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When Isabel, a British university student, travels to a remote Spanish town, it isn't only to enjoy the atmosphere. It's also to trace how and why her family name might have derived from the town, a quest her father, Sebastian made nine years ago, not long before his death in a car accident. But as Isabel, aided by local guide Mauricio, starts digging into her family's possible links with Alarcon, she's unprepared for the dark secrets uncovered; secrets that the current ruling nobility of Alarcon are keen to keep buried.

They call him Umbrella Man because he makes it rain blood. He wants to play with Lilah Love. What he doesn't know is that Lilah is a killer too, and games just piss her off. The conclusion to the second duet in the Lilah Love series. Love Kills concludes where Love Me Dead left off.

When Nichelle Clarke is invited to be the maid of honor in her friends' Virginia Vineyard wedding, she looks forward to the celebration. The storybook ceremony has been planned to the tiniest detail, and the rehearsal dinner is going off without a hitch. Until a dead body is found in a barrel of award-winning Riesling. But when the dust settles, the corpse is no longer Nichelle's biggest worry. There is a growing list of evidence pointing to her friend the groom as the killer. Nichelle doesn't buy it, but finds herself the lone skeptic.

When Richmond police find a young woman's bloody remains spread across a candle-lit altar in an abandoned power plant on the banks of the James River, they give crime reporter Nichelle Clarke an all-access pass in exchange for her help. But the information Nichelle gets from the victim's friends only draws her deeper into the mystery. Where did Jasmine come from? The answer trail stops at the front doors of a sprawling compound in the foothills of the Blue Ridge, where Nichelle finds a secretive cult leader and his devoted following.

Banat/Rumänien 2014: Ioan Cozma hat abgeschlossen mit der Welt. Der Kripo-Kommissar lebt allein, es sind nur noch ein paar Jahre bis zu seiner Pensionierung; wenn er nicht groß auffällt, wird auch niemand in seiner Vergangenheit wühlen. Es ist besser so. Doch die Welt will ihn nicht in Ruhe lassen. Ausgerechnet Cozma wird die Ermittlungsleitung in einem brutalen Mordfall übertragen: Die junge Lisa Marthen, eine Deutsche, wurde erstochen aufgefunden. Ihrem Vater gehört ein landwirtschaftlicher Großbetrieb, und der Verdacht fällt auf einen seiner jungen Feldarbeiter, der in Lisa verliebt war und seit ihrem Tod verschwunden ist.

Nach einem Schwächeanfall ist Hauptkommissar David Büttner von seiner Frau Susanne dazu verpflichtet worden, mit ihr gemeinsam bei Yoga und Qigong Erholung zu suchen. Der mehrwöchige Aufenthalt im Wellness-Zentrum ist nicht eben nach Büttners Geschmack, und so kommt es ihm nicht ungelegen, als im benachbarten Streichelzoo die Leiche einer jungen Yogalehrerin gefunden wird. Der Mord trägt die Handschrift eines erst kürzlich aus der Haft entlassenen Mörders.

Ein Alptraum für Polizeikommissarin Viktoria Engel: Sie erschießt im Dienst einen Unschuldigen, den 16-jährigen Rouven Kramer. In ihrer Not inszeniert sie die Tat, als hätte sie aus Notwehr gehandelt, doch die Dorfbewohner hegen Zweifel. Als kurze Zeit später eine weitere Leiche auftaucht, bizarr inszeniert wie Rouvens Tod, bricht eine Welle von Misstrauen über das Dorf herein, bis sich niemand mehr vor dem anderen sicher fühlt.

When Inspector Michael D'Cunha is called in to investigate a fire incident in Mumbai's posh Worli Sea Face apartment, where Raaj Kumar has died, he is convinced it is arson, not an accident - either for insurance or an adulterous relationship gone sour. But Raaj's wife, Serena, is out of the country and the suspected other woman, Kim, has more alibis than he can count.

First he kills. A psychologist is found brutally murdered, an addict jumps to his death and a student is found dead. These are the facts. And they are all that DIs Wheeler and Ross have. He waits. As Wheeler and Ross weave through the layers of Glasgow’s underbelly, they find a subculture where truth and lies are interchangeable commodities, and violence is the favoured currency. He watches. The killer stays one step ahead of them.

When an old man sees an unidentified Civil War photograph of a woman in the newspaper, he begins a desperate search for a 160-year-old painting that he believes will match the image of the enigmatic woman in the photograph, and if it does, it will prove that his great-great-grandfather did not run from battle. After the old man hires Sean O’Brien to find the mysterious painting, O’Brien discovers it’s linked to a secret letter and map that will lead to a trapdoor where a hidden key to the most horrific war on US soil lies buried.

Before the death of his wife, Sean O'Brien makes a promise to her that he has no plans to break - until he starts building a new life in an old cabin on a remote stretch of a tropical river in the heart of Florida. It's there that he discovers an injured young woman who whispers a cryptic message into his ear.

From the time she was a child, Mas Arai's daughter, Mari, was completely gasa-gasa - never sitting still, always on the go, getting into everything. And Mas, busy tending lawns, gambling, and struggling to put his Hiroshima past behind him, never had much time for the family he was trying to support. For years now his resentful daughter has lived a continent away in New York City and had a life he knew little about.

Few things get Mas more excited than gambling, so when he hears about a $500,000 win - from a novelty slot machine! - he's torn between admiration and derision. But the stakes are quickly raised when the winner, a friend of Mas's pal, G. I. Hasuike, is found stabbed to death just days later. The last thing Mas wants to do is stick his nose in someone else's business, but at G. I.'s prodding he reluctantly agrees to follow the trail of a battered snakeskin shamisen (a traditional Okinawan musical instrument) left at the scene of the crime...

Jakob Duschl, langjähriger Vermögensverwalter der Adelsfamilie von Valepp, wird vermisst. Doch dann werden Teile seiner Leiche im Tegernsee am Rand der örtlichen Seesauna aufgefunden, zerschunden von einer Schiffsschraube. Der Zeitpunkt seines Todes könnte nicht ungünstiger sein, da nur Duschl Zugang zu allen wichtigen Dokumenten der alteingesessenen Tegernseer Unternehmerdynastie hatte und gerade jetzt seine Anwesenheit dringend vonnöten wäre.

Bei einem Ausflug werden vier Kinder entführt, ihre Erzieherin brutal getötet. Bald ist mit Toni Knöchel nach einer beispiellosen Hetzjagd ein Verdächtiger gefasst, doch es bleiben Zweifel an seiner Schuld. Als Knöchel plötzlich ins Koma fällt und der Verdacht von Polizeifolter aufkommt, wird die leitende Kriminalbeamtin Julia Dahmer suspendiert. Max Quercher vom LKA sträubt sich, den Fall seiner Exfreundin zu übernehmen, obwohl auch ihn das Geschehen in seinem Heimattal nicht kalt lässt.

Ein entspanntes Leben in Italien fernab des kalten deutschen Winters - nur noch wenige Tage trennen den LKA-Beamten Max Quercher von der Erfüllung seines Traumes. Der letzte Auftrag vor seiner Frühpensionierung ist keine große Sache: Unter einem Baum in der Nähe des Tegernsees wurde eine Wachsleiche gefunden, die Identität des Toten ist bekannt. Quercher soll nun die Enkelin des Verstorbenen - eine reiche Amerikanerin - zum Fundort begleiten und dafür sorgen, dass der Leichnam in die USA überführt wird.

Lei has overcome a scarred past to make a life for herself as a cop in the sleepy Big Island town of Hilo. On a routine patrol she finds two murdered teenagers - one of whom she'd recently busted. With its echoes of her own past, the murdered girl's harsh life and tragic death affect Lei deeply. She becomes obsessed - even as the killer is drawn to Lei's intensity, feeding off her vulnerabilities and toying with her sanity.

There's no rest for Paris's top criminal investigation division, La Crim'. Who is preying on women in the French capital? How can he kill again and again without leaving any clues? A serial killer is taking pleasure in a macabre ritual that leaves the police on tenterhooks. Chief of Police Nico Sirsky - a super cop with a modern-day real life, including an ex-wife, a teenage son and a budding love story - races against the clock to solve the murders as they get closer and closer to his inner circle. Will he resist the pressure?

Non c'è pace per il commissario Adalgisa Calligaris. Pensava di poter staccare la spina, dopo il suo trasferimento a Rivorosso, e invece, risolto un caso, in meno di ventiquattr'ore se ne presenta un altro. Il corpo senza vita di Silvia Ravelli è stato trovato dalla sorella, Antonia, nel salotto della sua villa. È un colpo d'arma da fuoco ad averla uccisa, ma non c'è traccia della pistola. Con l'aiuto del magistrato Gualtiero Fontanella, il commissario Calligaris scopre che tra le due sorelle non correva buon sangue, a causa dell'eredità di uno zio.

Il commissario Adalgisa Calligaris è reticente a festeggiare in grande le "nozze di stagno". È una donna dura, un po' brusca, e preferisce di gran lunga la semplicità agli sfarzi. Ma l'insistenza di suo marito, il magistrato Gualtiero Fontanella, la convince ad accettare l'idea di partire per una crociera in Giappone. Durante il volo da Roma a Tokyo, Adalgisa conosce Bianca, una karateka di quattordici anni che fa parte di una squadra di otto giovani atleti in viaggio premio, che la coppia incontrerà di nuovo, per una coincidenza, sulla nave da crociera.