International Police Procedurals

Under pressure to solve the murder of Sister Sophia Brennan, Detective Hollie Turner is close to cracking the case and catching the killer when her Deputy Chief Constable, Rose Warburton, goes missing. It soon becomes clear that Rose has been abducted, and Hollie makes a shocking discovery. Rose's disappearance is connected to Sister Brennan's murder investigation. As Hollie and her team delve further into the lives of the four girls who had their babies forcibly taken at the sinister Church of St Mary and the Angels mother and baby home, Hollie unearths a revelation about a fifth girl.

När den unga polisen Eve Ronin arresterar en världskänd filmstjärna fångas det på film och videon blir viral. Los Angeles polischef, som är i desperat behov av bra PR, bestämmer sig för att anställa numera hjältinnan Eve, som blir den yngsta mordutredaren i utskottets historia. Men Eve måste bevisa för sina nya kollegor att hon förtjänar positionen. När hon och hennes snart pensionerade kollega blir kallade till en brutal och blodig brottsscen i ett hus får hon chansen att göra just det. Huset tillhör en ensamstående mamma och hennes två barn, men trots spåren av blod finner de inga kroppar.

Elin Bertram ist nicht leicht aus der Fassung zu bringen. Mit der Soko Mondschein sucht die Hamburger Kommissarin einen Serienmörder, der seit elf Jahren entlang der Nordseeküste junge Frauen brutal ermordet. Dann wird sie in das kleine Hafenstädtchen Carolinensiel gerufen: In einer verlassenen Hütte in einem Kiefernwald wurde die 17-jährige Jonna tot aufgefunden. Auf den ersten Blick deutet alles darauf hin, dass Jonna zum sechsten Opfer des Mondscheinmörders wurde. Aber Elin ist sicher, dass jemand anderes hinter diesem Mord steckt.

PIEL es la nueva novela de Fernando Gamboa, el autor independiente más vendido en todo el mundo y que esta vez nos trae un impresionante thriller policíaco protagonizado por la agente Nuria Badal. Una absorbente novela negra de la que no podrás despegarte hasta alcanzar su inesperado final. Un oscuro misterio en el que, de la mano de Nuria, te asomarás a los lugares más recónditos de tu propia conciencia, dudando incluso de ti mismo, hurgando bajo la piel de las apariencias hasta revelar la alucinante realidad.

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.

Two Australian police officers travel to San Francisco and Los Angeles in the summer of 1967 in search of a missing young man, only to find themselves fully immersed in the world of music, free love, drugs and hippie counterculture. They soon realise this isn't just any ordinary missing person investigation. A big gig is the perfect place to get away with murder, and their search becomes a thrilling journey through the seamy side of the 1960s counterculture.

In Berlin werden in einem alten Bunker aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg die Leichen einer Familie gefunden. Parallel dazu werden in Norddeutschland Menschen brutal in ihrem Zuhause ermordet, gefesselt an einen Sessel und einer blutenden toten Taube auf dem Schoß.

No one gave much credence to the man when he was alive. In fact, most people never knew who he was, although those who had lived in the area for many years recognized the tired-looking and shabbily dressed man as he shuffled along, regular as clockwork on Thursdays at seven in the evening to the local off-license. Apart from the three-story mansion where he lived, no one would have regarded him as any other than homeless and destitute. Just a harmless eccentric, until the morning when he was found dead in his front garden.

A group of children play. Not far away, in the ditch on the other side of the farmyard, the body of a young woman. The nearby village hides as many secrets as the community at the farm, a disparate group of people looking for an alternative to their previous torturous lives. Their leader, idealistic and benevolent, espouses love and kindness, and somebody's not following his dictate. The second death, an old woman, seems unrelated to the first, but is it? Is it part of the tangled web that connects the farm to the village?

Kommissar Marc Wittmann ist entsetzt, als die grausam entstellte Leiche einer Frau gefunden wird, der ein Organ entnommen wurde. Noch schockierter ist er, als er erfährt, dass die ermittelnde Psychologin Frieda Rubens einen neuen, anonymen Patienten hat, der mit ihr über seine Kannibalismusfantasien sprechen will und sie immer wieder anruft.

Superintendent Teresa Battaglia, a trailblazing criminal detective on the Italian police force, is on sick leave, recovering from her recent brush with death in pursuit of a killer. But none of her colleagues, not even her partner, know that her Alzheimer’s is getting worse, and that Teresa is unsure she will ever return to work. Teresa’s plans for retirement are shelved, however, when she is urgently summoned to meet with menacing serial killer Giacomo Mainardi.

Gruppeninspektor Frank Karl wird zu einem Tatort in der Wiener Innenstadt bestellt. Der Kieberer wird jedoch unerwartet von dem Fall abgezogen, denn seinen Vorgesetzten quälen andere Sorgen: Seine Tochter liest, von ihrer Gymnasiallehrerin angeregt, obszöne Texte, die sich schnell als Zitate aus der Weltliteratur herausstellen. Frank Karl klappert die Wohnungen der empörten Eltern ab. Dabei begegnet er nicht nur einzigartigen Exemplaren der Wiener Gesellschaft, sondern stolpert auch ins Bett der Lehrerin—und über die Leiche eines prominenten Anwalts.

The calling card of the killer known as ‘The Jeweller' is as elegant as it is gruesome: a pair of ring fingers, separated from their owners, encircled by a band of wire, and delivered directly to Senior Detective Joe Capello. When the Jeweller taunts Joe and his team into meeting him in the diseased grounds of Barren Park, the consequences of that evening will have permanent repercussions for everyone involved. And for Joe, it gets personal.

En el año 1995, la Policía Nacional de Barcelona se enfrenta a una cadena de accidentes y suicidios, que tienen la particularidad de ocurrir en terrazas de edificios donde los fallecidos no vivían. Esas muertes, en un principio inconexas, llevan de cabeza al Grupo 3 de Homicidios, dirigido por el inspector Bellido y la subinspectora Mónica.

While her colleagues enjoy the seasonal festivities, DI Karen Hornby is called to investigate a suspicious death on the northernmost island of Doggerland. But how close to home is the truth of the case.

DCI Kelso Strang is led to believe that something very odd is going on around the prosperous fishing port of Tarleton on Scotland’s south-east coast. Firstly, a young Detective Inspector is traumatised after witnessing a doctor throwing herself off a cliff, and accusations of extortion have riven the local community. And when the ugly death of a young farmer sets off a murder investigation, Strang finds himself caught in a spider’s web of criminality.

A man is found dead, lying at the bottom of the stairs to his flat, his body blocking the door of the elderly woman who lives downstairs. The worried landlord who finds the body seeks advice from his friend's wife—now Detective Inspector Ariadne Moralis. Something in his demeanour hints at a hidden secret. When it becomes apparent that the body has been moved, it is clear the man's death was not an accident.

Als eine schöne, wohlhabende Studentin tot in ihrem Zimmer in Oxfords renommiertestem College aufgefunden wird, ist es an Detective Inspector Bridget Hart, den Fall zu lösen. Obwohl das Mädchen keinerlei Feinde zu haben schien, kam es bei einem brutalen und blutigen Überfall ums Leben.

Kein ruhiger Sommer für Commissaire Geneviève Morel. Auf einer der letzten Windmühlen am Montmartre wird die gekreuzigte Leiche einer Moulin-Rouge-Tänzerin gefunden - im Engelskostüm. Kurz darauf stirbt noch ein zweiter „Engel“. Die Kommissarin stürzt sich in die Ermittlungen und trifft auf eine Mauer des Schweigens, selbst in ihren eigenen Reihen. Welche Geheimnisse hüteten die Engel, dass niemand an der Aufklärung der Morde interessiert zu sein scheint? Und was führt Genevièves Großmutter Mamie schon wieder im Schilde?

With his partner away on a honeymoon, Yorkshire detective Andrew Dalziel tries to beat the blues by taking a vacation of his own. But after getting caught in a torrential rain and running into a funeral procession, he winds up accompanying a crowd of upper-class mourners to a crumbling country house. Dalziel isn't known for his elegant manners, but he has bigger problems than not fitting in: The owner of the home has died under unusual circumstances, and soon more bodies are turning up.