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The eyes of the world are gazing at India - the world's largest democracy. But the books you read about this Asian giant only show part of the picture. Delhi Noir offers bone-chilling, mesmerizing takes on the country's chaotic capital, a city where opulence and poverty are constantly clashing, where old-world values and the information age wage a constant battle. Delhi Noir's 15 original stories are written by the best Indian writers alive today - the ones you haven't yet heard of but should have.

The once tranquil woods in a picturesque part of Lenchester have become the bloody stage to a series of ritualistic murders. With no suspects, Detective Chief Inspector Whitney Walker is once again forced to call on the services of forensic psychologist Dr. Georgina Cavendish. But this murderer isn't like any they've faced before. The murders are highly elaborate, but different in their own way, and with the clock ticking, they need to get inside the killer's head before it's too late.

I forbindelse med en nynazistisk demonstration i det centrale Göteborg havner journalisten Kent Mortlands datter, Paula, på skadestuen med en flænge i panden. Sammen sætter far og datter sig for at undersøge miljøet. Det samme gør kriminalinspektør Elof Jönsson, der får øje på en sammenhæng mellem en række dødsfald, der egentlig var blevet afskrevet som selvmord. Snart går jagten på en lejemorder, der er villig til at gøre alt for at nå sit mål. Hvid sorg er den anden af fem kriminalromaner om journalisten Kent Mortland.

Sylvia van Lidth sits atop a criminal empire providing a service to a very specific clientele…a very wealthy clientele with a particular taste. She fought to achieve her lofty status and is not about to let anything stop her. Lee Yoo the local boss of Korea’s most ruthless crime family, has an order of high-end cars to steal. He doesn’t want to consider the consequences of failure. Arriving in the heart of Amsterdam, Albert’s only aim is to sample the local cuisine, but when his detective’s nose results in being mistaken for a thief, his faithful companion and sidekick, Rex, is taken from him.

A nurse, wife and mother of two, Nina can’t say no when someone asks for help—even when she knows better. When her estranged friend Karin leaves her a key to a public locker in a Copenhagen train station, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous project yet. Inside the locker is a suitcase, and inside the suitcase is a three-year-old boy: naked and drugged, but alive.

DI Bliss attends the aftermath of an apparent murder-suicide—but the scene tells him and his colleagues something very different occurred. Now the Peterborough Major Crimes Unit face an adversary like no other. They have no idea why his victims had to die. They have no idea who he is. They have no idea where he might strike next—only that he will. But while the killer is cunning, leaving no evidence for them to find, his biggest mistake might be in underestimating the team now hunting him. Because when Jimmy Bliss is on the case, all bets are off.

Non loin de Rome, un homme affolé tente d'arrêter les voitures. Son fils de huit ans a disparu et le corps de sa femme gît, décapité, au fond d'une clairière. Le commissaire Colomba Caselli ne croit pas à l'hypothèse du drame familial et fait appel à un expert en disparitions de personnes : Dante Torre. Kidnappé enfant, il a grandi enfermé dans un silo à grains avant de parvenir à s'échapper. Pendant des années, son seul contact avec l'extérieur a été son mystérieux geôlier, qu'il appelle "le Père".

Lorsque le TGV Milan-Rome arrive à quai, la police fait une macabre découverte : tous les passagers de la classe affaires sont retrouvés morts. Si les premiers indices orientent l'enquête vers un attentat, la commissaire adjointe Colomba Caselli, muscles d'acier et âme fragile, est persuadée du contraire. Pour elle, seul Dante Torre, l' "Homme du silo", est capable d'y voir clair dans ce brouillard de mensonges et de fausses pistes.

En septemberdag 1945 försvinner Sankta Gertruds trädgårdsmästare Konrad Mårtensson. Enda spåret efter honom är hans kläder som återfinns i en övergiven eka på sjön Maren. Varje år efter det får hans dotter Astrid på sin födelsedag ett kuvert som innehåller en tändsticksask med en död insekt. Försändelserna är alltid poststämplade från Västervik, utan adressat.

Mykkä tuska etsii pakotietä Tuula T. Matintuvan varmaotteisessa, viidennessä dekkarissa. Teinityttö löydetään surmattuna lenkkipolulta. Viikkoa myöhemmin samaisen polun varrelta löytyy murhattu perheenäiti, vain tekotapa on eri. Liittyvätkö tapaukset toisiinsa? Rikosylikonstaapeli Alina Mänty työtovereineen kuulustelevat Viljavainiontien asukkaita, joista erikoisin on yksinäinen kuusikymppinen Saara, läheisen maatilan naimaton tytär, joka ei ole puhunut mitään vuoden 1967 jouluaaton jälkeen. Saara viettää paljon aikaa tarkkaillen ympäristöään.

Det är vinter, kallt och snön vräker ned. En ovanligt fräck flygpassagerare utan pass avvisas bryskt på Arlanda, men kommer ändå in i landet – som död på bagagebandet. Strax därefter hittas en taxichaufför mördad. Två andra resenärer från Ryssland försöker senare ta sig in i Sverige med stulna pass. Allt visar sig ingå i uppbyggnaden av en trollfabrik, med mål att sabotera flera samhällsnyttiga nätverk. Kriminalpoliserna Nalle Björnsson och hans unga kollega Vivian Mogren får uppdraget att utreda morden och tvingas uppleva det obehagliga att bli utsatta för cyberterrorism.

Antique salvager, counterfeiter, and former art forger Jota knows his newest commission pays suspiciously well, but it’s too easy to turn down. All he has to do is find an old clock that apparently has disappeared after being sold in the auction of a bankrupt estate. In Madrid’s El Rastro market, where whisper networks of shady and ambitious hustlers promise generous rewards for minimal favors, what sounds too good to be true usually is, but the last thing Jota is expecting to uncover is his own past.

The Moscow Film Festival is in town, and the elite artists of the East and West have convened at the legendary Metropole Hotel to drink, gossip, and flirt. But the party is about to come crashing down. Four men - one American, one Japanese, and two Russians - will all be dead by morning, poisoned. To keep the killings under wraps, the Kremlin hands the investigation over to the famously discreet police investigator Porfiry Rostnikov.

When a body of a woman is discovered at a lighthouse in the Icelandic town of Akranes, it soon becomes clear that she’s no stranger to the area. Chief Investigating Officer Elma, who has returned to Akranes following a failed relationship, and her collegues Sævar and Hörður commence an uneasy investigation which uncovers a shocking secret in the dead woman’s past that continues to reverberate in the present day.

Natasha Doroshenko, a Ukrainian woman who has been arrested for murdering her Danish fiancé, escapes police custody on her way to an interrogation in Copenhagen's police headquarters. It isn't the first time Natasha has lost a partner to violent ends: her first husband was also murdered three years earlier, in Kiev, and in the same manner, his hands broken. At the same time, someone tries to abduct Natasha's eight-year-old daughter from the Red Cross center that has been caring for her while her mother, an illegal immigrant, was in jail.

Under the guise of machinery for making dumplings, a Spanish factory near Barcelona is secretly producing a key component in the production of nuclear weapons. When information finds its way to the inboxes of Western intelligence agencies that this "dumpling maker" is meant for North Korea, orders go out that the shipment must be stopped. Either the machine must be disabled while still in the factory, or the transportation route must be discovered so the equipment can be intercepted before it reaches its destination.

The critically acclaimed A Corpse in the Koryo brought readers into the enigmatic workings of North Korean intelligence with the introduction of a new kind of detective—the mysterious Inspector O. In the follow-up, Hidden Moon, O threaded his way through the minefield of North Korean ministries into a larger conspiracy he was never supposed to touch.

Nora Feller har brutit helt med Sektion M och Charlotte Victorin. I Malmö hoppas hon få en nystart, såväl privat som i jobbet. Hon blir tilldelad ett uppmärksammat mordfall, där offret tillhör den innersta, rika kretsen i en välbärgad ort söder om stan. Men det är något med fallet som inte stämmer, Nora får en kuslig känsla av att en mäktig hand styr allt. Och snart får hon veta att Sektion M ska ta över utredningen. Mot chefens uttryckliga order börjar hon göra egna efterforskningar. Men Charlotte kommer knappast tyst se på när Nora sabbar för henne.

Los detectives Yago Reyes y Aines Collado se enfrentan a uno de los peores casos de sus carreras como detectives de homicidios. La víctima, una joven de apenas quince años, es hallada muerta y semidesnuda en los arrozales de la localidad valenciana de Cullera. Comienza así una investigación a contrarreloj para atrapar al culpable. A cada paso dado, aumentan las sospechas de que alguien de su entorno más cercano pudo ser el responsable de su muerte. Sin embargo, ahondar en sus vidas hará que salgan a la luz secretos terribles; el precio a pagar será muy alto.

Una mañana cualquiera de verano, la Costa Blanca alicantina, jóvenes haciendo turismo, calor y un mundial de fútbol en el que España gana. La redacción está a punto de cerrar cuando el periodista Gabriel Caballero decide coger una llamada anónima. Tras morder el cebo, el interés lo lleva hasta una fábrica de embutidos. El desenlace: dos crímenes, varios cadáveres, una acusación de asesinato y una reportera entrometida.