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In this second installment of Persson's trilogy of police procedurals featuring the 'small, fat and primitive' Evert Bäckström, the grand master's most appallingly repulsive (and funniest) character is finally given his 15 minutes of fame by way of his patented combination of laziness, luck and an unbelievable sense of timing. A seemingly ordinary murder puzzles Bäckström, who is struggling with strict orders from his doctor to lead a healthier life. His gut feeling proves him right: within days his team has another murder linked to the first on their hands.

Bombay, New Year's Eve, 1949 As India celebrates the arrival of a momentous new decade, Inspector Persis Wadia stands vigil in the basement of Malabar House, home to the city's most unwanted unit of police officers. Six months after joining the force she remains India's first female police...

Berlin, 1929. Detective Inspector Rath was a successful career officer in the Cologne Homicide Division before a shooting incident in which he inadvertently killed a man. He has been transferred to the vice squad in Berlin, a job he detests even though he finds a new friend in his boss, Chief Inspector Wolter. There is seething unrest in the city, and the Commissioner of Police has ordered the vice squad to ruthlessly enforce the ban on May Day demonstrations.

Scotland Yard are anxious to find the killer and Inspector Rebus is drafted in to help. But his Scotland Yard opposite number, George Flight, isn't happy at yet more interference, and Rebus finds himself dealing with racial prejudice as well as the predations of a violent maniac. When Rebus is offered a serial killer profile of the Wolfman by an attractive female psychologist, it's too good an opportunity to miss.

A killer is changing the rules. One murder at a time. You wake up all alone, in the middle of a forest, miles from anywhere. Beside you lie five objects - a lighter, grease, picture-frame wire, a piece of silk, a bottle of water - which you will need to use if you want to survive. You’ve been taken by the Whispering Man, and there is no escape. He makes the rules, and nobody ever gets out alive. Enigmatic investigator Colter Shaw is fighting to stop the murders. But another victim has been snatched from her family, and he’s running out of time.

When another resident of the Rosemary House care home is found dead in her chair one Saturday evening in December, no one is very surprised - not until the results of a routine post-mortem reveal something extraordinary. Sergeant DC Smith and his team have to tread carefully as they investigate what took place, and Smith himself has to confront some difficult memories. Others, meanwhile, seem intent on getting him to leave the force altogether.

In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet nine years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but any other evidence is virtually nonexistent. Now Bosch and his new partner, rookie Detective Lucia Soto, are tasked with solving what turns out to be a highly charged, politically sensitive case.

Crimebusting duo DI Jackman and DS Evans are back, solving another crime that will make your skin crawl. Twenty years ago: a farmer and his wife are cut to pieces by a ruthless serial killer. Now: a woman is viciously stabbed to death in the upmarket kitchen of her beautiful house on the edge of the marshes. Then a man called Daniel Kinder walks into Saltern police station and confesses to the murder. But DI Rowan Jackman and DS Marie Evans of the Fenland Constabulary soon discover that there is a lot more to Daniel than meets the eye.

Dexter Morgan has been under considerable pressure. It’s just not easy being an ethical serial killer - especially while trying to avoid the unshakable suspicions of the dangerous Sergeant Doakes (who believes Dexter is a homicidal maniac... which, of course, he is). In an attempt to throw Doakes off his trail, Dexter has had to slip deep into his foolproof disguise. While not working as a blood-spatter analyst for the Miami Police Department, he now spends nearly all his time with his cheerful girlfriend, Rita....

St Stephens, ein kleines Internat im idyllischen Norfolk. Eines Tages kommt der 18-jährige Charlie Cavendish in Fleat House, einem der Wohnheime der traditionsreichen Schule, unter mysteriösen Umständen ums Leben. Der Direktor beeilt sich zu erklären, dass es sich um einen tragischen Unfall handelt, aber die Polizei beginnt unter der Leitung von Detective Inspector Jazz Hunter zu ermitteln. Sie versucht, in den verschlossenen Kosmos des Internats vorzudringen, und findet bald heraus, dass Charlie ein machthungriger junger Mann gewesen ist, der seine Mitschüler gequält hat.

A body is found at an ATM, the apparent victim a of heart attack. Then two teenage girls are arrested for the brutal murder of a cab driver. The girls confess to the crime, showing no remorse whatsoever. Two open-and-shut cases. At first these two incidents seem to have nothing in common, but as Wallander delves deeper into the mystery of why the girls murdered the cab driver, he begins to unravel a plot much more complicated than he initially suspected.

Un huis clos en pleine montagne, un roman noir bouleversant. Près de la frontière italienne, en zone blanche, le village de Tordinona est l'isolement incarné. Voyant la tempête qui se prépare, la patrouille de gendarmerie composée de Marcus et sa cheffe Nadia s'apprête à partir quand le garde-champêtre du village découvre le corps sans vie de la fille du maire. Dès le lendemain, alors que le seul pont reliant le village à la vallée a été détruit par une avalanche, le maire et une partie des villageois s'en prennent à un homme de passage qu'ils soupçonnent d'être l'assassin.

Der Mord gleicht einer Hinrichtung: Ein 92-jähriger Holocaust-Überlebender wird in seinem Haus im Taunus mit einem Genickschuss getötet. Bei der Obduktion macht der Arzt eine seltsame Entdeckung: Der Arm des Toten trägt die Reste einer SS-Blutgruppentätowierung. Dann geschehen zwei weitere Morde nach demselben Muster. Welches Geheimnis verband die Opfer miteinander?

Kriminalkommissarin Pia Kirchhoff will gerade in die Flitterwochen fahren, als sie ein Anruf erreicht: In der Nähe von Eschborn wurde eine ältere Dame aus dem Hinterhalt erschossen. Kurz darauf ereignet sich ein ähnlicher Mord: Eine Frau wird durch das Küchenfenster ihres Hauses tödlich getroffen. Beide Opfer hatten keine Feinde. Warum mussten ausgerechnet sie sterben? Der Druck auf die Ermittler wächst schnell. Pia Kirchhoff und Oliver von Bodenstein fahnden nach einem Täter, der scheinbar wahllos mordet – und kommen einer menschlichen Tragödie auf die Spur.

When he left the LAPD, Bosch took a file with him: the case of a production assistant murdered four years earlier during a film-set robbery. The LAPD thinks the stolen money was used to finance a terrorist training camp. Thoughts of the original murder victim were lost in the federal zeal, and when Bosch decides to reinvestigate, he quickly falls foul of both his old colleagues and the FBI. When the investigation enables him to meet up with an old friend, shadows from his past come back to haunt him.

A ottobre l'estate ancora non se ne vuole andare e battaglia con l'autunno che avanza titubante. In un cantiere della metropolitana viene trovato un uomo senza documenti, privo di coscienza a causa di un pesante pestaggio. È un americano in vacanza a Sorrento, scoprono ben presto i Bastardi di Pizzofalcone. Per risolvere il caso dovranno raggiungere la fascinosa cittadina costiera, dove alloggiano la sorella e la madre della vittima, un'ex diva di Hollywood malata di Alzheimer, e indagare sul loro passato che sembra nascondere la chiave di tutto.

Brought to you by Penguin. Read by award-winning narrator Jeff Harding. **NOW A MAJOR PRIME TV SERIES STARRING ALAN RITCHSON** North Carolina. New Year's Day, 1990. A soldier is found dead in a sleazy motel bed. Jack Reacher is the officer on duty. The soldier turns out to be a two-star general...

Después del éxito arrollador de El día que se perdió la cordura, Javier Castillo regresa con una nueva novela, ahora disponible en formato audiolibro, que explora los límites del amor. Adictiva, trepidante y absorbente, El día que se perdió el amor es una inyección de adrenalina, una experiencia única para escuchar, un thriller diferente y adictivo que da continuidad al fenómeno editorial del año.

Süße Trauben, bittere Geheimnisse: Im idyllischen Sauternes im Garonne-Tal wird der edelste Süßwein der Welt angebaut - und ausgerechnet hier wird mitten in der Erntezeit eine junge Winzerin tot in ihrem Weinkeller aufgefunden. Das bei der Vergärung entstehende giftige Gas hat sie umgebracht. Aber ist das schon die ganze Wahrheit? Während die örtliche Polizei von einem Unfall ausgeht, verlässt sich Commissaire Luc Verlain auf sein Bauchgefühl und setzt Ermittlungen durch. In der kleinen Gemeinde aber stößt er auf eine Mauer des Schweigens.

For the airline executives finalizing a merger that would make news in the business world, the nine a.m. meeting would be a major milestone. But after marketing VP Paul Rogan walked into the plush conference room, strapped with explosives, the headlines told of death and destruction instead. The NYPSD’s Eve Dallas confirms that Rogan was cruelly coerced by two masked men holding his family hostage.