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Can a priest, his brother, and the brother's girlfriend solve a murder case and see justice done - or will they be the murderer's latest victim? A Murder on Wall Street takes us inside the world of Captain O'Brian's Irish Pub and Cigar Bar in Manhattan, a legendary hotspot in the Financial District. Investigating the death are pub owners Joey Mancuso, fired from the New York Police Department for his unorthodox methods, and his brother Father Dominic, who isn't your typical priest.

Kids can be so cruel. They'll call you names. Hurt your feelings. Push you to your death. In the garden of an abandoned house, Luke Connolly lies broken, dead. The night before, he and his friends partied inside. Nobody fought, everybody else went home safely. And yet, Luke was raped and pushed...

After a teenage boy is found dead on a Lenchester train, Detective Chief Inspector Whitney Walker believes they’re being targeted by the notorious Carriage Killer, who chooses a local rail network, commits four murders, and moves on. Against her wishes, Walker’s boss brings in officers from another force to help the investigation and prevent more deaths, but she’s forced to defend her team against this outside interference.

Gabriel Kensington and his wife, Lydia, have been brutally slain in their luxurious home in New Mexico. A frantic, whispered phone call from their teenage daughter, Addis, and her best friend, Emerson, quickly alerts the authorities to the killings. But when detective Alyssa Wyatt and the squad appear at the house, the unthinkable has happened. The girls are nowhere to be found...and neither is the killer. In a race against time, it's up to Alyssa Wyatt and her partner, Cord, to find the missing girls - and discover just why the Kensingtons have been targeted.

Brought to you by Penguin. A sinister plot that will devastate the Western world. A 2,000-year-old mystery that still lurks in the depths . . . When Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon answer a distress call from a research ship, nothing can prepare them for what they find. A strange and...

Eine junge Frau wählt einen qualvollen Suizid – ein erschütternder Fall, der die Grenzen des Vorstellbaren sprengt. Paul Wagner, ein Priester, und die Privatermittlerin und Ex-Polizistin Anne Steinbach werden beauftragt, dem rätselhaften Fall gemeinsam auf den Grund zu gehen. Kaum, dass das ungleiche Duo die Untersuchungen aufnimmt, überschlagen sich die Ereignisse. Die beiden Ermittler sind nun die Gejagten und befinden sich in akuter Lebensgefahr.

En una ciudad pequeña donde se ocultan muchos secretos, la misteriosa muerte de una chica sacará a la luz las más desgarradoras verdades Una joven es encontrada sin vida en la ciudad costera de La Línea de la Concepción. ¿Suicidio, homicidio o accidente? Olivia, una brillante psicóloga...

Für DI Declan Walsh kehrt das Leben endlich zur Normalität zurück. Declan hat bei DCI Alexander Monroes "Last Chance Saloon Crime Unit" ein Zuhause gefunden und erholt sich langsam von den Nachwirkungen des letzten Falls, während er das Haus seines verstorbenen Vaters ausräumt, um dort...

Back from leave after her first closed case, Cassidy Clarke returns to the LAPD, ready to dig in. This time, homeless teens are disappearing. And it’s not because of social reform—they’re being targeted. Cassidy follows a lead to a charismatic grad student who leans on his charm and vast resources to lure vulnerable kids under his wing. But when the people who could expose him start turning up dead, she abruptly switches focus, racing to protect his potential victims instead.

Due balordi rapinano il "Liguria Market" di Savona, nel quartiere della Villetta. Durante la fuga in moto perdono per strada una sacca contenente ossa umane e strani mazzetti di fiori. Si apre così lo scenario inquietante della nuova indagine che vede coinvolti il Sostituto Ludovica Sperinelli e il suo storico collaboratore Francesco Mancini. Pian piano emergerà una realtà penosa: un giro di prostituzione minorile e ricatti sessuali, orchestrati con perversa maestria da un oscuro Stregone.

Bergen Private Investigator Varg Veum is perplexed when two wildly different cases cross his desk at the same time. A lawyer, anxious to protect her privacy, asks Varg to find her sister, who has disappeared with her husband, seemingly without trace, while a ship carrying unknown cargo is heading towards the Norwegian coast, and the authorities need answers. Varg immerses himself in the investigations, and it becomes clear that the two cases are linked, and have unsettling - and increasingly uncanny - similarities to events that took place 36 years earlier.

Private detective Francis Quarles visits a man with a valuable collection of manuscripts written by murderers. During his stay, the man is killed after drinking cyanide-laced port. A cryptic literary clue in the front page of a book offers the only indication of who may be responsible.

SOCO Maya Barton is called to a canal where a heavily decomposed male body has been discovered. A bank card belonging to Trevor Dawlish is found in the cadaver's pocket, and the name matches that of a missing person. All seems straightforward - until Trevor's wife phones the police to say that Trevor has returned home, leaving Maya and the team wondering who the unknown male is. When it's revealed that the male was dead before he entered the water, Maya finds herself with a murder on her hands.

Bernie Gunther returns in the thirteenth book in the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling series, perfect for fans of John le Carre and Robert Harris. 'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD 'One of the greatest master story-tellers in English' ALAN FURST 1957, Munich...

'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD A series of horrific ritual murders leads Bernie Gunther to an occult conspiracy at the very heart of the Nazi Party - hard-boiled noir thriller for fans of Raymond Chandler and John le Carré Five German schoolgirls are missing. Four have...

Over dinner in a Brooklyn restaurant, Marshall learns that his former NYPD colleague owes money - a lot of money - to the wrong people. But the conversation is cut short by gunfire, and, suddenly, Ray is lying dead on the restaurant floor. As Marshall investigates the murder, tracking down the drug dealers, bag men, bent cops and mob players within Ray’s orbit, it becomes clear there’s far more to the killing than just a debt. But who is responsible for Vialoux’s death…and why?

Berlin, 1855: Wilhelm von der Heyden steht kurz vor dem Abschluss seines Studiums, als er Zeuge einer Explosion wird. Die Fenster der gegenüberliegenden Wohnung sind zerstört, eine Frau hängt leblos im Zaun. Um ihr zu helfen, eilt er an den Unglücksort - und gerät selbst in Verdacht. Der Wachtmeister hat sein Urteil schon gefällt, der Chef der Kriminalpolizei ist jedoch von Wilhelms Beobachtungsgabe begeistert und stellt ihn ein. Talentierte neue Mitarbeiter werden in der noch jungen preußischen Ermittlungsbehörde dringend benötigt.

The widower says his wife was killed by gangs - but now he’s running for Mayor of New York City. Just to be sure (or else to portray himself as a properly mourning husband), he hires PIs Joey Mancuso and Father Dom to solve the murder. Only they can’t help noticing he’s pushing them to come to the gang conclusion as well. Hey, is something fishy here?

Eine Reise in die Vergangenheit für Privatermittler Nik Pohl von Bestsellerautor Alexander Hartung. Beim Ausheben eines Grabs wird die Leiche von Rachel Preuss gefunden, sechs Jahre nach ihrem Verschwinden. Für Nik Pohl ist es wie eine Reise in die Vergangenheit. Zu seiner aktiven Zeit bei der Kripo war er als Einziger davon überzeugt, dass sie einem Verbrechen zum Opfer gefallen war. Er beschafft sich die neusten Informationen der Kripo, ist er doch fest entschlossen, den Mörder dieses Mal zu finden.

She was leaning against the door. Her smile was a sickly twisted grimace; the sort a prisoner gives a judge when he's asked if he has anything to say before he's sentenced. Russell Haxby is a ruthless used-car salesman obsessed with manipulating and cavorting with married women. In this classic of hard-boiled fiction, Charles Willeford crafts a wry, sardonic tale of hypocrisy, intrigue, and lust set in San Francisco in the early '50s.