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Returning from a visit to her daughter in Iraq, Joan Scudamore finds herself unexpectedly alone and stranded in an isolated rest house by flooding of the railway tracks. Looking back over the years, Joan painfully re-examines her attitudes, relationships and actions and becomes increasingly uneasy about the person who is revealed to her…

Hercule Poirot solves his first case in the Agatha Christie novel that started it all, now in a fully restored edition that features a “missing chapter” along with commentary from Christie expert John Curran. Who poisoned the wealthy Emily Inglethorp and how did the murderer penetrate and...

Ikke set siden kombinerer superstjernen Reese Witherspoons og thrillerkongen Harlan Cobens talent for spænding og et godt drama. En suveræn thriller om den globale elites eksklusive verden og en ukuelig kvindes jagt på sandheden. Maggie McCabe er i krise. Som topkirurg i krigszoner har hun...

En uskyldig far afsoner en livstidsdom for mordet på sin egen søn. En dag får han besked om, at hans søn muligvis stadig er i live – og han må bryde ud af fængslet for at finde frem til sandheden. #1 New York Times-bestsellerforfatter Harlan Cobens nye blockbuster er ankommet. David og...

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Nogle hemmeligheder har bedst af at forblive hemmelige. Sami Kierce, en ung amerikansk backpacker, er på rejse i Spanien med sine venner. En morgen vågner han hjemme hos Anna, en kvinde, han lige har mødt. Han er smurt ind i blod og har en kniv i hånden. Ved siden af ham i sengen ligger...

Le roman emblématique de la saga des Aventures d'Arsène Lupin de Maurice Leblanc, à écouter en parallèle de la série Netflix. Arsène Lupin ne tue pas. Tout le monde le sait, cela ne lui ressemble pas. Pourtant, le triple meurtre du Palace Hôtel est signé de sa main. Comment est-ce possible ? Il opère toujours avec finesse, délicatesse et élégance. Mais alors, qui cherche à lui faire porter le chapeau, et dans quel but ?

The case of the bludgeoned lecturer has all of Cromwell University reeling, even though the elderly Professor Bullfinch wasn't particularly well-liked. His ornery nature and Old World approach to campus politics ruffled more than a few feathers over the years, and present tensions within his...

January 1983: Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag is getting married to the love of his life Merilee at New York City Hall. Hoagy's college chum, Ezra Spooner, stands up for him. Merilee's lovely cousin, Phoebe, stands up for her. After they say "I do" and pop open the Dom Perignon, Phoebe somberly announces...

As aventuras de Sherlock Holmes, obra publicada em 1892, é uma série de doze contos nos quais o genial detetive, acompanhado de seu fiel amigo dr. Watson, desvenda os mais intrincados e, por vezes, assustadores, mistérios. De inteligência fria e precisa, porém...

This hugely engaging story of murder, superstition, religious politics and drama in a medieval monastery was one of the most striking novels to appear in the 1980s. The Name of the Rose is a thrilling story enriched with period detail and laced with tongue-in-cheek allusions to fictional characters, the most striking of which is the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville, who displays many characteristics of Sherlock Holmes.

Zwei Gruppen von Schülerinnen verschwinden spurlos. Holmes und Lestrade stehen vor einem Rätsel. Ein Blind-Date am Abend sorgt für weitere Verwirrung beim Meisterdetektiv. Mrs. Hudson scheint ihn loswerden zu wollen.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson face complex crimes including attempted assassination, blackmail and the theft of a mysterious book. They encounter anarchists, artists, and ancient legends as they seek the truth at the turn of the last century in London and East Anglia. As well as Holmes, occult detective John Silence, a hotel boot boy, a young Miss Marple and Watson help unravel the mysteries, along with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in the debut collection by Tim Newton Anderson.

Dengang Bosch var helt grøn bag ørerne i drabsafdelingen, var John hans mentor. Nu ligger John i graven, men han efterlader sig en mordefterforskning, som plagede ham til det sidste. Harry Bosch og Renée Ballard slår pjalterne sammen for at opklare den tyve år gamle sag, og det umage...

An aviation disaster. A body with a bullet wound. And a mystery that begins where the accident ends. On a seemingly ordinary morning in 1919, young artist Philip Esdaile is entertaining friends at his Chelsea studio when an extraordinary catastrophe shatters the gathering: an aeroplane crashes...

Hutchison Hatch schreibt gerade an einer „Knaller-Story" für seine Zeitung, als ihn sein Freund zu der berühmten Denkmaschine, Professor S.F.X. Van Dusen, mitten in der Nacht außerhalb der Stadt zu einem alten Baum schickt, in dessen Stamm ein kleines Loch etwas Verblüffendes zu Tage fördert: ein ganz gewöhnliches Stück Schnur. Welches Geheimnis mochte sich wohl dahinter verbergen und an welchem außergewöhnlichen Fall arbeitete diesmal die Denkmaschine? Hinreißender Rätsel-Spaß um Professor Van Dusen von Jacques Futrelle.

When investigative journalist and Black Lives Matter activist Aurora Jenkins gets too close to the truth about sex trafficking and the unsolved disappearances of young Black, Latina, Asian American, and Indigenous women from the streets of Oakland, California, a powerful alliance of organized crime, corrupt police, and elites seek to suppress her story. Sonny Trueheart, a former Oakland Police Department homicide detective and whistleblower, burdened by alcoholism and the ghosts of his past, is called to investigate Aurora’s disappearance and the facts behind her story.

TWO TEENAGERS. A STOLEN CAR. A DIRT ROAD IN THE DARK. One headlight behind them. Then the ramming started. Neither boy was supposed to survive. But one did. When two teenage joyriders are found at the bottom of Hangman's Gorge—one dead, one barely alive—DCI Duncan Bone and his team are called to what looks like an accident on a remote Campsie Fells road. But when a third young motorcyclist turns up dead in similar circumstances, Bone realizes they're not investigating accidents. They're hunting a killer with a pattern—and a motive buried deep in the town's past.

On the eve of his wedding to Evelyn Cheyne, who he met and fell in love with during the course of The Unicorn Murders, former spy Kenwood Blake is summoned to Devon by spymaster Sir Henry Merrivale, and asked to take part in an undercover operation. Once in Torquay, he is sent to investigate Paul Hogenauer, a local scientist of German heritage, who has been dabbling in spiritualism and the occult – a man Merrivale and Devon's Chief Constable Colonel Charters suspect of anti-British espionage.

The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual is a short story published in 1893 in which Sherlock Holmes recounts one of his earliest cases to Watson. Reginald Musgrave, an old university acquaintance, consults Holmes after his clever but arrogant butler, Brunton, vanishes from the ancestral estate following an incident involving an ancient family document known as the Musgrave Ritual. The ritual itself is a cryptic series of questions and answers that has been passed down through generations of Musgraves without anyone understanding its meaning.