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An old man wanted to live a peaceful life not knowing the enemy waits in the dark. A family that will repulse everyone. But look around, do we garner these families inside our homes?

Bremen, Dezember 2023: In der Hansestadt geht ein Serienmörder um. Insgesamt vier Frauen wurden bereits furchtbar zugerichtet aufgefunden. Als eine weitere Frauenleiche entdeckt wird, werden Sophie Kaiser und ihr Team hinzugezogen. Die ambitionierte Profilerin des BKA, die durch ihren Autismus Zusammenhänge anders bewertet als andere, ist gerade erst ein paar Tage in der Stadt, da gibt es bereits das nächste Opfer. Dieses Mal wendet der Mörder selbst sich zeitgleich an die Medien und beschreibt detailliert seine grausamen Taten.

The annual gathering of the book club at the start of December is supposed to be a time for relaxation and catching up. But this year, the convivial evening takes a sinister turn. Detective Barton is called to investigate, and he soon discovers the seemingly peaceful club harbours dark secrets and hidden resentments that go back years.

Un asesino en serie que lleva años matando a sus anchas. Una caza contra el tiempo antes de que se cobre su próxima víctima. ¿La única pista? Siempre deja una inscripción en la piel de sus víctimas: Tic-Tac. Álex Cortés se enfrenta a un temible y silencioso villano que tiene en vilo a una ciudad entera. ¿Podrán Álex y su equipo encarcelarlo antes de que vuelva a matar?

Danish Red Cross nurse Nina Borg has dedicated her life to helping Copenhagen's most desperate: illegal immigrants, abused women, and others underserved by society. But Nina's do-gooder complex often takes her into dangerous situations and communities beyond the margins of the law's protection.

DI Sara Ramsey has to dig deep to find an evil suspect who gets a thrill out of chasing victims to their deaths. The murderer is smart, inventing new methods of tracking down his victims. Just as the inspector senses she's closing in on the culprit, they change their MO, undoing all her hard work. The media is striking fear into the residents. Can Sara set aside her personal problems and prevent the killing spree causing havoc on her patch?

Many people had reasons for killing Galen, a big Greek with too much money and too great a liking for young black girls. But there are complications - like a drug addict, a disappearing suspect, and the fact that Coffin Ed's daughter is up to her neck in the whole explosive business.

When DI Barton is asked to investigate a seemingly innocuous fire that kills, he believes it's either children fooling around or a worrying racially motivated crime. As he delves deeper into the case, he soon realises that there is a history of similar blazes spread out over many years, all within a close area. An idea suggested by pathologist Mortis makes Barton suspect he has the arsonist’s motives wrong.

A murder made to look like suicide. Another that appears an accident. DI Barton investigates the tragedies that have shattered a family’s lives, but without obvious leads, the case goes nowhere. Then, when the remains of a body are found, everything points to one suspect. Barton and his team move quickly, and once the killer is behind bars, they can all breathe a sigh of relief. But death still lurks in the shadows, and no one's soul is safe. Not even those of the Detectives.

A family is gunned down in the snow, but one of the children survives. Three years on, that child takes revenge, and the Snow Killer is born. But then, nothing - no further crimes are committed, and the case goes cold. 50 years later, has the urge to kill been reawakened? As murder follows murder, the detective team tasked with solving the crimes struggle with the lack of leads. It’s a race against time and the weather - each time it snows, another person dies.

Rasante Action, coole Sprüche und eine Prise Exotik: Der grillende Killer ist ein Hard-boiled-Thriller aus Taiwan, der mit originellem Setting und schwarzem Humor punktet. Ausgerechnet wenige Tage vor der verdienten Pensionierung muss Kommissar Wu aus Taipeh sich mit dem angeblichen Suizid eines Marine-Offiziers herumschlagen. Wu ist sofort klar, dass der Mann ermordet wurde, doch das Militär beharrt auf Selbstmord - auch, als kurz darauf im fernen Rom weitere Offiziere zu Tode kommen. Nach dem reibungslos erledigten Job in Rom freut sich der junge taiwanesische Scharfschütze Alex darauf, zu seinem Asia-Imbiss zurückzukehren.

Er schneidet seinen Opfern ein L in die Stirn – bis seine Botschaft entschlüsselt ist. Als ein Junge in einen zugefrorenen Teich einbricht, entdecken die Rettungskräfte unter der Eisschicht einen Kindersarg. Allerdings befindet sich darin keine Leiche, sondern eine Chiffre und ein vergilbtes Zeitungsfoto, auf dem Kriminalhauptkommissarin Klara Frost mit ihrem ehemaligen Studienkollegen Erik Donner zu sehen ist. Während die Kripo über den Sarginhalt rätselt, taucht im Internet ein schreckliches Video auf, das ein altes Verbrechen zeigt.

Sheriff Kyle of Deadeye, Nevada, is headed east to the nation’s capital. Kyle’s about to discover that the law can be even wilder in the big city than in the Wild West. It’s a fact that hits home when he’s the one accused...of murder. Kyle’s come to the city to give a report to his senator on the misdeeds of Nevada’s filthy rich copper kings. But before he has a chance, he’s knocked unconscious, later coming to alongside his senator - now dead, with Kyle’s knife embedded in the corpse.

Kurt Reid may be innocent of the murder he's charged with (and of grand larceny, for that matter), but he's got no time to be thrown in jail and defend himself. Instead, Reid flees to pre-Communist China and Shanghai, the exotic city of mystery and death. Reid takes refuge in a tea house where he meets a Russian woman, Varinka Savischna, whom he manages to rescue from certain death. As beautiful as she is smart, she recruits him in her crusade against Chinese intelligence services.

The DI Sean Corrigan Short Story Collection includes four short stories from Luke Delaney’s terrifyingly authentic DI Sean Corrigan series: REDEMPTION OF THE DEAD, THE NETWORK, THE RAIN KILLER and AN IMPERFECT KILLING. REDEMPTION OF THE DEAD 1993. The Parkside Rapist has been terrorising the...

Im großstädtischen Hamburg geht es mörderisch zu. Ein furchtbarer Fund in einem unbewohnten Haus in Hamburg ruft Kommissar Uwe Jörgensen und sein Team auf den Plan. Mehrere Morde geschehen und ein tot geglaubter Profi-Killer erscheint erneut im Rampenlicht. Da kommt Kommissar Jörgensen einer weitreichenden Verschwörung innerhalb des organisierten Verbrechens auf die Spur. Alfred Bekker (geb. 1964 in Borghorst) ist ein bekannter Autor von Fantasy-Romanen, Krimis und Jugendbüchern.

Welcome to the first Kurt Lobo Casefile. Welcome to the Endless, Sprawling, Neon City beneath the broken EverNight. Welcome to the life of WolfSpliced Detective Kurt Lobo. There are many, many cases before the events of Kneel Downe’s first book Virulentblurb: Fractures. Here is just one of them…A damaged serial killer is stalking the city streets. Bodies left at random. Ritualistic in their method. Brutal. Can Detective Lobo find the JackPort Killer before events get too close?

An einem eiskalten und sonnigen Morgen wird mitten in New York der stadtbekannte Drogenhändler und Zuhälter Arnie Gonella erschossen...

A killer so clever, nobody hears the screams . . . When the mutilated body of a woman is discovered in her home, DCI Bishop from the Met murder squad is called in to oversee the case. The horrific killing bears a striking resemblance to three other murders years before, but the cases were never...

얼어붙은 1월의 어느 날 새벽 5시, 발란데르 경위는 일상적인 호출이라고 믿은 전화에 응답한다. 고립된 농가에 도착했을 때, 그는 피바다를 발견한다. 한 노인이 고문 끝에 죽임을 당했고, 그의 아내는 엉망이 된 남편의 시체 옆에 간신히 숨은 붙은 채 누워 있다. 전혀 이치에 닿지 않는 폭력의 두 희생자. 발란데르의 삶은 어수선하다. 아내가 집을 나갔고, 딸은 그와의 대화를 거부하며, 나이 든 아버지는 그를 무시한다. 쉼 없이 일하는 그는 방치된 아파트에서 술로 외로이 밤을 지새운다. 하지만 이제 발란데르는 자신의 문제를 잊고 시간과의 싸움에 전력투구한다.