Showing results by publisher "Audible Studios" in International Mystery & Crime

Uppsala, Sweden. Inspector Ann Lindell has little time to enjoy her new relationship with journalist Anders Brant before he leaves on an assignment, and she is called upon to investigate the disappearance of a young woman, Klara Lovisa Bolinder. When Lindell's colleagues discover the body of a murdered homeless man, the evidence suggests that Brant could be involved.

In this crime drama, detective Varg Veum's adventures take him into the world of privileged teenage girls who have been drawn into drugs and prostitution. The situation worsens when the local judge is found dead in a luxury hotel, clad only in women's lingerie. Called in by anxious parents to look for a missing daughter and explain the judge's death, Varg is led deep into Bergen's criminal underworld.

Durante un funerale, mentre la folla piange in silenzio nel cimitero di Ragmullin, un grido assordante risuona nell'aria: in una tomba aperta c'è il corpo insanguinato di una giovane donna. La detective Lottie Parker è chiamata a indagare sul fatto. Quel corpo non può essere lì da molto, e così Lottie comincia a sospettare che possa trattarsi di Elizabeth Byrne, una ragazza scomparsa nel nulla pochi giorni prima. Come se non bastasse, il nuovo capo sembra avercela con lei... Lottie deve fare di tutto per risolvere al più presto entrambi i casi.

When Bergen PI Varg Veum finds himself at the funeral of a former classmate on a sleet-grey December afternoon, he’s unexpectedly reunited with his old friend Jakob – the once-famous lead singer of 1960s rock band The Harpers – and his estranged wife, Rebecca, Veum’s first love. Their rekindled friendship come to an abrupt end with a horrific murder, and Veum is forced to dig deep into his own adolescence and his darkest memories, to find a motive...and a killer.

As Montrealer Catherine Day sets foot in a remote fishing village and starts asking around about her birth mother, the body of a woman dredges up in a fisherman's nets. Not just any woman, though: Marie Garant, an elusive, nomadic sailor and unbridled beauty who once tied many a man's heart in knots. Detective Sergeant Joaquin Morales, newly drafted to the area from the suburbs of Montreal, barely has time to unpack his suitcase before he's thrown into the deep end of the investigation.

People find Mr Hire strange, disconcerting. The tenants he shares his building with try to avoid him. He is a Peeping Tom, a visitor of prostitutes, a dealer in unsavoury literature. He is also the prime suspect for a brutal murder that he did not commit. Yet Mr Hire's innocence will not stand in the way of those looking for a scapegoat as tragedy unfolds in this quietly devastating and deeply unnerving audiobook.

Robert, an Oakland cop, still can't let go of Suzy, the enigmatic Vietnamese wife who left him two years ago. Now she's disappeared from her new husband, Sonny, a violent Vietnamese smuggler and gambler who is blackmailing Robert into finding her for him. As he pursues her through the sleek and seamy gambling dens of Las Vegas, shadowed by Sonny's sadistic son, 'Junior', and assisted by unexpected and reluctant allies, Robert learns more about his ex-wife than he ever did during their marriage.

The KGB decides to use agent Otto Reimann to seduce Elke Meyer, the personal assistant to a top West German Cabinet member, to give over classified information, but Moscow does not count on the unpredictability of love.

Six Israeli commandos land on a lakeshore in Austria, hunting for something that has been hidden underwater for over thirty years. The lake holds many secrets left behind by the Nazi high command as their regime crumbled in 1945. There are millions of dollars in international currency, bonds, and gold bullion, but the commandos want none of it. They have come for boxes of files - containing information about the hiding places of every Nazi war criminal who evaded judgment at Nuremberg.

Una novela negra bestialmente adictiva. Hay un animal salvaje dormido en nuestro interior. ¿Qué ocurre cuando despierta? El hallazgo de un cadáver conmociona a los habitantes de una tranquila región rural en Asturias. Se trata de un hombre asesinado con una crueldad extrema, encontrado a pocos metros del prostíbulo local. Aunque era un vecino conocido y respetado, todo parece apuntar a una venganza. Olivia Marassa es una joven y ambiciosa reportera que trabaja para el periódico de la región y ve en este caso la oportunidad de conseguir una gran exclusiva.

Dave Stirling ha bisogno di ricominciare. Come per New York, la sua città, l'11 settembre è una ferita ancora aperta, perché quel giorno ha perso il suo studio ma soprattutto il suo socio e migliore amico. Avvocato di diritto internazionale ridotto sul lastrico dall'assicurazione che non si decide a risarcirlo, non ha davvero più nulla da rischiare. Per questo, quando Vladimir Kroshenko, uno dei più potenti uomini d'affari della nuova Russia, richiede la sua consulenza per una trattativa delicata e complessa, non può che accettare.

In the lush world-banking capital of Geneva, Switzerland, three friends from Harvard Business School find their lives and their work unexpectedly intertwined. Catherine and Majid are handling investments for clients with dubious pedigrees. When their friend Rafe shows up in Geneva, he claims to be just another start-up hedge fund manager. But Rafe, after a moral awakening, is now an undercover agent with the US Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, and he’s in Geneva secretly investigating his old friends, one of whom was his former lover.

El cuerpo sin vida de Henrik Dahlman, un artista casado y padre de familia, aparece desnudo y atado a la cama en su casa de verano de Ljugarn. Las pistas apuntan a que el culpable quiere confundir a la policía sobre su identidad. Cuando otro hombre casado aparece brutalmente asesinado, Anders Knutas y Karin Jacobsson son conscientes de que se enfrentan a un homicida con un plan preconcebido que, además, cambia continuamente de aspecto.

En 1978 una joven llamada Maria Turquand fue asesinada en una habitación de hotel. Se investigó a los sospechosos, pero el culpable nunca apareció. John Rebus siempre tuvo la sensación de que algún detalle importante se le escapaba a la policía. Ahora ha decidido recuperar el caso y parece que eso aún puede acarrear imprevisibles consecuencias. No es lo único que le preocupa al exinspector Rebus. Darryl Christie, aspirante a controlar las actividades delictivas en Edimburgo, ha recibido una paliza que lo ha dejado fuera de combate.

En una tarde brumosa, cuatro turistas viajan a Ronda para admirar el Puente Nuevo, una construcción de casi cien metros de altura. Debido al mal tiempo, tres de ellos deciden regresar al hotel. El fiscal malagueño Álvaro Pérez se queda solo haciendo fotos, mientras su esposa sueca, Marianne, y sus amigos lo esperan en el hotel durante horas. Cuando al día siguiente su cuerpo aparece destrozado en un barranco, asignan el caso al inspector Héctor Correa, de la Policía Nacional de Málaga.

El cálido sol de septiembre brilla sobre Visby y sus calles empedradas. Los turistas se han marchado de Gotland y la calma ha regresado. Sin embargo, las desapariciones inexplicables de dos niñas pequeñas provocan un revuelo entre los habitantes de la isla. La subinspectora Karin Jacobsson dirige la investigación a un ritmo frenético, mientras que su colega Anders Knutas, recién divorciado, sigue luchando por recuperarse de una depresión. Karin, que por primera vez se enfrenta sola a un caso, intenta ayudar a Anders, con quien está empezando una relación sentimental.

Two men, each unaware of the other, share a common family secret: They were sold for adoption by their American father shortly after their births in the Philippines. Three alternating stories interweave the experiences of father Andrew Breszky and the two sons who try to connect and piece together the puzzle of their reckless, impulsive father. One lives in New York and the other grows up in the south of France, later traveling all over Asia as a documentary filmmaker. Both will discover that their relationships somehow echo that of the young man whose history eludes them.

Dans le civil, c'est "Magalie Bouvet". Quadra, divorcée, un lardon. Au boulot, c'est "Madame la flic". Commandant au sein de la police judiciaire parisienne, au 36, et chef d'un groupe antiterroriste. Enfin, plus tout à fait. Ça, c'était avant. Avant que je m'en fasse virer pour une connerie, une mauvaise rencontre. Je ne regrette pas, pas vraiment, car ma reconversion forcée a ses avantages, dont celui de me faire voir du pays. Et puis l'action est toujours là. Je suis juste débarrassée des lourdeurs administratives de mes anciennes fonctions.

Polizeioffizier Milo April wird an der Kapstädter Waterfront erschossen. Könnte ein SAPD-Offizier dahinterstecken? Und hängt dieser Mord mit den geheimnisvollen Briefen zusammen, die die geschassten Ermittler Bennie Griessel und Vaughn Cupido erhalten haben und die auf einen neuen Fall von Staatskorruption hindeuten? Wenn es ihnen gelänge, diesen Fall aufzuklären, wäre ihre Ehre wiederhergestellt. Doch sie müssen heimlich ermitteln, mit dem Risiko, endgültig ihre berufliche Zukunft zu verspielen. Griessel und Cupido halten sich an ihre bewährte Strategie: nicht die Nerven verlieren.

What marks life in Addis Ababa are the starkly different realities coexisting in one place. It's a growing city taking shape beneath the fraught weight of history, myth, and memory. It is a heady mix. It can also be disorienting, and it is in this space that the stories of Addis Ababa Noir reside....