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Narrated by Rory Kinnear The New York Times bestselling author of the brilliantly inventive The Word Is Murder and The Sentence Is Death returns with his third literary whodunit featuring intrepid detectives Hawthorne and Horowitz. When Ex-Detective Inspector Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick...

London, 1927. Frederick Rowlands, a First World War veteran who was blinded at Ypres, is working as a switchboard operator in the City when an over-heard telephone conversation draws him into a murder case. From then on, his safe and conventional life, painstakingly reconstructed after the horrors he experienced in the trenches, is shaken to its very foundation. As Fred is drawn deeper into a web of lies and half-truths, he must rely on his remaining senses, as well as his remarkable memory, to uncover the shocking truth about the murder which threatens to undermine everything he holds dear.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING LIBRARY LOVER'S MYSTERY FROM THE AUTHOR OF DUE OR DIE “Avast” in pirate speak means what?* Answering tricky reference questions like this one provides plenty of excitement for library director Lindsey Norris. But when a shocking murder is committed in her cozy...

Thirteen-year-old Stanley Mitchel Jr. spends most of his time helping his family run the town's drive-in movie theater, reading ten-cent comics, and playing with his dog Nub. Life in East Texas circa 1958 is not very exciting until Stanley discovers a stash of crumbling old love letters in a pile of burnt rubble behind the drive-in. As Stanley reads through the letters, he finds himself in the middle of a town mystery and discovering the secrets of his sleepy town.

With Halloween just around the corner, the fall colors in Georgetown are brilliant. As manager of the Color Me Read bookstore, coloring book creator Florrie Fox has arranged for psychic author Hilda Rattenhorst to read from Spooktacular Ghost Stories. But the celebrity medium arrives for the event in hysterics, insisting she just saw a bare foot sticking out of a rolled-up carpet in a nearby alley. Is someone trying to sweep murder under the rug? Florrie calls in her policeman beau, Sergeant Eric Jonquille, but the carpet corpse has disappeared without a trace.

Året er 1949. Aloysius Archer er en ærlig mand, han er krigsveteran fra Anden Verdenskrig, og så er han netop blevet prøveløsladt efter at have været fængslet for en forbrydelse, han ikke havde begået. Udstyret med en lang liste med regler for prøveløsladte begynder han sit nye liv i Poca City. Han får et job som gældsinddriver for byens største forretningsmand. Men jobbet viser sig ikke at være så ligetil, som det ser ud.

Sie kämpft für die Rechte der Toten, die in Vergessenheit geraten sind. Und deckt dabei die Sünden der Gegenwart auf. Beim Joggen stößt Polizeihistorikerin Maria Just auf einen Lieferwagen, in dem sich ein nackter Toter befindet. Ihm wurden beide Hände abgetrennt. Alles deutet auf einen Mord des organisierten Verbrechens hin. Während die Ermittler Mikael Dirk und Frederik Dahlin zunächst im Dunkeln tappen, kämpft Maria um ihre Zukunft im Polizeimuseum. Da kommt ihr der Cold Case einer ungelösten Kindesentführung gerade recht: 1986 verschwand der neun Monate alte Anton auf einer Anti-Atomkraft-Demo aus seinem Kinderwagen.

To søskende i plejefamilie forsvinder ganske uforklarligt med få ugers mellemrum, og politiet har ingen spor at gå efter. Eftersøgningen tager dog en overraskende drejning, da fotos af børnene sammen med en fremmed kvinde dukker op online. Mysteriet vokser, da kvinden identificeres som den 29-årige Kajsa, som straks derefter bliver fundet død. Hvad er der sket med Kajsa, og hvorfor er hun fotograferet sammen med børnene? Psykoterapeut Siri Bergman får til opgave at se nærmere på sagen og udarbejde en gerningsmandsprofil sammen med sine kolleger i politiet.