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The historical city of Chester has been rocked by the brutal murders of several young men close to the canal. DI Ruth Hunter is called in to track down the murderer – who the papers have dubbed the Towpath Ripper – before they strike again. Ruth identifies a suspect but just as she is about to pounce, they slip through her fingers.

It's 1936, and private investigator Gene Hammons has more work than he can handle. A crime syndicate, J. Edgar Hoover, a wealthy family from back East, and a wily stalker all want something from him. His capable-but-drug-addicted brother, still a homicide detective, is as much a hindrance as a help. Luckily, Hammons finds a professional ally in Pamela Bradbury, a fellow gumshoe with some new tricks to teach him. When the two pair up, there doesn't seem to be a case they can't solve, from kidnapping to blackmail to an intricate gold-smuggling operation.

Bernhard Todd heißt der Topautor Englands. Sein neuestes Werk Der Freak von Soho ist seit Wochen an der Spitzenposition der Bestseller-Charts. Sein Buch ist so spannend und lebendig geschrieben, als wäre es wirklich geschehen. Und urplötzlich wird aus Fiktion schreckliche Wirklichkeit und Bernhard Todd muss feststellen, dass die Figuren, die er bisher für erfunden hielt, wirklich existieren und er weiß, wer als Nächstes zu Tode kommt. Ein Kampf gegen die Zeit entbrennt und niemand will ihm glauben ...

Stellen Sie sich vor, Sie erwachen aus tiefem Schlaf und man ist gerade dabei, Sie lebendig zu begraben. Sie erinnern sich, dass ein alter Mann Sie für das personifizierte Böse hielt und Sie vergiftete. Doch was steckt dahinter? Ein Wahnsinniger? Aber warum wirkte dann das Gift nicht? War es zu schwach oder ist wirklich was dran an den Worten des alten Mannes?

As Orlandos third-largest theme park, Empire Realm, prepares to celebrate its twentieth anniversary, a public relations disaster strikes. In a span of three weeks, two tourists are found dead, victims of strangulation. Enter Kevin Lonnegan, cop-turned-private investigator. Going undercover as a park employee in the brutal Florida summer still has to be better than the seedy workers comp cases and messy divorces usually thrown his way.

Trust no one. Find Reacher. Stay alive. Blood sprays across an Arizona dive bar as FBI Special Agent Kim Otto's only lead is shot and killed before her eyes. Kim’s mission to find Jack Reacher dropped her into a lethal conspiracy run by ex-soldiers, war profiteers, and government ghosts. Following the trail of her murdered informant, Kim runs straight into the kill zone. The Lone Wolf team strikes hard, fast, and silent. Operatives execute anyone who gets too close. Desert sand runs red as the mercenaries hunt across borders.

Eine Kletterpartie in den Bergen West Virginias verwandelt sich für die Freunde Jordan, Abby, Deacon, Zoe und Javier in einen Albtraum, als die Gruppe nach einem Unfall bei schlechtem Wetter Unterschlupf in einer Höhle suchen muss, die ein düsteres Geheimnis birgt, das nicht für ihre Augen bestimmt ist. Schon bald müssen die jungen Bergsteiger erbittert um ihr Leben kämpfen. Wird es einem von ihnen gelingen, dem unsagbaren Schrecken zu entrinnen?

Stella Spada è tornata. Ora alla guida dell'agenzia investigativa SS, si dedica anima e corpo al suo lavoro, alternando il ruolo di madre a quello di investigatrice spietata. In Terra alla terra, secondo noir della serie, Stella viene incaricata di far luce su una vicenda rimasta irrisolta: la misteriosa scomparsa di una ragazza adolescente, svanita nel nulla quindici anni prima e presto dimenticata da tutti, polizia compresa.

Luke Beckett is anything but your average Hollywood vice squad detective. A cop who refuses to play the game, he is like some Avenging Angel always quick to judge, and to punish with his rock-hard fists those who don’t see his way. Forced to resign after a prostitute bust goes awry, he accepts a police lieutenant position in that God-forsaken place, Palm Springs, where there is hardly enough action to keep his blood circulating.

Quando viene chiamato su una strada di montagna, al vicequestore Rocco Schiavone basta uno sguardo per capire di trovarsi di fronte a una rottura del decimo livello della sua personalissima classifica. Un ciclista, infatti, è stato vittima di un incidente. Il morto si chiama Paolo Sanna, un cinquantenne che da un po' di tempo abita in zona ma che apparentemente nessuno conosce. Dai primi accertamenti risultano subito delle stranezze.

Listen to the conversation as you sit in the corner of the snug in Mulligan's pub. The Teacher, The Sergeant, and the Parish Priest, aided by the Barman, are in session, and little of what happens in this Dublin inner city parish will escape their attention.

You are in the capital city of Ireland. Like any city, there are problems. Your job is to find Irish solutions to Irish problems. Your team includes your beautiful Russian assistant Alice and the dangerous ex-army ranger, called the PMC, who has a slightly scrambled brain. Your customers include gangsters, police, business men, politicians, and tailors each with a unique problem.

Desmond never did have much luck with women – except in getting them through their driving tests. Now a coach driver, he is at the most crucial crossroads of his life. His wife has thrown him out. The crisis serves only to deepen his despair over another failed liaison – until he elects to steer his coach on a spectacularly reckless quest for the son he has never seen.

A story about a rich heir going off to become king in a small country & the wild goings on there.

A tale about a missing daughter, the follow-up, murder and more.

Step in for a pint and a chat. You'll meet Tracy, the Australian actress, the Tramp, and both Bruisers, senior and junior, together with Dwyer the bookie, the red Kelly, Rockette, the new recruit to the police force, the CIA agent called the Seeker, and many more....

Mystery lovers everywhere are addicted to Donna Leon’s ever-honorable Commissario Guido Brunetti and her portrayal of Venice’s beautiful but sinister byways and canals. In Willful Behavior, Brunetti is approached for a favor by one of his wife’s students. Intelligent and serious, Claudia Leonardo asks for his help in obtaining a pardon for a crime once committed by her now-dead grandfather. Brunetti thinks little of it—until Claudia is found dead. Soon, another corpse and an extraordinary art collection lead Brunetti to secrets of Nazi collaboration and the exploitation of Italian Jews.

On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a street vendor is killed in a scuffle in Campo San Stefano. The closest witnesses to the event are the tourists who had been browsing the fake designer handbags that the man was selling. The dead man is one of the many African immigrants purveying goods outside normal shop hours and trading without a work permit. Like everybody involved, Commissario Brunetti wonders why anyone would kill an illegal immigrant. But once Brunetti begins to investigate this unfamiliar Venetian underworld, he discovers that matters of great value are at stake.

When the body of a wealthy elderly woman is found, brutally murdered in her Venetian flat, the police suspect her maid, who has disappeared. As the runaway maid’s train is leaving Italy for Romania, she is approached by the border police, runs away, and is killed as she crosses the tracks in front of an oncoming train. She has a considerable sum of money on her and her papers are obviously fake. Case closed. But when the old woman’s neighbor returns from a business trip in London, it becomes clear that the maid could not have committed the crime.

When a friend of Commissario Guido Brunetti’s brother, a priest recently returned from years of missionary work in Africa, calls on him with a request, Brunetti suspects the man has hidden motives. An American-style Christian group has begun meeting in private homes in the city, and it’s possible the priest is merely wary of the competition. Brunetti and his wife, Paola, decide to go undercover. But when a girl’s body is found floating in a canal, Brunetti must put everything aside to investigate the secretive world of her people, the gypsies, who exist on the fringes of Italian society.