Showing results by publisher "Audible Studios" in Crime Fiction

Schöner morden in Schweden – eine Leiche im Knäckebrotteig kann einem schon mal den Appetit verderben... Auftakt einer neuen Krimireihe mit Senioren! Eigentlich möchte Ina in Schweden einen geruhsamen Lebensabend genießen. Tiefblaue Seen, endlose Wälder und tiefenentspannte Mitmenschen, dazu noch den richtigen Mann an ihrer Seite – was könnte es Schöneres geben? Doch bei ihrer Ankunft auf dem Tingsmålahof zerplatzen ihre Träume schneller, als man "dumm gelaufen" auf Schwedisch sagen kann. Statt ihres Geliebten Viggo empfängt sie nämlich seine Witwe Agneta und ein paar andere rüstige Senioren.

In these six stories, the Saint encounters monsters of both the human and the animal variety: unscrupulous fraudsters in Hamburg; a confrontation with a rhino; perfect murders in Paris; a temperance leader deserving to be taken down a peg or two; a thief duping tourists in Sweden; and the hunt for the most famous monster of them all on the shores of Loch Ness. You can trust the Saint to deal with anything life throws at him with charm, imagination and steely determination.

Her daughter, Dakota, is safe, but her cancer is threatening a comeback, and Lori needs JT - Dakota's daddy and the man who taught Lori everything - alive and kicking. Problem is, he's behind bars and heading for death row. Desperate to save him, Lori does a deal, taking on an off-the-books job from shady FBI agent Alex Monroe. Bring back on-the-run felon Gibson 'The Fish' Fletcher and JT walks free.

Taxi driver Jeet Singh is cruising for fare when a man being tailed by a bunch of goons blocks his way. Entrusting him with a briefcase full of secret, classified government documents to be delivered in lieu of a huge sum to a girl in Jogeshwari, he jumps off the moving taxi. His dead body is found by the railway track in a Mumbai suburb the next morning, while Jeet Singh finds he has nobody to give the briefcase to; the girl died mysteriously the previous night. He opens the briefcase, and a free-for-all for diamonds worth millions is set into motion.

Mukesh Mathur is an independent criminal lawyer. Kamlesh Dixit has been accused of killing his exemployee Abhay Singh Rajpuria, the owner of Crystal Lodge. Mukesh decides to defend Kamlesh Dixit. His investigation leads him to several other suspects, whom the police have conveniently chosen to ignore. Despite all evidence against Dixit, he continues to plead innocent. Will Mukesh Mathur be able to defend Dixit? Why are the police so keen to nail him? Find out in another nail-biting thriller from the master of crime fiction in Hindi.

Ein verzwickter Fall, eine wunderbare Kommissarin und Urlaubsfeeling pur in der Provence: Im Provence-Krimi Madame le Commissaire und das geheime Dossier von Bestseller-Autor Pierre Martin löst Kommissarin Isabelle Bonnet ihren 11. Fall. Im beschaulichen Fragolin in der Provence gehen die Uhren anders – normalerweise. Denn Madame le Commissaire Isabelle Bonnet erhält einen Anruf direkt aus Paris: Auf Geheiß des Polizeichefs soll sie mit ihrem Assistenten Apollinaire den Einbruch in eine Ferien-Villa bei Gassin in den Hügeln hinter Saint Tropez untersuchen.

Ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit und um das Leben eines Kindes: Sabine Yao löst ihren zweiten Fall - Gänsehaut-True-Crime mit der sympathischen Rechtsmedizinerin Die Spezialeinheit „Extremdelikte“ um Dr. Sabine Yao untersucht auch diesmal ungewöhnliche Todesfälle: Zwei in schwarze Samtkleider gehüllte und bizarr entstellte Tote, die im Wald an einem Gestell hängen, geben den Ermittlern Rätsel auf. Dann wird Sabine Yao an einen Tatort in einem heruntergekommenen Trailerpark gerufen, wo ein Toter zwischen Kinderspielzeug und Perücken liegt.

Albert Tanner, vicious psychopath and burner of men, is in the USA with unfinished business. Detective Superintendent Ray Paterson and Detective Inspector Johnny Clocks must find him first. Their task is straightforward: hunt Tanner down and bring him home. But a few explosions, an assassin and a dead child change everything. Dragged into a sordid world of high-class sex parties, they discover an Albert Tanner they never knew existed. Then a child is snatched from her own bed and Tanner wants to do a deal. However, the price is far too high.

For some, Barcelona is a European enchantress of nouveau architecture, fusion tapas, and fine cava. To others, it’s a Gothic labyrinth of tiny streets to lose oneself in; hashish-clouded after-hours bars to forget the time; dimly lit plazas with global bohemians squatting, prostitutes tempting. But come morning, its cold cobblestones and misty beachfronts have even darker stories to tell.

A missing boy. A missing book. A missing husband. A woman who must find them all to find herself. On the night Bernadette finally has the courage to tell her domineering husband that she's leaving, he doesn't come home. Neither does Conor, the little boy she's befriended for the past five years. Also missing is his lifebook, the only thing that holds the answers.

Hawaii is cane fires, lush jungles, and feuds that won't die until everyone's dead. Detective Lei Texeira stalks the shroud killer on her own terms as Michael Stevens finds himself engulfed in the flames of a case with tangled consequences. In this eighth of the best-selling Lei Crime Series, Lei and Stevens find out just how far hate and love will go.

Outside the apartment where a wake is going on, the manager of the A&P across the street is robbed. Reverend Short, a storefront preacher addicted to opium and brandy, is watching from a bedroom window in the flat. He leans out too far and falls, but a huge bread basket, sitting outside the bakery below, saves him. Back inside, he says he sees a vision of a dead man. Outside, in the very basket Short landed in, lies the body of Valentine Haines. Who murdered Val? It is up to Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson to find out.

George Stroud is a hard-drinking, tough-talking, none-too-scrupulous writer for a New York media conglomerate in the heyday of Henry Luce. One day, before heading home to his wife in the suburbs, Stroud has a drink with Pauline, the beautiful girlfriend of his boss, Earl Janoth. Things happen. The next day Stroud escorts Pauline home, leaving her off at the corner just as Janoth returns from a trip. The day after that, Pauline is found murdered in her apartment.

Carlyle is attempting too much and achieving too little and he's upsetting all the wrong people - this time it could be terminal... Jake Haggar has been kidnapped by his father who is threatening to sell the boy to a paedophile ring. Carlyle is struggling to get him back. It's not his case but it is his problem - it was his fault Jake was taken in the first place. But Carlyle's own caseload includes the murder of Agatha Mills. Her husband, Henry, has been arrested for murder but his explanation is so outlandish that Carlyle wonders if it may just be true.

On Christmas Eve in 1988, seven-year-old Alfie Marsden vanished in the Wentshire Forest Pass when a burst tyre forced his father, Sorrel, to stop the car. Leaving the car to summon the emergency services, Sorrel returned to find his son gone. No trace of the child, nor his remains, have ever been found. Alfie Marsden was declared officially dead in 1995. Elusive online journalist Scott King, whose Six Stories podcasts have become an internet sensation, investigates the disappearance, interviewing six witnesses, to try to find out what really happened that fateful night.

James and Jessica Sommers are celebrating their first blissful year together, an unexpected second chance at true love. Unfortunately, their newfound shot at happiness is not without collateral damage. There’s Jessica’s ex-husband. He pretends for all the world that he’s resilient and strong. If only for the sake of their teenage son, profoundly vulnerable in his own way. James’ ex has taken a different road. Bitter, vengeful, and threatening, she wants only the worst for the happy couple. And then there’s the couple themselves: Are they truly as in love as they seem?

Simon Templar is at his cavalier best in this collection of South American adventures. In Mexico he meets an ice-cool blonde with her own Saintly ideas - and joins in the fun. In Baja California he gets caught up in a strange story of two women and a blind man's oyster bed. In Havana the Saint answers a beautiful woman's plea for help and discovers a revolution that isn't quite what it claims. And finally, in Panama he plays the sucker - but it doesn't last.

Simon Templar heads to New York - to sip cocktails, listen to jazz, and have a good time. But he has a way of making enemies, and a quiet night in Cookie's Cellar sets him on a trail involving drugs, smuggling, dead bodies, a beautiful singer called Avalon Dexter, and finally the loathsome Cookie herself. The battle is on. Leslie Charteris was born in Singapore and moved to England in 1919. He left Cambridge University early when his first novel was accepted for publication.

Four old women return from a Bahamas vacation with four more suitcases than they had when they left. They leave them behind at baggage claim, and a stranger picks them up - disappearing with the extra suitcases and the hundreds of pounds of cocaine they hold. The grandmothers are smugglers, supplementing their social security with criminal income, but one of them is tired of the deception. She goes to the DEA to inform on her employer, a vicious drug lord named Trelana, and when he learns she has snitched her age does not buy mercy.

September 1977. Mette Misvãr, a three-year-old girl, disappears without trace from the sandpit outside her home. Her tiny, close middle-class community in the tranquil suburb of Nordas is devastated, but their enquiries and the police produce nothing. Curtains twitch, suspicions are raised, but Mette is never found.