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During the National High School Cultural Festival ceremony, Yoshiyuki Shimizu - the current Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and a literary giant - was fatally stabbed by a man who rushed out from backstage. The arrested suspect, 37-year-old Akatsuki Nagase, began publishing his memoirs in a weekly magazine following his arrest.

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.

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...

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.

Connie Regis never just passed through people's lives—she fed on them. Charming, transient, and untethered, she moved from coast to coast and continent to continent, leaving behind questions no one thought to ask until it was too late... until now. When Zoe Furbish learns that her father has died suddenly in Cape Town, South Africa, the story she's given feels wrong from the start. Her unease turns to alarm when Connie Regis, a woman she has never met steps forward, claiming to be her father's wife.

Newcrest has always believed its stability came from good leadership. It didn’t. It came from ordinary people quietly doing the right thing. When a series of escalating crises begin to hit the city—infrastructure failures, political pressure, financial irregularities, and decisions no one wants to own—the people inside City Hall discover how fragile public trust really is. Every choice now carries consequences, and every delay makes the next problem worse.

I denna fängslande deckare från 50-talets Sverige möter vi Ann, en skarp och självständig kriminalreporter som står inför ett vägskäl i livet. Pressad mellan sin traditionella mosters förväntningar och sin egen moderna livsstil, tvingas Ann omvärdera sin relation till den charmige men komplicerade Joachim. Men kärleksbekymren får snart ta ett steg tillbaka när en serie mystiska dödsfall skakar om den till synes idylliska landsbygden kring Vårbyhus. Med sin journalistiska skicklighet och skarpa intuition dras Ann in i en farlig härva av hemligheter, svartsjuka och oväntade allianser.

Nach einer ausgelassenen Party in einem einsam gelegenen Haus bei Bredforsen wird die erfolgreiche Anwältin Kristina Ludwig am frühen Morgen erschossen in ihrem Whirlpool gefunden. Den Vorabend hat sie mit drei langjährigen Freundinnen verbracht und eine von ihnen ist nun spurlos verschwunden. Oberkommissarin Anna Glad übernimmt die Ermittlungen. Schnell wird klar, dass hinter der Fassade von Freundschaft, Erfolg und sommerlicher Leichtigkeit etwas Dunkles lauert: alte Abhängigkeiten, zerstörerische Beziehungen und Wahrheiten, die seit Jahrzehnten verdrängt werden.

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...

In a bustling and class-divided Nigerian state, a strong-willed female detective is called to the mansion of a wealthy politician to investigate the disappearance of a house girl’s daughter. Olori’s four-year-old daughter, Frieda, has vanished. Working as a house girl for wealthy politician...

Ex-CIA operatives Adam and Ally Darby thought they are finally settling into married life when one tip changes everything. An informer exposes the true identity of The Leopard, a ruthless Russian crime boss with a growing human-trafficking empire that stretches from Tokyo to Manila and beyond. Supported by a covert team known as the Beartooth Institute working in the shadows, the Darbys follow a trail of disappearing victims and corrupt officials into one of the most dangerous criminal networks on the planet.

Brought to you by Penguin. THE NEXT GRIPPING MYSTERY FROM 'NEXT-GEN NORDIC STAR' (LA TIMES) AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, RAGNAR JONASSON As snow blankets Reykjavík and Christmas approaches, young detective Helgi is looking forward to a quiet holiday - until those plans are torn away in...

Nach ihrem ersten Fall in Husum hofft Kriminalkommissarin Sabine Kühn auf ein paar ruhige Tage in der Schweiz – und auf die Nähe zu dem italienischen Inspektor Daniele Molinari. Zurück in Nordfriesland gerät Sabine in Ermittlungen, die sich schnell als schwierig erweisen. Spuren verlaufen im Nichts, im Revier wird gemauert, Zeugen werden zum Schweigen gebracht – und je näher sie der Wahrheit kommt, desto gefährlicher wird es für sie und alle, die ihr etwas bedeuten.

Ontspoord is het eerste deel in een suspense-serie over ex-detective Thomas Ravnsholdt, ook wel Ravn genoemd, die als privé-detective wordt ingehuurd om vermiste personen op te sporen. Ravn wordt uit zijn verdriet gerukt wanneer een goede vriend hem om hulp vraagt bij het vinden van een jong meisje dat een paar jaar eerder spoorloos is verdwenen. Het onderzoek dwingt Ravn om terug te gaan naar zijn oude werkplek en dus ook naar de Kopenhaagse onderwereld. Hier wijst alles erop dat het meisje is verkocht aan de grote crimineel Slavros, die een netwerk van bordelen in Europa heeft.

Ravn raakt opnieuw betrokken bij een verdwijningszaak, maar dit keer leiden de aanwijzingen hem naar Berlijn. Een eenzame man heeft geld verduisterd om naar een geheimzinnige bijeenkomst in Berlijn te kunnen reizen, waarna hij spoorloos verdwijnt. Ravn raakt bij de zoektocht betrokken via de zus van de man, Louise. Verschillende alleenstaande mannen zijn op mysterieuze wijze verdwenen in Berlijn, en de zaak lijkt terug te gaan tot de Stasi-tijd. Ravn brengt zichzelf in groot gevaar als hij het mysterie probeert op te lossen door de gruwelen uit het verleden tot leven te brengen.

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.

Brought to you by Penguin. The global bestseller featuring symbologist Robert Langdon, from the author of THE DA VINCI CODE Dan Brown. Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of an astonishing...

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?

Brought to you by Penguin. THEIR MISSION IS MURDER. HIS IS REVENGE. A propulsive new thriller from the bestselling author of BULLET TRAIN. Suzuki is just an ordinary man until his wife is murdered. When he discovers the criminal gang responsible he leaves behind his life as a maths teacher and...

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...

Detective Kyochiro Kaga of the Tokyo Police Department has just been transferred to a new precinct in the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo. Newly arrived, but with a great deal of experience, Kaga is promptly assigned to the team investigating the murder of a woman. But the more he investigates, the greater number of potential suspects emerges. It isn’t long before it seems nearly all the people living and working in the business district of Nihonbashi have a motive for murder.  

Brought to you by Penguin. The bestselling continuation of global phenomenon THE DA VINCI CODE, featuring symbologist Robert Langdon. The Capitol Building, Washington DC: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon believes he is here to give a lecture. He is wrong. Within minutes of his arrival, a...

Ethan Hawke (Training Day) stars in this dark, thrilling, character-driven crime drama. This cinematic Audible Original is presented in eight episodes with intense, wall-to-wall sound design and grim and gritty performances at a fever-pitch.

As they do every year, a small group of acquaintances pay a visit to the remote castle-like Water Mill House, home to the reclusive Fujinuma Kiichi, son of a famous artist, who has lived his life behind a rubber mask ever since a disfiguring car accident. This year, however, the visit is disrupted by an impossible disappearance, the theft of a painting, and a series of baffling murders. The brilliant Kiyoshi Shimada arrives to investigate.

*********************** The first book in the Millennium series featuring Lisbeth Salander - the global publishing phenomenon. Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her...

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...

There, in the district of Lan-fang, separated from the vast Tartar steppes of Central Asia by only a boundary river, Judge Dee faces and solves one of the most frightening cases of his long career. Outside the east city gate, on a wooded hill, stood a centuries-old Buddhist temple. It was there that the phantom stalked; and there also a series of brutal murders were committed. Judge Dee's inquiry into them is complicated by a mysterious dying message from a young girl and by the theft of a large sum in gold from an imperial treasurer.

It's New Year's Eve of 1999 when four teenagers working late are attacked at a Blockbuster video store in New Jersey. Only one inexplicably survives. Police quickly identify a suspect, the boyfriend of one of the victims, who flees and is never seen again. Fifteen years later, four more teenagers are attacked at an ice cream store in the same town, and again only one makes it out alive. In the aftermath of the latest crime, three lives intersect: the lone survivor of the Blockbuster massacre, the brother of the fugitive accused and FBI agent Sarah Keller.

This explosive novel of the drug trade takes you deep inside a world riddled with corruption, betrayal, and bloody revenge. From the streets of New York City to Mexico City and Tijuana to the jungles of Central America, this is the war on drugs like you've never seen it.

Yasuko lives a quiet life, working in a Tokyo bento shop, a good mother to her only child. But when her ex-husband appears at her door without warning one day, her comfortable world is shattered. When Detective Kusanagi of the Tokyo Police tries to piece together the events of that day, he finds himself confronted by the most puzzling, mysterious circumstances he has ever investigated. Nothing quite makes sense, and it will take a genius to understand the genius behind this particular crime.

From the New York Times bestselling author A chance encounter with a small-time crook sends Stone Barrington straight into the heart of New York's mafia underworld...

In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her 60s, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people; she’s unconventional, believing in the stars; and she is fond of the poetry of William Blake, from whose work the title of the book is taken. When members of a local hunting club are found murdered, Duszejko becomes involved in the investigation.

The suicide of an elderly German Jew explodes into revelation after revelation: of a Mafia-like organization called Odessa ...of a real-life fugitive known as the "Butcher of Riga"..of a young German journalist tumed obsessed avenger.......and, ultimately, of brilliant, ruthless...

In this new addition to Seishi Yokomizo's bestselling Kosuke Kindaichi Mysteries, scruffy sleuth Kindaichi is called to the home of the aristocratic Furugami family, where in the midst of the Musashino countryside and enclosed on all sides by a long earthen wall, a gruesome scandal is brewing...

On the Nihonbashi Bridge in Tokyo stands the statue of a mythic beast - a kirin. One evening a man staggers onto the bridge and collapses beneath the winged creature. The patrolman on watch goes to rouse the man, who he presumes to be drunk - only to discover that the man had been stabbed in the chest. He is dead. Meanwhile, a young man named Yashima is injured in a car accident nearby while trying to flee from the police. Found on him is the wallet of the murdered man.

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.

In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement over the forthcoming wedding of a son of the grand Ichiyanagi family. But amid the gossip over the approaching festivities, there is also a worrying rumour - it seems a sinister masked man has been asking questions about the Ichiyanagis around the village. Then, on the night of the wedding, the Ichiyanagi family are woken by a terrible scream, followed by the sound of eerie music - death has come to Okamura, leaving no trace but a bloody samurai sword, thrust into the pristine snow outside the house.