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Being a private eye isn’t easy. That’s one thing Lucien Cross is about to find out the hard way. Ever since he opened Cross Security and Investigations, it’s been one blunder after another. And his latest mistake might mean his death. As a businessman, Cross is all about the bottom line. He’ll take as many cases as he can. The more affluent the client, the better. But Lucien has no idea the danger he faces now that he’s agreed to help recover a client’s stolen property.

In January, New York City inaugurates its first female mayor. In April, her son disappears. Called in by the mayor’s chief aide—a former girlfriend of private investigator Bill Smith’s—to find the missing fifteen-year-old, Bill and his partner, Lydia Chin, are told the boy has run away. Neither the press nor the NYPD know that he’s missing, and the mayor wants him back before a headstrong child turns into a political catastrophe. But as Bill and Lydia investigate, they turn up more questions than answers.

In Berlin treibt ein Serienmörder sein Unwesen. Professor Johannes Hornoff unterstützt auch in diesem Fall den mürrischen Oberkommissar Karl Breuer, doch den beiden läuft die Zeit davon. Hornoff und Breuer müssen schnell handeln und rasch zu Ergebnissen gelangen, denn der Gejagte schreckt vor nichts zurück. Er quält seine Opfer mit immer brutaleren Methoden, später stellt er sie öffentlich zur Schau. Was den Ermittlern bleibt, ist die Gewissheit, dass der Mörder, der sich selbst 'das Opferkind' nennt, auf Rache aus ist und nur von ihnen gestoppt werden kann.

Poe tells the story of a nervous character, alleged to be “crazy” refusing all claims. He believes that his disposition arises from a heightening of the senses: "Above all was the sense of hearing acute" (74). The narrator takes care of a rich old man whose diseased eye he becomes obsessed with. He becomes so obsessed with this EvilEye that eventually, he decides to kill the old man. But what and how he will do it, is a mystery for you to find out.

Ein brisanter Mordfall, eine Verschwörung und eine gefährliche Geheimorganisation. Nick Stein ermittelt wieder – im fulminanten Abschluss der spannenden Krimi-Reihe! Der Profiler Nick Stein wird gradewegs von der Trainingsakademie des FBI in eine internationale Morduntersuchung verwickelt. Das Opfer ist kein Unbekannter für ihn, und die Spur des Täters führt direkt zu einem mysteriösen Geheimbund.

【原作　宮沢賢治】岩手県花巻生まれ。詩人、童話作家。代表作に「銀河鉄道の夜」「よだかの星」「セロ弾きのゴーシュ」「注文の多い料理店」などがある。

Genova, 1968. Maria Viani, universitaria fuori sede, scopre che Elisabetta, la sua bellissima coinquilina, è scomparsa. L’aiuteranno nel difficile compito di ritrovarla l’ispettore Sergio Cantini, vecchia conoscenza di Maria, e il fratello della ragazza. L’impresa, però, si rivelerà più difficile di quanto possano immaginare. Maria Teresa Valle, nata a Varazze (SV), risiede attualmente a Genova. Giallista di successo, ha pubblicato con Fratelli Frilli Editori numerosi romanzi, tra cui le due serie di successo con protagonisti Maria Viani e Damiano Flexi Gerardi, soprannominato il Becchino.

La carrera contra el tiempo está punto de comenzar... La Torre de Londres... Impenetrable. Protegidísima. Segura. Alberga las joyas más valiosas del mundo. Pero una vez al año, cuando la reina asiste a la ceremonia de apertura del Parlamento, la Policía Metropolitana lleva a cabo la más secreta de todas sus operaciones : cruzar Londres con las joyas de la Corona. Scotland Yard... Durante décadas, la unidad de élite de Scotland Yard se ha encargado de la operación. Y durante décadas, ha funcionado como un reloj. El robo... Pero este año, todo está a punto de cambiar.

Around one a.m. on an early spring morning, two teenage gangs are arrested after clashing violently in one of Venice’s squares. Commissario Claudia Griffoni, on duty that night, perhaps ill-advisedly walks the last of the boys home because his father, Dario Monforte, failed to pick him up at the Questura. Coincidentally, Guido Brunetti is asked by a wealthy friend of Vice-Questore Patta to vet Monforte for a job, triggering Brunetti’s memory that twenty years earlier Monforte had been publicly celebrated as the hero of a devastating bombing of the Italian military compound in Iraq.

TV reporter Booker Johnson doesn't know when to back down. Fresh off his fourth Emmy win and back in the classroom, he teaches the primacy of truth in journalism. But there is danger in pursuing the truth at all costs. And despite being told by his superiors to move on from the scene of a suspicious accident, Booker just can't leave well enough alone. Booker's investigation soon plunges him into the gritty world of crime boss Parson Manor, where corruption reigns supreme and where Gibby Manor is being trained to follow in his father's criminal footsteps.

Policewoman Peggy Ellen has secret - by night, she's a caped vigilante, known as The Queen of Spades. Her city is crippled with crime, thanks to the notorious gang, The House of Games. When police Lieutenant Jack Malone, who's also Peggy's lover, gets too close to uncovering the truth behind this band of criminals, it's up to The Queen of Spades to rescue him. Can she save him in time, or will her rescue plans fold like a house of cards?

冬也に一目惚れした香奈子は、恋の行方を知りたくて禁断の占いに手を出してしまう。鏡の前に蝋燭を並べ、向こうを見ると――子どもの頃、誰もが覗き込んだ異界への扉を、青春ミステリの旗手が鮮やかに描く。

Dans quelques jours, ça fera dix ans qu'Émilien « Milou » Milkovitch a été condamné pour avoir étranglé un jeune couple.

Still grieving the death of his wife, Marlo, and wasting away in a retirement forced upon him under a cloud of suspicion, Raymond “Mack” Mackey finds a new job with the Chandler Illinois Police Department. It might be reason for hope. Or not. Mack can’t seem his to shake his reputation for corruption. Undeserved, sure, but most of his colleagues want to see him locked up or dead anyway. A welcome diversion shows up in the form of Nadia King, an alluring single mother who asks Mack to recover a missing heirloom: an antique Russian nesting doll that belongs to Nadia’s immigrant mother.

Hal Taylor just wants a stable life. A good life. The life he feels was taken from him unfairly. Instead, he's a hired goon for the local crime boss, and his hopes have been tucked away in a dresser drawer. A cakewalk job to secure a wealthy young woman for her father seems like a chance to make some cash...until Hal's luck runs true to form. Waking up on the floor of a hotel bathroom to the sounds of blaring sirens, he finds a body he doesn't recognize cooling in the tub, and from then on, he's on the run.

Grimly Eric John Stark slogged toward that ancient Martian city—with every step he cursed the talisman of Ban Cruach that flamed in his blood-stained belt. Behind him screamed the hordes of Ciaran, hungering for that magic jewel—ahead lay the dread abode of the Ice Creatures—at his side stalked the whispering specter of Ban Cruach, urging him on to a battle Stark knew he must lose!

やっとのことで就職が内定したあかねだが、ヲタ森からブラック企業の可能性を指摘されて不安になる。元”夢売り”の姫香はすっかりメンバーに馴染み、スポンサー企業の令嬢である翠も加わって…

Ken und Barbie, das brutale Serienkillerpaar aus Kanada – Ein weiterer schockierender True-Crime-Thriller von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Petra Mattfeldt und Axel Petermann, dem bekanntesten Profiler Deutschlands! Köln, Juni 2023: Es ist heiß. Die Sonne brennt. Die Flüsse befinden sich auf neuen Niedrigständen. Da wird eine einbetonierte, zerstückelte weibliche Leiche im Rhein gefunden. Sophie Kaiser, die ambitionierte Fallanalytikerin, die durch ihr Asperger-Syndrom Zusammenhänge anders bewertet als andere, ermittelt.

Il commissario Mariani è salito al Centro di rieducazione cardiovascolare per fare visita alla madre Emma. Come altre volte, fa due passi nella zona. Non sentendo abbaiare una cagna che di solito gli faceva festa, occhieggia attraverso la siepe e la vede insanguinata. Spinge il cancello ed entra. A terra c’è anche un uomo, Patrizio Debenedetti: è stato ucciso con un colpo di arma da fuoco. Le indagini sull’omicidio sono affidate al commissario Arnaldi, mentre Mariani viene inviato a Roma per un convegno.

Maisie Doss knew the weight of secrets all too well. Once a troublemaker in her small Kentucky town near Cincinnati, she struck a dangerous bargain to become a confidential informant for the police. But when betrayal led her to send a family member behind bars, the lines between right and wrong blurred. Unable to bear the weight of her actions, she fled into the secluded heart of Appalachia, praying her past wouldn't catch up.