International Mystery & Crime

The body of a monk is found savagely beaten to death in a woodland near Bristol. Nothing is known about Brother Dominic's past, which makes investigating difficult....

In the shadow of the Pentland Hills, a man has been callously struck down in front of his home. Tyre marks suggest it was no accidental hit-and-run. Somebody wanted him dead and as the man fights for every breath, they might still get their wish....

DS Lucas Walker is on assignment for the AFP, and it couldn't be more personal. This is his last chance to take down Stefan Markovich - the Vandals leader who tried to have him killed after Walker uncovered his drug operation, and has evaded justice for years.

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.

Tom Keeler was done with Alaska, but Alaska wasn’t done with him. After four months working a fishing boat he’s on his way to a permanent vacation. All he wants is to get back to that girl in Seattle, but there are men following him, which doesn’t make much sense....

Dan Armstrong and the new love of his life, Anna, are heading to a hotel deep in the gorgeous Tuscan countryside for a long weekend. But when a mutilated body is discovered in the hotel grounds, Dan is called in to help with the investigation....

As the sun sets into the sea over the pretty Cornish town of St Ives, a young woman, Freya Kempston, hasn’t returned home after a day out in the mall at St Austell. Panicking, her husband begs Detective Lauren Pengelly and her team to find her....

In the heart of Scotland's whisky country, a killer lurks amongst the casks. When renowned distillery guide Hamish Durie drops down dead during a whisky tasting, seemingly poisoned by his family's own liquid gold, DCI Bone is thrust into a world where tradition and treachery collide.

Former soldier. Ex-copper. Current man on the edge. Shunned by his old colleagues, and dividing his time between a dead-end job and the bottom of a whisky bottle, former Police Scotland detective superintendent Bob Hoon’s life is a mess....

After a violent home invasion in the remote wilds of Glen Coe leaves a family of four dead, DCI Jack Logan and his team are brought in to lead the manhunt....

From Mark Greaney, The New York Times best-selling author of Gunmetal Gray and a coauthor of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels, comes a high-stakes thriller featuring the world's most dangerous assassin: the Gray Man....

The hunter has become the hunted. Ten years ago, DCI Jack Logan caught the twisted child killer known as Mister Whisper. Two days ago, Mister Whisper escaped....

Golden sunlight bathes the rugged cliffs casting long shadows across Porthcurno’s sandy beach. Within a cove, lying on a blanket, are two bodies.

When Italy’s greatest opera singer, Rodolfo Argento, is killed in a terrible car accident, the police initially rule his death a tragic accident or suicide. But his elderly mother, Violetta, believes this to be poppycock! Her son was a brilliant driver and had too much to live for.

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.

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....

Molly DeGorne is a woman on the run, wanted for murdering her abusive husband. She’s accused of setting him and their Seattle home on fire. Scared, alone, and with no one to trust, the only hope that she’s got is a drifter she just met, Jack Widow....

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.

When the body of a church warden is discovered, DI Tom Janssen and his team must investigate the circumstances that led to his death.

A mother calls for her child repeatedly in the soft summer air, her voice rising with panic. She runs across the decking to lean over the thick glass balustrade, her eyes searching the dark waters of the loch. Her only child is missing, and nothing will ever be the same again....

Matt is intrigued when his partner Liz brings home an old carpet bag she found dumped in the local library. It contains a pile of mysterious handwritten notes. Liz is convinced the bag belongs to Old Molly, a local woman who lives on the streets.

This set contains books seven to nine in the gripping, fast-paced crime fiction series featuring DCI Whitney Walker and forensic psychologist Dr. Georgina Cavendish: Ritual Demise, Mortal Remains, and Silent Graves....

Seventy-five-year-old Sylvia Perkins was found battered to death in her home in 2010. The murder weapon was suspected to be a fire poker and it seems she was quite popular with older gentlemen.

A wildlife photographer plummets to his death above Fingal's Cave. A young fisherman vanishes without trace. The body of a marine scientist is pulled from the sea, his last recording a haunting piece of evidence.

On Christmas Eve, DCI Mackenzie Jones is called to a shooting at a remote farmhouse. Ralph Mallender believes his father lies dead inside. When three more bodies are discovered, it's clear a festive family gathering has turned into a gruesome tragedy....

Chief Inspector Soobramania is called when three bodies are discovered in the space of twenty-four hours, with mutilations bearing an eerie resemblance to Jack the Ripper’s victims. Initial suspicion centres on an English Duke visiting Hyderabad and his friend, a powerful Deccani noble and the angry stepson of one of the dead. In the face of political pressure, Soob must ally with his rival in the British Residency Police, Inspector Wilberforce, to unearth the culprit.

Abbie, Winnie, Serena en Bryah besluiten tot een spontane vakantie naar Monte Carlo. Ze geven zich volledig over aan de luxe van het hotel, het zwembad, de sashimi, de champagne - en de mannen. Hun weekend van grenzeloos genot neemt echter een duistere wending als ze wakker worden op een jacht, omsingeld door de politie. De vrouwen worden gearresteerd en beschuldigd van verschrikkelijke misdaden die ze niet hebben begaan - toch?

Nato schiavo, nel corso della sua lunga vita Taita è diventato un mago potente, e ora la sua saggezza e le sue capacità sono conosciute in tutto il regno. Taita deve fare appello a tutti i suoi formidabili doni per proteggere il legittimo sovrano, ma quando le forze nemiche si uniscono per portare la distruzione sull'intero Egitto non è più una questione di semplice magia.

Clara Bishop hasn’t touched a piano since a concert hall fire nearly took her life a decade ago, ending her career as a rising star in the world of classical music. Significantly scarred and unable to play, she has turned away from everything and everyone associated with music, especially her ruthless mentor Madame, whom Clara blames for her injuries. Her life is upended when Madame dies, leaving Clara an unexpected inheritance: an ornate nineteenth-century metronome with a cryptic message hidden inside.

FBI Special Agent Finn Wright, put on leave after bending the rules, visits his detective friend in England, when his help is needed with a high-profile murder in a historic mansion in the British countryside. Finn finds himself out of his element, immersed in a world of wealth and privilege, hunting a killer who is clearly a genius—and who seems able to outsmart Finn’s every move—until, in a shocking twist, Finn realizes this world is not at all what it seems.

Seventeen years ago, two boys committed an unthinkable crime and vanished into new identities under witness protection. Now, a series of brutal attacks on women is shaking the city, and Ravn's client fears his old friend is the perpetrator. As Ravn digs deeper, he's drawn into a dangerous game of cat and mouse, where nothing is as it seems and everyone has something to hide.

In Maximum Damage (Book 1), former Army Ranger Grant Valor faces a deadly mission when he is recruited to stop a surgical strike on crucial waterways that can lead to global collapse. As Grant and the team track dangerous adversaries across continents, every move could trigger devastation or avert disaster.

In a small town on the mid-Atlantic coast, Jake, a small-time smuggler happens into an alliance with an Englishman, Alistair James. Alistair and team of gifted scientists have developed a fusion device they hope can deliver a new ecological power source that the world has not seen. The device has immense possibilities and Alistair’s team hold the secrets.

Since Jake left the family farm in Vermont at age twelve to live with his uncle in New Orleans, he has seen Mason four times in the past twenty-three years. The first cost him two hundred grand and a trip to Colorado. The next dragged him to Turkey, where he had to cover up three murders. Africa almost killed him. And the fourth? It's 2004, and Mason has sold Jake, his skills, and his freedom to the highest bidder. Now Jake is trapped in Costa Rica, working for a man he despises, caught up in a business he hates.

While traveling in France, Carrie Mitchell meets a boy, Jacques, who changes her life. While sightseeing, Jacques goes missing and Carrie is thrown into an intrigue that dates back to World War II. She is dangerously caught up with Jacques's father, the Comte de Merle, and his family. Carrie finds that she has strength she didn't know she possessed as she tries to navigate the mysterious past of the Nazi occupation of the de Merle chateau to find the missing boy. What she finds is betrayal, Nazi collaboration, and her own personal resolve.

Впервые на русском — дебютный роман современного ирландского классика Пола Линча, лауреата Букеровской премии 2023 года за роман « Песнь пророка », который уже называют «ирландским "1984"» и «новым "Рассказом служанки"». « Небо красно поутру » — это экзистенциальная панорама безжалостности человека и безразличия природы.

Entsetzen auf der weltbekannten Berliner Museumsinsel: Im Kuppelsaal der Nofretete wird eine grausam verstümmelte Leiche entdeckt. Augen, Ohren und Zunge wurden entfernt. Kurz darauf wird ein zweites Opfer gefunden. Die ganze Stadt spricht schon bald von einem Pharaonenfluch.

Amanda Emike-Jones is pretty sure her husband’s been kidnapped. Everyone thinks she’s being dramatic. He’s only gone on a two-week cruise. But Amanda knows something’s wrong. And she just so happens to be right. John Emike has been snatched and taken to a lawless tropical island, shoved into a dorm at gunpoint, and stripped of everything except his wits and a half-charged iPhone. His only ally? A sharp-tongued cruise guest named Lucy, who seems far too comfortable committing crimes. And flirting with him too, even with his ring still on.

This wide-ranging collection of stories takes Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson from their cozy rooms in London, to exploring England's bucolic Lake District, to clambering up an extinct volcano in Scotland. There is murder on the Thames, a spectacularly unpleasant Lord finds himself on the wrong end of a carving knife at the legendary Simpson's-in-the-Strand restaurant, and the brutal slaying of the brilliant Hypatia of Alexandria in 415 CE may finally be solved.

When Geoff gets home drunk after a pool night, he accidentally stabs and kills his long term girlfriend, Jennifer. Ignoring his opportunity to act, he flees to Pnie, a village in Poland, hoping to rebuild his life. After meeting Maria, a local shop owner, Geoff finds himself helping out in ways he could never have imagined. However, an earthquake stops their lives dead and he looks to his old skills as a builder to steady the situation.

Цыгане из Восточной Европы ежегодно совершают паломничество во Францию, но на сей раз по Дороге на Ваккарес происходит череда загадочных смертей. В таборе творятся темные дела...

La carrera delictiva de Sonny Lofthus empezó al morir su padre, un policía corrupto. Aparcó entonces su brillante porvenir para abrazar el crimen organizado. El precio que cobra ahora por cumplir condena en silencio es el acceso a mercancías que entran en la prisión de alta seguridad de Staten. Lleva media vida en la cárcel y los reclusos también ven en él a una figura sanadora, es su más íntimo confesor. Hay montada una formidable espiral de mentiras y corrupción en torno a Sonny que lo mantiene narcotizado.

Single mother Carrie is heart-sore when she arrives on the sun-drenched island of Santorini with her daughter Nell – her adored uncle Sol's tattered sketchbook clutched to her chest. Even as they explore the winding cobbled alleys, Nell can't forgive Carrie for keeping a secret – the truth about her own father. But Carrie hopes that seeking answers to a family mystery will heal their fractured relationship and show Nell that the family she desperately wants has been there all along.

When two killings take place thousands of miles apart in Canada and Alaska, Detective Bernadette Callahan's instincts tell her there's a link. But her superiors disagree, and they move to silence her. Undeterred, Callahan delves deeper and finds an ally deep in rural Alaska. A fellow detective, also under pressure to close his inquiries. The pair are forced into the shadows to work, where they uncover unlikely suspects and a conspiracy linked to Alaska's billion-dollar oil supply.

After his brother dies salvaging gold from the wreck of a U-boat, deep in the North Sea, McCready is compelled to find those responsible and bring them to justice. Armed with cutting-edge diving tech and a team of elite specialists, McCready must outwit a ruthless enemy who will stop at nothing to silence him. But powerful men guard their secrets with lethal force.