Modern Detectives

When newly promoted DI Anna Vaughan is called to a case in remote Knapdale, on the Argyll coast, she welcomes the chance to escape her life in Glasgow - more specifically the mother-in-law from hell… Ellen McIver, Baldrishaig’s local busybody, has been found dead. Run over — repeatedly — by a tractor belonging to local farmer Glen Cameron. The most likely culprit is Old Wullie, Cameron’s elderly father, who, despite his dementia, still likes to drive the tractor about the lanes. But once at the crime scene Anna can tell something sinister is afoot…

Albert Smith might be retired, but a long career as a police detective has left him with skills that just won’t switch off. So on a walking tour of the British Isles, it doesn’t take long for his eyes to spot something he wasn’t supposed to see.

A judge's wife is dead, and the public are demanding blood. It's the sort of case that will end a defense attorney's career. But Michael Gresham doesn't have much left to lose and when he smells a rat in this headline grabbing story, it's the justice establishment that needs to be worried. A brilliant legal mind with nothing to lose becomes a formidable adversary to those who abuse their power.

Da en 19-årig dreng, Jamie Mills, bliver fundet hængt i et træ i en lokal park, bliver hans død erklæret et selvmord. Kriminalkommissær Kim Stones mavefornemmelse siger hende, at der er noget galt. I forsøget på at opklare denne foruroligende sag følger Kim spor, der fører hende ind bag de gamle victorianske mure på klinikken, som drives af familien Gardner. Så bliver liget af en ung kvinde fundet. Hun er blevet kvalt, og hendes død er også iscenesat, så det ligner et selvmord.

“[Leon] offers a fresh, exhilarating take on that ambiguous city, with its labyrinthine alleyways and politics, its glamour, its grottiness. . . . An intelligent, satisfying crime novel.” —Sunday Times (UK) In Quietly in Their Sleep, the philosophical Venetian detective Commissario Guido...

Ein Heckenschütze versetzt Oslo in Angst und Schrecken. Scheinbar wahllos schlägt er in der Sommerhitze zu. Eines seiner ersten Opfer ist Emma Ramms Schwester. Umso entschlossener sind Blix und Ramm, den Täter zu stoppen. Während die Temperaturen immer höher klettern, und der Schütze die Stadt weiter terrorisiert, versucht die Polizei ein Muster zwischen den Anschlägen zu finden. Doch der Täter ist ihnen immer einen Schritt voraus und verfolgt seinen eigenen gnadenlosen Plan …

Ein Unfall mit Fahrerflucht. Ein rätselhafter Todesfall. Ein tödlicher Racheplan. Nach einem Jahr im Koma wacht Sam Earnshaw endlich auf – doch von Feierstimmung keine Spur. Stattdessen enthüllt er, dass der Unfall mit Fahrerflucht, der ihn fast das Leben gekostet hätte, gar kein Unfall war. Jemand hatte ihn absichtlich vor ein heranrasendes Auto gestoßen.

La scoperta di un orrendo omicidio scuote Savona. Chi ha ucciso Attilio Casagrande, noto critico d’arte? Perché gli hanno staccato la testa e cavato gli occhi? Quale follia ha guidato l’assassino, quando ha nascosto i resti della vittima sotto la statua dell’Incoronazione di Spine, preparata per la processione del Venerdì Santo? Ad occuparsi del caso è chiamata l'affascinante Ludovica Sperinelli, giovane e combattivo Sostituto Procuratore, insieme al maresciallo Francesco Mancini.

Alexis Parker prides herself on being a competent investigator, but when she's fired from her current job as a security consultant at a prestigious hotel, she never expects to be rehired after a body is found hanging on the premises. After she convinces Mark Jablonsky, her former mentor, to spend his vacation assisting on the investigation, the case becomes even more convoluted. No matter how plausible their theories and suspects are, the one thing they continue to lack is evidence.

London, Christmas 1999. The world is on edge. With the new millennium just days away, fears of the Millennium Bug are spiralling – warnings of computer failures, market crashes, even global catastrophe. But 50 miles east, on the frozen Blackwater Island, a different kind of mystery unfolds. A child's body is discovered on the bracken, untouched by footprints, with no sign of how he died. And no one has come forward to claim him. At the International Tribune, reporter Jonny Murphy senses something is off. Police are appealing for relatives, not suspects.

In Prag wird ein Geschäftsmann brutal ermordet. Alle Spuren führen nach Linz in Österreich zu einem zwielichtigen Konzern mit großem Einfluss. Ist der psychopathische Konzernchef in den Mord verwickelt und was befindet sich auf den Fotos, die seine Schwester erhält? Und welches persönliche Interesse hat die Werbeagenturchefin Anna Lange an dem Fall, in den ihr Vater tief verwickelt ist?

In a city cracking under pressure between humans and synthetics, Detective Nick Schneider doesn’t wear skin—or play by anyone’s rules. When a senator’s daughter turns up dead with black-market limbs, Schneider and his grudge-bearing partner must navigate a maze of corruption, tech, and identity politics. What they uncover could start a war—or get them both killed.

Jim Grant is in Boston on temporary assignment from England and his instructions are simple: don’t get involved and keep out of trouble. But for Grant, keeping out of trouble isn’t an option. Never was and never will be.

Brünhilde Blum. International gesuchte Mörderin. Liebevolle Mutter zweier Töchter. Seit Monaten auf der Flucht. In Hamburg will sie zur Ruhe kommen, einen Neuanfang wagen, und fast, so scheint es, gelingt es ihr auch. Ausgestattet mit einer neuen Identität und etwas Geld wohnt sie mit ihren Töchtern in einem wunderschönen Fischerhäuschen an der Elbe und arbeitet als Aushilfe in einem Bestattungsinstitut. Alles ist gut. Bis zu dem Tag, an dem sie für ihr neues Leben bezahlen muss – denn der Mann, dem sie das neue Glück zu verdanken hat, fordert ein, was sie ihm versprochen hat.

Eine Mörderin auf der Flucht. Brünhilde Blum wacht eines Tages in einem Albtraum auf. Einer der fünf Menschen, die sie umbringen musste, taucht plötzlich wieder auf. Bei einer Exhumierung auf einem Innsbrucker Friedhof werden in einem Sarg zwei Köpfe und vier Beine gefunden. Nur eine Person kommt als Täterin infrage: die Bestatterin, die die Toten damals eingebettet hat. Blum muss fliehen, und sie muss ihre Kinder zurücklassen.

Logan Walsh’s life is disintegrating. When his broken marriage teeters on divorce, this desperate firefighter-turned-PI moonlights as a bail bondsman to support the family he longs to restore. But when his skip pleads innocent and prophesizes his own murder, the determined father of two doesn't listen … until the skip is murdered in jail. Guilt-ridden over ignoring the man’s plea, Logan embarks a broken trail of biker gangs, bent cops, and greedy land speculators. And in a case where when even the police are suspect, he has nowhere to turn.

Jonas Reed signs up for a routine memory rental—a calm, curated experience designed to ease stress and fade away without consequence. Instead, he witnesses a murder embedded inside the memory itself. The victim whispers a single name before everything fractures. That name belongs to Mara Kline. Mara is a memory auditor for Memex, the corporation that rents memories to the public and erases what customers aren’t supposed to keep. She is trained to flag corruption, delete anomalies, and move on.

Jenny Stone, a prosecuting attorney, finds herself in a precarious situation after concluding a major money laundering case. She notices she is being followed and decides to take a vacation to Italy to visit Warren Steelgrave, a distant relative by marriage. Upon her arrival, she confides in Warren about her fears and the thumb drive containing sensitive information given to her by a suspect, Jacob Colburn. As they navigate through Italy, they realize they are being pursued by dangerous individuals connected to the case.

When 25-year-old Wendy Winkworth decides to take a break from her PI business and visit her brother in Bern, Illinois, she simply wants to catch up on family affairs. Soon family affairs have her in over her head. She’s hired by a teacher to find out if his ex-con mother is going to show up and ruin his chances of marrying the love of his life and the richest girl in town. Wendy’s mechanic brother appears to be thieving on the side. And the local sheriff is trailing her, either because he likes her looks or because he wants her to stop looking too closely at what’s going on in town.

“This series has become one of the adornments of current crime fiction. A gem.” —The Scotsman Early one morning Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Police confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid canal. All the clues point to a violent mugging...

超大型台風接近中の日本。国際空港の入管で突如11人が別室に連行された。時間だけが経過し焦燥する彼ら。大規模な通信障害で機器は使用不能。その中の一人の女が「当局はこの中にテロ首謀者がいると見ている。

北米からの帰国者に感染力の高い新型肺炎の疑いが生じる。連行は細菌兵器ゆえの隔離、ヒューマノイド対応だったのか。テロ集団はなぜ「破壊」でなく「消滅」という用語を使うのか。様々な憶測が渦巻くが依然、首謀者が誰か摑めない。

David Lund es un solitario programador de 36 años incapaz de recordar nada de sus primeros doce años de vida. Acaba de conocer a Florence Tapper, una brillante abogada defensora recién divorciada, y una mañana recibe un misterioso correo electrónico de una desconocida que afirma tener información muy importante sobre su infancia.

It was supposed to be a dead week. For this mysterious hitman, things just couldn't be that damn easy. The sharp-tongued soul-stealing assassin plods through life with reckless abandon - until he finds a purpose. Until Sarah Brecker. When the contract on her life goes unfilled, all Hell breaks loose (literally). Forced to work together, they must dodge ruthless mobsters and a variety of demons to buy enough time for Sarah. Evading ambushes proves much easier than eluding that damn dull ache in his chest.

Un criminel est-il une célébrité comme les autres ? Avril 2016. Plus de quatre millions de Français assistent à la diffusion en direct de l’émission culinaire La Surprise du chef . Ils y découvrent, horrifiés, que le jeune chef étoilé Karl Angus propose de la viande humaine dans son restaurant. Arrêté le soir même, il parvient à s’échapper lors de son transfert au tribunal. Là encore sous l'œil des caméras.