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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.

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.

Bible kanadských žertíků, které hrdina jménem Künde nepřestane dělat ani ve vězení, kam se kvůli nim ostatně dostal. Humoristický román s detektivní zápletkou je u nás Westlakeovým nejznámějším a nejslavnějším dílem. Harold Albert Chester Künde, hlavní postava románu, je dvaatřicetiletý svobodný muž, který v osmi letech dospěl k závěru, že jeho příjmení je kanadský žertík, a tak od té doby sám kanadské žertíky provádí. Jeden z nich ho bohužel přivede až do vězení. Jeho předsevzetí skončit se svým koníčkem mu ovšem nevyjde.

STOCKHOLM: Etliche Morde erschüttern die Ruhe der nordischen Stadt: Opfer, die rein gar nichts miteinander zu tun haben – Tötungsarten, die sich nicht ähneln. Aber eine ist grausamer als die andere...

Melchor Marín, il poliziotto appassionato di libri con un passato da galeotto, dopo la morte della moglie Olga ha lasciato la divisa e lavora come bibliotecario a Gandesa, in Terra Alta. Con lui vive la figlia Cosette, ora adolescente, che non perdona al padre di averle nascosto per quattordici anni il vero motivo della morte di sua madre, causata dall’ostinazione di Melchor nel perseguire i colpevoli durante la sua prima indagine.

Luke and Lyle have gotten used to investigating lost pets and cheating spouses. Then, Marva DeLonghi walks into their office. Someone's out to kill her, but her story's vague.

Drammi dal sapore ancestrale si consumano entro i confini di antichi pascoli, sullo sfondo di una Sardegna che vibra di amore e di dolore. Nuoro, 1969. Il maresciallo Carmine Dioguardi ha per le mani un caso delicato. I morti, stavolta, sono due: Narciso Aggius, pastore orfano affetto da ritardo mentale, è stato ammazzato brutalmente; Gesuino Corrias, figlio del suo padrone Toneddu, si è suicidato poco dopo. Impossibile pensare a una casualità.

Milano. Massimo Gerosa, manager in carriera, viene improvvisamente licenziato dalla COMOR, il colosso dell'informatica dove lavora. Le motivazioni sono vaghe. La moglie lo costringe ad andarsene di casa e anche la figlia diciannovenne, che all'inizio mantiene i rapporti con il padre, a un certo punto se ne allontana. Dopo nove mesi vissuti tra alberghi di quart'ordine e il suo SUV adibito a dimora, Massimo finisce a fare il guardiano notturno nella sede di un movimento di estrema destra, di cui gradatamente sposa l'ideologia impregnata di nazionalismo, di razzismo e di antisemitismo.

Накануне вторжения армии Наполеона в Россию жизнь в Смоленской губернии идет своим чередом. Однако в воздухе уже витает зловещий дух войны. А когда в лесу местного помещика Бурмина находят нечто ужасное, дела принимают мрачный оборот. Сам Бурмин, ветеран первой русской войны с Наполеоном и сражения под Аустерлицем 1805 года, возвращается домой совсем другим: теперь его мучают странные приступы, обоняние обостряется, собственное тело перестает слушаться и вдобавок ко всему этому — провалы в памяти.