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Following the success of the popular BBC Drama series, Norman Conquest is back! Set during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, where every story promises a 'Thousand Thrills!', with ingenious plots, full of twists and surprises, driven along with exciting action and tongue in cheek humour, our fast-talking, hard-hitting adventurer with a nose for trouble keeps up good cheer while he biffs the baddies in four action packed adventures.

Three more mystifying cases perplexing Det. Luca. This box set contains: Book four, Third Chances - the clock is ticking...as the hunt for a serial killer continues. Book five, A Cold Hard Case - half the time, the killer gets away with it...and the case goes cold. And book six, Cop or Killer? - breaking the law to protect your family is reasonable...until it's not.

Seit zwanzig Jahren ist Wyatt Berufsverbrecher alter Schule. Er hat seine Regeln, und er lässt niemals zu, dass sie gebrochen werden. Aber Wyatt hat auch seine Zweifel, wie das Leben weitergehen soll. Denn mittlerweile laufen seine Coups nicht mehr gut, er ist pleite, und nun hat auch noch eine Bande von Autoschiebern und Betrügern aus Melbourne ein Kopfgeld auf ihn ausgesetzt. Schnell wird der Jäger Wyatt zum Gejagten.

Honderden doden en geen spoor van de dader... De hele wereld kijkt geschokt toe wanneer in het pretpark Tivoli in Kopenhagen een bom afgaat die meer dan twaalfhonderd levens eist. De kwaadaardige aanval wordt echter door niemand opgeëist. Na zeven maanden komt politie-inspecteur Lene Jensen telefonisch in contact met een jonge serveerster genaamd Ain, die beweert samen te wonen met een zelfmoordterrorist . Maar kort daarna wordt Ain dood gevonden... Samen met Michael Sander begint Jensen een race tegen de klok om een volgend bloedbad te voorkomen.

In the week before Christmas, two people are brutally murdered in their homes. There is no sign of a struggle, and both victims have had their throats slashed open. Detective Jason Smith is on holiday for the Christmas period, but he finds himself in the middle of the investigation before he knows it. There are no clues left at the murder scenes besides a bizarre series of numbers and letters left in random places—E.6.T.0.M. Smith and the team are baffled.

When a stranger gives Black a book and tells him the book holds the key to the mystery surrounding his wife’s murder, Black dismisses the event as nothing more than the ramblings of a mad man. Then Black is called to a meeting with a Hollywood movie star, Victor Cromwell, who is shooting a new film in Glasgow. At the meeting Victor, makes a very strange request that will throw Black’s life into turmoil. Meanwhile a killer who was dormant for 20 years has returned and is murdering young women in the most gruesome way.

In his most terrifying and twisted case yet, Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger goes to Bangkok to search for a friend who has gone missing, only to find himself on the run for murder when a glamorous club girl turns up dead in his bed.

Hunting a sadistic killer who targets young prostitutes, Detective Dave Robicheaux has no mind to be sidetracked into persuading ex-schoolmate mobster Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni to leave town. And it turns out that Balboni is the money behind a Civil War movie that's bringing in good business. But then the film crew stumble on a skeleton out in the bayou, and the links between a thirty-year-old lynching, a Civil War general, Balboni and the serial killer lead Dave into treacherous waters, with only a handful of unexpected allies to help him protect his own.

The call from ex-Klansman Aaron Crown couldn't have been more unexpected. Sentenced to forty years for the decades-old shooting of a civil rights activist, Crown should have been out of Iberia Parish, Louisiana, for good. Election candidate Buford LaRose wants Detective Dave Robicheaux to ignore Aaron's calls, promising Robicheaux a lucrative job when he makes governor. Worse still, Buford's wife, Karyn, seems unhealthily interested in getting very close to Robicheaux—just like old times. The LaRoses, each for their own reasons, want Crown's case buried.

Als die vierjährige Amanda entführt wird, beginnen Patrick Kenzie und Angela Gennaro ihre Suche in den einschlägigen Kreisen, was selbst die hartgesottenen Ermittler an ihre Grenzen bringt. Bis sich herausstellt, dass sie von gänzlich unerwarteter Seite auf eine falsche Fährte gelockt wurden und jemand wissentlich mit ihrem Leben gespielt hat. Kenzie und Gennaro müssen sich entscheiden: für Recht und Gesetz oder für ihre Menschlichkeit.

Detective John Stone of the NYPD has the best arrest record in the 43rd precinct. But he’s a dinosaur who belongs to another age. Detective Carmen Dehan has such a bad attitude that nobody at the precinct can stomach her. Captain Jennifer Cuevas wants them both out of the way and thinks they make a perfect pair. So she gives them the Cold Cases file–the cases nobody gives a damn about.

When DI Barton is asked to investigate a seemingly innocuous fire that kills, he believes it's either children fooling around or a worrying racially motivated crime. As he delves deeper into the case, he soon realises that there is a history of similar blazes spread out over many years, all within a close area. An idea suggested by pathologist Mortis makes Barton suspect he has the arsonist’s motives wrong.

Um grupo de amigos acolhe hesitantemente um novo participante para a sessão espírita: o francês Paul Le Duc. Ele é um estudante de ocultismo bastante conhecido, um médium, um visionário, um místico... Os amigos acabam por aceitar o visitante, mas a sessão tornou-se cada vez mais assustadora e perigosa...

When a nightclub stripper is brutally murdered, her boyfriend is quickly arrested and charged with the crime. Carson is hired by the accused man’s 12-year-old daughter to prove him innocent. Things quickly get out of hand. Bodies pile up, and it appears that a serial killer might be at work, and perhaps his client’s father could actually be guilty. The Memphis underworld of the 1960s is somehow involved and complicating the investigation.

Die renommierte Bostoner Psychologin Diandra Warren lebt in Angst. Man hat gedroht, ihrem Sohn etwas anzutun. Die Drohung trägt die Handschrift der Mafia – nur hat die mit der Sache nachweislich nichts zu tun. Als Kenzie & Gennaro zu ermitteln beginnen, überschlagen sich die Ereignisse; ein Mord nach dem anderen geschieht. Alle Spuren führen zu einem Serienkiller, der seit Jahren im Gefängnis sitzt – und tief in Patrick Kenzies eigene Vergangenheit.

Senator Brian Paulson will die Bandenkriminalität in Boston stoppen. Als seine Putzfrau Jenna ein Foto von ihm und einem Gangsterboss entwendet, geraten die Dinge außer Kontrolle. Das Detektivduo Kenzie und Gennaro soll ermitteln und befindet sich plötzlich im Straßenkrieg. Das großartige, raue Debüt von Bestsellerautor Dennis Lehane in neuer Übersetzung.

Dr. Caroline Glyn is an authority on malignant cells. Carving up hairy creatures in the hunt for cancer-causing genes is a daily routine. As she leaves her daughter Mary at kindergarten, she meets her new friend Krupskaya and her father, an old Russian warhorse from the cold war. The girls could be identical twins. Caroline has no way of knowing that this meeting has been long in the planning. The events that follow a brutal murder and a supernatural incident set Dr. Caroline Glyn on a merciless path to save her abducted daughter.

The rich and powerful gather deep in the bayous of Louisiana to witness the birth of a scientific creation that will forever change reality. A savage storm traps them inside the inventor’s mansion, an impossible murder blurs the line between guilt and innocence. Join in on this one-of-a-kind murder mystery about the fight for time and fate, where the answer to the crime lies within a paradox. Can you solve the murder?

Newly widowed Phyllida returns from India to visit her absent-minded father, Professor Woodbridge, only to find the house locked up and deserted. Phyllida learns that he left town four months ago having dismissed the staff, telling them he was leaving for a prolonged holiday. After some further investigation, it appears that her father has vanished. As Phyllida investigates the disappearance of her missing father, she is faced with secrets and revelations she could never have been prepared for.

When DCI Duncan Bone is contacted by a terminally ill psychiatric patient and given clues linking a 40-year-old unsolved murder to high-profile public figures, he finds himself locked into a conspiracy at the very heart of the Scottish criminal and political establishment. With his bosses stonewalling the investigation, lives under threat, and his career on the line, Bone faces a race against time to hunt down a group of men who will stop at nothing to cover their murderous crime. Can DCI Bone catch the killer before the killing starts again?