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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.

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.

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.

Zwei Tote in Brighton in nur einer Woche. Und beide durch den giftigen Biss einer Schlange getötet. Kann das Zufall sein? Der zwölfte Fall für Roy Grace und wahrlich seine giftigste Ermittlung. Jodie Bentley hat nur zwei Träume in ihrem Leben: Schön und reich will sie sein. Als Kind wurde sie als hässliches Entlein verschrien, doch das hat sie mit Hilfe der Chirurgie mittlerweile korrigieren lassen. Bliebe da noch der zweite Traum: Reichtum. Ihre Vorstellung von Geld ist eigentlich ganz einfach: Entweder du verdienst es oder - noch besser - du heiratest es.

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.

How do you identify a ruthless killer when you can’t even recognise your own face in a mirror? Returning to work following an accident, Detective Inspector Ray Patrick refuses to disclose he now lives with face blindness - an inability to recognise faces. As Ray deceives his team, he is pulled into a police operation that targets an international trade in human organs. And when he attempts to bring the organisation down, Ray is witness to a savage murder. But it’s a killer he will never remember.

In a single night, Kyle Davidson's life is derailed. His relationship is over, he is denied access to his young son and everything important to him is at risk. His thoughts stumble between fear and revenge. Kyle Davidson has a choice to make. Meanwhile, after the tragic end to a previous case, DC Gary Goodhew finds himself questioning his reasons for returning to work until the badly beaten body of a homeless man is found on Market Hill.

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.

Maui is sacred places, ancient artifacts, and the dark lava of deepest passions.

Nothing ever goes easy for detectives Lei Texeira and Michael Stevens. An investigation into heiau desecrations must take a backseat to the emergence of an enemy who targets those closest to them, leaving shrouds as a calling card. Lei and Stevens face challenges of the body, mind, and heart in this seventh in the best-selling Lei Crime Series.

A priest hears the confession of a frightened prison inmate, and he learns that a man facing lethal injection in 84 hours is innocent. The lead investigator on the high-profile case was his old friend, Sean O'Brien. And now O'Brien has a chance to right a horrible wrong. But he has less than 84 hours to uncover clues to a crime that sent an innocent man to death row.

NYPD homicide cop Vince Cardozo must unmask a cunning killer in best-selling author Edward Stewart’s powerhouse tale of crime and punishment. When it comes to the dark side of humanity, Vince Cardozo has already seen plenty. But his encounter with cult leader Corey Lyle will challenge even Cardozo. Lyle stands accused of a brutal terrorist bombing and the murder of a Manhattan power couple. His trial transfixes the city - but nothing about the case is what it seems.

New York Police detective Dave Strauss is haunted by the one case he couldn't solve: A schoolgirl vanished off the streets of Brooklyn, with only a trail of blood and a series of untraceable phone calls from "the Groom" hinting at her fate. Now the cold dark night has engulfed another young girl - but this time she is part of Dave's family. He and his wife, Susan, know 14-year-old Lisa has not run away, and they know her disappearance is not just a tragic coincidence. And once the first phone call comes, they know she's not alone....