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Brought to you by Penguin. THE HEART-STOPPING NEW NOVEL FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR GILLIAN MCALLISTER How do you choose between right or wrong, family or justice when the crime is so close to home . . . OLIVIA: 22 years old. No history of running away. Last seen on CCTV, entering a...

After getting canned from the Seattle PD, brilliant, wisecracking Thomas Prescott follows his sister Lacy to Philadelphia, where she swims on the Drexel University team. While Thomas’s slapstick antics mask a keen analytic mind, it’s his nose for trouble that leads him again and again into dicey situations. The ex–homicide detective is not long in Philly before getting caught up in two high-powered criminal cases. Thomas stumbles into a crime scene amid the Occupy Philadelphia protests. Activist Brooke Wexley has been strangled within sight of city hall.

It is no ordinary Christmas at Lexham Manor. Six holiday guests find themselves the suspects of a murder enquiry when the old Scrooge, Nathaniel Herriad, who owns the substantial estate, is found stabbed in the back. Whilst the delicate matter of inheritance could be the key to this crime, the real conundrum is how any of the suspects could have entered the locked room to commit this foul deed. For Inspector Hemingway of Scotland Yard, 'tis the season to find whodunit. 

The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller! Watch Will Trent on Disney+! Sara doesn’t think about that night. About the attack. About the way it tore her world apart. About the man who did it, now safely behind bars. She thought that night was over. Until a new victim appears… And now a young...

Read by the incredible John Lee Winner of the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, a World Fantasy award, and a BSFA Award. Blending weird fiction with the police procedural, The City & The City is an existential thriller like no other. When the body of a murdered...

An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery. Set on the banks of the River Thames in the literary world, P. D. James' Original Sin is the ninth Adam Dalgliesh mystery and a brilliant work of crime fiction from the best-selling author of Death Comes to Pemberley. The Peverell Press, a 200-year-old publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames, is certainly ripe for change.

Six Four. The nightmare no parent could endure. The case no detective could solve. The twist no listener could predict. For five days in January 1989, the parents of a seven-year-old Tokyo schoolgirl sat and listened to the demands of their daughter's kidnapper. They would never learn his identity. They would never see their daughter again. For the 14 years that followed, the Japanese public listened to the police's apologies. They would never forget the botched investigation that became known as Six Four.

From the acclaimed master of action and suspense. The all time classic Millions of pounds in gold bullion are being pirated in the Irish Sea. Investigations by the British Secret Service, and a sixth sense, have bought Philip Calvert to a bleak, lonely bay in the Western Highlands. But the...

Fast-paced, evocative, and brutal, The Cold Cold Ground is a brilliant depiction of Belfast at the height of the Troubles—and of a cop treading a thin, thin line—from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author Adrian McKinty. “McKinty is one of the most striking and...

Instant New York Times Bestseller Best of 2017 - included on best-of lists by the New York Times, NPR, Barnes & Noble, Publisher's Weekly, LitHub, BookPage, Booklist, TheRealBookSpy.com, the Financial Times (UK) and the Daily Mail (UK) “The Force is mesmerizing, a triumph. Think The Godfather...

Brought to you by Penguin. The second novel in the bestselling Alex Cross series Detective Alex Cross is caught between two murderous masterminds, but he isn't the only one in danger this time... When his niece goes missing, Alex Cross follows the trail and discovers links to a string of...

From P.D. James, one of the masters of British crime fiction, comes the seventh Adam Dalgliesh novel, set against the bleak fens of East Anglia. Death of An Expert Witness is a classic work of detective fiction packed with forensic detail, intrigue and suspense. When a young girl is found murdered in a field, the scientific examination of the exhibits is just a routine job for the staff of Hoggatt's forensic science laboratory. But nothing could have prepared them for the brutal death of one of their own.

***From the global #1 bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix series THE STRANGER*** __________________________ A SMALL TOWN IS HIDING BIG SECRETS ... Fifteen years ago in New Jersey, a teenage boy and girl were found dead. Most people concluded it was a tragic suicide pact. The dead...

McAvoy must face the dark, disturbing secrets of his past if he's to keep his family safe. The clairvoyant is found with her tongue crudely carved out, a shard of blue crystal buried deep within her mangled ribcage. The crime scene plunges DS Aector McAvoy back twelve years, to a case from when he was starting out. An investigation that proved a turning point in his life - but one he's tried desperately to forget.

When a police shootout results in the death of a twelve-year-old boy, Officer Angel Delaney is blamed, convicted, and condemned by the media and the Sunset Cove community before the case even goes to trial. Angel will have her day in court, but before she has the chance to defend herself, the...

Cuando Sharlah tenía cinco años, su hermano mayor mató a su padre borracho con un bate de béisbol para salvar la vida de ambos, después de que este apuñalara a su madre con un cuchillo. Tras vivir en varias casas de acogida, ahora, ocho años después, Sharlah por fin ha encontrado su lugar con el perfilador retirado del FBI Pierce Quincy y su mujer, Rainie Conner. Entonces llega una llamada que perturba su recién encontrada estabilidad. Ha habido un doble asesinato en una gasolinera local y hay varios avisos sobre un sospechoso armado que va disparando a su paso por los bosques de Oregón.

"Conveniva a tutti" sta scritto nel biglietto di addio che viene ritrovato accanto al cadavere di Alberto Novelli, nel salotto del suo appartamento in Porta Venezia. Un colpo di pistola alla tempia. La polizia non ha dubbi: il critico cinematografico - un tempo celebre ma ormai dimenticato dai vecchi compagni di militanza del Sessantotto - si è ucciso. Incuriosito e insieme attratto dal messaggio, il vicecommissario Peppuccio Loporto si appassiona alla storia di Novelli, nella quale rivede le promesse mancate della propria giovinezza.

Sotto il cielo stellato di Papigno, un paesino dell'Umbria dove Giulio Baleni si era recato per incontrare l'amico prete, viene trovato il cadavere di una giovane professoressa. La vittima, poco prima, aveva scoperto un disegno attribuito a Leonardo da Vinci. Così, in una fredda notte invernale, il commissario Baleni si trova invischiato in una nuova indagine su cui solo lui può far luce.

A double murder confounds everyone in this mystery--but not the beloved detective Judge Dee, whom the Los Angeles Times ranked with Sherlock Holmes Judge Dee, the master detective of seventh-century China, sets out to solve a puzzling double murder and discovers complex passions lurking beneath...

Der werdende Vater Detlef Dierksen wird blutüberströmt und schreiend auf dem Dockkoog-Parkplatz aufgegriffen. In einem nagelneuen Sportwagen wird die Leiche seines Bruders gefunden. Je tiefer Oberkommissarin Sophie Meerkatz gräbt, desto mehr Leichen findet sie, und zwar im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes. Kommissar Rüdiger Thomsen und seine Kollegin Sophie Meerkatz klären Verbrechen an der Nordseeküste – das garantiert Spannung und Humor vor der wild-romantischen Kulisse von Küste, Strand und Meer in der Region rund um Husum.