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Simone Singh is a feisty IPS officer who would rather spend her days locking up criminals than apologizing for her lack of social skills. Freshly back from an unjust suspension, Simone is forced to team up with DSP Zoya Bharucha, an empathetic officer who's as loved in the police force as Simone...

There have been multiple strange thefts in the city and the police are helpless. The thieves always get away. Faridi and Hameed have to part ways. Hameed is anxious. A filthy dangerous man tries to scare Hameed away, but Hameed can’t back down. And all this time, Hameed does not know where Faridi is.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Sleeping in the Ground comes this brilliantly nuanced short story collection of twenty stories—most never before published in the US, and one of them an Edgar winner—which also features three Inspector Banks tales. Peter Robinson pens thrilling...

Eagle Falls is a sleepy town in Washington State. Surrounded by forests and a national park, it's threatened by huge wildfires. But when a family dies in a house blaze, it's suspected to be the work of an arsonist. Jessie Lewis, a former firefighter and survivor of domestic abuse, sleeps with a gun on her bedside table. Ruth Sullivan has retired from the FBI in Seattle after a terrorist attack killed her partner. Both women find themselves on the trail of the arsonist - and tangled up in the web of lies that runs through Eagle Falls.

It was supposed to be easy money. A few exchanges for cash, one big payoff, and then life would be better than ever with bills all paid and money in her pocket. But the plan fell apart and now she's made an enemy. He's a drug cartel leader out to destroy any competition - and get payback by any means necessary....

How far would you go to save the ones you love? The first book in a stunning new crime series featuring DCI Anna Tate. When nine children are snatched from a nursery school in South London, their distressed parents have no idea if they will ever see them again. The community in the surrounding area is in shock. How could this happen right under their noses? No one in the quiet suburban street saw anything - or at least that's what they're saying. But DCI Anna Tate knows that nothing is impossible, and she also knows that time is quickly running out.

A madman starts shooting at innocent children and at Detective Ewert Truut… this time it's personal. Having returned to Stockholm from his exile in Skåne, Ewert Truut gets personally involved in the sickening shootings when the gunman focuses the aim on Ewert's own grandchild. It is a race against the clock as Ewert and his team try to catch the shooter before it's too late…

On a warm evening in late summer, best friends Raymond and Cara camp out overnight in the garden. By morning, Raymond is dead and Cara is missing. DI Rita Cannan is called home to the sleepy seaside town of Green-on-the-Sea to investigate Raymond’s murder and try to find Cara - alive. But the case carries eerie echoes of another girl’s death that rocked the close-knit community, decades ago.

When an underground safe house collapses in Santa Carina Valley, California, FBI Agent Susan Parker is called to lead the investigation. Still reeling from her husband's murder and struggling to rebuild her life as a single mom to her young daughter, Susan is now faced with her toughest case yet. As Susan digs deeper, she uncovers a chilling truth—this was no accident, but a cold-blooded mass murder. The trail leads to a mysterious figure known as ‘The Saint,’ a supposed savior with a twisted hatred and deadly agenda.

Jack Keller works in fugitive apprehension and never feels more alive than when he's hunting down a skip. But when a young girl goes missing, and Keller finds out that the father is an AWOL member of the army's elite Delta Force, he knows immediately that this case will be anything but fun and games.

Ein hochspannender Airbnb-Thriller rund um eine abgelegene Ranch, eine junge New Yorkerin auf der Suche nach Ruhe – und das mysteriöse Verschwinden einer jungen Frau. Spannungsvoll gelesen von Anne Düe und Peter Lontzek. Wem kann sie trauen? Und wie sicher ist sie wirklich? Auf der Suche nach Ruhe und Entspannung reist die junge New Yorkerin Grace nach Wyoming, wo sie sich auf einer abgelegenen Ranch über Airbnb ein Zimmer gebucht hat. Hier gibt es weder Handynetz noch WLAN oder andere Ablenkungen. Nur ihren Gastgeber Calvin, mit dem sich Grace für die nächsten Tage das Haus teilen wird.

She senses their twisted desires before she meets them. It's as if fate is helping her stop these monsters from preying on others the way she was preyed upon. And after she has delivered brutal justice, she'll let the whole world see their guilt.

No Longer Safe: Booktrack Edition is enhanced with a musical soundtrack from Booktrack for an immersive listening experience! When Alice receives an invitation from Karen, her charismatic university friend, to stay in a remote cottage in Scotland, she can’t wait to rekindle their lost friendship. But two more former students arrive - never friends of Alice’s - and as the atmosphere chills, Karen isn’t the warm-hearted soulmate Alice remembers. Barely is the reunion underway before someone is dead and the fragile gathering is pushed to the breaking point.

Who does Andrew Clayton turn to when his wife has been murdered, his child is in danger, and the police think he is responsible? Despite his mistrust of Clayton, Joe Hunter accepts the job of protecting young Cole. But who is he protecting the boy from? And why? It's clear Clayton knows more about his wife's killer, but he isn't saying. And when his silence places Cole in the killer's sights, there's...No Safe Place.

جريمة قتلٍ غامضة تهزُّ المدينة فيضطّر جهاز الأمن اسناد تحرياتها إلى الضابط هشام المتخفي تحت اسم وشخصية "سيف".