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Die Dinge stehen gerade nicht zum Besten in Mexicantown. Die US-Einwanderungsbehörde macht willkürlich Razzien, die Einwohner leben in Angst. Als die Leiche einer jungen mexikanischen Frau aus dem Detroit River gezogen wird, schaltet der Gerichtsmediziner Bobby Falconi seinen alten Freund August Snow ein. Denn die als Prinzessin verkleidete Tote war Opfer sexueller Gewalt und illegal im Land. Eine Spur der Korruption tut sich auf, die von der Einwanderungsbehörde in die höchsten Kreise der Gesellschaft und zu einem internationalen Menschenhandelsring führt.

In this pulse-pounding thriller that will keep you guessing to the very last end, homicide detective Nick Teffinger witnesses a murder from a place he shouldn’t be and soon finds himself pulled into the edgy world of an exotic young lawyer who is too mysterious to trust and too hypnotic to resist. The Nick Teffinger thrillers are all self-contained within their own four corners and can be listened to in any order.

Una familia ha sido brutalmente asesinada en el gélido Estocolmo. No hay rastro del culpable. Solamente un niño, el hijo, único superviviente de la masacre, puede dar testimonio de quién ha cometido tal atrocidad. Pero el sufrimiento que lleva consigo el chico es como el de cien puñales clavados en el pecho, y el detective Joona Linna no logra liberarlo del estado de shock en el que está sumido.

Teresa Maritano si è finalmente decisa a lasciare la polizia. Abbandonato il suo ruolo di ispettrice, ha aperto un bar e trovato la tranquillità che tanto desiderava. Tutto però cambia quando riappare il commissario Marco Ardini, suo ex capo. Una bambina di nome Carlotta è scomparsa da giorni, una bambina che Teresa conosceva abbastanza bene. Deciderà quindi di aiutare Ardini nelle indagini. Queste porteranno i due a scavare in un caso torbido, che li condurrà dapprima a cercare informazioni su un'altra bambina amica di Carlotta, Paola, e in seguito sulla strana madre di quest'ultima.

Private detective Francis Quarles visits a man with a valuable collection of manuscripts written by murderers. During his stay, the man is killed after drinking cyanide-laced port. A cryptic literary clue in the front page of a book offers the only indication of who may be responsible.

A short story from the British Library Crime Classic collection Murder by the Book. A devotee of Sherlock Holmes and prominent Sherlockian scholar, S.C. Roberts wrote several works about Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective. In this story, Holmes and Watson are tasked with discovering who is stealing large quantities of books from the circulation library of a London club. With no clear suspect or motive, Holmes must rely on clues that are hidden in plain sight.

The name's John Taylor. I'm a PI, though what I really do is find things that are lost. I work the Nightside, the city within the city of London, where the sun never rises and where the human and inhuman go to get their kicks, provided they're willing to pay the price in whatever currency the seller demands. In the wake of the war that almost brought the Nightside to total ruin, there's a power vacuum—and some think I should take charge. I don't agree. Neither does the immortal known as the Griffin. Still, when his granddaughter is kidnapped, he calls on me to find her.

Joanna Hunter, 36 Jahre alt, hat alles, was man sich nur wünschen kann: ein schönes Haus, einen guten Job als Ärztin, einen treuen Hund und einen attraktiven Mann. Doch ihr ganzes Glück ist ihr kleiner Sohn Gabriel. Für ihn würde sie alles tun. Wie wunderbar muss es sein, mit dieser Frau in diesem Haus zu leben, denkt sich das Kindermädchen Reggie. Mit ihren 16 Jahren hat sie schon alles gesehen und erlebt. Joanna lässt sie wieder an das Gute in der Welt glauben. Für sie würde Reggie alles tun.

Friendship, family, and love are complicated things. Casey Stone had just finished a case that involved a lost little girl and now his friend Carl had just asked for his help in the rescue of his nieces—11-year-old twins—kidnapped in East Tennessee. Casey finds himself in the middle of a deadly feud between two families—rivals in the local moonshine business. The twins are hostages in a battle for turf in the liquor war being waged by the locals and outside mobs. Hidden away in the hills of East Tennessee, the girls’ lives are in jeopardy.

DI Bliss and his team absorb two new cases that don't initially present as major crimes. But who is the man who stepped in front of an express train? Did he willingly commit suicide or was he coerced? And what, if any, connection is there to an abandoned vehicle whose owner cannot be traced? As Bliss and his team dig deeper, they soon realise there are three people now missing—a journalist, a mother, and her young daughter. But as the investigations continue, the team struggle with too many unanswered questions.

Filled with gangsters, cops on the take, and a peregrine desperate to reclaim his territory, Ashton teeters on the brink of an all-out gang war. A Mainland Investigations detective is called into town by Paul Mason, who is murdered before briefing the lizard on the case. Pitting faction against faction, and with a target on his own back, the detective must save Ashton before his number is up.

Hacker-turned-private investigator C.T. Ferguson is new to the job. He's learning the ropes. He wants an easy case. Instead he gets Ernie, a publicity-hungry blogger. He injected himself into a murder case and is now the prime suspect. Near a Baltimore church, a man is found murdered, stabbed a dozen times in the chest. C.T. uncovers the victim's history of abuse by priests—including the one stationed at the church where his body was discovered. He also learns of plans to build a new church...plans that could be threatened by a corpse turning up.

All elements interrelate in this viscerally gripping and intellectually engaging mystery thriller. With brilliantly original Asgard Park, Ronald Simonar has taken his place within the pantheon of groundbreaking post-modernist writers.

In case his blue eyes aren't enough, Lucius Anoraq carries a gun. He wouldn't be caught dead in a pure breed show, but one wrong move and he'll be a blue ribbon corpse. Follow Lucius as he sniffs around Hollywood in the last three volumes of the series: The Wee Sibling, The Lengthy Farewell, and Recap.

Fenway Stevenson doesn't want to return to the coastal town where her estranged father is practically king. But the death of her mother draws her back home—and the murder of the county coroner draws her into a deepening conspiracy. As the body count rises and all signs seem to point toward her father's oil company, will Fenway uncover the truth before family bonds become deadly?

In Hamburg versetzt ein Serienmörder die Bewohner der Hansestadt in Angst und Schrecken. Der Täter folgt einem Ritus, der aus der Zeit der Wikinger stammt und unter der Bezeichnung "Blutadler" bekannt ist. Hauptkommissar Jan Fabel wird mit der Aufklärung der brutalen Verbrechen betraut. Bei seinen Recherchen stößt er auf einen geheimnisvollen Kult, dessen Mitglieder vor keinem Opfer zurückschrecken.

When a missing teenage girl reappears unharmed but pregnant, the case falls to DI Edina Ogborne, the newest recruit of Canterbury Police. But Ed’s already got her hands full with a team who don’t want her, an ex who won’t quit and terrible guilt over a secret from her past. As Ed investigates the case, she discovers Canterbury has seen this crime not once, but several times before. And when Ed and her detectives encounter missing historic police files, falsified school records and Ed’s new lover as a prime suspect, it becomes clear that the system has been corrupted.

Ciudadela, Menorca. Cuando María Médem se reincorpora a su puesto de agente de la comisaría local tras una baja maternal, aparecen en la isla dos sexagenarias asesinadas. En el domicilio donde se descubren los cuerpos se dan tres coincidencias: un fuerte olor a algo parecido a la hierbabuena, una misma canción de Raphael reproduciéndose una y otra vez en el ordenador y un orden estricto en todas las estancias. El pasado de la protagonista como integrante del grupo de Homicidios de Barcelona es razón suficiente para que le encarguen una investigación que se presenta compleja.

Private detective Philip Trent, who first appeared in E.C. Bentley’s Golden Age crime classic The Woman in Black, is called upon to solve a mystery surrounding the will of a wealthy man with a particular appreciation for the work of Lewis Carroll. A string of literary clues leads Trent to suspect there was more to the man’s dying wishes than may have first appeared.

A playwright is murdered, seemingly in connection with the suspected blackmail of his friend—a rising young MP who, without explanation, disappeared from public view before his untimely death. With a number of high-profile suspects to investigate, the key to solving the case rests on a written clue left behind by the killer....