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Three gripping crime fiction thrillers featuring DCI Whitney Walker and forensic psychologist Dr. Georgina Cavendish. Deadly Games: DCI Whitney Walker’s in trouble. She’s threatened with demotion if she screws up another case. When a killer starts murdering female students, it’s a chance to redeem herself. Forensic psychologist, Dr Georgina Cavendish, has spent her life inside the university walls, but when one of her students is murdered, she steps out from behind the books, putting her skills to the test. The two headstrong women join forces to stop the killer.

A collapsed ceiling. A dead body. What starts as a routine 999 call takes an unexpected twist when Erika Foster arrives on the scene and discovers the body of a woman in an empty flat, with all DNA evidence scrubbed away. When forensics find cocaine residue coating every surface of the ceiling, Erika calls in the drug dogs, who lead her to a mysterious parcel locker on the outside wall of the property. Chasing down the locker’s owner leads Erika back where she never expected to be–staring into the eyes of Jerome Goodman, the drug dealer who murdered her husband, Mark, ten years ago.

DCI Alison McCoist is back: newly promoted and even less popular. Chuck Gardner is the proud owner of both a confidential paper-shredding business and a serious betting habit. When Chuck finds some scandalous paperwork and McCoist investigates a rat-nibbled corpse under a flyover, they are both sucked into a deadly stramash of gangland wars and police corruption.

Sister Holiday, a chain-smoking, heavily tattooed, queer nun, puts her amateur sleuthing skills to the test in this “unique and confident” debut crime novel (Gillian Flynn). When Saint Sebastian's School becomes the target of a shocking arson spree, the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and their...

Petra Delicado, ispettrice della polizia di Barcellona, e il suo vice Garzón, indagano, senza molta fortuna all'inizio, sull'omicidio di un poveraccio che traffica in cani, e li aiuta il suo ultimo fedele amico, il meticcio Spavento. Ma a quell'omicidio ne segue un altro e un altro ancora, e nella corrente principale degli eventi affluiscono, intersecandosi, sordidi commerci e storie passionali nel mondo dei cani.

In the latest in the USA Today bestselling, award-winning, critically acclaimed series, New Orleans punk rock nun-detective Sister Holiday plunges into a “hellish underworld of drug trafficking, addiction, and her own dark past in a journey that is both riveting and sacred.” (Ana Reyes, New...

Quando torna a casa dopo una giornata di lavoro, Jasmina Nazeri non può immaginare che ad aspettarla ci siano dei poliziotti. Un uomo di colore è stato ucciso, dicono, era nudo e senza documenti, e forse l'unica in grado di identificarlo è proprio lei, che in quel quartiere di periferia conosce tutti. Il corpo martoriato è riverso a terra in un giardino pubblico, e quando viene girato a faccia in su, la sorpresa è scioccante. In quel volto la ragazza riconosce Taiwo, e anche se non lo vedeva dal tempo in cui hanno avuto una relazione, è certa che non fosse tipo da cattive frequentazioni.

When Laurence Fife was murdered, few mourned his passing. Plenty of people had reason to want him dead. But the police thought his wife Nikki--with motive, access and opportunity--was the #1 suspect. The jury thought so too. Eight years later and out on parole, Nikki hires Kinsey Millhone, a...

In this rich, complex and gripping tale, Kinsey Millhone's grit is tested to its utmost as the private detective unearths the gruesome truth about a long-buried betrayal--and, in the process, comes face-to-face with the grisly fact of her own mortality. "'G' is for guilt and guile, for greed and...

A woman is found naked, badly beaten and barely alive in the New Mexico mountains. The shocking discovery plunges Albuquerque Detective Alyssa Wyatt into a case that will test her to the limit. It appears that Callie McCormick is the latest plaything of a shadowy psychopath that leaves a long shadow on the streets of New Mexico - an individual linked to a string of deaths but leaving no evidence. But when Alyssa makes a breakthrough that just might reveal the killer, she unknowingly puts herself in the crosshairs of a brutal maniac - one with an old score to settle.

All around Albuquerque, New Mexico, young women are going missing, seemingly vanished into thin air. With no link between the victims, Detective Alyssa Wyatt is quickly plunged into a horrifying case with no obvious clues. And when Jersey Andrews, the best friend of Alyssa's teenage daughter, Holly, joins the list of vanished girls, the case becomes personal. But this investigation will lead Alyssa and partner Cord into the most sinister depths of humanity; an evil place where life is expendable and where the depraved can fulfill their darkest desires - if they have the money.

Hamburg in der Vorweihnachtszeit. Adventslieder erklingen, der Duft von Spekulatius liegt in der Luft, und Martina Fechner hängt tot von einem Deckenbalken in ihrer noblen Elbvorortvilla. Der Anblick der Leiche verlangt den erfahrenen Ermittlern einiges ab. Die Spuren am Tatort werfen Fragen auf. Trägt der Killer etwa ein Nikolauskostüm? Was geht in seinem Kopf vor? Und vor allem: Wann wird er wieder zuschlagen? Der Druck auf das Kripo-Team um Kommissarin Mara Abels steigt fast stündlich, doch der "Weihnachtsmann" hat sein nächstes Opfer bereits so gut wie im Sack.

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.

Jo Strong is the youngest widow in the East End. Running her late husband's jewellery shop, mercilessly bullied by her evil mother-in-law, she is trying to get her life back together again. But then the 14-year-old daughter of one of the East end's most notorious gangsters is kidnapped, and Jo finds herself in a deadly race against time to rescue the girl - before it is too late. And to get her back, she'll have to join forces with damaged but handsome bad boy Gabe Miller, a man who has a dark past of his own…

When Cassidy Clarke joins the LAPD, she doesn’t plan on following in her father’s footsteps. Veteran detective Bill Clarke has big shoes to fill, but Cassidy has her own path to forge through the department’s tarnished reputation. She’s just getting started when a string of murders plagues the city: Young women are being strangled in their homes. The media incites an uncontainable frenzy. And no matter how many newspapers they’re splashed across, the Hollywood Hit Men are no closer to being found.

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded...

In quello che appare un banale palazzo popolare, troppe morti sospette si sono susseguite negli ultimi anni, tutte archiviate come incidenti. Ma una donna, decisa a non farsi schiacciare dal silenzio, chiede a Stella di indagare. Stella indaga, sbaglia, soffre, cade e si rialza, in quel suo modo unico, cinico e disperatamente onesto. Fino a trovare, nel cuore del grigio, una verità tanto inaspettata quanto necessaria.

Das Böse schläft nicht in Altona. Statt den ersehnten Thron des Schulleiters zu besteigen, kniet Cord Kiesewetter tot in einer Kabine der Mädchentoilette des ehrwürdigen Klopstock-Gymnasiums. Bald rückt eine Gruppe von Verdächtigen in den Fokus der Ermittler: Offenbar hatte so manche Dame handfeste Gründe, dem ungeliebten Kiesewetter den Hals umzudrehen, und jede hat ein wasserdichtes Alibi.

Tattooed from her neck to her toesand sporting a gold tooth as sharp as her wisecracks, Sister Holiday struggles to stay on the righteous path. Never one to make things easy for herself, she’s committed to taking her permanent vows with the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and joining former fire...

“V.I. Warshawski is as dogged and ferocious as ever. So is Sara Paretsky, who is at the top of her crime novel game.” — C.J. Box Chicago’s legendary detective, V.I. Warshawski, knows her city’s rotten underbelly better than most, but she’s unable to avoid it when her goddaughter...