International Police Procedurals

Smögens store sillbaron James Blakes sonson hittas död i den nyligen renoverade lotsutkiken. Självmordet förbryllar Nathalie Colette som tillsammans med Sandra Haraldsson är först på plats. Bara en vecka tidigare har den döde, Charles Blake, leende intervjuats i affärstidningarna om hur han skall förvalta den stora förmögenhet han ärvt efter sin far som just gått bort. Är det trots allt ett självmord och varför har han i så fall valt att avsluta sitt liv? Och vad pågår egentligen i det gamla köpmanshuset på Smögenbryggan där familjen Blake lever ett isolerat liv utan knappt någon kontakt med omvärlden.

Stella York och Jac sitter på ett plan som just ska landa på den vackra ön Mallorca som stiger upp ur havet likt en grönskimrande smaragd. Polischefen i Stockholm, Nick Ernekow, har kallat ner dem för ett nytt uppdrag. En ung student har hittats mördad i en av bergsbyn Valldemossas olivlundar. Den lokala polisen har bett om förstärkning och Nick ser ingen annan råd än att låta Stella York hjälpa honom eftersom han själv är tillsammans med hustrun Lina på husletarsemester längs Mallorcas turkosa vikar. Vem kan hysa agg mot den ödmjuka och omtyckta studenten Cristóbal?

Varios cadáveres de homosexuales aparecen brutalmente asesinados en el Berlín Este de finales de la Guerra Fría. Las autoridades no le prestan la atención que merece hasta que un alto cargo de la Stasi que maneja información muy sensible para el Estado aparece muerto en las mismas circunstancias.

After the death of 'Eumenides', a former police student who was sending 'death notices' to unpunished criminals before brutally murdering them, the Chengdu Police Department assumed that the killing spree would stop. But the murders continue, leading the 4/18 task force to the terrifying truth: Eumenides had a protégé. Captain Pei Tao and his task force redouble their efforts to catch this new opponent, but relationships become fraught. Can they trust each other?

On a hot June day the body of a 16-year-old girl washes up on a river bank outside of Frankfurt. She has been brutally murdered, but no one comes forward with any information as to her identity. Even weeks later, the local police have not been able to identify her. Then a new case comes in: a popular television reporter is attacked, raped, and locked in the trunk of her own car. She survives - barely - and is able to supply certain hints to the police having to do with her recent investigations into a child welfare organization and the potential uncovering of a child pornography ring with members from the highest echelon of society.

When a young influencer is found dead in an Edinburgh graveyard, the contents of her last video provide an enigmatic, if not downright cryptic, view of the woman's last moments. DI Grant McKenzie cannot shake the feeling that the woman was trying to communicate more than a historical tale to her followers. Did she know what was about to happen? As more influencers fall prey to the same killer, the DI and his team face a heart-stopping race to find an evil psychopath who sneaks up on preoccupied prey; the person the press has named The Gimbal Killer.

Bernt Lund harbours a sickness. He is a monster: in the mind of society, in the mind of his nine-year-old victims' parents, and in the mind of his fellow inmates. Lennart Oscarsson has a situation. The worst scenario imaginable for the head of Aspsås prison's department for sexual crimes. These two men's actions are about to hand DCI Ewert Grens the most profoundly sickening and impossibly sensitive case of his career, and in Stockholm's history.

Generalens städfirma, ligan som planerade en statskupp, har äntligen avslöjats. Tre av medlemmarna är emellertid fortfarande på fri fot och kriminalkommissarie Eva Gran får ingen ro förrän samtliga har fått stå till svars för sina handlingar. Men från högt uppsatt håll finns en önskan om att utredningen kring Generalens städfirma läggs på is. Till och med Säpo ser helst att man inte gräver vidare i det hela. Men Eva tänker inte ge upp utan söker frenetiskt efter ledtrådar att nysta vidare i.

Svea Lundström Duval hinner knappt börja på sin nya arbetsplats i Östersund förrän Härjedalen drabbas av en rad sabotage. Tidningarna är snabba att knyta händelserna till rättstvisten mellan traktens markägare och samebyarna, och Svea placeras i Sveg för att leda den uppmärksammade utredningen.Sabotagen är dock inte det enda som stör lugnet i Sveg. Märkliga olycksfall drabbar människor som egentligen borde ha dömts i domstol och Svea börjar söka efter samband. Först när det är för sent inser Svea att sanningen kan bli mycket obehaglig, även för henne själv.".

Antero ja Helena Väkerö asuvat isossa talossa pienellä paikkakunnalla Väkeröiden suvun omistaman sahan ja talotehtaan vieressä. Eräänä päivänä Anterolle ilmestyy sosiaaliseen mediaan profiileja, joita hän ei ole omien sanojensa mukaan tehnyt. Sitten Helenan rakastama puutarha tuhotaan. Oudot tapahtumat seuraavat toisiaan, kunnes kaikki kärjistyy kohtalokkaaseen automatkaan.

En una tarde brumosa, cuatro turistas viajan a Ronda para admirar el Puente Nuevo, una construcción de casi cien metros de altura. Debido al mal tiempo, tres de ellos deciden regresar al hotel. El fiscal malagueño Álvaro Pérez se queda solo haciendo fotos, mientras su esposa sueca, Marianne, y sus amigos lo esperan en el hotel durante horas. Cuando al día siguiente su cuerpo aparece destrozado en un barranco, asignan el caso al inspector Héctor Correa, de la Policía Nacional de Málaga.

When an officer is called to a house, he discovers a chilling and bizarre crime scene. Sitting at a dining room table, as if enjoying their evening meal, he finds the decomposing bodies of an entire family. Each one murdered and posed like mannequins. The only person missing from the disturbing scene is the family maid, Elizabeth. Detective Richard Crombie is assigned the case but after weeks of pressure and no results, he reluctantly requests the help of criminal psychiatrist, Doctor Killam, who once worked with Scotland Yard.

Nigella Parker has a deep-rooted fear of fire and a talent for solving arson cases. When a charred figure is found beside Sir Christopher Wren’s Monument to the Great Fire of London, Nigella is dragged into a case pitting her against a murderous artist creating sculptures using burnt flesh. Nigella partners with Colm O’Leary of Scotland Yard to track the arsonist. The pair are more than colleagues. But their past isn’t the only buried history as they race to connect the dots between an antique nail and a long-forgotten architect dwarfed by the life's work of Sir Christopher Wren.

Detective Sergeant Norman likes the idea of a permanent home in the small Welsh coastal town. With his reinvented career invigorating him, he finds himself enjoying working for his younger female DI. But when she asks him to investigate a puzzling seaside suicide, his first job is to find the corpse belonging to the discarded clothing left on the sand.... With the deceased man’s remains presumed lost at sea, DS Norman believes his case has run up a blind alley...until local builders dig up a female human skull.

Small-town police detective Hanna Duncker has a past. Her deceased father was convicted of murder and arson long ago, and she has taken up residence and resumed her police career in her hometown after his death. She and her partner Erik Lindgren are called to investigate the disappearance of a father and his infant son from their home while his wife was away on a weekend trip. As the investigation unfolds, Hanna makes a breakthrough in her ongoing private investigation of her father’s crimes: a discovery that could change everything she thought she'd learned so far.

Unha casa, unha nena morta e só seis sospeitosos. Xiana Alén, unha nena de quince anos aparece morta na súa casa nunha luxosa urbanización das aforas de Santiago de Compostela. Os seus pais, a súa tía, unha parella de veciños e a súa tía avoa son as únicas persoas que puideron matala. Con esa hipótese de partida, Ana Barroso e Santi Abad, policías da comisaría de Santiago mergúllanse de cheo na vida da familia Alén Somoza para descubrir que pasou esa noite.

Reykjavík Detective Gunnhildur Gísladóttir tries not to believe in ghosts. But when Helgi, one of her team, is certain he's seen a man who had been declared dead more than 15 years ago, she reluctantly gives him some unofficial leeway to look into it. Has the not-so-dead man returned from the grave to settle old scores, or has he just decided to take a last look around his old haunts?

The House of Four is the brand-new Istanbul crime thriller featuring Inspector Ikmen, from Barbara Nadel. Perfect for fans of Donna Leon. Everyone in the Istanbul neighbourhood of Moda knows the Devil's House. A crumbling Ottoman mansion, and once the home of a princess, it is a place associated with ill fortune. The princess' four children, now in old age, still live in separate apartments on different floors and are rumoured never to speak to each other.

A severed left hand is found in a minivan abandoned on a dry riverbed. When Tokyo Metropolitan Police Force lieutenant Reiko Himekawa and her team join the investigation, the hand is quickly identified as belonging to building contractor Ken'ichi Takaoka, and from the amount of blood spilled in the van, it is presumed that he was killed. However, searches fail to turn up the rest of the body, and the mystery deepens when a childhood friend shown a photo of the victim declares, "That's not Takaoka".

For years FBI agent Cameron Daggett has been on the trail of an international triggerman responsible for planting at least two nearly undetectable explosive devices on airplanes. When a strange murder takes place in a Seattle aircraft training installation, Daggett suspects that his nemesis is involved. The man who was murdered was a specialist in training pilots to fly the Duhning 959-600 - a new breed of ultra-sophisticated aircraft - and he was killed in a Duhning flight simulator.