Detective Thriller Fiction

The windswept shores of Norfolk may look peaceful, but dark secrets fester beneath the surface. As the seasons turn, so too does the tide of crime, and DI Tom Janssen must face new and chilling investigations. From a grim discovery at the foot of Sheringham Cliffs to the death of an army veteran, each mystery draws Tom and his team deeper into a tangled web of lies, betrayal, and long-buried truths.

The discovery of a woman's body floating in the Medina River sends Jason and Vanessa out to a disturbing scene. Their investigation reveals a teenage girl connected to the dead woman has gone missing. With every new lead, they find themselves facing one big hurdle. Where is the girl?

Well, it's no wonder. The plot - suspicion for an elderly woman's murder falls on her mysterious lodger - is from Agatha Christie. The wonderful character happens to be the world's most famous sleuth, Hercule Poirot.

Joe King Oliver’s beloved Grandma B has found a tumor, and at her age, treatment is high-risk. She’s lived life fully and without regrets, and now has only a single, dying wish: to see her long-lost son. King has been estranged from his father, Chief Odin Oliver, since he was a young boy. He swore to never speak to the man again when he was taken away in handcuffs. But now, Grandma B’s pure ask has opened King’s heart, and through his hunt, he gains a deeper understanding of his father as a complicated, righteous man—a man defined by women, a man protected by women, a man he wants to know.

In the Scottish Highlands where secrets settle like mist in the glens, Detective Inspector James Corstorphine is summoned to a macabre scene–a gamekeeper hanging from an ancient oak, ensnared by an intricate trap of wire and bone. Still grieving his wife's death, Corstorphine finds himself hunting a killer who crafts elaborate deathtraps from human remains–clockwork mechanisms that deliver murder with chilling precision.

Leopoldo Estuardo, detective retirado, es contactado por Inés Polti para que investigue el asesinato de su hermano. Estuardo se hace cargo de la investigación de Jerasmus Polti, un reconocido multimillonario, cuyo presunto asesino confeso es David Polti, su hermano psicópata. Con la ayuda de Nina, su centenial asistente, el investigador tendrá que interrogar a los testigos, hacer sus pesquisas y detectar las pistas y mentiras, sólo a través de una pantalla.

April 1928: Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is visited in London by her young cousins. On the list of must-see sites is the Crystal Palace. Discovering that her children's nanny, Nanny Gilpin, has never seen the Palace, Daisy decides to make a day of it - bringing her cousins, her three-year-old twins, her step-daughter Belinda, the nurserymaid, and Nanny Gilpin. Yet this ordinary outing goes wrong when Mrs. Gilpin goes off to the ladies room and fails to return. When Daisy goes to look for her, she doesn't find her nanny but instead the body of another woman dressed in a nanny's uniform.

Grayson Hawthorne was raised as the heir apparent to his billionaire grandfather, taught from the cradle to put family first. Now the great Tobias Hawthorne is dead and his family disinherited, but some lessons linger. When Grayson’s half-sisters find themselves in trouble, he swoops in to do what he does best: take care of the problem—efficiently, effectively, mercilessly. And without getting bogged down in emotional entanglements.

They might be over the hill but they’re far from six feet under and now there’s a murder to solve! Meet Martin Maxwell. As a former government operative, at eighty-four-years young he always pictured a retirement sipping shaken-not-stirred martinis on a far-flung island. But in need of some care after a new hip, he finds himself at Twilight Lodge on the decidedly cloudy English coast.

Socially awkward Chloe Cooper divides her time between dog walking, bartending, caring for her ailing mother, and at a safe distance, watching people and inventing the stories of their lives. Like Chloe’s new neighbors: glamorous influencer Jemma Spengler and Jemma’s husband, Adam, a renowned surgeon. They’re attractive, wealthy, and in a house of open windows, so exposed.

Inglaterra, 1914. O mundo está em guerra. O capitão Hastings, ferido e abalado, é convidado para ir à mansão Styles para se recuperar. Trata-se de uma grande e antiga casa de campo – propriedade da família de um velho amigo – e um refúgio perfeito. Pelo menos, à primeira vista. Mas, sob o calor escaldante do verão, os problemas vão aparecendo. Tensões latentes estão dividindo a família, e acabam chegando a um desfecho aterrador. Emily Inglethorp, a rica matriarca da família, é torpemente assassinada no meio da noite. E ninguém em Styles está acima de suspeita.

Enveloppé de neige, le village de Three Pines se berce d’une atmosphère du temps des Fêtes jusqu’à ce qu’un cri brise cette harmonie. Une spectatrice de la traditionnelle partie de curling a été électrocutée sous les yeux de tous, au beau milieu d’un lac gelé. L’inspecteur-chef Armand Gamache revient dans la charmante communauté. Avec minutie, il dévoile le passé de la victime et découvre un écheveau de secrets et de rivalités. Et Gamache a ses propres ennemis au sein de la Sûreté du Québec.

May Day should mark the start of spring. But this year, it means murder... Fortunately antique store owner and amateur detective Bella Winter is on the case! Everyone in Hope Eaton climbs the hill to Sweet Agnes’ Spring on May Day, to greet the dawn and leave tokens among the flowers. Antique store owner Bella Winter grumbles about the early start, but she has to admit that watching the sun rise over the flower-strewn grove is worth it.

Whilst organising a mock murder hunt for the village fete hosted by Sir George and Lady Stubbs, a feeling of dread settles on the famous crime novelist Adriane Oliver. Call it instinct, but it's a feeling she just can't explain...or get away from. In desperation she summons her old friend, Hercule Poirot - and her instincts are soon proved correct when the "pretend" murder victim is discovered playing the scene for real, a rope wrapped tightly around her neck.

À Three Pines, durant le week-end de Pâques, tout le monde rajeunit le temps d’une grande chasse aux œufs. Lorsqu’une étrangère qui communique avec les esprits s’arrête au village, les habitants n’y voient encore qu’une occasion de se divertir. Une séance de spiritisme est organisée dans la vieille maison abandonnée des Hadley. L’exercice destiné à libérer la demeure du mal qu’elle recèle est tragiquement interrompu par la mort d’une participante. Morte de peur, vraiment? C’est ce qu’Armand Gamache va devoir découvrir avec son équipe.

London, 1941: Miss Jane Treen is at her desk, strong black coffee in hand and fluffy ginger cat by her side, when her top-secret government work is interrupted by an urgent call to Devon. A woman has been found dead in a lake in a place where she shouldn’t have been. Jane needs to gather the clues and find the killer before someone else from the agency gets hurt… Shy and handsome code-breaker Arthur Cilento is bewildered by the arrival of the efficient Miss Treen and her cat Marmaduke.

Audible Studios presenta una produzione Audible Originals: Poirot a Styles Court, con Claudio Santamaria nel ruolo del leggendario Hercule Poirot. Un’audio serie corale che riunisce un cast d’eccezione, nell’adattamento del romanzo d’esordio di Agatha Christie. Inghilterra, 1914. Il mondo è precipitato in un conflitto senza precedenti. Ferito nel corpo e nell’animo, il capitano Hastings accetta l’invito a trascorrere la convalescenza a Styles Court, l’imponente dimora di campagna di un vecchio amico.

School may be out for summer, but top-secret training continues for aspiring spy Ben Ripley - and so does the danger. Ben Ripley is a middle schooler whose school is not exactly average - he's spent the last year training to be a top-level spy and dodging all sorts of associated danger. So now that summer's finally here, Ben's ready to have some fun and relax. Except that's not going to happen, because a spy-in-training's work is never done.

Milly, Aubrey, and Jonah Story are cousins, but they barely know each another, and they've never even met their grandmother. Rich and reclusive, she disinherited their parents before they were born. So when they each receive a letter inviting them to work at her island resort for the summer, they're surprised...and curious.

The new Kings Lake Central murder squad is about to spend its first morning on team-building exercises and reviewing cold cases when the call comes in that the body of one of the city's rough sleepers has been found in a shop doorway. It happens, someone says, he isn't the first to die on the streets and he won't be the last, but the story the new team begins to uncover is far from routine.