International Police Procedurals

Midnight on a moonlit beach. Six cops execute four thugs after a heinous crime. They are unaware that there is a witness to the executions. Thrilling action explores tactical, ethical, and criminal choices made by officers of the law. A stark image of moral ambiguity underpins their struggle to maintain courageous and precarious control of all-engulfing crime. Plain-dealing cops face scrutiny in an emotional journey through choices made in the day-to-day confrontation with evil.

Can you win an election and cover up murder at the same time? When Inspector John Carlyle finds a body in a luxury London hotel room he begins a journey through the murky world of the British ruling classes which leads all the way to the top. In the middle of a General Election, a murderer is stalking the man poised to be the next Prime Minister. With power almost in his grasp, Edgar Carlton will not stand idly by while his birthright is threatened.

While on a field trip through the woods on the outskirts of Behren, a young girl stumbles upon a decomposing body wrapped in a carpet and lying in a ditch. The body has no hands, feet, or head, but this was not the work of wild animals. A brutal killer is on the loose, but who is the victim? From the hospital bed where he is recovering from surgery, Chief Inspector Van Veeteren begins to piece together the fragmentary clues that involve a nun who hides a secret, a crippled woman, the murders of two other women, and a missing former track star who served two sentences for murder....

Eine grausame Mordserie erschüttert den Norden! An einem stürmischen Herbsttag wird im Hafen von Esbjerg die Leiche eines Mannes in einer Lagerhalle gefunden. Wenige Wochen später taucht in einer norddeutschen Kleinstadt eine zweite Leiche auf. Schrecklich entstellt und auf dieselbe Art gefesselt wie der Tote in Esbjerg liegt das Opfer auf dem Förderband einer Papiersortieranlage. Vibeke Boisen von der Flensburger Mordkommission und Rasmus Nyborg von der dänischen Polizei nehmen die Ermittlungen auf.

As a police team is called in to investigate a woman's suicide at the Holmsheiði prison outside Reykjavik, to detective Guðgeir Fransson it looks like a tragic but straightforward case. It's only afterwards that the pieces begin to fall into place and he takes a deeper interest in Kristin Kjarr's troubled background, and why she had found herself in prison.

In Egernsund an der jütländischen Küste verbrennt die Leiche eines jungen Mädchens unter den Holzscheiten eines Sankt-Hans-Feuers. Wurde die deutsche Austauschschülerin mit türkischen Wurzeln Opfer eines grausamen Ritualmordes? Vibeke Boisen und Rasmus Nyborg von der deutsch-dänischen Sondereinheit übernehmen den Fall und stoßen auf eine Mauer des Schweigens. Die Bewohner der beschaulichen dänischen Küstenstadt sind sich einig: Der Täter kommt von außerhalb.

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?

With two street gangs on the brink of war, Detective Michael Kelly must solve a murder before the entire town goes up in flames. Boston Homicide Detective Michael Kelly just took his latest case. It seemed simple enough: A convenience store clerk gunned down in cold blood. There’s just one catch...the store was under the protection of the Irish mob. Now the city is a powder-keg, and Kelly must solve the murders before it explodes in further bloodshed. Brian Shea has served as both a military officer and law enforcement Detective.

In a quiet village surrounded by ancient woods and the imposing Italian Alps, a man is found naked with his eyes gouged out. It is the first in a string of gruesome murders. Superintendent Teresa Battaglia, a detective with a background in criminal profiling, is called to investigate. Battaglia is in her mid-60s, her rank and expertise hard-won from decades of battling for respect in the male-dominated Italian police force. Soon she finds that buried deep in these mountains are whispers of a dark and dangerous history, possibly tied to a group of eight-year-old children.

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.

Die Reichsmordkommission eilt nach Torsby, nachdem dort eine Familie mit zwei Kindern getötet wurde. Jemand hat die Carlstens im eigenen Haus erschossen. Kommissar Torkel Höglund und seine Kollegen finden bald heraus, dass es eine Zeugin gibt: Nicole, die zehnjährige Nichte der Carlstens. Doch das Mädchen ist verschwunden. Den sonst so ruppigen Kriminalpsychologen Sebastian Bergman erinnert Nicole an seine verstorbene Tochter. Und so setzt er alles daran, sie zu finden. Aber nicht nur die Polizei ist auf der Suche nach Nicole.

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.

She was racing towards the gorge. The place the locals knew as ‘Dead Girl's Drop'. DI Meg Dalton is thrown headlong into her latest case when she finds a 10-year-old girl running barefoot through the woods in a blood-soaked nightdress. In the house nearby, the girl's father has been brutally stabbed to death. At first Meg suspects a robbery gone tragically wrong, but something doesn’t add up. Why does the girl have no memory of what happened to her? And why has her behaviour changed so dramatically since her recent heart transplant?

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.