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PRAISE FOR G. D. WRIGHT ‘So compelling and tightly plotted I couldn't put it down’ CLAIRE DOUGLAS ‘Tense and emotional… A dark beating heart of a novel’ GILLIAN McALLISTER ‘One of the most tense and gripping thrillers I've read in ages’ LISA JEWELL If the truth could destroy you...

Investigative reporter Katrina Chopin is back home in San Diego on a mission (or two). The first is personal: reheating the cold case of her parents’ murder and investigating her brother’s reported suicide. The second involves a new spate of deaths with alleged causes that just don’t smell right. She and Detective Ken Goode need each other’s help for both. But she has to keep the sexy surfer at arm’s length, because dating him is off limits. For now.

In the twenty-seventh novel in Donna Leon’s bestselling mystery series, a suspicious accident leads Commissario Guido Brunetti to uncover a longstanding scam with disturbing unintended consequences. The memorable characters and Venetian drama that have long captivated Donna Leon’s many...

Campaspargo am Gardasee - Blankes Entsetzen bei Erntehelfer Joe Diop: Was er soeben ausgegraben hat, ist kein Spargel, sondern die Hand einer Leiche! Der Tote ist Bippo Conte, ein junger Förster, der sich für den Vogelschutz engagiert hat. Wer sollte Grund gehabt haben, ihn zu erschießen? Und warum hat man ihn in einem Spargelfeld verscharrt, wo man ihn binnen Stunden finden würde? Ispettore Paul Messner von der Kripo und die Carabinieri aus Riva del Garda stehen vor einem Rätsel.

Ein grausiger Fund erschüttert Frankfurt am Main. Vor dem Eingang eines Supermarkts wurde ein Müllsack abgelegt, er enthielt einen Leichnam ohne Kopf. Selbst der hartgesottene Chefermittler Jim Devcon ist geschockt. Weitere Enthauptete werden gefunden. Was steckt hinter den entsetzlichen Taten? Der Islamisten-Verdacht erhärtet sich nicht. Jim Devcon und sein Team bekommen es mit der »Weißen Lilie« zu tun. So nennt sich eine Gruppe junger Menschen. Ihr Kampf gegen die Ausbeutung auf dem Arbeitsmarkt sollte unblutig werden.

DCI Alison McCoist is up to the oxters in Glasgow's shadiest police unit, with a list of guilty secrets growing longer by the day. Fran Forbes has just bolted from the scene of a gangland massacre with only a shite-stained tracksuit and a memory stick full of crypto-currency to his name. Ally is tasked with looking into this latest underworld rammy and ends up working with some bampots even dodgier than her polis pals. Can she keep Fran from being turned into mince by a Russian OCG and finally free herself from the fankle of police corruption she's caught in?

A small-town detective reopens an unsolved case, sending shock waves across generations of women in this gripping new mystery from the Edgar Award–winning author of Please See Us. 1990. In the myth-riddled woods of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, sixteen-year-old Annabelle Riley's twin sister...

The Long Isle begins with a body on a remote beach in the Hebrides and spirals into a web of secrets in a community that guards its own. Forced to return to the islands she once fled, Mairead must face a killer and the past she thought she’d outrun.

You witnessed a murder. But no one believes you. When Ria moves with her husband to Silverleaf Heights, a lavish gated community, she tries to settle in and recover from the accident that nearly took her life. On the surface, everything is perfect; the neighbours welcome her with open arms, even...

Ten full-cast vintage BBC Radio crime dramas featuring Michael Gilbert’s most enduring characters, including Mr Calder and Mr Behrens, Inspector Hazlerigg and Inspector Petrella A treat for any fan of crime dramas, this collection stars legendary voices including Prunella Scales, Maurice...

Gripping crime dramas featuring Scotland Yard’s Detective Inspector John Appleby A double bill of Scottish crime writer Michael Innes’ DI John Appleby novels adapted with a full cast. Written during the golden age of detective fiction, these two gems from the archive are a thrilling listen...

Praise for Luca Veste: 'A UK thriller writer who gives giants like Linwood Barclay and Harlan Coben a run for their money.' MARK BILLINGHAM ________ If no one believes you, no one will help you… Once hailed as Liverpool’s finest detective, Mark Fletcher brought a serial killer to justice and...

Bodies, strangled and dumped along the interstate, send Agent Hank Rawlings and the rest of his team to Texas. The method of homicide, as well as the locations where the bodies are found, are identical to those from a six-year-old investigation. When the wheels touch down in Dallas, the team is greeted with another body and a possible eyewitness. They quickly put together a suspect profile, a profile that leaves the agents with more questions than answers.

In the 26th novel in the New York Times bestselling series, Brunetti’s retreat to a quiet island in the laguna is interrupted by a case of guilt and grief. Donna Leon’s bestselling mystery novels set in Venice have won a multitude of fans for their insider’s portrayal of La Serenissima...

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year “Riveting. . . . Without ever taking the easy way out, the book explores the battle of good vs. evil on very human terms.” —Washington Post Book World Dark in mood and rich in character, Over Tumbled Graves by #1 New York Times bestselling author...

Somebody is targeting police officers in the worst way imaginable—burning them alive in a series of large-scale arson attacks. When DCI Jane Phillips and the Major Crimes Unit are assigned to the case, forensic evidence suggests the fires display the unique signature of Manchester's most prolific arsonist, Archie Pearson. There's only one problem—Pearson has been in prison for almost twenty years.

In Westerland wird ein Mann tot in seinem Wagen aufgefunden. Schnell steht fest, dass es sich um ein Gewaltverbrechen handelt. Kriminalhauptkommissarin Bente Brodersen und ihr Team ermitteln im Umfeld des Toten und erfahren, dass er spielsüchtig war. Als das LKA Kiel den Fall übernimmt, stellt sich die Frage, was ein internationaler Ring von Wettbetrügern mit ihrem Mordfall zu tun hat. Unerschrocken begeben Heike und Bente sich in die Welt der Spielhallen und Wettbüros und stoßen auch hier auf eine Mauer des Schweigens.

Edison Bixby is wealthy, handsome, and, due to a traumatic brain injury, impulsively rude. He’s also a brilliant insurance investigator who solves baffling crimes by figuring out how the design of the man-made world around us makes them possible. Enter Wally Nash: a struggling actor hired to keep Bixby from offending everyone he meets. Their first case together looks like a simple accident. Caroline Crowley took a nasty fall down a staircase at a shopping mall in front of dozens of witnesses. Video clearly shows the deadly misstep.

Eigentlich hatte sich Commissario Fabio Angelotti auf seine neue Aufgabe als Leiter des Commissariato in Riva sul Garda gefreut. Doch kaum angekommen, wird er mit einer dramatischen Situation konfrontiert: Der erste Mord in seinem Zuständigkeitsbereich betrifft ihn viel direkter als seine früheren Fälle. Während Angelotti und sein Team – unterstützt von den Carabinieri – die Vergangenheit des Opfers durchleuchten, häufen sich Intrigen und Geheimnisse.

Mike Mansfield’s cases are never easy. They’re dangerous and unpredictable, but there are patterns. Patterns in how criminals act and how they think. But this time, something is off. After a recent rescue, the emerging details seem very odd to Mansfield. Of his three culprits, one has no clue who he was working for, the second has no desire to be released from police custody, and the third has vanished altogether. Moreover, the level of sophistication involved in their operation is beyond anything he's seen before, and hints at something much more ominous.