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Four pulse-pounding mysteries. One unstoppable couple. The origin of the Thorny Rose. Jessica Faraday and Murphy Thornton are brilliant, bold, and deadly together — the ultimate power couple in the world of crime-solving. But every legend has an origin story.

One of the most anthologized short stories in American literature, Ambrose Bierce's 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' is regarded as a remarkable feat of genius, and has gone on to influence the likes of Ernest Hemingway and William Golding amongst others. A haunting exploration of death, 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' masterfully blurs the lines between perception and reality in the final moments of a man's life. Set during the American Civil War, it follows Peyton Farquhar, a Confederate sympathiser, facing execution by Union soldiers.

A hostage situation threatens to ignite a global crisis. A brutal raid in Africa takes an American hostage—Doctor Samantha Fremont—turning a regional strike into an international emergency. Because this captive isn't just any American—she's the daughter of a powerful senator. And the United States has one narrow advantage: her captors don't know who they've taken… yet. Fremont finds herself at the center of a criminal alliance between Mexican cartels and extremists in Africa's Sahel region. The trans-Atlantic syndicate keeps the drug pipeline to Europe flowing and reaps billions in profits.

Tra i vicoli stretti dei caruggi genovesi e le pieghe nascoste della memoria, ti avventurerai tra delitti irrisolti, confessioni tardive e verità che nessuno sembra voler raccontare. Tra giornalismo, amicizie complicate e amori sfuggenti, ogni storia è quindi un viaggio nel cuore di una città che non smette mai di sorprendere.

1889 was a full year indeed... Against a vibrant backdrop of world events, local scandals and the lingering aftermath of the Ripper murders, we find our heroes, SHERLOCK HOLMES and DR. WATSON racing through the gaslit streets of London, bringing malefactors to justice–and saving the innocent from iniquity!

Hochspannung aus dem deutsch-dänischen Grenzland: TV-Journalistin Kira Lund ermittelt. Eine erfahrene Sporttaucherin kehrt von ihrem Tauchgang in der eisigen Flensburger Förde nicht zurück. Als Tauwetter einsetzt, findet man schließlich ihre Leiche. Doch die Untersuchungen zeigen: Dies war kein Unfall.

Dr. Autumn Trent hat nach ihrem ersten offiziellen Fall als FBI-Agentin noch nicht einmal alle Berichte geschrieben, da werden Sie und der Rest der Abteilung für Verhaltensanalyse in die Hauptstadt Washington gerufen, um eine Serie von Einbruchsmorden aufzuklären. Die sechs Opfer haben nicht viel gemeinsam, doch sie alle sind wohlhabende Ehepaare, die eine Dinnerparty geben wollten und kurz davor getötet wurden.

În „Casa pustie”, Sherlock Holmes revine în mod spectaculos după dispariția sa de la Cascadele Reichenbach. Alături de doctorul Watson, el investighează o crimă misterioasă și întinde o cursă ingenioasă pentru a demasca un ucigaș periculos. O povestire captivantă, care...

Malcolm Crisp, the Worshipful Master of a small Masonic Lodge in Randolph County, West Virginia, is dead before page one. He maintained four interconnected systems that no one else knew were one system: the beehives as a communication channel between the living and the dead, the crows as surveillance from the far side of that threshold, a dead cedar hung with blue bottles as containment for what came back uninvited, and the Lodge ritual as the formal transmission protocol that gave the bees' messages their authority.

Instead of focusing on the usual mysteries in which Sherlock Holmes is the primary investigator, this volume puts a spotlight on an oft-overlooked part of his career in detection, putting the emphasis on his role as a consultant. For the first time ever, The Consultations of Sherlock Holmes collects sixteen ingenious cases in which he serves as a last resort for other detectives – both private investigators and those from the official police force – who come to Holmes for his unique perspective and aid as "the only unofficial consulting detective" in the world.

In vier Episoden erzählt Menger schaurige Geschichten, die unter die Haut gehen: Vier Geschichten über das Leben. Und das Überleben! Im Beichtstuhl. An der Bushaltestelle. Beim Zahnarzt. Zuhause. Die Figuren in seinen Shortstorys erleben Dinge, die nahezu jeden Menschen in Angst und Schrecken versetzen würden und sich in unseren Urängsten widerspiegeln.

“I can make good bad and bad badder, and most fun of all, really bad seem good.” JEFFERY DEAVER And that is exactly what he does in this superb collection. In Beautiful, former supermodel Kari's stalker has followed her through retirement to her new small town home. The police can do nothing...

Original Swedish crime stories from the masters of Nordic noir, including a never-before published short story by Stieg Larsson Ever since Stieg Larsson shone a light on the brilliance of Swedish crime writing, readers have devoured this dark and compelling genre. Now the nation's best crime...

„Cei cinci sâmburi de portocală” este o povestire polițistă scrisă de Arthur Conan Doyle, în care Sherlock Holmes investighează un caz învăluit în mister și amenințări misterioase. Un tânăr îi cere ajutorul după ce mai mulți membri ai familiei sale au murit în...

„Omul cu buza strâmbă” este o povestire polițistă scrisă de Arthur Conan Doyle, în care Sherlock Holmes investighează dispariția misterioasă a unui respectabil om de afaceri. Toate indiciile conduc către un cerșetor cu înfățișare neobișnuită, cunoscut pentru buza sa...

„Misterul din Valea Boscombe” este o povestire polițistă scrisă de Arthur Conan Doyle, în care Sherlock Holmes investighează uciderea unui proprietar de teren găsit mort lângă un lac din Valea Boscombe. Deși toate dovezile par să indice un tânăr drept principalul suspect...

„Un caz de identitate” este o povestire polițistă scrisă de Arthur Conan Doyle, în care Sherlock Holmes investighează dispariția misterioasă a unui bărbat chiar în ziua nunții sale. O tânără îi cere ajutorul detectivului pentru a-l găsi pe logodnicul ei, care a dispărut...

Mit seinen Kriminalgeschichten schuf Friedrich Glauser Meilensteine der deutschsprachigen Spannungsliteratur. Besonders seine Figur des Wachtmeisters Studer gilt bis heute als eine der bedeutendsten Ermittlergestalten des klassischen Krimis. Diese Sammlung vereint mehrere packende Fälle voller psychologischer Raffinesse, überraschender Wendungen und atmosphärischer Schauplätze. Glauser verbindet klassische Ermittlungsarbeit mit psychologischer Tiefe und gesellschaftlicher Beobachtung – spannend, intelligent und atmosphärisch dicht.

Sherlock Holmes himself would have us believe that, once a case was finished, it–or the people involved–never crossed his mind again. "A client is to me a mere unit," he once told Watson, "a factor in a problem." And yet, in a career spanning multiple decades and thousands of cases, he must have occasionally re-crossed paths with previous clients–and the occasional villain as well! This anthology, with twenty-nine brand new stories, spread over three volumes, reveals some of those sequel investigations.

Cassie Oldfield and Walter Shaws are forensic geologists who investigate crimes threatening lives and the land—a job that always leads to trouble.