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Constable Evan Evans, sole police officer in the charming Welsh village of Llanfair, is assigned to assist an expedition to raise a World War II German bomber plane from a lake. The whole venture is being filmed for a documentary on World War II and Evans tries to assist the film crew by finding them local people with stories to tell. Little does he realize that resurrecting the past can sometimes mean opening old wounds.

Der 7. Fall für Madame le Commissaire und ihren Assistenten Apollinaire. Der siebte Fall für Isabelle Bonnet - Provence-Krimi mit Wohlfühlatmosphäre vom Bestsellerautor.

When a 75-year-old woman is killed in an apparently random car accident, it looks like a simple hit-and-run - until the car is linked to an Asian organized crime syndicate. Undercover operative Jack Taggart, who is called in to investigate, quickly identifies a top crime boss as the perpetrator, but he must still figure out how to infiltrate the man's inner circle. Taggart approaches a young Chinese woman on the fringes of the syndicate and tries to coerce her into becoming his informant.

Danutia is observing a youth rehabilitation program in England when Arthur returns to the Peak District to attend his mother’s funeral. Suspecting foul play in her death, Danutia and Arthur question the feuding village. They soon discover that the practice of ancient Celtic rituals persists and has evolved into a dangerous and deadly ceremony....

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.

In Berkeley, people don't just disagree; they make careers out of it. And in a city where anything goes, where burned-out '60s hippies haunt the shadows along Telegraph Avenue, no one can outrun the past. Now police detective Jill Smith is plunged into a case that's pure Berkeley: a tangled tale of sins and retribution that has led to one man's disappearance, and another man's murder.

Décembre 2012. Trois adolescentes sont enlevées dans un petit village, l'une d'elles est retrouvée morte, les deux autres battues et droguées, à peine en vie. Le coupable ne sera jamais retrouvé et la thèse du rôdeur sera retenue.Dix ans plus tard. Un nouvel enlèvement secoue la tranquillité du village. Katia, une adolescente de 14 ans. Même circonstances, même jour de la semaine, même plage horaire.Lucas Lievens, ancien commandant de police devenu détective privé, est engagé par le père d'une des victimes de 2012 pour mener l'enquête en parallèle de la gendarmerie.

The charming village of Llanfair, the setting for Rhys Bowen's beloved Constable Evans mysteries, sits amid lush, rolling Welsh meadows populated with quaint cottages and is considered by many of its colorful locals to be a kind of paradise. Unfortunately, there aren't many opportunities for young people in Llanfair, so when an exciting and glamorous American woman breezes into town talking of dormant psychic powers and important social research, barmaid Betsy Edwards is quick to take her up on an offer of employment at the recently opened Sacred Grove New Age center not far away.

Hauptkommissarin Hella Brandt kehrt nach der Elternzeit zurück ins Wittmunder Kommissariat. Kurz darauf landet eine Vermisstenmeldung auf ihrem Tisch: Bent Harmsen, Miteigentümer einer Surfschule auf Juist, ist seit mehreren Tagen spurlos verschwunden. Zusammen mit Alina Becker, die inzwischen in Hellas Team arbeitet, fährt sie auf die kleine ostfriesische Insel, während Lars Mattes sie vom Festland aus unterstützt. Hella und Alina tauchen immer tiefer in den Fall ein und finden mehr Verdächtige, als ihnen lieb ist. Die drei jungen Leute, die mit Bent Harmsen die Surfschule betreiben, geben sich ahnungslos.

Beim Graben für das Fundament eines Windrades wird mitten im Wald ein menschliches Skelett entdeckt. In den Überresten des Toten findet man die Spitze eines Jagdpfeiles. Haderlein, Lagerfeld und selbst Riemenschneider stehen vor einem absoluten Rätsel. Doch das ist erst der Anfang, denn nach dem Bekanntwerden des Fundes geschehen plötzlich weitere merkwürdige Dinge.

Unha casa, unha nena morta e só seis sospeitosos. Xiana Alén, unha nena de quince anos aparece morta na súa casa nunha luxosa urbanización das aforas de Santiago de Compostela. Os seus pais, a súa tía, unha parella de veciños e a súa tía avoa son as únicas persoas que puideron matala. Con esa hipótese de partida, Ana Barroso e Santi Abad, policías da comisaría de Santiago mergúllanse de cheo na vida da familia Alén Somoza para descubrir que pasou esa noite.

Hamburg, 1947. A ruined city occupied by the British who bombed it, experiencing the coldest winter in living memory. Food is scarce; refugees and the homeless crowd into shantytowns and sheds. There is a killer on the loose, and all attempts to find him or her have failed. Plagued with worry about his missing son, Frank Stave is a career policeman with a tragedy in his past that is driving his determination to find the killer.

Ein neuer Fall für die Kommissarin Isabelle Bonnet, der sie diesmal in die Kunstwelt führt.

On a hot Saturday night in Manhattan, Father Duffy sits in a confessional, growing alarmed as he listens to the voice of a distraught young man who speaks of bloody hair and a dead woman and a compulsion to do things with a hammer that he does not understand. Before the priest can persuade the man to confess to the police, the killer flees, still clutching the hammer.

Tony Colletti, a good suburban cop and father of a child with autism, finds himself drawn into the controversy over the apparent but rarely acknowledged connection between childhood vaccines and autism. His quest to uncover the truth forces him to risk all he holds dear while confronting corrupt government officials, the powerful pharmaceutical industry, and disturbing elements of his own past. Even while holding down his job and dealing with family crises, Colletti spearheads the drive to contend with industrial espionage, Russian gangsters, and sexual predators.

Brooklyn South homicide detective Jack Leightner is at home enjoying a quiet day off when a stranger appears at his door and completely overturns his understanding of his own past. The following day, what looks like a mundane killing in a Brooklyn deli takes a bizarre turn when a crew of Homeland Security agents suddenly show up wearing anti-radiation gear.

London 1859-62. A time of great exhibitions, foreign conquests and underground trains. But the era of Victorian marvels is also the time of the Great Stink. With cholera and depravity never far from the headlines, it's not only the sewers that smell bad. Novice detective Campbell Lawless stumbles onto the trail of Berwick Skelton, an elusive revolutionary determined to bring London to its knees through devilish acts of terrorism.

NYPD detective Paul Donner and his wife Elise were killed in a hold-up gone wrong. Fifty years later, Donner is back: revived courtesy of the Shift. Supposedly the unintended side-effect of a botched biological terrorist attack and carried by a ubiquitous retrovirus, the Shift jump-starts dead DNA and throws the life cycle into reverse, so reborns like Donner must cope with the fact that they are not only slowly youthing toward a new childhood, but have become New York's most hated minority.

Wenn die Sümpfe sprechen könnten, wessen Namen würden sie dann flüstern? Am Memorial Day 1992 verschwanden drei hochdekorierte Navy-Offiziere in dem verschlafenen Strandstädtchen Hansville, Washington. Dreißig Jahre später wurden ihre Medaillen in den Sümpfen von Foulweather Bluff gefunden. Ebenso wie ihre Gebeine. Für den Privatdetektiv Thomas Austin ist dieser Fall eine Herzensangelegenheit. Als Sohn eines JAG-Anwalts ist Austin mit der Navy aufgewachsen.

Jack Taggart, an undercover Mountie, lives in a world where the good guys and the bad guys change places in a heartbeat. Taggart is very good at what he does. Too good to be playing by the rules. The brass decide to assign a new partner to spy on him.Taggart's new partner discovers a society dependent upon unwritten rules. To break these rules is to lose respect. To lose respect is to lose one's life. Loose Ends is terrifying. It is a tale of violence, corruption, and retribution, but it is also a story of honour and respect.