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When terrorists use a drone to bring down a plane on one of London’s busiest shopping centres, it ignites a chain of events that will draw in the innocent and the guilty alike. DC Max Wolfe finds himself caught in the crossfire between a tech-savvy terrorist cell and a revenge-seeking, Bible-quoting murderer called Bad Moses.

As dawn breaks on a snowy February morning, a refrigerated lorry is found parked in the heart of London's Chinatown. Inside, 12 women, apparently illegal immigrants, are dead from hypothermia. But in the cab, DC Max Wolfe finds 13 passports. Twelve dead women. Thirteen passports. The hunt for the missing woman will take Max Wolfe into the dark heart of the world of human smuggling, mass migration and 21st-century slave markets.

#taken in the night: They thought they were kidnapping the mistress of one of London’s most powerful gangsters. But they’ve taken the wrong woman. And crossed the wrong detective. #taken underground: Detective Max Wolfe's hunt for the missing woman takes him from New Scotland Yard’s legendary Black Museum to the glittering mansions of career criminals, from sleazy strip joints to secret sex dungeons - and to unspeakably dark deeds committed decades ago.

A former Medal of Valor winner, Minnesota detective Alexander Rupert is now under subpoena by a grand jury on suspicion of corruption. So when he's asked to look into the false identity of a car-accident victim named James Putnam, a man who in fact died 15 years earlier, Rupert sees a potentially big case and an opportunity to regain his respectability. But the investigation puts him in the path of "the Beast", the nom de guerre of Drago Basta, a cunning veteran of the Balkan wars.

As dawn breaks on a snowy February morning, a refrigerated lorry is found parked in the heart of London's Chinatown. Inside, 12 women, apparently illegal immigrants, are dead from hypothermia. But in the cab, DC Max Wolfe finds 13 passports. Twelve dead women. Twelve passports. The hunt for the missing woman will take Max Wolfe into the dark heart of the world of human smuggling, mass migration and 21st-century slave markets.

One kid’s horrific journey behind the walls of maximum security and the price he paid for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Survival is just the beginning. Dylan is 18, scared, and sent to maximum security. The crime? Passed out drunk in the backseat of a car after his 18th birthday celebration. If he doesn’t fight, he dies. If he doesn’t run drugs, he dies. The Jesters have murdered his brother and recruited his cellmate, and this is now home. Welcome to MAX. There is no escape.

Auf einer Beerdigung steht Fallanalytiker Max Bischoff plötzlich einer Frau gegenüber, die seiner großen Liebe Jennifer Sommer zum Verwechseln ähnlich sieht. Aber Jennifer ist seit fünf Jahren tot. Und Max gibt sich noch immer die Schuld daran. Die Begegnung lässt ihm keine Ruhe, und er spricht die Unbekannte an. Sie ist ebenso erstaunt wie er, es gibt keine Verbindung zu Jennifer.

Max Ringo was once a courtroom star at an elite law firm. Then a car accident left her addicted to painkillers, and her life dissolved into shambles. Now fresh out of rehab and making a comeback as a mediator, she gets her shot at redemption when she is appointed to handle a high-stakes divorce. But as Max begins negotiations between the two notorious power players, the trap is already sprung. The husband kidnaps her teenage son, Nathan, and gives her a chilling ultimatum: settle the case on his terms…or the boy dies.

Max Bischoff, begnadeter Fallanalytiker, ermittelt in seinem 5. Fall – Der neue Thriller von Nr. 1-Bestseller-Autor Arno Strobel Fallanalytiker Max Bischoff und Handschriftenexperte Marvin Wagner stehen kurz vor der Eröffnung ihrer gemeinsamen Detektei WaBi Investigations, als in Düsseldorf der neunjährige Sohn eines Richters entführt wird. Ausgerechnet ein Häftling will nun, dass Max und Marvin in der Sache ermitteln. Rainer Klinke sitzt wegen Entführung einer Minderjährigen in U-Haft und fürchtet, dass er eine Mitschuld an dem aktuellen Fall tragen könnte.

Let the punishment fit the crime. No unit inside King’s Court Prison is more brutal than the newly refurbished “M” Division. Dubbed “Mayhem” by the inmates, the only ticket needed to gain entry is a life sentence, and cells are filling up fast. With death the only way out of this hell on earth, some are willing to risk everything for one final chance at freedom. After foiling an escape attempt by several prisoners, new guard Tyler White reaches out to the one man who saved him from certain death, the mysterious prisoner in Cell 9.

When a retired colleague dies of an apparent suicide, ex - Secret Service agent Joe Reeder knows there must be far more to the story. Why did the man leave a desperate message for Reeder moments before dying? And what could possibly make such a seasoned veteran fear for his life? FBI Special Agent Patti Rogers has a mystery of her own to solve: she's leading a task force investigating a brutal series of similar but seemingly unconnected murders across the DC area.

All Cynthia Webber has ever wanted was to keep her son safe. A career as a forensic accountant was supposed to help her do that, but Cynthia’s world is rocked to its core when four-year-old Luke goes missing from Chinook Centre, along with his grandmother.

Harry was too good an operative to be permitted to live his own life. So they reeled him into a new civilian life in the city’s illicit drug distribution underbelly. Now, to survive, he has to kill or be killed—or find a way out.

Es ist eine Lüge, dass die Zeit alle Wunden heilt. Es ist nicht wahr, dass die Liebe Brücken baut. Es ist nicht wahr, dass man alles hinter sich lassen kann. Gabriel Tretjak scheint alles verloren zu haben - seine Frau, seine Lebensziele, seine Profession, Dinge zu regeln. Doch dann muss er handeln. Jemand ist auf der Suche nach ihm und schreckt vor Morden nicht zurück. Aber warum das Ganze? Wer ist da auf einem Rachefeldzug - und was hat das alles mit Tretjaks kleinem, sehr besonderen Sohn zu tun?

A series of successful professional men are found slashed to death in their beds, apparently during sex, the presumed victims of a gay murderer. Homicide detective Max Segal is on the case, but he’s distracted by his failing marriage and an attractive journalist who is covering the case. Judy Wells has everyone fooled, including the police. She’s been methodically stalking, seducing, and murdering every man who has ever dumped her - and her revenge seems almost justified. But the FBI is closing in.

The first murder rocks the city. The entire Bjornson family - except the father, Stephen - has been brutally murdered, and the killer has left a message behind, written in the victim's blood: Don't Waste People's Time. It's a grizzly start for two young detectives who've just become partners. But Max Larkin and Jesse Fairlane put their personal distaste for each other aside and start concentrating on how to find the killer from striking again

The attractive redhead at the A&P checkout counter opens her checkbook and begins writing a check, unaware that she’s signing her own death warrant. The man behind her in the dark overcoat memorizes the address on her check. When she leaves the A&P, he follows her home. In the next few weeks he tracks her every move...and when she rebuffs his advances, he stabs her. Five women, chosen at random, fall victim to a man the press dubs the Hyena. The NYPD has no leads until young Babette Watson walks into homicide detective Max Segal’s office.

Why would a nurse’s aide terrified of heights hurl herself from a 20th-story rooftop in Queens? Why would an attractive librarian with a water phobia be found naked and floating face-down in the Astoria Park swimming pool? How did the scantily clad body of a young bookstore clerk with a horror of snakes end up inside a Central Park Zoo cage with a 200-pound python? NYPD Detective Max Segal, strung out from a devastating divorce, is determined to find the killer before more women die.

While researching the origins of King’s Court, Jack meets Percy Simmons, a 99-year-old ex-guard who began his career at the infamous prison way back in 1935. The man has a story to tell, one involving such names as Harry Lightman, Squizzy Taylor, and other notorious criminals of the time. These were the days of the razor gangs, when guards ruled with an iron fist and the executioner took care of the rest.