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Kommissarin Thea Molt reist nach Mallorca, um mit ihrem Freund, Sargento David Martinez von der Guardia Civil, in einer einsamen Berghütte im Tramuntana-Gebirge ein paar erholsame Tage zu verbringen. Doch mit der Idylle ist es schnell vorbei, als der romantische Rückzugsort zum Schauplatz eines Verbrechens wird. Zwei Leichen liegen inmitten eines Filmsets am Gorg-Blau-Stausee. Drapiert wie das Liebespaar aus der mallorquinischen Sage »Romeo und Julia von Almallutx« werfen die Toten Rätsel auf.

Kommissarin Thea Molt ist zurück auf Mallorca. Und kaum ist sie auf der Insel angekommen, wird sie schon wieder in einen mysteriösen Fall verwickelt. Ein deutscher Student ist verschwunden. Die mallorquinische Polizei glaubt nicht an ein Verbrechen. Doch seine Freundin ist vollkommen verzweifelt und bittet Thea um Hilfe. Entschlossen, die Wahrheit aufzudecken, stößt Thea auf ein tödliches Netz aus Lügen und Intrigen.

Kommissarin Thea nimmt sich gerade eine berufliche Auszeit, als ihre Freundin sie um Hilfe bittet: Thea soll ihr in ihrem Feinkost-Laden auf Mallorca aushelfen. Die ersten Tage im malerischen Küstenort Paguera sind herrlich, doch dann wird ihr Nachbar ermordet! Thea ist schockiert und beginnt auf eigene Faust, Nachforschungen anzustellen. Dabei gerät sie mit dem spanischen Polizisten David Martinez aneinander. Doch Thea wird seine Hilfe noch brauchen. Denn sie ahnt nicht, was sie mit ihren Ermittlungen losgetreten hat...

A dying cop asks DCI Christine Caplan to fulfil her last wish: to investigate a cold case that’s still preying on her mind. The naked body of a young man that was found in a lonely wood, dismissed as a down and out by her superiors. Caplan connects the case to other victims left to die in the bleak Scottish forests, injured and unable to escape. As the scent grows stronger, the cold cases suddenly seem dangerously hot.

**Preorder the new novel from Howard Linskey now!** Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Search by Howard Linskey, read by Kieran Bew. Someone knows where the bodies are buried... Little Susan Verity went missing during the heatwave of 1976. An unprecedented...

“Fantastic...my favorite series ever!” --Shari Lapena, New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door From Cara Hunter, the New York Times bestselling author of Murder in the Family, comes the fourth novel in her DI Fawley detective series, one of Britain’s most enduringly...

From the New York Times bestselling author of the TikTok sensation Murder in the Family and the popular DI Adam Fawley series comes a brand-new gripping thriller in which a true-crime TV show turns up the heat on a controversial case from Fawley’s past… When Nick Vincent, producer of...

Self-defense or murder? In the continuation of one of Britain’s most popular crime series from Cara Hunter—the author of the instant New York Times bestseller Murder in the Family—DI Fawley returns to determine if someone has staged a crime scene in connection with another homicide from...

From Cara Hunter, author of the New York Times bestseller Murder in the Family, comes book three of her DI Adam Fawley series, one of Britain’s most enduringly popular and mega-selling crime series. Fawley investigates a ghastly house fire on Christmas Day launches an investigation that shocks...

A man is discovered stabbed to death in a nature reserve, a ball of cloth rammed in his throat. When a second body is found, Carruthers is convinced that the reason for the deaths lies in the past. But how is the historical disappearance of a boy, the murder of a former journalist and a bitter dispute about a nature reserve connected? Are they hunting for one killer...or more?

Elvie McCulloch's sister, Sophie, has been missing for 57 days. She went out for a run - and never came home. Several young women in the area have disappeared in similar circumstances, and Elvie's family fears the worst. Teaming up with retired detective Billy Hopkirk, Elvie determines to find out the truth. But as the pair alternately collaborate with and infuriate investigating police detectives Anderson and Costello, they find themselves up against a terrifying enemy. Someone they call The Night Hunter.

Detective Inspector Carol Ashton’s promotion to chief inspector has immediately ensnared her in two assignments that hold no warning they will forever change her life. She’s inherited the pressurized case of the high-profile death of media star and wealthy philanthropist Greta Denby, who had been undergoing a controversial experimental treatment for her cancer. Carol is now also taking on the case of the investigating officer Inspector Ian Rooke, who has himself just died under baffling circumstances.

It starts with the hanging woman in the Maple Valley woods; the woman with no shoes, no car and no name. On paper it’s an obvious case of suicide - but to Officer Dean Matheson, something doesn’t add up. Then there are the other deaths, deaths that also look like suicides - but are they? The victims are all women living on the fringes of society, addicts and criminals. Who will miss them? Does anyone really care if they die? Dean Matheson is making it his business to care, even if it means he becomes a target....

Glasgow's citizens are in a celebratory mood for the annual West End Festival parade. But beneath the jovial surface lurks something darker. A confused young woman is found wandering among the stilt walkers and jostling crowds, claiming to have been abducted by aliens. Before DCI Anderson and DI Costello can investigate further, a body is discovered, and it becomes horrifyingly clear that a depraved killer has taken advantage of the busiest day of the year to carry out a gruesomely macabre plan.

Detective Constable Bailey Morgan has been out of the undercover game since the last job went horribly wrong, leaving her with scars both inside and out. When her best friend Alice is murdered while working undercover in a women’s prison, Bailey steps up to replace her. Working alone, Bailey embarks on a dangerous quest through the murky underbelly of the prison, where she soon discovers that Alice’s death was part of a spate of brutal murders. Surrounded on all sides by criminals and lowlifes, God help her if any of them find out she’s a copper....

A few days before the summer solstice, a 92-year-old woman is found burned to death in her home. On the same day, a man's mutilated corpse is discovered, his arms ripped from their sockets, with a tarot card depicting the Fool inserted in his mouth. When the victim is identified as someone for whom the police have been looking for almost a year, detectives Anderson and Costello find themselves caught up in a case where nothing is as it seems.

Detective Inspector Costello has resigned. No notice, no good-byes. Convinced that George Haggerty murdered his wife and son despite his cast-iron alibi, Costello has gone solo, determined to expose a ruthless killer without being hampered by police protocol. But is she right about Haggerty's guilt? And where has she disappeared to? DCI Colin Anderson has no time to ponder the loss of his partner of 20 years. With a badly beaten body found on a remote mountain pass, a woman with a serious head wound who won't communicate in any way and a substantial pool of blood discovered at the edge of Loch Lomond, Police Scotland have their hands full.

When a six-week-old baby is stolen from outside a village shop, Detective Inspector Costello quickly surmises there's more to this case than meets the eye. As she questions those involved, she uncovers evidence that this was no impulsive act as the police initially assumed, but something cold, logical, meticulously planned. Who has taken Baby Sholto, and why? Colin Anderson meanwhile is on the Cold Case Unit, reviewing the unsolved rape of a young mother back in 1996. Convinced this wasn't the first - or last - time the attacker struck, Anderson looks for a pattern. But when he does find a connection, it reaches back into his own past....

In August 1992 a young mother and her two small sons were brutally murdered in the woods behind their home. Her neighbour, Andrew Gyle, was convicted of the crime and sentenced to life imprisonment. Now, 23 years later, a macabre discovery throws new light on the case. Could there have been a shocking miscarriage of justice?

¿Sabes qué esconden tus vecinos en el sótano? En una casa de un barrio adinerado de la ciudad de Oxford, encuentran por casualidad a una mujer y un niño encerrados en un sótano, casi sin vida y sin identificar. La mujer no habla, no hay registros de desapariciones similares y el anciano propietario de la casa asegura no haberlos visto en su vida. Todo el vecindario está conmocionado. ¿Cómo ha podido suceder? El inspector Adam Fawley sabe que, bajo ese aire inocente, muchos esconden secretos. La pista la proporciona uno de sus casos del pasado, una desaparición que no llegó a resolver.