Women Sleuth Police

Sloan McPherson and the Underwater Investigation Unit have discovered a van at the bottom of a murky Florida pond. Sealed inside the watery tomb are the bodies of four teenagers who disappeared 30 years ago after leaving a rock concert. To authorities, it looks like a tragic accident. To Sloan, it looks like murder. Every piece of evidence is starting to connect to a string of cold case vanishings throughout Florida. Clue by clue, Sloan navigates the warm, dark waters where natural predators feed, knowing that the most dangerous one is still above the surface - nesting and dormant.

When midwife Sarah Brandt visits Little Italy to check up on a new mother who delivered her baby just the day before, she finds the young woman dead. The family insists that the death was from complications of childbirth. Sarah disagrees. So does the woman's own mother, an Irishwoman who spreads the story that the girl was murdered by her Italian in-laws, the Ruoccos - an accusation that inflames tensions between the two immigrant groups.

When bodies appear in the desert, the work of a new serial killer, and connected to an isolated commune, FBI special agent Harley Cole finds herself in the race of her life to enter his mind, decode his unusual signature, and stop him before it’s too late. But Harley is tortured by her own demons, and as secrets from her hometown and her missing sister’s past bubble-up, Harley must keep it together long enough to catch a killer—while also chasing a killer from her past.

Best-selling author Margaret Maron shows the form that has won her the Edgar and Agatha Awards, among many others, in this riveting mystery. Judge Deborah Knott and Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant are due to marry in a week. But all plans are put on hold when an assistant district attorney is killed, and the clues compel Judge Knott to investigate an earlier double murder that may be connected

A volte l'unico modo per voltare pagina è andare via. È quello che si rassegna a fare la vicecommissaria Giulia Riva, decisa a chiudere una storia clandestina con un superiore che le procura soltanto dolore. Ha appena chiesto il trasferimento, che al commissariato di Cagliari si presenta Elisa, nove anni e una richiesta che raggela: ritrovare la mamma scomparsa.

Twenty-seven-year-old Kristi Bentz is lucky to be alive. Not many people her age have nearly died twice at the hands of a serial killer, and lived to tell about it. Her dad, New Orleans detective Rick Bentz, wants Kristi to stay in New Orleans and out of danger. But if anything, Kristi’s experiences have made her even more fascinated by the mind of the serial killer. She hasn’t given up her dream of being a true-crime writer - of exploring the darkest recesses of evil - and now she just may get her chance.

Melissa Craig is struggling with her new novel, so when the invitation arrives to visit a nearby country house for some writing time, she decides a bit of peace and quiet is just what she needs. The house is everything she could have hoped for, even if the staff do seem rather unsettled. She has barely unpacked when the owner of the house persuades Melissa to investigate some threatening notes he has received. But before she can do any digging, he is found murdered in his own orchard.

Irene Huss is a former Ju-Jitsu champion, a mother of twin teenage girls, the wife of a successful chef, and a Detective Inspector with the Violent Crimes Unit in Goteborg, Sweden. And now she’s back with a gripping follow-up to Detective Inspector Huss. One nurse lies dead and another vanishes after their hospital is hit by a blackout. The only witness claims to have seen Nurse Tekla doing her rounds, but Nurse Tekla died sixty years ago.

In a cruel game where surviving a terminal diagnosis marks you for death, FBI Agent Rachel Gift delves into the shadows to thwart a murderer targeting the reborn. Can she solve the cryptic riddles and stop the cycle of survival turned slaughter, or will the next twist of fate be her own?

In the coastal town of Nightfall, Oregon, Officer Eden Mercer faces her most harrowing case yet. When a fishing charter boat sinks under mysterious circumstances, leaving multiple casualties and one traumatized child survivor, Eden is thrust into a labyrinth of lies, greed, and murderous intent. As she delves deeper, Eden uncovers a sinister web of financial fraud and deadly secrets, stretching from Nightfall's quaint streets to the treacherous waters of the Pacific. With each revelation, the danger mounts, forcing Eden to confront a killer who will stop at nothing to keep the truth submerged.

Kate Marshall was a promising young police detective when she caught the notorious Nine Elms serial killer. But her greatest victory suddenly turned into a nightmare. Traumatized, betrayed, and publicly vilified for the shocking circumstances surrounding the cannibal murder case, Kate could only watch as her career ended in scandal. Fifteen years after those catastrophic events, Kate is still haunted by the unquiet ghosts of her troubled past. Now a lecturer at a small coastal English university, she finally has a chance to face them.

Quitting her job as a high school science teacher to join the Seattle Police Department was an easy decision for Tracy Crosswhite. Years earlier, what should have been one of the happiest days of her life instead became her worst nightmare when her younger sister, Sarah, disappeared. After the murder trial, while her family disintegrated, Tracy turned her heartbreak and her lingering questions into a passion for justice.

Rosalyn McGowen is everyone’s favorite great-grandmother. She always has baked treats in her bag, she smells of roses, and she takes in stray cats. No one knows who could hurt a sweet old lady. But Rosalyn isn’t exactly as she seems. Every Thursday at noon, Rosalyn secretly posts The Bloody Mary Tattler on social media, and it has everyone in town both captivated and horrified. When Rosalyn’s secret is discovered along with her body, it’s not easy for JJ to determine her death as a homicide.

SI ELLE SE CACHAIT (Un mystère Kate Wise) est le volume 4 d’une nouvelle série thriller psychologique par Blake Pierce, l’auteur à succès de Une fois partie (volume 1) (téléchargement gratuit), un bestseller nº1 ayant reçu plus de 1 000 critiques à cinq étoiles. Deux parents sont retrouvés morts et leurs filles jumelles de 16 ans ont disparu. Aucune piste à l’horizon et le FBI, perplexe, doit faire appel à son meilleur agent : Kate Wise, un agent retraité de 55 ans.

Lacey Doyle, 39 ans et fraîchement divorcée, a opéré un changement drastique : elle a délaissé la vie trépidante de New York et s’est installée dans la pittoresque ville côtière anglaise de Wilfordshire. L’été est presque là, et Lacey est encore plus tombée amoureuse de la ville et de son petit-ami chef. Elle s’est même trouvé une meilleure amie : la nouvelle propriétaire d’un B&B local. Et quand celle-ci a besoin de ses services pour la décoration de son hôtel, achetant presque tout dans la brocante de Lacey, ses affaires se voient même dopées.

Pandora—Dora—Condron wakes one morning to discover her 17-year-old daughter, Ellie, has not come home after a party. The day Ellie disappears, Dora is alone as her husband, Eamon, has already left for the day in his job as a long-distance lorry driver. So Dora does the usual things: rings around Ellie's friends...but no one knows where she is. Her panic growing, Dora tries the local hospitals and art college where Ellie is a student—but then the police arrive on her doorstep with the news her daughter's handbag has been discovered dumped in a layby.

Detective Anna Travis is taking charge of an investigation for the very first time under the watchful eye of her boss. But with only an ominous pool of blood at the crime scene, and no sign of the victim, she cannot be sure whether this is a missing person case or something more. As Anna leads a desperate hunt for a man who has seemingly disappeared without a trace, she becomes obsessed with apparently irrelevant details and her boss fears that she is losing control. With no body and increasing pressure to make an arrest, Anna must catch a break in the case before she breaks down.

When five-year-old Ava Sawyer goes missing from a birthday party at a local garden center, the police are bewildered by the lack of leads. That is, until two years later, when Ava’s body is found and another little girl, Audrey Briggs, goes missing. Audrey also attended that party. Leading the investigation is Detective Natalie Ward. A mother of two teenagers, this case chills her to the bone and is a disturbing reminder of the last job she worked on. One that still keeps her awake at night.

When two rock climbers turn up dead, each killed in the same disturbing way, FBI Special Agent Mackenzie White, mother of a newborn baby, must face her fear of heights as she is summoned to catch a serial killer before he strikes again. Mackenzie, settling into motherhood, wants to take some time off. But it is not meant to be. Rock climbers are turning up dead in Colorado, hunted by an elusive serial killer, caught at their most prone moments. A disturbing pattern emerges, and Mackenzie soon realizes she is up against a monster.

Dans AVANT QU’IL NE CONVOITE (Un mystère Mackenzie White, Volume 3), la toute nouvelle agent du FBI Mackenzie White obtient son diplôme à l’académie de Quantico et se retrouve plongée dans une affaire urgente de tueur en série. Des cadavres de femmes apparaissent dans un parc national reculé de Virginie Occidentale alors qu’elles étaient parties faire du camping. Mais le parc est immense et il n’y a aucun lien évident entre les victimes.