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La novela póstuma del gran maestro de espías. Julian Lawndsley ha renunciado a su exigente empleo en la City de Londres para llevar una vida más sencilla como propietario de una librería en una pequeña ciudad costera. Sin embargo, un par de meses después de la inauguración, la...

A collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published on 14 October 1892. It contains the earliest short stories featuring the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, which had been published in twelve monthly issues of The Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The...

When a prominent new member of the town is found dead, hanging from a tree, the quiet village of Hancock, New Hampshire is thrown into shock. Maeve and Arch, owners of the historic Hancock Inn, suddenly find themselves drawn into the mystery. Was the death the work of someone staying beneath their roof? One of the townspeople? Or someone much closer to the victim? As suspicion moves through the Inn's guests and the village itself, secrets begin to surface old grievances, hidden ambitions, and a maze of stories.

Automne 1880. Le Dr John Watson rentre d'Afghanistan. Blessé et prêt à tout pour oublier son passé, Watson voit sa vie changer lorsqu'il rencontre Sherlock Holmes. Le détective enquête sur une série de décès survenus dans le quartier londonien de Shadwell. Des victimes qui semblent mortes d'avoir été affamées pendant des semaines ont été retrouvées, alors qu'elles ont été vues en bonne santé à peine quelques jours plus tôt. Holmes établit un lien entre les morts et un sinistre baron de la drogue qui cherche à étendre son empire criminel.

Crime writer Francis Meadowes has just been offered his first paid detective gig, which means going on the road with gender-fluid rock star JonniK, tagging along as the musician's entourage travels from Berlin to Brussels and beyond. Jonni's manager is already worried by a guitar tech's fatal overdose on a tour bus, but then the star himself is attacked on stage... Another shock comes as Jonni's lead guitarist is electrocuted by his own instrument in the middle of a gig.

The ghosts of Christmas come a haunting for you and me, Of which, there are one, two and three. Holmes suspects there could be a pattern to follow, Of a mystery, by a very mysterious fellow. To solve by Christmas Eve and Day, for all of thee... Doctor Watson

Kriminalassistent George Cross bliver tilkaldt, da liget af en munk bliver fundet brutalt myrdet i et skovområde nær Bristol. Man ved intet om broder Dominics fortid. Hvordan kan Cross opklare forbrydelsen, når han ikke ved noget om offeret? De finder ud af, at broder Dominic ikke havde nogen fjender – eller i hvert fald ikke nogen, der er åbenlyse. Men hans fortid afslører, at han engang var en velhavende mand, og at han ofrede det hele for sin tro.

There once was a dancer. The moment I saw his golden, oiled skin, kohl lined, dark eyes, and chocolate brown curls, I knew he just might be the man of my dreams. After only one kiss, I knew he could be the center of my world, but something stopped me from trying to make him mine. Perhaps it was his youth or innocence, though everyone else missed the real beauty which lay just beneath the surface. There once was a warrior. The moment I saw his powerful body sauntering toward the cage where I danced, I couldn’t take my eyes off him.

It's summer in London, and things are quiet. But while Holmes and Watson chafe at their inactivity, a train, carrying a vital encoded communication, is entering a tunnel in an obscure region of the Balkans – never to be seen again. The case of the disappearing train is only the beginning of the nation's difficulties. The missing message must be found and decoded, and a diplomat's wife must be rescued from the clutches of a pernicious blackmailer.

A man is accidentally knocked down outside 221B Baker Street by a carriage. His dying words are he has seen a man rise from the grave. At the same time a visitor arrives with a mystery of unparalleled international importance. The Viscount Wrexham is missing, presumed dead, in strange circumstances. In the North, rumours stir of a dead man haunting the moors. Broomheath Hall is beset by ghostly lights and spectres. What does it all mean? Can arcane knowledge bring people back from the dead?

Het is de avond van Valentijnsdag als een vrouw in paniek het alarmnummer belt. Haar vriend, Bart Biervliet, is niet teruggekeerd nadat hij naar natuurgebied De Esch vertrok om er jacht te maken op een kinderlokker. Zijn zevenjarige dochter Xandra ontving een valentijnskaart waarmee de pedofiel haar uitnodigde voor een ontmoeting in De Esch. De toegesnelde politie doorzoekt het natuurgebied maar treft Biervliet er niet meer aan. De Rotterdamse recherche buigt zich over de onverkwikkelijke verdwijning. Al gauw ontdekken De Klerck en zijn jonge assistent Klaver dat er meer speelde.

Daags na een benefietvoorstelling in de Rotterdamse Doelen wordt een van de sponsoren, Waldemar van Henegouwen, dood in zijn woning aangetroffen. Hij is met een antieke harpoen gespietst. Van Henegouwen was de oprichter van stichting Weldaad aan de Maas die zich in de regio Rijnmond inzet voor de allerarmsten en voor kinderen met kanker. De burgemeester reageert geschokt op de dood van deze geliefde Rotterdammer. Zij spreekt commissaris De Froideville erop aan. De chef op zijn beurt maant De Klerck om de dader voor kerst in de kraag te vatten.

It was hard to see where the blood began, and the red suit ended. Although the fur trim on the sleeves definitely shouldn't be red. Father Christmas lay dead… Don't worry, all is not as it seems. Hilda is on the case for this cosy Christmas romp.

Die toughe und kompromisslose Frankfurter Kommissarin Julia Durant bekommt es bei ihren neuesten Ermittlungen mit einem über Jahrzehnte unerkannt gebliebenen Serienmörder zu tun – ein Fall, der sie zu ihren Anfängen bei der Sitte zurückführt. In einem unscheinbaren Wohngebiet am Stadtrand von Frankfurt wird nach dem Tod des Rentners Heinrich Voss eine grausige Entdeckung gemacht: Auf dem Grundstück des ehemaligen Landschaftsgärtners lagern menschliche Überreste. Julia Durant und die Mordkommission beginnen zu ermitteln.

Weihnachtsabend in der Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes genießt zusammen mit Alice und Eddy das Festtagsessen, als plötzlich der junge Lord Greenwich erscheint und Holmes um Hilfe bittet. Sein Vater liege im Sterben. Der behandelnde Arzt geht von einer vorsätzlichen Vergiftung aus. Doch wer trachtet dem alten Lord um sein Leben? War es wirklich ein Giftanschlag und kann Sherlock Holmes es noch schaffen, das Leben des Lord Greenwich zu retten? Schlussendlich gerät Holmes noch selbst ins Visier des Täters und muss um sein Leben bangen. Und dann kann ihn nur mehr einer retten...

Two women are dead inside a room locked from within. There is no clear escape route, no believable suspect—and no agreement about the strange voice heard at the scene. When news of the brutal Rue Morgue murders grips Paris, the police are overwhelmed by a crime that appears to defy reason...

A haunted house. A murdered physician. A bridegroom found holding the smoking gun. George Uhlman has reluctantly agreed to watch over his niece, Dorothy McGregor, as she prepares to marry young physician Lewis Parker. His stay at Fort House should be uneventful—but the gloomy North Carolina...

Two surfers are lost in separate incidents half way around the world . . . In WIPEOUT! when a big-wave rider vanishes under a liquid mountain at Waimea Bay on O‘ahu and his life-insurance company refuses to pay, Kai Cooke is hired by the surfer’s pregnant wife, Summer McDahl, to prove he’s dead. Did Corky McDahl expire in the boiling soup or pull off the most daring skip-trace ever?

»Lust kann töten. Doch was geschieht, wenn sie zur Strafe wird? « Dr. Mara Levin ist Polizeipsychologin und wird immer dann hinzugezogen, wenn Ermittlungen ins Stocken geraten und Täter nicht nur Spuren, sondern ganze Identitäten verwischen. Sie arbeitet dort, wo andere keinen Zugang mehr finden, in der Psyche von Serienmördern, in den Abgründen sexueller Vergewaltiger und moralischer Selbstrechtfertigung.

Sara ha encontrado un cadáver paseando por el campo y su identidad, bien conocida por todos, puede suponer un terriblemente descubrimiento para Cuquina. ¿Se redimirá la pija insoportable o servirá para hacerla aún más terrible de lo que ya era?