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Die Schüsse kommen schnell, leise und mit tödlicher Präzision. Innerhalb von Sekunden sind drei Menschen auf der Eislaufbahn im Central Park tot. Die Opfer scheinen willkürlich: eine talentierte junge Eisläuferin, ein Arzt und ein Lehrer. Eve Dallas nimmt die Ermittlungen auf und bald wird ihr eine schockierende Tatsache klar: Der Killer wird von einem Experten in der Wissenschaft des Tötens ausgebildet, und er hat einen perfiden Plan. Der Central Park war nur ein Aufwärmtraining.

When a disabled Vietnam veteran, reared in that town, collides in the heart of Manhattan with a teenage girl suffering from multiple personality disorder and memories of being trapped in a locked wooden box as a child, their budding connection slowly unravels memories that neither of them can leave in the past. After two buried crates are unearthed at a remote construction site outside Cartersville with the bones of small boys inside them, and simultaneously, another local child goes missing, Nick Mannino and Paul Tarantino are drawn into the fray.

Albert Tanner, vicious psychopath and burner of men, is in the USA with unfinished business. Detective Superintendent Ray Paterson and Detective Inspector Johnny Clocks must find him first. Their task is straightforward: hunt Tanner down and bring him home. But a few explosions, an assassin and a dead child change everything. Dragged into a sordid world of high-class sex parties, they discover an Albert Tanner they never knew existed. Then a child is snatched from her own bed and Tanner wants to do a deal. However, the price is far too high.

One woman. A million-dollar card game. A city in darkness. Fearless Florida bounty hunter Lori Anderson travels to Chicago to trap the head of a notorious crime family, in a high-stakes, nail-biting mission that sees her trapped in one of the city’s tallest buildings during a blackout.

Reporter Nichelle Clarke’s dream of covering a presidential speech is dashed when she finds herself intertwined in a high-profile murder investigation. While Nichelle is no stranger to facing dangerous situations in pursuit of the truth, the stakes in this story are higher than ever before. Unsure of who she can trust, Nichelle must unravel a web of secrets behind an elaborate murder plot and dodge legal traps set by corrupt politicians. For if Nichelle can’t uncover the conspiracy in time, an unthinkable disaster will strike the nation.

After convicting a superior for corruption and shooting off a gangster's crown jewels, the career of Hamburg's most hard-bitten state prosecutor, Chastity Riley, has taken a nosedive: she has been transferred to the tedium of witness protection to prevent her making any more trouble. However, when she is assigned to the case of an anonymous man lying under police guard in hospital - almost every bone in his body broken, a finger cut off, and refusing to speak in anything other than riddles - Chastity's instinct for the big, exciting case kicks in.

A serial killer is littering the South Shore beach of Long Island - the bones of his victims stuffed into burlap bags. Nick Mannino, The Good Lawyer, is living off the ill-gotten gains of his deceased mobster uncle, when, without warning, a brutal serial killer turns on him, and worse, his family.

Ein Serienmörder treibt in Berlin sein Unwesen. Sein drittes Opfer, eine ältere Dame, wird in einem weißen Leinenhemd aufgebahrt auf ihrem Esstisch gefunden. Spuren gibt es keine, denn die Wohnung ist klinisch rein geputzt - ein Alptraum für jeden Ermittler. Das LKA Berlin steht vor einem Rätsel und die letzte Hoffnung, den "Putzteufel-Mörder" zu finden, ruhen auf Julius Kern. Schon einmal konnte er einen grausamen Massenmörder fassen. Doch Kern ist damals daran fast zerbrochen und beim aktuellen Fall führen alle Spuren scheinbar ins Leere. Während er nur langsam zu seiner alten Form zurückfindet, hat sein Gegner bereits das nächste Opfer im Visier und Kern muss erkennen, dass er den Mörder nur mit Hilfe des Mannes fassen kann, den er in seinem Leben nie mehr wiedersehen wollte...

Julius Kern steht vor einer neuen Herausforderung. Siebzehn Frauen hat der so genannte Schläfenmörder in verschiedenen Bundesländern bereits getötet...

Outside the apartment where a wake is going on, the manager of the A&P across the street is robbed. Reverend Short, a storefront preacher addicted to opium and brandy, is watching from a bedroom window in the flat. He leans out too far and falls, but a huge bread basket, sitting outside the bakery below, saves him. Back inside, he says he sees a vision of a dead man. Outside, in the very basket Short landed in, lies the body of Valentine Haines. Who murdered Val? It is up to Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson to find out.

Am Kreidemuseum in Gummanz wird eine Leiche entdeckt: eine Polizistin, die vor zwölf Jahren verschwunden ist, weil sie offenbar mit der Organisierten Kriminalität zusammengearbeitet hat. Aber offenbar hat sie immer noch Kontakte zur Polizei gehabt – ausgerechnet zu Jan Riechter, dem Chef der Polizei in Stralsund und dem Ehemann von Romy Beccare.

The Eye of the Beholder is a cult classic that inspired both French and English film adaptations. Joanna Eris has a bad habit of marrying men that wind up dead. An unnamed private detective, known simply as The Eye is hired to investigate the death of her husband. The story charts the development of the detective s dangerous obsession with a femme fatale, as he pursues her across the United States.

Ein verzwickter Fall, eine wunderbare Kommissarin und Urlaubsfeeling pur in der Provence: Im Provence-Krimi Madame le Commissaire und das geheime Dossier von Bestseller-Autor Pierre Martin löst Kommissarin Isabelle Bonnet ihren 11. Fall. Im beschaulichen Fragolin in der Provence gehen die Uhren anders – normalerweise. Denn Madame le Commissaire Isabelle Bonnet erhält einen Anruf direkt aus Paris: Auf Geheiß des Polizeichefs soll sie mit ihrem Assistenten Apollinaire den Einbruch in eine Ferien-Villa bei Gassin in den Hügeln hinter Saint Tropez untersuchen.

Eine blutige Spur in die Vergangenheit ... Nachdem sie für den Staat Israel einen Mord begangen hat, steigt eine Frau in Afrika in ein Linienflugzeug. Minuten später explodiert die Maschine in einem Feuerball am Himmel. Tausende Kilometer entfernt verfolgt Ex-Navy-SEAL James Reece die Berichterstattung über die Katastrophe. Eines der Opfer erkennt er auf Anhieb: eine Mossad-Agentin, die er in Diensten der CIA vor Jahren im Irak kennengelernt hat. Eine Frau, der er zu Dank verpflichtet war.

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.

The second gripping instalment in the DI Paolo Sterling crime series. Detective Inspector Paolo Sterling is determined to shut down the syndicate flooding Bradchester’s streets with young prostitutes. When a child is murdered, Paolo becomes aware of a sinister network of abusers spread across Europe and spanning all levels of society. But Joey, the shadowy leader of the gang, always seems to be one step ahead in the chase. Has Paolo come up against a criminal he cannot defeat?

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.

El asesinato de la mujer del ministro se mantiene en secreto. El momento del país es delicado. Si la noticia salta a los medios, tal vez no llegue a firmarse nunca el documento que cambiaría para siempre la relación entre el ejército y las empresas de seguridad privada. Defensiva, la compañía líder en el sector, es la principal sospechosa del crimen. El tiempo se agota.