Traditional Detectives Police Procedural

When Detective Chief Inspector John Shadow is called to Kirkdale Castle to investigate the death of a handsome racehorse trainer during a shooting party, he’s immersed in painful childhood memories. His father had been shot in the line of duty at Kirkdale, but his killer was never apprehended. Shadow suspects the two deaths may be linked and is determined to discover the truth, but dealing with the aristocracy is more complicated than he bargained for and the inhabitants of Kirkdale Castle are as unhelpful as ever.

Verdadero icono de la novela policíaca japonesa, la celebridad de Edogawa Rampo se extendió también fuera de su país. Publicado el año 1934, este libro no sólo es una de sus obras más emblemáticas, sino también un claro ejemplo de la figura del investigador entendido como gran maestro de la deducción y de la lógica, en la línea del Auguste Dupin de Poe y el Sherlock Holmes de Conan Doyle.

When the managing director of Wainwright Enterprises dies everyone is amazed to find he was far richer than they supposed, and that he's left his estate to his nephew Alex and his wife Sally. She uncovers accounting irregularities within the company, but resists involving the police - until the firm's accountant is murdered. But DCI Andrew Fenwick's investigation reveals a web of corruption reaching the highest levels of the local community that puts his own child's life in peril.

La historia comienza con el Dr. John Watson, que se instala en Londres para recuperarse de una herida que sufrió mientras actuaba como médico militar durante la Segunda Guerra de Afganistán. Por una serie de casualidades del destino, Watson conoce al excéntrico detective Sherlock Holmes. Ambos acabarán viviendo juntos, resolviendo un caso de asesinato y formando una de las parejas más reconocidas de la literatura. Luis Roberto Guzmán es el encargado de narrar esta novela protagonizada por Sherlock Holmes, personaje creado por Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

En sommarkväll 1994 blir Inger Lövgren brutalt våldtagen i sitt hem av en okänd man. Nästan 25 år senare kontaktar hon Klas Hagberg på Göteborgspolisens Kalla fall-grupp och ber honom om hjälp. När Klas börjar gräva i fallet upptäcker han att det finns fler kvinnor som utsatts för liknande övergrepp och allting tyder på att en serievåldtäktsman fortfarande går fri. Trots chefens protester går Klas vidare och än en gång tar han hjälp av sin vän Sara Douhan, som jobbar inom hemtjänsten. Återigen tvingas de båda att tänja på reglerna i jakten efter sanningen.

Maigret hat allen Grund, schlecht gelaunt zu sein: Die ganze Welt scheint sich gegen ihn verschworen zu haben. Ein verregneter, grauer Herbst drückt Kommissar Maigret aufs Gemüt. Außerdem steht seine Pensionierung kurz bevor, was seine Stimmung auch nicht gerade aufhellt, ganz zu schweigen vom dem Mordfall, mit dem er augenblicklich befasst ist: Der Keksfabrikant Leonard Lachaume wurde erschossen im Bett aufgefunden, seine Verwandten hüllen sich allesamt in Schweigen, und die Atmosphäre im Haus der einst wohlhabenden, aber inzwischen verarmten Lachaumes könnte kaum trister sein.

Seit einem Jahr ist Maigret im Ruhestand. In seinem Häuschen duftet es nach köstlichen Ragouts und im Garten nach reifem Obst. Da wendet sich ein amerikanischer Millionärssohn an ihn - sein Vater werde bedroht, er brauche Maigrets Hilfe. Der muss nicht lange überlegen und besteigt mit dem jungen Mann ein Schiff nach New York. Kaum von Bord, verschwindet sein Auftraggeber spurlos. Maigret macht sich dennoch an die Arbeit, durchstreift die Bronx, das Greenwich Village. Mit dem American Way of Life allerdings kommt er gar nicht zurecht.

Eine anonyme Leiche: Maigret muss sich ganz auf seinen Instinkt verlassen. In Paris kündigt sich der Frühling an. Die Flüsse führen Niedrigwasser. Da fischen zwei Schiffer vor einen Arm aus dem Kanal Saint-Martin. Wenig später fördern Taucher weitere Körperteile zutage. Fest steht, bei dem Toten handelt es sich um einen Mann. Seine Identität allerdings ist unklar, denn der Kopf bleibt verschwunden. Doch der Zufall führt Kommissar Maigret schon bei seinem ersten Besuch am Tatort in eine Bar, wo ihm die missmutige Wirtin erzählt, ihr Mann sei bereits seit einigen Tagen verschollen.

Malaje. (De mal ángel.) 1. adj. Dicho de una persona: Desagradable, que tiene mala sombra (Fuente: RAE). Los inspectores Jiménez y Villanueva se huelen que la cosa no está para bromas. Todo el mundo parece estar loco detrás de "la sagrada lanza" con la que Longinos hirió a Cristo -solamente falta Indiana Jones-. Pero los dos detectives saben que tras el robo de este objeto hay algo más... un plan diabólico que los llevará a un infierno muy particular.

Las cosas de la muerte es un nuevo caso del peculiar inspector barcelonés Santiago Escalona, policía reservado y taciturno destinado a uno de los barrios más conflictivos de su ciudad: el Raval. En esta ocasión Escalona investigará la muerte de una mujer a la que todo su entorno parecía odiar al tiempo que intenta averiguar el paradero de una valiosa antigüedad iraquí recién robada, así como el asesinato de su propietario. Ambas tramas chocarán en una maraña de secretos desoladores y culpables ocultos.

When you're a 62-year-old cop with bad knees, most days feel pretty long. But the longest day of Abe Lieberman's life begins just after midnight when he learns his nephew, David, has been shot dead and David's pregnant wife has been gravely injured by two gunmen trying to rob the couple. Now Carol is barely clinging to life, and it's up to Lieberman to track down the killers. With the help of his partner, the troubled alcoholic Bill Hanrahan, Lieberman will turn the city upside down to find the men who stole his nephew's bright future.

Oslo, 1938. War is in the air and Europe is in turmoil. Hitler’s Germany has occupied Austria and is threatening Czechoslovakia; there’s a civil war in Spain and Mussolini reigns in Italy. When a woman turns up at the office of police-turned-private investigator Ludvig Paaske, he and his assistant – his one-time nemesis and former drug-smuggler Jack Rivers – begin a seemingly straightforward investigation into marital infidelity.

Detective Inspector Hunter Wilson knows there is a new supply of cocaine flooding his city, and he needs to find the source, but his attention is transferred to murder when a corpse is discovered in the grounds of a golf course. Shortly after the post-mortem, Hunter witnesses a second murder, but that is not the end of the slaughter.

Soon after the cargo liner Alexandra Rose steams into the Mersey Estuary, one of the ship’s passengers is found dead, leading to Detective Inspector Andy Ross’s most baffling case to date. Another death soon follows, and Ross discovers that the case has its roots in the depths of the Amazon Rainforest. A billionaire entrepreneur, mysterious passengers, a team of researchers, and a band of vicious mercenaries all have their part to play.

A sadistic practical joker is haunting the popular music halls of London, interfering with the actors and interrupting their acts by orchestrating humiliating disasters that take place in view of the audience. A trapeze artist misses her timing when the trapeze ropes are shortened. Mustard has been applied to a sword swallower's blade. A singer's costume has been rigged. The girl in a magician's box is trapped. Then the mischief escalates to murder. Or was murder intended all along?

A body discovered in the river in the centre of Cardiff with its tongue amputated leads to more deaths in the Polish community. John Marco and his team have to delve into the East European immigrant community and uncover the murky world of people trafficking. But what is it that links all the deaths together?

London. Young scientist Rita Sidhu is on the brink of something beautiful. A rising star in the field of genetics, she’s involved with a massive breakthrough in heart-disease care. But tragedy threatens her bright future when she becomes a suspect in her boyfriend’s gruesome murder. DCI Terence Varcy still mourns the loss of his wife and child. But the grieving policeman never expected working the case of a medical genius’s murdered sweetheart would expose a string of vicious killings.

Reconstrucció dels assassinats comesos en 1949 per John George Haig, un assassí en sèrie que, en ser detingut, va confessar que era un vampir que necessitava alimentar-se de sang humana. Els jutges van sospitar que s'estava fent passar per boig per eludir la condemna de mort i, després de moltes deliberacions, el van enviar a la forca. Narrada en primera persona, la novel·la és una minuciosa aproximació als fets reals i exactes que van succeïr al mateix temps que reflexiona sobre la demència i sobre el crim i va amanit amb l'homenatge a tres mestres....

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.

Inspector Drake is called to the holiday home of an eminent Manchester barrister and recently appointed judge to face the grizzly sight of his badly mutilated body. The scene resembles a copycat killing from years previously, when the barrister had prosecuted the perpetrator now serving life in prison. Drake realizes the killer might be targeting the judge, the legal teams, or the journalist who covered the original trial, and he embarks on a frantic search to identify and warn them all.