Showing results by publisher "Audible Studios" in Police Procedurals

Saint-Tropez hat Brigitte Bardot. Fragolin dagegen den Film- und Gesangsstar Colette Gaspard - auch wenn kaum einer weiß, dass die Diva hier geboren wurde. Schließlich hat sie das provenzalische Dorf schon in jungen Jahren verlassen. Einziger Kontakt zu ihrem Geburtsort ist ihre Zwillingsschwester Yvonne, die noch immer in Fragolin lebt. Genauso wie die Kommissarin Isabelle Bonnet.

In the cold Toronto winter of 1895, the naked body of a servant girl is found frozen in a deserted laneway. The young victim was pregnant when she died. Detective William Murdoch soon discovers that many of those connected with the girl's life have secrets to hide. Was her death on attempt to cover up a scandal in one of the city's influential families?

Romy Beccare wird an das Ufer des Selliner Sees gerufen, weil man eine männliche Leiche entdeckt hat. Der Tierarzt Michael Bautner wurde dort erstochen. Schnell hat man auch einen Verdächtigen: einen abgeschottet lebenden Mann, dessen Hund Bautner angeblich falsch behandelte und der deshalb starb. Doch Romy kommen Zweifel. Die Ermittlungen laufen ihr viel zu glatt. Dann wird bei Bauarbeiten in Sellin das Skelett eines seit mehr als dreißig Jahren vermissten Mannes gefunden, der offenbar kurz vor seinem Verschwinden mit Bautner zu tun hatte.

The first body is found in a hamper in the woods. Her feet were tied with a leather belt. There are traces of incense on her dismembered body, candle wax on her skin, and strange crumbs on her lips. As more butchered adolescent corpses turn up - the victims of a serial killer whose signature is the communion wafer left in each one's mouth - the evidence leads NYPD lieutenant Vince Cardozo into the sacred and moneyed world of Manhattan's exclusive parishes.

Detective Gunnhildur sets to investigate two seemingly separate cases, but uncovers some disturbing links. Top class crime writing set in Icleand. Following her promotion and working now from Reykjavik, Gunnhildur is given responsibility for two cases - the first in tracking down an escaped convict who's keen to settle old scores, and the other, the murder of a TV fitness presenter in her city centre apartment.

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.

Blood has always been thicker than water for two Northern Irish brothers caught in the Belfast foster system, but a debt of past violence will be paid not just by them but also by those they left behind. Ciaran Devine, who made Belfast headlines seven years ago as the "schoolboy killer", is about to walk free. At the age of 12, he confessed to the brutal murder of his foster father; his testimony mitigated the sentence of his older brother, Thomas, who was also found at the crime scene, covered in blood.

'Maigret had never been comfortable in certain circles, among the wealthy bourgeoisie where he felt clumsy and awkward.... Built like a labourer, Oscar Chabut had hauled himself up into this little world through sheer hard work and, to convince himself that he was accepted, he felt the need to sleep with most of the women.' When a wealthy wine merchant is shot in a Paris street, Maigret must investigate a long list of the ruthless businessman's enemies before he can get to the sad truth of the affair.

Beccarres neuer Fall: Ein Zwanzigjähriger wird erschlagen im Jasmund aufgefunden. Romy steht vor einem fast unlösbaren Rätsel - bis sie auf einen cold case stößt, den Tod eines Mädchens, und eine Verbindung ziehen kann.

Detective Kate Hamblin is doing surveillance on the Somerset Levels, trying to catch a crazed arsonist. She leaves the van for a moment. Then it goes up in flames, killing her two colleagues. Kate is accused of abandoning them and is excluded from the murder hunt and effectively suspended from duty. She is desperate to nail the killer herself and clear her name. She risks all by entering into an unholy alliance with the murder team's chief suspect. Kate finds herself not only targeted in a personal vendetta by her own DCI, but stalked by the very killer she is pursuing.

When a young mother is found dead in her home with mysterious symbols drawn on her body, DI Katie Rhodes is shaken to her core; something is telling her that the clues link back to her old partner, Nathan Radley. Formerly one of the best criminal psychologists on the police force, Nathan was renowned for getting deep into the minds of the murderers he hunted. But for the past year he has lived in isolation, terrified of losing control over his own dark desires....

Twenty-four hours after he walked away from court a free man, cop killer and gang leader Simon Talbot is found murdered. In his possession: the name of a protected witness from his trial. For DI Hannah Robbins, it's a race against time to find Talbot's killer and locate the bystander before it's too late. But as Hannah delves deeper into the past, she begins to question the integrity of the whole operation. Where do you turn when you can't trust the police?

When Constable Evan Evans discovers a beautiful shepard's cottage in the mountains of Llanfair, Wales, he and his fiancée are thrilled. It's only months before their wedding, and they are eager to begin their new life together. The cottage is in need of renovation, so Evan wastes no time before he begins making much-needed repairs.

Berlin, 1930. Sound film is conquering the big screen, leaving many by the wayside: producers, cinema owners - and silent film stars. Investigating the violent on-set death of actress Betty Winter, Inspector Gereon Rath encounters the dark side of glamour and an industry in turmoil. When his father requests that he help his friend, the mayor of Cologne, Konrad Adenauer, and his ex-girlfriend, Charly, makes a renewed attempt at rapprochement, things start to get out of hand.

Berlin, 1931. A power struggle is taking place in Berlin’s underworld. The American gangster Abraham Goldstein is in residence at the Hotel Excelsior. As a favour to the FBI, the police put him under surveillance, with Detective Gereon Rath on the job. As Rath grows bored and takes on a private case for his seedy pal Johann Marlow, he soon finds himself in the middle of a Berlin street war. Meanwhile Rath’s on-off girlfriend, Charly, lets a young woman she is interrogating escape, and soon her investigations cross Rath’s from the other side.

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.

One of the most popular suspense novels of all time. A well-dressed man stalks the high-class neighborhoods of New York City. He is armed with an ice axe. His victims are strangers. And one cop, Captain Ed Delaney must solve a series of bizarre, gruesome murders that defy logic or method. This shocking story has captured the imaginations of millions like no other modern thriller.

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?

24 dicembre 1962. All’Istituto Santi Innocenti si stanno svolgendo le prove generali per lo spettacolo di beneficenza organizzato durante il periodo natalizio. L’iniziativa prevede anche un’esposizione di presepi e una mostra dedicata alla sposa sarda. Da quest’ultima, nel corso della mattina, viene rubata una fede d’oro in filigrana, appartenente alla nobile famiglia dei Molina di Villadoria. Le prime indagini indirizzano i sospetti del tenente Roversi, chiamato a occuparsi del caso, verso un piccolo ladruncolo, noto con il nome di Sorigghittu, che però nega di aver rubato la fede.

Hamburg 1947: It is the year of extremes. After a bitterly cold winter of starvation, the bombed city groans under excruciating heat. And Chief Inspector Frank Stave is confronted with a new case. In the ruins of a shipyard, the corpse of a boy is found and Stave's hunt for the killer leads him into the world of "wolf children" - orphaned children who have fled from the Occupied Eastern Territories and are now united in gangs. When two more bodies are discovered Stave is under even increasing pressure....