Titres dans Fiction criminelle

Inspector Fenella Sallow is haunted by her past and obsessive about the truth…no matter how painful. When a body is found on an isolated footbridge in the scenic village of St. Bees, Fenella must piece together the events that lead to the grizzly death. All evidence points to a murder by the escaped serial killer dubbed "Mr. Shred". As the investigation heats up, Fenella and her team discover a world darker than most can imagine. And it soon becomes clear the killer is determined to teach the police a lesson.

An einem trüben Novembermorgen wird eine Studentin der Universität Cambridge tot aufgefunden. Der Mord an der jungen Frau erschüttert die ehrbare Akademikerwelt. Und nur einer wie Inspector Lynley, der dieses Umfeld bestens kennt, kann die gefährlichen unterschwelligen Strömungen hinter den dunklen Collegemauern erahnen. Mit seiner Assistentin Barbara Havers dringt er immer tiefer in die elitäre Welt ein, in ein tödliches Gespinst aus bedingungsloser Liebe, falschem Stolz, uneingestandenen Schuldgefühlen – und dem Bedürfnis nach Rache.

Penelope Spada è stata un magistrato che non si piegava, che voleva la verità ad ogni costo. Poi qualcosa si è rotto ed è dovuta uscire dalla magistratura per un motivo che ancora non conosciamo. Ciò che sappiamo però è che adesso la sua vita è molto più complicata perché si è dovuta inventare una nuova professione, una nuova identità e… non sa neanche lei se è la cosa giusta. Un bar come ufficio, uno sbirro come confidente e un giornalista che le porta un caso di giustizia mancata innescano questo primo… "caso".

Sydney Shaw hatte immer Pech mit ihren Dates. Bis sie Tom traf. Tom scheint perfekt: Er ist charmant, attraktiv und arbeitet als Arzt in einem Krankenhaus. Dann erschüttert der brutale Mord an einer Frau die Stadt. Die Polizei vermutet einen Serientäter dahinter, der sich mit seinen Opfern zu einem Date verabredet, bevor er zuschlägt. Sydney sollte sich sicher fühlen. Schließlich hat sie Tom. Aber sie wird das Gefühl nicht los, dass etwas mit ihm nicht stimmt. Jemand beobachtet sie auf Schritt und Tritt. Wenn sie der Wahrheit nicht schnell auf die Spur kommt, könnte sie das nächste Opfer sein.

When 16-year-old Kimberley Williams’ body is found on the rocks below Southerndown Cliff on a cold autumn day, her parents go into shock. A dog walker says she saw Kimberley jump, but Kimberley’s parents can’t believe their happy little girl would take her own life. Detective Anna Gwynne is called in when threatening messages are found on Kimberley’s phone from an unknown number. Anna and her team suspect Kimberley’s death is linked to one of her cold cases. Someone made these girls jump, and Anna will stop at nothing to find them.

All Bunny McGarry wants is a spot of breakfast and a decent cup of tea. So imagine how annoyed he gets when two masked men attempt to rob the New York diner he is in. Unfortunately, dealing with that problem just leads to a whole lot more. One of the diner’s other customers isn’t who she appears to be, and the odds aren’t great that she is going to live to see another breakfast.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Soak up the sun—and the intrigue—with the first novel in John Grisham’s beloved Camino series. “A happy lark [that] provides the pleasure of a leisurely jaunt periodically jolted into high gear, just for the fun and speed of it.”—The New York Times...

He is a record collector and a connoisseur of vinyl, hunting out rare and elusive LPs. His business card describes him as the Vinyl Detective, and some people take this more literally than others. For example, the beautiful, mysterious woman who wants to pay him a large sum of money to find a priceless lost recording on behalf of an extremely wealthy yet shadowy client. And so begins a painful and dangerous odyssey in search of the rarest jazz record of them all....

Thea Osborne, Cotswold house-sitter with an infamous reputation for getting mixed up in crime, is determined to avoid trouble this time. Her latest commission in the village of Daglingworth seems straightforward, with most of her time spent looking after an old corgi and a hibernating tortoise. Thea is ready for a relaxing if rather boring two weeks, with phone calls to new boyfriend Drew Slocombe the highlight of her days. Until, that is, a dead body is discovered in a nearby quarry....

When the daughter of a powerful businessman dies as a result of her meth addiction, her father, strong-willed and brutal Buck Reinhardt, vows revenge. His target is the Red Boyz, a gang of Ojibwe youths accused of supplying the girl's fatal drug dose. When the head of the Red Boyz and his wife are murdered in a way that suggests execution, the Ojibwe gang mobilizes, and the citizens of Tamarack County brace themselves for war, white against red. Both sides look to Cork O'Connor, a man of mixed heritage, to uncover the truth behind the murders.

Name's Kane, Kate Kane. I'm a paranormal private investigator, which is like a normal private investigator except - and stop me if you're having trouble following this - more paranormal. This business comes with a few basic rules: don't start drinking before noon, don't get your partner killed, don't sleep with the woman who killed him. Last year I broke all of them.

When Beth, Megan, and Joanne meet at university, they become inseparable friends who’d do anything for one another - even agreeing to keep what happens one shocking night a secret. Now in their 40s and outwardly successful, each of the three has dealt with what happened in their own way. But secrets and lies leave their mark. When Megan decides to tell her fiancé the truth about that night, it threatens to ruin the lives of everyone around her. But someone is prepared to do anything to stop that from happening....

Detective Gabriel Allon returns in this stunning thriller of ancient and modern betrayal, long-buried secrets and unthinkable deeds. In Munich, writer Benjamin Stern enters his flat to find a man leafing through his research. When Stern confronts him, the man shoots him, murmurs a few words in...

Agatha's husband has bought her a first-class ticket on the scenic six-hour train from Toronto to Montreal as a gift―a one-day writing retreat so she can get some serious work done on her new book, a highly-anticipated follow-up to Agatha's runaway bestseller debut novel. But Agatha has other plans for her day out…plans that are unexpectedly derailed when the train breaks down in the middle of the frigid Canadian woods and one of Agatha's fellow passengers dies quietly in his seat.

As a child, Evan Smoak was plucked out of a group home, raised and trained as an off-the-books assassin for the government as part of the Orphan program. When he broke with the program and went deep underground, he left with a lot of secrets in his head that the government would do anything to make sure never got out. When he remade himself as The Nowhere Man, dedicated to helping the most desperate in their times of trouble, Evan found himself slowly back on the government's radar.

Drei atemberaubende Thriller – packend gelesen von Wolfram Koch. DAS WASHINGTON-DEKRET. Durch den kaltblütigen Mord an seiner Ehefrau und dem ungeborenen Kind gerät der neu gewählte amerikanische Präsident Bruce Jansen völlig aus dem Gleichgewicht. Er erlässt das "Washington Dekret" – einen Law-and-Order-Feldzug, der die USA in einen autoritären Unrechtsstaat verwandeln und sie an den Rand eines Bürgerkriegs bringen wird. Nur Doggie Rogers, eine der engsten Vertrauten des Präsidenten, wittert ein Komplott auf höchster Ebene – und beginnt zu ermitteln. Ein Politthriller vom Feinsten!

It isn’t every day that Detective Chris Bailey is handed a triple homicide. They may have their share of problems in the scenic wooded hills of Tennessee, but news that a young man—a child, really—wiped out his entire family sends a ripple of shock through the whole community. Seventeen-year-old Colin Simon is witnessed fleeing the scene, gun in hand. He’s arrested for murder, but refuses to explain any of it. Not even what he did with the gun. The police have their suspect, so is it case closed?

Lauren, Drew, and Rob go on a relaxing vacation that turns into a nightmare. As Lauren sunbathes by the lake, she sees the man from next door lugging something heavy into a boat. The night before, Lauren thought she heard a woman screaming. What is their rich and famous neighbor hiding? Women are vanishing in this beautiful corner of Tennessee, full of woods and water. Detective Chris Bailey has his hands full. He’s investigating a drowning from last summer. The woman was never identified. But a pattern is emerging.

When an improvised explosive device is found outside a hospital, the understaffed Middleton PD knows it’s up against a pro. No one takes credit for the sophisticated device—all that Detective Jake Sloan has to go on is a poem. The cryptic rhyme surfaced shortly after the bomb scare. But ex-soldier and football player Sloan has never been much of a poetry buff. When a second verse turns up, containing a message in code, he solicits the help of English professor Ciara Hawkins.

Between 1947 and 1957, Ealing Studios produced a series of immensely popular, darkly funny film comedies that made the West London borough famous throughout the world. Almost 50 years later, four of these timeless films were recreated for BBC Radio 4, and are now collected together for the first time.