検索キーワード： 国際ミステリー・犯罪

When a supposedly cursed traditional Japanese instrument arrives at the British School of Kyoto, strange things start to happen. A phantom geisha haunts the halls, a star student vanishes, and cryptic symbols appear across the campus.

As Paris rediscovers its joie de vivre, Tabitha Knight, recently arrived from Detroit for an extended stay with her French grandfather, is on her own journey of discovery. Thanks to her neighbor and friend Julia Child, another ex-pat who's fallen head over heels for Paris, Tabitha is learning how to cook for her Grandpere and Oncle Rafe and Tabitha's sojourn is proving thoroughly delightful. That is, until the cold December day they return to Julia's building and learn that a body has been found in the cellar.

Jack Sigler, call sign King, and the elite Chess Team operatives have been relentlessly hunting for their abducted former leader, Tom Duncan. An urgent call from George Pierce's shadowy Cerberus Group catapults them to the treacherous Southern Ocean, where they clash with ferocious prehistoric nightmares in a fight for survival.

Duy, Phong, Minh, and Edmond have been best friends since childhood. Now, as young men running their families' formidable businesses, they make up Saigon's most powerful group of friends in 1928 Vietnam's elite society. Until one of them is murdered. In a lavish mansion on a hill in Dalat, all four men have gathered for an evening of indulgence, but one of them won't survive the night.

Helen Appleby just wants a quiet life. Recently released from prison for the manslaughter of her partner, she's trying to forget her past mistakes—all of them—to rebuild her life and move on. When she decides to open a bookshop, she’s certain this is the perfect new start. Here, amongst the quiet shelves of her shop and between the covers of her books, she can hide away from the real world and begin again. But the past can never stay hidden…

An illegal Muslim immigrant arrives in Hamburg with a traumatic past and the key to a fortune held in a private bank. He says his name is Issa. To the idealistic young human rights lawyer Annabel, determined to save him from deportation, he is a worthy cause. To the intelligence services of Britain, Germany and America, however, he is a potential jihadist - and a pawn between them as they seek to make a kill in the war on terror.

Dan Armstrong and the new love of his life, Anna, are heading to a hotel deep in the gorgeous Tuscan countryside for a long weekend, looking forward to some time away from the stresses of their day jobs. With the beautiful and historic city of Siena just around the corner, it promises to be relaxing and enjoyable. What could possibly go wrong? But when a mutilated body is discovered in the hotel grounds Dan is called in to help with the investigation. But who or what could have been responsible for such a vicious attack? Was it the work of wild animals, or is there a brutal murderer at large?

Nine months ago, Sadie Greene shocked friends and family by ditching her sensible office job in the Chicago suburbs and buying a sight-unseen French bicycling tour company, Oui Cycle. Now she’s living the unconventional life of her dreams in the gorgeous village of Sans-Souci-sur-Mer. Sans souci means carefree, but Sadie feels enough pressure to burst a tire when hometown friends arrive for a tour, including her former boss, Dom Appleton. Sadie is determined to show them the wonders of France and cycling—and to prove she made the right move.

When Dan Armstrong is asked to provide security at a private villa on the outskirts of Pisa, he’s pretty sure it will be an easy job. Villa Gregory is remote; the gathered guests are rich – what could possibly go wrong? Inside the high walls of the palatial villa, Dan discovers the gathered guests are some of the most powerful tycoons in the media world, with plans for world domination. With so much at stake, Dan redoubles his efforts to keep everyone safe. But when one of the group is found murdered, Dan’s heart sinks – especially considering Anna’s own daughter is in the frame.

Un appel au cœur de la nuit. Des gyrophares qui tournoient dans l'obscurité. Une vieille bâtisse à l'abandon. Quand la commandant Virginie Sevran arrive sur les lieux, les techniciens de l'identité judiciaire sont déjà à l'œuvre à l'intérieur. Ils font face à l'insoutenable. À la noirceur de l'âme humaine. Au cadavre d'une gamine dissimulé derrière une cloison que le nouveau propriétaire tentait d'abattre.

It’s April 2020 and Edinburgh is in lockdown, but that doesn’t mean crime takes a holiday. It would seem like a strange time for a cold case to go hot—the streets all but empty, an hour’s outdoor exercise the maximum allowed—but when a source at the National Library contacts DCI Karen Pirie’s team about documents in the archive of a recently deceased crime novelist, it seems it’s game on again. What unspools is a twisted game of betrayal and revenge, but no one quite expects how many twists it will turn out to have.

Robert Bellamy, an American naval intelligence officer, is called in on a special undercover assignment by the NSA: investigate the mysterious crash of an experimental meteorological balloon in the Swiss Alps and locate the ten known witnesses to the incident. As he crisscrosses the world searching for clues, Bellamy uncovers a murderous governmental plot and a powerful international cabal of corporate CEOs. After narrowly escaping death, he goes into hiding, hunted by an unknown lethal force.

Being recently promoted to full-time member at the Home Office was a highlight for Lord Edgar Cortland, but it was quickly overshadowed by a series of missions that first sent Lord Blakely off to America after a kidnapping, then Lord Davenport to identify the imposter that was now the spy, B. Edgar himself has been tasked with investigating the Twisted Rose Shipping Company as well as locating the Duke of Greaves’s errant daughter. After situating a recently returned school friend into a position at the Home Office, both young lords head out.

Sometimes it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. Siberia in April isn't in any tourist guidebook. But that is where Trapp finds himself. It's cold, dark, and the vodka tastes like gasoline. After brawling with half a dozen corrupt Russian cops, he's taken to the infamous penal colony marked on maps as IK-29, but known to inmates as the Black Eagle. The guards are brutes, their prisoners little better than animals. It's hell on earth.

In the mountains of Bhutan, a dark secret has been concealed from the rest of the world. Deep in the underbelly of an ancient, abandoned monastery, a collection of sinister individuals slave away at their workstations in an attempt to concoct a virus. A terrifying pathogen. The Chimera. Colt Griffin, an ambitious special forces operative, is contacted by a mysterious organisation known as Black Force. Alone in Bhutan, soul searching in the Paro Valley before diving into a career in government black operations, Colt has no idea what hell awaits him in the mountains.

On a snowy mountainside in the Peruvian Andes, a prisoner withers in his cell. Previously a government agent for a black operations division of the U.S. military, Sam Rollins must accept the fact that his days are numbered. He botched a mission concerning a tribe of Asháninka natives, and now he must pay the price with a lifetime of imprisonment. His government doesn’t officially recognise his actions, and his life is now forfeit.

Nursing the mother of all hangovers, Will Slater skydives into the Taklamakan Desert in western China under cover of darkness. He’s searching for three American college dropouts, believed to have been kidnapped by the East Turkestan Islamic Movement. And then, all at once, he finds himself in a no-holds-barred war with both the jihadists and China’s secret police. Because the hostages are lined up for the most painful demise imaginable, and Slater sure as hell isn’t going to let that happen.

Lagos, Nigeria. A city with a population pushing twenty million, but government black ops agent James Xu is only interested in one man. In a rundown seaside bar damp with humidity he confronts Jimmy Neak, a lowly deckhand set to make a voyage on an international freighter across the Gulf of Guinea in a few short hours. Time is of the essence; U.S. military intelligence fears the Cambodian American has been radicalised in the aftermath of his brother’s violent death. They task Xu with finding out why.

Halloween nat får Maja et uhyggeligt opkald på børnetelefonens nattelinje, hvor hun arbejder som frivillig ved siden af sit job som skolelærer. Samme nat henter Rolando Benito sit barnebarn Marianna fra en halloweenfest i Hornslet. Da hun senere hører om en tragedie i Skødstrup, hvor direktøren for en restaurationskæde er blevet brutalt myrdet halloween nat sammen med sin hustru og lille datter, og hans ældste datter på ti år og sønnen på seks år er forsvundet, får hun mistanke om, at opkaldet har noget med sagen at gøre.

La carrera delictiva de Sonny Lofthus empezó al morir su padre, un policía corrupto. Aparcó entonces su brillante porvenir para abrazar el crimen organizado. El precio que cobra ahora por cumplir condena en silencio es el acceso a mercancías que entran en la prisión de alta seguridad de Staten. Lleva media vida en la cárcel y los reclusos también ven en él a una figura sanadora, es su más íntimo confesor. Hay montada una formidable espiral de mentiras y corrupción en torno a Sonny que lo mantiene narcotizado.