International Police Procedurals

Under pressure to solve the murder of Sister Sophia Brennan, Detective Hollie Turner is close to cracking the case and catching the killer when her Deputy Chief Constable, Rose Warburton, goes missing. It soon becomes clear that Rose has been abducted, and Hollie makes a shocking discovery. Rose's disappearance is connected to Sister Brennan's murder investigation. As Hollie and her team delve further into the lives of the four girls who had their babies forcibly taken at the sinister Church of St Mary and the Angels mother and baby home, Hollie unearths a revelation about a fifth girl.

När den unga polisen Eve Ronin arresterar en världskänd filmstjärna fångas det på film och videon blir viral. Los Angeles polischef, som är i desperat behov av bra PR, bestämmer sig för att anställa numera hjältinnan Eve, som blir den yngsta mordutredaren i utskottets historia. Men Eve måste bevisa för sina nya kollegor att hon förtjänar positionen. När hon och hennes snart pensionerade kollega blir kallade till en brutal och blodig brottsscen i ett hus får hon chansen att göra just det. Huset tillhör en ensamstående mamma och hennes två barn, men trots spåren av blod finner de inga kroppar.

Elin Bertram ist nicht leicht aus der Fassung zu bringen. Mit der Soko Mondschein sucht die Hamburger Kommissarin einen Serienmörder, der seit elf Jahren entlang der Nordseeküste junge Frauen brutal ermordet. Dann wird sie in das kleine Hafenstädtchen Carolinensiel gerufen: In einer verlassenen Hütte in einem Kiefernwald wurde die 17-jährige Jonna tot aufgefunden. Auf den ersten Blick deutet alles darauf hin, dass Jonna zum sechsten Opfer des Mondscheinmörders wurde. Aber Elin ist sicher, dass jemand anderes hinter diesem Mord steckt.

PIEL es la nueva novela de Fernando Gamboa, el autor independiente más vendido en todo el mundo y que esta vez nos trae un impresionante thriller policíaco protagonizado por la agente Nuria Badal. Una absorbente novela negra de la que no podrás despegarte hasta alcanzar su inesperado final. Un oscuro misterio en el que, de la mano de Nuria, te asomarás a los lugares más recónditos de tu propia conciencia, dudando incluso de ti mismo, hurgando bajo la piel de las apariencias hasta revelar la alucinante realidad.

Two Australian police officers travel to San Francisco and Los Angeles in the summer of 1967 in search of a missing young man, only to find themselves fully immersed in the world of music, free love, drugs and hippie counterculture. They soon realise this isn't just any ordinary missing person investigation. A big gig is the perfect place to get away with murder, and their search becomes a thrilling journey through the seamy side of the 1960s counterculture.

In Berlin werden in einem alten Bunker aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg die Leichen einer Familie gefunden. Parallel dazu werden in Norddeutschland Menschen brutal in ihrem Zuhause ermordet, gefesselt an einen Sessel und einer blutenden toten Taube auf dem Schoß.

No one gave much credence to the man when he was alive. In fact, most people never knew who he was, although those who had lived in the area for many years recognized the tired-looking and shabbily dressed man as he shuffled along, regular as clockwork on Thursdays at seven in the evening to the local off-license. Apart from the three-story mansion where he lived, no one would have regarded him as any other than homeless and destitute. Just a harmless eccentric, until the morning when he was found dead in his front garden.

Called to the scene of a murder outside Trige, Roland Benito assumes it's a case of petty criminals who made a gruesome mistake. After all, home robberies have been plaguing all of East Jutland for years. But it soon becomes clear that the men who beat Albert Hovgaard to death inside his country estate were no ordinary thieves. Meanwhile, journalist Anne Larsen has been out of work since the financial crisis shuttered the Daily News. But now an unwelcome visit from the past has her investigating a series of missing homeless people.

Superintendent Teresa Battaglia, a trailblazing criminal detective on the Italian police force, is on sick leave, recovering from her recent brush with death in pursuit of a killer. But none of her colleagues, not even her partner, know that her Alzheimer’s is getting worse, and that Teresa is unsure she will ever return to work. Teresa’s plans for retirement are shelved, however, when she is urgently summoned to meet with menacing serial killer Giacomo Mainardi.

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.

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.

For five long years, Detective Barnes has been hunting the killer of the person he cared about the most. Now, the one man who could have revealed the truth is dead. His charred and blackened body is all that remains in his burnt-out flat. A week later, a desperate, emaciated young woman hammers on the door of a late-night convenience store. She speaks no English—but it’s clear that she’s terrified—and running for her life. It's only Barnes who connects the two events. He and his new boss, Superintendent Samson Kane, team up to uncover the truth.

In the swamp outside a small Danish village, two young boys make a gruesome discovery. Just below the surface of the water floats a corpse—now reduced to skin and bones. Twenty-five years ago, someone murdered this unfortunate woman. Now, Detective Inspector Roland Benito and his colleagues must use what scant evidence they have to identify the victim and track down her killer.

Twenty years ago, Tatia was adopted into a well-off home where she seemed happy, settled. Then the youngest boy in the family dies in an accident, and she gets the blame. Did she do it? Tatia is cast out, away from her remaining adopted siblings Joel and Poppy. Now she yearns for a home to call her own. So when she see families going on holiday, leaving their beautiful homes empty, there seems no harm in living their lives while they are gone. But somehow, people keep ending up dead. Did she kill them?

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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.

Bern, Switzerland—known for its narrow cobblestone streets, decorative fountains, and striking towers. Yet dark currents run through this charming medieval city and beyond, to the idyllic farmlands that surround it. When a rave on a hot summer night erupts into violent riots, a young man is found the next morning bludgeoned to death with a policeman's club. Seasoned detective Giuliana Linder is assigned to the case. That same day, an elderly organic farmer turns up dead and drenched with pesticide.

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.