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Thrillermesteren Lars Kepler er tilbage med det syvende bind i serien om kriminalkommissær Joona Linna. En død mand bliver fundet i en lejlighed i Oslo. Da politiet åbner køkkenets fryser, gør de et gruopvækkende fund. Ofret viser sig at være en hidtil ukendt gravskænder og trofæsamler. Nogle dage senere kontakter en tysk kommissær Joona Linna og beder om hjælp til en mordsag på en campingplads uden for Rostock. Joona forstår, at mønstret, som viser sig, er sindssygt og samtidig umuligt at ignorere. Nogle vil kalde det et mirakel, at man genopstår fra de døde - andre vil kalde det et mareridt.

A man is accidentally knocked down outside 221B Baker Street by a carriage. His dying words are he has seen a man rise from the grave. At the same time a visitor arrives with a mystery of unparalleled international importance. The Viscount Wrexham is missing, presumed dead, in strange circumstances. In the North, rumours stir of a dead man haunting the moors. Broomheath Hall is beset by ghostly lights and spectres. What does it all mean? Can arcane knowledge bring people back from the dead?

When a top research institute is broken into and vandalised, the police at first believe that animal-rights activists took things a step too far. Then they discover one of the institute's eminent scientists, Tim Devon, brutally murdered. Dr. Steven Dunbar, working for an elite government agency, is sent to investigate. A few of the dead scientist's research animals have also gone missing, and top-level authorities are strangely obsessed with hunting down and killing the purportedly harmless animals.

Hat Jurek Walter überlebt? Der gefährlichste Serienmörder Schwedens wurde vor Jahren für tot erklärt. Er war bei einem dramatischen Polizeieinsatz von mehreren Kugeln getroffen in den Fluss gestürzt. Seine Leiche wurde jedoch niemals gefunden. Als nun der Schädel von Joona Linnas toter Ehefrau in der Wohnung eines Grabschänders entdeckt und eine perfide Mordserie aus ganz Europa gemeldet wird, ahnt Joona Linna das Unvorstellbare: Der Albtraum ist nicht zu Ende, und der grausame Serienmörder droht, alle lebendig zu begraben, die Joona lieb sind.

On a quiet suburban street in upstate New York, a body is discovered. Twenty-six-year-old Brady Neil lived a simple life - his murder seems senseless. But then Detective Peter Decker discovers Brady’s father was convicted of murder many years ago. Decker begins to suspect Brady’s death may be connected to his father’s crimes. Then one of Brady’s closest friends vanishes, a pool of blood the only clue to his fate.

Summer, 1943. Daniel Berkåk works as a courier for the Press and Military Office in Stockholm. On his last cross-border mission to Norway, he carries a rucksack full of coded documents and newspapers, but before he has a chance to deliver anything he is shot and killed and the contents of his rucksack are missing. The Norwegian government, currently exiled in London, wants to know what happened, and the job goes to writer Jomar Kraby, whose first suspect is a Norwegian refugee living in Sweden, whose past that is as horrifying as the events still to come.

Teresa McLaughlin flees to Los Angeles with her two children, trying to escape a messy divorce. But in LA, she is hunted down by ruthless men and beaten. When she wakes, barely conscious, her children are gone. Detective Peter Decker and his wife Rina are pulled into the situation when their foster son, Gabe, asks them to help. Teresa is his biological mother, and he knows she is in grave danger. Now the hunt is on to find the kidnappers before things end tragically. It will end in an explosive confrontation from which no one will emerge unscathed.

In 1997, General Alexander Lebed, former secretary of the Russian Security Council, admitted on CBS' 60 minutes that up to one hundred small nuclear weapons went missing during implementation of the 1991 START treaty. Twenty five years later, three of them turn up in one of the world’s most volatile regions: Gaza. Their path is being controlled by a Saudi professor determined to disrupt the balance of power in the Middle East. Richard O’Brien, an FBI linguist who finds cocaine and women much more intriguing than his low-level job, stumbles upon the plot.

When Bertram Lanz, a developmentally disabled man, goes missing from a local diner, Detective Peter Decker is put on the case. Very quickly, he realises there is more to the disappearance than meets the eye when he discovers Lanz’s nurse is missing too and blood is found in her house. Then, while combing the woods, searchers discover the remains of a young man who vanished during a camping trip years ago.

The twenty-first book in the hugely popular Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman LAPD Detective Peter Decker is about to face a case that will push him to the limit… Residents in a local building have been complaining of a smell coming from...

The nineteenth book in the hugely popular Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman When LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker reluctantly agrees to do a big favour for old friend Teresa McLaughlin, he knows that his involvement will bring her sociopathic...

“[Kellerman] does for the American cop what P. D. James has done for the British mystery, lifting it beyond its genre.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch “No one working in the crime genre is better.” —Baltimore Sun In Gun Games, the sensational Faye Kellerman once again showcases Peter...

Dawn Cryo, the world’s first cryogenics company is about to be floated on the exchanges. Finally, those who thought they faced certain death can be frozen until a cure is found—for a price. When two bankers close to the Dawn Cryo deal are found dead, DI Anne Perry is sent to investigate. Apparent suicides—all Anne Perry’s instincts tell her they were murdered. Dawn Cryo...what is it about this deal that kills those that get too close?

Miami, Florida 1992: A few weeks after Hurricane Andrew wreaks devastation and havoc across South Florida, a father and his infant daughter crash their car into a canal. The man’s body is recovered, but his baby girl is never found. Twenty-three years later: After reports of alleged sightings of the girl, the case is reopened by police. Detective Maria Duquesne has been assigned to the case, but she has very little in the way of clues. Is it really possible that the girl has not died? Or is this simply the persistence of a desperate mother who will not accept the death of her daughter?

Voinjama Johnson is a woman on the brink of a dark, downward spiral. Suffering from misfortunes past and present, all Vee has is her work as an investigative journalist to hang on to. Now her career, like her sanity, is under fire. A revenant haunts Vee's steps - during her blackouts, the ghost of a strange teenage girl in a red woollen hat keeps reaching out to her. Desperate for answers, she and her new assistant Chlöe Bishop plunge into the disappearance of 17-year-old Jacqueline Paulsen.  

Jake Harris' life hasn't turned out the way he planned. Battling his addictions, and the shattered pieces of his family, he is hired to ghostwrite a memoir. From the 1920s story of a controversial evangelist, to the present day mystery of a former District Attorney, everything changes when his search for the truth leads to an atrocity hidden from history.

This episode of The Adventures of Sam Spade first aired on September 12, 1948.

Legions of murderous undead, Haitian voodoo, and a 5,000-year-old serpent god. Yeah, 'cause that's exactly what Yancy Lazarus needs in his life: more complications. As if being the Hand of Fate and the newly appointed guardian over one of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse wasn't headache enough. All Yancy wants is an easy life on the open road - chock-full of ribs, beer, cigarettes, and smoky bars blaring with gritty blues music - but that just isn't in the cards. Nope, not anymore.

Makkerparret Peter Decker og Rina Lazarus er blevet gift. Og selv om Peter ikke er meget for det, går deres bryllupsrejse til Brooklyn, New York. Bryllupsrejsen byder på lidt af hvert, og Peter stifter i endnu højere grad bekendtskab med sin hustrus ortodoks-jødiske baggrund. En baggrund, han indtil for ganske nyligt var uvidende om, at han selv havde, da han blev adopteret som spaed. På turen bliver Peter introduceret til en jødisk højtid.