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A decade ago, Tokyo Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga went to collect the ashes of his recently deceased mother. Years before, she ran away from her husband and son without explanation or any further contact, leaving her estranged son with many unanswered questions. Now in Tokyo, Michiko Oshitani is found dead many miles from home. Strangled to death, left in the bare apartment rented under a false name by a man who has disappeared without a trace. Oshitani lived far away in Sendai, with no known connection to Tokyo—and neither her family nor friends have any idea why she would have gone there.

Yasuko Hanaoka is a divorced, single mother who thought she had finally escaped her abusive ex-husband Togashi. When he shows up one day to extort money from her, threatening both her and her teenaged daughter Misato, the situation quickly escalates into violence and Togashi ends up dead on her apartment floor.

In Poirot Investigates, Agatha Christie presents eleven riveting short stories featuring the famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. From high-stakes jewel thefts to baffling murders, Poirot faces a variety of complex and puzzling cases that challenge his remarkable intellect and investigative prowess. In these tales, Poirot must unravel a web of deception involving missing persons, secret identities, and shocking crimes, using his keen observation and logical deductions to reveal the truth.

A New York Times bestselling author—and “a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wiseman” (New York Times Book Review)—delivers a surreal and elaborate quest that takes readers from Tokyo to the remote mountains of northern Japan, where the unnamed protagonist has a surprising...

Richard Hannay is an ordinary man caught in extraordinary circumstances. A bored expatriate returning to London, he finds his life upended when a mysterious American stumbles into his flat with a terrifying secret—a secret so dangerous that men are willing to kill for it. When the man is murdered, Hannay becomes the prime suspect, forcing him to flee for his life. Pursued by both the police and a shadowy network of spies, he races across the rugged landscapes of Scotland, deciphering cryptic clues and dodging deadly enemies.

Sommer, Sonne, Gambas – so hat sich Katze Frau Merkel ihre dreimonatige Mallorca-Auszeit mit Kommissar Steinböck vorgestellt. Doch kaum auf der Insel, entdeckt sie im Nachbar-Bungalow einen Münchner YouTuber mit einer Kugel im Kopf. Comisario Ferrer aus Palma bittet Steinböck um Amtshilfe. Seine Spuren führen ihn vom Villenviertel bis in den Yachthafen von Palma. Als dort eine weitere Leiche aus dem Hafenbecken gefischt wird, ist es mit der Idylle endgültig vorbei – adiós Erholung, denn dieser Urlaub wird mörderisch spannend! Und Frau Merkel? Weiß mal wieder alles besser …

Spätsommer in Südschweden: Eine junge Frau wird vor dem Astrid-Lindgren-Freizeitpark in Vimmerby tot aufgefunden. Wer hat die hübsche und bei allen beliebte Imbissbesitzerin kaltblütig mit einem Pfeil erschossen? Der Polizeichef der Stadt, Marten Henriksson, nimmt zusammen mit seiner Kollegin und Ex-Frau Lena Wallin die Ermittlungen auf. Eine erste Spur führt zum Klärwerk, mit dessen Geschäftsführung die Tote seit Wochen in einem erbitterten Streit lag. Doch reicht das als Mordmotiv?

A beautiful Russian sleeper agent living in Lompoc, California, contacts MI6. She wants to defect with all her secrets, but only if James Flynn brings her in from the cold. There's just one hitch—Flynn doesn't work for MI6. He's a psychiatric patient convinced he's an international super spy.

Jake Sawyer is in limbo. Facing an enquiry into his capture of a vicious killer, he turns private detective, and takes the seemingly hopeless case of a teenage boy, missing for seven years. When a young woman podcaster investigating the boy’s disappearance also goes missing, Sawyer is drawn into the secretive world of urban exploration. But then an adult male body is found, showing signs of extreme torture, and the murder reminds Sawyer of an unsolved case from his early career. He connects the past with the present, uncovering a terrible link which could hold the key to the disappearances.

Sanna bleibt vorerst im Norden Finnlands – wenn auch nur temporär, wie sie immer wieder betont. Sie genießt die atemberaubende Natur mit ihrer verwunschenen Tundra, tiefblauen Seen und den weiten Kiefernwäldern. Perfekt, um von ihrem Großstadtleben zu entspannen – wenn da nicht der tote Fischer wäre, über den sie in ihrem kleinen Wochenendhaus stolpert. Wäre sein Tod an sich nicht schon schrecklich genug, scheint niemand den Mann zu kennen.

From the author of The Mysterious Case of The Missing Crime Writer comes the next mystery featuring detective Helgi Reykdal. When Bergþóra Úlfsdóttir, Helgi’s ex-girlfriend, is found dead in her home just before Christmas, Helgi is brought onto the case—but this time, he’s a suspect of...

A hugely enjoyable, must-listen murder mystery sure to appeal to fans of Elly Griffiths, Anthony Horowitz, and Agatha Christie, with one of the best and most satisfying conclusions you'll ever hear. A classic in Japan, available in English for the first time.

While running in Central Park, New York Times science writer Damon Ellis crashes—literally—into a story that just might resurrect his career…and change the course of human history. On the face of it, it seems absurd—a small biotech company in Boston called Calypso that claims to have cracked the secret of eternal youth. Surely a hoax. Or is it?

Included as a Spotify ""Best Mystery & Thriller of the Year So Far"" “Uketsu is a disrupter, the master of quiet horror.”—Janice Hallett, internationally bestselling author of The Appeal “Delightfully macabre and fiendishly clever. Seemingly unconnected stories tie themselves into a...

The Adventure of the Seven Christmas Cards – A Sherlock Holmes Christmas Story. As the year comes to a close, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson must set out through snow laden London to investigate the theft of a priceless clock and the receipt of seven macabre Christmas cards. Will they solve...

Once a key operative in secret Israeli-intelligence missions, Gabriel Allon is on the run from his past, assuming a quiet life as a meticulous restorer of priceless works of art. But now he is being called back into the game. The agent with whom he is teamed hides behind her own beautiful...

The best-selling author of Enigma and Fatherland turns to today's Vatican in a ripped-from-the-headlines novel, and gives us his most ambitious, page-turning thriller yet--where the power of God is nearly equaled by the ambition of men. The pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine...

Yoshitaka, who was about to leave his marriage and his wife, is poisoned by arsenic-laced coffee and dies. His wife, Ayane, is the logical suspect—except that she was hundreds of miles away when he was murdered. The lead detective, Tokyo Police Detective Kusanagi, is immediately smitten with her and refuses to believe that she could have had anything to do with the crime. His assistant, Kaoru Utsumi, however, is convinced Ayane is guilty. While Utsumi's instincts tell her one thing, the facts of the case are another matter.

Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver. His body is found in his office, a locked room, within his locked house, by his wife and his best friend, both of whom have rock solid...

Nathan Tyler is an unassuming professor at a middling American university with a rather obscure specialty in mathematics—in short, a nobody from nowhere. So why is the White House calling? Summoned to Washington, DC, for a top-secret briefing, Nathan discovers that he’s the key to a massive foreign intelligence breakthrough. Reading between the lines of a cryptic series of equations, he could open a door straight into the heart of the Kremlin and change the global balance of power forever.