Showing titles in International Mystery & Crime

Get the first three thrillers of the Pandora Initiative Series in one box set. John Seal is a spy whose patriotism is admirable, but the motives of his famed handler are questionable. The collection contains: Mirage John Seal thought investigating the cause for an uptick in greenhouse gas emissions in the middle of a desert would be easy. He was wrong. As a CIA cybersecurity operative, Seal is working for the ongoing covert Pandora Initiative. Exiled CIA agent John Seal is a marked man the moment he steps off the plane in Tel Aviv. From a previous assignment, Seal collected intel that an ...

After CIA agent John Seal's journey as a stowaway on a Chinese freighter ends, setting foot on his native soil, Seal has one thing to live for - revenge. Broke and alone, Seal uses his survival skills to make his way across the country with damning evidence that implicates deep-seated government officials are involved with a global mercenary funding a weapon of mass destruction. Struggling to remain undetected by rail yard security, he escapes a series of attacks by bloodless human smugglers and works to avoid a daunting specter from his past. Desperate to contact the one person he can ...

Who is John Seal? He’s a rookie CIA agent. His job is to protect America against cyber attacks from enemy organizations and terrorists whose tactic is to disrupt lives as a means to leverage their agenda. John finds himself in the middle of Barcelona during the Saint Joan Festival where he meets his handler for the first time. During his high stakes first mission, he is faced with hard decisions and is forced to go against his moral compass to complete his assignment leaving him to wonder if he is the right man for the job. Does John have what it takes to be a covert operative, or will he...

It’s wedding bells for Chief Inspector D. T. Giovanni and Dr. Annalisa Canali. But tragedy strikes all too soon. Looking down into a huge vat of cake batter, the chief inspector recognizes a ring that he knows only too well. The bizarre murder begins a string of deaths that once again threatens to derail an opera festival in the tiny European duchy of Allemonde. Familiar characters return, and new characters are introduced, leading Giovanni to wonder whether it’s ever a good thing to meet your heroes.

To help promote tourism, the Grand Duchy of Allemonde begins offering a winter opera program in addition to its long-established summer festival. But when a young girl is murdered, and Wilfred Beck, the opera theatre’s set designer, is repeatedly threatened, it’s up to Chief Inspector D. T. Giovanni and his team to discover who’s causing the mayhem. A bewildering array of suspects, a fierce debate over gender identity, and not one, but two secret societies combine to make Giovanni's latest challenge a mystery on an operatic scale.

Winner of the 2015 New Apple Award for Excellence - Mystery Category, and 2016 Readers' Favorite Book Awards Honorable Mention - Murder Mystery. Fourteen years on, the crime that rocked County Tyrone in Northern Ireland remains unsolved, but hardly forgotten. Its tentacles reach the shores of America when John Costa, a once-prominent attorney who has all but given up on life, is questioned by the police. They’re asking about the person he’d least expect: the enigmatic Irish woman he secretly admires. His heart tells him she’s innocent, but new evidence hints at a sinister past. Will ...

From award-winning author Padraig O'Hannon, the sequel to "Murder in County Tyrone." He thought it was over. It wasn't... Three years after discovering who carried out the 1998 terrorist attack in Northern Ireland, American attorney John Costa just wants to get on with his life. Fate, however, has other plans. His world is shattered when an old adversary returns with a vengeance, making him the pawn in a deadly game of deceit and intrigue.

The atmosphere in King's Abbot is far from idyllic. Gossip, suicide, the death of the titular Roger Ackroyd... Hercule Poirot engages in a game with an exceptionally cunning murderer.

In an upscale Bel Air property, two lovers are found dead in a swimming pool. The man is the playboy heir to a business empire, and the woman is his even wealthier married neighbour. An illicit affair is the perfect motive. But the house is untouched - no forced entry, no forensic evidence - and so LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis and asks psychologist Alex Delaware to help unpick the case. It quickly becomes clear that both victims had troubled pasts. Now Alex and Milo must confront LA's darkest side as they unravel a trail of deadly secrets.

Hercule Poirot catches criminals, even though he himself was caught by the flu. The incredibly vain detective solves most of the mysteries without getting up from his chair. He finds bank bonds, explains the mystery of the stolen diamond, prevents the kidnapping of the Prime Minister, confronts the mafia, meets with an American intelligence agent, and... a black cat.

20 suspects. 10 days. And one killer waiting for the next chance to strike... When Charlotte, a fifty-something retired investigative reporter accepts an invitation to join her best friend's Wine Club on a 10-day wine-tasting extravaganza from Rome to Milan, she has no idea she’s being dragged into a murder plot until the discovery of a winery founder’s dead body, transforms their fun vacation into their worst nightmare. After a series of unfortunate accidents claim the health and lives of more victims, it quickly becomes clear that they won’t all make it to Milan alive. Charlotte ...

Masterton isn't a big town. The community's tight, if not always harmonious. So when a child goes missing it's a big deal for everyone. And when a second kid disappears, the whole town's holding their own children that little bit tighter. Lorraine doesn't have kids, but she has a nephew. She's holding him a bit tighter, too, because she works for the police, and she knows they don't have any idea. Lo's not a cop, she's a records clerk. She sits out back among the piles of paper, making connections, remembering things. Working things out that the actual cops don't want to hear about.

An einem windigen, regnerischen Samstagabend entdecken Exkommissar Max Raintaler und sein Freund Franz Wurmdobler die Leiche des erfolgreichen Filmproduzenten Waldemar Brachtinger. Offensichtlich wurde er in seinem Büro in der Filmstadt vor den Toren Münchens im Nobelvorort Grünwald ermordet. Die Spur führt zunächst in die Kreise der oft neidischen und emotional aufgeladenen Filmbranche, aber auch nach München hinein. Als dann auch noch Max‘ langjährige Lebensgefährtin entführt wird, gerät der Exkommissar unter Druck.

September 2021: Das Internationale Olympische Komitee tagt in Shanghai, um die Sommerspiele 2032 zu vergeben. Kurz vor der Abstimmung wird der mosambikanische IOC-Funktionär Charles Murandi tot aufgefunden. Prompt wird der deutsche Journalist Thomas Gärtner festgenommen, denn er hat sich zuletzt im Hotelzimmer des Toten aufgehalten. Doch der will sich an nichts erinnern können. Und während die Polizei auf Ungereimtheiten stößt, die Kanzlerin im Flugzeug nach Shanghai von dem Mord erfährt und ein anderer Journalist die Chance auf eine große Story wittert, ahnt niemand, wo der Schlüssel zur Lösung des Falls wirklich liegt.

En un gélido día de Año Nuevo, una pareja de enamorados aparece asesinada en un jacuzzi, en una solitaria granja de Ångermanland, al norte de Suecia. Ambos residen en Málaga, él es sueco; ella, española. El asesino les ha lanzado dos flechas con un arco. El caso resulta tener vínculos con ciertos lugares poco recomendables del barrio portuario de Marbella y con terribles sucesos ocurridos en el pasado. Héctor Correa se hace responsable de la investigación en España mientras colabora con las autoridades suecas.

10am: A mother rushes for a train after dropping her daughter at school but is reported missing when she doesn't return to pick her up. 2.47pm: The same train causes the death of a young woman; her body bound and placed on the tracks. When Detective Alana Mack discovers the missing mother has vanished from the same train that claimed the life of the young woman, she fears the worst. A killer is on the loose, targeting women and leaving their broken bodies scattered across Dublin's Dart train line.

Beccarres neuer Fall: Ein Zwanzigjähriger wird erschlagen im Jasmund aufgefunden. Romy steht vor einem fast unlösbaren Rätsel - bis sie auf einen cold case stößt, den Tod eines Mädchens, und eine Verbindung ziehen kann.

After their recent adventures in Transylvania, Russell and Holmes look forward to spending time with Holmes' son, the famous artist Damian Adler, and his family. But when they arrive at Damian’s house, they discover that the Adlers have fled from a mysterious threat. Holmes rushes after Damian while Russell, slowed down by a recent injury, stays behind to search the empty house. In Damian’s studio, she discovers four crates packed with memorabilia related to Holmes’ grand-uncle, the artist Horace Vernet.

Dawn. The English Channel. A small boat arrives crammed with exhausted migrants, not all of whom will make land. Some of the shattered occupants have already paid for their journeys. Others have arrived with a debt still to be paid. One of the migrants isn't fleeing anything. He's not from Europe, or Africa, or the East. He's from Texas, and he's wearing a robe. When the traffickers take some of their passengers to pay for their journey, they also take the man in the robe. That was their first mistake.

Sergeant Hamish Macbeth has some major problems to deal with—crimes and criminals, even law enforcement agents, that he doesn’t want anywhere near his beloved Highland village in Lochdubh. Hamish is worried about how the locals, as well as those in the wider area of his territory in Sutherland, will react to his new assistant officer. The officer is none other than the enigmatic American James Bland who is on an exchange scheme from his home city of Chicago in the United States, supposedly to study policing methods in Scotland.