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Nice girls don't. But blond, beautiful April Kyle does. She's a hooker hooked on the wrong guy -- and she's on her way to trouble. So is Spenser. Looking out for April has landed him in the crud of Times Square. It's not a long way to big-business boardrooms where blood money get laundered into...

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson investigate the case. This was the first appearance of Holmes since his apparent death in The Final Problem, and the success of The Hound of the Baskervilles led to the character's eventual revival.

Feen – die Schönheit dieses übernatürlichen Volkes wird nur von einem übertroffen: ihrer Grausamkeit … Der vierte dunkle Fall für Harry Dresden Mein Name ist Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden, und ich bin ein Magier. Doch auch mit meinen außergewöhnlichen Fähigkeiten war ich nicht...

They call it the ‘flash point’ – where the fire ignites and it becomes a blaze that can’t be stopped. When you see that flash, you’d better hope nobody is nearby... When their neighbour’s shed goes up in flames, the residents of the housing estate all gather around. They don’t want...

In the nation’s Capital, someone is re-enacting the murders from a series of grisly horror books, and all the evidence points towards the author as the perpetrator. The big problem with that? He died a year ago. In suspicious circumstances. There were rumours of murder, but no arrests followed the original investigation. Now the victims are those who were closest to him, and it looks like the author has come back from the dead to exact his revenge.

Silver Blaze, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "Silver Blaze" 13th in a list of his 19 favourite Sherlock Holmes stories. Sherlock Holmes and his partner Dr. Watson travel by train to Dartmoor to investigate a crime of disappearance of the great race horse Silver Blaze and the murder of the horse's trainer, John Straker.

The Paradise Men's Softball League has wrapped up another game, and Chief of Police Jesse Stone is lingering in the parking lot with his teammates, drinking beer, swapping stories of double plays and beautiful women in the late-summer twilight. But then someone makes a horrifying discovery at a nearby lake: At the water's edge, facedown, is something that used to be a girl.

"Sherlock Holmes resta assis quelques instants silencieux ; il avait de nouveau rassemblé les extrémités de ses dix doigts ; ses longues jambes s'étiraient devant lui, il regardait fixement le plafond. Puis il retira de son râtelier la bonne vieille pipe qui était sa conseillère. Il l'alluma, s'enfonça dans son fauteuil, envoya en l'air de larges ronds de fumée bleue. Son visage s'assombrit sous une sorte de langueur."

"Ceci dit, mon cher Waton, Mr Jabez Wilson ici présent a été assez bon pour passer chez moi : il a commencé un récit qui promet d'être l'un des plus sensationnels que j'ai entendus ces derniers temps... Ne m'avez-vous pas entendu dire que les choses les plus étranges et pour ainsi dire uniques étaient très souvent mêlées non à de grands crimes, mais à de petits crimes ? Et, quelquefois, là où le doute était possible si aucun crime n'avait été positivement commis ?"

Birdsongs is a fast-paced mystery centered on former FBI agent, Benny James. Fired from the FBI for inadvertently sleeping with the perp in a murder case, he tries to disappear to a houseboat and retirement. Not having what it takes to relax, Benny starts a service offering discreet investigations. That is until a body is found crucified near his marina. The local police department requests Benny's help and he knows if he can catch the killer, redemption is his.

Une nuit à Londres, Lula Landry, célèbre mannequin, est retrouvée défenestrée. Son frère, John Bristow, ne croit pas au suicide et contacte Cormoran Strike, détective privé. Strike est un homme à la dérive : il a perdu une jambe à la guerre et sa vie est un désastre. Chargé par Bristow d'enquêter sur la mort de Lula, il se résout à plonger dans les eaux glauques que dissimulent les paillettes de la vie noctambule. Trahisons, secrets, vengeance émergeront peu à peu jusqu'à l'explication finale.

Colonial New Guinea, 1906: A small group of mostly German nudists lives an extreme back-to-nature existence on the remote island of Kabakon. Eating only coconuts and bananas, they purport to worship the sun. One of their members, Max Lutzow, has recently died, allegedly from malaria. But an autopsy on his body in the nearby capital of Herbertshöhe raises suspicions about foul play.

It's been a sleepy summer for the folks of Lake Eden, Minnesota. In fact, it's been a whole four months since anyone in the Swensen family has come across a dead body - a detail that just made the front page of the local paper. And that means Hannah Swensen can finally focus on her bakery. . .or can she? Life is never really quiet for Hannah. After all, her mother's wedding is a little over a month away and guess who Delores put in charge of the planning?

Private investigator Dana Cutler must take down a cunning psychopath before he can pull off the perfect crime, in Sleight of Hand, a novel of suspense from Phillip Margolin, New York Times bestselling author of Capitol Murder and Supreme Justice. Charles Benedict – charismatic criminal defense...

This is a story from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes II collection. In this collection are four of the finest cases of Mr. Sherlock Holmes, narrated by his faithful friend and admirer Dr. Watson. What was the mystery of the engineer's thumb? What was behind the disappearance of the race horse? Why did masked royalty walk up to see Holmes in Baker Street? These and other puzzles are solved in this collection by this bloodhound of a genius.

The Nameless Detective has taken many cases over the years...and these two will test his agency's resources. The first involves a woman whose husband is accidentally killed in a remote cabin in the Sierras. The wife isn't buying that he was alone, and she's determined to uncover his secret and get closure...in spite of any potential heartbreak. Nameless' next case is a missing person - a person who was agoraphobic and never left the house.

Hercule Poirot und Arthur Hastings müssen sich gemeinsam einem teuflisch kniffligen Fall stellen. Poirot hat einen Brief erhalten, der einen Mord durch die Hand seines mysteriösen Absenders, „A.B.C.“, ankündigt. In einem Wettlauf gegen die Zeit müssen die beiden Freunde die komplizierte Logik des Täters durchschauen, bevor am nächsten Ort in alphabetischer Reihenfolge jemand sein Leben verliert. Doch mit jedem Mord kommen mehr und mehr Verdächtige in Frage.

Crime analyst and newly disgraced deputy police chief Vera Boyett doesn’t visit home often, and she certainly doesn’t venture back into the cave on her family land. But when the remains of her long-missing stepmother are discovered, Vera will have to face a past that threatens all she is. She and her sister Eve had a fairy-tale childhood: good until it was tragic, with a stepmother they never found a bond with. At least they had each other, a baby half-sister, and a mutual devotion that would have them do the unthinkable.

Spenser investigates the past secrets of an elusive tech billionaire in this latest instalment of Robert B. Parker's beloved series, and the first written by celebrated writer Mike Lupica. The beautiful wife of one of the world's richest men comes to Spenser in the hope that he can find out what...

Das tief in den nebelverhangenen Bergen gelegene Dorf der acht Gräber verdankt seinen Namen einer blutigen Legende: Im sechzehnten Jahrhundert wurden acht Samurai, die dort mit einem geheimen Schatz Zuflucht gesucht hatten, von den Bewohnern ermordet, was einen schrecklichen Fluch über ihr Dorf brachte. Jahrhunderte später kommt ein mysteriöser junger Mann namens Tatsuya in die Stadt und hat eine Reihe von tödlichen Giftmischungen im Gepäck. Der unnachahmlich verschrobene und brillante Kosuke Kindaichi nimmt die Ermittlungen auf.