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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.

Robbery Under Arms, together with Marcus Clarke’s For the Term of His Natural Life, is considered to be one of the seminal Australian novels of the nineteenth century. It is a barnstorming yarn, delivered in the first person by one Dick Marston, a vigorous and basically honourable young man, who is lured into crime due to unfavourable circumstances.

Returning to work after an enforced absence, Detective Kay Hunter discovers she wasn’t the only victim of her previous investigation. DI Devon Sharp remains suspended from duties, and the team is in turmoil. Determined to prove herself once more and clear his name, Kay undertakes to solve a cold case that links Sharp to his accuser. But, as she gets closer to the truth, she realises her enquiries could do more harm than good.

Anthropology Professor Gideon Oliver would prefer to keep his mind on his beautiful new bride, Julie, during their English honeymoon, but one intrusive question will not stop nagging at him: Who would want to steal a 30,000-year-old parieto-occipital calvarial fragment? Yet someone has lifted this chunk of prehistoric human skull from a musty museum in Dorchester. Then, 30 miles away, an archaeology student is murdered, increasing tension and suspicion at a dig that had already seethed with suspicion, rivalry, and mistrust.

Fed up with household chores and an uncaring husband, English mother Chris Martin, 40, gets a job on the small local paper, trading one form of drudgery for another until she happens on the body of a teacher who appears to have hanged himself, but who really died of a heroin overdose. Chris and wisecracking reporter Pete Schiavo, who soon beds her, uncover blackmail, a crooked real estate deal, bribery, police corruption, and a drug connection.

Frankie Machine (Sinatra), a recovering heroin addict and illegal card dealer, returns home to his squalid neighborhood in Chicago after six months in prison. He is hoping to go straight and find a job as a drummer, but when both his ex-drug pusher, Louie, and his ruthless former employer, Schwiefka, show up, Frankie is in trouble.

Drabsefterforsker Mason Teilmanns mangeårige søgen efter en berygtet seriemorder truer med at opsluge hans liv og rive hans verden fra hinanden. Masons instinkter vækkes straks, da Det nationale Cyber Crime Center afslører en hjemmeside, som har forbindelse til en pædofil trafficking-ring. Efterforskningen fører ham til Gayson Lopez, bedre kendt som The Wolf: Et navn, der har hjemsøgt Mason siden hans tid i New Orleans' politistyrke.