International Police Procedurals

Detective Gunnhildur sets to investigate two seemingly separate cases, but uncovers some disturbing links. Top class crime writing set in Icleand. Following her promotion and working now from Reykjavik, Gunnhildur is given responsibility for two cases - the first in tracking down an escaped convict who's keen to settle old scores, and the other, the murder of a TV fitness presenter in her city centre apartment.

The Australian outback is beautiful, idyllic, peaceful, and all Detective Bo Campbell has to do is fit in. Within a day of his arrival, however, he's asked to cover up the murder of a local Aboriginal woman found in bushland. When he discovers she's not the only one, his whole world comes crashing down. In 1982, north-western New South Wales is plagued by corruption, deaths in custody and inequality. Sent to the remote area after he accidentally shot and killed his partner in a bungled drug raid in Newtown, Bo finds himself caught in a trap and being squeezed by a ruthless group.

Ein eiskalter Doppelmord führt auf die Spur eines nie gesühnten Verbrechen... Boisen & Nyborg ermitteln wieder! Eiswinter 1978/79: Sturm und extreme Schneefälle versetzen Schleswig-Holstein in den Ausnahmezustand. Der Strom ist ausgefallen, die Infrastruktur zusammengebrochen, ganze Dörfer sind von der Außenwelt abgeschnitten. In dem kleinen Ort Wanderup kämpfen die Nachbarn unermüdlich gegen die Schneemassen, legen mit ihren Schaufeln Zufahrten und Wege frei – und stoßen dabei auf eine Leiche. Über vierzig Jahre später erschüttert ein grausames Verbrechen die Bewohner der dänischen Insel Als.

Father Aloysius Walsh spent the last years of his life painstakingly collecting evidence of a yearlong killing spree, unparalleled savagery that blighted Ireland's borderlands at the end of the 1970s. Pinned to his bedroom wall, a macabre map charts the grim territory of death - victims, weapons, wounds, dates - and somehow, amid the forest of pins and notes, he had discerned a pattern.

Hamburg state prosecutor Chastity Riley investigates a series of arson attacks on cars across the city, which leads her to a startling and life-threatening discovery involving criminal gangs and a very illicit love story...Night after night, cars are set alight across the German city of Hamburg, with no obvious pattern, no explanation and no suspect. Until, one night, on Mexico Street, a ghetto of high-rise blocks in the north of the city, a Fiat is torched. Only this car isn’t empty.

Un mix di generi che, prendendo in prestito una definizione da cinema, l'autore definisce "action-spy". Veloce, scorrevole e raccontato dal punto di vista di due protagonisti più la voce narrante. In un tranquillo pomeriggio di giugno, Steven Barrimore, dirigente di una multinazionale di Dallas, viene prelevato dalla sua casa da un commando di uomini armati e ben addestrati, con un vero e proprio blitz. Perché Steven Barrimore è sparito?

On the hottest day in living memory, Richard Mallory Tindall, the owner of a patent firm, does not return home to Cleete village. When a man is found crushed to death, Tindall's case goes from missing person to homicide. In the course of solving murder cases, Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan has seen all manner of ugly death. But there's something particularly gruesome about this one, the body crushed beneath the marble and iron of an old Saxon church tower. With rubble blocking off access to the crime scene, no one can get close enough to inspect the body.

Marjaniemeläisessä omakotitalossa ei nukuta, kun öinen laitapuolen kulkija saapuu ulko-ovelle mukanaan äärirajoille ärsytetty ja nälkään kuolemaisillaan oleva pitbullterrieri. Jälki on rumaa katseltavaa - ja niinpä Itäkeskuksen poliisilaitoksen parivaljakko Sakari Vaarala ja Helena Riihioja saavat jälleen selvitettäväkseen tehtävän, josta ei puutu vauhtia ja vaarallisia tilanteita. Onneksi sentään Vaaralan yksityiselämässä puhaltavat suotuisat tuulet. Vainajan nilkkaan kiinnitetyssä nimilapussa ei lue "syyttömänä syntynyt" tai "sijaiskärsijänä kuollut".

Una mañana de invierno, el inspector Rojo recibe una llamada... una llamada que le hará arriesgarlo todo, no solo su carrera sino también su vida. En el punto de mira de sus superiores, Rojo decide investigar por su cuenta el caso abandonado de una chica desaparecida. Pronto se da cuenta de que la desaparición solo es la punta de un iceberg podrido. En "Rojo", la primera novela en una serie de cuatro, Pablo Poveda le da el protagonismo al Inspector Rojo, el personaje más carismático de las novelas de Gabriel Caballero.

Ein aufstrebender Fernsehstar wird ermordet, regelrecht hingerichtet mit einem Bolzenschussgerät im Klassenzimmer einer Stockholmer Schule. An seinen Rücken ist ein Fragebogen geheftet, darunterdie Note "mangelhaft". Kommissar Torkel Höglund und sein Team durchforsten das Umfeld des Mannes auf der Suche nach Spuren. Kriminalpsychologe Sebastian Bergman findet einen Chat, in dem jemand über die fehlende Bildung berühmter Persönlichkeiten spottet.

Mykkä tuska etsii pakotietä Tuula T. Matintuvan varmaotteisessa, viidennessä dekkarissa. Teinityttö löydetään surmattuna lenkkipolulta. Viikkoa myöhemmin samaisen polun varrelta löytyy murhattu perheenäiti, vain tekotapa on eri. Liittyvätkö tapaukset toisiinsa? Rikosylikonstaapeli Alina Mänty työtovereineen kuulustelevat Viljavainiontien asukkaita, joista erikoisin on yksinäinen kuusikymppinen Saara, läheisen maatilan naimaton tytär, joka ei ole puhunut mitään vuoden 1967 jouluaaton jälkeen. Saara viettää paljon aikaa tarkkaillen ympäristöään.

Vance had always been extremely proud of Noella, and just because his life had been ruined, he saw no reason why she had to have the same faith. When his dad died, leaving him and his mother penniless, he dropped out of law school and ended his relationship with Noella, but in doing so, he stopped a scandal that could have ruined her family. These secrets he would never let her know. Ironically, years later, he would have never guessed she would be instrumental in ruining his career with the Tampa police force.

A rash of burglaries has Inspector Salvo Montalbano stumped. The criminals are so brazen that their leader, the anonymous Mr. Z, startssending the Sicilian inspector menacing letters. Among those burgled is the young and beautiful Angelica Cosulich, who reminds the inspector of the love-interest in Ludovico Ariosto's chivalric romance, Orlando Furioso. Besotted by Angelica's charms, Montalbano imagines himself back in the medieval world of jousts and battles.

A familly in turmoil. A country in crisis. All debts must be settled. Detective Inspector for homicide, Sarah Lund, is contacted by old flame Mathias Borch from National Intelligence. Borch fears that what first appeared to be a random killing at the docks is the beginning of an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Troels Hartmann. The murder draws attention towards the shipping and oil giant, Zeeland, run by billionaire Robert Zeuthen.

Der schwedische Reporter Alf Matsson verschwindet auf einer Reise nach Ungarn spurlos. Gepäck und Pass hat er im Hotel zurückgelassen, doch von ihm fehlt jede Spur. Die ungarische Polizei tappt im Dunkeln. Kommissar Martin Beck von der Stockholmer Kriminalpolizei reist inoffiziell nach Budapest, um den rätselhaften Fall aufzuklären. Doch kaum angekommen, wird er von Unbekannten brutal zusammengeschlagen. Jemand versucht mit allen Mitteln zu verhindern, dass die Wahrheit ans Licht kommt.

Realistic, sharp-edged, and complex, Unspeakable is Sandra Brown's best yet. A beautiful woman locked in silence, a man stalked by dark secrets he can no longer outrun, and an over-the-hill peace officer seeking redemption must defeat their own demons before a tumultuous confrontation with a diabolical killer.

Lucy Jarrett is terrified. Someone is watching her every move, following her home from work and making threatening phone calls. But her husband doesn't believe her and no one else is listening. Lucy's married life is proving anything but blissful. Her musician husband is perpetually away on tour and doesn't want to start a family. Lucy finally calls on Detective Tom Mariner for help, and he takes her fears seriously because of the recent murder of another young woman by her ex-partner.

In einem verlassenen Gebäude in Berlin, einst ein Heim für schwer erziehbare Jugendliche in der ehemaligen DDR, wird die Leiche eines Franzosen entdeckt. Der Fund wird zum ersten Fall für das von Europol ins Leben gerufene Cold-Case-Team um Sophie Steinbach und David Martin, die am Tatort Schockierendes enthüllen: In einem zugemauerten Keller liegen die Überreste zahlreicher Menschen begraben. Sophie, David und ihr Team tauchen in die düstere Vergangenheit des Erziehungsheims ein. Die Spur führt sie zu geheimen Stasi-Akten und unaussprechlichen Grausamkeiten des damaligen Regimes.

FreeFlow is a group of activists dedicated to freedom of information. They have evidence of a military atrocity in the Middle East and are preparing to unleash it. On the glacial rim of an erupting volcano, they christen their endeavour Operation Meltwater. Minutes later, one of them is murdered. Magnus Jonson has a long list of suspects, but he’s getting little help - for a group dedicated to transparency, they’re a secretive bunch. But they are not the only ones with secrets....

A friend in his cigar club asks Antoine Verlaque to visit Rene Rouquet, a retired postal worker who has found a rolled-up canvas in his apartment. As the apartment once belonged to Paul Cezanne, Rouquet is convinced he's discovered a treasure. But when Antoine arrives at the apartment, he finds Rene dead, the canvas missing, and a mysterious art history professor standing over the body. When the painting is finally recovered, the mystery only deepens.