Police Procedurals

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....

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....

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...

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

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

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.

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....

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

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.

Fear stalks familiar ground. Acting DCI Rob Marshall is back in the Borders with a permanent promotion dangled in front of him – but storm clouds are gathering, with his new boss eyeing cutting Marshall’s Major Investigation Team.

DI Clare Mackay is called to Albany High, where the body of a girl has been found. A suspected suicide – yet Sophie Bakewell was by all accounts a cheerful, talented student. Could she really have been hiding a darker side?

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....

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....

In the remote and unforgiving Cambrian Mountains, two bodies are found, sparking fears that a long-buried nightmare has returned. DCI Warlow is plunged into a chilling mystery, hunting a murderer who disappeared without a trace—leaving only blood and silence behind.

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.

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

When the body of Leanne Wilson is found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, it is classified as a tragic accident. There is no evidence to suggest otherwise.

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....

Met cop DI Rob Marshall is hot on the trail of the serial killer known as the Chameleon, who has abducted, tortured and killed a series of young women in Northwest London....

When a teenage islander goes missing on Burns Night, D.I. Duncan McAdam takes a strong interest despite the apparent lack of concern shown by the boy's father....

Felix Olliphant was found stabbed to death at a New Year's Eve costume party for the turn of the millennium. Seemingly liked by everyone, motives for his murder are hard to find. There was one suspect, but no evidence. Hillary struggles to solve this baffling case.

When a landslip on Pembrokeshire’s stunning coastal path reveals the harrowing remains of two bodies, ex-DCI Evan Warlow’s quiet retirement is shattered....

A gathering of seven bestselling crime writers at a Scottish Highlands book festival turns deadly in a wickedly dark thriller that pays homage to Agatha Christie's classic murder mysteries, from the bestselling author of The Bonnie Dead....

Detective Inspector Fenella Sallow is obsessive about her work and driven by her own demons. When the body of a retired artist is discovered atop the blackened embers of the town bonfire, the community is rocked to the core....

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.

Dawn Grave is a career detective who's holding on to a dark past—one that destroys relationships and wreaks havoc on her personal life. For more than twenty years, she's tried to forget the horrors of her youth—while her sister has spent all that time digging for answers. Now a cryptic text message threatens to throw it all back into the light. Dawn attempts to call her sister, but when Lisa can't be reached, she knows something terrible has happened. But finding Lisa means returning to the remote tropical town in northern Australia where her nightmares all began.

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.

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.

In his first novel, the best-selling true crime author and star of ID's hit series Dark Minds takes you into the world of a sadistic serial killer.

When the body of well-known and much hated politician Agnes Hunter is found on a gravestone in Wales' largest cemetery, with a gun and a note, her death is ruled suicide. However, Trevor Gwyn Jones, senior reporter for The Cardiff Sentinel, is skeptical of the verdict, as is his best friend and confidante Sergeant Gareth Roberts. Agnes had made many enemies, both personal and professional, in her relentless pursuit of the top political job in Cardiff and later, Wales.

When Lacey Gibson’s daughter disappears, she’ll do anything to find her—even track down a man she hasn’t seen in sixteen years. U.S. Marshall Mason Stone had no idea he was a father, but when he discovers his daughter is missing, the news shakes his carefully controlled world. In a race against the clock, can Lacey and Mason work together to find their child… before danger finds them?

Detective Samantha Freeman is barely recovering from the devastating accident that killed her fiancé, Ravi, when she’s thrust into a chilling murder case. Valerie Turner, a wife and mother of two, is found dead in her kitchen. But as Samantha peels back the layers of Val’s seemingly ordinary life, she uncovers shocking secrets—a son given up for adoption, an illicit affair, blackmail, and stolen identities.

New to the force, detective Bridgette Cash faces her first murder case when a young woman's body is found in the forest. Convinced it's the work of a serial killer, she must navigate skeptical superiors and scant evidence to uncover the truth. As the clock ticks and the pressure mounts, she scrambles to gather clues and catch the perpetrator before they strike again.

Ein toter Cop. Eine toughe Privatermittlerin. Und ein skrupelloser Mörder, der die Macht in seinen Händen hält. Dunkelste Nacht ist der 1. Thriller der New-Orleans-Reihe von Bestseller-Autorin Karen Rose. Der junge Star-Koch Gabe kann und will nicht glauben, dass sein Vater Rocky Selbstmord begangen haben soll. Er ist überzeugt, dass jemand den Polizisten zum Schweigen bringen wollte. Deshalb wendet er sich an den ehemaligen Partner seines Vaters: Burke Broussard hilft als Privatermittler denen in New Orleans, die sonst keine Hilfe erwarten dürfen.

En exklusiv klockbutik i Stockholm rånas, men inga armbandsur försvinner. En tid senare kidnappas framgångsrika finansmän medan deras familjer pressas på pengar för att få dem fria. I Sydamerika pågår omfattande organhandel. Man tvingas söka sig till Sverige för att hitta kroppar till verksamheten, som bedrivs i en av de mäktiga nazistkolonierna i södra Chile.

En kylig kväll i december irrar en ung flicka runt i bara nattlinnet på gatan utanför Oslos finaste hotell. Hon blir nästan påkörd av spårvagnen men räddas av en mystisk man som försvinner i folkvimlet. Till sin vettskrämda mamma viskar flickan: "Hon var död ..." Några dagar senare påträffar Oslopolisen under dramatiska omständigheter ett lik efter en tonårspojke i hamnbassängen mitt i stan.

This state-of-the-art smart home has everything: a next-generation entertainment system, an ultramodern kitchen where every appliance is online and even a personal AI to control it all. Standing above its owner's lifeless body, FBI agent Jude Mackenzie is faced with the daunting task of discovering how the woman was killed by her own home. How do you catch a murderer that doesn't leave any fingerprints?

Emily thought she was leaving her money troubles behind when she inherited an old house from her great aunt who went missing the previous year. When she and her husband Jesse arrive at the house, they discover Aunt Matilda was murdered—and the culprit is still at large. Guided by the ghosts of Matilda and the orphans she raised, Emily and Jesse must catch the criminal and save themselves before it's too late.

I ett kalt källarrum någonstans i Norge sitter nioåriga Emilie inlåst. Hon vet inte var hon är eller vad hon gör där. Inte heller vem mannen är som kommer med mat och vatten. Men instinktivt vet hon att hon måste vara snäll mot mannen. Annars kan det gå för henne som för Kim, pojken som var här men som försvann och aldrig kom tillbaka. Under tiden sprider sig skräcken i hela Norge. Allt tyder på att kidnapparen noga valt ut sina offer. Men varför just Emilie och Kim? Två barn från olika delar av Oslo, från familjer som aldrig förut hört talas om varandra.

I en våning i en av Oslos fashionabla stadsdelar har ett förmöget äldre par och deras äldste son brutalt mördats. Misstankarna riktas genast mot parets yngste son och hans hustru och fallet verkar snart uppklarat för Oslopolisen. Men inte för kriminalkommissarie Hanne Wilhelmsen. På brottsplatsen fanns nämligen ett fjärde lik: en något underlig och ensam man, till synes utan koppling till den rika redarfamiljen. Hanne vill inte slå sig till ro med fallets upplösning. Hon letar, till sist i det närmaste ensam, efter en annan verklighet, efter sanningen bortom det uppenbara.

Det är vinter och bitande kallt. Ewert Grens har trettiofyra olösta fall på sitt bord. Hans älskade Anni ligger dessutom svårt sjuk. Men när en död kvinna hittas i en kulvert under S:t Görans sjukhus får han lägga allt annat åt sidan. Samtidigt står plötsligt fyrtiotre över-givna barn, som talar ett främmande språk, i polishusets entré.

DCI Beniamin Dinescu faces his darkest case yet in the heart of West Sussex. This gripping British police procedural crime thriller takes readers through dark tunnels, priest holes, and labyrinths of secrets and lies, set against the backdrop of Chichester and the Sussex Downs. When a brutal murder strikes a prestigious private school, Dinescu finds himself entangled in a complex investigation, including the mysterious disappearance of a schoolgirl in the 1980s. How are these two cases connected? Dinescu is joined by a new sergeant, DS Emily Summers, in the Chichester Major Crimes Team.

It was very surprising that Mrs. Song had died unexpectedly—although she’d been through the wringer, poor thing, what with her terrible luck in picking husbands. Officer Gabriel suspected there might be a murder afoot, but they hadn’t the whisper of a suspect—it was one of those locked-room mysteries.

Riviera di Ponente. In den frühen Morgenstunden wird Commissario Gallo zum Fundort einer Leiche gerufen. Ein Olivenbauer hatte die junge Frau am Ortsrand von Sanremo, oberhalb der malerischen Altstadt mit den bunten Häusern und der sonnigen Küstenpromenade, entdeckt. Die Ermittlungen führen Gallo und sein Team zu einer weit in die Vergangenheit reichenden Familientragödie—und zu einer zweiten Leiche. Als der Commissario eine Verbindung zwischen den Toten enthüllt, tritt er eine Lawine los, die seine Karriere beenden könnte.

Grausame Morde auf Istrien: Eine junge Ermittlerin kommt an ihre Grenzen. Schuldig ist nicht nur der Täter, sondern auch der, der den Unschuldigen zum Täter macht. Als in der Provinz Istrien, inmitten des kroatischen Hinterlandes, die Leiches eines jungen Mannes gefunden wird, steht die junge Kommissarin Ana Novak vor ihrem ersten Kriminalfall: Der nackte Tote ist blutüberströmt, die Beine von sich gespreizt, das Herz durchbohrt.

Barely a year before, Le Fontainebleau opened to little fanfare in downtown Columbus. A lifetime passion project of an immigrant from the French countryside, it was meant to fill a glaring hole in the local dining scene. Simple peasant dishes offered in a modest setting. Clean cooking that soon developed an avid following, helping to elevate it to one of the must-eat locations in the city. And the site where, at just after noon on a dreary spring Wednesday, a hooded gunman entered, raised the automatic weapon hidden under his jacket, and opened fire.

Vivian Glenne är trettiosex år, har tre barn och sambo. Hon bor i radhus och jobbar på kemtvätten i köpcentret. Och hon har hemliga kärleksaffärer med andra män. En sen kväll i juli går hon ut i växthuset bakom radhuslängan. Men någon väntar på henne i skogsdungen och slår ihjäl henne med en spade. Omedelbart finns det två misstänkta gärningsmän: mannen i grannhuset som i sin trädgård har en spade med spår av blod, och Vivians exman pappan till äldste sonen som länge bråkat med henne om pengar.

Hur farligt är det i din grannes trädgård? Tonåringen Sonja Jansen är ensam hemma och har lovat vattna i grannarnas trädgård när de är på semester. Medan hon sätter i gång vattenspridaren hör hon ljud från huset och skymtar en skugga bakom köksgardinen. Hon ringer polisen. Polisassistenten Lydia Winther, som kallas Snø, får åka på sin första utryckning. Hon och kollegan hittar inget misstänkt i det lugna villaområdet och åker snart därifrån igen.