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Imran faces a criminal who has been alive for 200 years, but how? The inimitable detective is armed with his distinctive screwball humor and an airgun!

Montreal, 1970. The "Vampire Killer" has murdered three women and a fourth is missing. Bombs explode in the stock exchange, McGill University, and houses in Westmount. Riots break out at the St. Jean Baptiste parade and at Sir George Williams University. James Cross and Pierre Laporte are kidnapped and the Canadian army moves onto the streets of Montreal. A young beat cop working out of Station 10 finds himself almost alone hunting the serial killer, as the rest of the force focuses on the FLQ crisis.

A haunting and enigmatic tale that will keep you awake and wondering long after you've finished this classic mystery. Everyone agreed that the day was just right for the picnic to Hanging Rock - a shimmering summer morning warm and still, with cicadas shrilling.... St Valentine’s Day, in the midst of the hot summer of 1900, a party of schoolgirls went on a picnic to Hanging Rock. Some were never to return....

When washed-up 80s rock legend Johnny Freestone is found dead in a cave off Scotland's North Coast 500 tourist route, it looks like a tragic accident–another celebrity lost to a reckless lifestyle. But Police Scotland detective–and secret Freestone fan–Jack Logan isn’t convinced that the star's death was an accident. As Logan delves into Johnny's final days, he uncovers a trail of bitter rivalries, broken promises, and a comeback tour that wasn’t quite what it seemed.

Billionaire Elliott Kantor, who ruled over a mammoth real estate portfolio in Chicago, was a creature of habit. His trainer came to his house three mornings every week for a five-thirty workout. By six-thirty he was in the car and his driver drove him down into the city where he’d get a shave...

For the first time in her life, DCI Emma Gardner finds herself unable to concentrate on the job she loves. Her thoughts are now always with her old colleague Paul Riddick, who lies desperately ill in hospital - a tortured man in life, now facing death. When a young woman dies from seemingly natural causes, Emma can’t help feeling that something isn’t quite right with the case, but she needs her team to pick up the slack whilst she focuses on Paul. The case proves more complex than anyone imagined and will test the team like never before.

El nuevo alcaide de la insólita penitenciaría controla a todos y cada uno de los convictos que hasta allí son arrastrados. Los reclusos pronto descubrirán que no son personas normales, ni han sido encerrados allí por azar. La condena que les aguarda transcurrirá a la sombra de una siniestra amenaza. No tardarán en averiguar que de la resolución del misterio de Black Rock depende mucho más que su propia vida.

El nuevo alcaide de la insólita penitenciaría controla a todos y cada uno de los convictos que hasta allí son arrastrados. Los reclusos pronto descubrirán que no son personas normales, ni han sido encerrados allí por azar. La condena que les aguarda transcurrirá a la sombra de una siniestra amenaza. No tardarán en averiguar que de la resolución del misterio de Black Rock depende mucho más que su propia vida.

Tercera entrega de la Serie "Black Rock". ¿Cuál es la peor condena que le puede caer a un preso de Illinois? Ni la cadena perpetua, ni la inyección letal. El peor castigo es el destino a la prisión de Black Rock, una fortaleza de negros muros cuya localización exacta nadie conoce.

When the body of a talented photographer is found on the rocks beneath the ruins of Dunstanburgh Castle, DCI Ryan and his team of detectives immediately suspect the worst. But, since none of their potential suspects seems to have a motive, the case runs cold. Then, when another body is found dead on a lonely stretch of road near Hadrian’s Wall and their only suspect has an airtight alibi, the team are faced with another crime without a perpetrator.

Sebastian Synard hat drei große Leidenschaften: Whiskey, Bücher und seine Heimat Neufundland. Mit seinem kleinen Tourismus­unternehmen »On the Rock(s)« macht er die Hobbys zum Beruf. Die exklusiven Touren über die Insel kommen gut an und er plant bereits für die ­nächste Saison. Doch das kann ihn nicht darauf vorbereiten, was dann passiert: Gleich zu Beginn der ersten Wanderung stürzt ein Teilnehmer von den Klippen in den Tod.

In the shadow of a massive boulder on Oklahoma’s Big Rock Prairie, a squirrel hunter discovers a charred skeleton in a homemade charcoal kiln. Johnston County deputy Hannah Bond and Chickasaw Lighthorse police sergeant Bill Maytubby are called to the scene and soon identify the victim as a young Chickasaw man from a nearby town. What begins as the search for a killer soon throws Maytubby and Bond into the deep end of a conspiracy that puts both the victim’s family and the officers themselves at risk.

Junior Bender, Los Angeles burglar and off-the-books detective to the felonious, is reminded that rock and roll will never die (no matter how fervently he wishes some of it would) when Hollywood’s most dangerous geriatric mobster, Irwin Dressler, retains Junior’s investigative services to solve a rather unharmonious problem. Junior has one weekend to figure out who’s to blame—a weekend that begins with his tires being slashed, threatening notes left on his car, and a theatrical backdrop falling on a drummer during the truly terrible first set of the first concert.

Hochprozentig Mord! Im schottischen Balfour herrscht Aufruhr. Gleich am ersten Abend von Abigail Logans Whisky-Seminar wird ein Teilnehmer ermordet. Er hat unlautere Finanzgeschäfte aufgedeckt. Oder hat er selbst davon profitiert? Wollte sich jemand an ihm rächen? Viele im Ort haben Geld verloren, und auch einige aus der Seminargruppe haben ein Motiv. Abigail geht der Sache auf den Grund - und wird Zeugin eines zweiten Mordes. Spannung und ein Gläschen Humor in schottischem Flair: ein neuer Fall für Abigail Logan

Ted Sweeney. Affable everyman in small-town Montana. Tailgate hung on with baling wire, owner of his own business. Ten minutes ago, his biggest worry had been how to pay for the engagement ring rattling around in his pocket. But that was before he came home to find a corpse tidily arranged in his favorite recliner, his "old pal of a piece of furniture". Is it a warning or a setup or what? Sweeney can't help but admire the efficiency of the work, the slice deep across the guy's throat. Somebody knew what they were doing.

Fourteen-year-old Jesse is shipped halfway round the world after the death of his father. He struggles to adapt to life on the Welsh Atlantic coast but eventually befriends John, a popular, charismatic, and outwardly charming boy. But as their friendship grows, a darker side to John emerges. Will Jesse notice before it's too late?

The year is 1832, and great change and reform are sweeping England, but 23-year-old Joshua Weyland is languishing in Key West, USA. He was third mate on the schooner Jessica, which ran aground in suspicious circumstances, and the skipper has been arrested on charges of deliberately wrecking his ship. Josh is eager to get back to England to marry his fiancée, so he ships as second mate on a brig bound for Bristol. But when the ship founders off the coast of Cornwall, it's clear it's been deliberately wrecked.

Detective Mia Hart never planned to return home. One terrifying summer night, Mia lost two of her closest friends to suicide. Scarred and broken, she fled St. Lucy’s, a small island off the coast of Maine. Now fifteen years later, when the body of a journalist is fished out of the bay near St. Lucy’s cliffs, Mia is forced to help with the case - and face all she’s been running from. As she approaches the island, the wintery winds of Black Rock Bay usher Mia home again.

When a Hollywood director’s wife dies during a local movie shoot, filming is suspended. The death also spells the end of ex-Mountie Lacey McCrae’s latest temporary job. At loose ends, Lacey volunteers to help in the search for an aging oil baron and his son who have disappeared in the foothills of the Rockies. As drone operators scan the forested valleys from the air and rock-climbers rappel down narrow chasms in search of the pair, Lacey dons her Victim Services’ cap to ease tensions among the missing oilman’s four adult sons and three ex-wives.

La vida de Natalie, una joven psicóloga, se desmorona cuando su marido Jim desaparece haciendo surf. Todo parece indicar que no ha sido más que un trágico accidente hasta que recibe una llamada telefónica que le hace sospechar lo contrario. A partir de ese momento, Natalie se embarca en una búsqueda de la verdad. Pero ¿va a revelar un secreto que puede acabar costándole la vida? Tras la trágica muerte de su padre, Jesse, un adolescente de trece años, se ve obligado a abandonar su adorada Australia y a empezar de nuevo en Gales. Allí conoce a John.