Political Crime

When old-school journalist William Carver is tipped off by a trusted Whitehall source that climate scientists have begun to go missing in suspicious circumstances, his gut instinct tells him to follow the story. It rapidly becomes clear that scientists, green campaigners and well-intentioned politicians are in the firing line; William Carver and his colleagues must move fast to find out who is behind the disappearances. They know the journalist's job is to speak truth to power - but first you must uncover that truth and this time it's buried deeper than ever.

When the governor of Wisconsin’s mistress is found dead of apparent suicide, a long-time political operative sets off a chain of events across the state in his quest for the governor’s throne in Madison. For Minnesota Public Radio reporter Cooper Smith, this is more than a hot story—the governor’s mistress was his coworker, and he suspects foul play.

In Kris Calvin’s debut mystery, One Murder More, a beautiful legislative aide is found stabbed to death in California’s Capitol building. Maren Kane, a lobbyist for a fledgling Sacramento-based toy company, is in the midst of a legislative fight that could make or break her career. She doesn’t have time for a coffee break let alone involvement in a murder investigation.

Imagine a couple of young hacktivists, both former members of the internet freedom fighters group Anonymous, and one of them an ex-black ops officer, breaking away and creating a militant group of anarchists committed to social change. But social change is precipitated by acts of violence against CEOs of major corporations responsible for crimes against humanity.

It’s early summer in Jackson, Wyoming. Former East Coast prosecutor Jake Trent, now a local fishing guide, is wading through a swift current of local politics, introspection, and tragedy. Three seemingly unrelated deaths have occurred in one day - unheard of in the scenic valley. A skier perishes in a freak late-season avalanche. A French couple is discovered mutilated on a remote trail in Grand Teton National Park - presumably by a bear.On the Snake River, Jake himself finds the body of an expensively attired tourist fisherman.

A new entry in the Deception series, Defection, details the kidnapping of Rita Daveed, a.k.a. Harriet. The MSS needs to retrieve an audio SD card that will reveal the identity of Dragonfly, a Chinese sleeper agent embedded high up in Vauxhall Cross. Before Rita is taken on orders from Yang Bo, the director of the UFWD, she manages to leave behind a clue, a postcard from the Bowley Gallery in London, with a cryptic message scrawled on the back, “Find Harry!"

A gripping account of racial justice activists who confronted violent white supremacists in Charlottesville, VA, and stirred the nation On August 11 and 12, 2017, armed neo-Nazi demonstrators descended on the University of Virginia campus and downtown Charlottesville. When they assaulted...

Brandaktuell und hochexplosiv! Echokammer ist die skandinavische Thriller-Sensation des Jahres – der erste Band der preisgekrönten neuen Krimi-Trilogie des norwegischen Erfolgsautors Ingar Johnsrud. Während die Wahl des norwegischen Parlaments immer näher rückt, herrscht bei der Terrorabwehr höchste Alarmbereitschaft: Es gibt Hinweise auf einen bevorstehenden Anschlag. Im Verdacht steht eine Gruppe rechtsnationaler Extremisten, die im Besitz einer großen Menge Rizin sein sollen. Doch was genau haben die Terroristen damit vor?

For fans of Ben Macintyre and Erik Larson, the gripping story of the assassination of Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky and the deadly game of cat and mouse that preceded it On August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky invited a man he knew only as Jacques Mornard into his study. Mornard waited for Trotsky...

Drugs, smuggling, big money and political intrigue in Iceland rally with love, passion, murder and betrayal until the winner takes all...in the masterful, explosive conclusion to the award-winning Reykjavík Noir trilogy. The prison doors slam shut behind Agla when her sentence ends, but her lover Sonja is not there to meet her. As a group of foreign businessmen tries to draw Agla into an ingenious fraud that stretches from Iceland around the world, Agla and her former nemesis María find the stakes being raised at a terrifying speed.

When a prominent land developer is brutally murdered on the US-Mexico border, it's not just another cartel killing to journalist Kyle Dawson. The dead man is his father. Dawson, a veteran war correspondent, vows to uncover the truth. To do that, he must confront the ghosts of his past, including his cousin and confidant DEA special agent Raoul Garcia, his former high school sweetheart Anita Alvarez, his mystical Mexican Indian mother, and his estranged children and ex-wife.

Crossing the US-Mexican border has become increasingly dangerous as these immigrants escape poverty to a word of kidnapping, rape, murder, heat exhaustion, dehydration, and starvation, while they are chased and hunted by drug cartels and for sex trafficking.

Al Sentier, un quartiere parigino di immigrazione turca, è in corso uno sciopero dei lavoratori stranieri: chiedono il permesso di soggiorno e il libretto di lavoro. In un laboratorio clandestino di confezioni, viene rinvenuto il cadavere di una baby prostituta thailandese. Durante il sopralluogo, i due poliziotti che s'incaricano dell'inchiesta scoprono tracce di eroina. Questo connette l'omicidio al lavoro della squadra speciale del commissario Daquin, che indaga su una "rete turca" in seguito alla soffiata della polizia tedesca.

On January 20, 2009, a new occupant had moved into the White House. The transition of power from the previous administration had been orderly and uneventful, and on the surface, seemed to move smoothly through the process as prescribed by the U.S. Constitution.

What millions of Americans couldn't know was that a few years before the new president was born, another man had been offered two lives to live. His choice would change the lives of every man, woman and child on our planet. Many famous assassinations had been left behind in the wake of his ascension. He destroyed many large individual fortunes and the economies of some countries.

A CHICAGO TRIBUNE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR An urgent, fiercely intelligent debut novel about "two couples, an ocean apart—one wounded by a war crime, the other just starting to reckon with being implicated in it.... An insightful book about the slow, zigzag work of healing that nonetheless...

Eine brutale Geiselnahme. Und die Welt schaut zu. Ein spektakuläres Verbrechen hält eine Kleinstadt in Atem: Drei Neonazis werden in einem Turm gefangen gehalten. Ephraim Zamir, der Geiselnehmer, konfrontiert sie in einem Verhör mit ihren Gewalttaten und überträgt das Ganze live im Netz. Die Zuschauer sollen abstimmen: freilassen oder hinrichten? Es ist der Beginn eines weltweiten Medienspektakels. Für die Polizei ist es ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit. Womit sie nicht rechnen: Sie haben es mit einem ehemaligen Mossad-Agenten zu tun, der nicht bereit ist zu verhandeln.

Si Danny Cartwright le hubiese propuesto matrimonio a Beth Wilson un día antes, no habría sido arrestado y acusado por el asesinato de su mejor amigo. Los cuatro testigos de la acusación son un abogado, un popular actor, un aristócrata y el socio más joven que ha tenido en toda su historia un famoso bufete, así que, ¿quién va a creer la versión de Danny? Danny es condenado a una pena de 22 años y enviado a la prisión Belmarsh, la cárcel de máxima seguridad más férrea del país, de la que ningún preso ha escapado jamás.

Bihar Diaries narrates the thrilling account of how Amit Lodha arrested Samant Pratap, one of Bihar's most feared ganglords, notorious for extortion, kidnapping and the massacre of scores of people. The book follows the adrenaline-fuelled chase that took place across three states during Amit's...

Winner of the 2021 IRE Book Award Winner of the 2022 Texas Institute of Letters Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of Nonfiction In the age of #MeToo, learn how brave whistleblowers have dared to lift the federal court’s veil of secrecy to expose powerful judges who appear to defy laws they...

Pour François Berlau, le plus jeune président de la République jamais élu, la première année du quinquennat fut un quasi-sans-faute : des résultats économiques encourageants, un leadership européen revendiqué, une France qui retrouve son rang sur la scène internationale... La deuxième année, en revanche, est infernale, ponctuée par des assassinats non élucidés de personnalités politiques de premier plan, puis par un énorme scandale le visant personnellement à travers le financement de sa campagne. S'agit-il de fake news ?