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Tom Thorne znalazl sie na dnie. Pograzony w depresji po smierci ojca inspektor zostaje przeniesiony do pracy biurowej, jego kariera zalamuje sie. Kiedy w Londynie zaczynaja ginac bezdomni, Thorne zglasza sie na ochotnika, by wejsc jako tajniak w ich srodowisko. Szybko, moze nawet za szybko, staje sie jednym z nich. Na ulicach miasta doswiadcza strachu, glodu, zimna i biedy. Poznaje pare mlodych narkomanów i pomimo gry, jaka z nimi prowadzi, i ich pragmatycznej brutalnosci, przyjazn tej trójki wydaje sie szczera.

16-letni Luke Mullen byl widziany po raz ostatni, jak wsiadal do samochodu ze starsza od siebie kobieta. Nikt nie wie, dlaczego zostal porwany. Jego ojciec, byly nadinspektor policji, wie tylko, ze im dluzej trwa sledztwo, tym mniejsze sa szanse, ze jego syn zostanie odnaleziony zywy. Rodzice Luke’a otrzymuja niepokojace nagranie, na którym on z przerazeniem patrzy, jak ktos podchodzi do niego ze strzykawka w dloni. Inspektor Thorne potrafi rozpoznac psychopate na pierwszy rzut oka. A nagranie na tasmie zmrozilo mu krew w zylach. Wie, ze zycie chlopca wisi na wlosku i ze liczy sie kazda minuta.

Deszczowa noc w Londynie. Z jadącego z wyłączonymi światłami auta padają strzały do nadjeżdżającego z przeciwka samochodu, który gwałtownie skręca i wjeżdża na wysepkę przystanku autobusowego. Inicjacja nowego członka gangu kończy się śmiercią niewinnego człowieka. Tak się przynajmniej wydaje. Ale prawda jest o wiele bardziej mroczna i złowieszcza.

Het eerste slachtoffer , een man van in de veertig, was bijna een maand geleden vermoord in een steeg bij Golden square. Tot nu toe had niemand kunnen achterhalen wij hij was. Korte tijd later werden er nog twee mannen vermoord. Alle drie waren ze dakloos en werden ze met buitensporig geweld doodgeschopt. Er zat een briefje van 20 pond op hun borst gespeld.

With DS Manolis on leave in Greece, Senior Constable Sparrow receives a phone call from a man who wants to turn himself in. Bob is sixty years old, confined to a Perth nursing home. But thirty years ago, he killed a man in the remote northern Kimberley mining region. He offers to show Sparrow where the body is, but there's a catch: Sparrow must travel north with him under the guise of being his carer.

It’s early fall when a heatwave descends on Los Angeles. Private Detective Philip Marlowe is called to the Montgomery estate, an almost mythic place sitting high on top of Beverly Hills. Wealthy socialite Chrissie Montgomery is missing. Young, naïve, and set to inherit an enormous fortune, she’s a walking target, ripe for someone to get their claws into. Her dying father and his sultry bottle-blonde girlfriend want her found before that happens. To make sure, they’ve got Anne Riordan—now head of her own all-female detective agency—on the case, too.

Rookie Det. Kenda investigates a 1975 case that begins with the murder of a beloved Colorado philanthropist and society figure whose husband, a gambler and womanizer, appears to have an air-tight alibi. Mentored by his veteran partner Det. Lee Wilson, a former Nashville singer turned skilled investigator, Kenda’s case quickly attracts attention from the FBI, CIA, and Interpol, for its similarity to a string of killings involving wealthy married women. All the murders appear to have been committed by a hired professional.

Alexander Blix is a broken man. Convicted for avenging his daughter's death, he is being held in one of Norway's high-security prisons. Inside, the other prisoners take every opportunity to humiliate the former police investigator. Outside, Blix's former colleagues are hunting for a terrifying killer. Walter Kroos has escaped from prison in Germany and is heading north. The only lead established by the police is that Kroos has a friend in Blix's prison ward. And now they need Blix's help.

Los Angeles, August 4, 1962. The city broils through a midsummer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parker’s looking for some getback. The Monroe deal looks like a moneymaker. He calls in Freddy Otash. The freewheeling Freddy O: tainted ex-cop, defrocked private eye, dope fiend, and freelance extortionist. A man who lives by the maxim “Opportunity is love.” Freddy gets to work. He dimly perceives Marilyn Monroe’s death and the kidnapped starlet to be a poisonous riddle that only he has the guts and the brains to untangle

Driven by a compulsion that challenges his self-control, the man calling himself Charles Milton prowls the rodeo circuit, hunting young women. He chooses those he believes are the most vulnerable, wandering alone and distracted, before he strikes. For years, he has been meticulous in his methods, abducting, murdering, and disposing his victims while leaving no evidence of his crimes—or their identities—behind. Indigenous women have become his target of choice, knowing law enforcement’s history of ignoring their disappearances.

Monochrome is a busted flush - an inquiry into the misdeeds of the intelligence services, established by a vindictive prime minister but rendered toothless by a wily chief spook. For years it has ground away uselessly, interviewing witnesses with nothing to offer, producing a report with nothing to say, while the civil servants at its helm see their careers disappearing into a black hole. And then the OTIS file falls into their hands. What secrets does this hold that see a long-redundant spy being chased through Devon's green lanes in the dark?

Beloved Burke hero Detective Dave Robicheaux returns to New Iberia to solve a series of grisly murders. Seven young women in neighboring Jefferson Davis Parish have been brutally murdered. While the crimes have all the telltale signs of a serial killer, the death of Bernadette Latiolais, a high-school honor student, doesn’t fit: she is not the kind of hapless and marginalized victim psychopaths usually prey upon.

Teenager Luke Mullen was last seen getting into a car with an older woman. No one can understand why he has disappeared. His father - a former police officer - knows all too well that the longer he is missing, the more likely he is to turn up dead. Then Luke's parents receive an anonymous video. It shows their son, eyes wide with terror, as a man advances towards him holding a syringe. DI Tom Thorne recognises a psychopath when he sees one. And the scene on the tape chills him to the bone - he knows that a child's life hangs in the balance and that every minute counts.

My name’s Jack Mason. I made a mistake. I took home the wrong girl, and now she’s dead. Cut up. And they’re telling me I did it. It’s the same cop that tried to take me down 10 years ago. Now, he’s coming at me hard. And he’s not the only one.

Der zweite Teil der "Johannes Hornoff"-Thrillerreihe von Bestsellerautor Noah Fitz. Mitten in der Nacht erhält der Psychologe Doktor Hornoff einen Telefonanruf. Er soll zu einem verlassenen Haus kommen, in dem eine Frauenleiche gefunden wurde. Kommissar Breuer möchte sich mit einer Zweitmeinung vergewissern, dass die tote Frau nach einer Auseinandersetzung von ihrem Ehepartner erschossen wurde. Alle bisherigen Indizien deuten auf einen heftigen Streit mit tödlichem Ausgang hin, denn unweit vom Tatort wird in derselben Nacht auch ein schwer verletzter Mann gefunden.

Der packende Nr. 1-Bestseller aus Schweden! Die Sonne brennt heiß auf den Asphalt in einem Stockholmer Vorort, als eine junge Frau gefunden wird, vergewaltigt und erdrosselt. Kriminalkommissar Tomas Wolf kann den Anblick der Toten kaum ertragen – zu sehr erinnert sie ihn an die dunkle Zeit in seiner Vergangenheit, die er am liebsten vergessen würde. Doch in diesem Sommer '94 ist er der Erste am Tatort. Er ahnt nicht, dass auch die Journalistin Vera Berg in diesem Mordfall ermittelt und dabei alles aufs Spiel setzt – vor allem ihr eigenes Leben.

Et si votre famille n'était pas celle qu'elle prétendait être ? Nina Kircher, une sexagénaire, veuve d'un photographe mondialement célèbre, passe quelques jours dans un hôtel de luxe dans le sud de la France. Soudain, elle quitte la piscine où elle vient de se baigner pour suivre un homme jusqu'à son bungalow puis, sans raisons apparentes, elle le poignarde dans un enchaînement inouï de violence, avant de s'enfermer dans un mutisme complet.

Charles Holborne, maverick barrister, will never fit in at the bar—too working-class, too Jewish, and too dangerous—all of which makes him the perfect outsider to prosecute a murder case which will rock British justice to its foundations.

El detective Robert hunter de la Sección Especial de Homicidios del Departamento de Policía de Los Ángeles recibe una llamada anónima en la que se le pide que se conecte a una dirección específica de internet, una transmisión privada. Hunter se conecta, e inmediatamente comienza un programa concebido solo para él. Pero la persona que le llamó no quiere que el detective Hunter tan solo mire; quiere que participe, y negarse a hacerlo sencillamente no es una opción.

El superventas número uno del Sunday Times. En este trepidante thriller del autor de superventas Chris Carter, Robert Hunter, el psicólogo especializado en conducta criminal y convertido en detective de la policía de Los Ángeles, se encuentra envuelto en un brutal juego contra un oponente despiadado que lo va a arrastrar hasta el límite. No importa lo que hagas, Hunter, la muerte se acerca... A los siete días de haber sido secuestrada, una chica de veinte años aparece muerta sobre una parcela de hierba a un lado del Aeropuerto Internacional de Los Ángeles.