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Poppy Denby, Arts and Entertainment Editor at The Daily Globe, covers an exhibition of Russian art, hosted by White Russian refugees, including members of the surviving exiled Romanov royal family. There is an armed robbery, a guard is shot and the largest Faberge egg in the collection is stolen. The egg itself is valuable, but more so are the secrets it contains within - secrets that could threaten major political powers. Suspects are aplenty, including the former keeper of the Faberge egg, a Russian Princess called Selena Romanova Yusopova.

A past she ran from. A killer she can't escape. Four years ago, forensic psychologist Dr. Chrissy Ferguson locked the door of her family home in Kinloch Rannoch and walked away from everything she knew. She told herself the visions weren’t real. The flashes of a young girl’s murder. The scream. The blood. But she could never explain them. And she never forgot. Now, another girl has been found—brutally killed in a way that mirrors the horrors Chrissy believed were only in her mind.

In einer Kölner Galerie wird die ausgeblutete Leiche einer jungen Frau entdeckt, inszeniert wie das weltberühmte Gemälde Der Schrei. Die Ermittler Kat Winkler und Sebastian Fischer übernehmen den Fall. Nur wenige Tage später wird in einer anderen Galerie eine weitere Frau tot aufgefunden. Auch dieses Mal wurde sie wie ein berühmtes Kunstwerk in Szene gesetzt. Der Verdacht liegt nahe, dass ein Serienmörder am Werk ist, der seine blutleeren Opfer künstlerisch zur Schau stellt.

Kommissarin Thea nimmt sich gerade eine berufliche Auszeit, als ihre Freundin sie um Hilfe bittet: Thea soll ihr in ihrem Feinkost-Laden auf Mallorca aushelfen. Die ersten Tage im malerischen Küstenort Paguera sind herrlich, doch dann wird ihr Nachbar ermordet! Thea ist schockiert und beginnt auf eigene Faust, Nachforschungen anzustellen. Dabei gerät sie mit dem spanischen Polizisten David Martinez aneinander. Doch Thea wird seine Hilfe noch brauchen. Denn sie ahnt nicht, was sie mit ihren Ermittlungen losgetreten hat...

With six months left to fulfill the provisions of Uncle Nevin’s will and save the fixer-upper castle she and her cousin inherited, Rayne McGrath and Ciara Smith’s bridal venue venture is finally bringing in money. To unite the reluctant villagers, some who’d vehemently protested their efforts to modernize the village, they agree with Father Patrick’s idea to create a group of volunteers to clean the old cemetery behind the beloved church. When a body is found by one of the historic tombstones, the cousins must work overtime to solve the newest case.

When a teenage boy goes missing in the bush outside Kalgoorlie, the search for him will uncover the mystery of a series of lost foster children, presumed runaways. Two women new to town—a cop and a radio host—are determined to find the truth.

Après sa démission de la police du Jutland du Nord, Liv Jensen est contrainte à un nouveau départ. Elle emménage alors à Copenhague où elle exerce en tant que détective privée. Un quotidien sans enthousiasme que son ancien mentor, Petter Bohm, vient un jour bousculer. Enquêteur à la Crim, celui-ci souhaite que la jeune femme reprenne une affaire classée sans suite. Il a besoin de son regard neuf sur le meurtre d'un journaliste qui l'empêche de dormir.

Nils Shapiro embarks on an international quest to avenge his wife’s murder in this gripping, emotionally charged thriller from New York Times bestselling and Emmy Award-winning author Matt Goldman.

Flappers meet gangsters in the hottest jazz club in Soho. Step back into the roaring twenties with a captivating mystery set in 1920s London. When a night of jazz and dancing with the American ambassador’s niece ends in tragedy, apprentice detective Marjorie Swallow is thrust into a world of shady cocaine deals and opium dens. To discover the truth, she goes undercover as a dance hostess at the notorious Harlequin club and confronts the menacing Armstrong brothers. The quest for answers takes unexpected turns, with secrets lurking in the shadows of Soho and closer to home.

Baker Somerset was a Scotland Yard Detective sent to Ottawa to help solve a brutal kidnapping case. After the suspect put four bullets in her, she decided to stay in Ottawa and open her own detective agency. One morning, the body of a British diplomat is found at her office door. Hunting his killer, she learns the murder is tied to the kidnapping that brought her to Canada, and in the process, she unearths bribery, fraud, and illegal activity in the military arms and equipment industry.

Hisataro, a young member of the wealthy Fuchigami family, has a mysterious ability. Every now and then, against his will, he falls into a time-loop in which he is obliged to relive the same day nine times. Little does he know how useful this ability will be, until one day, his grandfather mysteriously dies... As he returns to the day of the murder time and again, Hisataro begins to unravel its secrets. With a sizeable inheritance up for grabs, motives abound, and everyone is a suspect. Can Hisataro solve the mystery of his grandfather's death, and prevent it, before his time-loop ends?

Two days before Jack O'Rourke's embarkment to the Western Front in 1916, he leaps into Sydney Harbour to save an elderly Russian man, named Samuel Lomond, from drowning. What happens when Jack returns from the front and discover Lomond's brutal murder, is at the heart of this thrilling historical fiction saga.

Une opération de la CIA menace de plonger le Kremlin dans le chaos. Les agents Sia Fox et Maximiliano Castillo ont reçu pour mission d’entrer en Russie, sous prétexte d’une transaction commerciale, pour y recruter l’un des grands argentiers de Vladimir Poutine. Sia travaille pour un cabinet d’avocats londonien qui escamote et dissimule les avoirs financiers des super-riches. Au Mexique, l’entreprise familiale de Max – une couverture de la CIA depuis les années 1960 – est un haras, où l’on élève de père en fils des pur-sang de classe mondiale.

Lord Artingham ermordet! Nach fachmännischer Diagnose handelt es sich einwandfrei um Mord, der zwischen fünf und sieben Uhr angesetzt werden muss. Kurz darauf wird Lady Van Duys, die von Unbekannten erpresst wurde, in den Räumen von Scotland Yard ermordet aufgefunden. Die Beamten von Scotland Yard bieten alle Kräfte auf, um die Kriminalfälle zu lösen, doch erst zwei Schweizer Freunden gelingt es nach und nach, Licht ins Dunkle zu bringen.

In the dangerous waters of the Caribbean, one man reigns supreme as the most cunning and elusive criminal of them all: Julian, the last remaining brother of a notorious dynasty. With a vast fortune, Julian's power and influence know no bounds. But now, the Enigma Heirs, R-Group, and CATS team have set their sights on bringing him down, determined to dismantle his entire operation and put an end to his illegal drug and human trafficking enterprises.

When Sergeant Hamish Macbeth is sent to investigate reports that the wealthy new laird of the remote Naglar House has disappeared, Scotland is hit by the worst storm in living memory. The road is washed away, phone lines are down, mobile reception is dead and his police radio is out of order. He is trapped with the laird's high-class house guests. Then he discovers the laird's body. Forced to remain overnight at the house, he interviews each of the guests and pieces together an alarming picture of clandestine infidelity, vicious jealousy, deadly revenge, lust, greed and fear.

With Florakis apparently back in Greece, Holt heads there to find him once again. But Florakis isn’t going to let Holt find him that easily. In fact, Florakis has something else in mind. Going back to Greece wasn’t a mistake. Florakis deliberately schemed for this moment. He’s got other plans for Holt. And while Holt’s only got one thing on his mind, eliminating Florakis, the man who ordered his wife’s death has something else completely on his. Will Holt finally extract his revenge, and get closure for the man who was responsible for his wife’s murder?

King and Maxwell encounter teenager Tyler Wingo when he has just received the tragic news that his soldier father has been killed in Afghanistan. But then Tyler receives an email from his father . . . after his supposed death. Sean and Michelle are hired to solve the mystery, and their investigation leads to deeper, even more troubling questions. Could Tyler's father really still be alive? Was his mission all that it seemed? Has Tyler's life been a lie, and could he be the next target?

Hannah Tigone, bestselling Australian crime author, is crafting a new novel that begins in the Boston Public Library: four strangers; Winifred, Cain, Marigold and Whit are sitting at the same table when a bloodcurdling scream breaks the silence. A woman has been murdered. They are all suspects, and, as it turns out, each character has their own secrets and motivations—and one of them is a murderer.

Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon has slipped into Venice for a much-needed holiday with his wife and two young children. But when Pope Paul VII dies suddenly, Gabriel is summoned to Rome by the Holy Father’s loyal private secretary, Archbishop Luigi Donati. A billion Catholic faithful have been told that the pope died of a heart attack. Donati, however, has two good reasons to suspect his master was murdered.