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Ausgerechnet bei einer Rettungsübung am Strand entdeckt Kommissarin Enna Koopmann in den Wellen einen Toten. Schnell stellt sich heraus, dass der Mann keines natürlichen Todes gestorben ist. Enna hat also einen Fall – aber selbst ihr neuer, offenbar äußerst penibler Partner, Kriminalhauptkommissar Pavel Neuhof, kann kein Motiv finden. Er stößt bei seinen Recherchen allerdings auf eine überraschende Tatsache: Der Tote hat kurz vor seinem Ableben einen Schuldenberg von fast einer Million Euro abbezahlt.

The Hound of Baskervilles holds the listener in suspense as few murder stories do. Its combination of horror, homicidal villainy, the fogs of remote Dartmoor, the Baskerville Curse ‘a great black beast shaped like a hound’, are as unforgettable as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

A breathtaking new novel, perfect for fans of Saltburn Tommo has just started at a new school – a training ground for the Scottish elite – when his friend Johnnie's brother is found dead in a Land Rover on a Highland farm. There's a shotgun at his feet. Nobody seems clear about what has...

John Beckett's retirement plan had been simple: escape the perilous game of espionage and seek solace in the peaceful Portuguese town he'd visited in his youth. But fate, it seems, has other plans. What he finds in Sao Lourenco is a community paralyzed by fear and in the malevolent grip of the Silva family. After a chance encounter puts Beckett in the family's crosshairs, he is torn between the allure of a quiet life and the moral pull to help the town overthrow their cruel oppressors.

2003. Kabul has become a frontier city, Afghanistan's fledgling democracy struggling with crime and corruption as NATO coalition troops, gangs and warlords jostle for control. When the body of a British serviceman is discovered in the city's infamous tank graveyard, the Kabul Police reach out for support in their investigation. Alasdair 'Mac' MacKenzie, formerly of the Metropolitan Police, is seconded to the team.

It's open season on the rich... Ten billionaires are forced into a dark reality TV show - each round, one is killed in a bizarre gladiatorial 'game'. Millions watch the show with glee. Copycats spring up overnight. Soon it's open season on the wealthy, as long-simmering rage bursts into violence...

Staatsanwältin Femke Michelsen ermittelt mit nordischer Gelassenheit und dem typisch friesischen Charme. Staatsanwältin Femke Michelsen ist keine Teamplayerin. Sie bearbeitet die ungelösten Fälle aus der Vergangenheit, die sogenannten Cold Cases. Aber eine beim Eidersperrwerk geborgene Wasserleiche lässt sie kurzerhand an die Nordsee reisen. Als kurz nach ihrer Ankunft in der idyllischen Kleinstadt Tönning ein Mord geschieht, übernimmt sie die Ermittlungen. Gemeinsam mit dem jungen Polizeimeister Ole Westermann begibt sie sich in einen Sumpf aus Lügen, Gier und Macht.

The Adventure of the Yellow Face, one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the third tale from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in Strand Magazine in 1893 with original illustrations by Sidney Paget. One of Doyle's sentimental pieces, the story is remarkable in that Holmes' deduction during the course of it proves incorrect. According to Dr. Watson:"...where he failed it happened too often that no one else succeeded... Now and again, however, it chanced that even when he erred the truth was still discovered."

The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is the fourth of the twelve collected in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes in most British editions of the canon, and third of eleven in most American ones (owing to the omission of the "scandalous" "Adventure of the Cardboard Box"). The story was first published in Strand Magazine in March 1893 and featured seven illustrations by Sidney Paget.

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson investigate the case. This was the first appearance of Holmes since his apparent death in The Final Problem, and the success of The Hound of the Baskervilles led to the character's eventual revival.

They came for his kids. There can be no mercy... Black-ops legend Chris Wren has hunted the 'Pinocchios' for months, a hacker group stalking innocents on the dark Internet - including Wren's own kids. Now two anti-Pinocchio activists are dead in Detroit, and that's just the beginning. As a...

Als Regulatoren bezeichnet man eine Gruppe von Männern, die sich zusammengeschlossen haben, um nach ihren eigenen Vorstellungen Ordnung in ihrem Land zu schaffen, weil sie die regulären Richter und Polizisten für unfähig oder zu lasch halten. Es sind also selbst ernannte illegale Richter und Polizisten. Wie ihr Leben und Treiben moralisch zu bewerten ist, lässt sich gewiss nicht spontan und generell entscheiden. Wie so oft hängt es von den besonderen Umständen ab. Gerstäckers Roman ist eine abenteuerliche Kriminalgeschichte, ausgeschmückt mit komischen Szenen und einer Liebesgeschichte.

Im finsteren Wasser bringt er dich zum Schweigen. Endgültig. Der Fall einer entführten Internatsschülerin versetzt ganz München in Aufruhr. Als nach quälenden Tagen der Ungewissheit die dunklen Tiefen des Starnberger Sees ihre Leiche freigeben, übernehmen Annabelle Hart und Felix Hertzlich...

Jesse McDermitt lives alone on an isolated island in the Florida Keys where he runs a charter fishing business. Retired from the Marine Corps for six years, he wants nothing more than to relax, fish, dive and enjoy the laid back lifestyle of the islands. Russ, his former Platoon Sergeant and old friend, dies unexpectedly in a mysterious scuba diving accident and Jesse becomes suspicious.

A Spanish treasure ship is driven by a hurricane onto the rocky shoreline of Elbow Cay in September of 1566. Few of the crew survive, but they manage to salvage most of the treasure and bury it on the island, leaving a clue to its location in a chest placed in the boughs of a young mangrove tree. Four hundred forty years later, Jesse McDermitt and his friends solve the riddle that was hidden inside a chest found encased in the now-ancient mangrove.

Key West’s sultry summer heat isn't for the faint of heart. But Michal Grabowski is running from a Pittsburgh cocaine dealer intent on killing him in a slow and painful manner, and Key West is the end of the road. Retired Marine Jesse McDermitt enjoys the summer heat and quiet solitude of his tiny island home in the back country. When Jesse discovers that Michal’s would-be killer is connected to recent murders in the Bahamas, he agrees to help the young man. Jesse doesn’t like murderers, smelly crack monsters or drug dealers running amok in his territory. 

Il nuovo romanzo di Marco Vichi è anche una nuova, sorprendente avventura. Una storia che racconta come il passato non è qualcosa di immutabile e irrimediabilmente concluso, ma è anzi materia viva. Una dimensione in movimento, che chiede ancora di essere descritta, definita, capace ­com’è...

Drei Freundinnen wandern gemeinsam mit ihren Männern nach Australien aus. Während eines Ausflugs zu den Opalminen von Queensland geschieht ein grausamer Mord. Sie verdächtigen sich gegenseitig und ihre Freundschaft zerbricht daran. Dreißig Jahre später versuchen sie die Vergangenheit zu bewältigen ... und entdecken Schreckliches.

They stole his truck. Big mistake. CIA black-ops legend Christopher Wren pulls over on a Utah highway after three weeks on the road. An arbitrary decision he's about to regret. A biker gang attacks Wren, leaves him for dead and steals his truck. Now he's going to get it back. From a secret...

The eleventh book in Tony J. Forder's bestselling DI Jimmy Bliss Crime series. FOR SOME, LIFE CAN BE MURDER When the police are unable to find a body, they are forced to dismiss a homeless veteran’s claim that he witnessed a homicide. But after he is found murdered in the same spot two days...