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A Wall Street Journal and South Florida Sun-Sentinel Best Book of the Year “A masterpiece”—LAPD detective Renée Ballard must join forces with Harry Bosch to find justice in a city scarred by fear and social unrest after a methodical killer strikes on New Year’s Eve (Publishers Weekly)...

Es ist 1999, und Bunnys hart erkämpfter Ruf als Nervensäge unter Dublins Kriminellen wird leider von seinen Vorgesetzten geteilt. Doch Bunny und sein Partner erhalten endlich die Chance, ihr Können unter Beweis zu stellen: Sie sollen die dreisteste Raubüberfall-Serie der irischenischen Geschichte aufklären. Das Letzte, was Bunny also gerade gebrauchen kann, sind weitere Komplikationen, wie das Glücksspielproblem seines Partners – oder eine neue Frau in seinem Leben: Ihr Name ist Simone. Sie ist klug, witzig, talentiert und hat eine äußerst schwierige Vergangenheit.

New York City is thrown into chaos by the assaults of the Bone Collector, a serial kidnapper and killer who gives the police a chance to save his victims from death by leaving obscure clues. The cops go to Lincoln Rhyme, an ex-NYPD forensics expert left paralysed after an accident on the job...

The promise of a luxury vacation at a secluded wilderness spa has brought together eight lucky guests. But nothing is what they were led to believe. As a fierce storm barrels down and all contact with the outside is cut off, the guests fear that it’s not a getaway. It’s a trap. Each one has a secret. Each one has something to hide. And now, as darkness closes in, they all have something to fear - including one another.

An instant #1 New York Times bestseller! The first thrilling mystery in the new North Falls series from Karin Slaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Girls and the Will Trent Series. Welcome to North Falls—a small town where everyone knows everyone. Or so they think. Until...

Let go of your past... or it will be the death of you... When a man's body is discovered crammed into the boot of an abandoned car in a remote location, DI Tom Janssen and his team must unpick his life to find out how he came to be there. The victim was a local man, popular with some although...

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...

Clare Cassidy is no stranger to murder. A high school English teacher specializing in the Gothic writer R. M. Holland, she teaches a course on it every year. But when one of Clare’s colleagues and closest friends is found dead, with a line from R. M. Holland’s most famous story, “The Stranger”, left by her body, Clare is horrified to see her life collide with the story lines of her favorite literature. 

Six Four. The nightmare no parent could endure. The case no detective could solve. The twist no listener could predict. For five days in January 1989, the parents of a seven-year-old Tokyo schoolgirl sat and listened to the demands of their daughter's kidnapper. They would never learn his identity. They would never see their daughter again. For the 14 years that followed, the Japanese public listened to the police's apologies. They would never forget the botched investigation that became known as Six Four.

The second Alix London Mystery finds the art restorer in a world brimming with idle luxury, spectacular locations, and deadly intrigue. Surrounded by art and wealth and the sun-drenched Greek isles, she's aboard a sumptuous mega-yacht with no responsibilities save the occasional lecture to the guests of her temporary employer, Panos Papadakis, one of the world's richest men. But there's a catch: Papadakis has long been suspected of being at the center of a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme and Alix is actually there as an undercover operative of FBI special agent Ted Ellesworth, a member of the Bureau's Art Crime Team.

Mientras más grande es el mal, más letal es el juego. Cuando un violador aparece mutilado tras un ataque brutal, se exige que la detective Kim Stone y su equipo resuelvan el caso de inmediato. Pero salen a la luz más y más asesinatos por venganza, y eso hace evidente que, detrás de esos trabajos, hay alguien muy siniestro. La investigación cobra impulso rápidamente y, de pronto, Kim se encuentra expuesta a un terrible peligro. Está en la mira de un individuo dispuesto a emprender su propio y muy retorcido experimento.

One minute, silly Heather Badcock had been gabbling on at her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Gregg. The next, Heather suffered a massive seizure. But for whom was the deadly poison really intended? Marina's frozen expression suggested she had witnessed something horrific. But, while others searched for material evidence, Jane Marple conducted a very different investigation—into human nature. 

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.

24 hours to stop the crime of the century The race against time is about to begin… THE TOWER OF LONDON… Impenetrable. Well protected. Secure. Home to the most valuable jewels on earth. But once a year, the Metropolitan Police must execute the most secret operation in their armoury when they...

A man is dead, shot three times in his home office. But his computer has been shot twelve times, and when the cops arrive, his pregnant wife is holding the gun. D. D. Warren arrives on the scene and recognizes the woman - Evie Carter - from a case many years back. Evie's father was killed in a shooting that was ruled an accident. But for D.D., two coincidental murders is too many. Flora Dane sees the murder of Conrad Carter on the TV news and immediately knows his face. She remembers a night when she was still a victim - a hostage - and her captor knew this man.

Homicide Detective Max Rupert never fully accepted his wife's death, even when he believed that a reckless hit and run driver was the cause. But when he learns that in fact she was murdered, he devotes himself to hunting down her killers. Most of his life he had thought of himself as a decent man. But now he's so consumed with thoughts of retribution that he questions whether he will take that last step and enact the vengeance he longs for.

Endlich können Lilja und June sich sicher fühlen! Einen Sommer lang werden sie auf dem alten Erdbeerhof wohnen – ein Zufluchtsort für Frauen, die Gewalt ausgesetzt sind. Denn nachdem es zunächst die große Liebe war, konnten sie beide ihren Partnern plötzlich nichts mehr recht machen. Und jede angebliche Verfehlung zog eine Strafe nach sich. Doch gemeinsam mit den anderen Frauen auf dem Hof können sie endlich durchatmen. Die junge Polizistin Snø wird auf mehrere Vermisstenfälle angesetzt – und entdeckt schon bald eine erste Spur.

Ostfriesland. Moordorf. Wir schreiben das Jahr 2016. Und wir schreiben das Jahr 1895. Gelingt es, in der Gegenwart ein Verbrechen aufzuklären, das weit zurück in der Vergangenheit geschah? Als Ibbe Küppers im Sterben liegt, bittet er seine Nichte Hilke und deren Neffen Franziskus, mithilfe eines Smaragdrings einen längst vergangenen Mordfall in der Familie aufzuklären. Ihre Recherchen führen sie zum Landwirt Hannes Altinga, bei dessen Familie das mutmaßliche Opfer einst als Knecht beschäftigt war.

Tief ist die Nordsee – und mörderisch ... Als vor der Hallig Süderoog im nordfriesischen Wattenmeer eine Leiche gefunden wird, nehmen Kommissar Theo Krumme und seine Kollegin Pat die Ermittlungen auf. Der Tote gibt ihnen Rätsel auf: Wer ist der Mann? Wurde sein Leichnam von Bord eines Schiffs im nahen Heverstrom geworfen und hier angespült? Was wissen die Bewohner der Hallig – ein junges Paar und eine Gruppe Archäologiestudenten, die nach alten Schiffsspuren sucht? Und welche Rolle spielt eine Legende, nach der in dunklen Nächten ein Mörder das Watt heimsuchen soll?

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