International Police Procedurals

Father Aloysius Walsh spent the last years of his life painstakingly collecting evidence of a yearlong killing spree, unparalleled savagery that blighted Ireland's borderlands at the end of the 1970s. Pinned to his bedroom wall, a macabre map charts the grim territory of death - victims, weapons, wounds, dates - and somehow, amid the forest of pins and notes, he had discerned a pattern.

Hamburg state prosecutor Chastity Riley investigates a series of arson attacks on cars across the city, which leads her to a startling and life-threatening discovery involving criminal gangs and a very illicit love story...Night after night, cars are set alight across the German city of Hamburg, with no obvious pattern, no explanation and no suspect. Until, one night, on Mexico Street, a ghetto of high-rise blocks in the north of the city, a Fiat is torched. Only this car isn’t empty.

Un mix di generi che, prendendo in prestito una definizione da cinema, l'autore definisce "action-spy". Veloce, scorrevole e raccontato dal punto di vista di due protagonisti più la voce narrante. In un tranquillo pomeriggio di giugno, Steven Barrimore, dirigente di una multinazionale di Dallas, viene prelevato dalla sua casa da un commando di uomini armati e ben addestrati, con un vero e proprio blitz. Perché Steven Barrimore è sparito?

Der schwedische Reporter Alf Matsson verschwindet auf einer Reise nach Ungarn spurlos. Gepäck und Pass hat er im Hotel zurückgelassen, doch von ihm fehlt jede Spur. Die ungarische Polizei tappt im Dunkeln. Kommissar Martin Beck von der Stockholmer Kriminalpolizei reist inoffiziell nach Budapest, um den rätselhaften Fall aufzuklären. Doch kaum angekommen, wird er von Unbekannten brutal zusammengeschlagen. Jemand versucht mit allen Mitteln zu verhindern, dass die Wahrheit ans Licht kommt.

Marjaniemeläisessä omakotitalossa ei nukuta, kun öinen laitapuolen kulkija saapuu ulko-ovelle mukanaan äärirajoille ärsytetty ja nälkään kuolemaisillaan oleva pitbullterrieri. Jälki on rumaa katseltavaa - ja niinpä Itäkeskuksen poliisilaitoksen parivaljakko Sakari Vaarala ja Helena Riihioja saavat jälleen selvitettäväkseen tehtävän, josta ei puutu vauhtia ja vaarallisia tilanteita. Onneksi sentään Vaaralan yksityiselämässä puhaltavat suotuisat tuulet. Vainajan nilkkaan kiinnitetyssä nimilapussa ei lue "syyttömänä syntynyt" tai "sijaiskärsijänä kuollut".

Una mañana de invierno, el inspector Rojo recibe una llamada... una llamada que le hará arriesgarlo todo, no solo su carrera sino también su vida. En el punto de mira de sus superiores, Rojo decide investigar por su cuenta el caso abandonado de una chica desaparecida. Pronto se da cuenta de que la desaparición solo es la punta de un iceberg podrido. En "Rojo", la primera novela en una serie de cuatro, Pablo Poveda le da el protagonismo al Inspector Rojo, el personaje más carismático de las novelas de Gabriel Caballero.

Vance had always been extremely proud of Noella, and just because his life had been ruined, he saw no reason why she had to have the same faith. When his dad died, leaving him and his mother penniless, he dropped out of law school and ended his relationship with Noella, but in doing so, he stopped a scandal that could have ruined her family. These secrets he would never let her know. Ironically, years later, he would have never guessed she would be instrumental in ruining his career with the Tampa police force.

Homicide detective Harry Belltree wouldn’t usually be looking too hard at an elderly couple’s suicide pact. Especially now, when his brother-in-law, Greg, has just been stabbed to death. But it seems Greg and the old couple had ties to the same man, a bent moneylender with friends in high places - and low. Harry can’t get officially involved in Greg’s murder, but he suspects a link with two other mysterious deaths: his parents'.

A rash of burglaries has Inspector Salvo Montalbano stumped. The criminals are so brazen that their leader, the anonymous Mr. Z, startssending the Sicilian inspector menacing letters. Among those burgled is the young and beautiful Angelica Cosulich, who reminds the inspector of the love-interest in Ludovico Ariosto's chivalric romance, Orlando Furioso. Besotted by Angelica's charms, Montalbano imagines himself back in the medieval world of jousts and battles.

A familly in turmoil. A country in crisis. All debts must be settled. Detective Inspector for homicide, Sarah Lund, is contacted by old flame Mathias Borch from National Intelligence. Borch fears that what first appeared to be a random killing at the docks is the beginning of an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Troels Hartmann. The murder draws attention towards the shipping and oil giant, Zeeland, run by billionaire Robert Zeuthen.

Mykkä tuska etsii pakotietä Tuula T. Matintuvan varmaotteisessa, viidennessä dekkarissa. Teinityttö löydetään surmattuna lenkkipolulta. Viikkoa myöhemmin samaisen polun varrelta löytyy murhattu perheenäiti, vain tekotapa on eri. Liittyvätkö tapaukset toisiinsa? Rikosylikonstaapeli Alina Mänty työtovereineen kuulustelevat Viljavainiontien asukkaita, joista erikoisin on yksinäinen kuusikymppinen Saara, läheisen maatilan naimaton tytär, joka ei ole puhunut mitään vuoden 1967 jouluaaton jälkeen. Saara viettää paljon aikaa tarkkaillen ympäristöään.

In einem verlassenen Gebäude in Berlin, einst ein Heim für schwer erziehbare Jugendliche in der ehemaligen DDR, wird die Leiche eines Franzosen entdeckt. Der Fund wird zum ersten Fall für das von Europol ins Leben gerufene Cold-Case-Team um Sophie Steinbach und David Martin, die am Tatort Schockierendes enthüllen: In einem zugemauerten Keller liegen die Überreste zahlreicher Menschen begraben. Sophie, David und ihr Team tauchen in die düstere Vergangenheit des Erziehungsheims ein. Die Spur führt sie zu geheimen Stasi-Akten und unaussprechlichen Grausamkeiten des damaligen Regimes.

After a woman's body is found in a local beauty spot, her heart surgically removed, D.I. Andy Ross and his team are called in to investigate. But this time, they face a criminal mastermind unlike any they have before, who soon becomes known as The Doctor. All evidence points to romantic connections between the killer and his prey, with an eerie lullaby left playing on an old tape recorder next to the victims.

FreeFlow is a group of activists dedicated to freedom of information. They have evidence of a military atrocity in the Middle East and are preparing to unleash it. On the glacial rim of an erupting volcano, they christen their endeavour Operation Meltwater. Minutes later, one of them is murdered. Magnus Jonson has a long list of suspects, but he’s getting little help - for a group dedicated to transparency, they’re a secretive bunch. But they are not the only ones with secrets....

A friend in his cigar club asks Antoine Verlaque to visit Rene Rouquet, a retired postal worker who has found a rolled-up canvas in his apartment. As the apartment once belonged to Paul Cezanne, Rouquet is convinced he's discovered a treasure. But when Antoine arrives at the apartment, he finds Rene dead, the canvas missing, and a mysterious art history professor standing over the body. When the painting is finally recovered, the mystery only deepens.

Nora's daughter, Annabelle, has disappeared, last seen on her way home from a party. Gullspång's inexperienced police are wilting under the national media spotlight - and its residents desperate for answers. Stockholm DI Charlie Lager must return home to find Annabelle and then get out of town as soon as she can. Before everyone discovers the truth about her....

Sequel to international best seller Block 46 and next in the award-winning Roy & Castells series. Whitechapel, 1888: London is bowed under Jack the Ripper's reign of terror. London 2015: actress Julianne Bell is abducted in a case similar to the terrible Tower Hamlets murders of some 10 years earlier and harking back to the Ripper killings of a century before. Falkenberg, Sweden, 2015: a woman's body is found mutilated in a forest, her wounds identical to those of the Tower Hamlets victims.

A fast-paced thriller from the author of the international bestselling "Shepherd series". The gruesome killing of more than 300 white squatters in a South African village is still unsolved when the alleged assassin enters a storage facility in the US and takes several hostages. No demands and an obvious play for time leave hostage negotiators on edge. When the FBI is called in, they bring Dr. August Burke, a young man with James Dean looks and a brilliant mind capable of seeing behavioral patterns where others can't.

Arran went missing in Edinburgh twenty years ago. The last time his parents saw him he was withdrawn and on edge where he’d once been happy and carefree. Still searching for their son, they turn to their last hope, true crime podcaster Cal Lovett. Cal begins looking for answers but is distracted by his sister’s murder trial. He’s so close to getting the justice Margot deserves. Can he finally leave the past—and Margot—behind? As Cal unearths disturbing evidence about Arran’s fate, he suspects the young man’s close-knit group of university friends are keeping secrets to protect each other.

An early-morning jogger is murdered in Hyde Park. It's the center of London, but no one saw him enter the park, no one saw him die. He carries no identification, only a water-logged phone. As the pieces unravel, it's clear that the dead man had a history of deception. Is the murderer one of those that loved him? Or was it someone with a vengeance? It's proving difficult for DCI Isaac Cook and his team at Challis Street Homicide to find the guilty person—not that they'll cease to search for the truth, not even after one suspect confesses.