Modern Detectives

DCI Alison McCoist is up to the oxters in Glasgow's shadiest police unit, with a list of guilty secrets growing longer by the day. Fran Forbes has just bolted from the scene of a gangland massacre with only a shite-stained tracksuit and a memory stick full of crypto-currency to his name. Ally is...

Convalescing after his recent injuries, Albert Smith is taking it easy … until a face from his past appears on his TV screen and everything changes. There’s an old score to settle and this time his quest for justice will take him from his quiet English home to the foot of the Alps. With Rex...

From bestselling, award-winning author James Ellroy, "the neo-noir eminence of L.A. crime fiction" (The New Yorker)—a gritty, fast-paced historical crime thriller set in 1962 Los Angeles during the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis "The Freddy Otash novels will be mentioned . . . as some...

They took his family. Now he's taking the war to them. John Sole has been running, hiding, and striking back where he can. But the cartel hasn't forgotten him and now they've unleashed their most ruthless enforcer, Alejandro Garza. Garza isn't just another soldier. His name carries whispers of...

In the 26th novel in the New York Times bestselling series, Brunetti’s retreat to a quiet island in the laguna is interrupted by a case of guilt and grief. Donna Leon’s bestselling mystery novels set in Venice have won a multitude of fans for their insider’s portrayal of La Serenissima...

Red Harvest is the first full novel by Dashiell Hammett, the author universally regarded as the father of "hard boiled" detective fiction. An enormous hit upon its publication, it has since become a classic of the detective genre. Time Magazine included Red Harvest in its 100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005.

Forty years ago, on a sweltering summer evening in southern Ohio, seven-year-old Michael Adkins vanished into thin air. Two years later, in the dead of winter, his case long gone cold, Michael's remains were found in a well-searched area, just one hundred yards from where he disappeared. The discovery provided no answers, only more questions. Last week, Michael's now elderly mother walked into Detective Jake Cashen's office with a tantalizing clue that just arrived on her doorstep. A handwritten letter filled with chilling details only someone close to the decades-old crime could know.

Un conto alla rovescia che non lascia scampo. Il libro che chiude la saga dell’Orologiaio di Brest. Carlo Malavasi, nome di battaglia “Sergio”, è stato per oltre quarant’anni una primula rossa della lotta armata: latitante imprendibile, custode di segreti che nessuno dovrebbe conoscere...

A sadistic serial killer targets women attorneys, leaving body parts scattered across town. Will local detectives working alongside a FBI agent and an odd FBI profiler track down the killer before he or she strikes again? Or, will the killer sow destruction across teo communities, forcing neighbors to suspect neighbors. What hideous creature hides behind small town smiles?

In the twenty-fifth novel in Donna Leon’s celebrated and bestselling series, Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti finds himself caught up in a tragedy that befell a girl fifteen years earlier. In Donna Leon’s Commissario Guido Brunetti series, the Venetian inspector has been called on to...

A Friend in Need, a Daring Heist, and a Ruthless Robbery Crew That’s not Going Back to Prison. Lo Walsh had given up the PI life after the Bobby Lee Kinsey case. But his notoriety draws the attention of an old mentor. But the simple background check soon takes a sinister turn and Lo finds himself mired in a twisted web of deception and revenge that brings him face-to-face with his new profession’s dark side. Now Lo must reevaluate his commitment to this case. Can he provide the help his old friend wants without exposing a murky past? How does he walk away with so much at stake?

Munich, 1946. La ville a été très touchée par les bombardements. Tandis que les troupes américaines s'installent durablement, les civils allemands cherchent à survivre. Misère et humiliation, c'est précisément ce que veut fuir Birgid, une jeune infirmière à peine revenue du front de l'Est. Elle a vu ce que les soldats allemands ont fait, ce qu'ils ont subi et désormais, elle veut jouir de l'existence, à tout prix. Pour Hans, l'ancien SS, l'occupation américaine signifie en revanche la fin de la liberté.

Youths disappearing from the streets. Smashed bodies ejected into the River Aire. And CSI Eddie Collins is about to find out how they died. Abandoned by a malicious wife and tormented by a hateful boss, the only thing keeping CSI Eddie Collins sane is his job. When a dead youth is found on a...

Ein ungelöster Fall. Neue Wahrheiten, die es aufzudecken gilt. Ein Mörder, der gestoppt werden muss. Als die Leiche eines Kollegen im Hafen von Scarborough gefunden wird, setzt DCI Tom Raven alles daran, die Hintergründe seines Todes aufzudecken. Der Mord weist Parallelen zu einem Cold Case auf – dem Tod der Mutter des Opfers. Hat dessen heimliche, inoffizielle Ermittlung ihn ins gefährliche Fahrwasser gebracht? Oder steht sein Tod in Zusammenhang mit den aktuellen nächtlichen Übergriffen auf Frauen?

War doesn’t always start with a gunshot… sometimes it starts with betrayal. In Southside Kings II: The Outside War, the pressure is heavier, the moves are deadlier, and the cost of loyalty is higher than ever. What once felt controlled is now spiraling, and every decision carries consequences that can’t be undone.

Un'indagine che sembrava chiusa si riapre all'improvviso, costringendo il vicequestore Marco Ardini a tornare su un caso oscuro di pedofilia e traffico di organi. Per farlo, è costretto a chiedere aiuto a Teresa Maritano, ex ispettore di polizia, l'unica in grado di aiutarlo. Nel tentativo di ricostruire la verità, entrambi dovranno confrontarsi con il proprio passato professionale, riaprendo il ricordo delle indagini in cui Teresa fu determinante ma anche del momento che la portò a dare le dimissioni.

Le substitut Dominique Vasseur va se rendre en Provence pour témoigner contre Cesare Di Caro, la dernière figure du milieu marseillais, qui a dépêché des hommes de main sur Quimper. Paul Capitaine doit assurer la protection de son amie, mais sa mission s'avère impossible car ils se brouillent. Et voilà qu'à la consternation générale, on apprend l'assassinat de la magistrate. S'engage alors une lutte acharnée entre les sbires du caïd et les représentants de la loi.

La mort d'un huissier peu apprécié sème le branle-bas sur Quimper et sa région. Le crime est-il l'œuvre d'un proche offensé, d'un concurrent irrité, d'une victime bafouée ? Un étouffant climat de psychose semble s'être emparé de la cité.

In Berlin wird Hauptkommissar Paul Kalkbrenner zu einem Tatort gerufen. Auf einem Fabrikgelände wurde der verstümmelte Leichnam einer jungen Frau entdeckt. Unweit davon befinden sich stinkende Kloakebecken. Fassungslos müssen Kalkbrenner und seine Kollegin Sera Muth ansehen, wie eine Leiche nach der anderen aus den Gruben geholt wird. Ist unter ihnen auch die verschwundene Merle, die von ihrer Pflegemutter Juliane Kluge verzweifelt gesucht wird? Ein verschwundenes Mädchen. Eine verzweifelte Mutter. Eine grauenhafte Entdeckung.

Vuelve Anders de la Motte, el autor de novela negra que arrasa en Europa con la serie de la Unidad de Casos Perdidos. La inspectora Leonore Asker, al mando de la peculiar Unidad de Casos Perdidos, recibe una llamada del todo inesperada: su padre, con quien no tiene contacto desde hace más de...

Une attaque sanglante. Une enfant disparue. Un tueur prêt à tout. L’inspectrice Louise Blackwell peine encore à se remettre du meurtre de son frère Paul lorsqu’elle est rappelée de force en service. Sa nouvelle affaire semble d’abord étrange : des moutons retrouvés massacrés dans...

Tsunojima, au large des côtes japonaises. Un an après le quadruple meurtre qui a ensanglanté l’île, c’est l’endroit parfait pour la retraite annuelle du Club des amateurs de roman policier ! Ses membres vont pouvoir se consacrer à la rédaction du prochain numéro de leur revue et...

A bell rings at a quarter past two in the morning. Three nights running. From a room that has been locked for ten years. When Mrs. Honoria Vexley arrives at 221B Baker Street in the bitter December of 1894, she brings a riddle that defies every rational explanation. Her daughter Clara died a decade ago; the drawing room was sealed in her memory; no key exists, no window stands open, and no wire appears disturbed. Yet the bell has sounded—with force and precision—at the same impossible hour.

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What if the dead could sit for their portrait? London, 1889. When Mrs. Viola Marston brings three seemingly ordinary photographs to 221B Baker Street, she presents Sherlock Holmes with a case like no other. In each portrait—taken weeks apart, in different rooms, by a reputable studio—a veiled woman in mourning dress stands at the edge of the frame. No one present recalls seeing her. No one can explain how she appeared on the glass plates. And when Mrs. Marston’s brother, Felix Dane, recognises the spectral figure and whispers a name he has not spoken in years, he vanishes into the London fog.