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A smash debut novel from rising star Yasmin Angoe, Her Name Is Knight features an elite assassin heroine on a mission to topple a human trafficking ring and avenge her family....

Mentre sale a piedi le scale per tornare a casa, intenta a leggere un fatto di cronaca nera, sente delle urla provenire dall’appartamento di una nuova inquilina… Il nome della protagonista non è casuale: Randi è l’anagramma del mio cognome. Lei mi assomiglia soprattutto nel carattere e mi sono divertita a mettere molto di me in lei. Marcella Randi diventerà un commissario di polizia con la passione per le indagini fin da ragazzina, come se fosse scritto nel suo DNA. Nella serie, infatti, anche suo padre è un commissario.

This is the story of Ralph and Marlene. Marlene was a sexy redhead and a blonde all-in-one with a thirst to kill. She was a sexy Siamese twin, and she carried a stainless steel mallet. The couple was pretty successful at their life of crime, until they decided to go camping. That's when they came across an angry Bigfoot.

DI Kate Young has known for years that her boss, Superintendent John Dickson, is a violent and evil man. But when she finally confronts him and accidentally shoots and kills him, she’s forced to cover her tracks before anyone can pin his death on her. With revelations about his corruption soon to become public knowledge, Kate sets up a trail of evidence to make it seem that Dickson has conveniently vanished… But Kate knows the corruption doesn’t end with Dickson.

Midlands police chase a serial killer who inflicts death by the new urban weapon of choice. Given the targets seem enveloped in love affairs and deceitful liaisons, Chief Inspector Gavin Roscoe suspects a motive of jealousy and revenge. But as the number of victims increases, the connection between them wears thin. Is it really a broken heart holding the crossbow? And if it's not some crazed Cupid, who has their finger on the trigger? Plucky Detective Sergeant Sunita Roy doesn't think they are looking in the right places. Yet without evidence, her theory won't hold water.

A young boy walks into a police station in France. He claims to be Carl Meagan - a missing child from Sheffield whose name is still whispered as a warning to kids who stay out after dark. On her way home from the supermarket, nine-year-old Keeley Armitage vanishes without trace. Her family is overcome with shock and DCI Matilda Darke can’t help but focus on memories of the Carl Meagan case that almost ruined her career.

Wie perfide kann ein Serienmörder sein? Der Kölner Verlagschef Sven Bochert wird tot aufgefunden. Alle Umstände deuten darauf hin, dass er sich selbst gerichtet hat. Schusswinkel und Schmauchspuren an der rechten Hand sind ein eindeutiges Indiz dafür. Jedoch wurde keine Waffe und auch kein Blut am Tatort gefunden. Zudem scheint es eine Gemeinsamkeit mit einem zurückliegenden älteren Fall aus Stuttgart zu geben. Der Befund ist eindeutig: Damals wie heute wurde die gleiche Waffe und Munition verwendet. Ein sechsschüssiger Revolver des Herstellers Colt.

Orkus nennt sich der kaltblütige Mörder, der den Tod seiner Opfer im Darknet ankündigt. Ein bekannter Düsseldorfer Baumogul und eine Kölner IT-Ingenieurin wurden bereits vor laufender Kamera hingerichtet. Als Andreas Lichtenstein, ein ehemaliger Hacker, von der Seite erfährt, läuft der Countdown wieder erbarmungslos gegen ein neues Opfer. Lukas Sontheim ermittelt auf eigene Faust und nimmt den Kampf gegen die Uhr auf ... denn Orkus hat bereits weitere Taten angekündigt!

Graham Underwood worked as a government housing officer—until he was jailed for killing at least 15 people in a spree spanning several years. However, rather than showing remorse, this serial killer attempts to justify his actions and goes as far as to claim that he has done the world a public service in eliminating his victims....

When a bundle of frozen body parts fall out of a van on a Los Angeles freeway, FBI agent Scott Houston knows just where to go for an off-the-record post-mortem. But to everyone’s horror, Jayne and Steelie quickly determine the parts aren’t from one body. The body parts are from multiple bodies.

In Chicago a young man jumps from his 30th-story hotel room; along the Missouri River, a hunter and his son stumble upon a lake whose surface is littered with snow geese, all of them dead; and in Southern Alabama, Ryder Creed and his search-and-rescue dog, Grace, find the body of a young woman who went missing in the Conecuh National Forest, and it appears she filled her pockets with rocks and walked into the river. Before long Ryder Creed and FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell will discover the ominous connection among these mysterious deaths.

When Case’s psychic friend, a child, and a cop are all threatened by a serial killer, it pulls him and his team into a deadly hunt. What started as a hunt for one serial killer gets complicated. Case got more than he expected and his search exposes serial killers in Houston, Boston, and Miami. Case can’t let them go on killing, and he doesn’t. This stretches Case and his team as they race in three cities at once to bring these serial killers to justice and prevent innocents from being murdered.

This is a short story about a 79-year-old angry, bitter old woman that liked to murder in a local park at night. Her weapon of choice is the ball peen hammer.

Forensic psychologist and single mother Ann Bailey has joined forces with Montana Highway Patrol officer Bryce McCabe. An expert in untangling the motives of depraved minds, Ann is tasked to help solve the mystery of two murdered women doused with gasoline and set aflame. It’s not hard for Ann to be reminded of the charismatic Elijah Weston, who served a decade in prison for arson - a crime that nearly cost Ann her life. Elijah may have been exonerated, but the connection to these rage killings is impossible for Ann to ignore.

The call comes early in the morning. David and Helen Tremaine have discovered a body buried in the grounds of their large Victorian manor house, Llys Faen Hall, just north of Cardiff. DI Jemima Huxley and her partner, DS Dan Broadbent, race to the scene to discover that a second body has been unearthed in a shallow woodland grave. And the forensic team working the site believe this is just the start. Jemima knows this is the biggest case of her career. But it couldn't have come at a worse time.

In a small town in rural America, murders of little girls have been going on for a long time. Can the FBI stop him before he kills again?

A woman has been murdered and mutilated in her own home, with her liver cut out and a message left within it. Tasked with leading the case, DI Tudor Manx identifies several suspects, including the victim’s estranged husband. But all trails run cold. Then, another victim dies—and from the modus operandi. It seems that North Wales Police are dealing with a serial killer. But who would target the inhabitants of such a peaceful island?

ÉL PUBLICA SUS CRÍMENES MINUTOS ANTES DE COMETERLOS. ELLA NO SE DETENDRÁ HASTA ENCONTRARLO.INFIDELIS, EL CASO QUE CONVULSIONARÁ AL PAÍS ENTERO. ¿TE ATREVES A LEERLO? El cuerpo de Daniela aparece sin vida en un hotel a las afueras de San Sebastián. Esperaba a su amante en la habitación cuando la sorprendió una muerte brutal y violenta: esposada con los ojos vendados para simular un inocente juego sexual, y apuñalada. La inspectora Adriana Collante acude a la escena del crimen para hacerse cargo de la investigación.

The mega-rich Pallander family are used to luxury – a castle in the Scottish Highlands, a villa in Tuscany, a billion-dollar fortune and an island in the Caribbean – but their perfect life is about to be shattered. Sebastian Pallander dies, leaving a pitiful amount of money to his wife and children. His family fight over the scraps as old rivalries and bitter jealousies come to the surface. And when Pallander’s son is killed in mysterious circumstances, everyone suspects foul play.

France, 1986. Achilles Clazay is a successful and charismatic businessman who is adored by his partner and respected by his colleagues. He is also a talented artist who lives for his work. His latest project is Françoise Laville and she’s gagged in the shower, about to die. Because Achilles is the notorious serial killer who has been carving great works of art into the "canvas" of his victims’ skin for five years. But a copycat murder soon changes everything in his brutally ordered life.