Crime Thrillers

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

When Olivia Blake receives a note, she thinks someone is playing a prank...until she’s lured to an empty house. Then she witnesses a man burning to death and realizes the threat is serious. The problem is she doesn’t know who is after her or why....

If you love mysteries with action, suspense and a touch of humor and romance, then the David Wolf series is for you....

On a winding mountain road into the small town of Denton, Pennsylvania, Detective Josie Quinn finds the body of a local teenage girl, Dina Hale. The discovery of a second girl’s empty purse in the dirt nearby gives her a flicker of hope that one person, at least, made a lucky escape....

Simon and Vicky couldn’t seem more normal: a wealthy Chicago couple, he a respected law professor, she an advocate for domestic violence victims. A stable, if unexciting marriage. But one thing’s for sure: absolutely nothing is what it seems.

Barrington University is home of the Lords, a secret society that requires their blood in payment. They are above all—the most powerful men in the world. They devote their lives to violence in exchange for power. And during their senior year, they are offered a chosen one....

When DC Rawls decided to take some time off work for his mental health, he thought he would need just a few days. However, it's been months since that terrible night, and Rawls still hasn't returned to the Somerset Police Dept....

A motiveless murder. A corrupt politician. A judge on trial....

Reacher's one-day stopover becomes an open-ended quest...into the heart of darkness....

What family secrets are behind two disappearances? Seattle detective Tracy Crosswhite is determined to uncover the truth in the latest installment of New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni’s heart-stopping series....

Miksi olen näin voimaton? Hanna Wiklund pohtii, kun yrittää herätä. Herääminen ei kuitenkaan onnistu. Hän kuulee ympärillään...

Harry attacked his commanding officer and is suspended indefinitely, pending a psychiatric evaluation....

What begins as a routine journey on the luxurious Orient Express soon unfurls into Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery....

When Zoë Boehm agrees to track down the gang who knocked over Sweeney’s jewellery shop, she certainly doesn’t expect to wind up in a coffin....

The first entry in Leslie Stewart's diary read: "Dear Diary; This morning I met the man I am going to marry....

The expected never happens... a man calls unexpectedly on his mistress and sees another man leaving her flat. Accusing her of being...

After a fallout with his business partner and a breakup with his girlfriend, lawyer Sam Johnstone thinks a long vacation might be just what the doctor ordered. Before he can quit town, Sam gets a call from Lucy Beretta, the wife of the missing local college president....

A beautiful socialite is dead. Roy Grace’s leading suspect, her husband, was sixty miles away when she died, but all other evidence points to him. Has someone stolen his identity or is he simply a very clever liar?

The sudden death of a pupil in Fleat House at St Stephen’s is a shocking event that the headmaster is very keen to call a tragic accident. But the local police cannot rule out foul play and the case prompts the return of Detective Inspector Jazmine ‘Jazz’ Hunter to the force....

The lovely attorney kept a secret from me. A baby she’s been carrying since Valentine’s night. The night we were thrown together by the roulette wheel. She never contacted me....

This audiobook contains the first three adventures of A. E. W Mason’s enigmatic and mercurial Sûreté detective, Inspector Hanaud—a key inspiration for Agatha Christie’s celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot. First, Hanaud investigates the murder of wealthy Mme Dauvray at the fashionable French resort of Aix-les-Bains. Then, during a visit to London, Hanaud unravels a case of theft and murder following a costume party at a prestigious hotel.

Lisa Airey presents book two in the Juile Hastings series.

Der 1. Fall für Massimo Marconi. Commissario Marconi ermittelt im hohen Norden: Cosy Crime und Culture Clash in einem der beliebtesten Touristen-Hotspots an der Nordsee. Commissario Marconi, Münchner mit italienischen Wurzeln, verschlägt es an die Nordsee – nach St. Peter Ording. Nach dem Tod seines Bruders ist er der Vormund für dessen Kinder Klara und Stefano. Mit seinem Umzug zu den reservierten Nordfriesen, denen Marconi nicht viel abgewinnen kann, wird er zum Dienststellenleiter der örtlichen Polizeiwache degradiert – und gleich auf die Probe gestellt.

Night club owner Rick Cowan approaches criminal defense attorney Tex Hunter and presents an offer Hunter can't refuse. But Rick Cowan isn't a regular client. He isn't faultless, he isn't friendly, and he isn't clean—his past is littered with violence, agony, and decades of fraudulent behavior. Cowan claims he's innocent of the felony drug charges and has been set up from the inside, but the evidence against him continues to mount.

A French diplomat is walking alone down a darkened Paris side street when a killer emerges from the shadows. He stuns the Frenchman, cuts his body into quarters, and leaves a note that reads: "This is for Brazil!" It is the ninth murder in this fashion in the last two months—a string of round-the-world killings that strikes fear into the hearts of all those connected with the bloody Brazilian wars of the past decade.

Mythical antiquity collides with a near-future cyberworld as The Oracle’s unassuming hero and his FBI partner race against time to dismantle the Delphians’ murderous blockchain software. Theirs is a whirlwind tale of oracles ancient and modern, vanished antiquities and conjured crypto billions, cybercriminals and digital idealists—narrated by a cynical hero normally more concerned with dark chocolate than the consequences of the technologies he’s pioneering. What happens when the crypto ideals of privacy and truth might cost human lives—especially your own?

Reformed-swindler-turned-private-eye Jack O’Shea investigates a strange death at a shadowy Northern California mountain college—a “visa mill” with close ties to Silicon Valley. Accompanied by his retired racing greyhound, Jack discovers the school sits on top of an abandoned gold mine with dark secrets buried underneath. Rooting out deception, and navigating murder, is Jack’s stock-in-trade.

Eine Sturmflut. Zwei Tote. Unzählige Geheimnisse. Mehr als eine Woche ist es her, dass bei einer Sturmflut auf dem Darß zwei Skelette freigelegt wurden. Kriminalhauptkommissar Tom Engelhardt und Kryptologin Mascha Krieger ist es gelungen, einen dreißig Jahre alten Fall aufzuklären, aber die beiden Toten vom Kliff sind noch immer nicht identifiziert. Auch eine CD, die bei den Gebeinen lag, konnte bisher nicht weiterhelfen. Durch einen Ring gelingt es schließlich, die Identität der Frau zu ermitteln. Angeblich wanderte sie vor Jahren in die USA aus.

DC Alex McKenna is meant to be resting following her last case, so she lets her boyfriend to take her to the Isle of Skye for the weekend. But what's meant to be a getaway to see the aurora borealis soon turns into a nightmare when they discover that their hotel has double booked. In desperation, they check into the only hotel with rooms available nearby - The Loch House. But from the moment they step foot in the guest house Alex knows something is very wrong. And as snow starts to fall, and night closes in, she begins to wonder if they will ever leave here alive.

Reporter Lee Ellerin’s investigation into a young woman’s unsolved murder gained national attention—only for her to lose everything due to a tragic mistake. After being publicly ridiculed for causing a suspect’s death, Lee is forced to leave her career behind. Five years later, pregnant college student Amanda Hartley lies in a coma. The police say she attempted suicide, but the details don’t add up. Where is the father? Who was paying for Amanda’s Manhattan penthouse? Why did Amanda have a note with Lee’s name in her backpack?

Morden für die Menschheit. Eine kunstvoll inszenierte Mordserie führt die ehemalige Polizistin Sabina Lindemann von der Schweiz quer durch die Alpen bis nach Italien. Was haben der Tod eines jüdischen Rohstoffhändlers in Luzern, die Hinrichtung eines Fleischindustriellen bei Innsbruck und die Ermordung eines Professors für Künstliche Intelligenz bei Turin miteinander zu tun? Und welche Rolle spielt dabei das ominöse Z, das allen Opfern in den Körper geritzt wird? Sabina ahnt nicht, dass die Antwort auf diese Fragen in ihrer eigenen Vergangenheit liegt.

"Du bist zwar auch nicht gerade ein Eingeborener, aber ein Inder ist immer noch besser als ein Deutscher!" Dass sich ein ausländerfeindlicher Klient ausgerechnet an Vijay Kumar wendet, hätte sich der Privatdetektiv nicht träumen lassen. Mit seiner vereinnahmenden indischen Mutter und seit Neuestem auch noch seiner Schwiegermutter in spe, die ihn permanent auf das Thema Hochzeit ansprechen, fühlt sich Vijay nicht gerade als Vorzeigeschweizer.

Vijay Kumar wird zufällig Zeuge, wie die Dokumentarfilmerin Pina Gilardi auf offener Straße niedergestochen wird. Kurz zuvor hat der indischstämmige Privatdetektiv sie noch in Begleitung einer merkwürdig vermummten Person gesehen. Da die im Koma liegende Filmemacherin nichts zum Geschehen aussagen kann, engagiert ihre Lebensgefährtin Vijay, der herausfinden soll, was hinter der Tat steckt. Er erfährt, dass Gilardi erst jüngst aus Indien zurückgekehrt ist, wo sie nach Jahren erneut das Thema aufgegriffen hat, mit dem sie berühmt wurde: die Lebensbedingungen HIV-positiver Menschen.

Two-year-old Abigail is fast asleep in the back of the car, clutching her little red lion. Tony, her father, steps out onto the pavement. The man he’s meeting punches him in the face, knocking him to the ground. Before it all goes black, Tony sees his car speed away—with his little girl inside. When he finally gets home after the worst day of his life, the house is empty. His wife is gone too. The place is ransacked and the kitchen is streaked with blood. Someone out there has Tony’s little girl. And his wife may already be dead.

Il primo capitolo della saga Millennium. Da molti anni, la nipote prediletta del potente industriale Henrik Vanger è scomparsa senza lasciare traccia. Il corpo non è mai stato ritrovato. Quando, ormai vecchio, Vanger riceve un dono che riapre la vicenda, incarica Mikael Blomkvist, noto giornalista investigativo, di ricostruire gli avvenimenti e cercare la verità. Aiutato da Lisbeth Salander, abilissima hacker, Blomkvist indaga a fondo la storia della famiglia Vanger, ma più scava, più le scoperte sono spaventose.