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Striker has a gift. He sees things other cops don’t. Sometimes, it’s a blessing. On other occasions, a curse. When a package containing graphic pictures of a murder taking place is delivered to the mother of the victim, the unconventional and uncompromising detective is called upon to use his special talents to solve the case. With just a small team of specialist officers, including the beautiful psychological profiler, DC Felicity Abbott, Striker quickly learns he is dealing with not one, but two serial killers who are about to kill one victim, each week.

Daniel Owen is coming to terms with not being a cop. He's happy to find a bunch of like-minded people at the town allotments—until one of them is brutally murdered. Mal Kent is settling into his new job as the man-in-charge of Melin Tywyll CID. The fly in the ointment is bigoted, lazy DI Carey, Daniel's replacement. Carey wants to blame Daniel's new friends for the murder, and with Daniel as their only alibi, accusations fly.

Detective Sebastian Clifford and his partner Lucinda "Birdie" Bird are about to embark on their most challenging case yet when Lady Angelica Charing tasks them with finding the son she secretly gave away when she was only sixteen. Time's running out. This long-lost son isn't just a missing puzzle piece; he's the last hope for a life-saving kidney transplant for his dying half-brother. The stakes couldn't be higher.

Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway has excavated a body from the grounds of Norwich Castle, once a prison. The body may be that of Victorian murderess Jemima Green. Called Mother Hook for her claw-like hand, Jemima was hanged for the murder of five children. DCI Harry Nelson has no time for...

Sexta parte de la Saga de "El Guardián de las Flores". En plenas fiestas de la Peregrina, en Pontevedra, la Virgen desaparece de su templo. Y con su robo, han dejado una clara advertencia escrita en sangre: «Paola Gómez, es tu hora». La comisaria y todo el equipo se desplazan a la ciudad del...

Falkenberg, Sweden. The mutilated body of talented young jewellery designer, Linnea Blix, is found in a snow-swept marina. Hampstead Heath, London. The body of a young boy is discovered with similar wounds to Linnea's. Buchenwald Concentration Camp, 1944. In the midst of the hell of the Holocaust, Erich Hebner will do anything to see himself as a human again. Are the two murders the work of a serial killer, and how are they connected to shocking events at Buchenwald?

Henry Rohmers New York Detective Reihe vereint spannende Kriminalfälle mit dem authentischen Bild der Großstadt New York. Rasant erzählt und immer am Puls der Zeit, taucht der Privatdetektiv Bount Reininger tief in die Unterwelten der Metropole ein, auf der Spur von Kleinkriminellen, Terroristen und Serienmördern.

>From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and John D. MacDonald got their start in Black Mask.

The urban crime stories that appeared in Black Mask helped to shape American culture. Modern computer games, films, and television are rooted in the fiction popularized by “the seminal and venerated mystery pulp magazine” (Booklist).

Una fuerte tormenta de viento y nieve asola las calles vacías de la isla de Sandhamn. Nora Linde está celebrando la Navidad con sus hijos y su exmarido, Henrik, mientras que su amigo el inspector Thomas Andreasson pasa las fiestas con su familia en una isla cercana. Entretanto, una mujer...

A collection of the best and most popular programs from the Golden Age of Radio, digitally remastered, and including performances from some of Hollywood’s most beloved stars, like Orson Welles, Richard Widmark, Roy Rogers, and many more.

When private investigator Cole Harper is approached by Maria Moretti, a woman he barely remembers from 1943, she's holding two things he can't ignore—one of his old business cards and a postcard pulled from her mailbox. The message on the postcard is written in code...but the handwriting is unmistakable. It belongs to her son, Navy Yeoman Third Class Frank Moretti, who the Navy says vanished four years earlier and was officially declared "missing at sea."

LEE CHILD says she's ""a genius."" P.D. JAMES called her ""the most remarkable"" of today's suspense writers. STIEG LARSSON loved her work so much, he named her in his novels. And now SARA PARETSKY returns with the most extraordinary novel of her legendary career: FALLOUT. Before there was...

Tripolibukten 1803: Den ökände piraten Al-Jama hamnar i en blodig batalj och räddas från drunkning av en av sina amerikanska fiender. Drygt 200 år senare: Ett internationellt toppmöte ska hållas i Tripoli. Men en terroristledare, som även han kallar sig Al-Jama, gör allt i sin makt för att sätta käppar i hjulet och kidnappar USA:s utrikesminister. Frågan är vilken terroristledaren Al-Jamas verkliga identitet är. Juan Cabrillo och hans besättning beger sig dit för att lokalisera och befria ministern.

Birgitta Björkhammar och hennes väninna Anita är ute och plockar bär i Svartedalen när de hör skott avlossas mellan träden. Det dröjer inte länge innan de hamnar i korselden, och när Anita träffas i låret tvingas Birgitta lämna henne för att söka hjälp. På sin väg genom skogen söker Birgitta skydd i en övergiven stuga, där hon snabbt inser att personerna som rör sig i området inte är okända för henne. De är kopplade till fall hon tidigare har utrett – och skottdramat visar sig ha starkare kopplingar till hennes eget liv än hon först anat.

Legendary detective V.I. Warshawski uncovers a mystery with roots dating back to the Civil War in this edge-of-your-seat thriller from New York Times bestseller Sara Paretsky. V .I. Warshawski is famous for her cool under fire, her intelligence, her humor, her unflinching courage, and her love...

Sara Paretsky follows her instant New York Times bestseller Fallout—her most widely read novel in years—with an extraordinary adventure that pits her acclaimed detective, V.I. Warshawski, against some of today’s most powerful figures. Legendary sleuth V.I. Warshawski returns to the Windy...

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Hard-boiled detectives. Tough. Cynical. But they always get the job done no matter who - or what - gets in their way. Richard Rogue was one of those hard boiled detectives. He had a way with one liners, a way with the ladies and a way of solving crimes that is probably unique on the airwaves. Every time he got took a fist to the jaw and got knocked out his subconscious took the clues and gave him the answer.

Laura Stein ist eine Getriebene. Als Jugendliche ging die junge Kommissarin durch die Hölle und überlebte. Aber die Vergangenheit verfolgt sie bis heute. Unerbittlich jagt sie seit Jahren dem Gangsterboss Victor Hansen hinterher. Um ihn zu stellen, ist ihr jedes Mittel recht. Selbst wenn sie einen Mörder als V-Mann rekrutieren muss: Wolf Berger, Hansens ehemaliger Mann fürs Grobe, frisch aus der Haft entlassen. Kann Laura Wolf überzeugen, für die Polizei zu arbeiten? Und noch wichtiger: Kann sie ihm vertrauen? Denn die beiden verbindet ein dunkles Geheimnis.

Matthew Scudder and his wife, Elaine, talk of the night they met while listening to music in various places around their part of New York.