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In this book, Jim West finds himself traveling to a small, remote hunting lodge in the Pecos Wilderness area in New Mexico to rendezvous with an old friend and do some hiking. His friend stands him up, and Jim is about to return home when a murder occurs in the lodge. Law enforcement jumps in, and Jim’s early departure plans are scrubbed.

Is there a demon hiding inside Mason Mackay? The world sees only a witty, handsome filmmaker. But one interview subject brings out something dark, something truly unspeakable, buried deep in Mason’s subconscious. Within hours, the interview subject is dead. The evidence points to Mason—and he can’t honestly say the police are wrong.

Er lag halb auf der Seite, einen Arm unnatürlich abgewinkelt, das Gesicht eine blutige Masse. Es sah so aus, als hätte jemand mit einem Felsbrocken auf ihn eingeschlagen - aus Wut? oder aus Angst? Packende und spannende Krimiunterhaltung vom Feinsten.

When Kelsey Hart disappeared three years ago, her older sister, Brit, never gave up hope. But as time passed, and she heard nothing from her sister, she knew she needed help. Enter PI Harry Starke, the man with a reputation for solving the impossible cases. As Harry digs into Kelsey’s disappearance, he quickly realizes that nothing is as it seems. Slowly, he uncovers dark secrets and a web of lies that will shake the Hart family to its core. And with every clue he uncovers, the mystery deepens, and people begin to die.

"Ich stehe jetzt über Euch und ihr müsst begreifen, dass es so nicht weitergehen wird... " Nach einem perfiden Anschlag in Berlin geht die Polizei zunächst von Terrorismus aus. Doch schnell deuten die Umstände der Tat darauf hin, dass etwas ganz anderes dahintersteckt. Zahlreiche Menschen verlieren ihr Leben, aber die Schlagzeilen sind schnell wieder vergessen. Hauptkommissar Lewis Schneider wird eher zufällig in die Ermittlungen involviert und steht vor einem Rätsel. Die einzig brauchbare Zeugin scheint ziemlich unter Druck zu stehen und trotzdem ihr eigenes Spiel zu spielen.

Investigators Melissa Hargrove and RJ Otombo, staff sergeants with the fictional Toronto City Police Force, investigate the murders and his motivations. The investigators are haunted by their own traumas. RJ is obsessed with bringing to justice the person who abducted and murdered his eight-year-old son. The return of Melissa’s ex-boyfriend seems opportune. She can’t forget or forgive him for killing her parents 10 years earlier while driving under the influence of alcohol.

Una giovane cameriera ucraina viene trovata assassinata in uno squallido appartamento di Sampiardarena. Tra le braccia stringe un orsacchiotto con la maglietta del Genoa. Si occupa del caso l'ispettore della squadra omicidi Marco Canepa, grande poliziotto e pessimo giocatore di ping pong. Le complicate indagini si muovono tra i caruggi della città vecchia, le dighe di Begato, il lungomare Bettolo di Recco e arriveranno fino ad Odessa, in Ucraina.

Chi è davvero l'addetto alle pulizie trovato morto dentro la vasca dei gentili lamantini? Da dove viene? Qual è la sua storia? E poi perché un omicidio così plateale e assurdo? Queste le domande che si pone Marco Canepa, coadiuvato come sempre dal suo vice Bruno Tozzi e dal PM Tiziana Anselmi, magistrato dai capelli rossi, da tempo innamorata perdutamente di lui.

Milano, quartiere di Porta Venezia. Un vivace microcosmo multietnico dove convivono borghesi e nullafacenti, giovani creativi da ogni parte del mondo e vecchi milanesi. Nella prestigiosa Torre Rasini risiedono i Morigi, una famiglia altolocata e integerrima agli occhi di tutti. L'unica macchia nella loro vita sembra essere la giovane Marianeve detta Neve, una ragazza ribelle e dal diminutivo beffardo, considerando la sua dipendenza dalla cocaina. Tra i tanti tatuaggi sul corpo, ne ha uno sul polso che mette i brividi: la scritta The 27 Club con sotto un teschio.

Hard-hitting veteran reporter Deuce Mora is awakened in the pre-dawn hours and called to the scene of a gruesome hanging to identify the body of a dear friend, an FBI agent on the verge of taking down one of Chicago’s biggest Mob operations. Deuce knows it’s murder, but the authorities have no choice but to call it a suicide—the scene was triple-locked from the inside. The ill wind sweeping the Windy City has also whipped up two more unexplainable deaths—of perfectly healthy, able-bodied young mobsters, key witnesses about to flip on the leaders of the Mob operation.

Exotic Dancers are dying at an alarming rate in Las Vegas. Former LVPD detective Frank Michi is roped into helping not only his former partner, but also the New Jersey mobsters who run the strip club, to unmask the psychopath who is running amok killing the dancers.

Irving Ash is a private investigator down on his luck. His life's in the gutter and work has dried up. With bills mounting, he's forced to take a job working security detail at a porn studio. He's barely started the job when the porn company's highest earning star, Brandi Dyvine, goes missing. Irving can't resist digging deeper into her disappearance, and trails Brandi through the dive bars and deadly streets of Denver - the Mile High City.

When a famous plastic surgeon’s decomposed body surfaces in Tampa Bay with a bullet in its head, Federal Judge Willa Carson’s “little sister” is caught in a high-stakes game of greedy lawyers, blackmail, and deceit.

Di ritorno da un corso di aggiornamento, durato alcuni giorni, una donna trova il marito ucciso: questa è la sua versione dei fatti... Il commissario incaricato delle indagini si confronta con lei, in ripetuti incontri-scontri, cercando di far luce sul delitto. Perché la vittima, Pietro, non è un uomo qualunque! Ricco di famiglia, attraente, matematico di successo nonostante la giovane età, oltre a suscitare prevedibili rivalità professionali fra i colleghi dell’Università, ha, forse, relazioni extraconiugali. Anche la sorella della vittima aveva motivi per uccidere? Forse.

Hauptkommissar Matthias "Matti" Andresen steht mit seinem Team vor einer besonderen Herausforderung: Ein gestohlener Paketwagen ist in der Kieler Innenstadt in den Außenbereich eines Lokals gefahren. An drei Tischen wurden zwei Frauen schwer verletzt und eine weitere getötet. Sie saß am ersten Tisch. Doch war sie wirklich das gewollte Opfer? Der Fahrer konnte fliehen und es stellt sich die Frage, ob alle Frauen nur Zufallsopfer waren oder gezielt ausgewählt wurden. Andresen ist mehr denn je auf Hilfe aus der Bevölkerung angewiesen. Doch anscheinend hat keiner den Täter genau gesehen.

Billie Jo Higgins may be small, but she is a skilled burglar, using her craft to keep her and Toby, her addict twin brother, afloat in a hard world. It is a difficult life, but the two are surviving. They take care of each other.

Scott Jericho thought he'd worked his last case. Fresh out of jail, the disgraced former detective is forced to seek refuge with the fairground family he once rejected. Then a series of bizarre murders comes to light - deaths that echo a century-old fairground legend. The police can't connect the victims. But Jericho knows how the legend goes; that more murders are certain to follow. As Jericho unpicks the deadly mystery, a terrifying question haunts him. As a direct descendant of one of the victims in the legend, is Jericho next on the killer's list?

"Ho bisogno di te, Antonio" dice la quasi ex-moglie al commissario Mariani: per un attimo crede che Francesca voglia tornare con lui. Gli sta chiedendo invece di occuparsi della scomparsa di Cabel, un muratore albanese. Mariani si applica con abnegazione per trovare il giovane e finalmente lo rintraccia, ad Asti. È in fin di vita, ma prima di cadere in coma riesce a pronunciare soltanto una parola: cuorenero... La trama della sesta indagine della serie del commissario Mariani si muove su uno sfondo di crudeltà e aberrazione, vita di strada e sfruttamento di minori.

Introducing Jack West, a tenacious Houston homicide detective who believes even the dregs of society deserve justice. After solving an exhausting murder case involving teenagers, Jack and his partner, Dawson Luck, are assigned a cold case dating back 25 years. One case: an unsolved murder of a woman found dead behind a seedy motel, the other about a missing prostitute.

Two months after an investigation that nearly put Elias Roche behind bars, the former cop turned mob enforcer has endeavored to separate himself from his past by going straight. Now working as a private investigator, his attempts to build himself a quiet life have so far been promising. However, while Manhattan's Lower City is in the midst of a reignited mob war, Elias is faced with finding a man who doesn't want to be found, absolving a machine of a murder charge, and discovering a network of secrets that keeps the world turning, almost literally.