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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...

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.

Michael Brady is back. The Edge of Truth is the fifth book in the series. And there’s a ghost from Brady’s past....

McGee Ridge, earthquake-rattled and clinging to the thousand-foot cliffs of the Northern California coast, is nestled in one of a very few truly wild places left in the Lower 48. It is also home to a band of off-grid outlaws who vanished behind the famed Redwood Curtain in the 1960s and whose time there is swiftly coming to an end.

Adventure, action and dark humor galore, delivered Ralph Cotton style, in his fictional take on the real-life DEA - FBI joint Operation Swordfish, a covert effort launched by the two agencies in the early 1980s. Meet Eddie Vango - Chicago gambling debt collector for the Outfit, the lovely Leslie Wright, and ex-con Delbert Moss as they make their way through the ranks of South Florida Drug Lords and take a giant share of the underworld’s operating capital while the drug world is busy 'replacing' its leadership.

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.

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...

Über die sechzig jährige Maggie Bird kann man einiges erzählen: Sie züchtet Hühner, ist eine zuvorkommende Nachbarin und lebt ein ruhiges Leben im idyllischen Purity in Maine. Wöchentlich besucht sie einen Buchclub, wo sie mit ihren Freunden Martinis trinkt. Als eines Tages eine tote Frau in ihrer Auffahrt liegt, weiß Maggie: Dies ist eine Nachricht aus der "guten alten Zeit". Vor über fünfzehn Jahren arbeitete sie für die CIA, und nun scheint die Vergangenheit sie eingeholt zu haben.

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...

It’s 20 years since Alice went missing. There’s never been any trace. Until now. Until some bones are found in a shallow grave on the cold, bleak North York Moors. But is it Alice? Or Becky? The other girl–who disappeared a month earlier…

“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.

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.

Two weeks before her wedding, a stranger stops Amy in the street and warns her she’s in danger. Then that night, Matt, her fiancé, doesn’t come home. Desperate, Amy calls the police - but when Matt fails to emerge, she’s forced to call off her wedding day. Then another man is reported missing, by a woman called Fiona - a man meeting Matt’s description, who was about to leave his fiancée for her. He was supposed to be moving in with her - but instead, he’s vanished.

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.

Eigentlich wollte Kriminalhauptkommissar Mikkel Tvorsen den ruhigen Winter in Büsum genießen, doch ein Mord ändert alles. Als frühmorgens die Leiche von Roxie Kessler im Watt entdeckt wird, deuten alle Hinweise auf ihn als Täter hin. Er kann sich an nichts erinnern, doch seine eigene Pistole scheint die Tatwaffe zu sein, und belastende Indizien tauchen an Orten auf, an denen sie nicht sein sollten.

Los habitantes de un pequeño pueblo minero de Malmberget, al norte de Suecia, están siendo trasladados ya que la mina que alguna vez dio vida al pueblo se derrumba lentamente. Cuando dos trabajadores están recogiendo sus pertenencias escuchan un sonido procedente del sótano de una casa. Rompen la ventana, entran y descubren a un hombre aterrorizado y acurrucado en un rincón. Mientras tanto en Ådalen, la inspectora Eira Sjödin investiga la desaparición de un hombre cuya exmujer denuncia como perdido. El hombre no se ha llevado nada, no tenía razones para huir y su móvil no responde.

‘Another brilliant read from Amanda Robson. A dark, addictive and compelling page turner!’ BA Paris, bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors From the No.1 bestselling author of Obsession Your sister. Her secret. The betrayal. There is no bond greater than blood… When the body of a woman...