Modern Detectives

In the hallowed city of Tours, the death of a sixteen-year-old dressed as an 'Immortal Knight' appears to be a tragic overdose. Juge d'instruction Matthieu Lombard is called in to investigate. When, weeks later, a provocative author is found brutally murdered, Lombard suspects the two deaths are connected by a sinister, coercive force. As he digs deeper, the case begins to challenge his loyalties and unearth disturbing echoes from his own past. What started as apparent roleplay turns into something far darker — and far deadlier.

DCI Alison McCoist is up to the oxters in Glasgow's shadiest police unit, with a list of guilty secrets growing longer by the day. Fran Forbes has just bolted from the scene of a gangland massacre with only a shite-stained tracksuit and a memory stick full of crypto-currency to his name. Ally is...

A decades-old photo. An unknown child. A secret someone would kill to keep buried. When private investigator Martina Monroe is hired to identify the infant in a decades-old photograph, the case seems simple enough. But the search leads her back to the hometown she swore she’d never return to—a place haunted by old wounds, buried lies, and people desperate to keep the past hidden. As Martina digs deeper, the questions begin to multiply. Who is the child in the photo? Why does no one want her asking questions? And what happened all those years ago that still has the town living in fear?

McAvoy must face the dark, disturbing secrets of his past if he's to keep his family safe. The clairvoyant is found with her tongue crudely carved out, a shard of blue crystal buried deep within her mangled ribcage. The crime scene plunges DS Aector McAvoy back twelve years, to a case from when he was starting out. An investigation that proved a turning point in his life - but one he's tried desperately to forget.

Tiene 36 horas. Si sigue las instrucciones, nadie saldrá herido… Cuando la periodista Tracy Frost despierta a la inspectora Kim Stone de madrugada con un mensaje urgente, a Kim no le hace ninguna gracia. Pero, al leer la nota que ha recibido la periodista, se le hiela la sangre. Tiene 36 horas para seguir el rastro marcado por un adversario anónimo. Si falla, habrá muertos. Su instinto le dice que no es una broma y reúne a su equipo, determinada a hacer todo lo posible para evitar lo que se avecina.

From bestselling, award-winning author James Ellroy, "the neo-noir eminence of L.A. crime fiction" (The New Yorker)—a gritty, fast-paced historical crime thriller set in 1962 Los Angeles during the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis "The Freddy Otash novels will be mentioned . . . as some...

A sniper is hunting in the Adirondacks. No witnesses. No motive. No pattern anyone can see. When a retired newspaper editor is shot through her window on a quiet August night, state investigator Noah Sutherland is called in. Within days, a second victim falls. Same rifle. Same distance.

In the twenty-seventh novel in Donna Leon’s bestselling mystery series, a suspicious accident leads Commissario Guido Brunetti to uncover a longstanding scam with disturbing unintended consequences. The memorable characters and Venetian drama that have long captivated Donna Leon’s many...

Bewahre das Geheimnis! Sonst wirst du leiden… In einem kleinen Dorf mitten im Nirgendwo häufen sich brutale Morde. Die Opfer werden grausam zugerichtet und öffentlich zur Schau gestellt. Die Ermittlerinnen Charlie Bekker und Stella Meislow übernehmen den Fall und tauchen ein in eine Welt...

Su marido ha matado a alguien. Ella es la única testiga. Amanda Davis tiene todo lo que siempre ha querido: una gran casa, una carrera próspera y su marido, Paul, es un carismático presentador de televisión muy conocido y apreciado por el público. Pero, cuando Paul mata a alguien en un terrible accidente, el mundo perfecto de Amanda se hace añicos. Arrastrada a una red de manipulación, engaños y oscuros secretos, se convierte en su cómplice involuntaria y se ve atrapada en una existencia retorcida y peligrosa que pone a prueba los límites del amor y la lealtad.

" Si vous regardez cette vidéo, c'est que je suis probablement morte... " Un cri saturant un micro. Une main ensanglantée. Un collier d'oreilles humaines. Ce qui ressemble à un cauchemar filmé dans une grotte glaciale n'est que le début d'une série de meurtres d'une cruauté inédite. A...

Investigative reporter Katrina Chopin is back home in San Diego on a mission (or two). The first is personal: reheating the cold case of her parents’ murder and investigating her brother’s reported suicide. The second involves a new spate of deaths with alleged causes that just don’t smell right. She and Detective Ken Goode need each other’s help for both. But she has to keep the sexy surfer at arm’s length, because dating him is off limits. For now.

Fluchtort Bornholm. Sarah Pirohl galt als hoffnungsvolle Kommissarin, doch gleich ihr erster eigener Fall in Rostock ging schief. Ein Mädchen wurde ermordet, und der Hauptverdächtige beging in der Haft Selbstmord. Wenig später aber wurde eine zweite Leiche gefunden – auf die gleiche Art getötet. Weil sie sich ihre Ermittlungsfehler nicht verzeihen kann, zieht Sara sich nach Bornholm zurück.

Un conto alla rovescia che non lascia scampo. Il libro che chiude la saga dell’Orologiaio di Brest. Carlo Malavasi, nome di battaglia “Sergio”, è stato per oltre quarant’anni una primula rossa della lotta armata: latitante imprendibile, custode di segreti che nessuno dovrebbe conoscere...

What happens when an ordinary man discovers his entire life was built on lies—and the truth could destroy the most powerful criminal organization in the world? Jake Morrison was nobody special. A tech repair guy from the Bronx, trying to make rent and live a quiet life. Then he found his father after twenty-seven years—and uncovered a conspiracy so vast, so deeply embedded in the fabric of society, that exposing it would put a target on his back for the rest of his life. The Covenant has existed since 1945. They manipulate elections. Control governments. Eliminate threats.

Ein ungelöster Fall. Neue Wahrheiten, die es aufzudecken gilt. Ein Mörder, der gestoppt werden muss. Als die Leiche eines Kollegen im Hafen von Scarborough gefunden wird, setzt DCI Tom Raven alles daran, die Hintergründe seines Todes aufzudecken. Der Mord weist Parallelen zu einem Cold Case auf – dem Tod der Mutter des Opfers. Hat dessen heimliche, inoffizielle Ermittlung ihn ins gefährliche Fahrwasser gebracht? Oder steht sein Tod in Zusammenhang mit den aktuellen nächtlichen Übergriffen auf Frauen?

Ein grausiger Fund erschüttert Frankfurt am Main. Vor dem Eingang eines Supermarkts wurde ein Müllsack abgelegt, er enthielt einen Leichnam ohne Kopf. Selbst der hartgesottene Chefermittler Jim Devcon ist geschockt. Weitere Enthauptete werden gefunden. Was steckt hinter den entsetzlichen Taten? Der Islamisten-Verdacht erhärtet sich nicht. Jim Devcon und sein Team bekommen es mit der »Weißen Lilie« zu tun. So nennt sich eine Gruppe junger Menschen. Ihr Kampf gegen die Ausbeutung auf dem Arbeitsmarkt sollte unblutig werden.

A bell rings at a quarter past two in the morning. Three nights running. From a room that has been locked for ten years. When Mrs. Honoria Vexley arrives at 221B Baker Street in the bitter December of 1894, she brings a riddle that defies every rational explanation. Her daughter Clara died a decade ago; the drawing room was sealed in her memory; no key exists, no window stands open, and no wire appears disturbed. Yet the bell has sounded—with force and precision—at the same impossible hour.

Ein bestialischer Mord. Eine angehende Nonne wird auf bestialische Weise ermordet. Die Umstände ihres Todes deuten darauf hin, dass sie kein Zufallsopfer war. Ex-Polizistin Anne Steinbach und der Priester Paul Wagner ermitteln: War die Tote tatsächlich eine Heilige, oder führte sie ein Doppelleben? Trotz privater Probleme und Fragen zu ihrer Beziehung lassen Anne und Paul nichts unversucht.

What if the dead could sit for their portrait? London, 1889. When Mrs. Viola Marston brings three seemingly ordinary photographs to 221B Baker Street, she presents Sherlock Holmes with a case like no other. In each portrait—taken weeks apart, in different rooms, by a reputable studio—a veiled woman in mourning dress stands at the edge of the frame. No one present recalls seeing her. No one can explain how she appeared on the glass plates. And when Mrs. Marston’s brother, Felix Dane, recognises the spectral figure and whispers a name he has not spoken in years, he vanishes into the London fog.

La mort d'un huissier peu apprécié sème le branle-bas sur Quimper et sa région. Le crime est-il l'œuvre d'un proche offensé, d'un concurrent irrité, d'une victime bafouée ? Un étouffant climat de psychose semble s'être emparé de la cité.

What happens when the dead refuse to stay buried? London, 1890. A man is pulled from the Thames, identified by three witnesses, and buried in a pauper’s grave in Southwark. The paperwork is signed. The mourning has begun. The case is closed. Two days later, he is seen alive at a window in Kensington—bruised, emaciated, and terrified.

A sadistic serial killer targets women attorneys, leaving body parts scattered across town. Will local detectives working alongside a FBI agent and an odd FBI profiler track down the killer before he or she strikes again? Or, will the killer sow destruction across teo communities, forcing neighbors to suspect neighbors. What hideous creature hides behind small town smiles?

In the 26th novel in the New York Times bestselling series, Brunetti’s retreat to a quiet island in the laguna is interrupted by a case of guilt and grief. Donna Leon’s bestselling mystery novels set in Venice have won a multitude of fans for their insider’s portrayal of La Serenissima...

They took his family. Now he's taking the war to them. John Sole has been running, hiding, and striking back where he can. But the cartel hasn't forgotten him and now they've unleashed their most ruthless enforcer, Alejandro Garza. Garza isn't just another soldier. His name carries whispers of...