Mystery

Saffy is waiting to go into an important meeting when she receives a missed call and then a text message from her best friend, Leona: Please help...come now. Of course, she races to her friend’s house. But when she arrives, she notices something strange....

Lane Holland's crime-solving career ended the day he went to prison. Yet one unsolved case continues to haunt him: the disappearance of Matilda Carver two decades ago...

The first three crime thrillers in the Detective Sebastian Clifford series together in a single collection for the first time. This collection includes Web of Lies, Speak No Evil, and Never Too Late....

It was summer in the mountains when five small children vanished from their nursery school picnic. Three-and-a-half years later, in the dead of winter, the children are returned to their families...one by one. All except for Ivy....

In this prequel to the international best seller The Ruin, set 10 years prior, bright-eyed Carrie Ryan is at the very start of her career...

DS Lucas Walker is on leave in his hometown, Caloodie, looking after his dying grandmother. When two young German backpackers vanish from the area on their way to a ranch, he finds himself unofficially on the case....

The young man with the shock of white-blond hair lay spread-eagled on the floor, surrounded by fallen books. His hand reached out to the scattered pages, as though he was trying to tell her something....

Contains books 4-6 of the bestselling, fast-paced Detective Sebastian Clifford series.

Newly minted homicide detective Nell Buchanan returns to her home town, annoyed at being assigned a decades-old murder — a 'file and forget'. But this is no ordinary cold case, as the discovery of more bodies triggers a chain of escalating events in the present day.

DCI Craig Gillard will be pushed to his limits. But will he break? It seems like a routine disappearance, a case of musician’s stage fright....

A brand new Nikki Galena mystery where echoes from the past haunt the twistiest, most complex investigation of her career.

When the body of a celebrity author, recently returned to the Isle of Skye seemingly to live out his remaining days, is found on Staffin Beach, D.I. Duncan McAdam is left with a mystery to solve.

Flower shop owner Ellie McEwan is driving home late one frosty November night when a shadowy figure leaps into the road out of nowhere. Ellie swerves to avoid him — and slams head-on into the crash barrier.

Get three absolutely gripping crime thrillers set on the UK's atmospheric north Norfolk coast from number one best-selling British author J M Dalgliesh in this great value collection....

It's the end of a long day at the Dogs Need Nice Homes charity shop. Fiona, Daisy, and Partial Sue, the three retired ladies who volunteer there, are ready to lock up for the night. The chippie is beckoning. But supper will have to wait.

DS Lucas Walker is off duty. He's supposed to be showing his little sister Grace the Australian outback, on her visit from Boston, but instead they're headed out bush- where Walker's cousin has been mining for boulder opal.

A gripping stand-alone thriller from the Sunday Times number one best-selling author of the Logan McRae series....

When human bones are found beneath an old chapel in the woods, evidence suggests the remains could be linked to the decades-old case of missing teen Annalise Jansen....

Fourteen years ago, prosecutor Jessica Yardley's husband went to prison for a series of brutal murders. She's finally created a life with her daughter and is a well-respected attorney. She's moving on....

Bristol detective DS George Cross, champion of the outsider, the voiceless and the dispossessed. DS George Cross can be rude, difficult and awkward with people. But his unfailing logic and dogged pursuit of the truth means his conviction rate is the best on the force....

A man wanders lost on a filthy night in the Black mountains of Wales. Despite the valiant efforts of the rescue services, he does not survive. Is this an accident? Or malice aforethought? DCI Warlow and team are drawn into a mystery that soon spirals into more deaths and a poisonous trade.

Jack Widow lives by simple rules: keep moving, live and let live. But there’s one more rule—don’t cross him, and he won’t cross you. Deep in the Ozarks, the forgotten town of Iron Crossing harbors deadly secrets.

As DS Lucas Walker recovers from his injuries, he heads from Caloodie, Queensland, to the Gold Coast....

DS George Cross can be rude, difficult, and awkward with people. But his unfailing logic and relentless pursuit of justice means his conviction rate is the best on the force. When a ravaged body is found in a local demolition site, it is up to Cross to piece together the truth....

After a long year of crime-fighting, DCI Ryan and his team are looking forward to a peaceful Christmas filled with festive treats. But, when their dinner is interrupted by the untimely arrival of a dead body, they’re reminded that crime never sleeps.

Inglaterra, 1914. O mundo está em guerra. O capitão Hastings, ferido e abalado, é convidado para ir à mansão Styles para se recuperar. Trata-se de uma grande e antiga casa de campo – propriedade da família de um velho amigo – e um refúgio perfeito. Pelo menos, à primeira vista. Mas, sob o calor escaldante do verão, os problemas vão aparecendo. Tensões latentes estão dividindo a família, e acabam chegando a um desfecho aterrador. Emily Inglethorp, a rica matriarca da família, é torpemente assassinada no meio da noite. E ninguém em Styles está acima de suspeita.

Es hätte die perfekte Urlaubsaffäre sein können–bis eine Leiche auftaucht.

Dr. Laurel Harlow can’t believe she’s agreed to do a reality TV show. But her years as a chemical dependency counselor and personal history with the show’s director make her the obvious choice. Treating a mansion full of former child stars on the road to recovery is the tallest order of her career—especially when one of them turns up dead while the cameras are still rolling.

The world did not end in a single night, it rotted from within. The infection spread like wildfire, consuming cities, collapsing governments, and bringing entire nations to their knees. The powerful fled. The desperate fought. The doomed prayed. But the undead were relentless, devouring everything in their path. From the fall of New York City to the last stand in London, from the Pope’s final sermon in the Vatican to billionaires seeking refuge in Switzerland’s most fortified bunkers, this is the story of how civilization crumbled, one country at a time.

When the chief suspect in the notorious Peek-a-boo cop killer case blew himself up, almost taking lead investigator DCI Duncan Bone with him, the psychologically damaged detective thought his days on the force were over. But when another PC is abducted and murdered in the same deranged Peek-a-boo fashion, Bone is persuaded to return to lead the new investigation. But as Bone and his team hunt a copycat killer, and with time running out before yet another cop is slain, Bone’s terrifying past returns to tear open old wounds and push him to very edge of the abyss.

Maggie Bird, ex-agente secreta da CIA, escolheu um pequeno vilarejo no Maine para viver a aposentadoria e finalmente deixar o doloroso passado para trás. Muitos anos antes, ela participou de uma missão que acabou em tragédia, fazendo com que perdesse tudo o que importava. Atualmente, Maggie leva uma rotina tranquila em sua fazenda, tentando enterrar as memórias da antiga vida. Mas quando um corpo surge misteriosamente em sua garagem, ela percebe que se trata de uma mensagem de velhos inimigos que não a esqueceram.

Sasha’s life was perfect—until the car crash that destroyed her career as a concert pianist and her friendship with Abby, the one who was driving. Consumed by grief and blame, Sasha cut Abby out of her life. But when Abby’s body is found floating in a river and a newborn baby is abandoned nearby, Sasha is thrust into a deadly mystery she can’t ignore.

Il commissario Montalbano indaga tra l'immaginaria Vigàta e Tindari, il promontorio a picco sul mare "col piccolo, misterioso teatro greco e la spiaggia a forma di una mano con le dita rosa". Un triplice omicidio è avvenuto - un giovane dongiovanni che viveva al di sopra dei suoi mezzi apparenti, due anziani pensionati seppelliti in casa che improvvisamente decidono una gita a Tindari. Li collega, sembra, solo un condominio.

Per la prima volta insieme tre brevi gialli ambientati in Sicilia, tre storie da tempo introvabili, che confermano lo straordinario talento inventivo...

Steven Jencks has planned the perfect crime. Working with two skilled associates, he will hit the Reina, a super-luxury hotel off the coast of Spain, and then walk away with the haul of a lifetime. As the ultimate pro, Jencks has even run his plan through a complex computer simulation to account for every possible variable … Except three. Their names are Annette, Cynthia, and Jenny. And no computer could ever simulate what these three femmes fatales have up their sleeves.

Scotland, 1924: When Lady Poppy Proudfoot travels to the Highlands for a midsummer party, the last thing she and her fellow guests expect is for a body to wash up beside the loch. Despite protests that it could have been an accident, Poppy is convinced it’s murder and decides to dust off her law degree and hunt for clues. But when the police arrive, the grumpy Inspector MacKenzie dismisses her evidence, insisting a crime scene is no place for a Lady. The nerve!

Two patients in comas, not expected to live: when they both recover, sharing the same bizarre symptom of blue urine, it’s a medical miracle that Dr. Roger Clark cannot explain. One of the patients happens to be Sharon Wilder, a beautiful Hollywood starlet. When she offers Dr. Clark the chance to accompany her to the private Caribbean island called Eden, he has to accept—if only to learn more about the bioengineering company Advance, Inc., and their promise to make your wildest dreams come true.

Mauro Assante è, prima di ogni altra cosa, un uomo serio: ha sempre lavorato con scrupolo estremo, guadagnandosi incarichi di crescente responsabilità nell'istituzione in cui presta servizio, l'authority preposta al controllo della trasparenza delle banche italiane. Si è sposato tardi, con la sola donna che sia riuscita ad aprire una breccia nel suo temperamento ombroso, e ha un figlio piccolo, che trascorre i mesi estivi con la madre, in montagna.

Ein Linienflug wird zum Albtraum, als die Passagiere in eine befremdliche Realität katapultiert werden. Ein Schriftsteller wird von einem zwielichtigen Fremden betroht und gerät in den Sog seiner eigenen finstersten Fantasien. Ein Mann wird von einem gefährlichen Geheimnis seiner Vergangenheit verfolgt und muss erkennen, dass manche Schulden nie verjähren. Ein junger Fotograf entdeckt, dass seine Polaroidkamera ein unheimliches Geheimnis birgt. Das Böse kommt mit jedem Foto ein Stück näher.

Die junge Gouvernante Violet Hunter bittet Meisterdetektiv Sherlock Holmes und seinen Freund Dr. Watson um Hilfe. Ihr neuer Arbeitgeber, Mr. Charles Rucastle, legt ein so mysteriöses Verhalten an den Tag, dass sie dahinter ein Verbrechen vermutet. Holmes und Watson begeben sich daher zur düsteren Villa Blutbuchen und entdecken unter Lebensgefahr Geschehnisse, die Miss Violets fürchterliche Vermutung unterstützen.

Raised by his drug-addicted mother in the small town of Coraki, Australia, Monroe Morgan is determined to escape a life steeped in misery. With dreams of a better future, he has secured a job at his brother-in-law’s pub in Coffs Harbour and is set to start as soon as he turns eighteen. However, a month before his departure, Monroe’s life takes a drastic turn when his neighbour, Indi, appears at his doorstep, battered and scared for her life. She reveals harrowing details about her upbringing in The Church of Salvation and declares that she is being forced to marry the church’s pastor.

Reacher finds himself caught in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse between US Military Intelligence and the KGB in this thrilling tale of espionage …

Wat kan een zwangere vrouw missen als kiespijn? Afgezaagde hoofden staan vast hoog op de lijst. Twee vrouwenhoofden worden aangetroffen op het domein van bestsellerauteur Harry Chandler. Lindsay Boxer, rechercheur moordzaken voor de politie van San Francisco, herinnert zich dat de verdwijning van Chandlers echtgenote nooit werd opgelost en vermoedt dat het domein nog andere geheimen verbergt. Ze krijgt een tweede zaak op haar bord: een drugsdealer is doodgeschoten met een vuurwapen dat uit de locker van hààr departement gestolen werd. Lindsay's man Joe gedraagt zich bovendien vreemd.

In dit confronterende deel van de spanndende Women’s Murder Club boekenreeks jaagt Detective Lindsay Boxer uit San Francisco ogenschijnlijk op twee criminelen. De eerste is een juwelendief met de bijnaam ‘Hello Kitty’, die van rijke en bekende mensen steelt – met de dood ten gevolge. De tweede is een moordenaar die het op moeders en kinderen gemunt heeft en cryptische boodschappen achterlaat, geschreven met lippenstift. Lukt het Lindsay om deze zaken op te lossen, ondanks de persoonlijke uitdagingen die ze naast haar werk doormaakt?

Journaliste Cindy Thomas vindt het lijk van een dakloze man. Tot haar ontzetting onderzoekt de politie de zaak amper: die heeft haar handen vol met meerdere overlijdens in de elite van San Francisco – overlijdens zonder duidelijke doodsoorzaak. Cindy trekt dan maar zelf op onderzoek uit. Yuki, een ander lid van de Women's Murder Club, krijgt een moeilijk dossier op haar bord. Ze heeft een video waarin een moeder haar dochter beschuldigt van de moord op haar man, maar is dat genoeg voor een veroordeling? Bovendien worstelt Yuki met gender issues.

Tensions are high at the Three Counties Show when accusations of cheating add fuel to a longstanding feud. For Jude Gray, whose only hope was to not make a fool of herself showing her Kerry Hill sheep, farming life has never been so dramatic. When a body is found, belonging to one of the competitors, there is no shortage of suspects. Every sheep farmer in this close-knit community has a motive and beneath their show-ready smiles, they all have something to hide.

Décembre 2012. Trois adolescentes sont enlevées dans un petit village, l'une d'elles est retrouvée morte, les deux autres battues et droguées, à peine en vie. Le coupable ne sera jamais retrouvé et la thèse du rôdeur sera retenue.Dix ans plus tard. Un nouvel enlèvement secoue la tranquillité du village. Katia, une adolescente de 14 ans. Même circonstances, même jour de la semaine, même plage horaire.Lucas Lievens, ancien commandant de police devenu détective privé, est engagé par le père d'une des victimes de 2012 pour mener l'enquête en parallèle de la gendarmerie.

Outside Denver, Joe Rickards stands over a small aircraft wreckage, studying burnt remains still smoldering in a field of freshly fallen snow...an investigator for the NTSB, working to carefully roll back the last several hours and identify the cause of the accident. But this time, he can't. The details behind this tragedy don't add up. Unlike every other investigation of Joe's career, the facts make no sense. Each new piece of information only makes the accident more mysterious, and more baffling.

Una novela negra bestialmente adictiva. Hay un animal salvaje dormido en nuestro interior. ¿Qué ocurre cuando despierta? El hallazgo de un cadáver conmociona a los habitantes de una tranquila región rural en Asturias. Se trata de un hombre asesinado con una crueldad extrema, encontrado a pocos metros del prostíbulo local. Aunque era un vecino conocido y respetado, todo parece apuntar a una venganza. Olivia Marassa es una joven y ambiciosa reportera que trabaja para el periódico de la región y ve en este caso la oportunidad de conseguir una gran exclusiva.

Maggie Flynn isn’t your typical 1960s mum. She’s a spy, an unsuspecting operative for MI5, stalking London’s streets in myriad disguises. Widowed and balancing her clandestine career with raising a Beatles-mad teenage daughter, Maggie finds comfort and purpose in her profession – providing a connection to her late husband, whose own covert past only surfaced after his death. But Maggie’s world spins out of control when a chance encounter with a mysterious Russian agent triggers a chilling revelation: he knew her husband.