Psychological Police Suspense

Cherry blossom season is Washington, D.C.'s most beautiful time of the year. But as tourists flock to the city, this year's festivities are marred by the discovery of the naked body of a young woman floating in the Tidal Basin. Veteran homicide detective Brian (Brick) Kavanagh is assigned to the case. He's shocked when he learns the victim is connected to another homicide which makes the investigation very personal for him. Convinced that justice has not been served and the wrong person is in jail, Kavanagh risks all to relentlessly pursue the truth.

De koffer was zwaar verroest. Erika Foster hield stug vol en uiteindelijk gaf hij mee. Maar de inhoud van de koffer overtrof haar ergste nachtmerries. Wanneer een gehavende koffer met het verminkte lichaam van een jonge man aan de oever van de Theems aanspoelt, is zelfs rechercheur Erika Foster geschokt. Ze heeft al heel wat gruwelen voorbij zien komen in haar leven, maar dit heeft ze nooit eerder gezien. Terwijl Erika en haar team de zaak voorbereiden leggen ze de link met een ander slachtoffer, een jonge vrouw die twee weken eerder in een vergelijkbaar type koffer werd gevonden.

Ein Set der Bücher #1(Verschwunden) und #2 (Gefesselt) der Riley Paige Krimiserie von Blake Pierce - einem #1 Bestseller mit mehr als 400 5-Sterne Bewertungen! Dieses Set bietet die Hörbucher eins und zwei in einer praktischen Datei an. In Verschwunden, werden Frauen im ländlichen Virginia tot aufgefunden - alle auf groteske Weise getötet - und als das FBI den Fall übernimmt sind sie ratlos. In Gefesselt, werden Frauen im Hinterland von New York ermordet und ihre Leichen in Ketten gewickelt aufgehängt.

It seems like an open-and-shut case for FBI special agent Lucy Thorne when Eliza Cook walks into the field office. The teenage girl confesses to murdering a young boy. Disturbingly composed, she reveals chilling details only the killer could know. Beyond that Eliza doesn't say another word, leaving a vital question met with dead silence: Why did she do it?

Kate Wise, eine sechsundfünfzigjährige FBI-Agentin; wird aus ihrem Ruhestand gerissen, als ein zweiter Ehemann aus einem wohlhabenden Vorort New York Citys ermordet aufgefunden wird; erschossen auf dem Nachhauseweg. Kann dies ein Zufall sein? Der eine Fall, den Kate niemals lösen konnte, hat sie ein Jahrzehnt lang verfolgt. Nun, zehn Jahre später, wird ein weiterer Ehemann aus dem gleichen Vorort ermordet aufgefunden - getötet auf die gleiche Art und Weise wie der erste. Gibt es eine Verbindung, und wenn ja, welche?

Ein Ausbruch aus einem Hochsicherheitsgefängnis. Hektische Anrufe vom FBI. Spezialagentin Riley Paiges schlimmster Albtraum ist Wirklichkeit geworden: ein Serienmörder, den sie vor Jahren hinter Gittern brachte, ist auf freiem Fuß. Und sie ist sein größtes Ziel. Riley ist es gewohnt, diejenige zu sein, die Verbrecher jagt, aber zum ersten Mal findet sie sich selbst - und ihre Familie - im Kreuzfeuer eines Jägers wieder. Während der Mörder sie verfolgt, beginnt er außerdem wahllos zu töten und Riley muss ihn stoppen, bevor es zu spät ist.

No sooner do Hot Rod and the Pistons reunite for their induction into the Iowa Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame than two band members take a final bow. Both alleged suicides. A tragic way to go out. A bum way for one-hit wonders to be remembered. But it’s Labor Day weekend. The show must go on. With replacements at the ready, the Pistons are back on home turf to headline the first ever Rock and Country Music Fest. Police Chief Krista Larson and her father, Keith, are there listening. Because they suspect there may be more to the band members’ untimely deaths than anyone else can see.

One summer. One stranger. One killer.... Two bad things happened that summer: a stranger arrived. And the first girl disappeared. In the wake of the crime that rocked her hometown, Felicity fled, knowing more than she let on. But 16 years later, her new life is shattered by the news that a second girl has gone missing in Sidmouth.

On a warm evening in late summer, best friends Raymond and Cara camp out overnight in the garden. By morning, Raymond is dead and Cara is missing. DI Rita Cannan is called home to the sleepy seaside town of Green-on-the-Sea to investigate Raymond’s murder and try to find Cara - alive. But the case carries eerie echoes of another girl’s death that rocked the close-knit community, decades ago.

After 15 years of self-imposed exile in Canada, successful businessman Nick Lawrence returns to the Derbyshire village where he grew up, to rescue a company on the verge of bankruptcy and its workforce from mass unemployment. But, it soon becomes clear why he left. He was convicted and later acquitted of the murder of his girlfriend Emily, the daughter of Oliver Fleming - owner of the failing company that is still determined to prove he was guilty all along.

Dylan was only a child when he and his friend stumbled onto a crime scene deep in the woods. His friend was killed that night. And Bruce Forrester, the man who had chased the boys in the woods, disappeared. But he’s never stopped looking for the only living witness. Ever since, Dylan and his family have been on the run.

A serial killer is terrorising London, removing a body part from each victim and leaving in its place a single pink rose. Dr Vernon Sange, a multiple murderer awaiting extradition, seems to know the culprit’s identity - but he’ll only talk to profiler Ziba MacKenzie, the woman responsible for putting him away. Though there’s something he wants in return from her. And time is running out. With one killer whispering in her ear and another running rings around the police, Ziba must play a game in which only her opponent knows the rules, and the forfeit is death.

When a woman is murdered, her wealthy husband and his troubled psychiatrist both become suspects. The dreams of the husband and the neurotic obsessions of the psychiatrist criss-cross in a plot that has both the police and the psychiatrist wondering who is the real killer.

Die elfjährige Jazzie versteckt sich hinter einem Sessel vor dem Mann, der eben ihre Mutter im Zorn erschlagen hat. Sie hat ihn sofort erkannt - er aber hat sie nicht gesehen. Kein Wort wird Jazzie sagen, denn nur so kann sie sich und ihre kleine Schwester vor dem Bösen schützen ... Taylor Dawson ist mit einer Lüge aufgewachsen. In Baltimore will sie endlich die Wahrheit herausfinden über den Mann, den ihre Mutter ein Monster genannt hat: Clay Maynard, ihren Vater.

The action swings from London to Sweden, and then back into the past, to Franco’s Spain, as Roy and Castells hunt a monstrous killer...in the latest instalment of Johana Gustawsson’s award-winning series. Spain, 1938: the country is wracked by civil war, and as Valencia falls to Franco’s brutal dictatorship, Republican Therese witnesses the murders of her family. Captured and sent to the notorious Las Ventas women’s prison, Therese gives birth to a daughter who is forcibly taken from her.

Detective Constable Bailey Morgan has been out of the undercover game since the last job went horribly wrong, leaving her with scars both inside and out. When her best friend Alice is murdered while working undercover in a women’s prison, Bailey steps up to replace her. Working alone, Bailey embarks on a dangerous quest through the murky underbelly of the prison, where she soon discovers that Alice’s death was part of a spate of brutal murders. Surrounded on all sides by criminals and lowlifes, God help her if any of them find out she’s a copper....

No one believed Gail Millar killed her sister and then herself 18 years ago. But if anyone knows the truth about what happened that night, they’re keeping it to themselves. Rose’s stepsister, Willow, is always disappearing off somewhere without notice. But something feels different this time. When she receives a mysterious package from Willow containing photographs of four men, one of whom she is sure is a murderer, Rose realises she needs to find her sister and uncover the truth about her past.

Hester Thursby has given up using her research skills to trace people who don't want to be found. A traumatic case a few months ago unearthed a string of violent crimes, and left Hester riddled with self-doubt and guilt. Caring for a four-year-old is responsibility enough in a world filled with terrors Hester never could have imagined before. Finisterre Island, off the coast of Maine, is ruggedly beautiful and remote - the kind of place tourists love to visit, though rarely for long. But not everyone who comes to the island is welcome.

Eine junge Frau, mit einem Drahtseil um den Hals, zielt auf ihren eigenen Vater. Er hat ebenfalls eine Waffe in der Hand. Einer der beiden stirbt auf grausame Weise. Der Anblick ist selbst für die unerschrockene Oberkommissarin Eva Lange zu viel. Unerwartet bekommt Eva Unterstützung von dem exzentrischen Sonderermittler Ruben Hattinger. Ruben hat sich mit seiner Beobachtungsgabe und zahlreichen Ermittlungserfolgen einen Namen gemacht, Teamfähigkeit zählt aber nicht zu seinen Stärken.

Before being promoted to detective, Carrie Santero was given a rare glimpse into the mind of a killer. Through her mentor, Jacob Rein - a seasoned manhunter whose gift for plumbing the depths of madness nearly drove him over the brink - she was able to help capture one of the most depraved serial killers in the country. Now, the discovery of a small human foot buried in the Pennsylvania woods will lead her to a decades-old cold case - and the darkest secrets of her mentor's youth.