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On a bone-chilling October night, Medical Examiner Rowan Winthorp investigates the death of her daughter’s best friend. Hours later, the tragedy hits even closer to home when she makes a devastating discovery—her daughter, Chloe, is gone. But, not without a trace. A morbid mosaic of clues forces Rowan and her husband to question how deeply they really knew their daughter. As they work closely to peel back the layers of this case, they begin to unearth disturbing details about Chloe and her secret transgressions…details that threaten to tear them apart.

Vissa människor förtjänar att straffas, andra förtjänar att dö. Sektion M är en specialenhet inom polisen, skapad för att lösa speciellt komplicerade mord. Då Nora Feller tvingas lämna sitt arbete som polis i Katrineholm söker hon en tjänst hos Sektion M, och till sin egen förvåning får hon den. Mottagandet i teamet är kärvt, men hon känner ändå en viss närhet med profileraren och befälet Charlotte Victorin. Noras första fall med enheten är ytterst exceptionellt.

EMS Captain turned sleuth Brighid Doran suspects that all is not what it appears on the surface at The Branston Club—a swanky ski lodge being built in her rural Vermont town. While dodging danger and digging up dirt, Brighid faces the ire of small town politics, crooked cops, and an ever deepening hole of deceptions, all the while struggling to cope with the constant deployment of her wife Major Sarah (Sam) Ann Musgrave.

Judi Westerholme is happy living in secluded Candlebark, growing her own food, bothering no one - until the cops come knocking. Informed that her estranged brother Andy has been murdered, she assumes it’s connected to his long-term drug addiction. But when she returns home, Judi is shocked to discover that Andy had been clean for years and had a wife - now missing - and a two-year-old child, Mia. Andy seems to have been leading an ordinary life. But if he had turned things around for himself, why was he killed in a drug-deal shooting? And where is his wife?

Jotkut ihmiset ansaitsevat rangaistuksen, toiset ansaitsevat kuolla. M-ryhmä on poliisin erikoisyksikkö, joka on perustettu ratkaisemaan erityisen monimutkaisia murhia. Kun Nora Feller pakotetaan jättämään työnsä poliisina Katrineholmissa, hän hakee paikkaa M-ryhmästä ja saa sen omaksikin yllätyksekseen. Vastaanotto tiimissä on hapanta, mutta Nora tuntee sentään jonkinlaista kumppanuutta profiloija Charlotte Victorinin kanssa. Noran ensimmäinen tapaus M-ryhmässä on poikkeuksellinen.

Vissa människor förtjänar att straffas, andra förtjänar att dö. Nora Feller har genomskådat det mörka spelet bakom Sektion M och vill aldrig mer ha med dem att göra. Istället har hon börjat en ny polistjänst på enheten för grova brott i Halmstad. Det som först ser ut som ett enkelt spaningsjobb mot en narkotikakurir visar sig vara början på en chockerande härva av förnedring och bestialiskt beteende. Utredningen tar fart på allvar när en villa i det fashionabla området Frösakull exploderar.

Someone is murdering the homeless in Detroit’s Cass Corridor―by immolation. These horrific crimes wouldn’t require an investigation by Charlie Mack and her crack team investigators, except that one of the burned bodies is her mother’s friend. There’s a lot wrong with this case: the police won’t admit a serial killer is on the loose, drug trafficking intersects with the deaths, and a rogue cop is involved. The timing also couldn’t be worse―Charlie and Mandy are finally moving in together.

It started with a haunting image: a Ford Explorer, iridescent in the moonlight and alone on a desolate stretch of beach. Its owner, Melissa Gibbons, has gone missing. Her husband says she flew the coop. But Los Angeles Deputy DA Rachel Knight is convinced otherwise: Melissa Gibbons has been...

L’idea della felicità coniugale è rimasta una chimera per Agatha Raisin. Il matrimonio con James Lacey è stato un disastro fin dall’inizio e, alla fine, lui l’ha lasciata… per entrare in monastero. E, per consolarsi, Agatha non ha potuto contare sul suo vecchio amico sir Charles Fraith, perché anche lui, in un certo senso, l’ha abbandonata, dato che è andato a Parigi per sposare una giovane francese.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Down to the Woods by M.J. Arlidge, read by Sally Scott. There is a sickness in the forest. First, it was the wild horses. Now it's innocent men and women, hunted down and murdered by a faceless figure. Lost in the darkness, they try to flee, they try to...

In Southamptons Rotlichtbezirk wird eine Leiche gefunden – ein Mann, grausam verstümmelt, das Herz entfernt. Stunden später erhält Eileen Matthews ein Päckchen: Es enthält das Herz ihres Mannes. Warum musste Alan auf so schreckliche Weise sterben? Der Familienvater war ein allseits geschätzter Mann, in der Kirche aktiv, als Streetworker für Obdachlose im Einsatz.

The discovery of Gemma Whiting's bludgeoned body within spitting distance of her family home, opens a new case for DI Sally Parker, one that quickly embroils her in Gemma's feud with male family members. The more Sally digs, the longer her suspect list grows. Frustrated after months of investigation, yet another young woman is attacked close to where Gemma's body was found. Sally begins to wonder if she's been looking in the wrong direction for the killer.

DI Sally Parker has a serial killer on her patch. One thing that sets this killer apart from the others she's hunted before: his willingness to leave DNA at each of the crime scenes. It's up to Sally and her partner, DS Jack Blackman, to find out why before the body count rises to double figures. While Sally is engrossed in the investigation, her ex-husband, Darryl, pays a surprise visit to her new home.

Ein perfider Killer kidnappt Paare. Die Opfer wachen orientierungslos auf, gefangen in einem Raum, in dem niemand ihre Schreie hört. Es gibt keine Fluchtmöglichkeit, nur eine Waffe und die Botschaft des Entführers: Entweder sterben beide einen langsamen, qualvollen Tod - oder einer bringt den anderen um und ist frei.

Ein perfider Killer kidnappt Paare. Die Opfer wachen orientierungslos auf, gefangen in einem Raum, in dem niemand ihre Schreie hört. Es gibt keine Fluchtmöglichkeit, nur eine Waffe und die Botschaft des Entführers: Entweder sterben beide einen langsamen, qualvollen Tod - oder einer bringt den anderen um und ist frei. Detective Inspector Helen Grace und ihr Team ermitteln fieberhaft, denn die Abstände zwischen den Taten werden kürzer.

Doi ostatici. Un singur glonţ. Doar unul va supravieţui. Sunt suflete-pereche. Vor să-şi petreacă restul vieţii împreună. Însă când se trezesc singuri şi dezorientaţi într-un subsol părăsit, groaza îi copleşeşte. Nu au la dispoziţie decât o armă încărcată cu un singur glonţ şi însoţită de următorul mesaj: „Când unul dintre voi îl va ucide pe celălalt, supravieţuitorul va fi liber". Cine a putut concepe un astfel de scenariu sinistru, în care victimele înseşi comit crima?