Showing results by publisher "Audible Studios" in Police Procedurals

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.

This is the world of the undercover operative: a world of lies, treachery, and deception. A world where violence erupts without warning, like a ticking time bomb on a crowded bus. It isn't a matter of if that bomb will go off - it is a matter of how close you are to it when it does.

After the coldest night of the year, they find the man's body. He is dangling from the Hanging Tree on the outskirts of a village near Lydmouth, with his trousers round his ankles. Is it suicide, murder, or accidental death resulting from some bizarre sexual practice? Journalist Jill Francis and Detective Inspector Thornhill become involved in the case in separate ways.

Vor über zwanzig Jahren wurden die Eltern der Hauptkommissarin Enna Andersen brutal ermordet. Der zu lebenslanger Haft verurteilte Ronald Grothe beteuert von Anfang an seine Unschuld und hofft nach seiner Freilassung auf eine Wiederaufnahme des Verfahrens. Inzwischen zweifelt auch Enna an dem Urteil des Gerichts. Sie nimmt sich drei Wochen frei, um den wahren Täter auf eigene Faust zu suchen. Eine Spur führt sie in die ehemalige Hamburger Anwaltskanzlei ihres Vaters, eine andere zu zwei Mandanten, die Ennas Vater vor Gericht verteidigt hat.

Villa Borghese - un enorme parco nel centro di Roma, grande più della Città del Vaticano e poco meno del principato di Monaco - è un luogo meraviglioso. Ci sono musei, teatri, la Casa del Cinema, ludoteche, chiese. E poi le mille piante, i corsi d'acqua e le tante specie animali ospitate al Bioparco. Un'isola di verde incantevole. Affascinante, colta, misteriosa. Il sindaco, malato d'amore per la Villa, muovendo mari e monti riesce a far aprire un commissariato al suo interno.

Gurgaon. December 2014. A young event manager, an ex-cop's son, is murdered. Inspector Ajai Singh vows justice. There is little to begin with, and frustration mounts when the initial suspect - a reclusive woman with a mysterious past - is found missing. Digging deeper, Singh uncovers a sordid tale of adultery, blackmail and revenge, only to find himself staring at a conspiracy unlike any he has seen.

When an old man is found dead on the road - seemingly run over by a Hungarian au pair - police investigator Anna Fekete is certain that there is more to the incident than meets the eye. As she begins to unravel an increasingly complex case, she’s led on a deadly trail where illegal immigration, drugs and ultimately murder threaten not only her beliefs but her life.

Mob head Sal Tarantino doesn't want big-time casino gambling to become legal in Rhode Island. His solution is to have the next governor comfortably in his pocket, ready to veto the legislation. That means calling in the debts owed to the mob by some of Rhode Island's most prominent politicians, to clear the way for Doug Fiore, managing partner of the state's largest law firm and soon-to-be reluctant gubernatorial candidate.

Lily Rae is on holiday in El Paso, Texas, when she's kidnapped by a Mexican drug cartel. El Paso borders on one of the most dangerous places in the world - Ciudad Juarez, Mexico - a city caught in the grip of a war between cartels. Her disappearance is investigated by undercover Mountie Jack Taggart, who discovers a Canadian link to the cartel and penetrates the organization. Taggart is sent to El Paso, where he is partnered with special U.S. Customs agent John Adams. Neither Taggart nor Adams know they have been paired together for a secret purpose.

Intrepid Mountie Jack Taggart is hurled into a world where morality, justice, and the legal system are pitted against one another. Taggart investigates the murder of someone who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Wiretap information identifies a shadowy gang member known only as Cocktail as being responsible. Taggart and his partner go undercover to join one of a coalition of gangs who are at war in British Columbia. Their mission is to identify Cocktail and gain evidence to convict him of murder.

When the men find him, the boy’s legs look like they were run through a wood-chipper. He’s bleeding heavily and near death, but he still has strength to tell them of the monster that attacked him: a dark, massive creature that emerged from the bottom of the lake. The child dies before he can say more. Sheriff Billy Wintone has seen too much superstition, drunkenness, and rage in this small Ozarks town to believe the delirious boy’s tale of a monster lurking under the lake’s dark waters. Like it or not, however, Wintone must scour the woods for the man or beast who killed the child before the start of fishing season.

It's 1960 and Sergeant Ben Kella of the Solomon Islands police force is only a few days into a routine patrol of the most beautiful yet dangerous and primitive areas of the South Pacific. Yet, already, he has been cursed by a magic man, stumbled across evidence of a cult uprising and failed to find an American anthropologist who has been scouring the mountainous jungle in search of a priceless erotic icon.

Im Umkreis mehrerer europäischer Hauptstadt-Flughäfen geschehen Morde an Frauen - an alten wie jungen, Raubmorde wie Sexualdelikte. Das Bindeglied: Der Täter markiert die Beine der Opfer mit blutroter Schrift. Bei der Haplotyp-Genanalyse (einer speziellen Untersuchung, die man auch mit winzigsten Mengen DNA durchführen kann) stößt der Rechtsmediziner auf einen Verdächtigen - und es ist ausgerechnet ein alter Kumpel von ihm aus Bundeswehrzeiten.

A social media shaming. A killer with a message. A deadly combination. When the body of a man is left in the city centre set up as a realistic police crime scene, DI Hannah Robbins is forced to enter a world that can break a person, a case and a reputation. Social media platforms light up, and Hannah is pitted against the raging online monster and a killer who has already lost everything. Can she catch the killer and put him behind bars, or will she become part of his sadistic game?

公安外事・倉島警部補シリーズ第5弾！国益とプライドをかけた防諜戦争の行方は…？警視庁公安部警部補でエース候補の倉島は、外事一課と掛け持ちの形で作業班への移動を命じられた。

Maui is sacred places, ancient artifacts, and the dark lava of deepest passions.

Nothing ever goes easy for detectives Lei Texeira and Michael Stevens. An investigation into heiau desecrations must take a backseat to the emergence of an enemy who targets those closest to them, leaving shrouds as a calling card. Lei and Stevens face challenges of the body, mind, and heart in this seventh in the best-selling Lei Crime Series.

Cadaveri dimenticati e un caso irrisolto. Un serial killer che da anni uccide indisturbato. Una corsa contro il tempo prima che reclami la sua prossima vittima. L'unico indizio? Lascia sempre un'iscrizione sulla pelle delle sue vittime: Tic-Tac. Riusciranno Álex e la sua squadra a catturarlo prima che torni a uccidere?

Dead Woman's Ditch. The site of a grisly 200-year-old murder - and a recent hit-and-run. When a young woman's body is found at the macabre landmark in Somerset's Quantock Hills, DI Mike Lockyer and Sergeant Jane Bennett are called in to investigate. They find a community gripped by fear and superstition. The locals won't venture out at night, believing there's a man stalking the hills - a phantom cloaked in folklore and legend, keeping the sinister legacy of Dead Woman's Ditch alive.

When a man dies in a gas explosion, the police suspect arson, and the Murder Investigation Team is called in to investigate. But the case takes on a new and terrible twist when a local villain is viciously attacked. As the police enquiries lead from the expensive Harchester Hill estate to the local brothel, a witness dies in a hit-and-run. Was it coincidence - or cold-blooded murder? The Murder Investigation Team has problems of its own – and so does Geraldine Steel. A shocking revelation threatens her peace of mind as the investigation races towards its dramatic climax.

When DI Geraldine Steel relocates to the quiet rural town of Woolsmarsh, she expects to find her new home to be somewhere where nothing much ever happens; a space where she can battle her demons in private. But when she finds herself pitted against a twisted killer preying on local young women, she quickly discovers how wrong she is....