Historical Police Procedural

A standalone novel from the author of the classic Australian Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte mystery series. Harry Tremayne, a policeman, goes to an isolated valley in the remote Murchison region of Western Australia to find his brother - who vanished a month earlier while investigating the murder of a police detective. Do the gold smugglers at Breakaway House hold the answers to the mystery? First published as a serial in the Perth Daily News in 1932, the real setting for Breakaway House is Mt Magnet, about 580km north of Perth, deep in gold country.

A leper's daughter is found in the well of a dying hamlet, and the only suspect has fled into Feckenham Forest. But the sun is setting, and Warwickshire's sheriff is hunting his new crowner. That sends Sir Faucon de Ramis and Brother Edmund, his prickly clerk, racing for a nearby abbey only to meet the man he least wishes to see at the abbey gates. Before long, Faucon finds himself riding into the dark at Sir Alain's side as they hunt for yet another lost innocent.

When a rainmaker is bludgeoned to death in the pitch-blackness of a colossal dust storm, small-town sheriff Temple Jennings shoulders yet another burden in the hard times of the 1930s Dust Bowl. The killing only magnifies Temple's ongoing troubles: a formidable opponent in the upcoming election, the repugnant burden of enforcing farm foreclosures, and his wife's lingering grief over the loss of their eight-year-old son. As the sheriff and his young deputy investigate the murder, their suspicions focus on a teenager, Carmine, serving with the Civilian Conservation Corps.

London 1894 - Während in den Salons der feinen Gesellschaft rauschende Feste gefeiert werden und spiritistische Sitzungen, Hellseher und Geisterbeschwörer der letzte Schrei sind, kommt auf dem Markt von Covent Garden ein Straßenjunge unter mysteriösen Umständen zu Tode. Was zunächst nach einem Routinefall aussieht, entpuppt sich schließlich als unheimliches Verbrechen, das Chief Inspector Swanson nicht nur an seinem gesunden Menschenverstand zweifeln lässt, sondern ihn und sein Team auch an die Grenzen ihrer Kräfte bringt.

Berlin, Spätsommer 1935. In der Familie Rath geht jeder seiner Wege. Pflegesohn Fritz marschiert mit der HJ zum Nürnberger Reichsparteitag, Charly schlägt sich als Anwaltsgehilfin und Privatdetektivin durch, während sich Gereon Rath, mittlerweile zum Oberkommissar befördert, mit den Todesfällen befassen muss, die sonst niemand haben will. Ein tödlicher Verkehrsunfall weckt seinen Jagdinstinkt, obwohl seine Vorgesetzten ihm den Fall entziehen und ihn in eine andere Abteilung versetzen. Es geht um Hermann Göring, der erpresst werden soll, um geheime Akten, Morphium und schmutzige Politik.

Il commissario Maki Markaris ha due grandi passioni: il mare e la caccia al polpo, che conserva nel congelatore dei reperti organici del commissariato di Chania, sull'isola di Creta. Markaris però ama anche il raki, l'acquavite ottomana al profumo di anice, e le dee. Proprio come Afroditi, la giovane archeologa rimasta orfana di un padre che custodiva il segreto più straordinario di quell'isola celebre fin dai tempi più antichi per la leggenda del Minotauro.

When Kirsten Harbourn is found strangled on her wedding day, DI Wesley Peterson makes some alarming discoveries. Kirsten was being pursued by a stalker, and she had dark secrets her fiancé knew nothing about. But Kirsten's wasn't the only wedding planned to take place that day. At Morbay register office a terrified young girl makes her wedding vows, but a few days later her bridegroom is found dead. Wesley suspects that his death and his bride's subsequent disappearance might be linked to Kirsten's murder.

A chilling locked-room mystery! Impossible for the murderer to escape, yet, he did. Powerful officials conspire against Chief Bucky's attempt to solve the case, including the KKK, whose members particularly resent Bucky's friend, Charlotte, a Harvard-educated "Negro" lawyer. When they drag her off to a hanging - her hanging - Bucky reaches the end of his rope.

When workmen converting former girls' boarding school Chadleigh Hall into a luxury hotel discover a skeleton in a sealed room, DI Wesley Peterson and his boss, Gerry Heffernan, are called in to investigate. But within minutes they have a second suspicious death on their hands: a team of marine archaeologists working on a nearby shipwreck have dragged a woman's body from the sea. And it becomes clear that her death was no accident. The dead woman's husband may be linked with a brutal robbery of computer equipment, but Wesley soon discovers that the victim had secrets of her own....

When a young woman's body is discovered in the summer of 1910 in Vienna, the inspector's wife is certain the figs found in her stomach during the autopsy are the clue to the identity of the murderer - for there are no fresh figs in Vienna at this time of year.

A reckoning with the persistence of evil in post-Civil War Atlanta. After leaving Atlanta in disgrace three years before, detective Thomas Canby is called back to the city on the eve of Atlanta's 1881 International Cotton Exposition to partner with Atlanta's first African American police officer, Cyrus Underwood. The case they're assigned is chilling: a serial murderer who seems to be violently targeting Atlanta's wealthiest black entrepreneurs. The killer's method is both strange and unusually gruesome.

April 1990, Guadeloupe: The body white female French tourist has been discovered on a nudist beach. The victim's remains offer no clues about her final hours. What turned this woman's vacation in paradise into a final nightmare? French-Algerian judge Anne Marie Laveau is assigned the high-profile case as a top priority. As always, the story of a murdered white woman has attracted the attention of international media.

It's 1976. Dr. Colin Sanford, a brilliant, ambitious obstetrician in the Pacific Northwest city of Emerald, has a plan to create the first in vitro baby. He recruits Dr. Giselle Hearn, an experienced laboratory geneticist/embryologist at the university who’s frustrated by the ultraconservative policies of her department chairman. Drs. Sanford and Hearn, working secretly, set out to put their names in the history books. Unfortunately, a secret that big is hard to keep....

On Christmas Eve, 1943, the newly formed but undermanned Homicide division of the Melbourne police force is called to investigate the vicious double murder of a father and son. When Military Intelligence becomes involved, Homicide's Inspector Titus Lambert must unravel the personal from the political. If only the killings had stopped at two. The police are desperate to come to grips with an extraordinary and disquieting upsurge of violence.

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.

London, november 1944. En ung flicka hittas brutalt mördad. Den vinterkalla staden är mörklagd på grund av kriget och polisens resurser är begränsade i en stad som tvingats ta emot flyktingar från ett härjat Europa. Flickan visar sig vara en polsk judinna, Rosa Nowak, som arbetade på den pensionerade kriminalkommissarien John Maddens gård. Tyngd av samvetskval bestämmer han sig för att hjälpa sina gamla kollegor vid Scotland Yard att lösa fallet.

Efter flera år i Scotland Yards tjänst har kriminalkommissarie John Madden dragit sig tillbaka. Tillsammans med hustrun Helen och deras två barn lever han ett stillsamt liv på landet i det fridfulla Surrey. Men minnena från hans svåraste fall sommaren 1921 då en psykopatisk krigsveteran satte skräck i en hel landsända gör sig fortfarande påminda då och då. När den tolvåriga Alice Bridge försvinner och en omfattande skallgångskedja sätts igång för att hitta henne blir Madden den som bokstavligen snubblar över hennes svårt sargade lik.

Det är sommaren 1921. John Madden vid Scotland Yard tillkallas av polisen i Guildford för att utreda de brutala morden på överste Fletcher och hans familj i Surrey. Den enda som överlevt är femåriga Sophy, men hon är så chockad att hon inte kan frågas ut och tas om hand av familjens läkare, Helen Blackwell. Lokalpolisen vill rubricera morden som inbrottsförsök, men Madden - som själv blivit vittne till många vansinnesdåd under kriget - är övertygad om att de begåtts av en psykopatisk krigsveteran som inte tvekar att slå till igen, och det snart.

Luglio 1932. A Napoli è arrivato il caldo, quello vero, e la città sembra precipitare nell'inferno. In una notte rovente, un notissimo chirurgo cade dalla finestra del suo ufficio. Un uomo dall'aria irreprensibile, ma con qualche magagna nella vita. Scartata presto l'ipotesi del suicidio, Ricciardi e il brigadiere Maione iniziano un'indagine che li porterà a fare i conti con i più indomabili sentimenti e passioni, e ad affrontare i lati oscuri dell'anima. Questa volta saranno le donne della loro vita a reclamare attenzione.

Napoli, 1932. Manca una settimana a Pasqua e l'aria profuma di primavera. In un'esclusiva casa di tolleranza, viene trovata morta una delle ragazze più belle, la famosa Vipera. Chi è stato a soffocarla con un cuscino? Nella sua indagine, il commissario Ricciardi si troverà impigliato in una rete di sentimenti e passioni insospettabili, che toccheranno anche lui. Rappresentata con maestria nella sua vivace autenticità, la città arriverà a svelare il suo volto meno conosciuto.