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A wild cult with murder and blackmail thrown in.

Deep in the swamps of Louisiana, Detective London Carter investigates a double murder in Magnolia Parish. A father and son are watching television in their living room when they are suddenly and brutally gunned down. It doesn’t take London long to develop possible suspects, but all of the motives are weak, and London is left wondering if there’s someone else out there with an axe to grind. The murder weapon is a rare one, and it might help identify the killer… if only London could find it.

Rookie cop Tommy Boyd learns the hard way that those who wear badges can be as ruthless as those they hunt, when he is taken under the wing of Captain Ty Reeves. Reeves is eager to teach his new rookie that the rules don't apply to his division, the coveted SIS: Special Investigation Section. This is the section of the Las Vegas Metro Police with the most arrests, the most convictions, and the most officer-involved shootings in the history of the city.

Jerry Broadfield thinks he's a good cop. But now he's been charged with extortion - and his former buddies in the NYPD would like to see him laid out on a morgue slab for squealing to a committee on police corruption. Suddenly, he's got a lot of enemies, and when a dead call girl turns up in his apartment, his troubles get even bigger. Broadfield screams "setup," but nobody believes him - except ex-policeman, now unlicensed PI Matthew Scudder. Because Broadfield turned traitor no cop is going to give Scudder any help with this investigation, so Scudder's on his own.

Hap Collins, chicken plant guard, saves a young woman's life, and her father, owner of the chicken plant, rewards him with a large cash bonus. Hap and his best friend, Leonard Pine, head for a cruise to Mexico and the Caribbean. Not matching up to the exacting dress code of the on-board lobster restaurant, Leonard soon causes the pair to be abandoned in Mexico.

Small-time stoolie Jake "The Spinner" Jablon made a lot of new enemies when he switched careers from informer to blackmailer. And the more "clients," he figured, the more money - and the more people eager to see him dead. So he's greedy but scared, and he turns to his old acquaintance Matthew Scudder, who used to pay him for information back in Scudder's days as a cop. Scudder's his insurance policy - if anything happens to "The Spinner," Scudder can check up on the people who wanted him dead. No one is too surprised when the pigeon is found floating in the East River....

Get ready for a thrilling ride through the icy wilderness of Juneau, Alaska. Private investigator Tyrese Randolph and his forensic investigator girlfriend Nicole White are heading to her hometown for a holiday with her eccentric family. But as soon as they arrive, things take a sinister turn. A ferocious wolf attacks them, and they learn about a string of disappearances in the area. Nicole goes missing in the snowy woods when they think it cannot get any worse. With his love in danger, Tyrese must unravel Juneau's dark secrets and navigate Nicole's complicated family dynamics.

Leaving behind Sheffield, her friends and her job, a grieving DCI Matilda Darke finds solace in the wild, untamed beauty of the Lake District. But she can’t outrun her reputation. PC Alison Pemberton is living in the shadow of her twin sisters, who were abducted thirty years ago. As the only witness, Alison has spent her life trying to remember the details of that fateful summer day and discover the truth about what happened to her sisters and why, a few months later, her father also disappeared.

Der Preis des Todes: Der packende Thriller »Königsallee« von Horst Eckert. Dieser Fall soll dem ehrgeizigen Kommissars Jan Reuter endlich den lang ersehnten Karrieresprung verschaffen: Nach zwei Jahren intensiver Ermittlungen steht er kurz davor, dem berüchtigten Düsseldorfer Clubbesitzer Manfred Böhr den Diebstahl eines wertvollen Gemäldes nachzuweisen – doch ausgerechnet jetzt wird sein Informant ermordet aufgefunden. Kurze Zeit später taucht das verschwundene Kunstwerk wieder auf ... und Böhr scheint plötzlich seinen gesamten Besitz verkaufen zu wollen.

Sechs Tote, drei Ermittler, ein Tatort: Der packende Polizeithriller Die Zwillingsfalle von Bestseller-Autor Horst Eckert.Kurz vor Feierabend macht der Besitzer eines Düsseldorfer Fitnessstudios eine grausame Entdeckung: Sechs Leichen liegen in der Sauna, ihre Körper von unzähligen Schüssen durchlöchert. Wer steckt hinter diesem Blutbad? Die ehrgeizige Kriminaloberkommissarin Ela Bach wird mit dem Fall beauftragt – und bekommt dabei unerwartete Unterstützung: Der strafversetzte SEK-Beamte Leo Köster und Kommissar Martin Zander haben ihre ganz eigenen Gründe,sich den Ermittlungen anzuschließen.

Von Afghanistan nach Düsseldorf: Der packende Thriller Purpurland von Bestseller-Autor Horst Eckert. Nach zwei gescheiterten Geiselbefreiungen, bei denen ein Unschuldiger ums Leben kommt, lässt sich SEK-Polizist Felix May in den Streifendienst versetzen. Seine Hoffnung auf einen ruhigeren Job wird jedoch schnell zunichte gemacht, als er bei einem Einsatz eine entstellte Frauenleiche findet – und wiedererkennt: Es handelt sich um Julia, die Frau des Bundeswehrsoldaten Tim Sander, den May erst kürzlich in der Reha kennenlernte.

Der Fall, der sie nie losgelassen hat: Der packende Polizei-Thriller 617 Grad Celsius von Bestseller-Autor Horst Eckert. Nach zwei Jahren in Bosnien kehrt Kommissarin Anna Winkler wieder zurück in ihr Düsseldorfer Jagdrevier – und wird schon kurz darauf zu ihrem ersten Tatort gerufen: Bei einer Gasexplosion in einem leerstehenden Wohnhaus kommen mehrere Menschen ums Leben, unter ihnen ein Videokünstler mit Verbindungen zur rechtsextremen Szene.

When a woman is found dead on her doorsteps—shot through the heart with an arrow—Clint Wolf and Susan Wilson go to work trying to track down the sadistic killer. On the very next day, a second victim is murdered in his driveway (killed in the same manner) and it's now a race against time to uncover the motive behind the killings and identify the murderer. What they know so far is that he's a skilled archer preying on human targets, and they have no clue where he'll strike next.

Die Sylter Journalistin Jette Johannsen will gemeinsam mit ihrem früheren Kollegen Ben Dahl aus Stuttgart einen Skandal aufdecken, der aus seiner Heimatstadt direkt nach Sylt führt. Doch dazu kommt es nicht, denn Ben wird bereits am zweiten Tag mit durchschnittener Kehle am Strand von Westerland aufgefunden. Jette glaubt, dass sein Tod mit den Recherchen zusammenhängt. Der Polizist und Ex-Ehemann Falk Richter ermittelt in dem Fall. Die angereiste Witwe des Opfers hat kein Vertrauen zu ihm, sondern den Eindruck, dass die Polizei den Mord eher als eine Zufallstat ansieht.

Irene ha ucciso, forse. Ne è convinto il tribunale che l’ha condannata a quindici anni di detenzione, ne era convinta l’opinione pubblica anche prima che la sentenza venisse pronunciata, e persino lei si ritiene colpevole benché la sua memoria di quel giorno sia molto sfocata. Del resto Irene aveva il migliore dei moventi, dato che la ‘vittima’, se così si può chiamare, era l’assassino di Giulio, suo figlio. Caso chiuso. Ora, scontata l’intera pena, la donna è di nuovo libera e può provare a ricostruirsi una vita nella sua città, Genova.

Il commissario Mariani riceve una telefonata dalla commissaria Nicoli che gli chiede informazioni sul suicidio di Biagio Ferrero, un caro amico di suo marito Luca. Mariani non ne sa molto perché aveva delegato tutto all'ispettore Lorenza Petri, ma comincia a raccogliere informazioni: Ferrero si era “tuffato”, come ha riferito una testimone, in una voragine causata dalle piogge dei mesi precedenti, voragine in cui era precipitata una donna.

Il detective Bacci Pagano deve sventare un potenziale attentato ai danni del Presidente del Consiglio. Genova è in fermento per l’imminente visita del Primo Ministro italiano. Il misterioso furto di una vecchia carabina mette in allerta le forze dell’ordine: fonti certe sostengono che quell’arma desueta sarà usata contro il Premier. Toccherà a Bacci Pagano scandagliare ogni singolo carruggio della città vecchia per scovare l'attentatore in una corsa contro il tempo.

Tomas O'Malley simply wanted to enjoy his 55th birthday with his kids, and maybe a tall McNaughton's. Little did he know a dead body in the shadow of White Sox stadium and a dead CFO in North Chicago would both tie back to Dr. Alan Grove, Chicago's Chief Medical Examiner's husband and President of Manufacturing at one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the country.

El don de hablar con los muertos…. puede costarte la vida. Una noche, mientras el último tañido de las campanas de la iglesia resuena en el aire, el cuerpo frío y sin vida de Sandra Deakin es hallado con múltiples heridas de arma blanca en el cementerio. La detective Kim Stone llega rápidamente al lugar, y la violencia que presenta el cuerpo la convence de que el ataque fue personal. ¿Qué podría haber causado tanto odio? Mientras el equipo empieza a investigar la vida de la víctima, descubren que Sandra creía tener la capacidad de comunicarse con los muertos.

Jimmy’s relationship with Diana has never been better, but then she gets control of the Southside Endowment. Jimmy starts to feel like just another possession, until a seeming ghost from the past gives him something to investigate. Possession may be nine-tenths of the law, but exactly what kind of possession are we talking about here? “Possession" is a soft-boiled detective novella with some sci-fi and fantasy elements, sort of a The Rockford Files meets The Avengers (the old BBC series, not the superheroes.) It’s eighth in the Detective Jimmy Delaney series.