International Crime

Jake Adams gets a heads up from an old colleague that the Chinese Communist Party has put out a hit on him. This isn't a new concept for Jake to comprehend. Many have come for him in the past, killing those closest to him. But now Jake has too much to lose. He must retreat and regroup before going on the offense. With Sirena's help, along with a cast of characters from his past, Jake takes it to his enemies in the most brutal counter-offensive he has ever launched.

The tiny South Island town of Franz Josef is perched precariously on New Zealand’s Alpine Fault. It already faces devastating earthquakes, floods and landslides. And now it harbours a killer. When a body is discovered suspended in a glacier, detectives Nick Chester and Latifa Rapata are sent to investigate. More victims surface, as does a web of corruption stretching from the international aid industry to the blood-steeped fields of a civil war.

В небольшом сибирском городке Каинске — настолько тихом, что его словно нет на картах, — творятся очень странные дела. Для расследования загадочных событий в Каинск приезжает легендарная бесстрашная журналистка Мариэтта Сергеевна Шаинян из столичных «Известий». Чтобы докопаться до истины, в помощники она получает необычный дуэт: задумчивого местного сержанта и профессора, хранящего собственную тайну.

The mastermind manipulates his allies and adversaries. On their remote Alaskan island, Sierra Forester and Austin Martin get shocking news… a foreign warship has entered the Inside Passage and anchored in sight of their community. Why have the strangers arrived? How can a group of starving Americans fend off an international enemy? Meanwhile, aggressive Chinese moves on the ravaged Alaskan territory stun and infuriate Russian President Marina Orlova. Her country had historic ownership of the state, and publicly intends to reclaim it.

I 1945 bliver en lille pige efterladt i en skakt af en ukendt gerningsmand. Før lemmen til skakten lukkes i, får pigen øjenkontakt med en person i et vindue. Et vidne. Mange år efter, i 2006, bliver advokaten Thóra Gudmundsdóttir kaldt ud til en klient, der er overbevist om, at hans nyrenoverede kursted på en gammel ødegård er hjemsøgt af et spøgelse. Under en gennemgang i kurstedets kælder, bliver det hurtigt klart for Thóra, at stedets tidligere beboere har en tragisk skæbne.

A dream trip to Egypt. A deadly disappearance. Claudia Rose is elated when her niece joins an archaeological dig in Egypt—until Monica vanishes with a charming archaeologist whose dark past is catching up with him.

Впервые на русском — дебютный роман современного ирландского классика Пола Линча, лауреата Букеровской премии 2023 года за роман « Песнь пророка », который уже называют «ирландским "1984"» и «новым "Рассказом служанки"». « Небо красно поутру » — это экзистенциальная панорама безжалостности человека и безразличия природы.

In the quiet town of Seligman, Arizona, trust was everything. That’s why no one questioned Dale Hutchins, the respected president of Pioneer Trust Bank, when he promised a bright financial future. But when the bank’s accounts are drained overnight, the town is left in ruins—its people betrayed, their savings wiped out. John Milton is enjoying an American road trip and never planned to get involved. But Route 66 delivers him to Seligman and he soon finds himself on the trail of a global cybercrime syndicate.

An Embassy in Huelva in 1986 gets a shock, when a man named Julian Ford, an American ex-pat decides to seek asylum. Detective Evans must look further into Julian who not only seeks cuffs, but has his own as well. On an endless rainy night, Detective Evans gets a call about a rape accusation for Julian Ford. Evans decides to dig into everything Julian is connected to, even his childhood best friend, Cindy Livingston. Evans along with Detective Matthew Murphy and Luka Hubbard, will all be tested in a battle to unearth who Julian Ford really is. Can they do it?

In a small town on the mid-Atlantic coast, Jake, a small-time smuggler happens into an alliance with an Englishman, Alistair James. Alistair and team of gifted scientists have developed a fusion device they hope can deliver a new ecological power source that the world has not seen. The device has immense possibilities and Alistair’s team hold the secrets.

A brilliant reporter, haunted by her husband's death.... A disgraced cop, tangled in a web of lies.... Two unlikely heroes. One unthinkable crime. Listen to the final three episodes of this addictive series.

Against this backdrop of Mafia turf wars, local gang battles, and political power-plays in the mayoral election, the bodies begin stacking up. An unlikely assassin arrives fresh from Naples after killing a top member of the Camorra to avenge the murder of her family.

Alan Newberg, a staid title-company lawyer in the middle of a divorce, escapes to the French Riviera in an effort to reinvent himself. Instead, he catches a case of careful what you ask for when his soon-to-be-ex wife freezes his bank accounts. Without access to money, Newberg gets a job working for a crazy American ex-pat from Texas who owns a questionable vehicle-for-hire business that is at war with a local mob-run cab company. The ever-growing predicament leads to Alan being framed for murder and forces him to run the gauntlet of French criminal justice.

Deutschlands erfolgsgekrönter True Crime-Autor Adrian Langenscheid entfacht mit seinen schockierenden Kurzgeschichten über wahre österreichische Verbrechen herzklopfendes Lesevergnügen. Es ist ein atemberaubendes, zutiefst erschütterndes Portrait menschlicher Abgründe, das gerade wegen seiner kühlen, sachlich-neutralen Schilderung gewaltige Emotionen weckt.

2019 erschien das Erstlingswerk von Adrian Langenscheid True Crime Deutschland und erstürmte aus dem Nichts die Siegertreppchen der genrerelevanten Kategorien. Knapp 2 Jahre und 7 Bücher später ist Langenscheid einer der bekanntesten True Crime-Autoren Deutschlands. Für das achte Werk seiner Erfolgsserie recherchierte der Bestsellerautor aufs Neue einige der spektakulärsten deutschen Kriminalfälle der letzten Jahrzehnte. Dabei ist ein atemberaubendes, zutiefst erschütterndes Portrait menschlicher Abgründe entstanden, das gerade wegen seiner kühlen, sachlich-neutralen Schilderungen gewaltige Emotionen weckt.

2019 erschien das Erstlingswerk von Adrian Langenscheid True Crime Deutschland und erstürmte aus dem Nichts die Siegertreppchen der genrerelevanten Kategorien. Knapp 2 Jahre und 6 Bücher später ist Langenscheid einer der bekanntesten True Crime-Autoren Deutschlands. Für das siebte Werk seiner Erfolgsserie recherchierte der Bestsellerautor aufs Neue einige der spektakulärsten deutschen Kriminalfälle der letzten Jahrzehnte.

You are playing a game online; masterminding the perfect crime. Or at least you think it’s a game. A seemingly normal website inviting players to mastermind the perfect crime is the façade for billionaire Lawrence Hackett’s real-life game of Mastermind - an invitation-only competition for a select few - to see who can perform the perfect heist and win an enormous bounty. Special Agent Mitchell Parker and his team learn the magnitude of the international crime ring just in time. Washington, London, Paris...the clock is ticking.