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Gage might go mad. With most of inland Oregon enduring a record-setting heatwave, the hordes descend on Barnacle Bluffs seeking cooler ocean air, and it's all the curmudgeonly private investigator can do to keep from shooting somebody. What's the harm in one fewer tourist, anyway? Yet when a desperate young woman shows up claiming her depressed husband has gone missing, Gage will need all of his wits to find the man before something terrible happens.

Carl Schroder och Theodore Tate, bättre kända som “Komapoliserna”, har äntligen funnit stabilitet i sina liv. Tate har återvänt till poliskåren och känner tacksamhet över att återigen vara hemma med sin fru Bridget. För Schroder är tillvaron varken uppåt eller nedåt; en skottskada i hans huvud för sex månader sedan har inte fällt honom, men den har kastat honom in i en känslomässig ödemark, som är nästan lika dödlig som kulan. När en dömd våldtäktsman hittas livlös, överkörd av ett mötande tåg, kastas Tate in i fallet och kämpar för att avgöra om det handlar om mord eller självmord.

When Inspector Duke Dempsey boarded the luxurious streamliner known as The Holy City Express, he expected a peaceful vacation, a brief respite from his crime-ridden beat. But as the train whisks through the scenic vistas, a chilling scream shatters the calm, and Duke is thrust into the most perplexing case of his career—a mysterious double murder. With the clock ticking and the train speeding towards its final destination, Duke must navigate a web of intrigue and deceit. The passenger list reads like a who’s who of global power brokers, each with secrets worth killing for.

For at fange en morder er man måske nødt til selv at slå ihjel … Acacia Pines, USA. Sherif Cohens liv er ét stort kaos – hans far har ved et uheld brændt plejehjemmet ned, hans kone er skredet, og hans søn mobber en af de andre elever på skolen. Da teenageren Lucas Connor bliver bortført, ser Cohen en mulighed for at få sit liv tilbage på rette spor – og både få sin kone tilbage og indløse dusøren for at finde Lucas. Men efterhånden som flere og flere dør omkring ham, står det klart for Cohen, at han bliver nødt til at træffe en af den slags beslutninger, som ikke er så let at gøre om... og som vil få dødelige konsekvenser..

Under en rutinemæssig obduktion af, hvad der ligner et offer for en flugtbilist, opdager den ledende retsmediciner på Los Angeles’ Retsmedicinske Institut, doktor Carolyn Hove, nogle mystiske uoverensstemmelser. Hun kontakter derfor kriminalassistent Robert Hunter fra LAPD‘s Ultravoldsenhed og beder om hjælp. Ikke nok med, at doktor Hove har opdaget, at døden ikke skyldtes påkørslen – hun har også fundet tegn på, at offeret blev udsat for intens tortur, inden han døde.

Hun ødelagde deres liv. Nu vil de knuse hendes. “En eller anden genskaber hver eneste traumatiske hændelse i dit liv. De gør det for at få dig til at lide, for at påføre dig smerte, og det eneste mulige slutresultat er døden. Din død.” På fjerde sal i Chaucer House bliver to teenagere fundet lænket til en radiator. Drengen er død, men pigen er stadig i live. For kriminalkommissær Kim Stone er hver eneste detalje på gerningsstedet en spejling af hendes egen forfærdelige oplevelse med broren Mikey, dengang de boede i det samme lejlighedskompleks for 30 år siden.

When former Reno, Nevada, sheriff Keenan Fitzpatrick wins a free moose hunting trip to Newfoundland, Canada, he is happy to get away from his current job as a casino security officer. Shortly after arriving at the isolated hunting lodge forty miles from the nearest road, a man is shot to death. The other guests and guides immediately recruit Fitz to solve the murder. But without any technology to run background on all of the characters at the lodge, Fitz must rely only on his personal skills to uncover the killer.

Just north of Lake Okeechobee in central Florida, Brad Dolan’s Ford goes bad. He pulls in for repairs, finds a sack for the night, then goes out for a drink and maybe some action with the dice... All routine enough, except that Brad Dolan is no ordinary guy, and the town is Carterville, no ordinary town. It’s back-country: jukes fronting for gambling joints, bootleg whisky, sporting houses, cockfights—everything to take a man’s mind off his own troubles. Down here, Dolan finds out, a man can be rubber-hosed for buying a drink for a blonde who’s made a pass at him.

Shockwaves are still dissipating following the tragic demise of a Pittsburgh Violent Crimes Unit Detective. However, the colleagues find comfort in their belief that the Stolen Pieces cases have been successfully solved and the depraved lunatic responsible has at long last been identified. But before anyone has time to get settled, the sudden, unnerving discovery of a new victim bearing the brutal hallmarks of The Keeper’s unique style of slaughter sends pulses racing.

あるホラー作家のもとに送られてきた手紙には、存在しない架空の歌手とラジオ番組のことが延々と綴られていたという。編集者たちの集まりによると、チェーンメールのように、何人かの作家にも届いているという。

As criminal gangs rampage unchecked across London, a secretive elite squad begins a campaign of action, delivering the guilty to the cops – along with all the evidence they need for a conviction. But when innocent people are shot after the vigilante crew blunders into a major police operation – Detective Rick Turner among the unintended victims – it’s clear they must be stopped. Rick’s brother Sam might be able to help, but he’s a fugitive from the law himself, on nobody’s side but his own.

Former Seattle homicide cop J. P. Beaumont faces trouble in the small town of Ashland, as both his personal and professional lives are thrown into turmoil. Beau’s daughter and son-in-law are having marital troubles, and his grandson, a senior in high school, shows up on his doorstep, wanting to live with Beau and his wife Mel as he finishes out the school year. Meanwhile, a friend from his past asks for Beau’s help in looking into what appears to be an accidental death.

Joe Flood is the professional assassin known as “the Slugger.” He’s made a career out of murder for hire, but only those who deserve it. Then a routine physical turns into a reckoning. Joe has cancer, his doctor tells him, with maybe six months to live. Joe decides to take fate into his own hands. Accessing the underground network of fellow hit men, he puts out a contract on himself: six million dollars from a Swiss bank account to the professional who will end his suffering quickly.

A string of overdoses in Colorado Springs has Detectives Joe Kenda and Lee Wilson on the lookout for a bad batch of heroin that has been cut with a drug they’ve never seen before. Meanwhile, at Springs General Hospital, Dr. Blair Moreland—the notoriously unpleasant head anesthesiologist—has found a way to feed his deepening addiction to the very same powerful new drug: fentanyl. But when Dr. Moreland starts supplying the dangerous painkiller to dealer Lula Lopez, he angers a Mexican crime syndicate and sets into motion a cycle of death and violence that threatens to engulf the entire city.

Ein bekannter Kieler Steuerberater ist seit Tagen spurlos verschwunden. Als eine Lösegeldforderung eintrifft, weigert sich die Familie, sie zu bezahlen. Zehn Tage nach seinem Verschwinden geht die Polizei deshalb davon aus, dass er nicht mehr lebt. Das Team von Andresen recherchiert und Kommissar Bastian Geisler lernt eine wichtige Zeugin kennen. Er beginnt eine heiße Affäre mit ihr und wacht schwer verletzt im Bett neben einer grausam zugerichteten Toten wieder auf. Auf Matti Andresen und Viola Meissner kommen große Herausforderungen zu, zumal Bastian in Mordverdacht geraten ist.

1960s Brighton, England... Christmas cheer? But only if reporter Colin Crampton can save an innocent comic postcard artist from the gallows.

In diesem packenden Roman erleben wir einen Privatdetektiv, der sich in einem Netz aus Intrigen und Verstrickungen verfängt. Die Geschichte ist bisweilen bitter und der Tonfall knallhart. Doch gerade diese Kombination aus Sex, Crime und Mystery macht "Knochentief" zu einem fiesen und unterhaltsamen Lesevergnügen.

Texas Ranger Darren Mathews isn’t sure he’s been a good cop, but believes he’s got a shot at being a good man—if he manages to dodge the potential indictment hanging over his head and if he, from here on out, pledges allegiance to the truth. It’s a virtue the country appears to have wholly lost its grip on, but one Darren sees as his salvation. He is in the midst of remaking his life with the woman he loves when he is visited by his mother armed with a tall tale about a missing Black college student, Sera (whose white sorority sisters insist she isn’t missing at all).

Vuelve Roberto Martínez Guzmán, el autor de la novela más leída en la historia de Amazon.es, con un thriller excitante que no podrás soltar.

Lastrado por una última misión policial en Madrid que no acabó de la mejor manera, el policía Lucas Acevedo regresa a Galicia para poner en orden su cabeza. Cuando cree que lo ha conseguido, una noche conoce a una mujer que le hará plantearse la solitaria existencia que ha llevado hasta entonces. Sin embargo, pronto se complican sus planes. Mucha gente comienza a morir en su entorno y, en el momento en que se da cuenta de que él también está en el punto de mira, se verá obligado a librar una batalla de la que no conseguirá salir indemne.