Traditional Police

Kurz vor seiner Pensionierung wird Vincent Romero noch ein letzter Fall zugeteilt: In der Frankfurter Innenstadt werden die Leichen von zwei jungen Frauen aufgefunden, welche auf besonders brutale Art und Weise getötet wurden. Gemeinsam mit seiner Kollegin Antoinette muss Romero in die digitale Welt der Frankfurter Chat-Szene eintauchen, um diesen Fall aufzuklären.

El policía Carlos Galeote, joven e idealista, forma pareja en el Grupo de Atracos con José Pulido, un agente cínico y resignado que suelta puños con facilidad. Ambos compartirñan una serie de desventuras: desde casos de prostitución infantil, en los que están implicadas figuras de la vida pública, hasta asuntos de corrupción policial, sin pasar por alto los discretos manejos financieros que afectan al desarrollo de la economía del país.

An unidentified woman is found murdered on the North Norfolk Coastal Path and newly promoted Detective Sergeant Kate Brannon and Kings Lynn's CID have the task of figuring out whom, how, and why. A job that's made more difficult when every one of the 40 residents in the village has something to hide and answers her questions with a string of lies. Georgina Temple has her own secrets to keep, and her own reasons to keep them. But her growing attraction to Kate makes it increasingly difficult to keep them.

A tough-love school for troubled teens opens its doors in Trout Run, New York. What could go wrong? The locals are thrilled. The North Country Academy promises more jobs and more money flowing into town. But all Police Chief Frank Bennett sees is a throng of juvenile delinquents unpacking on his turf. Then Frank's worst fears are confirmed. An Academy teacher leading a wilderness expedition is mauled to death by a bear. Evidence points to sabotage.

An escaped prisoner eludes police in the thick forests and remote fishing cabins of the Adirondack Mountains. Using his backwoods skills, he stays one step ahead of his pursuers, mocking them as he slips away. To some, Ronnie Gatrell is a folk hero, bravely resisting government authority. To others, he's a harmless prankster. Everyone in Trout Run, New York, seems to enjoy watching him play the police for fools. Except Police Chief Frank Bennett. He knows Ronnie is dangerous and unstable, and he's determined to bring him to justice. Then the game of hide-and-seek turns deadly.

In a small Adirondack Mountain town, secrets are closely guarded. And outsiders with crazy ideas are not welcome. So Police Chief Frank Bennett has his hands full when a group of environmental activists shows up in Trout Run, New York, trying to close down Raging Rapids, a popular tourist attraction. Frank thinks they're all noise. Until their leader turns up with a bullet in his heart. Now Frank must figure out why this group targeted Trout Run. And how they're connected to a feral family who lives off the grid.

Some people need killing, but Derwood Flynn is retired and doesn't do that sort of thing anymore. He wants a quiet life, rebuilding the broken relationship with his teenage daughter. When a hurricane ravages the landscape and washes a murder victim from the failing dam of a local lake, Derwood teams with vivacious DA Maggie Kidd to uncover a decades-old conspiracy of death and deception.

An abandoned church in a village set in time-the ideal setting for murder. Detective Inspector Tremayne and his sergeant, Clare Yarwood, are hard pushed to solve the crime and to stay alive.

Anna Katharine Green (1846 - 1935) was one of the crime novelists and paved the way for later female writers of detective novels, like Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Ngaio Marsh.

Этюд в багровых тонах — детективная повесть знаменитого английского писателя Артура Конана Дойла, опубликованная в 1887 году. Именно в этом произведении впервые появляется Шерлок Холмс. В пустом доме убит американец по имени Енох Дреббер. На стене рядом с его телом полиция обнаруживает странное послание...

In una fredda e nebbiosa notte milanese, il commissario De Vincenzi riceve la visita del suo vecchio amico di collegio, Giannetto Aurigi, visibilmente agitato dopo una serata alla Scala. Poco dopo, De Vincenzi viene chiamato sulla scena di un omicidio: il banchiere Mario Garlini è stato trovato morto per un colpo di pistola nell’appartamento di Aurigi. Quest’ultimo, che doveva una grossa somma di denaro al banchiere, diventa il principale sospettato. Tuttavia, De Vincenzi sa che le apparenze possono ingannare e che la verità potrebbe essere più complessa di quanto sembri.

The discovery of a dead body is nothing new for Detective Simon Grave, but when the body and the murderer are both invisible, well, that's another matter entirely, even in the futuristic town of Crab Cove. The question is whether he and his human and android team are up for the challenge, which also remains to be seen. Making his job even more difficult is the sudden retirement of Captain Henry Morgan, who taps Grave as acting chief.

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.

Hotelier Stephen Sanderson is dead. Stabbed after hosting a police officer’s wedding. Chief Superintendent David Ashworth is a family friend of the victim and assigns the case to Meredith. Sanderson had a past that the family would rather keep quiet if it’s not related to his murder, but Sanderson’s life style provides the police with many suspects, including some in his own family.

1936 in einem Kurort der Normandie: Percival Danby ist ganz gewiss nicht auf eigenen Wunsch hierher gereist, in das Land der grässlichen Zigaretten und absurd in die Länge gezogenen Brotlaibe. Doch was tut man nicht alles, um einen alten Schulfreund glücklich zu machen – und wenigstens ist der Wein gut. Aber als er in Deauville eintrifft, fehlt von seinem Freund jede Spur, und als Danby sich... auf einer Cocktailparty vergnügen will, stirbt der Gastgeber vor seinen Augen! Die Ursache: Gift. Die Verdächtigen: alle Gäste auf der Yacht – auch Danby. Die Anklage: Mord.

As Valentine's Day and Chinese New Year approach, the ancient city of York is busier than ever, and so is Detective Chief Inspector John Shadow. First, he has the theft of valuable Roman artifacts from a museum.

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.

When a woman is found brutally murdered just outside the quiet town of Bingley, DI Daniel Ward and his team lead the case. The ex-boyfriend with an anger problem is an obvious suspect, but this case isn’t as open-and-shut as DI Ward would like when the forensics delivers a twist he wasn’t expecting. In the middle of the autumn burglary season, with the Varga case still running rings around them all and his personal life in tatters, an unsolved murder is the last thing Ward needs the DCI breathing down his neck on.

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.