Police Procedurals

A gripping Cornish crime thriller that will keep you reading late into the night. The BRAND NEW book in the bestselling series! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ When human bones are unearthed at a Cornish archaeological dig, Detective Lauren Pengelly discovers they belong to a teenage girl who vanished thirty...

When a man is spotted bound to the tracks, the tranquil nostalgia of the North Norfolk Railway is shattered. To add to the disquiet, while the police are investigating the kidnapping, another man is found dead on a steam train. A pattern of fear is emerging on the Poppy Line and the pressure is on DI Ashley Knight's struggling team to deliver answers. With the body count rising along the once peaceful coastal route, Knight must find a way to stop a killer before they reach their final destination. Because Ashley knows if she doesn't, for someone it's the end of the line.

Detective Kim Stone knows from the moment she looks down on Ashley Reynolds that this is no ordinary crime. No one has a bad word to say about this loving wife and mother. So why did someone murder her, and wait to make sure she was dead? Ashley was a social worker, and some claimed she tore families apart. But her husband is also acting strangely, planning to take their daughter and leave town. Did the threat to her come from home or work?

To catch a traitor, he must become a fugitive... For years, a police mole known only as the Ferryman has operated deep within Police Scotland, feeding secrets to Glasgow’s most brutal crime boss, Frank Gormley. Now, DCI Lomond is closing in on their identity. But when a gangland shooting at a...

The critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling Declan Walsh series continues... "Some games aren't meant to be played..." When the body of a City banker is discovered with a soaking wet playing card pinned to his chest and a water pistol nearby, DCI Declan Walsh is thrust into a deadly...

Un asesino mata siguiendo un patrón oculto en películas emblemáticas. El cadáver de un hombre aparece en un cine para nostálgicos en el corazón de Los Ángeles. Lo encuentran en plena noche sentado en el escenario, con las piernas amputadas y un peculiar pañuelo en la cabeza. A los investigadores la escena les resulta extrañamente familiar. El detective Luca Bruzzo está frente al caso más extraño de su carrera, y también el que ha desenterrado sus miedos más íntimos.

When the body of a teenage girl is found posed in the Merry Maidens stone circle, her face coated in clay and ochre, DS Liam Kilshaw is drawn into a case where near-forgotten fictions bleed into brutal fact. With echoes of an old folktale of dancers turned to stone, the scene is more about staging than superstition. And when two skeletons are unearthed beneath a nearby stone, Kilshaw realises the past is far from dead and buried.

'If you like your thrillers with a side of pitch-black humor and a plot that moves like a freight train, you need this’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'An Unforgettable, Five-Star Thrill Ride! Wow!!! Five stars from me! This novel completely blew me away’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A deliciously dark, twisty turny...

Behind the manicured lawns and guarded gates of Crestmore Estates lies a neighborhood built on secrets. Five years ago, three residents vanished without a trace. No bodies. No answers. Just rumors, whispered around the country club. Now, when human remains surface on the golf course, old suspicions rematerialize—and the spotlight falls on the women left behind.

She seemed peaceful, as if in her last moments her young body hadn’t agonized, desperately trying to live, to survive. Her lips were parted slightly, as if she were breathing gently while dreaming of something only she knew. Whatever her secret, she’d taken it with her.

Ryegrove Hospital was meant to keep people safe. Instead, it hid the truth for seventeen years. As Anna Gwynne digs into a pair of suspicious deaths long written off as suicides, she uncovers a grotesque collaboration between clinicians, manipulators, and an online phenomenon that turns cruelty...

From the multimillion-copy bestselling author of the DCI Robert Kett series Alex Smith, comes the first in a brand-new mystery series filled with the gripping action and hilarious comedy fans have come to love. Welcome to Southwold! It may be heaven on earth, but all hell has broken loose...

Ein rätselhafter Todesfall erschüttert die idyllische Nordseeinsel Sylt. Hauptkommissarin Lena Berger, frisch aus Berlin versetzt, muss sich nicht nur in ihrem neuen Team beweisen, sondern auch den rätselhaften Tod eines Kitesurfers aufklären. Was zunächst wie ein tragischer Unfall aussieht, entpuppt sich schnell als Teil einer dunklen Verschwörung, die weit in die Vergangenheit zurückreicht und die ganze Insel in Aufruhr versetzt. Gemeinsam mit dem einheimischen Oberkommissar Malte Claasen navigiert Lena durch ein Netz aus Intrigen, Geheimnissen und Verrat.

From the multimillion-copy bestselling author of the DCI Robert Kett series Alex Smith, comes the second novel in a mystery series filled with the gripping action and hilarious comedy fans have come to love. Welcome to Southwold! Some wounds never heal… With his first case in Suffolk...

When human remains are unearthed in a flyover support, an antique chisel buried into the skull, Bliss and the Major Crime team recall an unsolved case from the previous year. The tools used as weapons in both murders suggest a Masonic connection. But are they looking for the same killer, or is...

DCI Bill Slider and his team are plunged into a city-wide manhunt when the body of a police officer is found dumped in a canal. Colleagues say PC Peter Bentley was a quiet bloke who kept himself to himself. But as Slider and Atherton dig deeper, it becomes clear that this likeable bobby had secrets. Was he involved in something that got out of control or had something from his past come back to bite him? Soon, the hardships of 'the Job' and the office politics at play make for an intriguing mystery that, this time, feels too close to home...

At Firenze, the reclusive artist Adrian Delafield's Florentine enclave in St John's Wood, the whispers of an impending tragedy are growing louder. The tension between the fanatical zealot of a housekeeper Miss Trimming and Delafield's sister Virgilia is just shy of fever pitch, when a cold morning at the house finds Trimming and Adrian sprawled at either end of the staircase – upstairs, an injury; downstairs, death.

The twenty-eighth mystery featuring Çetin İkmen and Mehmet Süleyman, stars of BBC Two's gripping crime drama series The Turkish Detective, available to watch on BBC iPlayer. When two women are found dead in Istanbul - one bitten by a snake in the slum quarter of Kuştepe, the other killed by...

Detective Sergeant Midge Kennedy and her lifelong pals Talia and Kelly have reunited on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the disappearance of their friend Caroline, hoping to put that summer of loss behind them. But as the season draws to a close in Mulberry Bay, Midge is plunged into a missing person case with unsettling ties to the past. Ordinarily, she wouldn’t suspect foul play when a sixteen-year-old girl is just a few hours late getting home on a beautiful summer afternoon.

A body underground. An ancient ritual. A killer in the shadows. The real game is just beginning... When a body is found in the depths of Mary King’s Close, DCI 'Mac' McNeill is thrust into a case involving the burden of sins and an old ritual tied to absolution. With each clue, he is drawn...

When FBI forensic toxicologist Miles Sterling makes a harrowing discovery—that a dozen unsolved deaths over the past decade each correspond to an element on the periodic table—he must race to follow the trail and find the mastermind behind these murders—and stop him before he strikes again…

“The ever-incredible Leon’s twenty-fourth stunning entry in her stellar mysteries . . . brings the series full circle.” —Library Journal (starred review) In Death at La Fenice, the first novel in her beloved series, Donna Leon introduced readers to the glamorous and cutthroat world of...

Detective Inspector Andy Horton is handed a troubling new case on the Isle of Wight — the disappearance of private investigator Jasper Kenton. Kenton had been tailing a man whose wife suspected him of an affair. But when his naked body is found wrapped in sailcloth on a private beach, a simple surveillance job becomes a chilling murder investigation. The post-mortem reveals a brutal execution: Kenton was shot at close range with a crossbow. Now Horton must navigate a web of secrets, lies and betrayal. The deeper he digs, the more he realises this case has devastating personal consequences.

Cleo St. Clair übernimmt die Leitung von Nizzas Mordkommission. Ihr erster Fall führt sie ausgerechnet in die Parfümfabrik ihrer Eltern, deren Chefparfümeurin Matilde Ducasse getötet wurde. Ein Verdächtiger ist schnell gefunden, das Geständnis unterschrieben. Doch Cleo hegt Zweifel. Welche Rolle spielt der Staatsanwalt, der mehr als nur Interesse an ihr zeigt? Und was haben die Lavendelblüten in Mund, Nase und Lunge der Toten zu bedeuten?

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