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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?"

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.

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.

Flora Hansen se considera a sí misma una médium capaz de comunicarse con los muertos. Tras el terrible asesinato perpetrado en una casa para chicas problemáticas, empieza a tener visiones demasiado reales. Asustada, llama a la policía, arguyendo haber visto un fantasma. Solo un detective dejará a un lado su escepticismo para escuchar lo que Hansen tiene que contar: Joona Linna.

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.

Half-Romani detective Eoin Miller finds people for a living—usually people who would do anything to remain hidden. Ironic considering Eoin has done all he can to lose himself in a downward spiral that has cost him his job, his respect, his wife, and anything else that ever mattered. But he’s not inclined to dwell on what he’s given up, and Eoin prefers it that way.

This may be the most challenging of Logan’s cases. When former child star and America’s Sweetheart is kidnapped off the set of a Western film, a producer hires Logan to take on the case. However, complications soon arise, and he’s now not only searching for a kidnapper but a crazed murderer as well.

The all-female commune was run by a movement that called itself The Angels of Love, but as far as Larry Kent could see, there wasn’t much love around. The place was cut off from the rest of the world by a nine-foot chain link fence, and the perimeter was patrolled 24 hours a day by rifle-wielding guards and vicious attack dogs.

When criminal elements collide, the rules of the jungle will prevail, and those unprepared will pay the highest price.

The investigation into the murder of an investment banker reveals a hidden side to sharp-suited victim Adam Sinclair—and a cast-iron reason why someone would want him dead. The problem is DS Kevin Coupland knows the chief suspect. Not a friend in the conventional sense, but certainly the closest he's had to one. Following his gut, Coupland pursues Dominic Neilson, a more likely suspect, and it helps that he keeps treading on Coupland's one remaining nerve.

April 1968. DC Cameron Kyle is struck by a bullet at a bungled stakeout. He survives, but it’s clear that his old self didn’t. Once courteous and cautious, he now finds himself uncharacteristically outspoken, impatient, intolerant. His surgeon warns him that, due to the inoperable location of the bullet fragment, Kyle could die anytime; his psychologist’s prognosis isn’t much better – the words she chooses to describe his personality changes include borderline and psychotic.

For ex-SAS and current MI5 Officer Dave Lomu, Fiji was his childhood home. Leaving under a cloud and not looking back for 20 years means there is little left for him in paradise. But when his family call for help, he returns to a world of ruthless developers, police and government corruption, and the murder of a boy and the disappearance of the half-sister he never knew he had. Lomu has a particular set of skills and is determined to get answers.

The paintings are ugly, but the crime scenes are grisly. When a local restauranteur hires private investigator C.T. Ferguson to look into a couple of art thefts, he’s confused. The missing paintings are hideous. Even the owner agrees. The thief, however, is willing to kill to keep C.T. off his trail.

Joe Brody, ex-Special Forces operative suffering post-traumatic stress syndrome so severe that it turned him to drug and alcohol abuse, is getting his life back together. Living with his grandmother in Queens, Joe has taken what should be a simple job as a bouncer at a strip club where he can spend most of his nights reading the classics. The only catch is that his childhood friend Gio Caprisi, now head of New York's Italian Mafia, relies on Joe's extra-legal expertise when things get particularly nasty on the streets.

Crime Scene Fjällbacka − die Erfolgsserie geht weiter! Zwei Ereignisse erschüttern kurz hintereinander Fjällbacka. Ein berühmter Fotograf wird brutal in seinem Showroom ermordet. Und Nobelpreisträger Henning Bauer, der gerade auf einer kleinen Insel am zehnten Band seiner weltberühmten Serie schreibt, heimtückisch überfallen. Die Ermittlungen von Kommissar Patrik Hedström und seinem Team der Polizeistation Tanumshede laufen ins Leere.

Milano. Una guardia giurata sta facendo un ultimo giro di ronda al museo HangarBicocca, quando si imbatte inaspettatamente nel cadavere di una donna, pugnalata al cuore e abbandonata all'interno della torre detta "Sefiroth". L’indagine viene affidata dal questore a Enrico Tombamasselli, detto affettuosamente Tomba. Il nostro protagonista, che lotta con una grande solitudine e col vuoto lasciatogli dalla morte della moglie, si troverà ben presto a riscontrare inquietanti similitudini fra il delitto e una lunga serie di altri omicidi, avvenuti in varie zone della metropoli lombarda.

À Chantepie-de-Tricastin, c'est l'affolement. Le très respecté M. Numa Courtiol est retrouvé, au petit matin, mort, dans son lit, un poignard planté dans le cour. Dans la maison, ni la nièce du défunt, ni la bonne, ni même le jardinier, n'ont entendu le moindre bruit et nulle trace d'effraction n'a été découverte.