Police Procedurals

After 20 years on the force, Detective Chief Inspector Jack Logan thinks he has seen it all. He is wrong....

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When a refuse worker discovers the body of media student Nicholas Vernon in a quiet Welsh town, Detective Evan Warlow and his team are drawn into a case that spirals from routine enquiry to nightmare.

The streets are frozen, the days are short, and Constable Tyler Neish is entirely out of his depth.

Is the body found hanging from the arches of Appersett Viaduct a case of suicide or murder?

DI Jan Talantire is called to a cottage in Ilfracombe, where the female occupant is found dead, impaled with a crucifix. The woman, who had been renting the house for a few months, is well known locally, but the documents at the house indicate her real name is Ruth Lyle.

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...

Was the biggest case of his career the worst mistake he ever made? Ten years ago, DCI Jack Logan stopped the serial child-killer dubbed "Mister Whisper", earning himself a commendation, a drinking problem, and a broken marriage in the process....

When Nigel Baxter, a middle-aged married banker with an unremarkable past, is found dead in the bath of a plush hotel suite, his wrists slit, it looks as if he's taken his own life....

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.

A fugitive sister. A dangerous father. A terror cell hiding in plain sight.

Crimebusting duo DI Jackman and DS Evans are back, solving another crime that will make your skin crawl....

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....

Four lost friends. Four tasks to complete. One big mystery left. Police detective Carter McLean is the only survivor of a plane crash that kills his four best friends. He returns to work, but he is left full of guilt and terrible flashbacks....

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 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....

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.

The husband of a prominent and infamously ruthless barrister is found in horrific condition after a robbery and brutal assault. Now in a coma, a major investigation is launched using the newly formed, experimental Metropolitan Police Serious Crime Analysis Unit.

Still mourning the devastating loss of a close colleague, DCI Lomond and his team are called in to investigate a murder on the set of a popular Scottish detective TV show. But the victim isn’t a star actor. It’s the show’s official police advisor–legendary Serious Crime Squad detective Jack Beattie.

When a badly burned body is found near the remote Ardnamurchan Lighthouse on the west coast of Scotland, it feels like just another day on the job for DCI Jack Logan and his team....

When a body is discovered at a popular Highland landmark, it seems like just another day on the job for DCI Jack Logan and his team....

Despite the fierce, and seemingly personal, objections of secretary Gerald Hadleigh, members of the Midsomer Worthy Writers' Circle press ahead and invite bestselling author Max Jennings to talk to their group. But before the evening is over, Gerald has been brutally murdered....

When the body of a missing teenager is discovered at Neist Point close to the famous lighthouse, battered and bruised, D.I. Duncan McAdam and his small team must determine how he died.

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

When a leading Scottish politician doesn't turn up at work one morning, it seems like a simple missing persons case to Brian Bain. But then a big news story lands and things don't seem to be so clear cut.

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When a teenager is arrested at the scene of a shooting at a rock festival in Roslin, DI Scott Cullen is dragged back from holiday to get the truth–fast. The suspect? Covered in blood, gun in hand, claiming he’s innocent. The victim? A student nobody seems to know. The location? Just miles from Edinburgh, but crawling with secrets. As Cullen digs deeper, he uncovers a hidden underworld of elite privilege, buried abuse and a conspiracy reaching higher than he dares imagine. Someone wants this buried–permanently. Cullen’s career, reputation and life are on the line.

Still mourning the devastating loss of a close colleague, DCI Lomond and his team are called in to investigate a murder on the set of a popular Scottish detective TV show. But the victim isn’t a star actor. It’s the show’s official police advisor–legendary Serious Crime Squad detective Jack Beattie. Beloved by all who worked with him, the crime appears to be without motive or suspects. Until Lomond digs into Beattie’s seemingly unblemished career, and uncovers shocking secrets involving Lomond’s superiors.

When a refuse worker discovers the body of media student Nicholas Vernon in a quiet Welsh town, Detective Evan Warlow and his team are drawn into a case that spirals from routine enquiry to nightmare. Behind the whispers and online rumours lies a truth far darker than anyone is ready to face. A truth entangled in macabre obsessions and the plight of the homeless.

When a leading Scottish politician doesn't turn up at work one morning, it seems like a simple missing persons case to Brian Bain. But then a big news story lands and things don't seem to be so clear cut. Meanwhile, the discovery of a body in Midlothian's Gore Glen leads DI Scott Cullen on a wild chase through nearby Gorebridge and across southern Scotland, while the press close in on Cullen over choices made on a previous case, unearthed during a new mysterious podcast about the police.

'This is absolutely first class' Stephen Fry 'Simon Mason has created crime fiction's most entertaining double act in decades' Mick Herron 'Move over Morse' Val McDermid 'My favourite UK series' M W Craven On a warm and pleasant evening in Oxford, gentle city of poets and scholars, rioters...

Brought to you by Penguin. He watches you constantly. He sees everything. As a CCTV operator, he can travel at speed through the streets of Aberdeen and keep people safe, all from the comfort of his chair. He knows your secrets. You are one of the people he likes to follow. He keeps an eye on...

When the skeletal remains of a long-missing woman are unearthed in the rolling vineyards of Washington’s Horse Heaven Hills, Detective Thomas Austin is pulled into a case with eerie echoes of the past. The land belongs to one of the region’s most prestigious wineries, and the discovery threatens to shake the industry to its core. Who was she? Why was she murdered? And who buried her beneath the twisting vines of Cabernet Sauvignon? At the same time, across the Puget Sound, a woman vanishes after boarding a cruise ship heading north from Seattle. No sign of struggle. No witnesses.

Special Agent Constant Marlowe is passing through the charming college town of Prescott, Illinois, when a chance encounter with a terrified student stops her in her tracks. Kathleen Delaine thought she was doing the right thing when she demanded an inquiry into traumatic brain injuries among the university’s football team. But after a manosphere shock jock picks up the story on his radio show and makes it personal, the online uproar bleeds into the real world.

FBI agent Garrett Mann is running out of time. His task force, ARTEMIS, is on the verge of disbandment, but he’s uncovered a sinister plot that could swing the upcoming presidential election. With a trail leading from Washington, DC, to rural Montana and finally to Tampa, Florida, Mann assembles a team of misfits and black-ops specialists to take on a shadowy conspiracy involving the CIA, a covert government contractor, and a third-party political movement.

Simon Noone is a serial killer…but he doesn’t know it. Pulled from a river in Guatemala in 1982 with nothing—not even his memories—he returns to America five years later, looking for answers. He finds work at an NYC meatpacking plant and meets rebel ex-cop turned private investigator Nomi Pace. But she has problems all her own. Nomi agrees to help Simon, if he lends his mysterious talents to solving a child kidnapping case. The two team up and make headway on both investigations, growing closer with every step.

COP KILLER. That's the accusation scrawled on the home of a dead man, found executed in his own bedroom. That's the tawdry headline thrown around every news channel, every social media feed, every conversation taking over Baltimore. That's the name given to a man who may have been innocent, but never had the chance to prove it—and now Malcolm and Seong-Jae must solve his murder. A death that never should have happened; a death on their watch, when legal technicalities tied their hands.

When a morning jogger discovers a dead body on the outskirts of Cullenbrae, a remote hamlet deep in the heart of the Campsie Fells, DCI Bone and his team are called out to what appears to be a straightforward hit and run incident.

“Smuggling, sexual betrayal, high-class fakery and, of course, mafia money make for a rich brew.” —Sunday Times (London) As Venice braces for a winter tempest, Commissario Guido Brunetti, Donna Leon’s intrepid Italian sleuth, finds out that an old friend has been savagely beaten at the...

On the hottest day of the year, 11-year-old Blair Smeaton vanishes near a riverbank, leaving police baffled and desperate. Detective Anna Gwynne, still haunted by her recent trauma, uncovers a sinister connection to an unsolved case. A chilling dark web photo reveals Blair trapped in the same room where a previous victim was once held captive ten years earlier. A captive whose remains, found near Charterhouse in the Mendip Hills, form the basis of the cold case she’s investigating. The killer isn't hiding; he's taunting.

Saving a senator’s daughter from LA’s porn industry is one gig that needs serious discretion. But discretion is not Jim Grant’s specialty. Los Angeles, CaliforniaIt’s not long before Grant finds himself on live television busting an armed robbery, spreading his arms wide to show he’s unarmed—the same pose that earned him the nickname “Resurrection Man” in Boston. The spotlight may be good for Grant’s profile, but it’s bad for his health. The Dominguez drug cartel is looking for him, and his work for the senator has uncovered a ring of dirty cops who want him out of the way.

Preparing the empty house for another viewing, she knows she’s taking a risk showing it at night. She never told anyone she was here, but she desperately needs this sale. If she pulls it off, she can finally give her daughter the life she deserves. But as she climbs the stairs, goosebumps spread down her arms. She’s not alone…

Im 9. Nordsee-Krimi von Sven Koch bekommen es Tjark Wolf und Femke Folkmer mit Öko-Terroristen zu tun. Eine Gruppe von Öko-Terroristen hat in der Nordsee ein Strom- und Daten-Kabel gekappt und damit in ganz Norddeutschland einen Blackout verursacht. Die Gruppe droht mit weiteren Anschlägen, sollte das heftig umstrittene, milliardenschwere Projekt »Green Islands« nicht gestoppt werden. Für die SOK um Tjark Wolf und Femke Folkmer beginnt ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit. Und gegen eine neue Bundesbehörde, die ganz eigene Ziele verfolgt.

In Poseritz, im Süden von Rügen, wird bei den Löscharbeiten eines Lagerhauses eine männliche Leiche entdeckt. Doch schnell verdichten sich Hinweise auf ein Verbrechen: Anscheinend war es Brandstiftung, während derer das Opfer in einem Nebenraum eingesperrt wurde. Bei dem Toten handelt es sich um Tom Kappler, der vor Kurzem in seine Heimatstadt Greifswald zurückkehrte, um seiner Mutter zu helfen. Kommissarin Romy Beccare findet heraus, dass Kappler bemerkenswert oft nach Rügen reiste. Hier pflegte er eine Affäre mit dem Familienvater und Geschäftsmann Robin Baumann.

She sings softly to calm her little girl as his heavy footsteps move away. She clutches her daughter’s hand tightly and breathes. They are safe now. Then she feels a sharp blow to her torso and everything dims to black…

When the body of a respected local artist is discovered in the waters of Fishbourne Marshes, DCI Beniamin Dinescu and DS Emily Summers of the Chichester Major Crimes Team are thrust into a complex murder inquiry. The case takes a chilling turn when they uncover a connection to the murder of a police officer two decades ago.

Malcolm Khalaji is one paternity test away from a breakdown. When a one-night stand from a year ago shows up on his doorstep, she's bringing more than a trip down memory lane—and her little bundle of joy may just be a bundle of trouble if it turns out the baby is actually his. Especially when he and Seong-Jae are called back to active duty, partnering again with Internal Affairs on the murder of a fellow officer, caught on tape and seemingly cut and dried. But nothing is easy about this case, and what looks simple on the surface hides something deeper.

“This series has become one of the adornments of current crime fiction. A gem.” —The Scotsman Early one morning Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Police confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid canal. All the clues point to a violent mugging...

Berlin/Brandenburg 1929: In den idyllisch gelegenen Lungenheilstätten Beelitz sollen sich die vielen Tuberkulosekranken aus der nahen Großstadt erholen. Doch mysteriöserweise verschwinden aus diesen Heilstätten immer wieder Patienten und so beschließt Leo Wechsler, sich dort selbst umzusehen. Ein gefährlicher Auftrag, denn in den labyrinthischen Gängen ist nicht nur ein erbarmungsloser Mörder unterwegs, auch die hoch ansteckende Tuberkulose ist ein gefährlicher Gegner ...

Margot thought she'd escaped her past when she moved to a remote California ranch with her partner Wes and their motley crew of rescue animals. But when Wes is arrested for the brutal murder of a teenage girl, Margot's carefully constructed peaceful life shatters overnight. Forced to stay on the job in her new role interviewing imprisoned serial killers, Margot uncovers chilling connections between current cases and decades-old murders.