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A serial attacker is locked up, and his murderous accomplice has been gunned down. But the true mastermind behind their lethal reign of terror still hasn't been taken in or taken down, so the harrowing case of the Cornbelt Killers isn't closed - and one murderous woman is determined to keep it that way. The only thing more important to her than evading capture is hunting down her hit list of enemies, topped by Iowa's Division of Criminal Investigation agent Cam Prescott and forensic psychologist Sophia Channing.

Inspector Green is coping with an office job, still eager to get back into the day-to-day fray of policing. His chance comes when an unidentified woman is drowned in the Ottawa River. In her possession is a Medal for Bravery from a peacekeeping mission. As Green and his team dig deeper into the military past, Green finds himself sucked not only into the murky past of a peacekeeping unit but into the high-stakes present of a federal election race. What crime was committed in Yugoslavia more than a decade ago? Is someone still killing to prevent that secret from coming to light?

When an old man dies a seemingly natural death in a parking lot, only Inspector Michael Green finds it suspicious. Something about the closed case has caught his eye - why did the victim have a mysterious gash on his head, inflicted around the time of his death? Talking to the man's family only increases Green's curiosity. They are obviously hiding something about the old man, who lived in isolation as though avoiding painful memories. A search of his house turns up an old tool box with a hidden compartment containing a German ID card from World War II.

There isn't much fun in the sun when a billionaire real estate tycoon is found murdered on the Tilt-a-Whirl at a seedy seaside amusement park in the otherwise quiet summer tourist town of Sea Haven. John Ceepak, a former MP just back from Iraq, has just joined the Sea Haven police department. The job offer came from an old Army buddy who hoped to give Ceepak at least a summer's worth of rest and relaxation to help him forget the horrors of war. Instead, Ceepak will head up the murder investigation.

Young Danny Boyle, the part-time summer cop "down the shore" in Sea Haven, New Jersey, gets taken on a wild ride when he and his longtime beach buddies become the unwitting targets of a madman's twisted scheme for revenge. Fortunately, John Ceepak, the cop with a soldier's unshakable code of honor, stays at Danny's side to help him negotiate the quick twists and turns that threaten to destroy his life, his friends, and everything about the world he loves.

Together with his gorgeous sidekick, psychologist Kit Franklyn, the two make a powerful, although improbable, mystery-solving duo. Among the dead collected in The Big Easy floodwaters after Hurricane Katrina are three nude female bodies, all caught in the same brush tangle, none with water in their lungs. Broussard knows in his ample gut that this was not an act of God, and not the work of Katrina. But Broussard has perhaps the biggest challenge of his colorful career.

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.

Das Sirren der Zikaden, der würzige Duft von Lavendel und hinter sanft geschwungenen Hügeln das azurblaue Meer, von einem silbrigen Schleier aus flimmerndem Licht ins Reich der Märchen gerückt. Das Dörfchen Fragolin im Hinterland der Côte d'Azur wäre der ideale Ort, um die Seele baumeln zu lassen - doch dazu fehlt Kommissarin Isabelle Bonnet mal wieder die Zeit. Der angebliche Selbstmord eines hohen Polizeibeamten, der Besuch eines exzentrischen Bekannten und ein Überfall auf ein Juweliergeschäft an der Croisette in Cannes halten Madame le Commissaire in Atem.

Februar in der Provence - es wird langsam Frühling, die Mandelbäume blühen. Und Capitaine Roger Blanc wird nach Les Baux gerufen. In einem düsteren Tal unterhalb der berühmten Burgruine liegen die Carrières de Lumières, ein aufgegebener Steinbruch, in dem nun Kunstausstellungen gezeigt werden. Während eines Besuchs wurde ein Mann ausgeraubt und brutal ermordet. Wie sich zeigt, war das Opfer, Patrick Ripert, Privatdetektiv. Der wohlhabende Besitzer eines Mandelhofs in der Nähe hatte ihn erst wenige Tage zuvor engagiert, weil ein Bild aus seiner umfangreichen Sammlung gestohlen worden war.

As the clouds of World War I threaten to engulf Egypt, Gareth Owen, the Mamur Zapt, head of the Secret Police, confronts a series of personal and professional challenges, from the pitfalls of his marriage, to a riot in Cairo's Camel Market.

Meses después de su último gran operativo, el inspector Bermejo deberá enfrentarse a una doble misión en Valencia: descubrir al causante de los misteriosos asesinatos de mujeres ocurridos en la región y acabar con una trama de corrupción en la que se ven involucrados algunos miembros de la Policía. Por su parte, tras una excedencia, el sargento Roncero regresa a España junto a la periodista Miriam Monfort y recibe el encargo de colaborar en una importante operación de la Guardia Civil contra el tráfico de personas en la zona levantina.

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.

Palermo. Un'estate caldissima. E tre poliziotti che più diversi non si potrebbe: il questore Lobianco, severo e forte, Rosario D'Alessandro detto Sasà - amante del cibo e delle donne, affetto da un curioso disturbo della lacrimazione che fa sì che pianga quando si eccita - e Marò Pajno, affascinante e volitiva, relegata in un noioso commissariato di quartiere. I tre sono uniti sin dai primi anni di servizio da un'amicizia più forte di tutto. Tanto che Marò, attratta da entrambi, ha finito per non concedersi a nessuno dei due.

As an FBI profiler, it's Lilah Love's job to think like a killer. And she is very good at her job. When a series of murders surface - the victims all stripped naked and shot in the head - Lilah's instincts tell her it's the work of an assassin, not a serial killer. But when the case takes her back to her hometown in the Hamptons and a mysterious but unmistakable connection to her own life, all her assumptions are shaken to the core.

In this crime drama, detective Varg Veum's adventures take him into the world of privileged teenage girls who have been drawn into drugs and prostitution. The situation worsens when the local judge is found dead in a luxury hotel, clad only in women's lingerie. Called in by anxious parents to look for a missing daughter and explain the judge's death, Varg is led deep into Bergen's criminal underworld.

When a young mother is found dead in her home with mysterious symbols drawn on her body, DI Katie Rhodes is shaken to her core; something is telling her that the clues link back to her old partner, Nathan Radley. Formerly one of the best criminal psychologists on the police force, Nathan was renowned for getting deep into the minds of the murderers he hunted. But for the past year he has lived in isolation, terrified of losing control over his own dark desires....

Accident or suicide? That's the simple question put to Inspector Michael Green when a derelict stranger falls to his death from an abandoned church tower in a quiet river village at the edge of his jurisdiction. But when the victim turns out be a long-lost son of a local farm family cursed in recent years by tragedy, madness, and death, Green begins to suspect something far more sinister is at work. Probing the family's past, he uncovers a toxic mix of rigid fundamentalism, teenage rebellion, and a family secret so horrific that 20 years later, someone is still desperate to prevent the truth from coming to light.

Maigret is called to the home of professional gambler Felix Nahour, who has been found shot dead by his chambermaid. Maigret is shocked to recognise a photo of the man's wife, who becomes the main suspect. All signs point to her guilt, but Maigret suspects there might be more to this complicated affair.

This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret on the Defensive.

When Mattie Harris' body is found drowned in the river, everyone in Lydmouth knows something is wrong. Mattie wasn't a swimmer - it can't have been a simple accident. She was drunk on the last night of her life - could she have fallen in? Or was she pushed? Mattie was a waitress, so when Lydmouth's most prominent citizens become very anxious to establish that her death was accidental, Jill Francis' suspicions become roused. In the meantime she is becoming ever closer to Inspector Richard Thornhill and discovering that the living have as many secrets as the dead.

New Orleans Requiem is written in Donaldson's unique style: A hard-hitting, punchy, action-packed prose that’s dripping with a folksy, decidedly southern, sense of irony. Add in Donaldson's brilliant first-hand knowledge of forensics and the sultry flavor of New Orleans, and the result is first class forensic procedural within an irresistibly delectable mystery.