Political Crime

"Komm, wir gehn gemeinsam jemanden ermorden..." Temporeiche Höchstspannung von Ursula Poznanski: Im zweiten Wien-Thriller der Bestsellerautorin steht Ermittlerin Fina Plank unfreiwillig auf der ganz großen Bühne. Die Inszenierung von Richard III am Burgtheater trieft förmlich von Theaterblut, daher fällt kaum jemandem aus dem Publikum die echte Leiche auf der Bühne auf. Ulrich Schreiber, altgedienter Garderobier, wird tot auf einem Thron sitzend von der Unterbühne ins Rampenlicht gefahren.

»Geschichte wiederholt sich nicht?«, murmelte er. »Wer sagt das? ICH wiederhole die Geschichte.« Vom Bundeswehreinsatz in Afghanistan schwer traumatisiert landet Simon Stark auf der Straße. Als Sophie Palmer, die Leiterin einer Hilfseinrichtung, sich um ihn zu kümmern beginnt, fasst er wieder neuen Mut – und gerät prompt in den nächsten gefährlichen Einsatz. Ein Obdachloser nach dem anderen verschwindet spurlos und nur Simon und seine neuen Freunde scheint das zu interessieren. Als sie auf das Aktenzeichen "14f13" stoßen, kommt ein grässlicher Verdacht auf.

In Israel and Palestine, religious and political tensions are boiling, threatening to explode an untenable status quo. A renowned baker and his son are at odds, one turning his back on Allah, the other determined to prove himself worthy of God’s love. A rich playboy shatters his life in the States and joins Israel’s special forces searching for purpose and meaning. An Israeli vixen with a tragic past and a penchant for violence finds herself torn between her work for the Russian mob and the people she loves.

Red Square, 1985. The naked body of a young man is left outside the walls of the Kremlin: frozen solid - like marble to the touch - and missing the little finger from his right hand. A week later Alex Marston, the headstrong 15-year-old daughter of the British ambassador, disappears. Army intelligence officer Tom Fox, posted to Moscow to keep him from telling the truth to a government committee, is asked to help find her. It's a shot at redemption. But Russia is reluctant to give up the worst of her secrets.

Hillary Broome begins team teaching an ethnic studies class with her friend, Professor Grover Zale, expecting to deepen her understanding of systemic discrimination. But another professor’s lessons stir violent tendencies in a student with criminal ties, leading to a series of hate crimes targeting Zale and Hillary. She’s survived other horrors, but nothing like the death she faces now.

On June 1, 1981, two young activists, Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes, were murdered in Seattle in what was made to appear like a gang slaying. But the victims' families and friends suspected they were considered a threat to the dictatorship of Phillippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his regime's relationship to the United States. But how could they prove it up against such powerful and ruthless adversaries?

"Der Hundeflüsterer" ist der Auftakt der rasanten Thriller-Reihe mit dem ehemaligen BND-Ermittler David Stein von dem Bestsellerautoren B.C. Schiller. David Stein lebt zurückgezogen auf Mallorca und nennt sich selbst einen Hundeflüsterer. Was niemand weiß: Er hat als ehemaliger Geheimdienstmitarbeiter eine neue Identität angenommen, um nach dem Tod seiner Frau weit weg von Gewalt, Tod und Lügen ein neues Leben zu beginnen. Doch bald holt ihn die Vergangenheit wieder ein.

Craig and Cate are wealthy, smart, driven business professionals who have their idyllic world shattered and turned upside down. Their two children are killed during a hate crime. They are devastated and consumed by grief. After the killers are set free, the two take matters into their own hands. They embark on a calculated quest to avenge their children while finding out who was really behind the shooting. Unsatisfied with their revenge taken, Craig and Cate plan the destruction of the neo-Nazi organization that sponsored and planned the shooting.

When a bomb is discovered in the White House during the first year of Phillip Grand’s tenure as president of the United States, press secretary Jamie Carter takes her daughter, Faith, to the one place she believes to be safe - an address in Wyoming given to her years before by reputed mobster Don Bailino. Bailino - thought to be dead by just about everyone, except recently retired FBI special agent Paul Wilcox - has been laying low out west for more than three years, but is propelled out of hiding to protect the woman he loves and the daughter he’s fathered.

FBI Profiler Sean Kruger must follow a trail of deceit and murder to protect his family, friends, and the country from a Russian oligarch! After the horrific murder of an attorney and a Washington Post reporter on a park bench in Washington, DC., Kruger and company must determine the reason for the murders and who committed the crime. When it is discovered the reporter and attorney were trying to uncover a dark secret hidden within the highest ranks of the United States government, Kruger enlists the help of his trusted friend JR Diminski.

The Formula is a character-driven contemporary novel that takes place in Aspen, Colorado. The story begins with the murder of Dr. Laura Russo who has returned to her hometown to deliver a lecture on her research that involves the discovery of a drug formula with far-reaching military implications. During the investigation of her murder, the characters are swept into a web of international intrigue.

Following back-to-back, long-term undercover assignments in Indianapolis and Dallas, the latter resulting in four dead, FBI Special Agent Jake Kruse returns to Los Angeles to take on another undercover operation. Posing as an office supply salesman, Jake befriends a Chinese American business owner believed to be working for an intelligence officer operating out of the Chinese consulate in Los Angeles. Within weeks, the probe reveals a public corruption and human trafficking operation involving politicians and Hollywood executives.

The media calls it a "miracle" when air charter pilot Will Stewart survives an aircraft in-flight breakup, but Will's miracle pales beside the stunning aftereffect of the crash. Barely on his feet again, Will and his police sergeant wife, Andy, race to rescue an innocent child from a heinous abduction. Will penetrates the dark world of urban gangs in the opioid trade while struggling to control a fantastic tool for justice—and praying it doesn't kill him first.

#inkürzetot Wenige Worte machen die aufstrebende Wiener Nachrichtensprecherin Nadine Just über Nacht berühmt: Vor laufender Kamera kündigt sie ihre Ermordung an – zwei Stunden später ist sie tot! Ebenso ergeht es dem Blogger Gunther Marzik nach einer ganz ähnlichen Ankündigung. Während die österreichische Medienwelt kopfsteht, fluten Nachahmerbeiträge und Memes das Netz. Wie soll Fina Plank, die junge Ermittlerin der Wiener "Mordgruppe", zwischen einer echten Spur, einem schlechten Scherz oder schlichtem Fake unterscheiden?

Kommunalrådet Örjan af Trolle möter ett hemskt öde när han faller från fjortonde våningen, kraschar rakt genom ett glastak och vidare tre våningar innan han landar på golvet i gallerian. Men det är ingen olycka. Kriminalinspektör Levin ansvarar för utredningen, och han inser direkt att den kommer bli besvärlig. Om bara hälften av alla historier han hört om Örjan stämmer, så har de minst ett hundratal tänkbara mördare att undersöka.

The Wildbird family has dedicated themselves to wildlife protection for generations. This passion turns mission when a politically potent hunter slays two family members. These brutal murders demand revenge. Distinctive retaliation, guided by family elders, generates a new religion. An illicit enterprise linking Yellowstone to Glacier National Park becomes their single-minded creed in honor of the slain. This distinctive reprisal bolsters the Wildbird’s quest to build their illicit wildlife corridor, unwittingly subsidized by Montana state taxpayers.

Dawood Ibrahim es uno de los criminales más ricos y buscados de todo el planeta en la actualidad. En este relato a caballo entre la ficción y la historia real, seguimos el electrizante viaje de Dawood de la India a Inglaterra, y de ahí a Argentina, en una misión para acabar con un diplomático iraní. Sin embargo, hay fuerzas ocultas que tienen planes diferentes para Dawood... si consiguen atraparlo. Una bomba de relojería en forma de libro imposible de abandonar.

La presidenta de la Generalitat Valenciana, Vita Castellá, aparece muerta en la habitación de un lujoso hotel de Madrid. La comprometida situación exige que quede oficialmente descartado un posible asesinato y que la investigación encalle, de manera que el partido en el poder, al que la víctima pertenece, ha activado todos los recursos. El jefe de la policía de la Comunitat Valenciana decide ayudar al ministro del Interior y al director de la Policía Nacional, Juan Quesada Montilla, en su misión: despistar a las autoridades.

When former detective Trevor “Finn” Finnegan became a PI, he adopted a new mandate: catch the LAPD’s worst in the act. While on surveillance in Venice Beach, Finn tails two potentially dirty cops: Detective Martin Riley and Finn’s ex-partner, Detective Sally Munoz. Things take a deadly turn when an unknown assailant executes Riley and wounds Munoz. In an instant, Finn goes from private eye to eyewitness. Munoz needs Finn to help find Riley’s killer, but doing so could blow his cover.

Ex-journalist James Bradford and Brooke Harris, great-granddaughter of Miller Harris, are looking for a secret codex that is found to be intimately linked to their family history and that of the presidents of the United States. Their journey will be punctuated by pitfalls, perpetrated by an occult international organization that will stop at nothing to recover this precious codex, which conceals their manipulations, their history, and, ultimately, their goal: to control, at all costs, the global economy - and especially that of the United States. The stakes: money and power.