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On Boxing Day a mystery woman’s body is found washed up under Teignmouth Pier. She has no ID but is wearing a wetsuit. When the post-mortem shows heavy metal poisoning, DI Jan Talantire is called in. Talantire herself is caught in an ongoing game of cat-and-mouse against her nemesis Commander Brent West. Her complaint against him for abusive behaviour foundered when she was accused by the investigating panel of collusion with another complainant, PC Nadine Lister, to bring West down.

One of America’s most popular and acclaimed mystery writers, Jan Burke has earned the Edgar, Macavity and Agatha Awards for her thrilling tales. As founder of the Crime Lab Project and a member of the board of the California Forensic Science Institute, she brings unmatched authenticity to her novels. In Disturbance, resourceful newspaper reporter Irene Kelly has her hands full investigating a chilling case.

Officer Zoe is busy training new recruits when one of her cadets is found dead and violated. Teaming with the FBI, Zoe tries to bring the villain to justice while searching for her husband, who has mysteriously disappeared.

When the bodies of two men are found shockingly posed in the garden of an elderly countess, Captain Natalia Monte of the Carabiniere is assigned the case. Soon she finds herself shuttling between Naples' decadent art galleries and violent criminal underworld. If she is to succeed in solving the heinous crime, Natalia must deal with not only her own complicated past and allegiances but also those of the city as a whole. A Few Drops of Blood is a riveting and poetic exploration of the violence that lurks in the heart of beauty.

DI Jan Talantire is called to a cottage in Ilfracombe, where the female occupant is found dead, impaled with a crucifix. The woman, who had been renting the house for a few months, is well known locally, but the documents at the house indicate her real name is Ruth Lyle. The name means nothing to the young PC who found her, DI Talantire knows this cannot be the body of Ruth Lyle.

Liz McLuckie has retired to Whitby—a picturesque fishing town on the North Yorkshire coast—to recover after the death of her husband. But Whitby isn’t the peaceful retreat she imagined. When one of her friends is accused of poisoning the town mayor, Liz is determined to clear her name. She suspects someone has deliberately triggered the mayor’s fatal allergy, but who? The mystery deepens further when the mayor’s body is stolen the night before his funeral. Who would do such a thing? And why? Liz is determined to get to the bottom of it all.

Halloween is coming to North Yorkshire, and the seaside town of Whitby is getting ready for its annual Goth Festival, where Goths of all ages descend on the town for a week of music, costumes, and spooky fun. When one of Liz McLuckie’s friends has a terrifying encounter with the Barghest—Yorkshire’s legendary Dog of Death—it sparks a series of mysterious fatalities in the town. Are supernatural forces at work, or is there another, more human, explanation?

After the death of her husband, Liz McLuckie has taken early retirement and moved to Whitby, a picturesque fishing town on the North Yorkshire coast. She thinks the renovation of two ramshackle fishing cottages will take her mind off things, but she soon discovers Whitby isn’t quite the peaceful retreat she imagined. When she discovers the body of a local Professor near the medieval Abbey, Liz reluctantly finds herself at the center of a murder investigation. The post mortem reveals death by drowning. So how did he get onto the clifftop? And why did he have a fish in his pocket?

On her way home after an overnight shift, DI Jan Talantire hears the control room relaying an emergency. Someone has fallen to their death from one of the highest cliffs in Devon. Jan is nearby so she agrees to hold the fort until uniformed cops arrive.

Eine tödliche Dosis Insulin, ein neuer Fall für Hanna Will & Jan de Bruyn von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Anna Johannsen Kriminalpsychologe Jan de Bruyn und Hauptkommissarin Hanna Will werden zu einem mysteriösen Fall in Damme hinzugezogen: Helmut Gepken, 75 Jahre alt, wurde mit einer Überdosis Insulin getötet. Der Mann lebte nach der Scheidung vereinsamt auf dem Land, und es gibt zunächst keinerlei Ermittlungsansätze für die Polizei. Erst nach und nach melden sich Bekannte und Freunde des Mannes, die der SoKo Einsicht in die letzten Jahre des alten Herrn gewähren.

On a midsummer's night, a stolen car packed with teenagers crashes at high speed on the southern edge of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. DI Jan Talantire arrives at the scene to find the victims of the crash. It appears to be a tragic accident until a worried mother turns up at the scene of the accident. Her daughter, Rhiannon, a friend of the joyriders, hasn't been seen since the previous night. The account dovetails with the statement of the householder who claimed to see a girl running near the crashed vehicle the moment he emerged.

Ein rätselhafter Todesfall und eine neue SoKo für Hanna Will & Jan de Bruyn. Im Emsland wird eine junge Frau tot aus einem Kanal geborgen. Die Obduktion ergibt Ertrinken als Todesursache, allerdings wird Leitungswasser in der Lunge gefunden. Die SoKo tritt auf der Stelle und zieht Hanna Will und den Kriminalpsychologen Jan de Bruyn hinzu. Die Ermittler durchleuchten Lisa Kramers Leben minutiös und stoßen bei ihrem Konto auf ungewöhnliche Bargeldeinzahlungen. Doch sie finden weder Tatverdächtige noch Anhaltspunkte für die Herkunft des Geldes.

In der Lüneburger Heide werden kurz nacheinander zwei Männer tot aufgefunden. Dem ersten Anschein nach haben beide Suizid begangen, die Obduktionsergebnisse lassen jedoch Zweifel aufkommen. Schnell finden die Ermittler heraus, dass die Männer in ihren Jugendjahren befreundet waren. Kann das ein Zufall sein? Hanna Will und der Kriminalpsychologe Jan de Bruyn werden als Spezialisten zu den Ermittlungen hinzugezogen. Die beiden arbeiten mit Hochdruck daran, ein mögliches Mordmotiv zu finden und ein Täterprofil zu erstellen.

Nach einer turbulenten ersten Begegnung bei einer Geiselnahme bekommen Hauptkommissarin Hanna Will und Kriminalpsychologe Jan de Bruyn ein besonderes Angebot des LKA – als Team sollen sie es in ganz Norddeutschland bei komplizierten Ermittlungen unterstützen. Ihr erster Einsatz führt sie ins Alte Land: Eine Frau wurde mit einem Kissen erstickt. Die SoKo geht von einem Serientäter aus, der zuvor schon andere Frauen vergewaltigt, aber nicht getötet hat. Durch Jans Täterprofil gerät schnell ein junger Mann in den Fokus, dem aber nichts nachgewiesen werden kann.

David Hewson's The Killing 2 is the novelization of the second series of the hit Danish crime drama, The Killing. It is two years since the notorious Nanna Birk Larsen case. Two years since Detective Sarah Lund left Copenhagen in disgrace for a remote outpost in northern Denmark. When the body...

David Hewson's The Killing 3 is the novelization of the third series of the hit Danish crime drama, The Killing. Detective Inspector for homicide, Sarah Lund, is contacted by old flame Mathias Borch from National Intelligence. Borch fears that what first appeared to be a random killing at the...

På Galleri Saxe i Trondheim visar Henry Aar upp sina mycket originella tavlor, som väcker stor uppmärksamhet. Flera av bilderna är gjorda av tapetrester från hans eget hem och en av dem sticker ut extra mycket: Sub rosa, som även består av gamla tidningssidor och fragment av brev. När galleriägaren hittas mördad kopplas polisen Anne-kin Halvorsen in. Hon är en kvinna med stark självkänsla och stort rättspatos, och tar sig an fallet på sitt eget speciella sätt. Snart upptäckter hon kopplingar till både högt uppsatta medborgare och samhällets mer ljusskygga individer.

When Detective Kim Stone rushes to the scene of a house fire, she’s shocked to discover it’s claimed the lives of two teenage children and their parents. But this tragedy is not quite as it seems. Each body is marked by a gunshot wound, and the mother, Helen Daynes, is holding the gun. The case sparks painful childhood memories for Kim, who suffered at the hands of her own abusive mother, but it just makes her more determined to uncover the truth. As Kim untangles Helen’s past, she finds a history of clinical depression. But did it drive Helen to murder her loved ones?

When Claire Wright wakes in hospital, she doesn’t recognise the person staring back at her in the mirror. She’s told that she has the perfect life: she’s beautiful, famous, with a husband and a house to die for. But Claire can’t remember anything from before the devastating car crash that’s left her injured. And now she’s surrounded by strangers, saying they’re her family and friends.

When Detective Kim Stone races to the crime scene, there is no body waiting for her: The paramedics are desperately trying to save the victim’s life. But there is something very strange about the way the man was found, his arms raised above his head, his legs spread apart. When he dies on the way to the hospital, Kim is certain she’s on the hunt for a killer…but all evidence at the scene has been destroyed.