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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.

Ana Martí, novata cronista de sociedad de La Vanguardia, encontrará en el encargo de cubrir el asesinato de Mariona Sobrerroca, una conocida viuda de la burguesía, su oportunidad para escribir sobre temas serios. El caso ha sido encomendado al inspector Isidro Castro de la Brigada de Investigación Criminal, un hosco policía de doloroso pasado, que tendrá que aceptar de mala gana que Ana cubra la investigación. Pero Ana pronto descubrirá nuevas pistas que se apartan de la versión oficial de los hechos y recurre a la ayuda de su prima, una eminente filóloga.

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.

Seven months after their last encounter, retired FBI agent Jack Kale and Atlanta Police Detective Beth Sturgis are reunited by a new case that pits them against the Sandman, a nearly perfect assassin who leaves no clues, can change his appearance seemingly at will, and has eluded police on four continents for years. Now, it's a race against time to protect the Sandman's next targets - two witnesses scheduled to testify before a grand jury by the end of the week.

The year is 2019, and a drug used to treat soldiers for post-traumatic stress disorder, nicknamed "Lullaby," has hit the streets. Swallowing a little pill erases traumatic memories, but what happens to a criminal trial when the star witness takes a pill and can't remember the crime? When two women are murdered in quick succession, biracial police detective Hannah McCabe is charged with solving the case. In spite of the advanced technology, including a city-wide surveillance program, a third woman is soon killed, and the police begin to suspect that a serial killer is on the loose.

Savannah Reid, the "full-figured" private detective who wowed critics and readers alike in G.A. McKevett's acclaimed mysteries, is back with a vengeance. This time out, it's Valentine's Day and the former Dixie belle with the take-no-prisoners attitude is turning her voracious appetite toward a case that hits very close to the heart. When her ex-partner's ex-wife is found dead in his trailer, it's up to Savannah to clear Dirk's name and find the real criminal.

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.

Joey McCarthy is stabbed to death in a pub car park in a random act of violence. Shortly afterwards Charlotte Stone's terminally ill mother dies, and then, within weeks, two of her teenage friends commit suicide. With her home life disintegrating and both her father and brother racing towards self-destruction, Charlotte realises that her own personal nightmare may not be over yet. When DC Gary Goodhew finds the body of another suicide victim, he is forced to recall some deeply buried memories of an earlier death.

DC Gary Goodhew is intelligent, intuitive, and the youngest detective at Cambridge's Parkside Station. He is the first on the scene when the body of a young woman is discovered on Midsummer Common and for the first time in his career is given the chance to work on a murder investigation. Soon there is an identity for the victim: Lorna Spence. Richard Moran, her boyfriend and employer, has reported her missing and is distraught to discover that she has been killed.

Ein eingemauertes Skelett lässt die Arbeiter beim Abriss eines alten Ferienhäuschens im zauberhaften Fragolin in der Provence vor Schreck erstarren. Ein Loch in der Schädeldecke lässt keinen Zweifel daran, dass das Opfer eines gewaltsamen Todes gestorben ist. Isabelle Bonnet übernimmt den Fall eher widerwillig – schließlich widmet sie ihre Aufmerksamkeit lieber aktuellen Verbrechen. Außerdem bereitet ihr das geheimnisvolle Abtauchen ihres Maler-Freundes Nicolas zunehmend Sorgen. Plötzlich erreicht sie ein Hilferuf aus Marokko.

'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.

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.

Succede qualcosa ad Álex e non posso rivelare altro. Per non rovinare questa meravigliosa e avvincente suspense fino alla prossima uscita, dovrai attendere senza altre anticipazioni. «Il Re è Morto, Viva il Re» è il prossimo romanzo di questa serie.

*Der neue Thriller des Kindle-Bestsellerautors Elias Haller.* Er zwingt dich zu einem Spiel auf Leben und Tod. Du kannst mitspielen, aber niemals gewinnen. Auf dem Marktplatz umstellt die Polizei einen vermeintlichen Irren, an dessen Oberkörper ein Aktenkoffer mittels Kette und Zahlenschloss befestigt ist. Er behauptet, von einem Unbekannten strikte Anweisungen bekommen zu haben: Wenn er den Koffer nicht rechtzeitig an die Mordkommission übergibt, stirbt seine Frau. Zeitgleich macht Kriminalhauptkommissar Erik Donner in seinem eigenen Schlafzimmer einen abscheulichen Fund.

Inspector Maigret is followed home one evening by a man who reveals his intention to kill his wife and her lover. Maigret intervenes and speaks to the man daily, but when the calls suddenly stop Maigret finds a murder on his hands.

The action swings from London to Sweden, and then back into the past, to Franco’s Spain, as Roy and Castells hunt a monstrous killer...in the latest instalment of Johana Gustawsson’s award-winning series. Spain, 1938: the country is wracked by civil war, and as Valencia falls to Franco’s brutal dictatorship, Republican Therese witnesses the murders of her family. Captured and sent to the notorious Las Ventas women’s prison, Therese gives birth to a daughter who is forcibly taken from her.

Marriage is proving anything but dull for Commander John Coffin, keeper of the peace in London's Second City. With grande dame of the stage Stella Pinero in his life, Coffin's days lack no drama. When the curtain comes down on opening night in Stella's newly transformed theater, Joe and Josie Macintosh are found stabbed to death in their theater box. A curious note left next to their bodies reveals that Joe and Josie Macintosh have carried out a suicide pact.

Detective Inspector Peter Diamond is keen to get his teeth into a new case. So, when a call comes in that a woman's body has been found in one of Bath's parks, he arrives quickly at the scene - only to discover that the victim is his wife.

San Francisco crime reporter Tom Reed is burned out. On the day he decides to finally quit the news business, a sensational story breaks. A heart-stopping robbery-homicide at a jewelry store. The suspects have shot and killed a police officer before fleeing with a female hostage. Reed rushes to the scene, his passion resurrected for one last big story. Arriving at the chaos, Reed is stunned to learn from a staff member, still clutching a receipt, that the hostage is his wife, Ann Reed.