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Deuce Mora’s one tough cookie: a female sleuth with a conscience and an attitude; fiery, tough, athletic, a dirty fighter when she has to be. In Jean Heller’s first mystery featuring the scrappy newspaper columnist, Deuce finds out in short order that if you mess with organized crime, you have to be tough—and you’d better be as much detective as reporter. When she walks into a seedy neighborhood bar in a suburb of Chicago—all six feet of her, topped with auburn curls—she’s searching for a human-interest story.

It was a glittering event full of A-listers, hosted by Eliza Lane and Brant Fitzhugh, the most glittering of all celebrity couples. Everyone had expected the party to be in the newspapers the next day but not because one of the hosts was murdered! As the crowd had gathered to watch Eliza sing, Fitzhugh had raised a final toast to his glamorous wife and fallen to the floor. Death by cyanide poisoning. It's time for Lt. Eve Dallas to make her entrance.

Six deaths mar the holiday mood as summer vacationers enjoy Wisconsin’s beautiful Door County peninsula. Murders, or bizarre accidents? Newly hired park ranger Dave Cubiak, a former Chicago homicide detective, assumes the worst but refuses to get involved. Grief-stricken and guilt-ridden over the loss of his wife and daughter, he’s had enough of death. Forced to confront the past, the morose Cubiak moves beyond his own heartache and starts investigating, even as a popular festival draws more people into possible danger.

Vier Städte, vier grauenvoll zugerichtete Leichen - an verschiedenen Flughäfen Deutschlands werden innerhalb kurzer Zeit mehrere Männer ermordet. Die Spuren deuten auf einen Serientäter hin, doch zwischen den Opfern gibt es keine Gemeinsamkeiten. Die Ermittler beim LKA sind fassungslos, als sie schließlich herausfinden, dass die DNA-Spuren von einer Frau stammen! Das LKA bittet den knorrigen Profiler Falk Hagedorn, ein Psychogramm der Mörderin zu erstellen.

There are 47 bars in Magenta that sling their swill to the 80-odd thousand inhabitants and I know every stool, table, couch, and urinal in every one of'em. It’s my business to know. The Garden of Eden was as slick as a silk sheet sliding on sweat-soaked skin. It brought originality to the word "sin" that even Webster couldn’t have kept down to less than a chapter.

Tampa detectives Carly Sanderson and Sergio Martin agree to join a newly-formed, multi-state task force and immediately find themselves navigating between the Georgia backwoods and the Atlanta social scene in pursuit of a serial firebomber.

Die kleine Hafenstadt Oldebeck wird von einer blutigen Mordserie erschüttert. Kommissar Norde und sein geheimnisvoller Partner Röhler ermitteln auf Hochtouren. Doch schon bald folgen weitere Opfer. Auch die schöne Lektorin Alina vom Verlagshaus Kröger & Crime steht auf der Liste des Rotlicht Rippers. Allerdings ahnt die junge Frau noch nichts von der Gefahr, in der sie schwebt, als es in der Nacht an ihrer Tür klopft.

Die Vergangenheit holt dich ein. Irrlichter führen dich immer tiefer ins Moor. Bis du den Weg aus den Augen verlierst. Im Morgennebel sehen Wanderer Lichter über dem Roten Moor. Als sie sich dem Ufer nähern, stoßen sie auf die Leiche einer jungen Frau. Die herbeigerufene Kriminalpolizei aus Fulda identifiziert sie wenig später als Matilda Nolte, die im März 2009 nach einer Abiparty spurlos verschwand. Für den jungen Kriminalkommissar Janosch Janssen ist die Entdeckung ein Schock: Matilda war seine heimliche Jugendliebe.

Die Polizei nennt ihn den Network-Killer. Er sucht sich seine Opfer im Internet, ausnahmslos Frauen. Anschließend lockt er sie zu sich, vergewaltigt und erdrosselt sie und wirft sie ins Wasser. Hauptkommissar Jan Fabel und sein Team widmen ihre ganze Aufmerksamkeit den brutalen Morden. Eines Tages taucht eine weitere Wasserleiche auf: eine Frau, angespült am Hamburger Fischmarkt, nach dem großen Sturm. Der Leiche fehlen sämtliche Gliedmaßen. Ist sie ebenfalls ein Opfer des Network-Killers? Jan Fabel vertieft sich in den Fall.

Lieutenant Marcus Trufant sits alone in his apartment waiting for his phone to ring and praying it won't. It's April 11th and, just like the April before, he knows a United States veteran will be slaughtered in the next several hours. Each year a veteran is killed on April 11th, and another on December 1st. The first two occurred in Chicago, but the last four have been on his streets.

The poisoning of a distinguished history professor sets off a chain of events that puts Inspector Duke Dempsey on the hunt of a lifetime for the legendary hidden treasure of Blackbeard. The old-fashioned treasure hunt brings the super sleuth head-to-head against a secret sect that has ties to the upper echelons of the Charleston aristocracy. As the body count rises, he must beat them to the treasure and uncover the mastermind behind the ritualistic murders.

Are you ready for twists, turns, thrills, and chills? This complete set offers Joe C. Ellis's popular Weston Wolf OBX Detective novels: Roanoke Island Murders, The Singer in the Sound, and Kitty Hawk Confidential.

What happens when the unspeakable happens to you, and you turn to your father for compassion, and you find none? You become what they think you are. You become...the monster!

Boone has been prospecting with the Iron Brotherhood outlaw motorcycle gang for almost a year, trying to earn his patch with the club. When a simple muscle job goes terribly wrong, his world changes forever. He is quickly plunged deeper into a world of drug and intimidation, and the lines between right and wrong blur. The bonds of brotherhood that he forges with other members clash with the dark actions they take. His girlfriend, Faith, represents a danger of another kind, but Boone can’t stop himself where she is concerned, either.

Dopo "Morte a domicilio" e "Il dubbio" ecco la terza indagine per il commissario Antonio Mariani e la moglie Francesca Lucas, ingegnere informatico. La misteriosa morte a Lavagna di Luisa Lercari, scrittrice di gialli, trascina l'ispettore Mariani in una nuova e inquietante indagine che coinvolge Emma (la madre di Mariani, appassionata lettrice della Lercari) ed Enrica sua grande amica. La testardaggine delle due donne spinge l'ispettore ad interessarsi al caso e a condurre ricerche personali parallelamente a quelle dei Carabinieri.

A story about misreading danger in the California desert. Narrated by the author, Justin Kerr. This murder mystery is torn from the headlines of missing person reports in Joshua Tree, Twenty Nine Palms, Yucca Valley, and Palm Springs.

Frank took a long slow drag on a cigarette. "I’ve only got two pieces of advice for people who wanna listen to this case file. First of all, if you’re easily offended, or of a nervous disposition, keep your money, spend it on…what does two bucks buy you today, a box of matches?"

No sooner than a 13-year-old child begs Lawrence Kingston to reinvestigate her mother's disappearance--a case still unsolved for eight years--the redoubtable botanist, professor, and sleuth receives news that an English rose, extinct for half a century, has been discovered growing on Alcatraz island, 5,000 miles from its former home.

Until he disappeared, Peter Black was Azrael. Master assassin. Now he spends his days hiding on a remote farm in northern Alaska. The same farm he was sent to at age 11 to be trained by the CIA. Peter only ever wanted a normal life and to be left alone. But the world refuses to leave men like Peter Black alone. An enemy like no other is coming. An enemy that has no mercy. No compassion. Only sheer ruthlessness of will.

Dylan Taggart channels his demons through the keyboard. Knocked around by a father who believed weakness was failure, the best-selling suspense author grabs a measure of peace in his gorgeous girlfriend’s arms. But he sees fiction come horrifyingly to life when masked fanatics break in demanding he put his brilliant mind to work and help them steal a secret military super-weapon.