Police Procedurals

When washed-up 80s rock legend Johnny Freestone is found dead in a cave off Scotland's North Coast 500 tourist route, it looks like a tragic accident–another celebrity lost to a reckless lifestyle.

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.

Beneath Norfolk’s wide skies and rugged coastline, darkness never sleeps. DI Tom Janssen returns to confront a new wave of crimes that cut through the calm of the countryside.

On the tree-lined banks of Surrey's River Wey, a decaying corpse is dug up by workmen in the middle of an Anglo-Saxon burial site. His modern dental fillings show that this is no Dark Age corpse...

The girl shuddered violently as she hid behind the crumbling walls. Through the gloom she saw something that made her blood freeze in fear, and heard the heavy footsteps. She knew there was no way out…

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...

Jackman and Evans are back in the latest gripping thriller by Joy Ellis, performed by the incomparable Richard Armitage....

Harry Richards, a local solicitor, is found in his car, throat slit. DI Clare Mackay is on the case. She soon learns that Harry was not the upstanding man he seemed to be. Finding the killer should be easy....

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....

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.

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

As Acting DC Scott Cullen works with DC Craig Hunter to track down a witness who didn’t show during a court case, they stumble upon another crime–two homeless women, dying of a suspected heroin overdose.

Jo told him the phone call had been about a woman who wanted to have her husband declared dead. Smith thought for a moment and then said, 'Hmm. There must be a few million women in this country who feel like that'....

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.

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....

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.

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

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

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.

Following a convention in the Scottish Highlands, eight social media influencers vanish without a trace, leaving their followers–and families–in a state of shock, and the police clueless as to their whereabouts.

When Mandy Gibson, a teenage schoolgirl, disappears in the affluent East Lothian town of North Berwick, DC Scott Cullen finds himself caught in the cross-fire of competitive police politics.

When a young man is found frozen to death on a Highland street in mid-December, DCI Jack Logan initially puts it down to a Christmas night out gone tragically wrong....

Three gripping crime fiction thrillers featuring DCI Whitney Walker and forensic psychologist Dr. Georgina Cavendish: Deadly Games, Fatal Justice, and Death Track....

Community service clean-up was supposed to be a tedious affair. But, when a young offender stumbles upon a bin bag filled with human remains, a quiet Highland village is thrown into chaos.

Thirteen years ago, Assemblyman Derrick Bell was murdered in his home by an intruder. His wife, Noelle Marshall, was left for dead. The crime was unsolved, but it wasn’t forgotten. Today the FBI is tackling a fresh perspective on the case and looking to Noelle, now a detective for the Deschutes County sheriff’s office, for new clues. It is reopening everything Noelle thought was behind her. Memories of her escape from a traumatic childhood. A marriage that wasn’t the perfect love story she’d been promised. And a husband whose charm and privilege hid a dark side.

Struggling to balance her personal and professional life, young DS Becca Vincent has landed the biggest case of her career–and she knows that it will make or break her. But how can she identify one face in a sea of thousands? With the help of Police Super Recogniser Joe Russell, she strives to catch a glimpse of the elusive murderer, but he’s watching her every move.

Un matrimonio, bajo los efectos de una nueva droga, ha cometido la mayor atrocidad de sus vidas. El caso se vuelve mediático y muchos interrogantes se abren durante la investigación, repleta de trabas y obstáculos. Marta está decidida a impartir justicia, aunque no imagina a quién deberá enfrentarse.

Detective Inspector Jo Shaw is bored, desk-bound, and absolutely not supposed to answer the phone call that sends her to a body in an empty house. Thrown in at the deep end after an injury that almost killed her, she’s determined to prove she’s fit to work. And while a case full of unclear motives and multiple suspects isn’t quite what the doctor ordered, being back in a relationship with her favorite doctor certainly won’t hurt. When the investigation takes a chilling turn and the Serious Crime Team struggles to connect the dots, Jo asks Isla Munro to help her follow the slenderest of leads.

Die junge Kommissarin Paula Osterholz lässt sich nach Potsdam versetzen: Wegen eines ungeklärten Mordfalls in Cottbus, der ihr Leben auf den Kopf gestellt hat, braucht sie einen Neuanfang. Doch der Start in Potsdam ist mühsam, denn ihre neue Chefin ist misstrauisch und ihr Partner Henry Wullitzer ein wortkarger Sturkopf, der in der Mordkommission eine schwer durchschaubare Sonderstellung hat. Paula hat den Eindruck, unterschätzt zu werden, doch sie und Wullitzer müssen sich sofort als Team beweisen.

Haunted by his mother's brutal murder, Detective Inspector Jake Sawyer returns to his rural hometown to investigate a series of gruesome killings. As the body count rises and the killer's twisted methods come to light, Sawyer must confront his own demons while racing against time to unravel the shocking truth behind the murders.

Une famille toxique. Huit invités suspects. Tout le monde est coupable. Mais qui est le tueur ? Pour Will Trent, agent spécial du GBI, et Sara Linton, médecin légiste, McAlpine Lodge, une magnifique propriété au sommet d'une montagne, semblait être l'endroit idéal pour célébrer leur lune de miel. Jusqu'à ce qu'un cri glaçant perce la nuit. Mercy McAlpine, la directrice du Lodge, est morte. Alors qu'une violente tempête fait rage et que la seule route d'accès à la propriété a été emportée par les eaux, il devient évident que le meurtrier se trouve parmi eux.

FBI Agent Riley Paige faces a calculating serial killer who turns abandoned classrooms into macabre crime scenes, complete with unsolved math problems on the blackboard.

DI Annie Delamere and her colleague DS Zoe Everett are off duty and enjoying a walk on the Peak District’s vast moorlands when they stumble across a mutilated corpse. The victim is unclothed and his tattoos indicate an affinity with the occult. While Annie is put in charge of the case her long-term partner, MP Sheena Pearson, is confronted by a group of far right extremists. Rather than back down Sheena chooses to stand her ground–and almost pays for it with her life.

A teen's suicide leads to a frightening pattern within a small town where nothing is as it seems. Details about the case remind Sam Hopewell, a local investigative journalist, of what happened to his older cousin back in the ‘90s. Sam prepares to confront his darkest memories, but if he can’t overcome his past, more innocent lives might be taken. Renowned Miami detective Anna Dedrick returns to her rural birthplace with hopes of leaving behind the vices of the big city. That dream shatters when the town’s pride—an African-American child prodigy—goes missing.

The little girl’s body rests gently against the trunk of an old fir tree, her small hands laid delicately in her lap. From the day she became a Special Agent, Zoe Storm vowed to seek justice for the innocent. And for this little angel, her promise burns brighter than ever.

Sydney, Australia. Charlie Cooper needs more time with his family. With his transfer out of homicide to a quieter station fast approaching, the weary detective's only regret is the decade-long serial killer case he couldn't crack. But when he's called to one last murder scene, Cooper can't believe the victim is the perp he's been chasing for years. Certain the sociopath's latest abductee still lives, the desperate cop races to find her before the clock runs out.

Stundenlang patrouilliert Constable Hirschhausen über Highways und ausgewaschene Schotterstraßen durchs australische Hinterland. Nervosität liegt in der Luft, die Pandemie zehrt an den Nerven und an Hirschs Toleranzlevel. Auf der Suche nach einem vermissten Backpacker sieht sich Hirsch starrsinnigen Farmern gegenüber, als er zu einem vermeintlichen Brand gerufen wird: ein dilettantisch angezündeter Koffer im Straßengraben. Bis Hirsch die Leiche darin entdeckt.

Prison psychologist Dr. Alison Payne has interviewed hundreds of convicted killers, advocating for their release—or determining if they should remain behind bars. But when a suspected killer she once interviewed escapes, Alison must delve into the dark corridors of his mind to save others before it's too late—and to save herself.

Detective Inspector Alec McKay is drawn into a chilling hunt for a serial killer. But first he must face the demons of his own past… Still grieving the tragic loss of his daughter, McKay becomes obsessed with a seemingly cold missing persons case—until bodies start turning up across the Black Isle. Each victim is surrounded by roses and candles, leaving McKay and his team to untangle the disturbing ritual behind the murders. As they struggle to crack the killer’s cryptic pattern, McKay’s own life begins to unravel.

In Dana Point, California, surf reports, sailing conditions, and real estate dominate the news… until the calm waters of this sleepy, seaside town are shattered when a woman's body washes up on the sand. Under the pressure of her first homicide case, new evidence surfacing in the supposed accidental death of her fiancé, and a seasoned partner who'd be happy to see her fail, Kat has more than enough on her plate… not to mention that troublesome problem she's been carefully hiding.

Rookie police officer Rachel Hoffman has never seen a dead body before. It will not be her last. Her first murder case is a young woman - sent off to sleep with a mysterious note that quotes from an eight-hundred year old book: Dante's Divine Comedy. So begins an investigation that will haunt her for the rest of her life, and lead Rachel on a descent into obsession that upends everything she thought she knew about justice.

Brutal ermordet auf offener Straße Der bestialische Mord an einer alten Dame versetzt die Bewohner des norwegischen Städtchens Ulleval Hageby in Angst und Schrecken. Das Polizeiteam um Ermittler Cato Isaksen steht vor einem Rätsel, denn von den Tätern fehlt jede Spur. Noch mysteriöser wird der Fall, als sich herausstellt, dass die alte Dame die Großmutter der 14-jährigen Kathrine Bjerke ist, die seit mehreren Tagen vermisst wird. Besteht zwischen dem Mord und dem Verschwinden des jungen Mädchens ein Zusammenhang?

Deep in the majestic Northern California woods, hidden in a remote hunting cabin, lies a secret too shocking for words: a mystery that could derail FBI Special Agent Sadie Gray’s career before it even starts. Grass Valley, California, is home to all sorts of people, their darkest secrets, and the shadows where they hide them. It was also the location of a series of abductions, including Sadie's abduction, spanning back nearly twenty years.

La découverte d'une vieille photo bouleverse à jamais l'existence tranquille d'une mère de famille. Et si votre vie n'était qu'une vaste imposture ? Si l'homme que vous avez épousé dix ans auparavant n'était pas celui que vous croyiez ? Si tout votre univers s'effondrait brutalement ? Pour Grace Lawson, il aura suffi d'un seul regard sur une vieille photo prise vingt ans plus tôt pour que tout s'écroule. Ses souvenirs, son mariage, ses amis : tout n'était qu'un tissu de mensonges.

Eines späten Nachts trifft die frischgebackene Hauptkommissarin Cecilie Mars eine fatale Entscheidung, die weitreichende Konsequenzen hat. Ihr Fehltritt wurde beobachtet und gefilmt, und jetzt droht ihr eine anonyme Person, alles auffliegen zu lassen, wenn sie nicht seine Furcht einflößenden Agenda befolgt. Cecilie wird in einen unheimlichen Plan von Selbstjustiz hineingezogen, der zum Nachdenken zwingt, wie weit sie zu gehen bereit ist, um für Gerechtigkeit zu sorgen.

Detective Inspector Tom Brand has moved from London to his childhood home in the sleepy village of Relby to look after his elderly father and take a job as lead detective in the village's new police station. Before he has a chance to settle into his new life, tragedy strikes. Two twelve-year-old boys pretending to be detectives in a mysterious game disappear. Tom is thrown into the most important case of his career. Families are torn apart by the disappearance of the boys, and the only clues are frustratingly indecipherable.

Zu seiner Überraschung wird der junge Officer Jim Chee beim FBI angenommen, doch eigentlich will er bei der Navajo-Police bleiben und sich gleichzeitig zum rituellen Singer ausbilden lassen. Während er über einer Entscheidung brütet, wird er mit den Ermittlungen in einem scheinbar unbedeutenden Diebstahl beauftragt, für den sich aber auffällig viele Leute interessieren. Chees Nachforschungen führen ihn zu einer dreißig Jahre alten Vision und einer mysteriösen Gruppe, die sich »Volk der Finsternis« nennt.

Auf den staubigen Pfaden der Black Mesa wird eine Leiche im Unterholz entdeckt, Hände und Füße geschunden. Kurz darauf wird Officer Jim Chee vor den Umrissen des Low Mountain Zeuge eines nächtlichen Flugzeugabsturzes. Eigentlich soll Chee nur einen Fall von Vandalismus aufklären, und dem zunehmenden Gerede um Hexerei in der Gegend nachgehen. Doch am Flugzeugwrack findet er etliche Spuren, die dem FBI entgangen sind. Als er den Hinweisen nachgeht, wird er vom Verfolger zum Verfolgten. Ein dunkler Wind treibt Gier und Gewalt über den Südwesten im zweiten Fall für Jim Chee.

Ein abgelegener Campingplatz in den Ardennen. Eine Studentin, die dort unter mysteriösen Umständen verschwindet. Als der Fall auch 15 Jahre später noch ungelöst ist, nimmt die Hamburger Kommissarin Frieda Stahnke an einem True-Crime-Podcast teil, um den Fokus der Öffentlichkeit erneut auf die Geschehnisse zu richten. Sie ahnt nicht, dass sie damit nur weitere Morde auslösen wird. Wout Meertens, ein schmieriger Barbesitzer aus Köln, hört diesen Podcast. Er war zur selben Zeit wie die verschwundene Lisa Martin in Camp Donkerbloem, aber er redet nicht mit der Polizei. Verurteilte Stalker tun das nie.