Titres dans Polars

L’agent du FBI récemment à la retraite, Kate Wise, 55 ans, se retrouve à quitter sa vie tranquille de banlieue quand la fille d’une de ses amies est assassinée chez elle - et qu’on la supplie d’apporter son aide. Kate pensait qu’elle avait laissé le FBI derrière elle après 30 ans de bons et loyaux services en tant que l’un de leurs meilleurs agents, respectée pour son esprit brillant, son attitude coriace et sa troublante capacité à traquer les tueurs en série. Mais fatiguée de la petite vie tranquille de banlieue et à un carrefour de sa vie.

Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is caught up in the murky world of human trafficking in Dead Tomorrow. By award-winning crime writer Peter James, read by Daniel Weyman (Silent Witness, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power). 'One of the best crime writers in the business' – Karin...

2017 Audie Award Finalist for Fiction and Best Male Narrator The fabulously suspenseful and "smashing" (The New York Times Book Review) final novel in the Bill Hodges trilogy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers! For nearly six years, in Room 217 of...

Ein merkwürdiger Mord in französischer Sommeridylle, eine große Familientragödie und ein verblüffendes Geheimnis – willkommen in der Bretagne! Der erste Fall der Krimi-Reihe von Jean-Luc Bannalec. Eine Krimisternstunde – nicht nur für Frankreichfans! Der erste Fall für Kommissar Dupin, eigensinniger Pinguinliebhaber und koffeinabhängig, gebürtiger Pariser und zwangsversetzt ans Ende der Welt. An einem heißen Julimorgen kurz vor der Hochsaison geschieht im pittoresken Künstlerdorf Pont Aven ein mysteriöser Mord: Pierre-Louis Pennec.

After a grisly death ruins a couple’s vacation, Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley must determine whether this small-town tragedy was an accident or the beginning of a sinister plot—a “totally satisfying mystery” (Denver Post) in the #1 New York Times bestselling Inspector Lynley series...

Eine tote Schauspielerin, ein dubioser Beleuchter und ein erpressbarer Kölner Bürgermeister: Gereon Rath gerät selbst in Gefahr. Berlin 1930: Der Tod der gefeierten Schauspielerin Betty Winter führt Gereon Rath in die Studios der Filmmetropole Berlin. Der junge Kölner Kommissar in der Berliner Mordinspektion lernt schnell die Schattenseiten des Glamours kennen und erlebt eine Branche im Umbruch. Der Tonfilm erobert die Leinwände, und dabei bleiben viele auf der Strecke: Produzenten, Kinobesitzer – und Stummfilmstars.

When Dr. Nathan Frost, a lecturer in German literature at Oxford University, is invited to a lavish party at the country house of a wealthy businessman, he knows there'll be a price to pay. After all, as an expert on the legend of Faust and Mephistopheles, he can recognize a deal with the devil easily enough. But even he's not expecting such a sinister end to the evening.

When Detective Inspector Bridget Hart returns to her old Oxford college for a reunion dinner, she's hoping for a fun weekend catching up with old friends. But the reunion takes a macabre turn when body parts are served up at the college feast, and one of her friends is found murdered. With Bridget's arch rival Inspector Baxter leading the murder inquiry, and herself a potential suspect, Bridget is forbidden from taking part in the investigation. But that doesn't stop her from carrying out her own private inquiries. Bridget soon realizes that the murderer is someone known to her.

Yasuko Hanaoka is a divorced, single mother who thought she had finally escaped her abusive ex-husband Togashi. When he shows up one day to extort money from her, threatening both her and her teenaged daughter Misato, the situation quickly escalates into violence and Togashi ends up dead on her apartment floor.

Late one evening, as the final church bell rings out, Sandra Deakin’s cold and lifeless body is found in the overgrown graveyard with multiple stab wounds. When Detective Kim Stone rushes to the scene, the violence of the attack convinces her that this murder was deeply personal. What could have caused such hate?

Un cadavere che scompare, poi riappare. Un duplice omicidio accompagnato da una macabra messinscena. Con il Capodanno alle porte, pasticcio peggiore non poteva capitare al vicequestore Vanina Guarrasi. Se poi una delle vittime è un prete, il caso diventa ancora più spinoso. Comincia tutto in una notte di neve, sull'Etna. Il custode di un vecchio albergo in ristrutturazione chiama la Mobile di Catania: nel salone c'è una donna morta.

It starts with the body of a Hollywood producer in the trunk of a Rolls-Royce, shot twice in the head at close range - what looks like "trunk music", a Mafia hit. But the LAPD's organized crime unit is curiously uninterested, and when Harry follows a trail of gambling debts to Las Vegas, the case suddenly becomes more complex - and much more personal.

When a leading Malmö entrepreneur turns up bound and gagged in a city-centre cemetery, the Skåne County Police have no obvious clues as to who is behind the kidnapping. More complications arise when a second leading business figure is snatched and Inspector Anita Sundström and her colleagues are under pressure not only to find the victim, but also catch the gang.

It's almost Christmas, and Emery Hazard finds himself face to face with his own personal nightmare: going on a double date with his partner - and boyhood crush - John-Henry Somerset. Hazard brings his boyfriend; Somers brings his estranged wife. When a strange call interrupts dinner, however, Hazard and his partner become witnesses to a shooting. The victims: Somers' father and the daughter of a high school friend. The crime is inexplicable. There is no apparent motive, no connection between the victims, and no explanation for how the shooter reached his targets.

Mitten in der Nacht geht im Wald bei Ruppertshain ein Wohnwagen in Flammen auf. Aus den Trümmern wird eine Leiche geborgen. Oliver von Bodenstein und Pia Sander ermitteln wegen Brandstiftung - und bald auch wegen Mordes. Kurz darauf wird eine alte Frau in einem Hospiz ermordet. Bodenstein ist erschüttert, er kannte die Frau seit seiner Kindheit. Die Ermittlungen führen Pia und ihn in die Vergangenheit, in den Sommer 1972, als Bodensteins bester Freund spurlos verschwand.

Two murders. Twenty years. Now the killer is back for more… A darkly compelling debut crime novel. The start of a brilliant series, perfect for fans of Stuart MacBride, Val McDermid, and James Oswald. DCI Matilda Darke has returned to work after a nine month absence. A shadow of her former...

Die 16-jährige Lena Palmer verschwindet spurlos. Drei Tage später taucht sie in einem verstörend brutalen Video wieder auf, welches in atemberaubendem Tempo viral geht. BKA Kommissarin Yasira Saad soll Lena finden und die Täter identifizieren. Ihr bleibt wenig Zeit, denn schon gibt es erste gewalttätige Demonstrationen in deutschen Städten. Eine rechtsradikale Gruppierung namens "Aktiver Heimatschutz" gewinnt rasant an Zulauf.

When Darby O'Roarke wakes up in a strange house with a dead man - with no memory of what happened - she knows who she has to call: FBI Supervisory Special Agent Eban Winters...the man she fell for, and who rejected her, last summer. A negotiator isn't supposed to get involved with kidnap victims, and Eban has been trying to avoid the temptation that is Darby O'Roarke ever since they met. One frantic phone call has him racing to Alaska to uncover the truth, but he faces stubborn opposition from the local police, and a growing media frenzy.

Don’t miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+! First there was the trouble at Saint Boneventure boarding school. A teacher is dead, a boy is missing, and a council woman has put a lot of pressure on Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and...

In Martin Walkers fünftem "Bruno"-Roman geht es um Wasser: um glasklare, gemütliche Flüsse im Périgord, auf denen statt Kanufahrern eine schöne nackte (leider tote) Frau mit einem satanistischen Tattoo heruntertreibt. Um undurchsichtige Finanzflüsse. Um ein Labyrinth prähistorischer Grotten und ein internationales Ferienresort an lauschigen Ufern. Es geht um Fischspezialitäten, mit denen Bruno – in verwirrenden Frühlingsgefühlen gefangen – die Frauen verführt, und um große Fische einer Rüstungslobby, die ihm fast wieder von der Angel springen.