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George D. Shuman er med "Fortabte piger" tilbage med en ny vedkommende, intens og åndeløst spændende krimi om efterforskningskonsulenten Sherry Moore - en blind kvinde med evnen til, når hun rører ved et ligs hånd, at se de sidste sekunder i den dødes liv.

Polske Aleksandra og amerikanske Jill er blandt ofrene for menneskehandlere. Aleksandra er politibetjent, og bliver tilfældigt, mens hun er i gang med en efterforskning, fanget på det fragtskib i Gdansk som fragter kvinder tværs over Atlanten til Haiti. Jill er krydstogtsgæst og blot besøgende på Haiti for en dag.

Når man prøver at starte på en frisk, skal man passe på at man ikke ender i et mareridt.

Familien Maguire - Lorcan, Naiyana og deres lille søn - flytter fra Perth i Australien til Kallayee, en forladt mineby i Great Victoria Desert, for at starte på en frisk, fri af deres brogede fortid.

Byen virker som det perfekte tilflugtssted: fredelig, stille, afsidesliggende. Et sted, hvor de ikke vil blive fundet. Men livet i Kallayee er ikke så enkelt, som de håbede på. Der er lyde fra jorden, mystiske skygger og spor i støvet, som om byen er ved at komme til live igen.

Working with a joint multi-law enforcement task force, Detective Pat O'Connor infiltrated a Ukrainian crime family headed by Dmitry Andruko. O'Connor and his control, Detective Paul Eiselmann were the linchpins in the guilty verdict.

ES WIRD NICHT DUNKEL BLEIBEN ÜBER DENEN, DIE IN ANGST SIND! Eine schwere Explosion zerreißt die nächtliche Stille am Hamburger Fischmarkt. Mit lautem Knall versinkt die U-434 auf dem Elbgrund, ein Mann stirbt. Ein terroristischer Anschlag? Dem geht der neue dänische Leiter der Mordkommission auf den Grund, während sich Kommissarin Sandra Holz nach ihrem Reha-Aufenthalt in der Ermittlungsgruppe „Ungeklärte Kriminalfälle“ wiederfindet. Ein bekannter Name weckt ihre Aufmerksamkeit, und plötzlich befindet sich die ehemalige Kommissarin wieder mittendrin. In einem Fall, der nicht nur den „Neuen“ vor Rätsel stellt, sondern ihr eigenes Leben bedroht. Nur, das ahnen beide Ermittler noch nicht!

Sixteen-year-old Dita Golian is destined to be a killer. But she doesn’t know it. Then one day, on her way to school, she is kidnapped. Her life changes forever and all the lies she had been told growing up are revealed.

Fjärde boken om Oregonarkiven. År 1896 går ett fartyg under i en storm utanför Namibia. Ombord finns en ovärderlig samling stulna diamanter som nu, över hundra år senare, ligger begravd under sanden på stranden. Juan Cabrillo och besättningen på fartyget Oregon befinner sig på Kongofloden när de får en SOS-signal.

Durch ein lapidares Instagram-Posting beendet Profi-Fußballspieler Janus Blaubart die toxische Beziehung mit Influencerin Louisa Starenberg. Kurz darauf ist sie tot. Louisas Nachbarin, die Bad Ischler Ärztin Marie Giesinger, glaubt als Einzige nicht an einen Zufall und bittet ihren Ex-Freund, den Linzer LKA-Ermittler Benedikt Achleitner, nachzubohren. Tatsächlich stößt der bald auf Ungereimtheiten. Und eine zweite Tote. Statt Urlaub im Salzkammergut macht Ben nun Jagd auf ein raffiniertes Verbrechen, das offiziell nie eines war.

Jonathan Freedland har tidligere skrevet under forfatter-dæknavnet SAM BOURNE. En alfons findes død i et barsk New Yorker-kvarter. En højreekstremist bliver skudt uden for Seattle. En 18-årig hacker myrdes på vej hjem fra Indien. Én ting er fælles for disse tre ofre: Alle havde på et eller andet tidspunkt i deres skæve og spildte liv udført noget exeptionelt godt. En eller anden myrder altså gode mennesker.

During an international environmental conference in Los Angeles, 43 people die horribly and mysteriously on a local freeway by what initially appears to be a poison-gas attack. Suspecting environmental terrorists or political extremists, government agencies remain baffled until a visiting scientist, Jake Prescott, becomes involved. With the help of friends and colleagues, Jake attempts to unravel the puzzle, only to be frustrated, blocked, and hunted down by government agents and others who would prefer to have the event remain closed.

La oscuridad otoñal ha caído sobre la costa sueca. En el albergue de la isla de Hållö se aloja Karl Ström, analista de la policía, que ha ido a pasar unos días allí para poder terminar un encargo sin que le molesten. Sin embargo, sus planes se ven frustrados cuando encuentra a una mujer muerta en las frías aguas de la famosa ensenada de Mármol. La fallecida resulta ser Tricia Andersen, hija del embajador estadounidense en Suecia, por lo que el interés mediático internacional sobre la investigación es enorme.

Some months back Biff’s father went to India to legally open up some gold mines that had been absorbed by the India Republic. The setting for same was in exotic and mystical segments of India, with much action to be in and around the vicinity of the Himalayas. At first it was more of a sight-seeing tour than adventure with Biff accompanied by two friends from earlier times … Kamuka, met at the headwaters of the Amazon River in Brazil, and Likake (“Lee”) Mahenili of Hawaii. They headed out by sea and still had one more night to spend on shipboard as they reached Calcutta.

Bei der Generalprobe für den Auftritt eines bekannten norddeutschen Kammerchors in Dänemark wird die Solosopranistin vermisst und bleibt verschwunden. Zwei Wochen später entdecken Urlauber ihre Leiche. Die gemeinsamen Ermittlungen von deutscher und dänischer Kripo ergeben, dass mehrere Personen ein Mordmotiv gehabt haben, nicht zuletzt auch der Ehemann des Opfers. Kira Lund bricht einen Urlaubs-Segeltörn ab, um für ihren Sender über den Fall zu berichten. Wenig später begeht ein Sänger des Kammerchors Suizid, und es wird klar, dass die tote Sopranistin ein dunkles Geheimnis gehütet hat.

A young child is snatched in broad daylight outside his nursery. Nobody in charge sees a thing, but the other children say a woman is the culprit. Detective Mina Dabiri calls on her close friend Vincent to untangle the puzzle that surrounds the kidnapped boy. As he finds a link between the boy and other others who have gone missing, it becomes clear that time is running out for everyone involved.

Charlotte is a British expatriate who has recently settled in the nation’s capital with her second husband, a man who looks intriguingly like Clark Gable, but her enviable dinner parties and soirées aren’t the only things she is planning. Meanwhile, Charlie Leigh-Hunt has been posted to Washington as a replacement for Guy Burgess, last seen disappearing around the corner and into the Soviet Union. Charlie is soon shocked to cross paths with Charlotte, an old flame of his, who, thanks to all her gossipy parties, has a packed pocketbook full of secrets she is eager to share.

Alan Duncan met Maddy Mills at a party. They fell in love and moved in together. What led to Alan’s murder as he went on his weekly run four years later? In Wiltshire, England, the Crime Review Team was formed to investigate cold cases. Headed by Gus Freeman, the team has several successful cold-case investigations behind them. Gus Freeman suspects that both Alan and Maddy were hiding from someone. The facts of Alan’s murder lead to an intriguing and complex cold case that will take all of Gus’s skills to unravel.

Copenhagen author Hannah is the darling of the literary community and her novels have achieved massive critical acclaim. But nobody actually reads them, and frustrated by writer's block, Hannah has the feeling that she's doing something wrong. When she expresses her contempt for genre fiction, Hanna is publicly challenged to write a crime novel in 30 days. Scared that she will lose face, she accepts, and her editor sends her to Húsafjöður; a quiet, tight-knit village in Iceland, filled with colourful local characters - for inspiration.

1996. Northern Israel. Lola leaves an unhappy home life in England for the fabled utopian life of a kibbutz. But this heavily guarded farming community on the Arab-Israeli border isn't the idyll it seems, and tensions are festering. Hundreds of miles away, in the Jerusalem offices of the International Tribune newspaper, all eyes are on Israel's response to a spate of rocket attacks from Lebanon - until cub reporter Jonny Murphy gets a tip from a mysterious source that sends him straight into the danger zone.

Summer, 1943. Daniel Berkåk works as a courier for the Press and Military Office in Stockholm. On his last cross-border mission to Norway, he carries a rucksack full of coded documents and newspapers, but before he has a chance to deliver anything he is shot and killed and the contents of his rucksack are missing. The Norwegian government, currently exiled in London, wants to know what happened, and the job goes to writer Jomar Kraby, whose first suspect is a Norwegian refugee living in Sweden, whose past that is as horrifying as the events still to come.

Shane Collins, a world-weary CIA spy, is ready to come in from the cold. Stationed in Bahrain off the coast of Saudi Arabia for his final tour, he has little use for his mission—uncovering Iranian support for the insurgency against the monarchy. Then Collins meets Almaisa, a beautiful and enigmatic artist, and his eyes are opened to a side of Bahrain most expats never experience, to questions he never thought to ask.

Edinburgh, 1869: Modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson is adjusting to her new life in Victorian Scotland. Her employers know she’s not housemaid Catriona Mitchell—even though Mallory is in Catriona’s body—and Mallory is now officially an undertaker’s assistant. Dr. Duncan Gray moonlights as a medical examiner, and their latest case hits close to home. Men are dropping dead from a powerful poison, and all signs point to the grieving widows… the latest of which is Gray’s oldest sister. Poison is said to be a woman’s weapon, though Mallory has to wonder if it’s as simple as that.