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In three highly diverting mysteries, Jane Austen has shown herself a clever hand at unraveling the deadly knots woven by the unscrupulous. Now, in her latest engrossing adventure, Jane is called upon to solve a shattering crime that may begin and end in one man's heart--or encompass the fate...

On Boxing Day a mystery woman’s body is found washed up under Teignmouth Pier. She has no ID but is wearing a wetsuit. When the post-mortem shows heavy metal poisoning, DI Jan Talantire is called in. Talantire herself is caught in an ongoing game of cat-and-mouse against her nemesis Commander Brent West. Her complaint against him for abusive behaviour foundered when she was accused by the investigating panel of collusion with another complainant, PC Nadine Lister, to bring West down.

Da en ukendt mand findes myrdet bag ’Skovpavillonen’ i udkanten af forstaden Egstrup på Vestsjælland, er det de to københavnske drabsefterforskere Anita Hvid og Thor Belling, der sendes til byen for at opklare sagen. Hvid og Belling, der er erfarne partnere på mere end én måde, må dog snart erkende, at denne ærkedanske provinsby gemmer på langt mere end gode råd og velvillige naboer. I Egstrup sladrer man ikke. Kort tid efter findes endnu to mennesker myrdet. En tilfældighed? I serien er Lars Kjædegaard atter vendt tilbage til den klassiske kriminalroman.

Can Jane Tennison uncover a serial killer? The fourth in the Sunday Times best-selling Jane Tennison thrillers, Murder Mile is set in 1979 at the height of the 'Winter of Discontent' when economic chaos has led to widespread strikes across Britain. Jane Tennison, now a Detective Sergeant, has been posted to Peckham CID, one of London's toughest areas. As the rubbish on the streets begins to pile up, so does the murder count: two bodies in as many days. There are no suspects, and the manner of death is different in each case.

Die Mordserie um den sogenannten »Schläfenmörder« wurde von der Berliner Kripo nie aufgeklärt. Vier Jahre später gibt es Anzeichen dafür, dass er wieder zugeschlagen hat, doch die Spurenlage ist unverändert dürftig - eine echte Herausforderung für Jan Tommen und sein Team. Die Rückkehr des Serienmörders erweist sich nur als ein kleines Puzzlestück eines viel komplexeren Falls, der einen schon längst besiegt geglaubten Gegner zurückbringt. Aber dieses Mal ist er besser vorbereitet.

Die Polizei nennt ihn den Network-Killer. Er sucht sich seine Opfer im Internet, ausnahmslos Frauen. Anschließend lockt er sie zu sich, vergewaltigt und erdrosselt sie und wirft sie ins Wasser. Hauptkommissar Jan Fabel und sein Team widmen ihre ganze Aufmerksamkeit den brutalen Morden. Eines Tages taucht eine weitere Wasserleiche auf: eine Frau, angespült am Hamburger Fischmarkt, nach dem großen Sturm. Der Leiche fehlen sämtliche Gliedmaßen. Ist sie ebenfalls ein Opfer des Network-Killers? Jan Fabel vertieft sich in den Fall.

A Patterson-style thriller with a dash of Hannibal...

The past never really leaves us. Crime reporter Julia Gooden sees proof of this every day in her stories. A dark childhood, a negligent parent, early abandonment - any one of them can seal a person's fate as either a villain or victim. Julia, who experienced all three, seems to have beaten the odds, finding happiness raising her two sons and a blossoming relationship with detective Raymond Navarro. But now, after three decades of absence, Julia's conman father has resurfaced to throw her life into turmoil again.

Julia Gooden remembers nothing about the worst night of her life. Thirty years ago, her nine-year-old brother, Ben, was abducted from the room they shared. Now a crime reporter at a Detroit newspaper, Julia tries to give others the closure she's never found. But guilt and grief over Ben's disappearance have left her fearful that whoever took her brother is going to come back. And then, on the anniversary of Ben's disappearance, Julia's worst fears are realized when her two-year-old son, Will, is snatched from his bed.

On a cold, foggy night, two lives are cut short. The first: Philip Iverson, a billionaire philanthropist shot to death in a hotel parking structure. The second: Willie Temple, a homeless man stabbed through the heart on an abandoned San Francisco pier. The murders of such disparate men can’t possibly be connected…can they? SFPD Lieutenant Jane Candiotti is still coming to terms with her promotion and her marriage to Detective Kenny Marks when the Iverson and Temple cases land in her lap.

San Francisco homicide detective Jane Candiotti never shies away from the risks of the job. Now she’s finally ready to gamble on her personal life, inviting her partner and boyfriend Kenny Marks to move in. But just when domestic bliss settles in, Skip Lacey, an ex-cop turned junkie, is found brutally murdered, his eyes gouged out with a spoon. He is the first—but he won’t be the last.

When David Perry confides the sordid details of his bitter divorce to a sympathetic stranger, he never imagines the nightmare he would unleash. Now his socialite wife is dead, brutally murdered by a man who will stop at nothing to get what he wants…Veteran San Francisco homicide detective Jane Candiotti never allows her personal feelings to interfere with the job - until Jenna Perry is found strangled in the hills of Marin County.

On a blustery San Francisco day, six strangers take shelter inside a popular neighborhood restaurant - never imagining they have only minutes left to live. The gunman is merciless, and the ensuing carnage is the worst the city has witnessed in decades. It is a random act of violence no one could have foreseen. Unless it wasn’t random at all.… Pregnant with her first child, homicide lieutenant Jane Candiotti is under strict doctor’s orders to take it easy. But when a mass shooting claims the life of her teenage nephew, all bets are off.

Private investigator Eddie Naku's latest case involves the apparent suicide of a friend and fellow private eye, Frank Iwamoto, who fell from the lanai of his eighth story condo to his death. Naku refuses to believe Iwamoto was suicidal, in spite of evidence to the contrary. Proving he was murdered won't be easy, but Naku is not about to give up. In the process, he comes up with a number of suspects, twists, and turns, as well as Frank Iwamoto's risk-taking lifestyle that likely put him in harm's way.