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With eviction looming, St. Ives searches for a big payday and a rare book. Philip St. Ives has no love for New York's drafty, broken-down Adelphi Hotel, but he is in no mood to be evicted from it. His cash dwindling, he is happy to learn about a job that calls for his specific talents as a mediator between thieves and their victims. It sounds like the set-up to a bad joke: A thief, an insurance salesman, and the Library of Congress call Philip's lawyer to ask about a stolen copy of Pliny's Historia Naturalis. To find it, Philip will risk becoming history himself.

È la vigilia di una torrida estate e pochi eventi italiani, tranne i vicini mondiali di calcio, sembrano scuotere il ritmo levantino di Bari. Il sole è già alto quando due abitanti del centro storico si presentano in questura, con l'aria di essere uscite per la prima volta da quelle antiche mura. Lolita Lobosco, finiti i rituali del mattino – le spremute d'arancia e la contemplazione del mare –, arriva sul posto di lavoro di buonumore come sempre.

It's mid-Winter in the Cornish seaside town of St Foy. In the midst of a family birthday party Emily Duggan, missing for three years and presumed dead after murdering her best friend Star Bright, arrives unannounced. To the bewilderment and shock of her family, Emily insists she didn't do it and has an alibi, but refuses to answer any questions.

“This brilliant anthology of short stories by some of the most outstanding women now writing mysteries and crime fiction...is a truly glorious collection” — Globe and Mail New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George has gathered nearly two dozen chilling, boldly original stories...

Dive into the world of Maddie Castle, a retired K9 handler turned private investigator, in this heart-pounding collection of the first three novels in the bestselling series. From gripping mysteries to life-threatening pursuits, Maddie and her canine partners battle danger, corruption, and their own pasts to bring justice to those who need it most.

Eine eiskalt geplante Mordserie erschüttert San Francisco: Die Opfer waren zwar unterschiedlich alt und wurden mit verschiedenen Waffen getötet, allen gemeinsam aber ist, dass sie Verbindungen zur Polizei hatten. Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer, der einzige weibliche Detective bei der Mordkommission San Francisco, nimmt diesen Fall sehr persönlich, denn die Blutspur führt in die eigenen Reihen. Ein neuer Fall also für ihre Freundinnen, den "Club der Ermittlerinnen".

As the country bakes under the relentless summer sun, a young doctor is found brutally murdered at his home in a picturesque Cambridgeshire village. Is his death connected to his private life - or his professional one? Dr Joshua Ainsworth worked at an all-female detention centre, one still recovering from a major scandal a few years before. Was he the whistle-blower - or an instigator? As Detective Sergeant Ferreira and Detective Inspector Zigic begin to painstakingly reconstruct Dr Ainsworth’s last days, they uncover yet more secrets and more suspects.

At first it appears a mugging gone horribly wrong: one man dead and a woman left in a coma one Friday night in Washington, D.C. The woman is Arlington police detective Frank Mancini's niece and lives in the boarding house run by retired FBI-agent-turned-landlady Ethel Fiona Crestwater. Ethel and Frank are old friends, and so she volunteers to investigate the crime on Frank's behalf, as his hands are tied by jurisdictional issues. But what appears at first a random robbery soon proves more diabolical.

Bodies surface and disappear, seduce and corrupt in these original stories by best-selling, award-winning female crime writers. Keep your eyes peeled, your ears cocked and your wits about you as 20 deliciously twisted tales take you to surprising places....

The perfect family. The perfect house. The perfect life. All gone now. What could cause a man, when all the stars of fortune are shining upon him, to suddenly snap and destroy everything he has built? This is the question that haunts Sergeant Ryan DeMarco after the wife and children of beloved college professor and best-selling author Thomas Huston are found slaughtered in their home. Huston himself has disappeared and so is immediately cast as the prime suspect.

Set in the Danish coastal town of Karrebaeksminde, the story follows journalist Rebekka Franck, who returns to her hometown with her six-year-old daughter. She is trying to escape her ex-husband and start a new life for her and her daughter when the sleepy small town experiences a murder. One of the kingdom's wealthiest men is brutally murdered in his summer residence in Karrebaeksminde.

Forensic entomologist Dr Vanessa Marwood is settling into her new role in Manhattan when she's faced with a chilling case: an Oscar-winning actress has been found dead, poisoned by a glittering hair clip adorned with a live beetle. As a second high-profile death emerges - a fashion designer poisoned by an insect-encrusted watch - shockwaves run through New York's elite.

Ein Killer mit einer Passion. Eine Ermittlerin, die nicht aufgibt. Auf einer einsamen Waldstraße im Taunus wird eine nackte Frau gefunden, die überfahren wurde. Beim Anblick des zerstörten Körpers kommt der Polizei ein schrecklicher Verdacht: Sollte mit dieser Tat ein ebenso grausames Verbrechen vertuscht werden? Wurde die Unbekannte im Vorfeld über einen längeren Zeitraum festgehalten und gequält? Profilerin Nessa Wolf nimmt die Ermittlungen auf. Und ihre Nachforschungen führen sie schon bald hinein ins Herz der Finsternis. Denn im Taunus treibt nicht nur eine Gruppe selbsternannter Satansjünger ihr Unwesen.

Most probationary constables would baulk at chasing a drug dealer into a train tunnel in the dead of night – not Lexi. But when she emerges, injured but alive, to face the wrath of her boss it’s clear that while Lexi may now be in uniform, she has as much trouble with authority as ever. Just to prove it, Lexi is quietly using her hacking skills to investigate a notorious drug-dealing Sydney crime family with links to her old prey, the paedophile Damon Vaughn.

Kommissarin Heike Stein muss sich mit packenden, aber herausfordernden Mordfällen auseinandersetzen, die sie an ihre Grenzen bringen. Eine tote Frau im Park, ein vorgetäuschter Selbstmord und ein Toter auf einem Alsterdampfer lassen Heike keine Minute Ruhe. Und dann schwebt sie plötzlich selbst in Lebensgefahr.

Outside the Hope & Glory pub, a man has been left to die. A victim of extraordinary violence, he will never walk or speak again. He remains in hospital, nameless, until criminal defence lawyer Sarah Kellerman walks onto his ward. Sarah barely recognises the man she once worked with. He was honourable and kind - what was he involved in? Who wanted him dead?

And high-ranking members have taken an interest in FBI Special Agent Megan Luchek. Money Makes It Deadlier: Agent Luchek steps into high heels and deep danger when she gets assigned to investigate a bank. Revenge Makes It Sweeter: Megan gets a late-night summons to the hospital to speak with a gunshot victim. Christmas Makes It Chaos: Agent Luchek goes to Philadelphia for an antiterrorism conference only to face off against real terrorists. Treachery Makes It Tense: Megan gets an unlikely ally in the desperate fight to save Dan’s family from a madman.

A bloodstained coat. Three missing women. One dead body. Detective Mary Hume reckons she's seen it all. But she's never seen anything like this. It begins with the discovery of a broken body in a lift shaft in an old Victorian warehouse. The postmortem reveals the bloodstains on the dead man's coat belong to three different people. DNA identifies one of them as Julie Cross, whose body was discovered six months earlier, covered in horrifying wounds.

Un reconocido empresario de la ciudad, y aspirante a la alcaldía, aparece brutalmente asesinado junto a su esposa y la empleada doméstica en el jardín de su residencia. De manera simultánea, varias viviendas de lujo son asaltadas por alguien que deja una marca característica en la pared: el símbolo del euro dibujado en barro.

A month before Christmas, and Ballyterrin on the Irish border lies under a thick pall of snow. When a newborn baby goes missing from hospital, it's all too close to home for forensic psychologist Paula Maguire, who's wrestling with the hardest decision of her life. Then a woman is found in a stone circle with her stomach cut open and it's clear a brutal killer is on the loose. As another child is taken and a pregnant woman goes missing, Paula is caught up in the hunt for a killer no one can trace, who will stop at nothing to get what they want.