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Before the long drive home from vacation on Cape Cod, Emily Parker made a quick run to the grocery store... and disappeared. When her car is found abandoned in the parking lot, her husband, Will, turns to a retired FBI profiler named John Geary for help. As her family scours the Cape for her, Emily's thoughts are not on her own safety. Kept helpless in a madman's lair, she watches him prepare a five-day countdown that will bring him to his real victim - her young son.

Daniela is a quiet single mother studying for a doctorate in chemistry. She rarely goes out, so her murder in her bedroom at the family's new villa seems inexplicable. It is true that her mother, who appears to be an alcoholic; her younger sister, who has had mental problems; and her father, who has made his money running nightclubs and is probably involved in the international sex trade, are not your average home-loving Italian nuclear family, but what can she have done to be singled out for slaughter?

Ma si tratta di una buca piccola: il corpo non è quello di un adulto. Una vita innocente è stata sacrificata per siglare un oscuro patto di sangue. E il segreto che lega i presenti è destinato a essere sepolto sotto terra. Anni dopo, la direttrice di una scuola viene brutalmente assassinata: è solo il primo di una serie di agghiaccianti delitti che terrorizzano la regione della Black Country, in Inghilterra. Il compito di seguire e fermare questa orribile scia di sangue viene affidato alla detective Kim Stone.

Bringing together six short stories - two of which are previously unpublished - One Last Dram Before Midnight is perfect for fans of Denzil Meyrick. These tales take us from Jim Daley's early days pounding the beat in Glasgow as a young constable to a lighthearted whisky smuggling romp involving Hamish and some ghostly pipers.

Un cadavre est retrouvé au petit matin dans un conteneur à ordures du boulevard Barbès. À la clef : une veuve, deux orphelins, un chômeur de moins sur les listes de Pôle emploi et un Curriculum Vitae qui porte bien mal son nom. Pour les deux flics de la Crim' qui "dérouillent" cette nuit-là, commence une longue et morbide enquête sur une mort que personne, ou presque, ne semble regretter.

John Puller non è semplicemente un agente speciale dell'Esercito degli Stati Uniti, ma la punta di diamante della Criminal Investigation Division, l'uomo a cui ci si affida per risolvere i crimini più complessi ed enigmatici. Questa volta, però, Puller è alle prese con un caso anomalo, dai delicati risvolti personali. Il cadavere di sua zia è stato rinvenuto a Paradise, una tranquilla cittadina della Florida, considerata un vero e proprio paradiso in terra dai numerosi turisti che ne affollano le incantevoli spiagge.

Mob head Sal Tarantino doesn't want big-time casino gambling to become legal in Rhode Island. His solution is to have the next governor comfortably in his pocket, ready to veto the legislation. That means calling in the debts owed to the mob by some of Rhode Island's most prominent politicians, to clear the way for Doug Fiore, managing partner of the state's largest law firm and soon-to-be reluctant gubernatorial candidate.

*Der neue Thriller des Kindle-Bestsellerautors Elias Haller.* Er zwingt dich zu einem Spiel auf Leben und Tod. Du kannst mitspielen, aber niemals gewinnen. Auf dem Marktplatz umstellt die Polizei einen vermeintlichen Irren, an dessen Oberkörper ein Aktenkoffer mittels Kette und Zahlenschloss befestigt ist. Er behauptet, von einem Unbekannten strikte Anweisungen bekommen zu haben: Wenn er den Koffer nicht rechtzeitig an die Mordkommission übergibt, stirbt seine Frau. Zeitgleich macht Kriminalhauptkommissar Erik Donner in seinem eigenen Schlafzimmer einen abscheulichen Fund.

In ihrem Spiekeroog-Urlaub wird Hauptkommissarin Hella Brandt von den Inselpolizisten um Unterstützung gebeten. Ein alter Mann, der seit vielen Jahren zurückgezogen auf der Insel lebt, ist tot aufgefunden worden. Die Obduktion ergibt, dass er erstickt wurde. Doch weder auf der Insel noch auf dem Festland findet sich ein Motiv für die Tat. Mysteriöser noch: Der Mann scheint keine Vergangenheit zu haben. Niemand weiß, wo er vor seinem Ruhestand gelebt und gearbeitet hat. Alle Ermittlungen führen ins Leere, bis Hella einen ersten Hinweis im Haus des Opfers entdeckt ...

幼い頃の事故で感情を失った監察官・小田垣観月。彼女が統括する、警察の捜査資料保管庫ブルーボックスに、大阪府警から２人の刑事が送られてくる。彼らの不審な行動に疑問を抱く観月だが……。

When a 75-year-old woman is killed in an apparently random car accident, it looks like a simple hit-and-run - until the car is linked to an Asian organized crime syndicate. Undercover operative Jack Taggart, who is called in to investigate, quickly identifies a top crime boss as the perpetrator, but he must still figure out how to infiltrate the man's inner circle. Taggart approaches a young Chinese woman on the fringes of the syndicate and tries to coerce her into becoming his informant.

When a young mother is found dead in her home with mysterious symbols drawn on her body, DI Katie Rhodes is shaken to her core; something is telling her that the clues link back to her old partner, Nathan Radley. Formerly one of the best criminal psychologists on the police force, Nathan was renowned for getting deep into the minds of the murderers he hunted. But for the past year he has lived in isolation, terrified of losing control over his own dark desires....

A woman's corpse is discovered in a meadow. A strange combination of letters and numbers has been tattooed on the soles of her feet. Detective inspector Beatrice Kaspary from the local murder squad quickly identifies the digits as map coordinates. These lead to a series of gruesome discoveries as she and her colleague Florin Wenninger embark on a bloody trail - a modern-day scavenger hunt using GPS navigation devices to locate hidden caches.

Disaffected police detective and struggling single parent, Adam Durwood, is assigned to investigate, but the closer he looks the more the facts don’t add up. At the centre of the mystery are three beguiling and manipulative teenagers who seem to know much more than they should, and are slowly drawing Adam into a web he can’t see.

Non c'è pace per il commissario Adalgisa Calligaris. Pensava di poter staccare la spina, dopo il suo trasferimento a Rivorosso, e invece, risolto un caso, in meno di ventiquattr'ore se ne presenta un altro. Il corpo senza vita di Silvia Ravelli è stato trovato dalla sorella, Antonia, nel salotto della sua villa. È un colpo d'arma da fuoco ad averla uccisa, ma non c'è traccia della pistola. Con l'aiuto del magistrato Gualtiero Fontanella, il commissario Calligaris scopre che tra le due sorelle non correva buon sangue, a causa dell'eredità di uno zio.

Packender Thrillerstoff von Bestsellerautor Elias Haller. An einem Januarmorgen verschwindet die achtjährige Violetta. Akribisch rekonstruiert die Polizei ihren Weg zur Schule und entdeckt Indizien, die auf eine Entführung hindeuten. Doch das Mädchen wird nie gefunden. Zehn Jahre später verbringt Kriminalhauptkommissar Erik Donner ein paar Tage in dem Ort und will dort eigentlich nur sein privates Unglück im Alkohol ertränken, als er von Violettas Cousine aufgesucht wird. Angeblich gibt es einen neuen Hinweis auf den Verbleib des Mädchens.

Detective Kate Hamblin is doing surveillance on the Somerset Levels, trying to catch a crazed arsonist. She leaves the van for a moment. Then it goes up in flames, killing her two colleagues. Kate is accused of abandoning them and is excluded from the murder hunt and effectively suspended from duty. She is desperate to nail the killer herself and clear her name. She risks all by entering into an unholy alliance with the murder team's chief suspect. Kate finds herself not only targeted in a personal vendetta by her own DCI, but stalked by the very killer she is pursuing.

Trieste, primavera del 1902. Il ricordo dei fatti di sangue seguiti al primo sciopero operaio dell'Impero asburgico è ancora vivo nella mente della cittadinanza. A pochi giorni dalla revoca dello stato d'assedio proclamato dal governo di Vienna, un sottufficiale dell'esercito viene trovato morto e sfigurato in un vicolo. Intanto, una preziosa reliquia cristiana, il Mandylion, viene rubata, perduta e infine ritrovata da Davorin, un ragazzino di dodici anni che in seguito a ciò pare acquisire strani poteri.

Detectives Barry Gilbert and Joe Lombardo return after their highly praised debut, Cold Comfort. This time the two are plunged into Toronto's Chinatown district where they are called to investigate the death of Edgar Lau, a man whose history and connections take the detectives on a ride across continents and cultures, deep into the story of one family's struggle to survive against terrible odds

A los pies de la tumba de Jón Sigurðsson, el histórico héroe de la independencia islandesa, yace el cadáver de una joven desnuda. Nadie sabe quién es ni porque la han abandonado en un lugar tan emblemático rodeada de flores. La policíao ha averiguado que era drogadicta y que abusaron de ella. Al frente de la investigación, Erneldur Sveinsson va a ir descubriendo que la chica tan solo es una pieza más en un juego de corrupción, negocios turbios y afán desmedido de poder.