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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....

Read by award-winning narrator Jeff Harding. **NOW A MAJOR PRIME TV SERIES STARRING ALAN RITCHSON** Jack Reacher is having a bad day. It would be a dumb idea to make it worse. Reacher sees a West Point class ring in a pawn shop window. It's tiny. It's a woman cadet's graduation present to...

'खळबळत्या सागरकाठी' ही लेखक संजय सोनवणी यांची एक अत्यंत उत्कंठावर्धक आणि रहस्यमय कादंबरी आहे. तळाशी या...

When a couple of storage auction bidders win the contents of unit 37 at 'Best Price Storage', they discover the mummified remains of three dismembered bodies inside. Thus begins a new murder case for Boyd and his team. While East Sussex police force are concerned they may have another serial...

Audrey Hincher, a middle-aged woman, with a mundane job and an unremarkable home life suddenly vanishes in the middle of the day on a busy street in the centre of Hastings. Boyd and his team are not immediately concerned for her welfare, but as the days pass and questions start to surface about...

With Boyd convalescing at home after his operation, and DS Minter preparing for his Inspector's exam, CID Hastings is woefully under-manned. So, when the body of a young man is found hanging from a tree - an apparent suicide, and a house is burned down killing a wheelchair-bound old woman, it's...

When old bones are discovered buried beside an A-road it becomes clear that Leon Martin - dubbed the Ken Doll Killer by the tabloid press - may not have taken his life 21 years ago. As Boyd investigates the old case file it becomes clear there may be new bodies buried at lay-bys around the...

DS Okeke's boyfriend, Jay Turner, has had a job offer he can't refuse. The money's too good and the task too easy - follow a rich man's wife and catch her in the act of cheating on him. One problem though... the job's over in the US. And there's another problem - there's a murder. Jay has...

Argyle House, the most hated home on Cottle Street. A place where the town's unwanted and despised are housed. Given the local hostility, it's no surprise to anyone when a body is discovered in one of its flats. Boyd wastes no time despatching Minter and Okeke to investigate. But it's not long...

When Jay Turner - a nightclub doorman accidentally overhears a murder being planned he suddenly becomes Hastings' MOST WANTED man! Not only is he wanted by East Sussex Police for a violent crime that he's been framed for, but, by a desperate psychopath with limitless resources who simply can't...

Returning home from a police conference DCI BOYD catches the last train back to Hastings from Brighton, unaware that he's about to play a central role in what will become a sensational news story. But Boyd is reluctant to get caught up in the media hype or have his face plastered across the...

The tide brings everything back DCI Boyd has left London behind for a new life in Hastings. Newly appointed to East Sussex CID, he barely has time to settle in before his first case lands on his desk: a wealthy local businessman and his young wife have vanished in the English Channel. Their...

When a fire destroys a landmark home in Hastings and 'national treasure' Sir Jeffrey Sutton's body is found in the debris, it seems that arson may be to blame. But who would want the old man dead? Could it be his children - both with strong motives? Or his ex-wife? His live-in carer? Or perhaps...

With Boyd starting his phased return to the CID department, DS Samantha Okeke is once again in the driving seat. When Okeke takes a call from a child psychiatrist about one of his patients, a troubled thirteen year old girl, it's a mystery as to whether she has witnessed a monstrous crime or...

The restoration of an old coastal defence tower is halted when work starts on the flooded basement, leading to the grim discovery of a human bone. The Napoleonic-era ruin is known to the locals as 'Devil's Tower' for the many urban myths and ghost stories attributed to it. Far more terrifying is...

In 1924, Dashiell Hammett—considered the father of hard-boiled detective fiction - wrote two short stories in his Continental Op series of mysteries: "The House on Turk Street" and "The Girl with the Silver Eyes." Rather than create two stand-alone stories, however, Hammett instead sends the Continental Op into a maze of stolen bonds, missing women, criminal rivalries, and lethal betrayals, all of which lead him to the mysterious, red-headed vixen named "Elvira," an elusive, intelligent, and dangerously charismatic woman who manipulates everyone around her while preserving her own secrets.

After a devastating accident, Selina Hart spent five years in a mental health facility—told she can’t trust her own mind. Now she’s home. Free… supposedly better. But something isn’t right. The voices return. Quiet. Calm. Certain. Don’t trust him. Your sister’s fiancé isn’t who he says he is. He wants to kill you. He’s done it before… and he’ll do it again. At first, Selina fights it. But suspicion takes hold…and soon it becomes an obsession. She starts digging. What she finds makes no sense. No records. No past. No proof he has ever existed.

Når fiktionen bliver en dødelig virkelighed. Efterforsker Lars Thomsen har i atten år båret på en hemmelighed: En plastikboks i bunden af sit klædeskab med sager, som systemet for længst har lukket som naturlige dødsfald, men som hans instinkt aldrig har kunnet give slip på. Sager...