International Police Procedurals

Gruppeninspektor Frank Karl wird zu einem Tatort in der Wiener Innenstadt bestellt. Der Kieberer wird jedoch unerwartet von dem Fall abgezogen, denn seinen Vorgesetzten quälen andere Sorgen: Seine Tochter liest, von ihrer Gymnasiallehrerin angeregt, obszöne Texte, die sich schnell als Zitate aus der Weltliteratur herausstellen. Frank Karl klappert die Wohnungen der empörten Eltern ab. Dabei begegnet er nicht nur einzigartigen Exemplaren der Wiener Gesellschaft, sondern stolpert auch ins Bett der Lehrerin—und über die Leiche eines prominenten Anwalts.

The calling card of the killer known as ‘The Jeweller' is as elegant as it is gruesome: a pair of ring fingers, separated from their owners, encircled by a band of wire, and delivered directly to Senior Detective Joe Capello. When the Jeweller taunts Joe and his team into meeting him in the diseased grounds of Barren Park, the consequences of that evening will have permanent repercussions for everyone involved. And for Joe, it gets personal.

Criminal investigator Thomas Ravnsholdt—better known as Ravn—is on leave from Copenhagen’s special crime unit following the brutal murder of his wife. Wracked with guilt over her death, Ravn has withdrawn to a ramshackle houseboat with only his grumpy Old English Bulldog to keep him company. But his self-imposed exile ends when a friend asks him for help finding a young woman who disappeared without a trace a few years earlier. The investigation brings Ravn back to his former workplace and the underworld he’d hoped to leave behind.

When wealthy property developer Francis Tan and his family are found slain in their mansion, Cato Kwong is forced to recall a personal history that makes his investigation doubly painful. The killer is elusive and brutal, and the investigation takes Cato to Shanghai. In a world of spoilt rich kids and cyber dragons, Cato is about to discover a whole lot more about the Chinese acquisition of Australian land—about those who play the game and those who die trying.

Chief Inspector Sara Vallén knows the pristine autumn vistas of Lund belie a harsher reality. Just days ago, she had the devastating experience of testifying in court against the man who abused her. Still recovering from that ordeal, she is called to a garden community on the outskirts of town to investigate a brutal murder. A man’s body has been discovered in one of the potting sheds of Västra Sommarstaden. The victim was a social worker whom friends and colleagues describe as a wonderful, kind, and generous human being. But Vallén’s intuition tells her something’s wrong.

En el año 1995, la Policía Nacional de Barcelona se enfrenta a una cadena de accidentes y suicidios, que tienen la particularidad de ocurrir en terrazas de edificios donde los fallecidos no vivían. Esas muertes, en un principio inconexas, llevan de cabeza al Grupo 3 de Homicidios, dirigido por el inspector Bellido y la subinspectora Mónica.

While her colleagues enjoy the seasonal festivities, DI Karen Hornby is called to investigate a suspicious death on the northernmost island of Doggerland. But how close to home is the truth of the case.

While building a pipeline near the Okavango Delta, a contractor unearths the remains of a long-dead Bushman. Rookie Detective David 'Kubu' Bengu of Botswana CID and Scottish pathologist, Ian MacGregor, are sent to investigate, and MacGregor discovers the skeletons of eight more men. Shortly after the gruesome discoveries, the elder of a nearby village is murdered in his home. The local police are convinced it was a robbery, but Kubu isn't so sure...and neither is the strange woman who claims that an angry river spirit caused the elder's death.

DCI Kelso Strang is led to believe that something very odd is going on around the prosperous fishing port of Tarleton on Scotland’s south-east coast. Firstly, a young Detective Inspector is traumatised after witnessing a doctor throwing herself off a cliff, and accusations of extortion have riven the local community. And when the ugly death of a young farmer sets off a murder investigation, Strang finds himself caught in a spider’s web of criminality.

A man is found dead, lying at the bottom of the stairs to his flat, his body blocking the door of the elderly woman who lives downstairs. The worried landlord who finds the body seeks advice from his friend's wife—now Detective Inspector Ariadne Moralis. Something in his demeanour hints at a hidden secret. When it becomes apparent that the body has been moved, it is clear the man's death was not an accident.

Kein ruhiger Sommer für Commissaire Geneviève Morel. Auf einer der letzten Windmühlen am Montmartre wird die gekreuzigte Leiche einer Moulin-Rouge-Tänzerin gefunden - im Engelskostüm. Kurz darauf stirbt noch ein zweiter „Engel“. Die Kommissarin stürzt sich in die Ermittlungen und trifft auf eine Mauer des Schweigens, selbst in ihren eigenen Reihen. Welche Geheimnisse hüteten die Engel, dass niemand an der Aufklärung der Morde interessiert zu sein scheint? Und was führt Genevièves Großmutter Mamie schon wieder im Schilde?

With his partner away on a honeymoon, Yorkshire detective Andrew Dalziel tries to beat the blues by taking a vacation of his own. But after getting caught in a torrential rain and running into a funeral procession, he winds up accompanying a crowd of upper-class mourners to a crumbling country house. Dalziel isn't known for his elegant manners, but he has bigger problems than not fitting in: The owner of the home has died under unusual circumstances, and soon more bodies are turning up.

Bodies keep turning up dead in Mother Russia... and all the murder victims are direct descendants of the infamous Mad Monk Rasputin, the most vilified man in Russian history. The intricate and dangerous murder case falls squarely in the lap of overwhelmed and underachieving Moscow Militia Investigator Iliya Podipenko, son of a famous Red Army marshal. Podipenko must stop the killing before the murderer claims the next victim, the alluring Lena Sharapova, Rasputin's great-great-granddaughter, with whom the rumpled investigator is unwittingly falling in love.

After a shooting party on a Scottish estate, one of the participants is found dead, having been unceremoniously hit on the head with a rock. Getting nowhere when interviewing the arrogant son of the wealthy landowner, DI Russell McCord is quietly relieved that with her family connections, bothersome journalist Amy Thornton might help the investigation. But with a new partner to train—one who, to his dismay, seems to have won the affections of Amy—McCord wastes no time putting the most likely suspect in jail.

По всей Франции, а затем и по всей Европе полиция находит трупы зверски замученных людей, умиравших очень долго. Каждое место преступления отмечено одним и тем же таинственным знаком, однако очевидно, что убийства совершали разные люди. Что происходит? Орудуют убийца и его подражатели? Между жестокими анонимами, которых ведет неодолимый, первобытный инстинкт хищника, есть некая связь? Быть может, они посылают друг другу сигналы? И где случится трагедия в следующий раз? Пожалуй, мы бы спокойнее спали по ночам, если бы не знали.

After the 17-year-old Kelly Winters went missing in Florida, Ava James worked tirelessly on the case, only to reach a dead end. She had lost hope of finding the truth behind Kelly’s mysterious disappearance. Until she received a shocking call. In the middle of the Oahu rainforest, physically battered, but with an unbreakable determination, Kelly Winters pushed her body to the limit to escape her captors. Upon hearing the young girl’s story, Ava makes a promise to Kelly that she will follow through until all the other victims are found.

Dennis Milne, były policjant skazany w Wielkiej Brytanii za morderstwo, zostaje po zmianie tożsamości płatnym zabójcą działającym na Dalekim Wschodzie. Właśnie wykonał zlecenie – zlikwidował na Filipinach dziennikarza, którego śledztwo było dla kogoś niewygodne. Komisarz Tina Boyd wbrew opiniom kolegów i przełożonych nie wierzy, że inny dziennikarz, jej były kochanek, popełnił samobójstwo. Jest przekonana, ża został zamordowany. Chce dopaść sprawcę, a jeszcze bardziej jego mocodawcę. Jedyny trop prowadzi na Filipiny. To tylko kwestia czasu, aż dojdzie między nimi do konfrontacji.

Detective Hollie Turner is chasing down a suspect connected to the recent murder of Sister Sophia Brennan when she receives a call that someone has confessed to the shocking crime. Hollie should be relieved that this is the end of a grueling investigation, but her instincts tell her something isn’t right. As Hollie and her team uncover the truth behind the confession, they discover a web of dark secrets and unspeakable crimes haunting the now-abandoned Church of St Mary and the Angels mother and baby home.

When the broken body of a seventy-one-year-old woman is found beneath the Humber Bridge, a sign around her neck with the words ‘Pure Evil’ spray-painted in red, Detective Hollie Turner can’t help but wonder–who would want this frail elderly woman dead? As she starts to delve into the victim’s personal life, Hollie discovers that the woman, Sister Brennan, ran a local mother and baby home at the Church of St Mary and the Angels. The unit may have shut down years ago, but the pain and anguish of those who were forced to give up their babies remains.

Em uma manhã tempestuosa em um tranquilo bairro de Copenhagen, a polícia faz uma descoberta sinistra: o corpo de uma mulher brutalmente assassinada, com uma das mãos faltando. Sobre ela está pendurado um pequeno boneco feito de castanhas. O caso é entregue à ambiciosa detetive Naia Thulin e a seu novo parceiro, Mark Hess, um investigador introspectivo que acabou de ser expulso da Europol.