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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.

An der rauen Nordsee droht eine dunkle Gefahr Iska van Loon, erfahrene Beamtin der Nationale Politie, und der ehrgeizige Kriminalhauptkommissar Marten Jaspari stehen vor einem brisanten Fall. Luuk Raand, Mitarbeiter einer Sicherheitsfirma, die das LNG-Terminal bei Eemshaven schützt, wird tot am Strand von Borkum angespült. Eine Spur führt zu radikalen Umweltschützern, die Missstände bei der Erdgasverarbeitung aufdecken wollen, eine andere in das undurchsichtige private Umfeld des Opfers.

Kurze Zeit später finden sich Fries und sein Partner Frederick Wegener in einer Mordermittlung wieder. Doch so einfach, wie Sören es zu Beginn vermutet, wird es natürlich auch dieses Mal nicht. Schließlich sind seine Gegenspieler keine Geringeren als die Mitglieder von Agathas Mörder-Club.

Oberkommissar Sören Fries hat alle Hände voll zu tun. Der Geschäfts- und Lebemann Ferdinand Krüger wurde tot in seinem Haus aufgefunden. Ist Krüger tatsächlich aus freien Stücken aus dem Leben geschieden? Spuren an seinem Körper lassen erste Zweifel aufkommen. Zu Sörens Unmut leiten die Kolleginnen Erika Pohl und Sybille Weiß dieses Mal die Ermittlung. Die beiden nutzen jede Gelegenheit, Sören auszubremsen. Schließlich soll Erikas Beförderung nichts mehr im Weg stehen. Vor allem nicht Sören, der ebenfalls gute Chancen hätte, auf die frei gewordene Position des Hauptkommissars zu rutschen.

Ein einsamer Tod. Ein brisantes Geheimnis. Viele offene Fragen. Die von der nordfriesischen Insel Föhr stammende Journalistin Teeske Saathoff wird fern der Heimat am niederländischen Oosterschelde-Sperrwerk tot aufgefunden. Wurde sie ermordet? Iska van Loon und Marten Jaspari übernehmen die Ermittlungen und finden heraus, dass Teeske vor ihrem Tod Kontakt zum umstrittenen Erd- und Wasserbauunternehmen Epsilon aufgenommen hat. Das Unternehmen ist verantwortlich für den Küstenschutz an der Nordsee.

Packend. Unterhaltsam. Kurzweilig. Ein spannender Krimi - nicht nur für Liebhaber der Sören-Fries-Reihe! Was würdest du tun, wenn du wüsstest, wer deine Frau umgebracht hat, das Gesetz ihn aber schützt? Wie würdest du dich fühlen, wenn er dir ins Gesicht lacht, weil er mit dem Scheiß davonkommt? Könntest du damit leben, nicht alles dafür getan zu haben, dass er seine verdiente Strafe bekommt? Ich meine, wirklich alles … Seitdem seine Frau Annette bei einem Verkehrsunfall mit Fahrerflucht ums Leben kam, stellt sich Oberkommissar Sören Fries die Frage, ob mehr hinter ihrem Tod steckt.

Ein Fall in der Vergangenheit und einer in der Gegenwart für Hauptkommissarin Enna Andersen und ihr Team, von Spiegel-Bestsellerautorin Anna Johannsen. In Butjadingen, dem Land zwischen Nordsee, Jadebusen und der Wesermündung, werden durch Zufall die sterblichen Überreste von zwei Menschen gefunden. Die DNA-Analyse führt die Polizei zu einem alten Kriminalfall: Vor zwanzig Jahren haben die Ermittler einer SoKo vergeblich versucht, den Großbauer Tjark Feddersen und seine Frau Eefke zu finden.

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.

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.

As Montrealer Catherine Day sets foot in a remote fishing village and starts asking around about her birth mother, the body of a woman dredges up in a fisherman's nets. Not just any woman, though: Marie Garant, an elusive, nomadic sailor and unbridled beauty who once tied many a man's heart in knots. Detective Sergeant Joaquin Morales, newly drafted to the area from the suburbs of Montreal, barely has time to unpack his suitcase before he's thrown into the deep end of the investigation.

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.

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.