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Emily Johnston is GONE. She’s been GONE for more than a week. She’s also the daughter of Harry Starke’s one-time boss and nemesis, Chattanooga Police Chief Wesley Johnston. Harry and Chief Johnston haven’t seen eye-to-eye in a long time, but when Johnston needs help, he knows there’s only one man he can turn to. But Johnston’s jurisdiction ends at the city limits, and when Emily’s body is discovered in a remote part of the county, Harry has to deal with the imperious sheriff Israel Hands and two incompetent county detectives.

Former pro wrestler "Hammerhead" Jed Ounstead, now a fully fledged private investigator, is riding high after his first successful case. In this second episode, Jed leaves the wrestling realm to enter a new arena: women's flat-track roller derby. When old acquaintance Stormy Daze seeks his help finding her team's missing coach, Jed discovers that the turnbuckle-and-metal-chair mayhem of the wrestling ring pales in comparison to roller derby's four-wheeled ferocity.

La prima indagine della celebre serie investigativa - firmata da Maria Teresa Valle - con protagonista Maria Viani, biologa in pensione con il pallino per le storie con delitto. Maria Viani, biologa in pensione, trascorre felicemente le sue giornate in un tranquillo paesino dell’Appennino ligure dividendo il suo tempo tra l’orto e la raccolta di funghi nel bosco. Il ritrovamento del cadavere di un abitante del piccolo paese le offre l’occasione di trasformarsi da tranquilla signora di campagna in detective.

News of a teenage boy’s murder in Denver reaches Sheriff Dalton Savage. With insight into the killer, whose identity is still unknown, Savage feels duty-bound to investigate. Despite the challenges of being a new father, Savage leaves his family behind on a quest for answers. Returning to the city he once served as a homicide detective, Savage must confront his past and face off against old adversaries and new.

Du glaubst, dir kann geholfen werden? Irrtum! Stell dir vor: In deiner dunkelsten Stunde findest du endlich einen Menschen, der dir die Hand reicht. Du freust dich und greifst danach. Aber nur, um kurz darauf feststellen zu müssen: Du wirst von dieser Hand nicht zurück ins Licht gezogen. Nein. Stattdessen wirst du in ein unfassbares Grauen gestoßen. Ein tiefschwarzes, unvorstellbares Martyrium, aus dem der einzige Ausweg dein Tod zu sein scheint. Wenn aus einer traumhaften Idylle plötzlich dein größter Albtraum wird, ist es besser, du rennst weg, solange du noch kannst.

When special forces operator Luke O’Connell meets a woman he never expected to see again, he uncovers the dangerous secret she is hiding and realizes the lengths someone will go to stop him from uncovering the truth.

When Mechant Loup Detective Clint Wolf stops a vehicle for reckless driving, he doesn’t find a drunk driver or an irresponsible teenager inside. Instead, he discovers a distraught father in a desperate search for his missing sons. Upon learning the boys were overdue from a fishing trip in the swamps, Clint summons the assistance of trusted friend and skilled man-tracker Melvin Saltzman.

„Keinen Scheiß jetzt“, sagte der Profi dann zum Ederl, wischte sein Messer an einem Hosenbein des Toten sauber und packte es wieder weg. - Das Grausen könnte einem schon kommen, in diesem Blut- und Beuschel-Drama, diesem echt wienerischen Kriminalroman, den kein geringer als Dr. Kurt Ostbahn, seinem „Trainer“ Günter Brödl in die Feder diktiert hat. Denn: Was grauslich beginnt, geht grauslich weiter und steigert sich bis zu einem grandiosen "Blutrausch“-Finale bei dem der Kurti den Kieberern glatt die Schau stiehlt.

This collection consists of nine crime novellas which were originally published in magazine form in 1924. The plots of Hammett’s stories were drawn from his actual experience as a Pinkerton detective. Hammett viewed the process of detective work not as the pursuit of a few elusive clues, but rather the tedious business of extracting relevant evidence from an overabundance of information.

After Clark, a 30-something married man, mysteriously finds himself on a strange exotic getaway, he searches for his wife in order to remember how they got there in the first place.

Eigentlich sollte Marlowe nur eine junge Frau im Bahnhof von Los Angeles ausfindig machen: "Es war kein Kunststück. Der 'Super Chief' war pünktlich, wie fast immer, und meine Zielperson stach heraus wie ein Känguru im Smoking." Doch kaum beschattet er die Dame, jagt eins das andere: falscher Name, Erpressung, Verfolger, Gangster. Ja, die attraktive Rothaarige wird so fatal von ihrer Vergangenheit eingeholt, dass Marlowe schwach wird und ihr beizustehen beginnt.

At Their Own Game: Jake Stankovic has been flying below the radar for years, dealing safely in stolen property crime. When he tries to make a drug deal, everything goes wrong. In the Cut: Boone has been prospecting with the Iron Brotherhood outlaw motorcycle gang for almost a year, trying to earn his patch. A simple muscle job goes terribly wrong and changes his world forever. All the Pieces Fall: George “Mase” Masaryk knows about secrets.When businessman Andrew McDonough sits down next to him at the bar, the pair start drinking heavily, and McDonough eventually asks Mase for his help.

Vi è mai capitato di svegliarvi da soli, all'improvviso, nella camera di uno squallidissimo albergo ad ore, alle dieci del mattino, vestiti da prete, con la testa che vi esplode, una bottiglia di gin vuota per terra, segni evidenti di sniffate di cocaina sul comodino, un film porno in pausa nello schermo della piccola tv, alcuni preservativi aperti e non avere la minima idea del perché siate finiti lì? Ecco, a Martino Rebowsky (trombettista grasso, pigro, sfacciato, irritante, ubriacone e misogino) sì.

Siegfried, a terrorist group made up of a killer, a bassist, an ex-marine, a demolitions expert, a Black Panther, a national guardsman, and a couple of spoiled teenagers, is about to become Detroit's worst nightmare. The motley gang boards a river cruise boat armed with M16s and enough explosives to burn the city down. They have eight hundred hostages, and if they don't get what they want, Siegfried will kill every soul aboard.

Life is not going well for Peter McAdam. Nicknamed Slipshod at school for his lackadaisical manner, the name has stuck. As a private investigator, he specialises in finding lost dogs, missing persons, and investigating infidelity—until he meets Lady Rosemary. She employs him to attend a weekend social gathering at Temple Heath House, the country home of her father, Sir Reginald Potter. Peter has to play the role of Rosemary's boyfriend to determine whether her father is being deceived by a clairvoyant.

Detective Jack “Mac” McCrae has lost his hero. Without children or any family, the retired detective takes the death of his mentor hard. When the man's son reaches out to Mac with a mysterious letter containing a startling confession and a plea for help, Mac finds he can't say no.

Harry Starke loves a cold case, but this one is really cold, more than a hundred years cold. Family Matters is a tale that takes place on the lonely coast of Maine, where Amanda, a true believer in the paranormal, has inherited—you guessed it—a haunted house. At least that’s what the rumors say. It all begins when Amanda inherits the house, substantial assets, and a large sum of money from her grandmother. The windfall comes with a request to look into the disappearance of Elizabeth, Amanda’s great-great-grandmother, more than a hundred years ago.

Houston Homicide Detective Jack West is back at work. A fresh case he's working might be connected to a murder case fellow detectives Chang and Severson are working. The medical examiner's report shows some similarities to each murder, but the victims are strangers with nothing in common. A third murder victim found under a bridge on the Buffalo Bayou confirms Houston has a serial killer on the loose. Three very diverse people are dead—are these hate crimes, and if so, how many more will die? The clock is ticking; Jack and his team need to catch this killer before another body shows up.

When a potential client turns up dead in his Peabody Hotel room, Carson finds himself in the middle of a six-month-old armored truck robbery. Seemingly unconnected, his longtime friend Sheriff Leroy Epsee has been suspended from duty and is under investigation for the murder of a political opponent.

Aging investigative reporter Jack McMorrow is tired and finding it harder and harder to keep faith in a society with seemingly no rules except “don’t get caught.” In Robbed Blind, Jack’s world is turned upside down with cops protecting weed shops, militias on the march, podcasting replacing newspapers, and his pre-teen daughter dancing on TikTok. Do the old ways still make sense?

Charlie Ridgway is a former US Army officer turned resort bartender on the Hawaiian island of Maui. Ridgway is bored by the seeming lack of intellectual and creative pursuits in the dream vacation community. One night at the bar, he and fellow bartender Bill Hersey meet Clarissa Daniels. As Ridgway flirts with the former B-movie actress, a young thief attempts to rob the bar's cash register. Ridgway chases him across the resort and fights him, holding his own because of his army training, but the hoodlum is similarly skilled and escapes.

Smart, gripping, and bristling with tension, The Candidate Coroner is the third explosive installment in the Fenway Stevenson Mysteries. With its sharp forensic detail, complex characters, and emotional stakes, this is a murder mystery for listeners who crave both heart and grit.

James Brickman is a detective in the Pacific Northwest. Kidnapped girls, a vengeful serial killer, and a brother-in-law who may go to prison for murder keep him on the job, but his new romance keeps him on his toes.

After breaking a case in Cornwall where he had been recuperating after a terrorist attack, DCI Grant threw himself into undercover work, until a mistake cost him the case and his contact her life.

When City Councilor Terrance Mack is threatened with dangerous consequences if he doesn’t align his vote with his peers, he learns something deeply sinister is happening within the Billings Council office. Can he overcome an unknown enemy and protect his family?

Twenty-nine-year-old Cynthia Galbraith is serving a life sentence for murder, and struggling with the traumatic past that put her behind bars. When the prison counsellor suggests Cynthia write a personal journal exploring the events that drove her to murder, she figures she has all the time in the world and very little, if anything, to lose. So she begins to write, revealing the secrets that haunt her and the truths she’s never dared tell.

When Henry Swann is asked by his quirky partner, Goldblatt, to find a missing psychic who's swindled his ex-wife out of a small fortune, he just can't say no. Although he doesn't actually expect to get paid, he figures it might give him a chance to finally learn more about his partner's mysterious past. His search takes him into the controversial, arcane world of psychics, fortunetellers, and charlatans, while raising questions in his own mind about whether or not there is an afterlife.

In una Genova definita da uno dei protagonisti impalpabile e perennemente distratta, la famiglia Sperlinghi viene sconvolta dallo stupro della figlia minore Michelle. Il padre, l'ingegner Giorgio, erede di una delle dinastie più influenti e facoltose della città, aiutato dal suo uomo di fiducia Gualtiero, scatena la caccia ai colpevoli. Sospetta che i mandanti siano da ricercare tra gli imprenditori rivali nei traffici internazionali, interessati a sottrargli il lucroso commercio delle Terre Rare.

Lavagna, estate 1998. Pietro Farné è un giovane maresciallo dei carabinieri, fresco di nomina, incaricato di una strana missione: sorvegliare un'anziana turista di origine tedesca, Frau Gertrud Stingel, e la sua accompagnatrice, Viviana Prestigiacomo. Un compito apparentemente noioso, ma al quale si interessano addirittura i servizi segreti. Mistral Garlet, invece, è una studentessa universitaria, che si è concessa qualche giorno di vacanza perché sente l'esigenza di riflettere sul proprio futuro.

One frightened blonde, eight chorus girls, a singer and three strippers... Hundreds of rancorous Reenactors itching to fight the Civil War all over again... Harry Horne hot on the trail of a stolen million somewhere on the battlefield.... A dozen big-city mobsters with .45s in Civil War regalia hot on Harry’s trail... It’s a recipe for excitement, sex, and lots of action.