Danmark. Der er mange ligheder med de forfærdelige drab, som danmarkshistoriens største seriemorder, 'Ole Lukøje', stod bag tilbage i 1990'erne. Efterforsker Steen Wibe, som dengang pågreb 'Ole Lukøje', tages meget mod sin vilje af en igangværende efterforskning om kidnapning og ubærlige drab på småbørn, kaldet 'Novemberbørnene', for at efterforske de nye 'Ole Lukøje' mord. Nana Storm er kriminologistuderende og er i gang med endelig at lægge sidste hånd på sit speciale, som netop omhandler 'Ole Lukøje'.

Het hele gezin van Alex Cross is vermoord, en slaafs volgt Cross de instructies van een onbekende psychopaat die zich Marcus Sunday noemt. Wat kan hij anders? Maar is alles wel zoals het lijkt? Is er nog hoop? Wordt hem een rad voor ogen gedraaid? De sleutel is de identiteit van zijn onbekende beul: als hij die achterhaalt, kan hij uit het doolhof ontsnappen.

París, 1985. La prestigiosa fotógrafa Hélène Roger, fundadora de la célebre agencia de fotografía Roger-Viollet, es asesinada a los ochenta y tres años a manos de su marido y socio Jean Fisher. En 2019 Isabel, con sesenta años, se dedica a escribir en la sombra memorias de personajes célebres. Un día recibe una llamada de Carlota Masson, una extrabajadora de la agencia Roger-Viollet que le encarga escribir la biografía de Hélène para que su vida no quede sepultada en el olvido.

Bernt Lund harbours a sickness. He is a monster: in the mind of society, in the mind of his nine-year-old victims' parents, and in the mind of his fellow inmates. Lennart Oscarsson has a situation. The worst scenario imaginable for the head of Aspsås prison's department for sexual crimes. These two men's actions are about to hand DCI Ewert Grens the most profoundly sickening and impossibly sensitive case of his career, and in Stockholm's history.

A shooting at Gretna Green. A bride is murdered on her wedding day, seconds after she slips on her new ring. It's brutal and bloody but she isn't the first victim and she won't be the last. With the body count now at 17, people are terrified, not knowing where the sniper will strike next. With the nation in a state of panic, the police are at a loss and turn to Washington Poe and Tilly Bradshaw - the only team who just might be able to track down a serial killer following no discernible pattern and with the whole country as his personal hunting ground.

Former FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas is back and embedded in a true nightmare reaching deep into her own family in this two-book collection. Never Ever: Ex-agent Eva Rae Thomas is on the run. The past month, she has done things she never knew she was capable of while hunting for her kidnapped daughter. Eva Rae has risked everything. Say You Love Me: Life is not done throwing Eva Rae Thomas curve balls. A phone call turns her life upside down—once again. The call is from her father, the man she hasn’t seen in 36 years, not since he kidnapped her sister in a supermarket.

His passport read Giovanni Rossi. But decades ago, during the Urban Wars, he was part of a small, secret organization called The Twelve. Responding to an urgent summons from an old compatriot, he landed in New York and eased into the waiting car. And died within minutes...

Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants in this courtroom drama from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.

The Rise is a gleaming residential tower, newly constructed from steel and blackened glass, that stands on some of London’s most prestigious real estate. Looming imposingly over Hyde Park, only multi-millionaires need apply for one of its sumptuous apartments. But when the young night concierge is found murdered in the building’s lobby, the elite residents quickly find their gilded lifestyles under unwelcome police scrutiny.

In his novels and short stories, Gabriel García Márquez has transformed the particulars of his own life and the lives of his fellow Colombians into wondrous fiction. While telling the story of the sloppily dressed, skinny young man who rose from obscurity as a provincial journalist to international fame as the progenitor of a new literature, Gerald Martin also considers the tensions in García Márquez's life between celebrity and the personal quest for literary quality, between politics and writing, and between the seductions of power, solitude, and love.

The explosive action kicks off as FBI agent Ruth Warnecki hunts for Confederate gold in a West Virginia cave. She never expects to encounter the grisly murder that catapults her into a horrific plague of death, all centered on the prestigious Stanislaus School of Music.