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The discovery of a dead body is nothing new for Detective Simon Grave, but when the body and the murderer are both invisible, well, that's another matter entirely, even in the futuristic town of Crab Cove. The question is whether he and his human and android team are up for the challenge, which also remains to be seen. Making his job even more difficult is the sudden retirement of Captain Henry Morgan, who taps Grave as acting chief.

Detective Kate Morgan is tasked with determining if a recently discovered body floating in the harbor is the result of a crime and, if not, to move on to one of the team’s many other pending cases on their desks. However, nothing is ever simple in her world. So, when she finds several similar cases in the surrounding police districts, … the scope of her hunt expands proportionally. However, getting to the bottom of this one crosses into Simon’s penchant for revitalizing old buildings in downtown Vancouver—or, in some cases, just giving those structures a whole lot of love.

It's June in Montreal, and Dr. Temperance Brennan, who has left a shaky marriage back home in North Carolina to take on the challenging assignment of Director of Forensic Anthropology for the province of Quebec, looks forward to a relaxing weekend in beautiful Quebec City. First, though, she must stop at a newly uncovered burial site in the heart of the city. The remains are probably old and only of archeological interest, but Tempe must make sure they're not a case for the police. One look at the decomposed and decapitated corpse, stored neatly in plastic bags, tells her she'll spend the weekend in the crime lab.

Político carismático. Marido leal. Asesino en serie. Alastair Sheridan lo tiene todo. Es joven, atractivo y un millonario hecho a sí mismo, con una hermosa mujer y un hijo. En el caótico mundo de la política británica, donde los héroes escasean, tiene una oportunidad real de convertirse en primer ministro. Pero Alastair guarda un oscuro secreto: es un asesino en serie al que le gustan las mujeres jóvenes. Protegido y ayudado por personas muy influyentes, ha matado durante años sin que lo atrapen. Solo unas pocas personas saben qué tipo de monstruo es en realidad.

Siete víctimas, tres asesinos y el secreto que los une. Tres meses después de encontrar los restos de sietes mujeres en una granja remota en lo que los medios han bautizado como el Campo de Huesos, las víctimas siguen sin ser identificadas. Un testigo que puede ser clave ha desaparecido. El agente Ray Mason y la detective privada Tina Boyd deben encontrarlo antes de que lo hagan los asesinos. En una carrera a contrarreloj repleta de cadáveres y traiciones a cada paso, Ray está dispuesto a arriesgarlo todo para dar caza a los culpables. Pero a veces el precio a pagar es demasiado alto…

Has visto demasiado. Ahora, ningún lugar es seguro. Cuando Jane Kinnear presencia el asesinato de su amante, su vida da un giro de ciento ochenta grados y se convierte en el próximo objetivo. La policía la traslada a una casa segura, donde no tarda en descubrir que su amante era un informante de los servicios secretos con datos cruciales sobre un inminente ataque terrorista. El inspector Ray Mason, del Comando Antiterrorismo, es un hombre con un pasado polémico, pero su eficacia en obtener resultados ha hecho que le asignen la responsabilidad de prevenir el ataque.

Att hämnas vissa brott kan ta en livstid ... 1990, under en resa i Thailand, försvinner en ung kvinna och ses aldrig till igen. Tjugosex år senare hittas hennes kvarlevor på ett fält i England, sex tusen mil från den plats där hon senast sågs i livet. Inom bara några timmar, dödas pojkvännen som många år tidigare anmälde henne försvunnen. Utredningen leder kriminalkommissarie Ray Mason och privatdetektiv Tina Boyd in i en mörk och skrämmande värld av korruption och dödliga hemligheter, där mord är vardagsmat, ingenting är självklart och ingen går säker...

Du har sett för mycket. Nu är du inte säker någonstans. När Jane Kinnear bevittnar mordet på sin älskare befinner hon sig plötsligt själv i fara och tvingas lämna allt för ett skyddat boende. Snart står det klart att hennes älskare var en MI5-informatör med viktig information om en förestående terroristattack. Kriminalkommissarie Ray Mason från terroristbekämpningsenheten är en man med ett kontroversiellt förflutet, men hans tidigare meriter gör att han får i uppgift att förhindra attacken. Men kan man lita på honom, eller vet han mer om attacken än han låter påskina?

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are forced to confront the past as they try to solve a crime that threatens to tear apart the very fabric of a quiet, historic medieval town in England The cozy, bucolic town of Ludlow is stunned...

An inmate at Tonsgrove prison is murdered in her cell, but no one is willing to talk to the police. DI Gareth Williams is receiving pressure from above to solve the case – and quickly. Then, a local seventeen-year-old girl vanishes from her home. The close-knit community is shaken and they each have a different theory. Gareth knows that time is of the essence. With two major cases being investigated at the same time, the Beaumaris force is stretched thin. Frustrated at the lack of progress Gareth’s colleague and fiancée, DI Laura Hart, decides to take action: going undercover at the prison.

A baffling murder on a remote country lane puts Alan Banks and his team to the test in the detective’s most intense and gripping case yet – from an author hailed by Louise Penny as “a writer at the top of his game.” With Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot investigating the young woman’s...

When a black man is shot multiple times in the back on the streets of New York by an NYPD golden boy, chaos erupts throughout the city. And in an election year no one feels the pressure more than the men and women who vow to protect and to serve. For Butch Karp - Chief Assistant District Attorney for New York County - bullet holes aren't the only holes in this volatile case.

When neatly packed male body parts wash up by the River Elbe, Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley and her colleagues begin a perplexing investigation. As the murdered men are identified, it becomes clear that they all had a history of abuse towards women, leading Riley to wonder if it would actually be in society's best interests to catch the killers. But when her best friend Carla is attacked, and the police show little interest in tracking down the offender, Chastity takes matters into her own hands.

Appena laureate, Zoë e Holli sono partite per un viaggio di divertimento a Las Vegas. Ma durante il ritorno è successo qualcosa di imprevedibile e folle. Le due ragazze sono state rapite e trasportate in una sordida camera delle torture. Zoë è riuscita miracolosamente a scappare ed è stata ritrovata dalla polizia, confusa e sotto shock. Da allora la sua vita è cambiata per sempre. L'ultima volta che ha visto Holli, l'amica era inerme nelle mani di un sadico killer.

Det er aften, du kommer sent hjem fra arbejde – og huset ligger i mørke. Du går indenfor, og telefonen ringer. Du tager den – og din verden bliver vendt på hovedet. Din fjortenårige datter er blevet bortført, og hendes kidnappere forlanger en halv million pund i kontanter. De giver dig 48 timer til at skaffe pengene. Hvis du ringer til politiet, dør hun. Mens mareridtet udspiller sig, kan du være sikker på to ting: at du vil gøre hvad som helst for at få din datter levende hjem – og at tiden rinder ud...

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Ved et tilfælde ser Jane Kinnear sin elsker, Anil, blive myrdet, og pludselig er hun i morderens søgelys. Politiet skynder sig at få hende bragt til et sikkert hus, og det går snart op for hende, at den mand, hun troede, hun kendte, faktisk var kilde hos MI5 og lå inde med vigtige oplysninger om et overhængende terrorangreb.

Brought to you by Penguin FOUR FRIENDS. ONE MURDER. A GAME THEY CAN'T ESCAPE 'It was only a game.' Until a boy went missing. 'No one was meant to get hurt.' But a body has been found. 'Just some innocent fun.' Except one of them is a killer. Ready or not, here I come. It's time to play hide and...

Regel nummer et: hold dig i live. Sean Egan har arbejdet undercover de sidste ti år og er vant til at leve på kanten. For nylig har han infiltreret en af Londons farligste forbryderbander, og de har lige meddelt ham, at de vil have ham med på et helt særligt job: den dristige bortførsel fra politiets varetægt af en seriemorder kendt under navnet Natteluskeren. Morderen: Yderst voldelig, men meget intelligent. Natteluskeren har oparbejdet sit ry ved at torturere fem unge kvinder til døde.

Hamburg state prosecutor Chastity Riley investigates a series of arson attacks on cars across the city, which leads her to a startling and life-threatening discovery involving criminal gangs and a very illicit love story...Night after night, cars are set alight across the German city of Hamburg, with no obvious pattern, no explanation and no suspect. Until, one night, on Mexico Street, a ghetto of high-rise blocks in the north of the city, a Fiat is torched. Only this car isn’t empty.