Showing results for "The Hand" in Police Procedurals

In the heart of Edinburgh, a grim discovery plunges DCI "Mac" McNeill into a seedy world of organised crime, where a sinister plot reaches beyond mere territorial disputes. As Mac navigates the treacherous crossfire of rival crime lords and delves into the lives lost to the city's drug trade, a killer strikes from the dark underworld.

A hard-boiled newsman and a sharp-witted sheriff team up to solve a murder mystery in Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis’s suspenseful and disturbing story of death and violence in a small coal-mining town.

1917. The Lotus Hotel offers sanctuary for its exclusively female clientele, attracting the cream of London's society. But a dead body found in one of its rooms is hardly good for business, and when it is discovered that the woman was neither a guest nor a member of staff, the Lotus' reputation as a safe haven is cast in doubt. Inspector Marmion and Sergeant Keedy are dispatched to look into the events at the hotel and soon suspect foul play.

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.

Eine Hand kommt selten allein... Kommissar Clemens Wallner und Polizeiobermeister Leonhardt Kreuthner bekommen alle Hände voll zu tun, als ausgerechnet der Schafkopf-Held Johann Lintinger durch eine Schrottpresse seiner rechten Hand beraubt wird. Ein würdiges Begräbnis muss her für diese legendäre Rechte, beschließt Kreuthner, und so wird gleich neben der alten Kapelle hinter der Mangfall-Mühle ein Grab ausgehoben. Doch die Trauergemeinde erwartet eine gruselige Überraschung, denn der Ruheplatz ist bereits belegt: von einer halb verwesten männlichen Leiche.

As Naples prepares for its holiday celebrations, behind the facade of order and happiness imposed by the fascist regime lurks terrible poverty and blinding desperation. In a luxurious apartment on the Mergellina beach, the bodies of a fascist militia officer and his wife have been found. The woman's throat has been cut while the man has been stabbed over 60 times. Seemingly, the hands of two separate killers have been at work.

Der Herbst hält Einzug in Skagen und vertreibt die letzten Sommergäste. Helle Jespers, Leiterin der örtlichen Polizeistation, sehnt sich nach mehr Zeit und weniger Trubel. Doch die Ruhe währt nur kurz, denn in der Nähe der beliebten Wanderdüne Rabjerg Mile wird die Leiche einer jungen Frau gefunden. Laut Obduktion stammt sie offenbar aus dem südostasiatischen Raum. Doch niemand scheint sie zu vermissen.

After a shooting party on a Scottish estate, one of the participants is found dead, having been unceremoniously hit on the head with a rock. Getting nowhere when interviewing the arrogant son of the wealthy landowner, DI Russell McCord is quietly relieved that with her family connections, bothersome journalist Amy Thornton might help the investigation. But with a new partner to train—one who, to his dismay, seems to have won the affections of Amy—McCord wastes no time putting the most likely suspect in jail.

Gerade erst zum Leiter der Ermittlungseinheit befördert, wird Avi Avraham in einer stürmischen Nacht an einen Tatort gerufen. Die Tote erkennt er sofort, vor Jahren war sie Opfer einer Vergewaltigung geworden, nur sitzt der Täter noch im Gefängnis. Die Suche nach dem Motiv führt Avi in die Archive und in die eigenen Reihen. Gegen den Widerstand seiner Kollegen ermittelt Avi, doch die alten Fälle bergen neue Tragödien.

A flawed heist of forty gold bars from a security van late at night. One of the perpetrators is killed by his brother as they argue over what they have stolen. Eighteen years later, the murderer, released after serving his sentence for his brother's murder, waits in a church for a man purporting to be the brother he killed. The threads stretch back a long way, and now more people are dying in the search for the missing gold bars.

It will be no easy task to fill the shoes of a local legend like DCI Charlie Woodend, the newly promoted Monika Paniatowski tells herself – particularly when he’s still a very real presence in Whitebridge – but given a little time, she thinks she can grow into them. Yet time is the one thing she does not have. On her first day in the new job, a severed female hand is discovered on the riverbank. And not only that, but the killer has already alerted the pres

The murder of Sarah Culdrose is just the first in a series of mysterious and often gruesome deaths that London's subterranean trains will witness. The deceased - all women - pile up quickly. There is a maniac at large, and Inspector Sholto Lestrade of Scotland Yard is detailed to work with the Railway Police. The detective plunges through a tangled web of deviants to solve a string of murders so heinous that every woman in London fears for her life. Will the London Transport System survive? Or will Lestrade run out of steam?

Hindrapiert wie ein Kunstobjekt. In einem Aussichtspavillon in Prien am Chiemsee wird eine Frauenhand gefunden. Und das ausgerechnet am Karfreitag! Hattinger ist sauer. Statt geruhsame Ostertage mit Freundin Mia und Tochter Lena zu verbringen und mal wieder die Seele ein bisschen baumeln zu lassen, muss der Kommissar ermitteln. In einem Fall, in dem sich immer mehr Abgründe auftun. Dunkel und kalt wie das Wasser auf dem Grund des Chiemsees. Der Osterfrieden im Chiemgau ist jedenfalls dahin. Die Angst geht um und der Preuße ergreift die Flucht zu Beginn der Hochsaison.

Eine Hand kommt selten allein... Kommissar Clemens Wallner und Polizeiobermeister Leonhardt Kreuthner bekommen alle Hände voll zu tun, als ausgerechnet der Schafkopf-Held Johann Lintinger durch eine Schrottpresse seiner rechten Hand beraubt wird. Ein würdiges Begräbnis muss her für diese legendäre Rechte, beschließt Kreuthner, und so wird gleich neben der alten Kapelle hinter der Mangfall-Mühle ein Grab ausgehoben. Doch die Trauergemeinde erwartet eine gruselige Überraschung, denn der Ruheplatz ist bereits belegt: von einer halb verwesten männlichen Leiche.

Peter Shand is the 'safe pair of hands' - a high-flying police administrator seconded to a quiet rural CID team to gain the operational experience he needs for promotion. On his second day he's thrust into a high-profile murder case. A woman's body is discovered in an old stone circle - with another woman buried alive beneath her.

It’s a hideous echo of a violent past. Across America, murders are being committed with all the twisted hallmarks of the Boston Strangler, the Zodiac Killer and Son of Sam. The media frenzy explodes and Nashville homicide lieutenant Taylor Jackson knows instantly that The Pretender is back… and he’s got helpers. As The Pretender’s disciples perpetrate their sick homages – stretching police and FBI dangerously thin – Taylor tries desperately to prepare for their inevitable showdown. And she must do it alone. To be close to her is to be in mortal danger, and she won’t risk losing anyone she loves.

Allting började på ishockeyarenan i Gävle. Mannen hade tagit sin tillflykt till trängseln på ståplatsläktaren för att komma undan sin förföljare. Då såg han plötsligt ett ansikte som fick honom att stelna till. Några år senare försvinner en hantverkare från en liten by utanför Hudiksvall. De enda spåren efter honom är hans gamla Toyota som står övergiven vid vägen. Kriminalpoliserna Sofia Berger och Ludde Markh kopplas in på ett fall som snart exploderar - i ett dubbelspel med döden.

The body of a young man has been found in the woods outside Newberg, dead from a close-range shotgun blast. The gun - his own - lies beside the body. Certain things don’t add up for Detective Tia Suarez. Where did the fat envelope of cash in his pocket come from? Who called the police to report the body, then disappeared before the cops arrived? The trail leads Tia to an institution for juvenile incarceration and to the leader of a local mega-church, a political and economic powerhouse in the region. Newberg’s mayor and the medical examiner keep trying to close the case.