検索キーワード： 国際ミステリー・犯罪

Inspired by the real-life Glico-Morinaga kidnapping, an unsolved case which terrorized Japan for two years, Lady Joker reimagines the circumstances of this watershed episode in modern Japanese history and brings into riveting focus the lives and motivations of the victims, the perpetrators, the heroes and the villains. As the shady networks linking corporations to syndicates are brought to light, the stakes rise, and some of the professionals we have watched try to fight their way through this crisis will lose everything—some even their lives.

Moscow, 1953. Under Stalin’s terrifying regime, families live in fear. When the all-powerful State claims there is no such thing as crime, who dares disagree? An ambitious secret police officer, Leo Demidov believes he’s helping to build the perfect society. But when he uncovers evidence of a killer at large—a threat the state won’t admit exists—Demidov must risk everything, including the lives of those he loves, in order to expose the truth. But what if the danger isn’t from the killer he is trying to catch, but from the country he is fighting to protect?

DS George Cross has always wondered why his mother left him when he was a child. Now she is back in his life, he suddenly has answers. But this unexpected reunion is not anything he's used to dealing with. When a disturbing case lands on his desk, he is almost thankful for the return to normality. The body of a monk is found savagely beaten to death in a woodland near Bristol. Nothing is known about Brother Dominic's past, which makes investigating difficult. How can Cross unpick a crime when they don't know anything about the victim? And why would someone want to harm a monk?

The next installment in the Millennium series: a genius hacker who has always been an outsider; a journalist with a penchant for danger. She is Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo. He is Mikael Blomkvist, crusading editor of Millennium. One night, Blomkvist receives a call from a source who claims to have been given information vital to the United States by a young female hacker.

When Eva and Jonathan hook up on the sleeper train from Florence to Paris, they think they’ll never see each other again. Which is too bad, because neither has ever felt a spark like this for another person. But love isn’t on the agenda in their line of work. Six months later, they run into each other in the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles. This encounter is not by chance, because Eva has been hired to kill Jonathan. She’s a contract killer, but what she doesn’t know is that he is too.

The flood waters are rising. And so is the body count… Police officer Fiona MacLeish has been ordered to step back from her role in Police Scotland. Haunted by the murder of her parents, she’s dangerously close to breaking point: and is back in her remote childhood home nestled in a valley on the Scottish border. But there’s a terrifying storm coming…

This explosive novel of the drug trade takes you deep inside a world riddled with corruption, betrayal, and bloody revenge. From the streets of New York City to Mexico City and Tijuana to the jungles of Central America, this is the war on drugs like you've never seen it.

Meredith Mitchell's old friend Sally Caswell and her scientist husband have moved from London to the quiet of Oxfordshire, but find nothing but trouble. Quarrels between the moody scientist and an eccentric neighbour; goats in the backyard, and a letter bomb in the mail all add to malice, mystery, and murder—and another case for Meredith and her police inspector friend Alan Markby to solve.

As Nonna Maria’s longtime pal and sometimes colleague, Captain Murino, in charge of the local carabinieri, never wanted to see harm brought to the doorstep of everyone’s favorite espresso-brewing, counsel-giving amateur sleuth. But when you live a long life, you’re bound to make a few enemies. And when those enemies come calling, you have to rely on friends. Faced with an assassin seeking revenge for a decades-old grudge, Captain Murino has no choice but to turn to Maria.

Stevie 'Minto' Milloy, former star footballer-turned-rookie reporter, finds himself trailing the story of a young Eastern European student whose body has been found on remote moorland outside the city. How did she get there from her hostel at the Sovereign Grace Mission?

Bonnes vacances! – Madame le Commissaire und der Mord am Lac de Lacanau. Als der Unternehmer Laurent im Frühsommer nördlich der Halbinsel Cap Ferret auf einem Campingplatz Urlaub macht, wird er beim Holzsammeln brutal ermordet. Bei den Ermittlungen der Hauptkommissarin und Polizeipsychologin Pauline Castelot gerät nicht nur der Ranger des Naturschutzgebietes unter Verdacht, sondern auch ein Einsiedler, der in einer Höhle im Wald lebt. Nachdem die achtjährige Clémentine aus dem nahe gelegenen Ferienlager verschwindet, eskaliert die Situation.

A Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile system takes down a passenger jetliner in the skies over Belarus, showering the fields below in burning scrap. As the world begins to mourn the horrific accident, one man–new CIA director, George Lawrence–knows it is anything but. Three hundred innocents were sacrificed in order to snuff out the life of one man: Professor Alexey Sokolov, a senior adviser to the Russian government. As well as a CIA asset recruited by a ghost known as the Hangman... Trapp doesn't know any of this.

Former Detective Hillary Greene and her cold case team are handed an impossible case. Thirty years ago, two days before Christmas, the much-loved Reverend Keith Coltrane was hit over the head and left to die inside his own church. The killer was never caught. This shocking crime took place in the pretty Oxfordshire village of Lower Barton. Everyone knows everyone else in this peaceful little community. The young reverend was handsome and popular, especially with the ladies of the village. Who would have wanted to harm him?

Former Detective Hillary Greene and her cold case team are taking a fresh look at the unsolved murder of Michael Beck, found bludgeoned over the head and dead in a river near his home in 2012. Just twenty-two at the time, he'd recently finished a history degree and had his whole life ahead of him. Everyone said he was a pleasant sort of lad with a passion for the past, quietly living with his parents until he could afford a place of his own. But it quickly turned out that there were at least two people who might have wanted him dead.

ليزبث سالاندر، المتمردة والثائرة، ضئيلة الحجم لكن قوية الشخصية وذات جرأة لا توصف، ذات التاريخ الحافل والأعداء الشديدي الخطورة، بطلة الثلاثية الشهيرة باسم ميلينيوم، تعود في مغامرة أخرى، لكن هذه الرواية ليست من كتابة الكاتب الأصلي للروايات ستيغ لارسون، لأن لارسون توفي فجأة في عام 2004 بسبب أزمة قلبية وقد كان يخطط لكتابة عشرة أجزاء من سلسلة ميلينيوم لكن وفاته حالت دون ذلك.

When Aron, a twenty-one-year-old college student, arranges to meet his older brother, Brett, in the quaint village of San Martin on Spain's Costa Brava, he expects a fun-filled two-week vacation. But Aron and Brett encounter corruption and evil they could never have imagined. Crucial choices must be made, which resonate powerfully in this tale of love, doubt, envy, violence, and chance. Aron must grapple with the darkness hidden deeply in his own heart and must deal with the fact that nothing is as it seems to be.

Superintendent Alan Markby and Meredith Mitchell are in desperate need of a holiday—and the Cotswold village of Parsloe St John seems the perfect choice. Their neighbour, retired journalist Wynne Carter, is as convivial as the village itself and, over a glass of blackberry wine, indulges in her latest obsession, Olivia Smeaton, a racy old lady whose life—and death—she is convinced are not all they seem.

When Meredith Mitchell picks up a hitchhiker on a lonely road outside Bamford one evening she is left feeling distinctly uneasy. What business can this confident, yet secretive, young woman have at Tudor Lodge, the beautiful old home of Brussels-based lawyer Andrew Penhallow, where she asks to be dropped? Penhallow is constantly toing and froing from the Continent, but that night, unusually, he is at home, and—with his son away and his wife Carla in bed with a migraine—alone. Which is unfortunate, for the next morning he is found murdered in the garden.

Die Tote, die zu viel wusste. Sandrine Perrot wird von ihrem Assistenten Adel Azarou zu einem ungewöhnlichen Tatort in der Altstadt von Saint-Malo gerufen. Bei der Toten handelt es sich um eine bekannte Influencerin und Radiomoderatorin, die sich mit ihren Meinungen und Themen in der Region einige Feinde gemacht hat. Der Mörder hat die Leiche und den Tatort nicht nur professionell inszeniert, sondern die Tat auch minutiös aufgezeichnet. Die hinterlassenen Spuren deuten auf mehrere Verdächtige hin.

Los hermanos Carl y Roy Opgard han triunfado en la vida. O al menos lo han hecho partiendo de las ínfimas posibilidades que les brinda un pueblo pequeño como Os. Carl dirige el ostentoso balneario, mientras que Roy sigue a cargo de la gasolinera y sueña con un parque de atracciones a lo grande...Sin embargo, cuando el estado recupera los planes para construir una nueva autopista en la región, van a ser precisas acciones contundentes si quieren salvar sus proyectos de futuro. El alguacil de Os está a punto de dar con nuevas pruebas que demuestren la culpabilidad de los hermanos.