International Mystery & Crime

Fine-art aficionado. Master of disguise. Jewelry expert. Historian. Gentleman. Burglar. Arsene Lupin is all of these and more....

Manabu Yukawa, the physicist known as "Detective Galileo," has traveled to Hariguara, a once-popular summer resort town that has fallen on hard times....

The Honjin Murders is Japan's greatest classic murder mystery, translated into English for the first time....

Physics professor Manabu Yukawa—Detective Galileo—returns in a new case of impossible murder, where instincts clash with facts and theory with reality....

Jo told him the phone call had been about a woman who wanted to have her husband declared dead. Smith thought for a moment and then said, 'Hmm. There must be a few million women in this country who feel like that'....

Kosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon Island bearing tragic news—the son of one of the island’s most important families has died, on a troop transport ship bringing him back home after the Second World War. But Kindaichi has not come merely as a messenger....

Benedict Cumberbatch plays the young, feisty, devastatingly acute Horace Rumpole in this collection of cracking cases, also starring Timothy West as the older Rumpole....

As revenge for marrying a man he didn't approve of, Véronique d'Hergemont's father kidnapped her baby and drowned with the baby at sea. Fourteen years later, Véronique is watching a film and spots her quite unique signature written on the side of a hut in the background of a scene....

From Mark Greaney, The New York Times best-selling author of Gunmetal Gray and a coauthor of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels, comes a high-stakes thriller featuring the world's most dangerous assassin: the Gray Man....

Connor Fitzgerald is the CIA’s most deadly assassin. On the brink of his retirement, he is sent to Russia for one last hit. Except this...

1893: Newlyweds Captain Jim Agnihotri and Diana Framji are settling into their new home in Boston, Massachusetts, having fled the strict social rules of British-ruled Bombay. It's a different life than what they left behind, but theirs is no ordinary marriage....

Award-winning author Nev March explores the vivid nineteenth-century world of the transatlantic voyage, one passenger’s secret at a time....

When a hunky personal trainer is found asphyxiated to death under an overloaded barbell at the posh Delhi Turf Club, on the eve of the club elections, it is first thought to be a freak accident. But soon, it becomes clear that one of the members of the DTC....

The complete BBC Radio adaptations of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency featuring Botswana's only female private detective agency, run by the irrepressible Precious Ramotswe....

Three BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations starring John Shrapnel as Morse and Robert Glenister as Lewis, plus a bonus reading by Colin Dexter of one of his short stories....

Temples are oceans of tranquillity, or so everyone thinks, till a series of murders threatens to destroy the carefully cultivated reputation of the royal family of Thiruvanathapuram. Riveting and fast-paced, In the Name of God is Ravi Subramanian's most gripping novel yet....

The complete BBC Radio collection bringing together two full-cast dramatisations of Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently novels....

Miss Marple, Agatha Christie’s deceptively mild spinster sleuth, is being treated to a few days holiday....

Matt is intrigued when his partner Liz brings home an old carpet bag she found dumped in the local library. It contains a pile of mysterious handwritten notes. Liz is convinced the bag belongs to Old Molly, a local woman who lives on the streets.

Intrigued by a legend concerning a hollow needle that supposedly holds a secret connected to the French monarchy–a secret that could potentially change the course of history–Lupin embarks on a quest to find the needle and unravel its mystery....

A must-listen for fans of police procedurals and international crime from Stefán Máni's Grimsson series.

Seventeen-year-old Mariana Villalobos's mystic gift creates a sensation in northern Mexico as hundreds of people undergo a personal religious epiphany. Even gangsters reject crime. Seeing revenues tumble in the drug trade, the Liones cartel issues a hit order on the girl.

Marcello Marcucci, spregiudicato amministratore dei beni del defunto conte Ariberto Rodolfo Grandi di Torre Pepoli, deve risarcire gli ingenti debiti di gioco contratti con un noto malavitoso. Ne va della sua vita. Così per salvarsi la pelle organizza una truffa ai danni degli eredi del conte. Tra i suoi complici Andrey Andreyevich Kozlowski, alias Vasilij Grigor'evic' Kovaschenko, un sadico ex maggiore delle forze speciali russe.

Black-ops legend Chris Wren has hunted the 'Pinocchios' for months, a hacker group stalking innocents on the dark Internet — including Wren's own kids. Now two anti-Pinocchio activists are dead in Detroit, and that's just the beginning.

Nachdem Commissario Montalbano eine Schussverletzung auskuriert hat, kann er es kaum erwarten, sein gewohntes Leben wieder aufzunehmen. Sein nächster Fall, die mysteriöse Entführung einer jungen Studentin, gibt ihm jedoch so manches Rätsel auf: Zu viele Details passen nicht zusammen, die Aussagen der Zeugen widersprechen sich. Doch das Netz der Verwirrungen, das hier ausgelegt wurde, scheint undurchdringbar und der stille Rächer geduldig genug, um in aller Ruhe abzuwarten, bis sein Opfer in die verhängnisvolle Falle tappt.

Los Tepames, Colima, una pequeña localidad abatida por el crimen, fue testigo del cruento asesinato de los hermanos Suárez; una de las familias más renombradas en dicha comunidad, quienes poseían valiosas tierras peleadas por todos. El encargado de investigar este asesinato es Abel Corona, cuyo profesionalismo lo lleva hasta tocar fondo y enfrentarse a todos los posibles implicados sin importar las consecuencias. "En el crimen de los hermanos Suárez los malos parecen buenos y los buenos, malos… los odios entre mortales son inmortales, sobre todo si se les alimenta desde la crianza".

When Peter receives a phone call at four a.m., it's the start of a dangerous whirlwind that threatens to drag him and his loved ones into its centre. The caller is Peter's closest friend, Lewis. Lewis has left his criminal past behind him, but when an associate of his goes missing from his home in upstate Wisconsin, dark secrets from their shared history may be about to come to light.

The competition for best whiskey in Ireland will be a publicity bonanza for the winner, and that means there are celebrities involved-like boxer Angus McConal and Megan's friend Niamh, an up-and-coming actress who's teamed up with Megan's uncle, the retired Sligo harbormaster. But rivalries and revelries turn out to be a bad blend when McConal dies at a whiskey tasting. Megan promised her girlfriend she'd quit her amateur sleuthing, but with Niamh and her uncle as suspects, she's over a barrel.

Edinburgh is mourning the recent death of Queen Elizabeth II when bookseller Delaney Nichols's boss comes to her with a most unusual assignment. An old friend of his, living in an estate in the village of Roslin, has found what could be a priceless relic on her property, and Delaney is tasked with investigating. Could Jolie possibly have an item of breathtaking Scottish historical significance in her possession? But when Delaney arrives at Jolie's estate, she is greeted by a legal team with a vested interest in the property.

Suzy and her daughter are on a bus, heading for London and safety. She knows her partner will be hunting them down. It's what he does for a living. He hunts people. Suzy's plans go awry when armed robbers storm the bus on an isolated road and rob the passengers. She loses her entire savings—money she desperately needs to build a new life for herself and her daughter, far away from her psychotic partner. With the sound of approaching sirens in the distance, Suzy makes a split-second decision.

When Army Ranger Garrett Knox left behind his military career to lead wilderness expeditions, he thought he’d escaped the life-threatening missions forever. But his quiet world in the Montana mountains explodes one evening, forcing him to accept a persistent government agent’s dangerous mission: Hunt down Knox’s former military buddy accused of treason and the murder of nearly their entire platoon.

Expat Zoe Barlow has settled well into her artist's life among the Lost Generation in 1920s Paris. When a too-tipsy guest at her weekly poker game breaks Zoe's favorite clock, she's off to a Montparnasse flea market to bargain with the vendor Laurette for a replacement. What Zoe didn't bargain for was the lost Chagall painting that's been used like a rag to wrap her purchases! Eager to learn whether Laurette has more Chagalls lying about like trash, Zoe sets off to track her down at her storage shed. With no Laurette in sight, Zoe snoops around and indeed finds several additional Chagalls.

Insel in blutroten Wellen. Blutspuren führen die Treppe zu Börje Bohmans Haus hinauf, dem einzig verbliebenen auf der neuen Radwegstrecke hinunter in den Ort. Doch der sturköpfige Besitzer, der dem Bauprojekt partout nicht weichen will, ist spurlos verschwunden. Aber was hat das Verschwinden eines alten Mannes mit dem Fund eines Babys in einem fremden Kinderwagen zu tun? Die hochschwangere Ermittlerin Anna Glad ahnt nicht, welch düstere Geheimnisse der Vergangenheit zutage zu kommen drohen und in welche Gefahr sie sich bei ihren Nachforschungen begibt.

Amid the rubble of post-war Tokyo, inside the grand Tsubaki house, a once-noble family is in mourning. The old viscount Tsubaki – a brooding, troubled composer – has been found dead. When the family gather for a divination to conjure the spirit of their departed patriarch, death visits the house once more, and the brilliant Kosuke Kindaichi is called in to investigate. But before he can get to the truth, Kindaichi must uncover the Tsubakis' most disturbing secrets, while the gruesome murders continue ...

Commissario Salvo Montalbano aus Sizilien ist der Star unter den Mordkommissaren der internationalen Krimiliteratur: ein liebenswerter Eigenbrötler mit einer Vorliebe für schöne Frauen und gutes Essen. Aber auch jemand, der "seine" Sizilianer kennt und mit südlicher Nonchalance und nüchternem Realitätssinn die vertracktesten Fälle löst - und deshalb schon bald das raffiniert inszenierte Spiel um den Fall Luparello durchschaut... Commissario Montalbano löst seinen ersten Fall. Nach dem Tod von Bodo Wolf wird der Sprecher Hans Jürgen Stockerl die Montalbano-Reihe fortführen.