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Christmas in Birmingham means the Frankfurt Christmas Market. Loved and hated by brummies in equal measure, it certainly makes life interesting for West Midlands Police. But when the body of a homeless man is found behind a market stall early one Sunday morning, it looks like Christmas might be cancelled for DI Zoe Finch and her team. And when they discover that the victim has a history that makes his death politically sensitive, things get even more complicated.

Die grootste uitdaging van haar loopbaan wag op speuradjudant Storm van der Merwe. Die kusdorp Hermanus hou vir die eerste keer ooit ’n skrywersfees. Deel van Storm se verpligtinge is om by die gemeenskapsaal kywie te hou. Maar toe daag die sterskrywer van die dorp nie op vir haar sessie nie. Haar liggaam word in Kwaaiwater se Mosselrivier gevind. 24 uur later kom ’n visterman af op nóg ’n lyk – weer ’n vrou, dié keer jonk en swart. En dan is daar ’n derde slagoffer.

When a two-thousand-year-old jewel of Cleopatra’s is discovered in a Brooklyn construction zone, Annja, Roux, and Garin team up to hunt for the missing tomb of Cleopatra. From the sand dunes of The Sudan, to the misty avenues of London, and the ruins of ancient Alexandria beneath the Mediterranean Sea, Annja uncovers Egyptian mysteries. The great pyramids on the River Nile have secret chambers, mummies, and tombs full of endless gold.

Tras una violenta explosión en un restaurante de Manhattan perteneciente a un jefe del crimen organizado ruso, Erin Sohr, una fotógrafa que se halla casualmente en la zona, comienza a sacar fotos de sangriento caos. Más tarde, durante el editing de las instantáneas, se da cuenta de que en una ellas sale retratado un rostro imposible: el de Viktor, un criminal de guerra serbio que lleva muerto varios años.

Murder, suspense, and intrigue propel this third Jake Adams mystery thriller from the Dolomite mountains of northern Italy, to the winding back streets of Innsbruck, Austria, and across the Atlantic to Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay area. Two scientists have discovered the DNA link to heart disease in a remote Italian mountain village, and a way to synthesize it and begin selling it to the general public. They're up for the Nobel Prize and set to make millions after teaming up with an Austrian biotechnology company.

Professor Denise 'Doc' Rado is South Africa's expert on pangolins, busting poachers and freeing the endangered anteaters in elaborate undercover stings. After a risky operation backfires, Doc's life is shattered, but she still has to lead an eclectic group of donors on a wildlife tour of southern Africa. But there's a target on her back.

When Dutch-Canadian Peter Dekker is hired as an investigator by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, he has no inkling of the war crimes that lie in his own family's history. His work takes him to Timbuktu, where he collaborates with Malian colleagues to document war crimes from a recent and only partly-ended civil war. While he is on assignment, his live-in girlfriend, Nora, gets to know Peter's estranged aunt living in The Hague and uncovers a dark history of murder, revenge and collaboration with the Nazi occupiers.

In a city gripped by recession and shattered by violent bank robberies, three lives collide in a web of corruption, ambition, and revenge.

Ellas son jóvenes, guapas y viven de las subvenciones estatales. Su único sueño es convertirse en las estrellas de un famoso reality show. Pero lo que no se pueden imaginar es que son el blanco de una persona desequilibrada cuyo objetivo es eliminarlas de una en una. Al inigualable trío de investigadores del Departamento Q, compuesto por el cínico inspector Carl Mørck y sus fieles Assad y Rose, se une Gordon, que será decisivo en esta investigación.

Varias desapariciones ocurridas en los años ochenta ponen de nuevo en marcha a Carl Mørck. Su investigación lo conduce hasta Nete Hermansen, una mujer que ha hecho todo lo posible por ocultar su trágico pasado hasta que este le vuelve a dar alcance. Mientras Carl se enfrenta a las sombras de su propia existencia, y a los secretos de sus colaboradores Assad y Rose, deberá indagar en la historia del líder de un partido político de extrema derecha que defiende una siniestra ideología racista.

El verano llega a su fin y la escritora Erica Falck vuelve al trabajo tras la baja de maternidad. Ahora le toca a su compañero, el comisario Patrik Hedström, tomarse un tiempo libre para ocuparse de la pequeña Maja. Pero el crimen no descansa nunca, ni siquiera en la tranquila ciudad de Fjällbacka, y cuando dos adolescentes descubren el cadáver de Erik Frankel, Patrik compaginará el cuidado de su hija con su interés por el asesinato de este historiador especializado en la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

A man is found dead, tied to a chair in the middle of the road, a stag’s antlers on his head. The gruesome scene stuns the town, especially when the victim is identified: Jim Tiernan, who ran the White Hart pub. Tierney’s pub is at the center of village life and he knew everyone’s secrets. Detective Nicola Bridge grew up in Fleetcombe and has now returned, for the good of her family, from a life away in Liverpool. DC Harry Ward is ten years younger and, despite his newcomer status, determined to earn Nicola’s trust.

Paige White has always lived a picture-perfect life, documented closely on her social media. The world she has curated exudes an old-fashioned, wholesome lifestyle set against a picturesque, lakeside town in Australia. Her page is littered with breakfasts shoreline with her daughter, sunny afternoons in the family van, and romantic picnics with her husband. Jane Masters was one of Paige’s childhood best friends, but she left her and their small town behind to pursue a bigger life in Sydney. When Paige’s death makes national news, Jane finds herself traveling back to where it all began.

Grausige Morde erschüttern die Färöer! Als ein Toter gefunden wird - grausam verstümmelt und bizarr drapiert - beginnt für Kommissar Revur ein Albtraum, aus dem es kein Erwachen gibt. Denn dies ist erst der Anfang einer Reihe von Morden, die nur eins gemeinsam haben: alle Opfer werden an nationalen Kultstätten platziert. Treibt ein Serienmörder sein Unwesen im Nordatlantik? Zu Revurs Unterstützung wird die Kopenhagener Kommissarin Amalie Vinther nach Tórshavn geschickt. Zusammen kommen sie Geheimnissen auf die Spur, die internationale Kreise ziehen.

Der erste Fall mit Gretchen Larssen von den Bestsellerautoren B.C. Schiller: Am Strand auf Rügen wird die Leiche eines jungen Mädchens gefunden. Die neue Ostseekommissarin Gretchen Larssen übernimmt mit ihrem Team die Ermittlungen. Plötzlich taucht am Tatort ein Kind aus dem Gebüsch auf. War die Kleine Zeugin des schrecklichen Mordes und warum schweigt sie? Gretchen, die nach vielen Jahren in ihre Heimat Rügen zurückgekehrt ist, stürzt sich verbissen in den Fall, um sich von der erfolglosen Suche nach ihrem verschwundenen Sohn Niki abzulenken.

Amelia, la protagonista de la serie, es la antiheroína por excelencia: su curiosidad la mete en líos de los que sale gracias a su instinto. Esta vez la encontramos en Miami, nuevo destino de su esposo, diplomático.La trama gira en torno a la venta de un cuadro falso de una reconocida pintora mexicana («Roulotte», de Remedios Varo). Amelia recibe un soplo sobre la posibilidad de esta estafa y decide investigar, para lo que se adentra en un mundo de gente rica y superficial que esconde turbios secretos.

Als eine schöne, wohlhabende Studentin tot in ihrem Zimmer in Oxfords renommiertestem College aufgefunden wird, ist es an Detective Inspector Bridget Hart, den Fall zu lösen. Obwohl das Mädchen keinerlei Feinde zu haben schien, kam es bei einem brutalen und blutigen Überfall ums Leben.

In einem exklusiven privaten College an der schottischen Küste wird ein Mathematiklehrer tot in seinem Erbrochenen liegend aufgefunden. Kurz darauf bricht eine weitere Lehrkraft würgend im Unterricht zusammen. Lehrer, Eltern und Schüler sind verstört. Handelt es sich um eine Lebensmittelvergiftung oder um Mord? Inspector MacGregor und Sergeant Pat Taylor werden an den Moray Firth, die größte Meeresbucht Schottlands, gerufen, um zu ermitteln.

Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to the murkiest cloisters of the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's Intelligence Establishment.

When Detective Mark Turpin is assigned the task of investigating the death of a local businessman, the case is first thought to be one of accidental drowning. Until a bullet hole is found where the victim fell into the River Thames. Then a number of graves are unearthed at a disused airfield site being redeveloped by the dead man, exposing a horrific secret and plunging Mark into one of the darkest investigations of his career. After two more bodies are discovered amongst the burnt-out ruins of a building on a nearby industrial estate, Mark realises that a serial killer is at large.