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Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon, first published in 1930, is one of the greatest crime novels of all times, inspiring numerous spinoffs in film, television, and theater. The hero, Sam Spade, is a hard-bitten and ethically ambiguous detective who is approached by the beautiful and mysterious Miss Wonderly to track down her missing sister. Spade’s partner, Miles Archer, steps in, only to be shot that very night. Spade’s honor as a detective requires him to track down Archer’s killer.

They call him el Carnicero—the Butcher. He is the most powerful drug lord on the planet, and when the city of New York incurs his wrath, he utters a single word: “¡Venganza!” With military precision, he strafes Central Park with 4,000 pounds of cocaine, killing hundreds of innocent people enjoying a summer afternoon.

After being summoned to a crime scene late one Friday afternoon, Detective Mark Turpin arrives to find the body of a man, his face obscured by a plastic sheet wrapped around his head. When the victim’s final moments are traced to a rented property in the Oxfordshire countryside, Mark discovers another body, one that has been brutally cut to pieces and left to rot.

Inspector Luc Vanier is drinking his way through Christmas Eve when he is called out to investigate the murder of five homeless people. His investigation takes him into the backrooms of the Catholic Church, the boardrooms of Montreal’s business elite, and the soup kitchens and back alleys of street life in winter.

Jan Rose är rentvådd efter de ödesdigra händelserna med Satans dotter. Efter frigivningen från Nyborgs statsfängelse väcker han liv i sin gamla advokatverksamhet. Men friheten visar sig vara en illusion när en rad makabra filmer skickas till hans gamle vän, polischefen Flemming Jørgensen. En okänd figur med demonmask har filmat rituella mord som verkar ha en koppling till Flemmings förflutna. När Flemming försvinner spårlöst dras Jan åter in i mörkret. Har han blivit offer för ett värre svek än någonsin tidigare?

A woman has been murdered and her body is drained of blood. Plus two small punctures on her neck has the Special Investigations Homicide squad, led by Inspector Duke Becker, thinking the absurd. Has she been killed by a vampire? Of course no one believes it, but when an investigation into vampires leads to a club in the heart of New York City, there are doubts.

D/S Jimmy Suttle is called to a brutal murder in the picturesque Devon village of Lympstone. Harriet Reilly, a local GP, has been found disembowelled in the bedroom of her partner, climate scientist Alois Bentner. Suttle's estranged wife, Lizzie, has abandoned Portsmouth, moved to Exeter and returned to journalism, hearing rumours of a local GP offering mercy killings to patients meeting certain criteria. The name of the GP is Harriet Reilly. So begins two investigations of the same crime.

A rich old man, Rupert Moncrieff, is beaten to death in the silence of his West Country waterside mansion, his head hooded and his throat cut. His extended family are still living beneath his roof, each with their own room, their own story, their own ghosts, and their own motives for murder. And in this world of darkness and dysfunction are the artefacts and memories of colonial atrocities that are returning to haunt them all.

Un concejal de San Sebastián se lanza a las vías del tren en Intxaurrondo. Todo apunta a un suicidio, y la inspectora de la Ertzaintza Maialen Guevara toma el control del caso. Sin embargo, lo que comienza como una investigación rutinaria pronto se entrelaza con otro misterio: la muerte inexplicada de un profesor de primaria meses atrás. Desde Madrid llega Lorena Fernández, una detective privada contratada por la familia del fallecido. Lo que ni Maialen ni Lorena imaginan es que sus caminos convergerán en una red mucho más oscura de lo que esperaban.

Even the dead like to keep their secrets.... When William Gove, a dying millionaire and patriarch of a vast estate in Essex, asks Daniel Connell to execute his will, Daniel has no idea what he's getting himself into. Rather than leave his fortune to his three children, Gove has chosen 10 names at random from the phone book. When he dies, Daniel sets out to track down the recipients.

En fångtransport kapas brutalt på vägen mot Kumla och efterlämnar sig våldsam död, en överlevande väktare och två saknade interner. Men det som på ytan framstår som en traditionell fritagning döljer i stället ett avancerat försök att infiltrera ett av världens mest ogenomträngliga terrornätverk. Esther Ndembe, utredare vid Särskilda avdelningen för krigsbrott, kopplas in på fallet som rymmer fler frågetecken än svar.

A collapsed ceiling. A dead body. What starts as a routine 999 call takes an unexpected twist when Erika Foster arrives on the scene and discovers the body of a woman in an empty flat, with all DNA evidence scrubbed away. When forensics find cocaine residue coating every surface of the ceiling, Erika calls in the drug dogs, who lead her to a mysterious parcel locker on the outside wall of the property. Chasing down the locker’s owner leads Erika back where she never expected to be–staring into the eyes of Jerome Goodman, the drug dealer who murdered her husband, Mark, ten years ago.

Expert on body language and memory, and consultant to the Oslo Police, psychologist Kari Voss sleepwalks through her days, and, by night, continues the devastating search for her young son, who disappeared on his birthday, seven years earlier. Still grieving for her dead husband and trying to pull together the pieces of her life, she is thrust into a shocking local investigation, when two teenage girls are violently murdered in a family summer home.

Three hundred thirty-three fatalities and no survivors. So begins Pulitzer Prize finalist Jean Heller’s chilling hard-boiled saga, as a flight crashes on takeoff when one of its engines explodes in midair. After that, it’s a toss-up—you may or may not be able to catch your breath as the thriller loops and careens to a twisty climax.

Sheriff Elven Hallie is a shell of himself. He’s lost everything. His house, his Jeep, his girl. But most of all, his reputation. When an entire library full of people is massacred, Elven is forced to pull himself together to catch the killer. To make matters worse, it’s election time, and this go around, Elven’s not running unopposed. Zane Rhodes is highly respected in the community. A business owner, involved in the church, and has the backing of the governor.

Red Harvest is a hardboiled classic that set the standard for gritty, no-nonsense crime fiction. Written by Dashiell Hammett, this explosive novel follows an unnamed detective—referred to only as “The Continental Op”—as he arrives in a corrupt industrial town known as “Poisonville.” Hired to clean up the city, he quickly finds himself in the middle of a brutal gang war. Betrayals, double-crosses, and brutal power plays spiral into chaos as the Op’s relentless quest for justice leads to a blood-soaked reckoning.

A New York City ex-cop with too many rules and a Spanish ex-spy with too few make the perfect bounty hunters to track down the world’s most wanted.

Du glaubst, dir kann geholfen werden? Irrtum! Stell dir vor: In deiner dunkelsten Stunde findest du endlich einen Menschen, der dir die Hand reicht. Du freust dich und greifst danach. Aber nur, um kurz darauf feststellen zu müssen: Du wirst von dieser Hand nicht zurück ins Licht gezogen. Nein. Stattdessen wirst du in ein unfassbares Grauen gestoßen. Ein tiefschwarzes, unvorstellbares Martyrium, aus dem der einzige Ausweg dein Tod zu sein scheint. Wenn aus einer traumhaften Idylle plötzlich dein größter Albtraum wird, ist es besser, du rennst weg, solange du noch kannst.

STOCKHOLM: Etliche Morde erschüttern die Ruhe der nordischen Stadt: Opfer, die rein gar nichts miteinander zu tun haben – Tötungsarten, die sich nicht ähneln. Aber eine ist grausamer als die andere...

Nach den dramatischen Ereignissen in "Damenopfer" bleibt Karre und dem Team des K3 keine Zeit zum Durchatmen: Der Doppelmord an einem jungen Paar stellt die Ermittler vor ein Rätsel. Denn niemand scheint ein Motiv für die kaltblütige Tat zu haben. Doch was zunächst wie ein wahlloser Mord erscheint, entpuppt sich mehr und mehr als mörderisches Komplott mit ungeahntem Ausmaß. Je weiter Karre und seine Kollegen die Ermittlungen vorantreiben, desto mehr bringen sie sich und andere in tödliche Gefahr.