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The reverend Dodd, vicar of the quiet Cornish village of Boscawen, spends his evenings reading detective stories by the fireside - but heaven forbid that the shadow of any real crime should ever fall across his seaside parish. But the vicar's peace is shattered one stormy night when Julius Tregarthan, an ill-tempered magistrate, is found at his house in Boscawen with a bullet through his head. The local police inspector is baffled by the lack of clues.

“Lean, mean, darkly funny.” —Boston Globe “A zingy thriller by the master of hard-boiled suspense.” —Dallas Morning News “Elmore Leonard may be the greatest crime novelist in the world,” declares the Seattle Times, and truer words have never been written. Just follow the Grand...

Cornwall, 1937. Kitty Underhay has been called to investigate some fishy goings-on in the beautiful coastal village of St Mawes. The body of Lady Cordelia Hedges’ beloved father was found floating in the sea, and shortly afterwards Cordelia herself was almost killed… Determined to piece together the puzzle, Kitty spends her first evening in the Cornish bay at one of Cordelia’s lavish parties. But she’s not just soaking up the idyllic surroundings with her husband Matt, she’s at the party to get to know those closest to their host.

After Special Agent Jennifer Morton is fired from the IRS, she pursues a fat-cat financial felon who has fled to an island with no extradition laws. While off the grid, she discovers a community that shelters some of the most wanted white-collar fugitives in the world. Just as she's about to expose the entire web, she unearths the truth about her father and must choose between two very different kinds of betrayals.

Winter 1795. Lieutenant John Pearce, reckoning to have finally ditched his old enemy, Admiral Hotham, has found a new one in Henry Digby, previously a friend. Meanwhile, Pearce's pregnant and recently widowed lover is adamant they cannot be seen together for the sake of their unborn child as she seeks respectability in society. Aboard HMS Flirt as part of the squadron led by Horatio Nelson, Pearce and his Pelicans soon join them on a reconnaissance which results in the destruction of a key French battery.

Tensions arise between detectives when a kidnapping is upgraded to a murder investigation. When an incompetent local crook makes a botched attempt at a kidnap, it should be a wrap for the Galway police. Unfortunately, Maureen Lyons’ first case in charge as Detective Inspector threatens to be a wash out as a series of mishaps lets the prime suspect slip through the Garda’s fingers.

Can DCI Dan Hellier decipher the twisted mind behind the ritualised burning of homeless men on Devon’s beaches before more people are sacrificed? When images from the burning appear all over social media, Hellier realises that he is dealing with a cult and a mystery that will lead back to the Irish Troubles. Hellier is forced to battle a bitter man who has plotted revenge for more than 20 years, without a care for the lives he will destroy.

A remote shoreline. A lethal killer. As lone visitors disappear from the rural northwest of Scotland, campsites are becoming crime scenes. The Wild Coast is the seventeenth book in Lin Anderson's forensic crime series featuring Rhona MacLeod. 'One of the most satisfying characters in modern...

Maggie Bird, ex-agente secreta da CIA, escolheu um pequeno vilarejo no Maine para viver a aposentadoria e finalmente deixar o doloroso passado para trás. Muitos anos antes, ela participou de uma missão que acabou em tragédia, fazendo com que perdesse tudo o que importava. Atualmente, Maggie leva uma rotina tranquila em sua fazenda, tentando enterrar as memórias da antiga vida. Mas quando um corpo surge misteriosamente em sua garagem, ela percebe que se trata de uma mensagem de velhos inimigos que não a esqueceram.

As Sierra and the team dig into the history of the cemetery, she uncovers an astonishing theory involving imprisonment and a ghostly force that is far more powerful and heartbreaking than they anticipated. Gulf Coast Paranormal is on the case, but their investigation leads them to the Vallow home, where they discover that the weeping woman's missing child may be the key to putting her to rest. But as they delve deeper into the case, they realize that they are treading on dangerous ground, and the consequences of their actions could be dire.

Billy and Sandra were childhood sweethearts. Writing their names on a lovelock. Fastening it to the end of Whitby pier. Throwing the key into the sea. A lifetime together. A happy retirement in a peaceful hamlet on the North Yorkshire Moors. Until the day they were brutally murdered.

Detective Eira Sjodin, introduced in the electrifying Swedish crime thriller We Know You Remember, races to solve a disappearance that hits chillingly close to home in the second book in the High Coast series, hailed by People as “Nordic noir at its best.” In the small mining town of...

“Beautifully elegiac and intricately plotted, this is Nordic noir at its best.”—People Winner of the Glass Key Award for Best Nordic Crime Novel Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year Shortlisted for the Best Swedish Book of the Year Award One of People Magazine’s Best Books of...

“Evocative, nostalgic, haunting, twisty, and true, Weizmann’s fast paced and smartly written CINNAMON GIRL is everything there is to love about a classic PI novel and more … much more." — Reed Farrel Coleman, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of SLEEPLESS CITY From the author of the...

Martina de Santos la subinspectora de homicidios tiene que resolver una serie de asesinatos rodeados de un halo de sadismo ritual. Pero para poder entender el presente, su intuición le dice que tiene que investigar el pasado, en el que quizás se encuentre el origen de los brutales asesinatos. A través del hilo conductor de la hermandad de los jóvenes artistas, bohemios y extravagantes, Martina irá deduciendo y sacando conclusiones en la resolución del caso.

December 5th, 2013 left its mark on the North Norfolk Coast in more ways than one. A tidal surge and storm swept millennia-old cliff faces into the sea and flooded homes and businesses up and down the coast. It also buried a secret in the WWII bunker hiding under the golf course at Brancaster. A secret kept for years, until it falls squarely into the lap of Detective Sergeant Kate Brannon and her fellow officers. A skeleton, deep inside the bunker. How did it get there? Who was he...or she?

Han pasado más de veinte años desde que Olof Hagström se fue de casa. Al regresar a la casa de su familia, sabe al instante que algo anda mal. La llave de la puerta de entrada, escondida debajo de una piedra familiar todavía está allí. En el interior, hay un perro en pánico, un hedor terrible y agua estancada en el suelo. Arriba, en la ducha, el padre de Olaf está muerto. Para la detective de policía Eira Sjödin, la investigación de esta muerte sospechosa resucita pesadillas olvidadas hace mucho tiempo.

In den frühen Morgenstunden machen Krabbenfischer eine grausige Entdeckung. Auf einem Kutter wurde ein Achtzehnjähriger brutal ermordet. Doch wer hat den beliebten Teenager getötet? Hauptkommissar Mikkel Tvorsen und sein Team sind ratlos, denn es gibt weder Spuren am Tatort noch ein Motiv, geschweige denn einen Verdächtigen. Als sich mehr und mehr herauskristallisiert, dass der Täter einer der trauernden Freunde oder eines der schockierten Familienmitglieder sein muss, sind die Ermittler endgültig in einer Sackgasse gelandet. Mikkel weiß nicht, ob er seinem Instinkt noch trauen kann.