International Police Procedurals

Costa cantábrica, 1970. Después de tres días desaparecida, el cuerpo de Alma Mateo, de trece años de edad, es encontrado en la orilla del mar a los pies de un acantilado. Aún llevaba puesto el uniforme del internado El Bosque donde cursaba sus estudios de verano. La investigación oficial llevada a cabo por la Guardia Civil establece en su informe final, que el fallecimiento de Alma pudo deberse a un suicidio o a algo más simple: un fatal accidente. Sin embargo, todo apunta a que las causas reales fueron otras bien distintas.

During a stifling summer in Sydney, the body of a chaplain’s daughter is found wrapped in black plastic on the deserted grounds of an elite boarding school. Is it the work of the killer who’s been stalking the privileged neighborhoods along the Parramatta River? Gut instinct tells Detective Sergeant Rose Riley something even more devious might be at play.

Detective Inspector Karen Eiken Hornby is not the only person to have returned to her native island nation, Doggerland, after years abroad. Following a ten-year hiatus, Luna has chosen to secretly record her comeback album where she was born and raised. Spirits are high among her team at the wrap party, though Karen is less than impressed with the simpering singer. The next morning, Luna is nowhere to be found. Nothing goes unnoticed in the tight-knit community—certainly not the arrival, or disappearance, of a world-famous singer.

The gourmet detective realizes that the Alpine Springs health resort is not a typical spa somewhere in the middle of his first cocktail. For this epicure, it is paradise - and it may also be his doom. He has come from London to speak about fine dining, but while here, he fully intends on enjoying himself. One night, he arranges a tryst with a fellow expert. When he comes to, Kathleen has vanished, and the detective begins to suspect that life in the Alps is not as healthful as it appears.

Ein gestrandeter Wal, eine tote Frau und das kalte Schweigen des Nordpolarmeers - dieser Thriller, der in der rauen Natur Spitzbergens und der Lofoten spielt, entfaltet einen unentrinnbaren Sog. Longyearbyen auf Spitzbergen, die nördlichste Siedlung der Welt: In einer entlegenen Bucht wird neben einem gestrandeten Pottwal die Leiche einer Studentin der Meeresbiologie gefunden. Ist die junge Frau einem Eisbären zum Opfer gefallen? Die ermittelnde Polizistin Lottie hat immer stärkere Zweifel.

Special Agent Stan Powell of the Portland, Oregon office of the FBI is brought in to consult on a case involving human remains discovered in the remote wilderness near Mount Hood. Little does Powell know, but what follows is the case of his young career and a roller coaster ride through the dark underworld of the tennis industry, with more twists and turns than he can count.

En lo alto de una montaña, en los páramos de Noruega, hay un viejo caserón habitado por un hombre solitario. Se llama Roy, es experto en pájaros, lleva la gasolinera del pueblo y en cada casa corre un rumor sobre él. Su vida gris se reabre con la vuelta de Carl, su hermano pequeño. No se ven desde que se fue a estudiar a Estados Unidos hace quince años, tras la muerte trágica de sus padres en un accidente de coche.

If Alison Girling, former principal of England's Holm Coultram College, died in an avalanche in Austria, why has her skeleton been unearthed on campus? While no love is lost between conservative detective Andrew Dalziel and the entirety of Liberal Arts, his attention to the grim discovery must be paid. But when he and Peter Pascoe scour the ivory tower for answers, they discover that the shady faculty and creepy student body have more to bury than just one corpse. Try two-and counting.

Novela clave en la literatura latinoamericana del siglo veintiuno, Vivir abajo es un audiolibro de aventuras, un relato de horror, un misterio policial, una historia hecha de mil historias y una crónica de viajes por los territorios de la locura y el espanto. También es una novela de humor quijotesco, poblada por artistas enloquecidos, espías eruditos, poetas fantasmales y venganzas equivocadas. Comienza en Perú, cuando un cineasta americano comete un tenebroso homicidio en el sótano de una casa el día de la captura de Abimael Guzmán, líder de Sendero Luminoso.

Un nuevo hito, la novela más esperada y ambiciosa de Camilla Läckberg. Fíjate bien. Nada es lo que parece. No te fíes del título, de la portada ni de la sinopsis. La última novela de Camilla Läckberg tampoco es lo que parece. Resuelve el enigma de La bruja.

If any day calls for a soothing glass of wine, it's today. One moment, Capitol Hill lobbyist Karina Cardinal is having a heated discussion with Senator Harper, who just torpedoed her latest health care legislation initiative. The next, after a cryptic remark, the senator is dead at her feet. Hours later, she's still so rattled she wakes to a freezing apartment because she forgot to close her back door. Or did she?

Former FBI profiler Hugo Marston has just become head of security at the US Embassy in London. He's asked to protect a famous movie-star couple, Dayton Harper and Ginny Ferro, who, while filming a movie in rural England, killed a local man in a hit-and-run. The task turns from routine to disastrous almost immediately. Before Hugo even meets them, he finds out that Ferro has disappeared, and her body has been found hanging from an oak tree in a London cemetery. Hours later a distraught Harper gives Hugo the slip, and Hugo has no idea where he's run off to.

Under the dark cover of night, a figure climbs over the wall of the Botanical Garden with a bag and a metal detector. It's a dicey location in the populous city center, but they're on the hunt - and while most of what they find will be worthless, it takes only one big reward to justify the risk. Only this time, the nighthawker unearths a body....

Año 2000. En Oslo aparece en plena calle el cadáver degollado de un viejo militante nazi. Harry Hole, que tras cometer un grave error ha sido reasignado a los servicios secretos, percibe los puntos en común entre este crimen y el contenido de un informe de los muchos documentos aburridos que pasan por sus manos a diario: alguien compró un rifle Märklin, un arma extremadamente cara y precisa usada por grupos neonazis.

Versicherungsvertreter Oswald Oberngruber ist ein Loser und wird vom Pech verfolgt. Nach einer durchzechten Nacht fabrizierte der Endvierziger ein schlüpfriges Nackt-Selfie, schickt es an eine dubiose Kontaktadresse und wird damit erpresst. In seiner Verzweiflung, das Lösegeld unbemerkt von seiner Frau aufzubringen, raubt er die nächstgelegene Tankstelle aus. Der Überfall verläuft stümperhaft und der Verzweiflungstäter nimmt unfreiwillig Alois Hofer als Geisel.

D.I. Graves is back on the case to face his toughest challenge yet: a case with no motive and no suspect, nothing at all that could explain why someone would kill innocent people and then take parts from the bodies. Then the next victims are discovered: another pair of bodies, new body parts taken, and again in their own home. Someone is breaking into houses across the city at night, leaving horror in their wake. It seems to Graves that this could be two serial killers, working together. But how are they choosing their victims? Is any house in London a target? Is anyone safe?

Adam si è lasciato alle spalle la tragedia del conflitto siriano in cui ha strenuamente combattuto. Adesso è solo un migrante che arriva nel campo profughi di Calais, tormentato da un'ossessione: riunirsi alla moglie e alla figlia, fuggite dalla Siria qualche giorno prima di lui. La sua presenza, nella Giungla, si nota subito: non perché sia grande e grosso e con una vistosa cicatrice su un sopracciglio, e nemmeno per la foto di Nora e Maya che mostra senza sosta a chiunque. È per come osserva le cose e le persone che viene subito chiamato military man dal capo dei sudanesi.

September 1878. One night, as the pleasure boat The Princess Alice makes her daily trip up the Thames, she collides with the Bywell Castle, a huge iron-hulled collier. The Princess Alice shears apart, throwing all 600 passengers into the river; only 130 survive. It is the worst maritime disaster London has ever seen, and early clues point to sabotage by the Irish Republican Brotherhood, who believe violence is the path to restoring Irish Home Rule. For Scotland Yard Inspector Michael Corravan, born in Ireland and adopted by the Irish Doyle family, the case presents a challenge.

A shadowy UK-based group has been trying to hack the US elections. When Special Agent Ingrid Skyberg is assigned to find out who’s funding the hackers, she finds herself up against an invisible enemy who is extremely powerful and utterly ruthless. To bring them to justice, Ingrid must go undercover and infiltrate the world of super-rich Russian oligarchs. But money buys all kinds of protection, and Ingrid soon realizes that by taking on this battle she’s putting everything on the line—her career, her future, her life....

Polizeioffizier Milo April wird an der Kapstädter Waterfront erschossen. Könnte ein SAPD-Offizier dahinterstecken? Und hängt dieser Mord mit den geheimnisvollen Briefen zusammen, die die geschassten Ermittler Bennie Griessel und Vaughn Cupido erhalten haben und die auf einen neuen Fall von Staatskorruption hindeuten? Wenn es ihnen gelänge, diesen Fall aufzuklären, wäre ihre Ehre wiederhergestellt. Doch sie müssen heimlich ermitteln, mit dem Risiko, endgültig ihre berufliche Zukunft zu verspielen. Griessel und Cupido halten sich an ihre bewährte Strategie: nicht die Nerven verlieren.