Historical Police Fiction

London, April 1912. The third Irish Home Rule Bill is passing through Parliament, and the situation is growing ever more tense. Closely involved in the negotiations, cabinet minister Edmund Latimer finds himself under growing pressure, which only intensifies when his seven-month-old niece, Lucy, is snatched away in her pram in Regent's Park. Could there be a connection between Lucy’s kidnapping and the Irish talks? With her husband under intolerable strain, Edmund's wife, Alice, makes it her business to find out.

Hamburg 1928: Seit einem Jahr gibt es im Hamburger Stadthaus eine weibliche Kriminalpolizei unter Leitung der resoluten Josefine Erkens. Auch die freiheitsliebende Paula heuert dort an. Als eine Tänzerin ermordet und obszön entstellt wird, gelingt es Erkens, Paula und eine weitere Kommissarin in der bisher rein männlich besetzen Mordkommission unterzubringen. Angeführt wird diese Ermittlungsgruppe von Martin Broder, der der Hölle von Flandern entkam. Zu Beginn tut er sich schwer mit den "unfähigen Weibern", doch die Frauen arbeiten mit präziser Logik und kühlem Witz.

Viet Nam, 1963. A female Viet Cong assassin is trawling the boulevards of Saigon, catching US Army officers off-guard with a single pistol shot, then riding off on the back of a scooter. Although the US military is not officially in combat, 16,000 American servicemen are stationed in Viet Nam “advising” the military and government. Among them are Ellsworth Miser and Clovis Robeson, two army investigators who have been tasked with tracking down the daring killer.

London, 1882. Alec Lonsdale, a young reporter on the Pall Mall Gazette, is working on a story about a fatal house fire. But the postmortem on the victim produces shocking results: Patrick Donovan's death was no accident. But why would someone murder a humble shop assistant and steal part of his brain? When a second body is discovered, its throat cut, and then a third, Lonsdale and his spirited female colleague, Hulda Friederichs, begin to uncover evidence of a conspiracy that reaches to the highest echelons of Victorian society.

George Arrow, a good-looking, independently wealthym and single man of 36, has just been diagnosed with a weak heart. A heart so weak, his doctor tells him, he must go to extraordinary lengths to avoid putting the slightest strain upon it. On his doctor's advice, George packs up his life in Dublin and boards a train to the Bay of Galway where he intends to live quietly in a hotel and await the inevitable end. On the train, he meets John Burden, and as they chat, George realizes that his new acquaintance is an odious man.

September 1940. As the Blitz takes its nightly toll on London and Hitler prepares his invasion fleet just across the Channel in occupied France, Britain is full of talk about enemy agents. Suspicion is at an all-time high, and no one is sure who can be trusted. In Canning Town, rescue workers are unsettled when they return to a damaged street and discover a body that shouldn’t be there. When closer examination of the corpse reveals death by strangling, Detective Inspector John Jago is called upon to investigate.

A lone German bomber crosses the east coast of Britain on a moonless night in the long hot summer of 1940. The pilot picks up the silver thread of a river and, following it to his target, drops his bomb over Cambridge's rail yards. The shell falls short of its mark and lands in a maze-like neighbourhood of terraced streets on the edge of the city's medieval centre. DI Eden Brooke is first on the scene and discovers the body of an elderly woman, Nora Wylde, beside her shattered bed in a terrace house on Elm Street.

Il 1955 è l'anno del grande schermo. Gli italiani vogliono sognare e affollano le sale cinematografiche. Anche il commissario Clodoveo si è lasciato tentare. Un pomeriggio diverso con la figlioletta in affido, Isabella. In cartellone c'è ‘Sabrina' con la mitica Audrey Hepburn. Ma, prima, sul palco arrivano comici e ballerine. La compagnia dell'avanspettacolo accende applausi, risate e battute sagaci. Fulmineo, si compie il dramma. Grida di raccapriccio, sguardi pietrificati. L'impensabile è di scena. L'assurdo carico di realtà.

Kommissar Oppenheimer jagt den Al Capone von Berlin: Trümmertote ist der 7. Teil der preisgekrönten historischen Krimi-Reihe aus dem Berlin der 40er Jahre. Berlin 1949: Während tagsüber die Aufräumarbeiten voranschreiten, blüht nachts das Verbrechen. Besonders Gewaltdelikte nehmen rasant zu, und so ist Kommissar Oppenheimer nicht sonderlich überrascht, als auf einer Schuttdeponie eine Leiche entdeckt wird. Eine genauere Untersuchung des Areals fördert zwei weitere Tote zutage; alle drei Männer wurden brutal ermordet.

Seconda indagine per il commissario capo Damiano Flexi Gerardi, soprannominato il Becchino, già protagonista dell’acclamato "Il mandante" (2019). Nella Genova degli anni Cinquanta, Damiano è stato convinto dal questore a ritirare le proprie dimissioni. Afflitto da rupofobia e afefobia, il commissario è un’anima tormentata, ma il nuovo caso affidatogli lo costringerà a un duro bagno di realtà. Le vittime innocenti dell’omicidio, questa volta, sono due piccole ospiti di un orfanotrofio. Chi mai potrebbe aver ucciso quelle due bambine innocenti?

West Berkshire, the 1970s. PC Don Barton is convinced that life has taken a turn for the better when he passes his promotion exam and becomes an acting sergeant. Things take a turn for the worse after a violent altercation with a local thug. Soon after, Don finds himself investigating a hit-and-run case. Somehow, international drug smugglers and the London gangland all seem to be involved. Don is determined to find out the truth, but the more he uncovers, the greater the danger becomes. Can he crack the case before more lives are lost?

When the acclaimed Cuban painter Wifredo Lam turns up dead in his Greenwich Village studio, officers Juanita Diaz and Brian Fitzgerald must investigate the crime. But what they find is much more gruesome than they ever could have imagined. Suspicion soon falls on a tight-knit circle of Surrealist refugees who fled Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II, and Diaz and Fitzgerald must traverse the city, from Chinatown's underworld to Spanish Harlem's gangland, to find the truth. Did one of the artists' bizarre parlor games turn deadly? Or is there something even more sinister afoot?

It’s spring 1962, and a sergeant with the Memphis Police Department is found dead only hours before his scheduled testimony before a grand jury. Was it suicide, or was it murder? What was he going to testify about? A handwritten note left by the sergeant and addressed to the district attorney disappears.

Reconstrucció dels assassinats comesos en 1949 per John George Haig, un assassí en sèrie que, en ser detingut, va confessar que era un vampir que necessitava alimentar-se de sang humana. Els jutges van sospitar que s'estava fent passar per boig per eludir la condemna de mort i, després de moltes deliberacions, el van enviar a la forca. Narrada en primera persona, la novel·la és una minuciosa aproximació als fets reals i exactes que van succeïr al mateix temps que reflexiona sobre la demència i sobre el crim i va amanit amb l'homenatge a tres mestres....

Eine Mordserie erschüttert die junge BRD, und die Spuren führen weit zurück und tief hinein in einen Sumpf aus alten braunen Seilschaften. Düsseldorf, 1965: Für den jungen Kommissar Thomas Engel ist die Großstadt der verheißungsvolle Beginn seiner Karriere. Er stürzt sich ins Leben, als ihm seine Arbeit den ersten Mord beschert. Ein junges Mädchen wird in der Ruine Kaiserswerth tot aufgefunden. Engel versteht nicht, dass seine Kollegen nicht gleich die Spur verfolgen, die geradewegs in die dunklen 1930er Jahre führt.

Düsseldorf, 1965: Für den jungen Kommissar Thomas Engel ist die Großstadt der verheißungsvolle Beginn seiner Karriere. Er stürzt sich ins Leben, als ihm seine Arbeit den ersten Mord beschert. Ein junges Mädchen wird in der Ruine Kaiserswerth tot aufgefunden. Engel versteht nicht, dass seine Kollegen nicht gleich die Spur verfolgen, die geradewegs in die dunklen 1930er Jahre führt. Versucht man etwas vor ihm zu verheimlichen, und warum will niemand sehen, was so offensichtlich auf der Hand liegt?

December, 1939. Having solved the case of the Suffolk Vampire, Inspector Betty Church and her colleagues at Sackwater Police Station have settled back down to business. There's the elderly Mr Fern, who keeps losing his slippers, Sylvia Satin's 13th birthday party to attend and the scintillating case of the missing bookmark to solve. Though peace and quiet are all well and good, Betty soon finds herself longing for some cold-blooded murder.

In 1938, at the height of the Great Depression, a madman hunts his victims through the hobo jungles of Cleveland, terrorizing the city. Ethel Harding, a prostitute struggling to survive both the cold streets and the Torso Killer, takes refuge with a devout missionary sect - only to find that its righteous facade conceals the darkest of secrets. Sixty years later, the police find the butchered body of Alfred Wiley in the woods. But before his daughter, Kris, can even identify the remains, things he never told her begin to surface one by one.

A woman's body is discovered in Angel Meadow, site of one of the most the notorious slums in Victorian England. She has been shot. Caton's investigation uncovers a link to the Troubles in Northern Ireland thirty years ago. The Establishment wants to let sleeping dogs lie. Caton, accompanied by DS Joanne Stuart, finds strange allies from both sides of the divide. And when a second murder occurs nothing is going to stop them from uncovering the truth.

Berlin 1919 - Kriminalkommissar Paul Morgenthal hat während des Krieges viel erlebt, dennoch lassen ihn die Taten des Berliner Schlächters, nach dem seit Jahren erfolglos gefahndet wird, nicht kalt. Der Gesuchte schneidet jungen Frauen große Stücke der Haut ab, legt danach die verstümmelten Opfer mitten auf die Straße und deckt sie mit einem Tuch zu. Gemeinsam mit der Stenotypistin Ruth Falkenburg sucht Paul Morgenthal Rat bei Gerichtsmediziner David Hornoff, der einen fast schon krankhaften Wissensdrang in Bezug auf die menschliche Psyche hat