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Set during the dark days of World War II, Agatha Christie’s N or M? puts two most unlikely espionage agents, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, on the trail of a pair of Nazi spies who have murdered Britain’s top agent. World War II is raging, and while the RAF struggles to keep the Luftwaffe at...

Hoe kan een man die zo geliefd is in zijn dorp toch zoveel gevaarlijke vijanden hebben? Het overlijden van de gerespecteerde detective Tom Newquist kwam voor niemand als een verrassing. Ze schakelt privédetective Kinsey Millhone in om de dood van haar man goed te kunnen afsluiten. Maar het is maar de vraag of het zover komt... Kinsey stuit op zwijgende buurtbewoners en verdachte aanwijzingen.

When one of the ladies in residence at Hampton Court Palace fails to answer her maid's call in the morning, Mrs Lydia Bramble, palace housekeeper, is called in to investigate. What Mrs Bramble finds sends shockwaves through the whole palace: Miss Philomena Franklin, slumped over her desk, a knife in her back.

Niko und Klaus, die beiden Spürnasen, machen merkwürdige Beobachtungen: Eine dunkle Gestalt verschwindet nachts über die Parkmauer des Isenburg-Heims. Heiner, ein Mitbewohner, trifft sich mit zwielichtigen Typen. Und immer taucht plötzlich ein blinder Drehorgelspieler mit einem schwarzen Hund auf. Ehe die Zwillingsdetektive sich versehen, spitzen sich die Ereignisse dramatisch zu.

Dilluns al matí. La setmana comença per al sergent dels Mossos d'Esquadra Jaume Fuentes i el seu company, Santi Planes, amb el cas del cadàver d'un home jove esbudellat en un petit despatx del centre de Barcelona. Al llarg dels set dies següents, el que en un principi semblava un cas...

Tommy och Tuppence Beresford är två av den brittiska underrättelsetjänstens främsta spioner. Men när andra världskriget bryter ut börjar det gå upp för dem att deras liv som spioner kanske är över. Jobben sinar, de känner sig satta ur spel av yngre förmågor och deras tillvaro blir alltmer händelselös och fattig. Saker får dock sig en rejäl spinn när de blir tillfrågade att utföra ett sista - och mycket farligt - uppdrag för underrättelsetjänsten. Den här gången handlar det om en läcka innanför organisationen som måste hittas.

UN JEU DE PISTE GLAÇANT. Jeune journaliste passionnée et déjà célèbre, Lynn Dunsday enquête pour un site d'information sur Internet. Reporter chevronné désormais proche de la retraite, Trevor Sugden travaille " à l'ancienne " pour un petit quotidien au format original. Tous les deux vont traquer un assassin sans scrupule qui reconstitue avec autant de rigueur que de férocité les scènes de crimes les plus atroces, avant de les diffuser sur le Net. Sur les blogs et les réseaux sociaux, les indices et les rumeurs circulent plus vite que les informations officielles.

Tirée de l'esprit de l'auteur Alfred C. Martino, cette nouvelle jaillit des rues sombres et violentes du Los Angeles des années 1990. Comme l'explique le protagoniste, la sueur de la chaleur du sud de la Californie dégoulinant sur son Glock : « Je n'ai jamais commis de meurtre et je n'ai jamais été assassiné. Mais j'ai rêvé des deux. »

When police officer Fiona MacLeish stumbles upon a group of fellow hikers in dire trouble in the dramatic peaks of the Scottish Highlands, she has no choice but to help. One of the party has fallen off the path, lying below with the crisp white snow around his head starting to turn scarlet. Fiona soon learns the potential accident is actually a deliberate murder. But who would want to hurt this man and why? With visibility worsening and the snowstorm getting worse, Fiona and the group of hikers make it just in time to a nearby shelter.

Carla Kovach veroverde met detective Gina Harte binnen een paar maanden een trouw publiek. Een jonge vrouw valt uit een busje dat met hoge snelheid over een afgelegen weg raast. Haar lichaam is gekneusd en beurs en met haar laatste kracht wendt ze zich tot de persoon die haar te hulp schiet. "Help haar," fluistert ze voordat ze haar ogen voorgoed sluit. Een paar dagen later wordt in een ondiep graf, slechts enkele kilometers verderop, het lichaam van een ander meisje gevonden. De gelijkenissen tussen de twee meisjes zijn verontrustend - dezelfde leeftijd, hetzelfde fragiele lichaam en tot slot dat felrode haar.

Heavy is the head that wears the crown, and Caesar King feels weighted to the ground. The Five Families are in complete disarray, and Caesar realizes too late that stepping down was the wrong thing to do. It’s up to him to make the puzzle whole again. But when another war comes to their doorsteps and a past mistake comes back for blood, death rips through the boroughs like a tornado. In the end, there might not be any pieces left to put back together.

My mother lied to me. My family is not my own. If it wasn’t for the genealogy test, I would never have known I was the child of another woman. Now I’m learning that I have four brothers I have never met. And one of them is a serial killer. My brother is taunting me to play his vicious game – solving his clues before he spills more blood. Who can I trust? How can I find and stop him before it is too late? And what if it is me he really wants?

Detective Inspector Fenella Sallow is obsessive about her work and driven by her own demons. When the body of a retired artist is discovered atop the blackened embers of the town bonfire, the community is rocked to the core. It falls to DI Fenella Sallow and her team to find out how she came to be there. In her 50s, the veteran detective inspector thought she had seen it all. But behind the curtained windows and closed doors of the idyllic Cumbria coastal setting lurks pure evil.

Pappy tries to break out of the game before the head of his crew, Black, gets them all killed. Against his better judgment Pappy agrees to do one last job, but only because it’s the price of his freedom. He knows Black can’t be trusted. He knows his “brother” would rather see him dead than let him walk away. Yet he still agrees to do the job because Black isn’t the only one who can’t be trusted. Sometimes you have to kill for what you want. Further developing the stark realism and uncompromising streetwise narratives of his lyrics, H.N.I.C. cements Prodigy’s position as one of the foremost chroniclers of contemporary urban life.

When two bodies wash up on a river bank in the Balkans, Simo Subotic is called in to investigate. It soon becomes clear that their deaths were the result of torture not seen since the Bosnian War. Meanwhile, after a drug bust prematurely ends the Tour de Balkans, former Olympic cyclist Heather Bishop is in freefall after her journalist boyfriend Ryan Mackinnon goes missing. Her desperate search for him uncovers not only Ryan's dark past, but that of a region still reeling from the trauma of war.

C. N. Phillips returns with the next tale in the saga of five crime families that run the streets of New York’s five boroughs. The uneasy alliance they once shared has been compromised, and now no one is truly safe from retribution. Caesar knew the peace he started had an expiration date, but he never thought the end would be so explosive. With the Pact completely dissolved and the Chinese angered beyond measure at the loss of their leader, they want Boogie’s head bloody and served on a stick. Caesar is willing to protect him at all costs.

2003. Kabul has become a frontier city, Afghanistan's fledgling democracy struggling with crime and corruption as NATO coalition troops, gangs and warlords jostle for control. When the body of a British serviceman is discovered in the city's infamous tank graveyard, the Kabul Police reach out for support in their investigation. Alasdair 'Mac' MacKenzie, formerly of the Metropolitan Police, is seconded to the team.

Der erste Fall für Kriminalkommissarin Lind: Der geniale Platz-1-Bestseller aus Schweden! Ein unglaubliches Verbrechen erschüttert die nordschwedische Stadt Boden: Eine Lehrerin, die keine Feinde zu haben scheint, wird ermordet aufgefunden. Noch dazu hat der Täter ihren Leichnam brutal inszeniert: Zwei dicke Nägel wurden durch die Hände der Toten getrieben; sie selbst hängt an einem Deckenhaken, als ihr Ehemann sie entdeckt. Kriminalkommissarin Idun Lind muss herausfinden, warum es zu der schrecklichen Tat kam.

Amrapali Anna Singh is an historian and analyst capable of discerning the most cryptic and trivial details from audio recordings. One day, a mysterious man appears at her office in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, having traveled a great distance to bring her three Type IV audio cassettes that bear the stamp of a library in Buenos Aires that may or may not exist. On the cassettes is the deposition of an adventure journalist and his obsessive pursuit of an amorphous, legendary, and puzzling "City of Dreams."

Niko und Klaus, die Zwillingsdetektive, horchen auf: Wozu braucht Tarzan ein Messtischblatt vom Ruhrufer und ein Buch über Völkerwanderung? Was treibt er im Schilf und bei dem sonderbaren alten Fischer? Als sie ihren Spürnasen nachgehen, stellen sie entsetzt fest, dass Tarzan in großer Gefahr schwebt.