Showing results by publisher "Audible Studios" in Police Procedurals

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.

When Bergen PI Varg Veum finds himself at the funeral of a former classmate on a sleet-grey December afternoon, he’s unexpectedly reunited with his old friend Jakob – the once-famous lead singer of 1960s rock band The Harpers – and his estranged wife, Rebecca, Veum’s first love. Their rekindled friendship come to an abrupt end with a horrific murder, and Veum is forced to dig deep into his own adolescence and his darkest memories, to find a motive...and a killer.

Hunting down a paeodophile priest, Carlyle finds himself up against his old adversary, Christian Holyrod. The Mayor of London is responsible for hosting an upcoming visit by the Pope and does not want any more scandals involving the Catholic Church. Carlyle, however, is not prepared to let crimes slide, putting him on a collision course with both the mayor and the church. Without his sympathetic boss, Carole Simpson, to protect him, could this be the end of the line for Carlyle?

Jan Nyman, the ace detective of the covert operations unit of the National Central Police, is sent to a sleepy seaside town to investigate a mysterious death. Nyman arrives in the town dominated by a bizarre holiday village - the ‘hottest beach in Finland’. The suspect: Olivia Koski, who has only recently returned to her old hometown. The mission: find out what happened, by any means necessary.

In this, his third adventure, the lovable detective William Murdoch becomes involved with the apparent suicide of Constable Oliver Wicken, a man who was the sole support of his mother and invalid sister. But further investigation by Detective Murdoch takes him far afield, and he begins to suspect that the Eakin family, whose house adjoins the one where Wicken died, is more involved with the case than they admit. Here, once again, Maureen Jennings brings the period vividly to life.

You never forget your first case.... Police Constable Jane Bennett is back on the beat after a spell away from the force. Working with the Serious Case Team, she's witnessed some of the worst crimes and endured them all. With her eye on promotion, Jane attends each call-out without complaint, determined to show her superiors her dedication. However, nothing could prepare her for this next case. Behind the ordinary façade of someone's home, she discovers a truly chilling scene.

Im oberfränkischen Bamberg nutzt Kriminalhauptkommissar Franz Haderlein die sommerliche Verbrechensflaute, um bei dem einen oder anderen Bier zu entspannen. Doch mit der Ruhe ist es schnell aus: Erst sorgt am Main eine rätselhafte Flutwelle für Chaos, und dann wird die Leiche eines Fischers entdeckt. Wie sich herausstellt, war der Mann ein erbitterter Gegner des Bootsverkehrs. Plötzlich bekommt Haderlein es mit aufgebrachten Anglern, feindseligen Paddelboot-Lobbyisten, einem gewieften Politiker und sogar einem skrupellosen Auftragsmörder zu tun.

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.

Die Kommissarin Isabelle Bonnet hat sich gegen die große Karriere in Paris und für ein Leben im beschaulichen Fragolin entschieden. Immer noch leidet sie unter dem Trauma, dass ein Attentat in der Hauptstadt bei ihr hinterlassen hat. Als ihr Assistent Apollinaire in den Akten auf einen alten Mord stößt, bei dem ein Mann mit einer Mistgabel übel zugerichtet wurde, erwacht Isabelles Jagdeifer - vor allem als sie bei ihren Untersuchungen über einen anderen Mord stolpert, bei dem eine nackte Leiche am Strand gefunden wurde. Bald entdeckt sie Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen den beiden Verbrechen, die alle übersehen haben.

When a body is found on the new electric railway line, Owen has to discover whether this is just another of Egypt's revenge killings or whether the murdered man had got caught up with the power groups jostling for position around the new railway.

Haderlein und Lagerfeld kommen zu spät: In der schlagenden Verbindung "Rhenania Bavaria" in Coburg werden sie von sieben Leichen empfangen. Bald schon ahnen die Ermittler, wer hinter den Morden steckt, können aber nichts beweisen. Ein bizarres Verwirrspiel um Politik, einen amerikanischen Agrarkonzern, ein Bienenvolk und mehrere Mörder beginnt.

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....

As he leans over the body of an unidentified five-year-old girl shot in the back on a shabby London street, Superintendent Richard Jury knows he'll be facing one of the saddest investigations of his life. His colleague DI Johnny Blakeley, head of the pedophile unit of NSY, thinks he knows where this child came from - an iniquitous house on that same street, owned by well-known financier Viktor Baumann and fronted by a woman named Murchison. Blakeley has been trying to wreck their operation for a long time.

"The dog came back." "This is a joke, right?" "No, it isn't.... So do you want to hear the rest of it?" Dumbly, Jury nodded. The rest of it is told by Harry Johnson, a stranger who sits down next to Richard Jury as he's drinking in a London pub called the Old Wine Shades. Over three successive nights Harry spins this complicated story about a good friend of his whose wife and son (and dog) disappeared one day as they were viewing property in Surrey.

Grausame Morde erschüttern den provenzalischen Spätsommer Im Ferienörtchen Lavandou ticken die Ohren gewohnt langsam, und auch Leon und Isabelle genießen den nach Pinien duftenden Spätsommer an der Côte d'Azur. Die Idylle wird jäh unterbrochen, als die Leiche einer Frau aufgefunden wird. Die Tat erinnert an einen Mord, der die Gemeinde vor vielen Jahren erschüttert hat. Doch der Mann, der damals verdächtigt wurde, ist in einer Nervenheilanstalt untergebracht.

Once part of the holy triumvirate ruling the South Boston Irish Mob, Kyle Nevin is set up with the Feds by head mobster Red Mahoney, who leads him to a court case and a stretch in the slammer. Now out of prison, Kyle wants revenge on his old boss and mentor and, just as importantly, to reclaim his former glory. A kidnapping gone wrong leads, bizarrely, to a major book deal and a newfound celebrity status for Kyle.

Der erste Teil der Gardasee-Krimireihe von Bestseller-Autor Friedrich Kalpenstein. Und wer zahlt jetzt die Zeche? Diese Frage kommt Paul Zeitler als Erstes in den Sinn, als der letzte Gast in seinem kleinen Café in Bardolino nicht mehr am Tisch sitzt. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt ahnt er noch nicht, dass er ihn kurz darauf tot im Waschraum auffinden wird. Die örtliche Polizeidirektion nimmt die Ermittlungen auf. Paul Zeitler, ehemaliger Hauptkommissar aus München, hat es an den Gardasee verschlagen, nachdem er aufgrund einer Suspendierung den Dienst bei der Polizei quittiert hat.

Un nuovo caso per il commissario Calligaris. A Rivorosso Umbro sembra non esserci mai pace. Il commissario Adalgisa Calligaris e i suoi fidati collaboratori, infatti, devono fare i conti con un nuovo omicidio. Nella frazione di Ponterullo, è stata uccisa Ercolina Ruzzolo, un’anziana vedova che viveva da sola. Sul cadavere, viene ritrovato un rosario. Dai primi rilievi tutto induce a sospettare che la donna conoscesse il suo assassino. E che gli abbia aperto volontariamente la porta.

A teenage girl’s body is found in the back of a car on the notorious Hobfield housing estate. No one had reported her missing, but she’s been dead for a week. Meanwhile, an old jar is brought into the station. It was found carefully wrapped in a blanket, with a child’s pink hairclip. The jar contains ashes and bone fragments. Seventeen years ago, Detective Tom Calladine had been part of a team investigating the disappearance of Jessica Wilkins. Her mother had taken her to Leesdon Park one summer afternoon. She went to get the child an ice cream, and when she returned her daughter was gone.

A rising death toll. A city in panic. A young mother is found dead in her home with no obvious cause of death. As DI Hannah Robbins and her team investigate, it soon becomes clear that the woman is the first in a long line of murders by poison. With the body count climbing and the city of Nottingham in social meltdown, the team find themselves in a deadly race against a serial killer determined to prove a point.