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It’s time to go back to the beginning. A psychopath with a sinister obsession. A troubled teenager training as his apprentice. The search for Clara Foyle – and the detective desperate to find her. From Fiona Cummins, The Collector is the gripping, heart-pounding sequel to Rattle. ‘Cummins...

The calm of a sleepy Patagonian fishing port has been broken by murder. It’s the case of a lifetime for brilliant and headstrong forensic detective Laura Badía. The crime is brutal and baffling. The victim is Julio Ortega, a local heartthrob and an old flame of Laura’s. The apparent motive is the theft of a collection of ancient and mysterious iridescent arrowheads that Ortega had recently acquired. Carved nearly six thousand years ago out of Amazon opal, they are now missing from Ortega’s home, vanishing once again into legend.

An unexpected inheritance. Missing bequests. Can these amateur detectives pen a satisfactory solution to a literary murder? Leta Parker is both saddened and happy. Though the second anniversary of her husband's sudden death makes her wistful, her revitalized life in the Cotswolds and a...

Forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett is called to the scene of an aircraft to help deal with an erratic passenger. She figures out that he’s got anterograde amnesia, and can’t form new memories. For every cryptic clue he is able to drag up from his memory, Jo has to sift through a dozen nonsensical statements. Suddenly a string of clues arises, something to do with a deadly biological agent, a missing wife and son, and a secret partnership gone horribly wrong.

Jillian Hart and police chief Tom Stewart are enjoying peaceful, newly wedded bliss in Mercy, South Carolina, until a woman is found wandering the streets one night. She's in her nightclothes, disoriented, and carrying a kitten in a tote bag. A search of the woman's house reveals many more cats, a maze of cardboard boxes - and a dead man.

Ted Bundy. One of America's most notorious serial killers. For two women, he is the ultimate obsession. One is a cop whose sister may have been one of Bundy's victims. The other is a deranged groupie who corresponded with Bundy in prison - and raised her son to finish what Bundy started. To charm and seduce innocent girls. To kidnap and brutalize more women than any serial killer in history. And to lure one obsessed cop into a trap as sick and demented as Bundy himself.... 

Blood Angel is a nordic noir crime series not for the fainthearted. Sofie Engell is a talented police investigator, with a background as a psychologist, and part of a task force hunting serial killers. A series of new bestial murders are committed, always staged in the same horrible way. Soon a...

Marion Spicer spends her days examining auction catalogues and searching for stolen works of art. All this changes when she inherits a prestigious collection of pre-Columbian art from a father she never knew; she must face the merciless microcosm of Paris art auctions and galleries, with its sharks, schemes, fences, traps, scams, and attacks. Her quest draws her into a world where people will kill for a love of beauty.

As the daughter of bounty hunters, I know more about the criminal underbelly than the average citizen of Luma, California. But when Dad’s work got him killed, and Mom went on the lam, I swore off the profession for myself. Instead, I use my knack for finding rare artifacts—namely illegal magic-laced weapons—to sneak into criminals’ homes after the police have carted them off for their latest infractions. Once I’ve helped myself to the contraband, I sell it to the highest bidder.

When Samantha "Sam" Reason of the Chicago PD stumbles onto the case of her career, she, at first, is reluctant to share it with consultant and former FBI profile expert and medical examiner, Dr. Jessica Coran. The two strong-willed, personable lady detectives are soon working like a well-oiled machine to uncover the evidence of a ruthless cartel that barters in death - the product being snuff films.

Pour Laura Badía, l’experte en criminalistique chargée de l’enquête, cette affaire est celle de sa vie: il va lui falloir élucider un assassinat d’une extrême sauvagerie et la disparition du domicile de la victime de treize pointes de flèches taillées par le peuple Tehuelche il y a des milliers d’années. Une collection dont tout le monde parle mais que presque personne n’a jamais vue, qui renferme la clé d’un des plus grands mystères archéologiques de notre temps, dont la valeur scientifique est inestimable, tout comme sa valeur sur le marché noir.