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When a crime on a beautiful Italian island stumps the police, locals turn to the trusted elderly widow Nonna Maria in this transporting mystery from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lorenzo Carcaterra, “one of the all-time greats” (Jeffery Deaver). “An utterly delightful tale starring...

Mörderische Normandie. An einem Apriltag erhängt sich die vierunddreißigjährige Charline Lebreton in ihrer Zelle in der Haftanstalt Cherbourg. Ein halbes Jahr später wird auf Kommissar Ludovic Cleroc von der Kriminalpolizei Cherbourg ein Anschlag verübt. Er bittet seinen Freund, den ehemaligen Elitepolizisten Philippe Lagarde, um Hilfe. Bald darauf wird die Halbinsel Cotentin von einer Mordserie erschüttert. Eine Richterin und ein Anwalt werden ermordet. Gibt es da einen Zusammenhang? Lagarde ist sich ganz sicher.

Wilhelm Jacobsson disappears without a trace on the Gotland boat. He is a small farmer who is fiercely independent, stubborn and constantly arguing with his neighbors. A few days later, an elderly lady is out walking her son's Rottweiler. The dog escapes, starts digging in a cairn and digs up a...

After surviving a terrifying assault during her last investigation, Maria Kallio traded in her badge for a comfortable desk job. But when the head of social affairs for the Finnish Athletics Federation is murdered - the victim of an apparent poisoning - Maria is drawn back into a race against more than murder. A series of crimes has unfolded, and to Maria’s trained eyes, they look like the makings of a conspiracy. As Maria follows the track to a doping scandal, a money-laundering scheme, domestic abuse, and explosive death threats leveled against a sports reporter, she collects the pieces of a baffling puzzle.

In this third book of the Maria series, young attorney Luke Smith enlists the help of Maria, now 16, to find his ex-fiancée, Becca and her baby daughter who he thinks may be his. Mother and daughter are in the Philippines with the rogue federal agent Brent Danes, the man who broke up Luke's engagement to Becca through a series of missteps and accidental encounters. Are Brent and Becca now together, together, or is it just two friends with big trouble helping each other out?

For artist Gabriela Martinez, life has become complicated: She suspects her mentor and friend wants her as his mistress, her husband is neglecting her, and her latest illustration is ruined. Seeking peace, she visits her favorite thinking spot in La Marbriére, the mountain overlooking her home in the Côte d’Azur. Distracted, she winds up in an unfamiliar clearing, where she discovers a 1945 French coin half-buried in the ground. Delighted with its beauty, she has it set on her favorite bracelet.

Highly anticipating a vacation in Italy with his girlfriend, police detective Captain Fusco gets drawn into a disturbing kidnapping case. What was meant to be a romantic vacation to hopefully change engagement resistant Valentina's mind, turns, into a series of adventures all over the Italian peninsula. Will Fusco and Valentina be able to save their kidnapped friend and have the vacation of their dreams?

From the outside, Bee Iverson and her fiancé, Aidan Shepard, look like any other happy couple - but looks can be deceiving. Not long into their engagement, secrets seep out of her past, lies surround them, and unwelcome surprises leak into their lives, breaking down Bee’s confidence not only in herself but in their relationship, too. Secret: Bee’s keeping a piece of her past from Aidan - for him. Aidan knows Bee’s a serial killer, preying on men as often as she can. In fact, their shared passion of such dark desires fuels their love for each other.

Noora Nieminen was destined to become a world champion. But when the sixteen-year-old skating sensation is found slain with her own skates, her promising career is unexpectedly cut short. Detective Maria Kallio is seven months pregnant, but that isn't going to stop her from putting everything she has into solving the murder. With a promotion on the line and her arrogant adversary, Pertti Ström, vying for the new job, Maria is determined to make an arrest.

When the well-known director of a women's retreat center goes missing, Espoo Police Detective Maria Kallio is called to investigate. As the missing woman's friends and family quickly become the pool of suspects, Maria must soften her tough interrogation style to uncover the information she needs to solve the crime. Meanwhile, a killer Maria put in prison escapes and sets out to take revenge.

The Euganean Hills golf community in northern Italy is a golfer's paradise. With a perpetual smell of freshly cut grass, rolling green plains, and bright blue skies, it seems nothing could go wrong for the tight-knit group that lives there. But the normally laid-back residents are shaken to their cores when one of their own turns up at the club brutally murdered. After discovering his friend's body, investigative journalist Riccardo Ranieri makes it his mission to track down the perpetrator of the heinous crime.

Lieutenant Pat Colberg, a nurse aboard the hospital ship, USNS Comfort, is found dead early one morning on a beach in Puerto Rico. The Comfort is in the country to assist after the devastation of Hurricane Maria. Law enforcement authorities soon zero in on the man who was last with the lieutenant, and he hires the law firm of Diaz and Hardy to defend him and investigate the killing. They soon find themselves enmeshed in a web of drug and weapons trafficking, alien smuggling, murder, and kidnapping, amid the chaos of the hurricane's aftermath.

Unha casa, unha nena morta e só seis sospeitosos. Xiana Alén, unha nena de quince anos aparece morta na súa casa nunha luxosa urbanización das aforas de Santiago de Compostela. Os seus pais, a súa tía, unha parella de veciños e a súa tía avoa son as únicas persoas que puideron matala. Con esa hipótese de partida, Ana Barroso e Santi Abad, policías da comisaría de Santiago mergúllanse de cheo na vida da familia Alén Somoza para descubrir que pasou esa noite.