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Per non turbare la tregua con la moglie Francesca, il commissario Antonio Mariani si sforza di rispettare orari “da impiegato”. Inoltre deve partecipare alle prove della figlia Manu, che si prepara per una recita scolastica. Così mette da parte ogni incertezza riguardo alla morte di una donna caduta dal terrazzo di una clinica: poco gli importa che sia stato un incidente o un suicidio.

Ny serie av författaren till Roland Benito-böckerna! Efter ett bråk med sin storebror går sjuåriga Lilly Danielsen ut med familjens hund. Men hennes mamma blir orolig när hon inte kommer hem som hon lovat. Håller hon sig borta för att hon är arg och ledsen, eller har det hänt någonting? Amerikanska polisinspektören Mason Teilmann har ett betydligt lugnare jobb på polisstationen i Västjylland än när han utredde mord i sin hemstad New Orleans. Men han hemsöks av sitt förflutna, trots att hans danska fru hjälper honom så gott hon kan.

Das Nationale Zentrum für Cyberkriminalität von Dänemark macht eine grausame Entdeckung: ein lokaler Pädophilenhandel, der im Dark Web Kinder auf die schlimmste Weise ausbeutet, die man sich denken kann. Mordkommissar Mason Teilmann ermittelt und schlägt sich durch den Dschungel fürchterlicher Details und Hinweise. Alle Wege scheinen zu dem Serienmörder Gayson Lopez zu führen, besser bekannt als "Der Wolf“ – ein Name, der Mason seit seiner Zeit bei der Polizei von New Orleans verfolgt.

Willkommen bei Schwedens Dezernat für die wirklich hoffnungslosen Fälle! Eigentlich steht Kriminalinspektorin Leonore Asker – Tochter eines durchgeknallten Preppers und einer Überflieger-Rechtsanwältin – kurz vor der Beförderung: Die Leitung der Abteilung für Schwerverbrechen in Malmö ist ihr so gut wie sicher. Stattdessen wird sie noch während der Ermittlungen in einem spektakulären Entführungsfall in ein Dezernat versetzt, von dem sie noch nie gehört hat: Ihre neuen Kollegen, allesamt Außenseiter und Nerds, nennen es nur "Dezernat für hoffnungslose Fälle", denn hier landet, was bei der Polizei als unlösbar gilt.

When Óttar Karlsson, a wealthy and respected government official and businessman, is found murdered, after failing to turn up at his own surprise birthday party, the police are at a loss. It isn't until young police officer Sigurdís finds a well-hidden safe in his impersonal luxury apartment that clues start emerging. As Óttar's shady business dealings become clear, a second unexpected line of enquiry emerges, when Sigurdís finds a US phone number in the safe, along with papers showing regular money transfers to an American account.

Noviembre de 1942, el mundo arde en llamas y España, aún arrasada y en plena represión, es un nido de espías. Carlos Lombardi, de nuevo en Madrid, sobrevive como puede con su precaria agencia de detectives. No puede permitirse el lujo de rechazar ningún trabajo por lo que tiene que investigar y seguir a un misterioso viajante de comercio alemán. Nada puede apetecerle menos que volver a meter sus narices en los asuntos del Tercer Reich, pero...

When the body of an elderly woman is discovered propped against her bedroom door clutching her heart, locals are saddened but not surprised. But when the body of a man is discovered in the house, it falls to Freya Bloom and her team to investigate the suspicious deaths. However, piecing together the life of a woman who neighbours refer to as Mad Alice will not be an easy job, and if Freya is to solve the mystery she must question her own sense of reality.

Matt Connell, a formerly successful literary agent who’s been in prison for four years for a crime of passion—homicide by strangulation after learning his wife slept with a friend—receives an early release from Sing Sing to join an FBI undercover investigation of multiple murders in Manhattan. Killings continue to mount as Matt does his best to calm his “Ferrari brain”—a condition in which his mind accelerates wildly into negative thoughts and worst-case scenarios—even as he falls in love with a suspect, then discovers disturbing truths about his past and hers.

Marcus Kemp is a beat cop living a normal life in San Diego, California—until the day he makes a shocking discovery: a dead body in the trunk of a stolen car. Worse, the victim turns out to be the man who abused him as a child. Marcus instinctively wants to help the killer get away with murder and, disregarding his police oath, will stop at nothing to make it happen. With both his job and freedom in jeopardy, Marcus’s investigation leads him to an unexpected suspect, and he is soon faced with an impossible decision.

Island, am abgelegenen Fjord Hvalfjörður: An einem Winterabend klopft ein Nachbar am Haus der Familie Hvarf, die seit einer Woche nicht mehr gesehen wurde. Als niemand ihm öffnet, dringt er durch die Hintertür ins Haus ein, wo sich ihm ein grauenvoll blutiger Anblick bietet, Mutter und Töchter wurden mit einer Axt erschlagen. Polizist Týr, seine Kollegin Karó und die Gerichtsmedizinerin Iðunn werden an diesen Tatort gerufen, um das Verbrechen zu untersuchen.

In una torrida estate romana, un anziano cammina nel parco di villa Sciarra, nell’elegante quartiere di Monteverde. Un odore tremendo attira la sua attenzione. Vicino a una macchia di cespugli scopre, con terrore, una mano mozzata. Poco più in là, gli arti amputati di un uomo sono disposti sul terreno a disegnare una celebre formula fisica. Il brutale omicidio turba la quiete del quartiere, ma soprattutto sconvolge l’instabile equilibrio del commissario Ansaldi, che con il trasferimento nella capitale sperava di aver trovato una tregua agli orrori cui ha assistito nella sua lunga carriera in polizia.

Betty Foster is known as a socialist, wife, and ballerina. But no one knows the real Betty Foster. The story unfolds when her car is found one morning but Betty seems to be missing. A search begins as questions arise. Is Betty dead? Or is this just a game to her? With every truth comes another lie. At the heart of this mystery there is one big question that needs answered; Who is Betty Foster?

Brought to you by Penguin. When the body of an Australian backpacker is found in Spain, an online group of amateur true crime sleuths springs up around the world, attempting to solve the mystery of her death. Foremost on the message boards is Astria, a young Norwegian woman whose feverish...

Raven Man and Other Tales of Terror and Suspense is a collection of six disturbing stories, ranging from classic gothic horror to contemporary crime with a wicked twist.

In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a snowy night at the end of winter, two detectives find a body on the roof of a skyscraper. It's 1922, and Americans are drinking in speakeasies, dancing to jazz, stepping quickly to the tempo of modern times. Beside the Mississippi, the ancient city of Cahokia lives on – a teeming industrial metropolis, containing every race and creed. Among them, peace holds. Just about.

Da mesi, il commissario Antonio Mariani è immobilizzato in ospedale a causa di una ferita e non sa quando riuscirà a guarire. È una notizia avuta dall’amico e medico legale Torrazzi a scuoterlo dal torpore: una giovane donna incinta è stata brutalmente assassinata e le modalità del delitto sono simili a quelle di un caso irrisolto di cui Mariani si era occupato anni prima.

Verano de 1942. Carlos Lombardi se ve obligado por la policía del Nuevo Estado a seguir el rastro de un joven desaparecido. Todavía en libertad provisional, con un inestable trabajo en la agencia de investigación Hermes, el exinspector republicano se enfrenta a un mundo rural para él desconocido en la Castilla profunda; un mundo de silencio y miedo marcado por la cruel represión durante los primeros meses de la reciente guerra civil.

O jovem Stan Carlisle, carroceiro de um circo de variedades, assiste, em um misto de repulsa e curiosidade, a uma das principais atrações do lugar: um alcoólatra, decadente e entregue à própria imundice, é apresentado como um selvagem, sendo objeto de espanto, nojo e escárnio da multidão voyeurística. Stan se pergunta como um homem pode se humilhar e perder a dignidade daquela forma. Ele jura que nunca, de forma alguma, essa desgraça poderia acontecer com ele.

When 84-year-old Ada Fenn was found dead, natural causes were easily assumed. But when the post-mortem revealed that her heart problems had nothing to do with it, a full-blown murder investigation was launched.

Thirty years after the shocking and unsolved 1986 assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme on a snowy street in Stockholm, an activist priest is found gruesomely sacrificed on the altar of a Swedish-American church in Minneapolis. The church’s immigrant janitor is also slain, execution style. The crime shocks Hennepin Island, the church’s time-forgotten riverfront neighborhood, where Span Lokken, a demoralized newspaperman, and his improbable partner, Maggie Lindberg, the murdered clergyman’s stylish young assistant, join forces to search for the killers.