Historical Police Procedural

Frühjahr 1943. In Reykjavík herrscht eine angespannte Stimmung - Island ist von den Amerikanern besetzt. In diesen unruhigen Zeiten wird nahe einer Soldatenkneipe im Stadtzentrum ein Mann brutal erstochen. Kommissar Flóvent und sein kanadischer Kollege Thorson von der Militärpolizei nehmen die Ermittlungen auf, während Flóvent noch mit einem anderen Fall befasst ist: Eine männliche Leiche wurde am Strand der Nautholsvík-Bucht angespült. Stehen die Tode mit den Kriegsereignissen in Zusammenhang? Die Kommissare ermitteln in einem heiklen Umfeld und geraten dabei selbst in Gefahr.

Akcja zostala osadzona w Warszawie lat 20. Komisarz Jan Warecki jest doswiadczonym funkcjonariuszem policji, który cieszy sie uznaniem i dobra opinia wspólpracowników. Pewnego dnia otrzymuje telefon od nieznanej kobiety. Czy, aby jej pomóc narazi swoja reputacje na szwank i, czy uda mu sie wyjsc calo z opresji? Miara sukcesu podobno jest liczba wrogów, Warecki ma jednego, wyjatkowo zajadlego - swojego podwladnego, wywiadowce Rypsa.

Lige før politiets internering i september 1944, bliver en kendt københavnsk filmmand likvideret. Han havde nazistiske sympatier, men en betjent, som undslipper tyskerne, arbejder videre med en anden teori.

Venezia 1902. Dalla sommità del campanile di San Marco un ragazzo viene spinto nel vuoto e si schianta tra i turisti in piazza. Le indagini sono affidate a un commissario di polizia, Guido Bordin molto capace, sebbene tormentato da profondi problemi esistenziali. Ben presto tra assassino e commissario nasce una sfida, una caccia all'uomo attraverso la città in cui i ruoli di preda e predatore talvolta si invertono. Ma cosa spinge Pfenner a questi omicidi? Cosa si nasconde dietro l'inquietudine di Bordin?

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?

Estate 1808. Nel caldo soffocante l'esercito napoleonico occupa la Prussia e tenta di mettere le mani sulla sua ricchezza più grande: l'ambra. Ma una maledizione sembra calare sulle raccoglitrici della preziosa resina, donne forti e splendide che cadono sotto i colpi di un assassino efferato e maniacale. Mentre i loro corpi, lasciati nudi e stranamente mutilati sulle spiagge del Baltico, sembrano comporre un oscuro disegno, spetta di nuovo a Stiffeniis, il detective allievo di Kant, affrontare l'ignoto, e un pericolo più vicino di quanto lui stesso possa immaginare.

Königsberg, Prussia, 1804. Un manoscritto maledetto, la Critica della ragion criminale, scritto dal sommo filosofo della Ragione, Immanuel Kant, esplora il fascino del Male assoluto. E delitti atroci si susseguono, così inspiegabili che tutti pensano al Diavolo. Il giovane Stiffeniis, antico allievo di Kant, viene chiamato a indagare. Lentamente Stiffeniis scopre una verità sconvolgente.

During the Great War, Hermann Kohler and Jean-Louis St-Cyr fought in Alsace on opposite sides of the barbed wire. Two decades later, they return as partners: a Gestapo officer and a French cop investigating everyday crimes in a world gone mad with war. In February 1943, Alsace is unrecognizable - an occupied country where speaking French is all it takes to lose one’s freedom.

The last time Jean-Louis St-Cyr visited the ruins of this ancient abbey, during one of the bloodiest campaigns of the Great War, a sniper nearly killed him. Three decades later, death has brought him here again. Ever since the German occupation of France, the chief inspector has worked alongside German detective inspector Hermann Kohler, solving crimes too common to pique the Gestapo's interest.

DCI Monkia Paniatowski has seen dozens of murder victims in her time, but nothing could have prepared her for the corpse in the woods. It is not so much that the man’s throat has been slashed that shocks her, nor even the way he is naked – it is the way he has been carefully posed. Paniatowski has been assigned a new sergeant, who she does not entirely trust. Worse yet, an old enemy from the secret service announces he will be monitoring her every move.

State Security Officer Brano Sev is the secretive member of the Ministry for State Security. No one else quite trusts him, but it is part of his job to do what the authorities ask, no matter what. So when he gets an order to travel to the village of his birth in order to interrogate a potential defector, he goes. When a man turns up dead shortly after he arrives and Brano is framed for the murder, he assumes this is part of the plan and allows it to run its course.

After an absence of a year, Catherine LeVendeur and her husband Edgar are glad to return to Paris. When they enter the house, however, they are shocked by the discovery of the dead body of a Knight Templar. Although innocent, Catherine fears that she or her family will be incriminated. Her father Hubert has recently announced his Jewish roots, and twelfth-century Europe is not a safe place for Jews.

New York, 1891: a rapidly changing city, torn between lamplight and electric light, where the burgeoning steel and railway industries attract a flood of humanity from every corner of the globe, fuelling cutthroat gangs, corruption and vice. A prostitute is found brutally murdered. Immediately fear starts to spread. The victim bears the same hallmarks as Jack the Ripper's recent killing spree in England. Could it be that the Ripper has crossed the Atlantic to fresh killing grounds? Or is this simply a copycat murder?

When a chorus girl is found dead on a Broadway stage dressed in the leading lady's costume, there are no signs of violence, no cuts, no bruises, no marks at all. If pressed, the coroner would call it a suicide, but then that would make her the second girl to turn up dead in such a manner in the last few weeks. And the news of a possible serial killer would be potentially disastrous to the burgeoning theater world, not to mention the citizens of New York.

The past has always felt near in the historic house of Jonathon Lydell III, who proudly advertises his family connection to the Virginia Lees. But now, history is repeating itself in a truly bizarre and spooky way. Sheriff Ike Schwartz and FBI agent Karl Hedrick are dispatched to resolve the mystery of the strangely identical murders 150 years apart.

There is a new broom at Scotland Yard: Nimrod Frost. His first “little job” for Lestrade is to investigate the reported appearance of a lion in Cornwall. This is hardly a task for an Inspector. Yet even as Lestrade questions a witness, a man is reported dead - horrifically mauled. Having solved that case to his own satisfaction, Lestrade returns to London and to more suspicious deaths - all old men who should have died quietly in their sleep. Is there a connection? Lestrade's superiors discount his speculations....

Hamburg, 1947. A ruined city occupied by the British who bombed it, experiencing the coldest winter in living memory. Food is scarce; refugees and the homeless crowd into shantytowns and sheds. There is a killer on the loose, and all attempts to find him or her have failed. Plagued with worry about his missing son, Frank Stave is a career policeman with a tragedy in his past that is driving his determination to find the killer.

Michael Cassidy, a New York cop plagued by dreams that sometimes come true, escorts a prisoner accused of murder to Havana on the cusp of Fidel Castro's successful revolution against the Batista dictatorship. After delivering the man to La Cabaña prison and rescuing his former lover - Dylan McCue, now a Russian KGB agent - from her scheduled execution, Cassidy returns to New York and retreats into the comforts of alcohol and sex.

1963, France: A farmer reports a truck ramming into a car near Picardie, followed by gunfire. A group of Englishmen are brought in after a bar fight. A tramp's body is discovered in a burnt out truck. All this occurring after multiple attempts on the President's life. Inspector Lucas Rocco knows there's a connection somewhere, and is recruited by Colonel Saint-Cloud to assist with the President's Security.

The murder of Judge Hugo Jackson is out of Detective Simon Ziele's jurisdiction in more ways than one. For one, its high-profile enough to command the attention of the notorious new police commissioner, since Judge Jackson was presiding over the sensational trial of Al Drayson. Drayson, an anarchist, set off a bomb at a Carnegie family wedding, but instead of killing millionaires, it killed passersby, including a child. The dramatic trial has captured the full attention of 1906 New York City.