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Der Commissario auf der Spur alter Familiengeheimnisse – Luca Brassonis neunter Fall "Es war der Fluch, dieser verdammte Fluch, der ihr das Leben zur Hölle gemacht hatte. Sie blickte sich hastig um, ­konnte jedoch niemanden entdecken. Niemand konnte ihr jetzt mehr helfen. Sie musste zu...

Eingemauert - es gibt kein Entkommen! In einem verlassenen Hotel in der Lübecker Altstadt entdeckt ein Schädlingsbekämpfer hinter einer Wand eine Leiche. Die junge Frau wurde lebend eingemauert. Jemand hat ihr Wasser und Essen dagelassen und Löcher für die Luftzufuhr gebohrt. Jemand wollte, dass sie nicht zu schnell stirbt – und hat über eine versteckte Kamera zugesehen, wie sie qualvoll zu Grunde geht. Jonas Starck und seine Kollegin Sascha Novotna von der Lübecker Kriminalpolizei stehen vor einem Rätsel.

The helpless hold all the secrets. Two masked assailants burst into a ward in the QE Hospital in Barnstaple. While a nurse is held at gunpoint, a patient is shot three times as he lies helpless after a stroke. The attackers vanish as quickly as they arrived. Witnesses are in deep shock. DI Jan...

Suite à un appel d'urgence au milieu de la nuit, l'inspecteur Jenna Alton arrive dans une maison familiale isolée et découvre le corps de Lucas Robinson gisant dans une mare de sang dans son lit. Sa femme Carol, en état de choc, vient de voir un intrus abattre son mari de sang-froid. En enquêtant sur le meurtre, Jenna découvre rapidement que Lucas avait une liaison.

Mr Phipps’s days of freelance assassinations may be behind him, along with the big pay outs, but after the debacle of one particular London day, working for MI6 again is not so bad. Phipps is headed back to Germany on the trail of a former Stasi agent mixed up in a lucrative people smuggling...

Kellston, East London When crime boss Terry Street is buried, his empire is buried with him. With his heir dead and his son unwilling, the borough is up for grabs. Gangs circle. Old loyalties crack. Violence is inevitable. Marianne Day knows this world well. She's lived on its edges for years...

It’s 1979, and two teenagers have come to New York City to escape their small hometown, their controlling families, their unhappy lives. For them, Times Square is a glittering place of endless possibilities. But in the New York City of 1979, Times Square is a place where dreams go to die. Private investigator Tim Riordan knows this all too well. It’s the pimps, the prostitutes, the pushers who are his best hope to find the teenagers and save them from a life of sheer hell. That’s if he can save their lives at all.

THE GRIPPING MYSTERY FROM 'NEXT-GEN NORDIC STAR' (LA TIMES) AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, RAGNAR JONASSON As snow blankets Reykjavík and Christmas approaches, young detective Helgi is looking forward to a quiet holiday - until those plans are torn away in a flash. One month after his...

The new unputdownable psychological thriller by the bestselling author of THE WRONG DAUGHTER. Tori thought the worst thing that could happen was losing her best friend. She was wrong. Three years after Matilda's murder, Tori is preparing to marry the man they both loved. She tells herself she's...

A priceless diamond. A tower in lockdown. The clock is ticking to break the siege. The mystery novel from Ajay Chowdhury, for fans of Robert Galbraith and M. W. Craven Detective Sergeant Kamil Rahman is riding high on newfound fame and a thrilling new case: the mysterious death of the Deputy...

Four Black Japanese gay men team up to exact revenge in a culture where discrimination is deep-seated. A searing, darkly funny debut from the Akutagawa Prize–winning author. Nobody at the corporate offices of Athletius Japan knows much about the massage therapist, Jackson—but rumors abound...

Superintendent Teresa Battaglia, a trailblazing criminal detective on the Italian police force, is on sick leave, recovering from her recent brush with death in pursuit of a killer. But none of her colleagues, not even her partner, know that her Alzheimer’s is getting worse, and that Teresa is...

The day she died was only the beginning … Sam Cooper is on the verge of a happy life—a true feat after his disastrous childhood. Sam's mother, Laurie, died tragically and his father was torn apart by grief. But now after years of silence, Sam's father makes a shocking confession on his...

Three action-packed novels from an author who writes with the pace of Lee Child and the heart of Harlan Coben (New York Times best-selling author Joseph Finder). Join ex-military bodyguard Ryan Lock as he thwarts his enemies and tackles impossibly dangerous missions! Second Chance Winner of the...

Follow military veterans Ryan Lock and Ty Johnson as they confront a dark conspiracy in a remote college town (The Innocent), hunt down a cult group snatching young women from the streets of Los Angeles (Fire Point), broker a kidnap exchange in Budapest (Budapest/48), and help a desperate father...

The Shadow Killer is the extraordinary second book in the compelling new series from award-winning Icelandic author Arnaldur Indriðason, following The Shadow District. A man is found murdered in a small apartment in Reykjavík, shot in the head with a pistol. The police’s attention is...

An explosive love triangle, a formidable matriarch and a house party of enemies. All drawn inexorably … Towards Zero. Now Anjelica Huston and a star-studded cast feature in a brand new BBC adaptation of Agatha Christie's tense, ingenious novel. Read it before you see it! What is the connection...

Multicast narration featuring Joan Hickson, David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, and more Agatha Christie demonstrates her unparalleled mastery with Three Blind Mice and Other Stories—a classic compendium of mystery and suspense, crime and detection, whose title novella served as the basis for The...

An unknown wounded man in a church. A fatal riding accident. A corpse and a tape measure. Whether in St Mary Mead or further afield, there is always much wickedness lurking below the surface, should, like Jane Marple, you have the eyes to see it. Published posthumously, this collection of tales, seven of them featuring Agatha Christie’s much loved Miss Marple, plus two stand-alone stories, is a treasure trove.

THE NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR 30 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WINNER OF THE GLASS KEY AWARD In the penultimate thriller in the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling Department Q series, Copenhagen's cold cases division must hunt for a nefarious criminal who has slipped under the...