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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.

August 1920, Dublin, Ireland: A fraught task keeps Verity and her husband Sidney in the country after their initial clandestine mission has been completed: the traitor Lord Ardmore is scheming to employ the deadly phosgene gas he's stolen for some terrifying purpose, and the couple will need both the Crown forces and the rebels' help to thwart him. As they pursue their quarry, they are drawn into a case involving a series of cunning and brazen jewel thefts.

The Next 365 Days is a continuation of Blanka Lipińska's best-selling series about Laura Biel kidnapped by the boss of the Sicilian mafia. Her previous books 365 Days and This Day sold over 500,000 copies. A novel full of eroticism and sensational plot twists, and comparable to the world's best seller 50 Shades of Grey, it stole the hearts of Polish women. If anyone thinks that it will be hard for Lipińska to surprise the readers again, they should buckle up, because The Next 365 Days is like riding a roller coaster!

The Eyewitness is a fast paced and thrilling crime novel with a smart, funny and flawed heroine at the centre. Harriet Vesterberg is finished with Stockholm – she needs a fresh start and relocates to the quaint fishing town Lerviken. But the little town is not what she remembers from her...

'With a few simple strokes on the keyboard, he could see the little people in their everyday lives over satellite. These superstitious and hardly intelligent creatures still believed in pure luck. It gave him a feeling of power when he could observe them. When weather was good he could even see...

La oscuridad otoñal ha caído sobre la costa sueca. En el albergue de la isla de Hållö se aloja Karl Ström, analista de la policía, que ha ido a pasar unos días allí para poder terminar un encargo sin que le molesten. Sin embargo, sus planes se ven frustrados cuando encuentra a una mujer muerta en las frías aguas de la famosa ensenada de Mármol. La fallecida resulta ser Tricia Andersen, hija del embajador estadounidense en Suecia, por lo que el interés mediático internacional sobre la investigación es enorme.

PI Billie Carlson is in Cleveland following a lead on the whereabouts of her son, Lucas. But when the trail goes cold, she is forced to return to Glasgow and a life of waiting and praying that one day she might see him again. Back in the office and ready to throw herself into work, she picks up a call from Lars, an old friend from her teenage years in Sweden. He tells her some devastating news. His younger sister, Astrid, was found dead in the Highlands, frozen to death with traces of drugs and alcohol in her system.

Wilhelm Jacobsson disappears without a trace on the Gotland boat. He is a small farmer who is fiercely independent, stubborn and constantly arguing with his neighbors. A few days later, an elderly lady is out walking her son's Rottweiler. The dog escapes, starts digging in a cairn and digs up a...

En mördare sprider skräck i Köpenhamn genom att uppsöka ensamstående kvinnor och döda dem, som en del av ett sjukt spel. Någon måste stoppa de brutala morden fort, innan fler oskyldiga kvinnor faller offer för seriemördaren. Cecilie Mars har med justitieminister Beatrice Klerkes godkännande intagit kontoret på Köpenhamnspolisen som chef över avdelningen för mordutredningar. Cecilie och hennes team får i uppdrag att lösa fallet och ta fast mördaren. Men snart upptäcker Cecilie att det finns fiender även innanför väggarna på poliskontoret.

A man is found dead on a beach on a small island off the coast of Germany. The gruesome discovery rocks the close-knit community of Amrum: in a town where nothing stays secret for long, who among them has a motive for murder? DI Lena Lorenzen is brought in to investigate. For her, it is an unwelcome homecoming to the isolated island she turned her back on fourteen years ago. But now her past - and the island’s - is catching up with her.

A fourteen-year-old girl disappears on the small island of Föhr, and Detective Lena Lorenzen is called in to investigate. When the girl’s bloodied body is found on the beach with vicious wounds to the wrist, Lena immediately suspects that what’s been made to look like suicide was in fact a brutal and calculated murder. But the local residents - even the girl’s own parents - won’t cooperate with her investigation. The devoutly religious islanders are clearly hiding something. But what ungodly secret could possibly lead to the murder of an innocent teenage girl?

Córki znanego szwedzkiego polityka wybierają się na wakacje do Alanyi na Riwierze Tureckiej. Studentkom towarzyszy chłopak jednej z nich, a na miejscu do trójki przyjaciół dołącza sympatyczny mężczyzna, z którym szybko nawiązują nić porozumienia. Beztroskie dni spędzone pod tureckim słońcem nie trwają jednak długo. Starsza z sióstr i jej chłopak giną w niewyjaśnionych okolicznościach, a nowo poznany mężczyzna znika bez śladu. Śledztwo utyka w martwym punkcie i wydaje się, że zagadka śmierci córki Jana Wetterberga i jej chłopaka pozostanie nierozwiązana.

Hallie, a young and successful fashion blogger, recently married to a station owner, is having trouble adjusting to the flies, dust, snakes and isolation in the Flinders Ranges. Left alone with her baby while her husband, Alex is often out on long bore runs during the day, she also has to contend with her father-in-law, Rod, who insists on making himself at home in their house. Alex is out on a bore run, and as Hallie and their daughter, Ruby, watch him in real time on the camera from the homestead, Alex suddenly disappears from view. He is found later, dead at the bottom of a windmill.