Showing results by publisher "Saga Egmont" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Efter en våt nyårsnatt i Ålborg vaknar klimatforskaren Jessica Winther ensam i hotellsängen. Pojkvännen, yrkessoldaten Björn, är försvunnen, likaså Jessicas minnen av natten. Innan Jessica reser tillbaka till Köpenhamn får hon i uppdrag av miljö- och klimatministern att besöka en vindkraftverkspark. När hon högst upp i ett av vindkraftverken hittar ett lik blir det början på en långdragen mardröm. Kort därefter får pressen ett anonymt brev i vilket avsändaren förklarar sig redo att mörda i klimatets namn under namnet #klimatkrigaren.

Ein privater Auftrag hält Nachlasspflegerin Friedelinde Engel auf Trab: Für Victor Janssen, einen Hamburger Unternehmer, soll sie den Nachlass seines verstorbenen Onkels sichten und bewerten. In dessen Unterlagen findet sie mysteriöse Postkarten aus Griechenland und beschließt, dieser Spur zu folgen. Auf der griechischen Insel Thassos deckt sie mehr als nur ein Geheimnis des Toten auf – und begegnet zu ihrem Entsetzen ihrem Lieblingsfeind Kommissar Sander. Er ist auf der Fährte eines in Hamburg ermordeten Griechen und mischt sich wie immer uneingeladen in Friedelindes Recherchen ein.

Ginko, all'anagrafe Giuliano Casablanca, sembra tutto tranne che un poliziotto. Non che la sua squadra sia molto meglio: tra Panettone che non vede l'ora di andare in pensione, Marco Zhong che parla il romanesco di Trilussa, e Minimo Sindacale che se si presenta al lavoro è già tanto, questo Ufficio Passaporti della Questura di Milano pare più un gruppo delle superiori che un corpo di Stato. In quest'ufficio Ginko ci è arrivato dalla Omicidi.

Dezember 1948: Wer war Minna Schaade? Als Kriminalkommissar Heinrich Klemmer die grausam zugerichtete Leiche der Medizinerin im Berliner Tiergarten zum ersten Mal erblickt, erkennt er sofort: Ein gewöhnlicher Raubmord war das nicht. Bei seinen Ermittlungen in den Ruinen der Stadt gerät der junge Westpolizist schon bald in ein Netz aus Intrigen – und ins Visier des sowjetischen Geheimdienstes. Heinrichs Vorstöße werden immer leichtsinniger, er ermittelt im Ostsektor und damit auf verbotenem Terrain.

Tornano le indagini di Margherita Grande, la giovane squillo d'alto bordo che questa volta dovrà confrontarsi con un suicidio che in realtà ha le sembianze di un omicidio. Il tutto è arricchito di aneddoti e curiosità su Milano, tipici dello stile di Dario Crapanzano. Milano, 1953. La vita della giovane squillo d'alto bordo Margherita Grande scorre secondo il solito copione: prestazioni nella villa in via Monte Rosa, serate con gli amici della ligera... fino a quando l'equilibrio non viene turbato dalla scoperta del cadavere della sua maitresse, la contessa Vergani.

It’s the perfect Special Forces snatch, kidnapping the Vice President of the USA and killing three of his Close Protection Team? For Brit Jamie Strachan, ex-SAS soldier and long-time friend of Vice-President, Phil Beekman, it looks too perfect. The Veep is ex-Delta Force so he knows how to survive. With the help of feisty New Yorker, Clare Holman, Jamie Strachan is able to access the investigation trying to find him. He is soon mystified and damned curious... Beekman is vying for the Presidential Nomination; he needs to be at the convention.

When a foreign worker is found dead in a Singapore back street, few people care. But then another victim turns up, and then another, all killed with the same weapon. With its reputation as a safe, global city in ruins, Singapore struggles to come to grips with its first serial killer in decades. And when a famous woman disappears, terror takes hold. In desperation, the authorities turns to the one man they loathe almost as much as the serial killer Detective Inspector Stanley Low. Belligerent and unrepentant, Low's insubordination has been punished with a menial desk job.

There is a nuclear weapon in the hands of the Vatican City’s deadliest enemy. And time is running out to stop an attack... Marco Venetti, the only man the Pope trusts, is on the hunt for a traitor. He is willing to do anything to protect the church, and the man at its heart. Even if it means getting blood on his hands... But when Marco finds him, the traitor reveals terrifying new information: the name of a Russian mafioso with a grudge against the Vatican and possession of a nuclear bomb. If Marco doesn’t work with him, the consequences will be deadly.

Evil lurks in the city streets. A man is discovered on a leafy North London street, fighting for life after a brutal beating. DI Matthew Denning and his team are quickly called in to track down the monster responsible. Except the victim is hiding secrets of his own. His name shows that he was reported missing two decades ago - but it's clear that the missing person is not the same man lying broken in a hospital bed. A visit to a squalid East London flat unearths a victim with his throat slit, his body left to decompose.

"How do I keep my family safe, when I don’t know why we’re in danger?" When Felicity Wheeler gets the call that her sister has drowned near the old boardwalk in their hometown, she realizes that she is the only person able to take care of her two nieces. Returning home, Felicity discovers that the town she once left is still haunted by the memories of her past: former friends, heartbreaks and secrets. Secrets that might reveal whether Holly's death was an accident or not. Felicity knows that Holly wouldn't just have let the water take her.

How do you prove you’re innocent, if you don’t remember your own name? They find me covered in blood-red flowers on the side of a country road. They tell me my wounds look defensive. But they think I’m guilty of a terrible crime. People from my past – strangers now – help me piece together my story. But who can I trust when I can’t trust myself? I could never have hurt anyone.

Nadia, una mujer de 39 años, casada con un empresario de éxito, es traductora del inglés y está especializada en novelas eróticas y románticas; emprende un viaje en solitario a Ibiza para seguir las reformas de una casa antigua situada a escasos metros del mar, que el matrimonio ha comprado a los herederos de un médico que falleció en extrañas circunstancias. El matrimonio de Nadia hace aguas, y su relación se irá deteriorando cuando llega a la convicción de que su marido le engaña con otra mujer.

Nancy Lavelle lies still on the floor. With her eyes looking towards her children’s rooms, her hands are clasped in prayer, as if the last thing she wished for was her children to be saved... When Detective Abby Pearce is called to the Beach House, a holiday home in the most affluent part of Martha’s Vineyard, she finds five bodies. An entire family has been killed in a frenzied attack... all except one. Fifteen-year-old Karin is the only survivor. Sitting in the house, surrounded by her family, she stares into the distance and doesn’t say a word.

Jean Angus pours the last of the lukewarm tea into her chipped cup, shivering as she looks outside into the dark night. Her eyes are drawn to a slow movement not far from her cosy farmhouse. She’s not expecting visitors. And as the back door opens with a bang, she doesn’t even have time to shout for help. On a dark winter night, the bodies of Malcolm and Jean Angus lie cold and still in a pool of blood in their kitchen. Detective Jessie Blake is called in to find out what happened to the reclusive pair.

London is angry, divided, and obsessed with foreigners. A murdered Asian and some racist graffiti in Chinatown threaten to trigger the race war that the white supremacists of Make England Great Again have been hoping for. They just need a tipping point. He arrives in the shape of Detective Inspector Stanley Low. Brilliant and bipolar. He hates everyone almost as much as he hates himself. Singapore doesn’t want him, and he doesn’t want to be in London. There are too many bad memories. Low is plunged into a polarised city, where xenophobia and intolerance feed screaming echo chambers.

När en stor svensk myndighet utsätts för ett förlamande cyberangrepp är frågorna fler än svaren. Vem ligger bakom detta? Och varför? Under ledning av terroristexperten Hannah Kaufman sätter Säpo ihop en grupp som får i uppgift att utreda händelsen. Förutom ödeläggelsen bland Migrationsverkets register har angriparna dessutom lämnat en diskret ledtråd i form av en kodremsa med ordet "Maimonides", vilket visar sig vara namnet på en judisk filosof från 1100-talet.

El sargento Washington Poe está en la corte, luchando contra el desalojo de su amada y aislada granja, cuando lo citan a un burdel callejero en Carlisle, donde un hombre ha sido asesinado a golpes con un bate de béisbol. Todo hace indicar que es un simple asesinato por parte de un proxeneta, pero su asistencia fue solicitada personalmente, por el tipo de personas que prefieren permanecer en las sombras.

El libro detrás de la serie de Netflix La enfermera. Una madrugada de marzo de 2015, la policía danesa recibió la llamada de una enfermera del hospital en Nykøbing Falster. La enfermera sospechaba que una compañera de trabajo había matado a algunos de sus pacientes y temía que hubiese ocurrido otra vez.

Wie sollst du dem Menschen vertrauen, der dich entführt hat? Der Iron Riders MC ist einer der härtesten Bikerclubs der USA. Doch seit der neue Präsident einen menschenverachtenden Prostitutionsring aufgebaut hat, zweifelt Gun an seiner Mitgliedschaft. Aber ein Schwur ist ein Schwur - und so erfüllt er auch den nächsten Auftrag des neuen Präsidenten. Er entführt Lara, die Tochter des Staatsanwalts, um ihn unter Druck zu setzen und von seinem persönlichen Rachefeldzug gegen die Riders abzubringen.

Till sitt yttre är Phillip en stilig svärmorsdröm, framgångsrik och respekterad i sitt yrke. Men countrysångerskan Maggie Bradford känner en annan sida av honom, en mörk och hotfull sida som är livsfarlig för både henne och dottern Jennie. Maggie tvingas ta sin mans liv, innan han tar hennes. När även Maggies andra man, den charmiga fotbollsstjärnan Will Shepard mördas väcks misstänksamhet mot den världsberömda sångerskan.