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When Arnold Clover is recruited by Lizzie Hawker to help her look into her family inheritance, he cannot begin to guess the journey he is about to embark on. Lizzie's mother, an Italian countess, disappeared thirty years ago, presumed dead. Her father, a famous, some say infamous, music promoter, has just died and now the family home Ca' Scacchi, a leaning palazzo in Dorsoduro, has fallen to her. When her mother vanished so too did a priceless painting, supposedly an erotic portrait of Lucrezia Borgia, which has captivated men for generations.

When a model is found dead during a life drawing class, the police are confident they have their culprit. The case, they say, is neatly wrapped up. But theatrical agent Ginny Fellows knows better.

When a model is found dead during a life drawing class, the police are confident they have their culprit. The case, they say, is neatly wrapped up. But theatrical agent Ginny Fellows knows better.

Stevie 'Minto' Milloy, former star footballer-turned-rookie reporter, finds himself trailing the story of a young Eastern European student whose body has been found on remote moorland outside the city. How did she get there from her hostel at the Sovereign Grace Mission?

December 1882. Attending the opening of the new Natural History Museum, reporter Alec Lonsdale and his colleague Hulda Friederichs are shocked to discover a body in the basement, hacked to death. Suspicion falls on three cannibals, brought from the Congo as museum exhibits, who have disappeared. But Alec discovers that three other men have been similarly murdered, and when he and Hulda discover a letter in the victim's home warning of a catastrophic event planned for Christmas Eve, they find themselves in a race against time.

London, 1905: Law student and military veteran Balvinder dev Singh has found an extralegal way to fund his studies. As friend and accomplice to the infamous gentleman thief AJ Raffles, he rubs shoulders with the upper crust—and steals their valuables. That is, until their next mark, an imperialist general, is grotesquely murdered in the library of his Mayfair mansion. Bal and Raffles find themselves implicated in a series of killings that soon attracts the attention of Scotland Yard—and the aging Sherlock Holmes himself.

Insurance investigator Charlie Novak doesn't investigate murders. He commits them. But he didn't commit this one. The victim? Like all his previous victims, she was married to his partner. And insured by him. It's all part of their ongoing black widower scheme. Charlie stages fatal accidents nobody looks at twice. But this one has homicide cops crawling all over it. Charlie monitors the case for the insurance company, hoping to steer it away from the husband with the million dollar motive.

Es ist Winter in Innsbruck. Ein Obdachloser rettet sich in eine seit langem leerstehende Wohnung am Waldrand. Im Schlafzimmer findet er eine Leiche. Sie liegt dort seit zwanzig Jahren. Ein gefundenes Fressen für David Bronski, den Pressefotografen. Gemeinsam mit seiner Journalistenkollegin Svenja Spielmann soll er vom Tatort berichten. Was dieser Fall jenseits des Spektakulären mit ihm zu tun hat, verschweigt er. Seit er denken kann, fotografiert Bronski das Unglück. Richtet seinen Blick auf das Dunkle in der Welt.

Everyone told him he needed a holiday. His life had fallen apart around him. His marriage had failed, and he had been dishonourably discharged from the military. He needed to recharge his batteries and make a new start and a break on the Costa Blanca was the opportunity to re-set his life. Two weeks of relaxing, enjoying the sun, and having a few drinks was just what the doctor ordered. It started so well. How was he to know that this was the prelude to the vacation from hell? He soon becomes enmeshed in murder and intrigue, and meets a beautiful young woman.

Gianni Peroni is at a loose end. He's got nothing urgent to do but he notices that the pathologist has a busy day ahead: during the night two corpses were picked out of the Tiber. At first glance, it seems that the similarities between the two men end there. But then Gianni notices something very strange...

The murderer has a perfectly logical reason for his kills. Logical, but insane. Wounded soul and single dad Nick Clayborne uses a radio scanner to listen in on private conversations. It’s virtually his only adult contact. He fills notebooks with what he hears in hopes of an eventual book deal. Then three of those strangers are murdered. Panicking, he reaches out to a long-time favorite he's been listening in on for years.

Året är 1949. Krigsveteranen Aloysius Archer har precis avtjänat ett fängelsestraff för ett brott han inte begått. Hans övervakare har gett honom stränga order: anmäl dig med jämna mellanrum, skaffa ett jobb, drick ingen alkohol och umgås inte med kvinnor på glid. I en mörk bar i småstaden Poca City får Archer ett jobberbjudande: han ska driva in en skuld åt en lokal affärsman. Men det som skulle vara ett enkelt jobb slutar med att Archer blir misstänkt för mord. För att rentvå sitt namn och rädda sig undan galgen är det upp till honom själv att hitta den verkliga mördaren.

A new book in the nationally bestselling series that has wowed critics and readers alike. David Loogan returns! Loogan is living in Ann Arbor with Detective Elizabeth Waishkey and her daughter, Sarah. He's settled into a quiet routine as editor of the mystery magazine Gray Streets-until one day...

In the aftermath of Black Magnet’s demise, Ash and his friends are still adjusting to the ramifications it's had on their lives. Now equipped with a glimpse of who he was before he woke up in the mine, Ash is reluctant to learn more about himself and looks for anything to keep his mind off of his past. When a student at Perry’s new job at a nearby university winds up dead with no sign of attack other than sand scattered around the body, Ash finds the perfect distraction. He can barely get answers before another student is killed in the same way somewhere else on campus.

Ein neuer Fall für Pressefotograf Bronski - und die Fortsetzung der spektakulären Krimireihe von Bernhard Aichner. Frühling der Wunder. Deutschland erlebt das Unfassbare. Ein Blinder kann plötzlich wieder sehen, ein Terroranschlag wird verhindert, und eine Prophezeiung erschüttert das ganze Land. Verantwortlich dafür ist ein Mann, der aus dem Nichts kam. Ein Mönch, unscheinbar und bescheiden, das Volk glaubt an einen neuen Messias. Nur David Bronski und seine Kollegin Svenja Spielmann zweifeln.

Bronski ist zurück - Teil zwei der neuen Krimi-Reihe von Bestsellerautor Bernhard Aichner. Es ist Sommer in Berlin. Ein Mann fällt vom Himmel. Ein blinder Passagier, versteckt im Fahrwerkraum eines Flugzeugs. Ein Leben, das im Garten einer hübschen Jugendstilvilla endet. Die fünf Rohdiamanten in seiner Hosentasche verschwinden, bevor die Polizei auftaucht.

A horrific double murder in small-town Iowa leads to the arrest and trial of the young man who owned the murder weapon. Tony Harrington, a reporter for the local daily paper, doesn't believe the man is guilty. His search for the truth sparks a chain of events with tragic consequences. Undaunted, Tony pushes on, risking everything to uncover the facts - the story's true "lede".