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Simone Singh is a feisty IPS officer who would rather spend her days locking up criminals than apologizing for her lack of social skills. Freshly back from an unjust suspension, Simone is forced to team up with DSP Zoya Bharucha, an empathetic officer who's as loved in the police force as Simone is shunned. Tasked with hunting the Doll Maker—who dresses up her victims as pretty Barbie dolls and displays them in glass cases—both must set aside their differences and work together as one team.

At the luxurious Roarke Palace Hotel, a maid walks into suite 4602 for the nightly turndown - and steps into her worst nightmare. A killer leaves her dead, strangled by a thin silver wire. He's Sly Yost, a virtuoso of music and murder. A hit man for the elite.

A riveting thriller of corporate intrigue and cutthroat competition between American and Japanese business interests. On the forty-fifth floor of the Nakamoto tower in downtown Los Angeles - the new American headquarters of the immense Japanese conglomerate - a grand opening celebration is in full swing. On the forty-sixth floor, in an empty conference room, the corpse of a beautiful young woman is discovered.

A skeleton is found in a shallow grave in the churchyard. But this was not an official burial. The victim was murdered decades ago. At the same time, Detective Nikki Galena and her team are investigating the brutal slaying of local businesswoman Madeline Prospero. She was a member of an exclusive and secretive drinking club called The Briar Patch. But they've got no suspects and no one is telling them the truth. Meanwhile, the buried skeleton leads them on a trail to the village of Quintin Eaudyke. This is a troubled place. In the late 70s and 80s a reign of terror was unleashed.

Ethan Hawke (Training Day) stars in this dark, thrilling, character-driven crime drama. This cinematic Audible Original is presented in eight episodes with intense, wall-to-wall sound design and grim and gritty performances at a fever-pitch. 

A former Medal of Valor winner, Minnesota detective Alexander Rupert is now under subpoena by a grand jury on suspicion of corruption. So when he's asked to look into the false identity of a car-accident victim named James Putnam, a man who in fact died 15 years earlier, Rupert sees a potentially big case and an opportunity to regain his respectability. But the investigation puts him in the path of "the Beast", the nom de guerre of Drago Basta, a cunning veteran of the Balkan wars.

Set in London, the seventh Adam Dalgliesh mystery from the best-selling author of Death Comes To Pemberley is a compulsive thriller and a chilling study of the complex motives behind cold-hearted murder.

Harry Bosch, exiled from the LAPD, is working cold cases for the San Fernando Police Department when all hands are called out to a local drugstore, where two pharmacists have been murdered in a robbery. Bosch and the tiny town's three-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous, big-business world of prescription drug abuse. To get to the people at the top, Bosch must risk everything and go undercover in the shadowy world of organized pill mills.

On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra inherits two unexpected mysteries. The first is the case of a drowned boy, whose suspicious death no one seems to want solved. And the second is a baby elephant. As his search for clues takes him across the teeming city of Mumbai, from its grand high rises to its sprawling slums and deep into its murky underworld, Chopra begins to suspect that there may be a great deal more to both his last case and his new ward than he thought.

Seit 2007 erobert die Thriller-Reihe um Carl Mørck, Spezialermittler des Sonderdezernats Q bei der Kopenhagener Polizei, und seinen syrischen Assistenten Hafez el-Assad die Bestsellerlisten der Welt. Abgeschoben in den Keller des Polizeigebäudes, um sich dort den scheinbar unlösbaren Cold Cases zu widmen, gelang ihnen in spektakulären Ermittlungen immer wieder die Aufklärung der brutalsten Verbrechen, die bis in die Gegenwart hineinreichten.

It was meant to be a harmless stag-night prank. But a few hours later, the groom has disappeared and his friends are dead. With only three days to the wedding, Roy Grace is contacted by the man’s distraught fiancée to unearth what happened on that fateful night. The one man who ought to know of the groom’s whereabouts is saying nothing. But then he has a lot more to gain than anyone realizes, for one man’s disaster is another man’s fortune.

Louie Cogburn had spent three days holed up in his apartment, staring at his computer screen. His pounding headache was unbearable - like spikes drilling into his brain. And it was getting worse. Finally, when someone knocked at his door, Louie picked up a baseball bat, opened the door, and started swinging... The first cop on the scene fired his stunner twice and Louie died instantly. Detective Eve Dallas has taken over the investigation, but there's nothing to explain the man's sudden rage or death.

DI Nikki Galena's close friend Helen Brook is involved in a serious accident where she is trapped in a collapsed cellar. After her hard-won recovery, Helen is still getting flashbacks to a man she says was down there with her and who confessed to a murder. But no trace of this man can be found. Then Helen tells Nikki that someone is watching her. But is all this in her friend's imagination and part of her post-traumatic stress?

Clive Merrison and Michael Williams star as Holmes and Watson in this collection of stories from the unique fully dramatised BBC Radio 4 canon, based on Arthur Conan Doyle's original short stories. The 12 dramatisations include 'A Scandal in Bohemia'; 'The Red-Headed League'; 'A Case of Identity'; 'The Boscombe Valley Mystery'; 'The Five Orange Pips'; 'The Man with the Twisted Lip'; and 'The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle'.

Detective Nikki Galena's friend and neighbor meets a tragic end, but there's more to his death than meets the eye. And someone terrible from DS Joseph Easter's past is back.

When human bones are found beneath an old chapel in the woods, evidence suggests the remains could be linked to the decades-old case of missing teen Annalise Jansen. Homicide detective Jane Munro—pregnant and acutely attuned to the preciousness of life—hopes the grim discovery will finally bring closure to the girl’s family. But for a group of Annalise’s old friends, once dubbed the Shoreview Six by the media, it threatens to expose a terrible pledge made on an autumn night forty-seven years ago.

Wer die Totenruhe stört, riskiert sein Leben ... Der fünfte Fall für Kommissar Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg! Doppelmord an der Porte de la Chapelle in Paris. Bei den Opfern handelt es sich um zwei Kleinkriminelle, denen mit einem Skalpell die Kehle durchgeschnitten wurde. Weil die Gegend für ihre Drogenszene bekannt ist, hat das Rauschgiftdezernat den Fall an sich genommen. Doch die Kollegen haben ihre Rechnung ohne Kommissar Adamsberg gemacht. Was keiner außer ihm gesehen hat: Die Toten haben Erde unter den Fingernägeln, die von dem Friedhof stammt, auf dem kürzlich ein Grab unerlaubt aufgebrochen wurde.

Convinced the report of a body on the beach is a false alarm, D S Cupidi darts to Folkstone with her daughter Zoe in toe to scan the area. But this time her instincts are off and it is Zoe who discovers Mimi Greene's body on the shoreline. A regular wild swimmer with her friends, it is perplexing that she would have been out swimming alone, especially in bad weather. Putting aside her daughter's traumatised state, D S Cupidi must find the truth behind Mimi's death.

Verbrecherjagd am Gardasee. Als ihre Siesta auf dem Gardasee von einem treibenden Ruderboot mit einer Leiche darin unterbrochen wird, beginnt für Commissario Angelotti und seine Carlotta ein neues Abenteuer. Der dritte Fall für Angelotti: Der Commissario und die lebensfrohe Witwe Charlotte werden vom Chef eines Luxushotels um Hilfe gebeten, denn dort geschehen seltsame Dinge. Kurz darauf wird ein bekannter Anwalt tot in einem Ruderboot auf dem Gardasee entdeckt. Commissario Angelotti und die Carabinieri ermitteln auf Hochtouren.

Долгожданное продолжение детективного стимпанк-фэнтези в альтернативной Российской империи, где правят потомки древних славянских богов! Митя Меркулов мечтает о блеске светских вечеров и новых нарядах, но судьба заставляет его нести тяжелое бремя героя. Сначала — спасение уезда от нашествия зомби, затем — защита губернского города от варяжского набега. Митя уже упокоил зло мертвое и истребил зло живое. Что впереди? Встреча с пришельцами из иного мира или наемными убийцами? Может, наконец, прелестные барышни? Или... столкновение с самой Смертью? Но можно ли выиграть эту битву?