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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.

Inspector Ghote of the Bombay police has been regulated to antipickpocket patrol, where he promptly gets himself into one of those fearful fixes which are equally the product of his faults and his virtues.

Berlin/Brandenburg 1929: In den idyllisch gelegenen Lungenheilstätten Beelitz sollen sich die vielen Tuberkulosekranken aus der nahen Großstadt erholen. Doch mysteriöserweise verschwinden aus diesen Heilstätten immer wieder Patienten und so beschließt Leo Wechsler, sich dort selbst umzusehen. Ein gefährlicher Auftrag, denn in den labyrinthischen Gängen ist nicht nur ein erbarmungsloser Mörder unterwegs, auch die hoch ansteckende Tuberkulose ist ein gefährlicher Gegner ...

In Poseritz, im Süden von Rügen, wird bei den Löscharbeiten eines Lagerhauses eine männliche Leiche entdeckt. Doch schnell verdichten sich Hinweise auf ein Verbrechen: Anscheinend war es Brandstiftung, während derer das Opfer in einem Nebenraum eingesperrt wurde. Bei dem Toten handelt es sich um Tom Kappler, der vor Kurzem in seine Heimatstadt Greifswald zurückkehrte, um seiner Mutter zu helfen. Kommissarin Romy Beccare findet heraus, dass Kappler bemerkenswert oft nach Rügen reiste. Hier pflegte er eine Affäre mit dem Familienvater und Geschäftsmann Robin Baumann.

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.

An eccentric letter arrives at the police station from a man threatening to kill his aunts. Detective Kate and her colleagues don’t take it seriously. But an elderly woman is found strangled in her home. 'RIP Auntie' is written on the floor in red lipstick. Then another older woman is murdered. With a major police manhunt underway, it becomes clear that they are up against a very dangerous serial killer, who is engaged in some kind of personal vendetta. An adversary who will not stop until he has achieved what he set out to do.

'He hadn't seen her arrive. She had stopped on the pavement a few steps away from him and was peering into the courtyard of the Police Judiciaire, where the small staff cars were parked. She ventured as far as the entrance, looked the officer up and down, then turned round and walked away towards the Pont-Neuf.' When an old lady tells Maigret someone has been moving things in her apartment, she is dismissed as a fantasist - until a shocking event proves otherwise.

When DI Joe Burton and DS Sally Fielding are called to investigate a suspicious death in a care home, it is just the start of their problems. As further bodies are discovered, with playing cards placed beside their bodies, the Manchester police realise they have their work cut out. With the press closing in on the case, a criminal profiler is called in to help work out what the killer’s motive is. With the clock ticking and more victims uncovered, Fielding and Burton must race to track down a twisted killer before it’s too late.

Stretching along the shelf, standing upright, were 12 wooden coffins. Nine were closed and three open...with little dolls standing inside them. It was supposed to be the most special day of her life - until the unthinkable happened. Leslie Petersen is shot dead on her wedding day. With the bride's killer vanished without a trace, the investigation into the murder grinds to a halt before it's even begun. But then, the decomposing body of an unidentified homeless man is found in an old Cold War bunker, and DCI Mark Lapslie makes a bizarre discovery.

There isn’t a serial killer stalking the canals of Detective Sergeant Carrie Flynn’s home town of Manchester. That’s what the police tell the local community, but Carrie knows that just isn’t true. Six years, a dozen victims… Carrie spends every night alone in her flat, going back over the hundreds of files, looking for the missing clue. Now, another person has vanished, only this time the police haven’t found a body.

Anne Mason thinks she'll be safe living in the Midwest building a wind farm. She may be dead wrong. Someone is dumping bodies in her corn field and telling Anne they are gifts - for her! As the body count rises, Anne realizes a cold-blooded serial killer is patiently waiting and watching her every move. And he won't stop until he ends her life. It is clear there are no limits to this killer's thirst for revenge or how far he will go to get it.

Die bekannte Sozialarbeiterin Kissi Schack wird brutal misshandelt und ermordet aufgefunden. Gleichzeitig erschüttert eine Serie bestialischer Vergewaltigungen Kopenhagen, die große Ähnlichkeit mit einem früheren Verbrechen hat. Rebekka Holm ermittelt zusammen mit ihren Kollegen Reza Aghajan und Niclas Lundell in zwei Fällen, die sich mit Fortschreiten der Ermittlungen allmählich zu einem nicht enden wollenden Albtraum verflechten.

The island of Maui is turquoise ocean, stunning vistas, and whalesong - but organized crime has a hidden hold, and Detective Lei Texeira tracks evil that hides behind a beautiful face. When a nameless teenage girl dies in an apparent vehicular suicide, Lei can’t rest until she finds out what really happened. She blazes through all the wealth and poverty of Maui island society in her quest for justice, rousing a deadly foe.

The island of Kaua'i is remote jungle, golden beaches, and ancient culture - but transients are disappearing in paradise, and only Detective Lei Texeira notices. Lei transfers to the island of Kaua'i, where she uncovers a pattern of disappearances that may be related to a bizarre cult - or is it just one madman at work? In Lei's world, everyone is guilty until proven innocent.

New York, 1891: a rapidly changing city, torn between lamplight and electric light, where the burgeoning steel and railway industries attract a flood of humanity from every corner of the globe, fuelling cutthroat gangs, corruption and vice. A prostitute is found brutally murdered. Immediately fear starts to spread. The victim bears the same hallmarks as Jack the Ripper's recent killing spree in England. Could it be that the Ripper has crossed the Atlantic to fresh killing grounds? Or is this simply a copycat murder?

New York is sweltering in the summer heat, and Harlem is close to the boiling point. To Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, at times it seems as if the whole world has gone mad. Trying, as always, to keep some kind of peace - their legendary nickel-plated Colts very much in evidence - Coffin Ed and Grave Digger find themselves pursuing two completely different cases through a maze of knifings, beatings, and riots that threatens to tear Harlem apart.

In the vicious battle for custody of a four-year-old boy, the stakes are much too high. When a string of coldly casual murders ups the ante still further, Lieutenant Marian Larch steps in. Then the killer starts coming after her and everything she holds dear, and all she can think about is getting back out again - alive.

Maggio 1993. I corpi di Alice e Ambre, due sorelle poco più che ventenni, vengono ritrovati senza vita sulle rive della Garonna. Vestite come due comunicande, e legate al tronco di due alberi, sembrano guardare l’una negli occhi dell’altra. Il giovane Martin Servaz, che ha appena finito il suo apprendistato presso la polizia giudiziaria di Tolosa, partecipa alla sua prima indagine che conduce presto a Erik Lang, celebre scrittore di gialli dai toni foschi e inquietanti. Le due sorelle non erano forse sue fan? Uno dei suoi libri di maggior successo non si intitola La comunicanda?

30 luglio 1994. La cittadina di Orphea, stato di New York, si prepara a inaugurare la prima edizione del locale festival teatrale, quando un terribile omicidio sconvolge l'intera comunità: il sindaco viene ucciso in casa insieme a sua moglie e suo figlio. Nei pressi viene ritrovato anche il cadavere di una ragazza, Meghan, uscita di casa per fare jogging. Il caso viene affidato e risolto da due giovani, promettenti, ambiziosi agenti, giunti per primi sulla scena del crimine: Jesse Rosenberg e Derek Scott.

Manchmal ist es besser, die Vergangenheit ruhen zu lassen.Als die Matriarchin einer reichen Familie in Seattle unter verdächtigen Umständen stirbt, wird der Privatdetektiv Thomas Austin mit dem Fall betraut. Diesmal ist die Liste der Verdächtigen überschaubar.Sieben Personen waren mit der Millionärin in der Villa am See, als sie starb: ein verwöhnter Sohn, ein eifersüchtiger Schwager, ein geliebter Koch, ein rebellischer Enkel, ein arroganter Autor und zwei erfolgreiche Töchter.