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Kurz vor Mittsommer im småländischen Växjö: In einem Wald am Seeufer wird der von Pfeilen durchbohrte Leichnam eines Lehrers gefunden. Die Todesumstände erinnern an die Darstellungen frühchristlicher Märtyrer. Die Deutsch-Schwedin Stina Forss hat bald erste Zweifel. Spätestens nachdem ein weiterer Toter entdeckt wird, erhöht sich der Druck von Vorgesetzten, Presse und Öffentlichkeit auf die beiden ungleichen Frauen spürbar.

Hauptkommissarin Lou Vanheyden wird zu einem Tatort in der Innenstadt gerufen: Eine Frau wurde brutal ermordet, ihr Kopf fehlt. Die Ermittlungen führen zu einer historischen Liste aus der Zeit der Hexenverfolgung. Doch was hat die Kölner Geschichte mit diesem Fall zu tun? Lou arbeitet gegen die Zeit, denn auf der Liste stehen weitere Namen.

Eine junge Frau wird vergewaltigt und ermordet. Ihr Lebensgefährte wird von der Polizei blutverschmiert angetroffen, leugnet jedoch die Tat. Dabei entdeckt die Kriminologin Ebba Blum, dass gewisse Hinweise auf ein routiniertes Vorgehen schließen lassen, und plötzlich steht ein ungeheurer Verdacht im Raum: Wer auch immer hinter dem abscheulichen Verbrechen steckt, er hat es nicht zum ersten Mal gemacht.

Düsseldorf 1970: Die vierjährige Liese verschwindet spurlos von einem Kinderkarussell. Die Vermutung einer Entführung liegt nahe, und Lucia Specht sucht mit ihrem Team vom Düsseldorfer Polizeipräsidium fieberhaft nach dem Täter. Kurz darauf wird Lucia von höchster Stelle nach Köln versetzt und soll dort zusätzlich in einem anderen Fall inkognito ermitteln. Bald überschlagen sich die Ereignisse, und sie muss eine schwerwiegende Entscheidung treffen.

Eine als Wild-West-Banditen verkleidete Bande begeht diverse Überfälle auf Banken und Juweliergeschäfte in und um London. Was von der Presse zunächst noch mit einem gewissen Schmunzeln betrachtet wird, schlägt jäh in Panik um, als es zu den ersten Toten kommt. Inspector Anthony Stafford und sein Partner Graves müssen sich den Banditen stellen, von denen sie noch nicht wissen, ob diese sich nur hinter der Western-Verkleidung verstecken oder inzwischen wirklich in ihren Rollen als schießwütige Reinkarnationen aufgegangen sind.

Succede qualcosa ad Álex e non posso rivelare altro. Per non rovinare questa meravigliosa e avvincente suspense fino alla prossima uscita, dovrai attendere senza altre anticipazioni. «Il Re è Morto, Viva il Re» è il prossimo romanzo di questa serie.

Gustav Klimts verloren geglaubtes Bild "Malcesine am Gardasee" taucht in einem Auktionshaus in Malcesine auf. Die Anwältin Monika Bacher will eine Versteigerung verhindern, denn die jüdische Familie, der das Bild von den Nazis entzogen worden ist, erhebt Ansprüche. Als die Anwältin Opfer eines Giftanschlags wird, bricht nicht nur bei den international tätigen Kunstagenten hektische Betriebsamkeit aus.

Little Lucy Appleyard is snatched from her child minder’s on a cold winter afternoon, and the nightmare begins. When Eddie takes her home to beautiful, child-loving Angel, he knows he’s done the right thing. But Lucy’s not like their other visitors, and unwittingly she strikes through Angel’s defences to something both vulnerable and volatile at the core.

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.

When Detective Maria Miller walks up creaking stairs into the attic of the old brownstone she senses this isn’t an ordinary crime scene. The brutality of the murder is enough to shock even an experienced detective like Maria. But there’s something else. An unsettling presence seems to lurk in the shadows sending a chill through Maria’s bones, making her desperate to run back down the stairs and never return. The killing is identical to the murder of an actress sixty years before, a crime that tore a family apart and sent shockwaves through New York City.

When Victoria Davies was pushed off her stately home's roof in 2001, all evidence pointed to her husband, Michael. But now, 20 years later, a letter has appeared, written by Victoria before her death; a letter that was never received and a letter that brings new suspects into the fray - three Labour MPs. Detective Inspector Declan Walsh must navigate a minefield filled with political intrigue, adulterous affairs, social activist aristocrats and brutal, bloody murder.

A dog walker finds a human bone on lonely Salisbury Plain. DCI Mackenzie Jones investigates the grisly discovery but cannot explain how it ended up there. She contacts disgraced ex-detective Atticus Priest and the two of them trace the bone to a graveyard in the nearby village of Imber. But the village was abandoned after it was purchased by the Ministry of Defence to train the army, so why have bodies been buried in the graveyard since the church was closed?

When Constable Evan Evans and his new fiancée decide to travel south from home in Llanfair, Wales, to visit his mother in Swansea, they're not expecting the disturbing news that greets them on their arrival: the young thug convicted of murdering Evan's father several years earlier is suspected of murder once again.

Harry Bosch, exiled from the LAPD, is working cold cases for the San Fernando Police Department when all hands are called out to a local drugstore, where two pharmacists have been murdered in a robbery. Bosch and the tiny town's three-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous, big-business world of prescription drug abuse. To get to the people at the top, Bosch must risk everything and go undercover in the shadowy world of organized pill mills.

Jake Crosby has traded in a stockbroker's suit and tie for a standard-issue uniform. As a newly minted Mississippi game warden, he has two tough cases to cut his teeth on - the ongoing robbery of wealthy hunters and the ruthless search for a rumored hidden fortune.

Six Four. The nightmare no parent could endure. The case no detective could solve. The twist no listener could predict. For five days in January 1989, the parents of a seven-year-old Tokyo schoolgirl sat and listened to the demands of their daughter's kidnapper. They would never learn his identity. They would never see their daughter again. For the 14 years that followed, the Japanese public listened to the police's apologies. They would never forget the botched investigation that became known as Six Four.

Newly promoted DCI Nick Dixon is stuck behind a desk when the peace of the Somerset countryside is shattered by a spate of sheep killings. Dixon recognises a sinister pattern: the animals have all been slaughtered with a crossbow, the power increasing with each kill. It seems whoever is responsible is practising, but for what?

After Emery Hazard loses his job as a detective in Saint Louis, he heads back to his hometown - and to the local police force there. Home, though, brings no happy memories. Hazard's new partner, John-Henry Somerset, had been one of the worst tormentors, and Hazard still wonders what Somerset's role was in the death of Jeff Langham, Hazard's first boyfriend. When a severely burned body is discovered, Hazard finds himself drawn deeper into the case than he expects. Determining the identity of the dead man proves impossible, and solving the murder grows more and more unlikely.

Retiring prosecutor Jessica Yardley can’t turn down one last investigation. This time, it’s a set of murders inspired by a series of grisly paintings called The Night Things. She’s the only one who can catch the killer, who’s left a trail of bodies in a rural community outside of Las Vegas. But the more Jessica finds out, the less clear her case becomes. Out of options, she’s forced to consult her serial killer ex-husband - to gain additional insight into the crimes and the killer’s motivations.

After a traumatic injury took him off the job, prosecutor Solomon Shepard is back to work, teaming up with Sheriff Billie Gray to hunt down Utah’s most dangerous criminals. Shepard has spent years away from crime scenes and courtrooms, but one of those criminals still holds a grudge. Alonso Hafeez is out of prison after eleven years, and he’s determined to prove that Shepard tried him for a crime he didn’t commit. And he’s got something special planned: kidnapping Shepard and forcing him to revisit Hafeez’s case in an elaborately staged retrial.