International Police Procedurals

When a young influencer is found dead in an Edinburgh graveyard, the contents of her last video provide an enigmatic, if not downright cryptic, view of the woman's last moments. DI Grant McKenzie cannot shake the feeling that the woman was trying to communicate more than a historical tale to her followers. Did she know what was about to happen? As more influencers fall prey to the same killer, the DI and his team face a heart-stopping race to find an evil psychopath who sneaks up on preoccupied prey; the person the press has named The Gimbal Killer.

Svea Lundström Duval hinner knappt börja på sin nya arbetsplats i Östersund förrän Härjedalen drabbas av en rad sabotage. Tidningarna är snabba att knyta händelserna till rättstvisten mellan traktens markägare och samebyarna, och Svea placeras i Sveg för att leda den uppmärksammade utredningen.Sabotagen är dock inte det enda som stör lugnet i Sveg. Märkliga olycksfall drabbar människor som egentligen borde ha dömts i domstol och Svea börjar söka efter samband. Först när det är för sent inser Svea att sanningen kan bli mycket obehaglig, även för henne själv.".

Antero ja Helena Väkerö asuvat isossa talossa pienellä paikkakunnalla Väkeröiden suvun omistaman sahan ja talotehtaan vieressä. Eräänä päivänä Anterolle ilmestyy sosiaaliseen mediaan profiileja, joita hän ei ole omien sanojensa mukaan tehnyt. Sitten Helenan rakastama puutarha tuhotaan. Oudot tapahtumat seuraavat toisiaan, kunnes kaikki kärjistyy kohtalokkaaseen automatkaan.

"Hur många gånger jag huggit in och slitit ut det böjda knivbladet ur hennes kropp vet jag inte, men jag är helt säker på att hon får precis vad hon förtjänar..." Ett barns kvarlevor flyter till ytan i stenbrottet utanför Örbyhus och skapar oroliga ringar på vattnet. Grundskolerektorn bryter ihop, gängledaren rustar för krig och på torget drar en främmande lyxbil blickarna till sig. Konstnären Lo Karlberg blir gränslöst nyfiken på sanningshalten i bybornas skvaller samtidigt som någon otåligt iakttar dem alla.

En una tarde brumosa, cuatro turistas viajan a Ronda para admirar el Puente Nuevo, una construcción de casi cien metros de altura. Debido al mal tiempo, tres de ellos deciden regresar al hotel. El fiscal malagueño Álvaro Pérez se queda solo haciendo fotos, mientras su esposa sueca, Marianne, y sus amigos lo esperan en el hotel durante horas. Cuando al día siguiente su cuerpo aparece destrozado en un barranco, asignan el caso al inspector Héctor Correa, de la Policía Nacional de Málaga.

Toiminnantäyteinen rikossarja Hämeenlinnan alamaailmasta jatkuu. Joku kuljettaa rautaa rajan takaa Hämeenlinnaan ja myy sitä polkuhintaan. Poliisi epäilee asekauppias Leksa Miettistä, vaikka Leksalla on kerrankin puhtaat jauhot pussissa. Jarkka Nurminen puolestaan saa pahaenteisen vieraan Turusta: Pastori on taas vapaalla jalalla ja kaipaa vanhan keikkakuskinsa apua.

86-vuotias mies löydetään kuolleena lukitusta vaatehuoneesta Pennygångenin asuinalueella. Oikeuslääkärin tutkimus osoittaa, että ruumis on maannut asunnossa puoli vuotta sen jälkeen, kun uhri on nääntynyt kuoliaaksi. Rikoskomisario Ingrid Bergman on juuri palannut töihin pitkältä sairaslomalta. Niinpä rikostarkastaja Karin Falk saa tehtäväkseen johtaa murhatutkintaa ja Ingridin on määrä auttaa häntä. Samaan aikaan Göteborgissa käynnistyvät maaseutumessut merkittävien turvavalmisteluiden kera, sillä maaseutuministeri on joutunut tappouhkauksen kohteeksi.

When an officer is called to a house, he discovers a chilling and bizarre crime scene. Sitting at a dining room table, as if enjoying their evening meal, he finds the decomposing bodies of an entire family. Each one murdered and posed like mannequins. The only person missing from the disturbing scene is the family maid, Elizabeth. Detective Richard Crombie is assigned the case but after weeks of pressure and no results, he reluctantly requests the help of criminal psychiatrist, Doctor Killam, who once worked with Scotland Yard.

London, 1878. One April morning, a small boat bearing a young woman’s corpse floats down the murky waters of the Thames. When the victim is identified as Rose Albert, daughter of a prominent judge, the Scotland Yard director gives the case to Michael Corravan, one of the only senior inspectors remaining after a corruption scandal the previous autumn left the division in ruins. Reluctantly, Corravan abandons his ongoing case, a search for the missing wife of a shipping magnate, handing it over to his young colleague, Mr. Stiles.

Reykjavík Detective Gunnhildur Gísladóttir tries not to believe in ghosts. But when Helgi, one of her team, is certain he's seen a man who had been declared dead more than 15 years ago, she reluctantly gives him some unofficial leeway to look into it. Has the not-so-dead man returned from the grave to settle old scores, or has he just decided to take a last look around his old haunts?

A volte, la vita vera è molto peggiore degli incubi. E proprio di vivere in un incubo ha l'impressione Marco: il volto martoriato da lividi e ferite, la bocca frantumata, le ossa degli arti barbaramente spezzate. Ma il dolore più acuto non è certo dovuto alle ferite. Quando intravede, ancora semicosciente, il corpo di Anna, la sua compagna, abbandonato accanto a lui sul letto, lo sguardo vitreo e inespressivo che solo la morte sa creare, capisce che nulla potrà più essere come prima.

When the murder of a woman is reported to the Shanghai police while Inspector Chen is on vacation, Sergeant Yu is forced to take charge of the investigation. The victim, Yin Lige, a novelist known for her banned book, has been found dead in her tiny, humble room off the stairwell of a converted multi-family house. It seems that only a neighbor could have committed the crime, for the building is kept locked at night. But there is no apparent motive. Sergeant Yu tries to unravel the reclusive woman's past and begins to realize it may have larger political implications.

The House of Four is the brand-new Istanbul crime thriller featuring Inspector Ikmen, from Barbara Nadel. Perfect for fans of Donna Leon. Everyone in the Istanbul neighbourhood of Moda knows the Devil's House. A crumbling Ottoman mansion, and once the home of a princess, it is a place associated with ill fortune. The princess' four children, now in old age, still live in separate apartments on different floors and are rumoured never to speak to each other.

A severed left hand is found in a minivan abandoned on a dry riverbed. When Tokyo Metropolitan Police Force lieutenant Reiko Himekawa and her team join the investigation, the hand is quickly identified as belonging to building contractor Ken'ichi Takaoka, and from the amount of blood spilled in the van, it is presumed that he was killed. However, searches fail to turn up the rest of the body, and the mystery deepens when a childhood friend shown a photo of the victim declares, "That's not Takaoka".

For years FBI agent Cameron Daggett has been on the trail of an international triggerman responsible for planting at least two nearly undetectable explosive devices on airplanes. When a strange murder takes place in a Seattle aircraft training installation, Daggett suspects that his nemesis is involved. The man who was murdered was a specialist in training pilots to fly the Duhning 959-600 - a new breed of ultra-sophisticated aircraft - and he was killed in a Duhning flight simulator.

Captain Alexei Korolev has nothing to complain about. He has his own room in an apartment, a job in the police force that puts food on the table, and his good health. In Moscow in 1937, that's a lot more than most people have to be grateful for. Korolev receives an urgent call from his boss - it seems an important man has been murdered, and Korolev is the only detective they're willing to assign to this sensitive case.

Darko Dawson has just been promoted to chief inspector in the Ghana Police Service - the promotion even comes with a (rather modest) salary bump. But he doesn't have long to celebrate, because his new boss is transferring him from Accra, Ghana's capital, out to remote Obuasi in the Ashanti region, an area now notorious for the illegal exploitation of its gold mines. When Dawson arrives at the Obuasi headquarters, he finds it in complete disarray.

When the body of a boy from one of Greece's most prominent families turns up in a dumpster in one of Athens' worst neighborhoods, Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis of the Greek Police's Special Crimes Division is certain there's a message in the murder. But who sent it, and why?

Sonchai Jitpleecheep is back! The Royal Thai Police detective, our wily, sometimes madly bold guide through the author's previous acclaimed Bangkok novels, is this time on the trail of an American conspiracy and once again - and closer than ever - on the trail of his American father. With Sonchai on this case is the young female inspector, Krom. Like Sonchai, she's an outsider on the police force, but unlike him, she is socially savvy and a technological prodigy.

Marshal Guarnaccia's job with the carabinieri - the local Florentine police - usually involves restoring stolen handbags to grateful old ladies and lost cameras to bewildered tourists. So when he is assigned to work with the police to try to track down a vicious serial killer, he feels out of his league. To make matters worse, the prosecutor he must report to is Simonetti, the same man he knows drove an innocent man to suicide several years earlier in his blind quest for a conviction. The marshal can't let the stress of the case get to him if he wants to make sure justice is upheld.