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Ti mennesker har vundet en skrivekonkurrence udsendt af en hjemmeside kaldet ’krimiknækkeren.com’ med en præmie på 20.000 kr. og et ugelangt skrivekursus. Konkurrencen gik ud på at indsende et udkast til et handlingsforløb til en fiktiv karakter ved navn Jesper, som har begået et...

Magnus Rhode er tilbage! Og denne gang begynder forbrydelsen i Metroen, men sporerne fører hele vejen til Rom En tidlig sommermorgen gør en rengøringsmedarbejder i Københavns Metro et makabert fund: Et lig uden hoved er tapet fast til sædet i den forreste vogn på M4-linjen. Kort efter...

Matt Pine studerer i New York, hvor hverdagen udspiller sig langt væk fra den tragedie, som ramte Pine-familien, da Matts storebror – den atletiske Danny – blev tiltalt for mordet på sin ungdomskæreste, Charlotte. En populær true crime-serie på Netflix forsøger at bevise Dannys uskyld...

Drabet på en højesteretsdommer sætter efterforskeren Magnus Rhode på overarbejde, og da flere mishandlede ofre dukker op, begynder et frygtindgydende mønster at tegne sig. Alt tyder på en fanatisk seriemorder, der tager afsnittet i Anden Mosebog om øje-for-øje og tand-for-tand særdeles...

Jon Harding bliver kaldt til Holbæk, da et brutalt røveri mod en pengetransport er endt med, at chaufføren af transporten er blevet likvideret. Vagten er forsvundet, og meget peger på, at han var med til at udføre røveriet. Jon, Fabian og deres nye kollega, Aya, bliver yderligere udfordret...

Et prominent rocker-kendis par findes myrdet. Begge er tortureret ihjel med bestialske metoder, der oprindeligt blev brugt af Den Spanske Inkvisition. Politikommissær Magnus Rhode sættes i spidsen for opklaringen af de brutale mord. Snart efter dukker liget af en pusher op, der er blevet revet...

Jon Harding bliver sammen med Mohana Aya og Jonas Støvring sat på en sag om en seriemorder, der har slået til tre gange og indtil videre dræbt en ældre kvinde og to ægtepar. De ellers hærdede betjente forfærdes over gerningsmandens fremgangsmåde, og meget tyder på, at de fem ofre ikke...

Trau, schau wem! Beim Kistenpacken für ihren Umzug findet Janna auf dem Dachboden eine ihr unbekannte DVD. Als sie sie mit ihrem Computer abspielt, entdeckt sie verschlüsselte Daten und den Zugang zu einem merkwürdigen Onlineportal. Aus Angst vor Viren oder Trojanern wirft sie die DVD...

Investigator Sofia Kovic has uncovered a connection between several deaths in Oslo over the last year and a half. She tries to call her superior, Alexander Blix, but before Blix has time to return her call, Kovic is shot and killed in her own home. In the apartment below, Blix’s daughter Iselin narrowly escapes becoming the killer’s next victim. Four days later, Blix and online crime journalist Emma Ramm are locked inside an interrogation room, facing the National Criminal Investigation Service.

Oslo, 2018. Former long-distance runner Sonja Nordstrøm never shows at the launch of her controversial autobiography, Always Number One. When celebrity blogger Emma Ramm visits Nordstrøm’s home later that day, she finds the door unlocked and signs of a struggle inside. A bib with the number one has been pinned to the TV. Police officer Alexander Blix is appointed to head up the missing-persons investigation, but he still bears the emotional scars of a hostage situation 19 years earlier, when he killed the father of a five-year-old girl.

A gripping, unforgettable thriller featuring DS Jenna Morgan that will have you racing through the pages. Who's stalking who? When a beautiful, red-haired nurse’s body is found mutilated in her house in Lawley the morning after a date with Detective Constable Ryan Downey, all eyes turn to him...

How well can you ever really know someone? As Ben Casper watches his best friend plummet from her sixth-floor apartment balcony, he realises his life is about to change. Diana had no reason to kill herself, she had to have been pushed. Diana worked for the CIA, so the investigation into her...

As a child, former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone was told his father died in a submarine disaster in the North Atlantic, but now he wants the full story and asks his ex-boss, Stephanie Nelle, to secure the military files. What he learns stuns him: His father’s sub was a secret nuclear...

Bob Lee Swagger and Philip Yano are bound together by a single moment when their fathers met in the bloody and chaotic battle for the island. Only Earl Swagger survived. More than 60 years later, Yano comes to America to honor the legacy of his heroic father by recovering the sword he used in the battle. His search has led him to Crazy Horse, Idaho, where Bob Lee, ex-marine and Vietnam veteran, has settled into a restless retirement and immediately pledges himself to Yano's quest.

The house was stripped bare of all its treasures. Gone was the furniture, the family silver, the paintings and the antique china. And if that was a shock for Charles Todd, painter of horses, how much more harrowing was the trauma for his cousin Donald, whose house it was and whose young wife lay on the sitting room floor, bloody and dead... A coincidental meeting with a middle-aged widow sends Charles off to Australia, on the trail of a gang with a fruitful business in forging works of art.

This timeless text is required listening for any business person or athlete interested in strategy. It includes a soundtrack entitled "The Mysterious Sound of Wind In the Bamboo", a 43-minute collection of Zen-inspired Japanese music by the Matsu Take Ensemble.

Jungle-skilled, silent, and lethal, he had killed for the Viet Cong and then for the Americans. He had watched helpless as his two eldest daughters were raped and killed by Thai pirates. Now, all that was behind him. Quiet, hard-working, and unassuming, he was building up his South London take-away business - until the day his wife and youngest daughter were murdered by an IRA bomb. That was when the Chinaman, denied justice, decided on revenge...and went back to war.

Accomplished storyteller Nevada Barr captivates fans with her tightly-woven plots, vibrant descriptions, and believable characters. In this thrilling mystery, her resourceful sleuth, middle-aged park ranger Anna Pigeon, travels to northern California where she joins the forces battling an out-of-control forest fire.

King Lear has lived a long and difficult life as a king and decides that he wants to retire of his duties. To absolve himself of power, Lear decides to split his kingdom among his three daughters based on their affections toward him. While two of his daughters flatter their father and declare their fealty and respect, his third daughter refuses to flatter his ego and declares that she only loves him because he is her father. This disrespect causes Lear to leave her nothing.

Renata Richardson thought her dream summer job on a Mediterranean beach would be the just escape she needed. Instead, she becomes the target of a brutal attack by a group of wealthy businessmen, handpicked for their money and power. But Renata isn’t just another victim—they picked the wrong girl. After the local police turn a deaf ear to her report, Renata is fueled by rage and determined to mete out her own version of justice. And the hunt begins. She tracks down the private jet that delivered the men to the island, sneaking a look at the flight logs.