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Elle est jeune. Elle est belle. Elle est flic. Elle est brutale. Des jeunes vierges vidées de leur sang sont retrouvées abandonnées dans des lieux déserts, comme dans les films d'horreur. Les responsables ? Des cinglés opérant entre la Tchétchénie, la Belgique et la France. Les mêmes qui, un soir, mitraillent à l'arme lourde un peloton de gendarmerie au sud de Paris. Que veulent-ils ? Qui est cet "Ultime" qui les terrorise et à qui ils obéissent ? Face à cette barbarie, il faut un monstre. Lise Lartéguy en est un.

No último feriado prolongado do verão, visitantes e moradores de Three Pines se reúnem para aproveitar os dias de folga em meio a uma programação agitada. Porém, a descoberta de um cadáver no bistrô de Olivier e Gabri acaba com o clima agradável. Um homem levou um golpe fatal na cabeça, só que não há sinal da arma do crime e não se sabe o motivo do assassinato ou mesmo o nome daquele estranho.

Once again, author Tilly Bagshawe takes up the mantle of the late, great Sidney Sheldon—and again, she succeeds magnificently. Written in the inimitable Sheldon style and based on extensive, never before published material from his private archives, Sidney Sheldon’s Angel of the Dark is a...

'Ingenious and unexpected' GUARDIAN There is more to solving a crime than following the clues. Welcome to Chief Inspector Gamache's world of facts and feelings. When Chief Inspector Gamache arrives in picturesque Three Pines, he steps into a village in chaos. A man has been found bludgeoned to...

Detective Sara Hirst has moved from London to Norfolk Police's Serious Crimes Unit. Carnival week in Cromer. It's been an easy-going summer for the Norfolk Police's Serious Crimes Unit—until this morning. The body of Daisy Shaw, the Carnival Queen, is discovered in a back alley, stretched out on the cobbles. Her long blonde hair lies matted and disheveled around her head, her fingers clutch a sparkly plastic tiara. Suspicion falls on the carnival crew, especially when it turns out that one of them is Daisy's boyfriend.

Ethan Muller is struggling to establish his reputation as a dealer in the cut-throat world of contemporary art when he is alerted to a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: in a decaying New York slum, an elderly tenant has disappeared, leaving behind a staggeringly large trove of original drawings and paintings. Nobody can tell Ethan much about the old man, except that he came and went in solitude for nearly forty years, his genius hidden and unacknowledged.

Twelve-year-old Amy Birkbeck is checking her bat boxes late one cold January evening in the woods by her house. She witnesses something no child should ever see—a group of men rolling a body into the deep pool of the disused old clay pit. Meanwhile, DCI Sophie Allen's team is falling apart. One of the members of the unit goes missing. Surely he couldn't be the body in the pool? Or is something much darker going on? Then a second body is found in the disused clay pit. And it seems the dead man is connected to a suspected arms dealer....

An einem diesigen Morgen im Oktober findet ein Spaziergänger einen leblosen Körper am Ufer des Rügischen Boddens. Die eintreffenden Beamten der Schutzpolizei können die brutal zugerichtete Leiche schnell identifizieren. Es handelt sich um den erfolgreichen und beliebten Jungunternehmer Jobst Bose. Wer könnte hinter der Tat stecken? Wen hatte das Opfer zum Feind? LKA-Sonderermittlerin Lydia Westphal beginnt ihre Ermittlungen unweit des Leichenfundortes, in dem beschaulichen Fischerdorf Lauterbach.

Wolf realiza un viaje de vacaciones por Centroeuropa. En una de sus escalas adquiere un billete para visitar una ciudad a la que nadie ha ido en los últimos cincuenta años, Belvedere. Antes de llegar coincide con Berenice, una joven por la que se siente inmediatamente atraído. Sin embargo, cuando debe dirigirse a dicha ciudad, la muchacha desaparece. En Belvedere advierte que tanto los objetos como las personas allí existentes responden a leyes físicas diferentes a las que rigen el mundo que él conoce.

When unsolved crimes resurface, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace faces a possible copycat killing in Dead Like You. By award winning crime author Peter James, read by Daniel Weyman (Silent Witness, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power). The Metropole Hotel, Brighton. After a heady New...

In this exhilarating new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Kate White, one young woman searches for clues to the murder of her family, only to discover a shocking secret about herself that holds the key to everything. Jillian Lowe seemed to have it all. Both beautiful and...

Blonde. Beautiful. A loving mother. And missing since Monday. On a sunny morning in late September, Shannon Blaine sets off for a jog along the rural roads near her home in Lake George, New York. It’s her usual a.m. routine, her “me time” after dropping the kids off at school…except on...

From New York Times bestselling author Kate White comes a gripping novel about one woman’s dangerous quest to recover lost memories someone would rather she never find. The key to her missing memories could bring relief—or unlock her worst nightmares. On a cold, rainy morning, finance...

Yeah, yeah, the usual. A crime. A corpse. A killer. Heard it. Except this stiff happens to be a Ponsonby, scion of a venerable Edinburgh medical clan, and the manner of his death speaks of unspeakable things. Why is the body displayed like a slice of beef? How come his hands are digitally...