International Police Procedurals

Superintendent Teresa Battaglia returns for a chilling cold case. After 40 years on the Italian police force, the once-brilliant criminal profiler is flagging under the wear of the job when a decades-old murder investigation lands on her desk. DNA analysis has revealed that a painting from the final days of World War II contains matter from a human heart. Teresa is able to trace the evidence to Val Resia, one of Italy's most isolated, untouched regions.

When a little girl disappears a few weeks before Christmas, suspicion falls on the last person she was seen with: the mentally disabled teenage boy who gave her a ride home after school. Complicating the matter is the fact that detectives can hardly get a word out of him. When a second child disappears and a police officer is found dead, tensions in the small town of Strömstad reach an all-time high.

Peter Diamond is tasked to run security for a wedding. Seems a bit beneath his extraordinary detective talents, as well as his title as head of Bath's CID, but this isn't your run-of-the-mill ceremony: the bride and groom belong to families on opposite ends of the law - and someone is trying to sabotage the nuptials by taking out a hit on the father of the bride.

Capitaine Roger Blanc, an investigator with the anticorruption unit of the French Gendarmerie, was a bit too successful in his investigations. He finds himself removed from Paris to the South of France, far away from political power. Or so it would seem. The stress is too much for his marriage, and he attempts to manage the breakup while trying to settle into his new life in Provence in a 200-year-old half-ruined house. At the same time, Blanc is tasked with his first murder case.

When Harold Merefield returned home in the early hours of a winter morning from a festive little party at that popular nightclub, the Naxos, he was startled by a gruesome discovery. On his bed was a corpse. There was nothing to show the identity of the dead man or the cause of his death. At the inquest, the jury found a verdict of ‘death from natural causes’ - perhaps they were right, but yet?

London, 1879. Crowds have gathered at Islington's chilly Agricultural Hall to place their bets on who will become the next world champion in a six-day, 500-mile speed-walking race, the wobble. When one of the highly favored contenders dies under suspicious circumstances, Sergeant Cribb also has a race on his hands - to pursue a ruthless murderer.

DCI Brendan Moran, world-weary veteran of 1970s Ireland, is recuperating from a near-fatal car crash when a murder is reported at Charnford Abbey. The abbot and his monks are strangely uncooperative, but when a visitor from the Vatican arrives and an ancient relic goes missing, the truth behind Charnford's pact of silence threatens to expose not only the abbey's haunted secrets, but also the spirits of Moran's own troubled past....

When DI Geraldine Steel relocates to the quiet rural town of Woolsmarsh, she expects to find her new home to be somewhere where nothing much ever happens; a space where she can battle her demons in private. But when she finds herself pitted against a twisted killer preying on local young women, she quickly discovers how wrong she is....

When the brutalized body of the local counsellor’s son is discovered, posed on his knees in the forest surrounding Cargill’s Leap, DCI Ross Fraser turns to troubled Forensic Psychologist Dr Chrissy Ferguson for help. But Chrissy is not in a helping mood. Emotionally scarred from their last case together and devastated by Ross’s abrupt departure from her life, Chrissy wants nothing to do with him or the investigation.

In eisigem Rätsel am Hafen von Kopenhagen. Eine junge Frau, seit zwei Jahren spurlos verschwunden, wird gefunden — tot, tiefgefroren, kunstvoll inszeniert an einem verlassenen Ort. Wer versteckt seine Opfer jahrelang in der Kälte, bevor er sie zur Schau stellt? Bald wird klar: Sie ist nicht das einzige Opfer dieses Phantoms. Ein methodischer Täter geht um, intelligent, geduldig und mit einem beunruhigenden Wissen über industrielle Kältetechnik.

Detective Louise Rick gets a call from her son, Jonas. A school party has ended in terrifying chaos after a group of violent teenagers forced their way into the building in search of alcohol and valuables. Arriving at the scene, Louise discovers that one of the girls, 12 year-old Signe, attempted to run for help, but was struck and killed by a car. Signe's grief-stricken mother finds that her will to live instantly evaporates with the crushing loss of her only child - and she'll do anything to make those who harmed her child pay.

A journey to a new life or a prison of despair and death? A shocking murder on Copenhagen's idyllic streets and an abandoned child reveal a perverse criminal underworld that crosses international borders. A young woman's body is found on the street with her throat slit, and the media is clamoring for the grisly details. Detective Louise Rick is investigating the gruesome murder when her friend Camilla Lind calls. Louise assumes it is because Camilla, a crime reporter, wants to be the first to hear of any juicy new developments.

London, June 1860: When an assassination attempt is made on Queen Victoria, and a petty thief is gruesomely murdered moments later - and only a block away - Chief Detective Inspector Charles Field quickly surmises that these crimes are connected to an even more sinister plot. Was Victoria really the assassin's target? Are those closest to the Crown hiding something? Soon, Field's investigation exposes a shocking conspiracy in which the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species sets off a string of murders, arson, kidnapping, and the pursuit of a diabolical madman.

Following the tradition of crime thrillers from Joseph Uhnak and Joseph Wambaugh, New York Times best-selling author and former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik uses his unique insider knowledge of crime and politics to weave a story of suspense, murder, and international intrigue that's truly been ripped from today's headlines.

Powerful executive Eliel Zetterborg has been found murdered in his upscale Helsinki home. What at first seems like a straightforward case soon proves to be anything but when it becomes clear the murderer has other targets. The only clue the police have is a photo of Zetterborg with three men whose faces have all been scratched off.

The day gets off to a bad start for Montalbano: while trying to break up a fight on Marinella beach, he hits the wrong man and is stopped by the Carabinieri. When he finally gets to the office, the inspector learns about a strange abduction: a woman was abducted, drugged, and then released unharmed a few hours later. A few days later, the same thing happens again, but this time the woman abducted is the niece of Enzo, the owner of Montalbano's favorite trattoria. The only link between the two events is that both women are 30 years old and work in a bank.

Hengästyttävä ja hermoja koetteleva trilleri suositulta ruotsalaidekkaristilta. Rikosprofiloija Althea Molin on työskennellyt viimeiset viisi vuotta FBI:n asiantuntijana Yhdysvalloissa. Hän on vierailulla Tukholmassa, kun Vanhan kaupungin Saksalaisessa kirkossa räjähtää pommi kesken jumalanpalveluksen. Kolme henkilöä repeytyy kappaleiksi ja kuolee välittömästi. Yksi heistä on pappi. Vain muutamia päiviä myöhemmin räjähtää uudestaan, tällä kertaa Aadolf Fredrikin kirkossa. Althea Molinia pyydetään avustamaan tapausten tutkinnassa.

En hemlös man hittas knivmördad i Trondheims hamnområde. För kriminalassistent Anne-kin Halvorsen som är först på plats verkar det vara ett ganska enkelt fall, förövaren finns säkert bland de övriga uteliggarna i hamnen. Men på väg från brottsplatsen hör hon märkliga ljud från en sopcontainer och när hon lyckats öppna den möts hon av en förfärlig syn: tre grovt misshandlade kvinnor har lämnats att dö där. Endast en av dem klarar sig och Anne-kin blir starkt berörd av hennes berättelse.

Nuori mies ammutaan kuoliaaksi Tukholman vanhassa kaupungissa. Tapauksen merkilliset olosuhteet kiusaavat poliisitarkastaja Kajsa Nordinia, ja hän alkaa tutkia rikosta yhdessä örnsködsvikiläisen eläköityneen rikostarjastaja Modigin kanssa. Jäljet vievät parivaljakon maailmankuulun taiteilija Zetan ateljeelle Södermalmille. Tatuoitu ympyrä naisen ranteessa tempaa Kajsan mukanaan valheiden vyyhteen, salamyhkäisiin piireihin ja vaarallisiin tilanteisiin.

Tunnettu ja menestynyt tilintarkastaja Erik W Sternheg löydetään huvilastaan alastomana ja vasaralla raa’asti surmattuna. Murhatapa on erityisen säälimätön ja kertoo suunnattomasta vihasta. Rikoskomisario Ingrid Bergman johtaa tutkintaa, jossa lista epäillyistä vain kasvaa. Lisäksi selviää, että vaikka murhatulla tilintarkastajalla oli hyvä maine ja kuuluisia asiakkaita, hän ei ollut aivan niin kunniallinen kansalainen, jollaisena hän esiintyi.