Island Crime

Even in the chill of February, no place touches Harper McClain's heart like Savannah. She should be walking beneath the historic city's towering oaks, surrounded by graceful mansions. Instead, she's hiding miles away on Tybee Island after a mysterious voice on the phone warned her that someone wanted her dead. The call was too specific to ignore. The caller knew everything about her. But that was months ago, and she's getting tired of being scared.

When Kat and her friends took a vacation trip to Seychelles, they were planning on spending some time snorkeling in the Indian Ocean, enjoying the food of Seychelles, and exploring the island of Mahé. What they weren’t planning on was becoming involved in solving the murder of the father of the bride. And nearly all of the members of the large, wealthy Texas family, of which the victim was the patriarch, had a motive to commit murder.

Would you risk your life for total strangers? When she is assaulted while on vacation in Key West, the unforgettable Kate Bowers marshals her skills as a former homicide detective and Army MP. As she hunts down her assailant, she discovers women enslaved in a high-end sex trafficking operation on a luxury super-yacht. That’s only the first complication. The president’s daughter is missing and in mortal danger.

Vier Freunde auf einer entlegenen Insel, aber nur drei kehren zurück - Teil 2 der spannenden Thriller-Trilogie um Kommissarin Hulda. Hulda Hermannsdóttir, Kommissarin bei der Polizei Reykjavík, ist auf dem Höhepunkt ihrer Karriere und wird zu einer abgelegenen Insel geschickt. Was ist dort in dem Haus geschehen, das von der Bevölkerung als das isolierteste Haus Islands bezeichnet wird? Huldas Ermittlungen kreuzen Vergangenheit und Gegenwart - und plötzlich ist sie einem Mörder auf der Spur, der möglicherweise nicht nur ein Leben auf dem Gewissen hat.

Lake Winnipesaukee in central New Hampshire is a paradise on earth. A perfect place to unwind—until a ruthless killer starts taking innocent lives. Following a horrific double homicide, the small communities surrounding the lake are wondering who the next victim will be and what the killer wants. Russian-American police officer Vanya Petrova is enraged that someone has shattered paradise on her lake community. She seems to be the central figure in this murderer's bloody rampage. Vanya suspects she's somehow acquainted with the sick man responsible for the bloodshed.

Detective Sergeant Harry Belltree, back on the job after a near-fatal confrontation with corrupt colleagues, has become a departmental embarrassment. The solution is a posting away from Sydney and a quiet life in Newcastle. Or maybe not so quiet.

Having had his retirement snatched from him by malfunctioning technology, Peter “Mad Max” Maxwell finds himself facing yet another year at Leighford High School. His wife, Jacquie, is further annoyed when a family holiday quickly becomes an impromptu Year Seven trip to the Isle of Wight. The situation takes another turn for the worse when the wife of Tom Medlicott, the new Head of Art, goes missing.

In 1830 a young novice called Catherine Labouré was granted a vision of the Virgin Mary. Nearly 200 years later, Sister Anne is also waiting for a sign. Which is why she accepts a mission to go to a tiny community on an island just off the coast of Brittany. Her only companion there is a sceptical, chain-smoking older nun who just wants to be left in peace.

The Florida Keys are experiencing something never seen before; a serial killer. After every clue has been exhausted, Key West police and Monroe County sheriffs are no closer to solving this mystery than when they found the first victim, so they call in Florida Division of Law Enforcement detective Charley Thomas to help. After weeks of investigation, Charley hasn’t come up with a single clue. The sheriffs are starting to wonder if it’s an inside job.

Charity Styles is a former Olympian and US Army helicopter pilot. Captured and tortured by terrorists in Afghanistan after the opening blows of the War on Terror, she has a score to settle. Now working for the Department of Homeland Security, she is offered the opportunity to make a real difference.

Two innocent women have been brutally murdered, their bodies left at neolithic burial sites across the island of Jersey. Detective Inspector Winter Labey leads the investigation, calling on forensic psychologist Saskia Monet to help unravel the killer's twisted motives. But Saskia harbours a dark secret of her own that threatens to derail the case, and when a suspect emerges with a connection to the prison where Saskia works, the investigation begins to hit dangerously close to home.

Reykjavík 1941. Ein Handelsreisender wird mitten in der Stadt in seiner kleinen Wohnung tot aufgefunden. Er wurde mit einem Pistolenschuss in den Kopf getötet. Die Polizei ist gleich vor Ort und der Verdacht fällt auf die ausländischen Soldaten, die während der Kriegsjahre die Straßen Reykjavíks bevölkern. Thorson, neu bei der Polizei, und sein erfahrener Kollege Flovent nehmen die Ermittlungen auf. Schon bald stoßen sie auf eine heiße Spur.

Die Eiskappe des Vatnajökull auf Island schmilzt. Die Streitkräfte der US-Basis Keflavík sind in Alarmbereitschaft, denn der Gletscher hütet ein Geheimnis: Ein abgestürztes Flugzeug aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg mit brisanter Fracht. Vor der grandiosen Kulisse des ewigen Eises gerät eine junge Isländerin in Lebensgefahr.

Auf den isländischen Westmännerinseln werden bei Ausgrabungen drei Leichen und ein abgetrennter Kopf gefunden. Sie liegen im Keller des Elternhauses von Markús Magnússon, das bei einem Vulkanausbruch vor mehr als dreißig Jahren verschüttet wurde. Da Markús mit Hilfe seiner Anwältin Dóra die Ausgrabung unbedingt verhindern wollte, steht er plötzlich unter Mordverdacht: Hat er als Jugendlicher drei Menschen getötet und verstümmelt?

Dóra Guðmundsdóttirs vierter Fall führt die Reykjaviker Anwältin ins eisige Grönland. In einem entlegenen Forschungscamp sind zwei isländische Arbeiter verschwunden, der Rest des Teams weigert sich, ins Camp zurückzukehren. Dóra muss der Sache auf den Grund gehen. Warum verhalten sich die Einheimischen so ungewöhnlich feindselig? Offenbar ermittelt die Anwältin an einem verbotenen, heiligen Ort.

Jennifer Whitmore is the last person Kyle Parker expects to see in his counterterrorism seminar. Fifteen years ago she was the love of his life. Now a respected member of Miami's K-9 search and rescue unit, Jennifer is working undercover on an antiterrorism task force. She's crazy about her partner, Sadie, a droopy-eyed bloodhound. She's also engaged to another man. But when Jennifer and Kyle join forces to rescue a missing child, their passion reignites.

It’s already dark when Stephanie Miller returns to her lakeside home on Vashon Island. Remote and isolated with a view over the water, it’s the way Stephanie has chosen to live since her husband died. Calling out her daughter’s name as she closes the door, she hears her phone buzz inside her purse. She doesn’t have to look to know what it says. Someone knows her biggest secret. Someone wants to kill her for it. The messages have been coming all day, but this one is different. This one knows she’s just walked through the door.

Liam Mulligan is as old school as a newspaper man gets. His beat is Providence, Rhode Island, and he knows every street and alley. He knows the priests and prostitutes, the cops and street thugs. He knows the mobsters and politicians--who are pretty much one and the same. Someone is systematically burning down the neighborhood Mulligan grew up in, people he knows and loves are perishing in the flames, and the public is on the verge of panic.

Everyone deserves a vacation… even Grant Wolfe. But private investigators don't get to choose when cases come their way, especially this shocking kidnapping in Hawaii… Where Grant is the victim! Join Grant and Charlie for another thrilling action-packed adventure ride which takes them to the tropical islands of Hawaii.

"Beneath the Dunes: The Long Island Serial Killer Case" is a chilling, gripping exploration of one of the most haunting unsolved mysteries in American history. For over a decade, the bodies of multiple victims were discovered along the desolate stretch of beach known as Gilgo Beach on Long Island, New York. What began as a single, isolated murder quickly spiraled into a case of national interest—a case plagued with confusion, botched investigations, and devastating false leads.