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US Treasury Agents Charlie Carr and Jack Kelly are investigating a counterfeiting ring when cool and ruthless LA Detective Travis Bailey warns them of a plot to murder their prime witness. Unwittingly, they are involved in a phony stake out in which Kelly is seriously wounded. Deeply suspicious and determined to avenge his partner, Carr puts his life and career on the line in order to build a case against Bailey, and sets out to prove that he is the mastermind behind a series of robberies from the area's wealthy residents.

Detective Sergeant Tony Heaton has been living a lie for thirty years. Plagued by his failure to solve a brutal slaying in a peaceful seaside town, Tony is weeks from retirement when a new piece of evidence comes to light. He knows the case better than anyone on the planet, and is perfectly positioned to dive straight back in. But DS Heaton doesn’t need to solve the case. He already knows who the killer is, so as those around him sift the truth from the lies, he must work to stay one step ahead. The truth must stay hidden, even if that means lying to himself.

The Ambulance Made Two Trips by Murray Leinster is a riveting blend of hard-boiled crime and speculative science fiction. When Detective Sergeant Fitzgerald investigates a crime wave tied to racketeer Big Jake Connors, he uncovers more than just thuggery—he finds reality bending around a mysterious psi unit. As violent plans backfire in bizarre ways, Fitzgerald teams up with the enigmatic Brink to confront corruption head-on.

Private investigator Cole Harper doesn't go looking for trouble, but when a woman walks into his office claiming her husband is cheating, a simple domestic case turns into something far more dangerous. A photo, a Chinatown receipt, and a string of half-truths lead Harper into a fog of deception, opium dens, and velvet-draped rooms where the wrong question can get a man killed.

In a quiet Manchester suburb, a man sets himself on fire in a petrol station. Nearby, a fourteen-year-old girl murders her mother in cold blood. At the Coroner's Officer, Detective Inspector Ridpath is called in to investigate both of these baffling deaths. Is one a suicide and the other an unexplained murder? Or does something more sinister link the two seemingly unconnected tragedies? As Ridpath delves deeper, he must confront the darkness lurking in the most unexpected places, where even innocent facades can hide the darkest of truths. Can he prevent more deaths?

Wenn du nach Hilfe rufst, aber das Böse antwortet ... An einem kalten Aprilmorgen wird der Frankfurter Unterhafen zum Schauplatz eines brutalen Verbrechens. Auf dem Weg zur Arbeit macht Agnes eine beunruhigende Beobachtung, die sie wenig später das Leben kosten wird. Ein Unbekannter greift sie hinterrücks an und ermordet sie.

When brilliant young student Jessica Mowbrie is left in a coma after being abandoned in a remote patch of New Zealand bush, the local Masterton police don't have a clue what happened. Isolated and under resourced, the detectives struggle to even begin piecing it together. Police records clerk Lorraine Henry will not accept that Jessie simply had a lucky escape. She thinks whoever hurt her needs to be hunted down, and worries that her employers are a bit hopeless. As Jessie's life hangs in the balance, it looks like Lorraine will do the hunting. She's not getting any younger, of course.

ZOMBIE er Jørgen Leths vilde og blodige, foruroligende og deliriske, afklarede og nøgterne digte fra tærsklen mellem livet og døden. Her er blodige munde, en telefon ringer i det fjerne, zombier lever deres tågede horrorliv, og et jeg mærker sin egen forsvinden. Og det gør ikke noget, at det gør lidt ondt.

One year after they worked together to capture a fugitive necromancer, Nella Dormanni is thrilled to welcome her colleague Mainu back in New Montres. To her surprise, the dashing lieutenant isn't merely in town for a leisurely visit, but to track down a wealthy socialite who's gone missing—and what's more, he asks Nel to help. The two of them embark on what Nel assumes to be a routine investigation, only to find there's much more to the story than her partner let on.

This isn't how moving in together is supposed to go. Daniel is left dealing with dead bodies, while Mal disappears undercover. Daniel knows the bodies were murder victims, but he can't prove it. Mal is getting more and more secretive. His friend Hector is being abused but insists that the bruises happened when he ran into a door. Daniel is fighting unseen enemies without any of the information he needs.

Alexander Blix, Kriminalhauptkommissar, sitzt in Haft. Eingesperrt mit Dieben, Vergewaltigern und Mördern, die er selbst hinter Gitter gebracht hat, erlebt Blix das dunkelste Kapitel seiner Karriere als Polizist. Doch dann erfährt er, dass außerhalb der Gefängnismauern Lebensgefahr für einen Mithäftling besteht: Ein Killer wartet darauf, dass der Insasse in vier Tagen in die Freiheit entlassen wird – um diesen dann zu ermorden. Nun muss Blix Polizeiarbeit hinter Gittern leisten, ein hochgefährliches Unterfangen, bei dem ihn nur seine Co-Ermittlerin Emma Ramm unterstützen kann.

Clive January is a driven, self-made Black man, a ruthless, wildly successful investment banker who had it all—until he is shot and killed from behind by an unknown assailant. As Clive lies in a pool of blood, his life slowly ebbing away, he hears voices, unearthly beings tormenting him, telling him that he will burn in hell, unless he finds out who killed him. Now before it's too late, his ghost must solve the crime of his own murder and his only choice is to work with the white racist cop assigned to his case, Detective Bob Greene.

Retired diplomat Sam Hough boards a transatlantic flight to Paris after making a seemingly innocent promise to find the five-year-old son of a dying friend, a son the friend has never known. With only the thinnest of clues, Sam quickly realizes that those who agree to help him soon disappear, those who don’t disappear refuse to help him, and still others want to kill him rather than help find the boy. Clearly there are things his friend neglected to tell him. But what did he leave out—and why?

Still grieving his toddler’s death, Detective Dan Brennan of the Philadelphia P.D. returns to the force and is assigned to investigate a socialite’s fatal fall down her mansion’s staircase. But the open-and-shut case is turned on its head when the victim’s daughter alleges her mother was murdered. Her evidence? The dead. The vintage photographs of past murder victims displayed on the mansion’s walls have told her so.

When Cassidy Clarke joins the LAPD, she doesn’t plan on following in her father’s footsteps. Veteran detective Bill Clarke has big shoes to fill, but Cassidy has her own path to forge through the department’s tarnished reputation. She’s just getting started when a string of murders plagues the city: Young women are being strangled in their homes. The media incites an uncontainable frenzy. And no matter how many newspapers they’re splashed across, the Hollywood Hit Men are no closer to being found.

Lieutenant Manny Ibarra, a former commander of LAPD’s infamous SIS Unit—often referred to as the “Death Squad”—was known for keeping his aggressive team under control. However, everything changed when his brother, homicide detective Frank Ibarra was gunned down in the driveway of his Los Angeles home by a gang from East L. A. Devastated by his murder, Manny declared war on the gang, seeking justice on his own terms, a form of justice that was not found in any law book. This deadly vendetta would ultimately cost Manny his career with the LAPD.

When her daughter is abducted, a former military operative faces a chilling choice: reveal her deadliest secret or lose her child forever. In a peaceful small town, Jennifer’s life spirals when her daughter Bella is kidnapped and her husband Ross critically injured. Once a covert military operative, Jennifer's past erupts as a former ally turns foe. With her daughter’s life in the balance, she faces a dire choice: reveal a dangerous military secret or lose Bella forever.

Traum oder Albtraum. Billys Lustgefühle treiben ihn nachts in dunkle Gassen. Krankenhäuser sind ihm daher nicht fremd. Auch Polizisten kennt er zu Genüge. Einer von ihnen, Sergeant Sam Nolan, unterbreitet Billy ein verlockendes Angebot. Er will ihn auf eine Party mitnehmen, die ganz nach seinem Geschmack sei. Von dem Risiko, sich einem wildfremden Kerl auszuliefern, lässt Billy sich nicht abschrecken. Er liebt die Gefahr. Aber mit einer Bedrohung wie Officer Hunter hätten weder er noch Sam je gerechnet.

Introducing Jack West a tenacious Houston Homicide Detective, a man who believes even the dregs of society deserve justice. After solving an exhausting murder case involving teenagers, Jack and his partner, Dawson Luck are assigned a cold case dating back 25 years. One case: an unsolved murder of a woman, found dead behind a seedy motel; the other about a missing prostitute. Digging into the cases, a fresh murder case is called in. A wealthy couple is found dead in an affluent residential area. It appears to be a murder- suicide and this new case takes precedence.

It should have been a simple drive, from San Francisco International Airport, to Boulder, Wyoming, despite the snow. Was it because Lacklan was tired? Was it because he was thinking about the woman he loved, or the international crisis he had recently caused? Or was it the crazy blizzard that came out of nowhere and blinded him? Whatever it was, it made him turn the wrong way, it made him turn onto Bloody Creek Road, to the ghost town of Independence, population twenty-five.