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Tuesday nights have suddenly turned quite ridiculously noisy in the country town of Chalmsbury, where the good folk are outraged at having their rest disturbed. It begins with a drinking fountain being blown to smithereens - next the statue of a local worthy loses his head, and the following week a giant glass eye is exploded. Despite the soft-soled sleuthing of cub reporter Len Leaper, the crime spate grows alarming.

Ein festliches Dinner im Herrenhaus zu Mapleton: Sir Eustace Vernon hat all seine Liebsten eingeladen, um mit ihnen Weihnachten zu feiern. Doch der Abend entwickelt sich anders als gedacht. Eine geheime Nachricht in seinem Knallbonbon bestürzt ihn dermaßen, dass er mitten in der Tischrede die Tafel verlassen muss. Die heitere Gesellschaft lässt sich von der Abwesenheit ihres Gastgebers nicht erschüttern und setzt munter die Feierlichkeiten fort, die in einer Partie Bridge gipfeln. Bis auf einmal ein markerschütternder Schrei den Frieden im Haus stört.

Seventeen-year-old Tyler lives in one of Edinburgh’s most deprived areas. Coerced into robbing rich people’s homes by his bullying older siblings, he’s also trying to care for his little sister and his drug-addict mum. On a job, his brother Barry stabs a homeowner and leaves her for dead, but that’s just the beginning of their nightmare, because the woman is the wife of Edinburgh’s biggest crime lord, Deke Holt.

In 1942, Jewish courier Ester is betrayed, narrowly avoiding arrest by the Gestapo. In a great haste, she escapes to Sweden, saving herself. Her family in Oslo, however, is deported to Auschwitz. In Stockholm, Ester meets the resistance hero Gerhard Falkum, who has left his little daughter and fled both the Germans and allegations that he murdered his wife, Åse, who helped Ester get to Sweden. Their burgeoning relationship ends abruptly when Falkum dies in a fire. And yet, 25 years later, Falkum shows up in Oslo. He wants to reconnect with his daughter.

Detective fiction has never lacked devoted fans. The undying popularity of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot vouch for that fact. In the early thirties, a detective by the name of Byomkesh Bakshi made an unobtrusive entry into the world of Bengali fiction. He preferred calling himself a satyanneshi, a seeker of truth, and within days was a household name, courtesy his cerebral skills and the exciting situations he found himself in. In the tradition of Doyle and Christie, Byomkesh is accompanied on his adventures by his friend, Ajit, slightly obtuse and the perfect foil to him.

A social media shaming. A killer with a message. A deadly combination. When the body of a man is left in the city centre set up as a realistic police crime scene, DI Hannah Robbins is forced to enter a world that can break a person, a case and a reputation. Social media platforms light up, and Hannah is pitted against the raging online monster and a killer who has already lost everything. Can she catch the killer and put him behind bars, or will she become part of his sadistic game?

A once-wealthy family closes ranks when one of their own is shot, leaving Maigret - along with a troublesome new magistrate - to pick his way through their secrets.

Selling rare books has its moments, but few are anything close to thrilling - except when Dido Hoare's scoundrel of an ex-husband suddenly reappears and puts a pulse of excitement in the air. But events go from interesting to intense when someone ends up murdered and the culprit seems to think Dido has something worth killing for, too. With the help of her father, Barnabas, a retired academic with a penchant for mysteries, Dido may be able to divert the killer long enough to figure out who wants her dead and why.

When a parcel bomb explodes on Charles Denham's doorstep he realises that an enemy from the past is out to destroy him. This is the thrilling story of a man being hunted by an unidentified assassin across rural Buckinghamshire and then the Cotswolds in the mid 1950s.

England, 1819. Two enigmatic Americans arrive in London and soon after, a bank collapses. A man is found dead on a building site; another goes missing in the teeming stews of Seven Dials. A deathbed vigil ends in an act of theft and a beautiful heiress flirts with her inferiors. A strange destiny links each of these events to the American boy Edgar Allen Poe, brought to England by his foster father and sent to the leafy village of Stoke Newington to be educated.

Lorsque Nico Sirsky, chef de la brigade criminelle du 36 quai des Orfèvres, est chargé de l’enquête sur le corps congelé d'une fillette retrouvé dans un square parisien, il sait qu'il ne s'agira pas d'une enquête ordinaire. Quand d'autres cadavres apparaissent, et qu'il s'avère que ces meurtres sont les copies conformes d'homicides commis par de célèbres tueurs en série, il comprend qu'il lui faut aller vite pour arrêter un tueur extrêmement organisé et dangereux.

Maxime, 31 ans, est un jeune lieutenant exerçant ses sombres talents au sein de la police judiciaire avignonnaise. D'ordinaire, aucun malfaiteur n'échappe à son instinct de chasseur, mais cette fois-ci, il va être confronté à la pire des machines à tuer. Sa nouvelle équipière saura-t-elle le guider ? Parviendra-t-elle à le libérer de la noirceur de son passé si torturé ? La quête de Maxime le conduira inexorablement au plus profond des ténèbres qu'il combat, mais saura-t-il en revenir indemne.

Dans la nuit, sur les côtes du midi de la France, cent navires à bout de souffle se sont échoués, chargés d'un million d'immigrants. Ils sont l'avant-garde du tiers-monde qui se réfugie en Occident pour y trouver l'espérance. À tous les niveaux, conscience universelle, gouvernements, équilibre des civilisations, et surtout chacun en soi-même, on se pose la question trop tard : que faire ?

Her honeymoon may have been less than relaxing, but Skye Boyd née Denison is still high on marital bliss with her new husband, Wally. The fact that their family is about to get bigger is even more exciting, even if Skye is dealing with morning sickness - and trying to hide the news from her ever-meddling mother, May. But Skye quickly comes crashing down from cloud nine when the body of one of her coworkers, science teacher and volleyball coach Blair Hucksford, is found in the school swimming pool.

Depuis qu'elle travaille à Detroit, département des Homicides, l'inspectrice Gabriella Versado ne s'était jamais trouvée face à une telle monstruosité : un jeune garçon mutilé, le haut de son corps mêlé aux membres inférieurs d'un cerf. Profondément remuée, Gabi se lance à la recherche du macabre sculpteur. Pendant ce temps, sa fille, Layla, qu'elle délaisse trop souvent, se met en tête de débusquer des pervers sur Internet avec sa meilleure amie. Sa mère ne se doute pas un instant que l'adolescente est à deux doigts de tomber entre les mains du psychopathe, un fou qui se rêve artiste.

A Southern gambler hunts a killer in the thick of the first great battle of the Civil War. It's July 1861, and both the Union and Confederate armies expect to win the war within 24 hours. For Harrison Raines, a Southern dandy ensconced in DC society, it's time to choose a side. Though Raines loves Virginia, he hates slavery with a passion. And joining either army would mean leaving Washington and deserting the beautiful Caitlin Howard.

London in the 1960s: gang wars, corrupt police, vice and pornography. Ex-boxer Charles Holborne has plenty of opportunities to build his reputation with the criminal classes as a barrister who delivers. But Charles, an East End boy made good, is not all he seems, and his past is snapping at his heels. When his philandering wife has her throat slashed, Holborne finds himself on the wrong side of the law and on the run. Can he discover the truth of the brutal slaying and escape the hangman's noose?

Stabbings, even fatal ones, are not uncommon in Los Angeles. But the stabbing death of Aggie Lasher - a vibrant young woman dedicated to helping others and, it seemed, deeply loved by everyone who knew her - was especially tragic. For almost six years she has been obsessed by the mystery of her best friend's murder: If she had been with Aggie, would the killer have chosen another victim? Will the killer ever be caught?

El conjunto de los relatos del padre Brown constituye quizá la obra más popular de Chesterton. El simpático cura-detective que los protagoniza resuelve en ellos, armado únicamente con su paraguas, su inocencia y su sabiduría, intrincados casos gracias a un conocimiento sencillo a la par que es profundo de la naturaleza humana. Chesterton crea este singular personaje para mostrar que sólo una mirada sincera y que reconozca el misterio que la realidad encierra es capaz de salvaguardar la razón.

Les Doges, un lieu-dit au fin fond des Cévennes. C'est là qu'habite Gus, un paysan entre deux âges solitaire et taiseux. Ses journées : les champs, les vaches, le bois, les réparations. Des travaux ardus, rythmés par les conditions météorologiques. La compagnie de son chien, Mars, comme seul réconfort. C'est aussi le quotidien d'Abel, voisin dont la ferme est éloignée de quelques mètres, devenu ami un peu par défaut, pour les bras et pour les verres. Un jour, l'abbé Pierre disparaît, et tout bascule.