International Police Procedurals

Ein fesselnder Schweden-Krimi, der seine Leser in Atem hält! Seit einiger Zeit sterben in Sundsvall gesunde Menschen an Herzversagen. Der Sohn einer kürzlich Verstorbenen bezweifelt, dass seine Mutter eines natürlichen Todes gestorben ist, doch die Polizei kann keinen Zusammenhang zu den anderen Todesfällen ermitteln. Als erneut eine blutjunge Frau völlig unerwartet an Herzversagen stirbt, wird Kommissar Johan Axberg jedoch skeptisch. Allmählich verdichten sich die Indizien. Ein wahnsinninger Serienmörder scheint in Sundsvall unterwegs zu sein.

Three young Muslim students are attacked in the street by an assailant on a motorbike who sprays them with acid. What is the motive for this unprovoked assault? Is it a religious hate crime or something more personal? Is the aggressor a lone wolf with a personality disorder or part of an extremist organisation? While doctors strive to save the women from death and disfigurement, the police mobilize to hunt down the perpetrator of this hideous crime. Will they succeed? And will the unknown villain strike again?

Ward and Nowak are assigned to investigate a death outside Keighley and when the pathology report arrives, more than a few eyebrows are raised. As more victims drop, Ward realises he’s onto a serial killer with a list to hit. Only this one is so insidious, their tracks are nigh impossible to trace. Ward has to find the culprit. As if that’s not enough, a breakthrough on the Varga caseload delivers a target of such high value Ward will do anything to set this one in his crosshairs. The only trouble is Ward’s not done with Varga yet...and Varga’s not done with Ward.

Spring 1941. It is the third year of war, and when the siren sounds the people of Cambridge trudge to the city's public bomb shelters. Crowded, smoky, often raucous, the shelters have become a way of life for the poor. At dawn the body of a young man is found in a shadowy corner of the Trinity Shelter, one of three on the city's great open space—Parker's Piece. Detective Inspector Eden Brooke searches the body and finds no wallet or papers, save for a cinema ticket dated six months earlier.

When a British heir hunter fails to return home after a trip to Malmö, Inspector Anita Sundström doesn't want to get entangled in a simple missing persons case. She shows a similar reluctance when her ex-husband begs her to find his girlfriend, who seems to have disappeared. But when the mysteries take a sinister turn, Sundström finds herself inextricably involved in both baffling affairs, one of which seems to be connected to a robbery that took place 20 years earlier. As the cases begin to unravel, tragedy awaits the investigating team.

In the middle of a summer heat wave, as Naples prepares for one of its most important holy days, a renowned surgeon falls to his death from the window of his office. For Commissario Ricciardi and Brigadier Maione, it is the beginning of an investigation that will bring them into contact with the most torrid, conflicting, and enduring of human passions.

Rikosylikonstaapeli Osmo Niku saapuu rikospaikalle jääkylmässä syyskuisessa tihkusateessa. Nuori opiskelijapoika on löydetty espoolaiselta lintutornilta murhattuna ja kieli leikattuna irti. Poliisilla ei mene kauan yhdistää tapaus reilun vuoden takaiseen nuoren naisen murhaan, jossa uhri oli myös menettänyt kielensä. Sarjamurhaaja on vapaalla jalalla ja hänen seuraava uhrinsa on jo valittu. Alkaa raivoisa kilpajuoksu, jossa murhaaja tuntuu olevan aina Nikua ja hänen tiimiään yhden askeleen edellä. Ehtiikö murhaaja vaientaa kolmannen uhrinsa?

Rempseän vauhdikas rikossarja Hämeenlinnan alamaailmasta saa jatkoa. Poliisi Leila Pohjasen kummisetä Veikko on räjähtänyt oudosti huussinsa mukana taivaan tuuliin. Kummisetä testamenttaa mökkinsä Leilalle, mutta perinnemaisemassa ei huoju enää maitohorsma vaan naapurin kannabisviljelmät. Leila alkaa epäillä, että naapurin epämääräisillä viljelyksillä on jotain tekemistä hänen setänsä kuoleman kanssa. Ex-rikollinen Allu Nygren on luvannut Leila-puolisolleen pysyä kaidalla tiellä, mutta rikollispomo Hurme tarvitsee Allun apua.

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.

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.