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A decade ago, Tokyo Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga went to collect the ashes of his recently deceased mother. Years before, she ran away from her husband and son without explanation or any further contact, leaving her estranged son with many unanswered questions. Now in Tokyo, Michiko Oshitani is found dead many miles from home. Strangled to death, left in the bare apartment rented under a false name by a man who has disappeared without a trace. Oshitani lived far away in Sendai, with no known connection to Tokyo—and neither her family nor friends have any idea why she would have gone there.

The David Wolf Series is packed with action, mystery, thrills, suspense, and a touch of humor and romance. With millions of copies sold, see what the series is about with a special four book bundle right here!

This collection contains books four to six in the gripping, fast-paced crime fiction series featuring DCI Whitney Walker and forensic psychologist Dr Georgina Cavendish: Lethal Secret, Last Breath, and Final Verdict.

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Deep in the majestic Northern California woods, hidden in a remote hunting cabin, lies a secret too shocking for words: a mystery that could derail FBI Special Agent Sadie Gray’s career before it even starts. Grass Valley, California, is home to all sorts of people, their darkest secrets, and the shadows where they hide them. It was also the location of a series of abductions, including Sadie's abduction, spanning back nearly twenty years.

Die Reichsmordkommission eilt nach Torsby, nachdem dort eine Familie mit zwei Kindern getötet wurde. Kommissar Torkel Höglund und seine Kollegen finden bald heraus, dass es eine Zeugin gibt: Nicole, die zehnjährige Nichte der Carlstens. Doch das Mädchen ist verschwunden. Den sonst so ruppigen Kriminalpsychologen Sebastian Bergman erinnert Nicole an seine verstorbene Tochter. Ein aufstrebender Fernsehstar wird ermordet, regelrecht hingerichtet mit einem Bolzenschussgerät im Klassenzimmer einer Stockholmer Schule. Eine Vergewaltigungsserie erschüttert Uppsala.

Tagsüber leitet Sven Christiansen einen Restpostenmarkt, doch nach Feierabend führt er ein anderes Leben. Eines, das aus Luxus und amourösen Abenteuern besteht. Als Christiansens schrecklich zugerichtete Leiche gefunden wird, sieht es nach klassischem Raubmord aus. Aber schnell wird klar, dass alle in seinem Umfeld etwas zu verbergen haben. Ausgerechnet jetzt muss Michis mürrischer Chef Kruse ins Krankenhaus – und will auch von dort den Fall leiten –, was die Sache nicht einfacher macht. Ist Michi so weit, ohne ihn zu ermitteln?

Det er en iskold vinterdag, og sneen fyger. Da 10-årige Albin ikke kommer hjem til aftensmad som aftalt, bliver både hans plejeforældre og hans biologiske mor urolige. Albin plejer altid at holde sine aftaler. Samtidig er vejene sneet til, og sporene forsvundet, hvilket gør eftersøgningen næsten umulig. Kriminalassistent Mija Wadö er flyttet sammen med sin kæreste, men det nye samliv slider på hendes tålmodighed. Den forsvundne dreng og hans familie bor også i den lille landsby Oravais, og Mija bliver fuldt engageret i sagen.

Harry attacked his commanding officer and is suspended indefinitely, pending a psychiatric evaluation. At first he resists the LAPD shrink, but finally recognizes that something is troubling him and has for a long time. In 1961, when Harry was 12, his mother, a prostitute, was brutally murdered with no one ever accused of the crime.

This collection of mysteries from a fresh voice in Southwestern fiction stakes out the common ground between Tony Hillerman, Elmore Leonard, and Cormac McCarthy. Collection includes Nail’s Crossing, Greasy Bend, Butcher Pen Road, and Ten-Acre Rock.

Hugo Speer stars as John Stone in the final two series of this gritty, fast-paced crime drama. Manchester detective DCI Stone and his team are faced with more morally challenging cases in these hard-hitting stories. When a dead body is discovered at an inner city hotel DCI Stone is forced to navigate the murky and transient world of catering.

In a secluded cove just outside the reaches of the city of Cork, a woman wakes up buried in the sand, unable to pull herself free. DS Katie Maguire of the Cork Garda is soon tracking the terrifying gang of torturers who call themselves the High Kings of Erin. But, somehow, they are always one step ahead. Is Maguire losing her touch? Or is somebody close to her less trustworthy than they seem?

"With the roar of thunder and the speed of a galloping horse comes the tide to Mont St. Michel", goes the old nursery song. So when the aged patriarch of the du Rocher family falls victim to the perilous tide, even the old man's family accepts the verdict of accidental drowning. But too quickly, this "accident" is followed by a bizarre discovery in the ancient du Rocher chateau: a human skeleton, wrapped in butcher paper, beneath the old stone flooring. Professor Gideon Oliver, lecturing on forensic anthropology at nearby St. Malo, is asked to examine the bones.

In The 13th Juror, Dismas Hardy, lawyer/investigator, undertakes the defense of Jennifer Witt, accused of murdering her husband and their eight-year-old son as well as her first husband, who had died nine years earlier from an apparent drug overdose. While preparing his case, Hardy learns that both of Jennifer's husbands had physically abused her. But Jennifer refuses to allow a defense that presumes her guilt. She is not guilty, she claims. Hardy is now driven to seek an alternative truth a jury can believe.

Esseri umani, rifiuti tossici e i ricordi di un amore. La quarta indagine del commissario Gelsomino si snoda un po' sopra e un po' sotto il livello del suolo, ma soprattutto un poco sopra e un poco sotto il livello dell'emotività, nell'indecisione di quali voci della propria coscienza ascoltare e quali altre seppellire per sempre. Marco Lugli propone ai suoi lettori il quarto romanzo dedicato al commissario leccese Luigi Gelsomino.

In Stockholm prallt ein Bus kurz vor der Endstation gegen einen Zaun. Doch der Busfahrer und seine acht Insassen waren schon vorher tot. Ihre Körper sind durch Maschinengewehrschüsse bis zur Unkenntlichkeit entstellt. War Stenström der Lösung eines alten, längst zu den Akten gelegten Falls zu nahe gekommen?

Clive Merrison and Michael Williams star as Holmes and Watson in this collection of stories from the unique fully dramatised BBC Radio 4 canon, based on Arthur Conan Doyle's original short stories. The 12 dramatisations include 'A Scandal in Bohemia'; 'The Red-Headed League'; 'A Case of Identity'; 'The Boscombe Valley Mystery'; 'The Five Orange Pips'; 'The Man with the Twisted Lip'; and 'The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle'.

After months of training, former Long Island homicide detective Maggie D'arcy is now officially a Garda. She's finally settling into life in Ireland, and so is her teenage daughter, Lilly. Maggie may not be a detective yet, but she's happy with her community policing assignment in Dublin's Portobello neighborhood.

How far would you go to bury the truth? While searching for a missing hill walker, Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team uncovers a body - just not the one they were looking for. Still dealing with the fallout from their last case, DCI Jack Logan and his team venture south from Inverness to investigate a brutal, gangland-style execution in the wilds of the Highland countryside. As the victim's dark secrets are gradually revealed, Jack uncovers the rot lurking beneath the stunning scenery, making himself the target of a criminal more dangerous than any he has faced before.

When a young woman washes ashore on a Fort Lauderdale beach, Sloan McPherson of the Underwater Investigation Unit is called in to consult. Sloan’s instinct says murder, but even then, there are too many questions. For answers she reaches out to Gwen Wylder. The Miami homicide detective is notorious for being manipulative, bitter, a tyrant to her peers, and wicked smart. And she demands something in return from Sloan: fresh insight into seemingly unrelated cold-case murders and disappearances—and a possible serial killer trolling the Florida coast.