Psychological Police Suspense

Eine junge Frau wird tot im Zimmer Nummer 10 eines zwielichtigen Hotels mitten in Göteborg aufgefunden – sie wurde erhängt. Einzige Anhaltspunkte der Polizei sind ein Abschiedsbrief, eine rätselhafte Videoaufnahme sowie die mit weißer Farbe bemalte Hand des Opfers. Als Kommissar Erik Winter am Tatort eintrifft, erkennt er, dass er dieses Zimmer vor zwanzig Jahren schon einmal als Ermittler betreten hat

Es ist Mittsommer in Göteborg. Kommissar Erik Winter steht vor drei Leichen und einem Meer aus Blut. Der einzige Zeuge der Morde, ein kleiner Junge, versteckt sich vor dem Kommissar. Winter kommt mit seinen Ermittlungen in einem Milieu am Rande der Gesellschaft, in dem der Kampf ums Überleben zusammenschweißt, nur mühsam voran. Seine einzige Hoffnung ist es, den Jungen zu finden. Einfühlsam, poetisch und mit großer erzählerischer Kraft schreibt Åke Edwardson über die, die im Schatten unserer Gesellschaft leben.

Little Henry Wallace was eight years old and 100 miles from home before anyone talked to him. His mother placed him on a train with a label around his neck, asking for him to be kept safe for a week, kept away from Hinton Hollow. Because something was coming.

Der neue Fall für das Berliner Ermittlerduo Greenwood & Stegmayer - ein fesselnder Psychothriller von Bestsellerautor Noah Fitz. Die Blutspritzer verraten es: Der Mörder hat mit der sterbenden jungen Frau getanzt. Anschließend hat er die Leiche drapiert und eine tote Ratte unter sie gelegt. Ella Greenwood und Leonhard Stegmayer von der Berliner Mordkommission stehen vor einem ebenso grausamen wie bizarren Fall. Kurz darauf geschieht ein zweiter Mord.

In the chilling conclusion of the Girl Who Ran trilogy, Tess McClintock and Michael Carter continue the investigation into the disappearances of young girls in the Pacific Northwest.

Fifteen years ago, a deranged young man abducted a teenage girl in a parking lot. He chose her for her innocence. Punished her for her beauty. Dowsed her with gasoline and tried to purify her with fire. Detective Jacob Rein managed to stop the lunatic and lock him up for life. Now the girl who survived that horrible ordeal has been found dead, an apparent suicide. Near her body is a letter from "The Master" - a bloodchilling promise to finish what he started.

Rebekah and Mark Walker find themselves in every parent’s worst nightmare when their dazzling, talented daughter Kezia vanishes after a night out. Soon, they are propelled into the vortex of a fraught missing person inquiry. In a family torn apart by the disappearance of an apparently captivating teenager, we discover a tangled web of intrigue: mutual suspicion, sibling struggles, and the vain attempt of Kezia's parents to maintain a normal life in the face of almost unendurable pressures.

Jane Ferguson suffers from horrific nightmares which she claims not to be able to explain. And when Jane is found dead, hanging by the neck in the hallway of the family's seaside home, it is assumed she took her own life. But routine police inquiries reveal evidence indicating that Jane has been murdered, and her businessman husband Felix, commodore of the local yacht club, becomes the chief suspect. Called in to launch a major inquiry, Detective Inspector David Vogel discovers that nothing connected with Jane Ferguson's death is as it seems.

Police investigator Susan Adler is ready to close the book on a deadly car accident, but after the medical examiner discovers evidence of foul play, she knows she has a murder on her hands. The victim was the wealthy wife of Randall Brock, a renowned psychiatrist who treats patients with disturbing, brutal fantasies. And just like that, Susan’s got a suspect.

A body just turned up in the small town of Portland, Pennsylvania. The crime is eerily similar to a twenty-year-old cold case: another victim, brutally murdered, found in the Delaware River. Lead detective Parker Reed is intent on connecting the two murders, but the locals are on lockdown, revealing nothing. The past meets the present when Becca Kingsley, who returns to Portland to be with her estranged but dying father, runs into Parker, her childhood love. As the daughter of the former police chief, Becca’s quickly drawn into the case.

The serene beauty of West Texas's Big Bend National Park is shattered when four hikers are brutally ambushed by a sniper. Only one survives to report the murders. When investigators come up with nothing, they're left wondering if this is a single incident - or the beginning of a rampage. One week later, Texas Ranger Sonny Hawke drives his 3500 Dodge Dually into the park, determined to unearth the truth. Before he knows it, he's in the same sniper's crosshairs. A drug and human smuggling cartel has lured him to remote backcountry, looking for payback for an old grudge.

Best friends tell you everything - about their kitchen renovation, about their little girl’s schooling. How one of them is leaving the other for a younger model. Best friends don’t tell lies. They don’t take up residence on your couch for weeks. They don’t call lawyers. They don’t make you choose sides. Best friends don’t keep secrets about their past. They don't put you in danger. Best friends don’t always stay best friends.

Due omicidi, due scene del crimine, due vittime che non sembrano aver nulla in comune. L'enigma sembra irrisolvibile per la detective Jane Rizzoli e il medico legale Maura Isles. Perché entrambi i cadaveri presentano mutilazioni agghiaccianti, ma non letali. E la causa di morte pare impossibile da determinare. Dentro di sé, Jane Rizzoli ha una sola certezza: quello non è che l'inizio. Eppure, la verità è là fuori, da qualche parte, qualcuno la sa. Ma chi?

Florida homicide detective Maggie Novak has seen hundreds of brutal murder cases, but when she is called out to investigate the charred remains of a young woman, in what appears to be a Halloween prank gone wrong, she is confronted with a twenty-year-old secret. The body is formally identified as that of school counselor Dana Cullen, but a distinguishing mark makes Maggie look again. She believes it is the body of her school friend Rita, who perished in a fire twenty years ago. Maggie’s hunt for the truth behind the murder takes her back to a cruel high school trick.

When a North Dakota couple is shot down in their home in cold blood, the sleepy town of Hagen wakes with a jolt. After all, it’s usually such a peaceful place. But Detective Kylie Milliard knows better. Despite not handling a homicide investigation in years, Kylie is on the case. A drop of blood found at the scene at first blush promises to be her best evidence. But it ultimately only proves that someone else witnessed the murder - and the results are shocking: the DNA reveals a familial match to a crime involving local nurse Lily Baker from over a decade ago.

Ex-FBI agent Cody O'Brien lives a quiet life in Northern California. Self-sufficient and content, she provides a good home for herself and her eight-year-old son, Ryan. But all of that is shattered when Ryan is kidnapped is broad daylight. Cody's greatest fear is knowing the true motive behind the abduction. For her entire life is a lie - one so easily exposed, and so very dangerous. A woman of hard-earned courage, she escaped the killers responsible for her husband's murder and learned to start over. Failed by the Witness Protection Program, she trusts only herself to save her son.

When a freshly mummified body is discovered at the Brighton Museum of Natural History, Detective Francis Sullivan is at a loss to identify the desiccated woman. But as Egyptian burial jars of body parts with cryptic messages attached start appearing, he realises he has a serial killer on his hands. Revenge, obsession and an ancient religion form a potent mix, unleashing a wave of terror throughout the city. Caught in a race against time while battling his own demons, Francis must fight to uncover the true identity of the Embalmer before it's too late.

Damit hat Fallanalytiker Max Bischoff nicht gerechnet. Keine andere als die Leiterin des KK 11 in Düsseldorf, Polizeirätin Eslem Keskin, die bislang kein gutes Haar an ihm gelassen hat, bittet Max um Hilfe. Er soll in dem kleinen Weinort Klotten an der Mosel inoffiziell in einem nie gelösten Vermisstenfall ermitteln. Keskin ist in ihrem privaten Umfeld auf neue Hinweise zu dem über zwanzig Jahre alten Fall gestoßen und hofft, dass es Max gelingt, die richtigen Schlüsse zu ziehen. Doch kaum vor Ort ereignet sich ein Mord. Max ist bald an etwas dran, aber ignoriert alle Warnungen.

She's been told time and again to stay out of the woods and away from the old mine, but eleven-year-old Tessie Rowe has an imagination bigger than her mother's back yard. Since she was old enough to read, she's done nothing but absorb information about monster lore from across the globe- and she's become convinced that the area surrounding her tiny hometown of Adelaide, Virginia has just about one of everything.

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