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Moscow, 1937. Captain Korolev, a police investigator, is enjoying a long-overdue visit from his young son, Yuri, when an eminent scientist is shot dead within sight of the Kremlin, and Korolev is ordered to find the killer. It soon emerges that the victim, a man who it appears would stop at nothing to fulfil his ambitions, was engaged in research of great interest to those at the very top ranks of Soviet power.

After a messy divorce, attractive young mother Sonia is struggling to provide for herself and keep custody of her son. With her back to the wall, she resorts to smuggling cocaine into Iceland and finds herself caught up in a ruthless criminal world. As she desperately looks for a way out of trouble, she must pit her wits against her nemesis, Bragi, a customs officer whose years of experience frustrate her new and evermore daring strategies.

Moscow, 1936. In a deconsecrated church, a young woman is found dead, her mutilated body displayed on the altar for all to see. Captain Alexei Dimitrevich Korolev is asked to investigate. But when he discovers that the victim is an American citizen, the NKVD - the most feared organisation in Russia - becomes involved. Soon, Korolev’s every step is under close scrutiny and one false move will mean exile to the frozen camps of the far north. Committed to uncovering the truth, Korolov enters the realm of the Thieves, who run Moscow’s underworld.

Following a previous investigation, which implicated those at the very top in Soviet Russia, Captain Alexei Korolev finds himself hailed as an example to all. But Korolev lives in an uneasy peace - if it is discovered what his real actions were during the case, he will face deportation to Siberia. Instead, Colonel Rodinov of the NKVD security service asks the detective to look into the suspected suicide of a young woman on a film set in the Ukraine. The feared commissar for State Security, Ezhov, wants the matter looked into.

Der Broadway-Autor Harvey Parker und das Model Cassandra May sind seit wenigen Tagen ein Paar. Parkers vorherige Freundin Cathrin, mit der er zwei Monate zusammen war, ist vor wenigen Wochen bei einem Autounfall ums Leben gekommen. Parker arbeitet eifrig an einem Off-Broadway-Stück. Als er...

1956. Bernie Gunther er på flugt fra sit franske skjul, hvor Erich Mielke og hans gorillaer i det østtyske sikkerhedspoliti, Stasi, har fundet ham. Manden, som Mielke har sat til at jage Bernie, og som stille og roligt skubber ham tættere på Tyskland, er en gammel kollega fra tiden hos...

Drugs, smuggling, big money and political intrigue in Iceland rally with love, passion, murder and betrayal until the winner takes all...in the masterful, explosive conclusion to the award-winning Reykjavík Noir trilogy. The prison doors slam shut behind Agla when her sentence ends, but her lover Sonja is not there to meet her. As a group of foreign businessmen tries to draw Agla into an ingenious fraud that stretches from Iceland around the world, Agla and her former nemesis María find the stakes being raised at a terrifying speed.

Happily settled in Florida, Sonja believes she’s escaped the trap set by unscrupulous drug lords. But when her son, Tomas, is taken, she’s back to square one...and Iceland. Her lover, Agla, is awaiting sentencing for financial misconduct after the banking crash, and Sonja refuses to see her. And that’s not all...Agla owes money to some extremely powerful men, and they’ll stop at nothing to get it back. With her former nemesis, customs officer Bragi, on her side, Sonja puts her own plan into motion to bring down the drug barons and her scheming ex-husband and get Tomas back.

Ein verzweifelter Vater heuert den Privatdetektiv Bill O`Mallow an, um seine Tochter Norma wiederzufinden, die aus ihrem ländlichen Zuhause ausgerissen ist, um ihr Glück in der Großstadt Chicago zu suchen. Bill macht sich in den Clubs und Bars der Stadt auf die Suche nach der Vermissten - und...

I en årrække har den tidligere kriminalkommissær og privatdetektiv Bernie Gunther gemt sig i Cuba, men nu vil han væk fra det job, han modvilligt varetager i den cubanske efterretningstjeneste. Under flugten bliver han arresteret, og nu ser det ud til, at fortiden endelig indhenter Bernie...

Bernie Gunther - Berlins mest hårdkogte privatdetektiv - ankommer til Buenos Aires under dække af at være flyg­tet naziforbryder. Han er det oplagte valg til at opspore en morder, hvis metode leder tankerne hen på grusomheder fra det nazistiske Tyskland – og på en sag, som det aldrig...

Indochine, années 1950. Elizabeth Cole, reporter de guerre pour Life Magazine, réussit l'impossible : entrer en contact avec la reine de l'opium, la mystérieuse princesse shan Olive Yang, qui accepte de lui dévoiler une partie de ses secrets. Mais l'acheminement d'une immense cargaison de drogue à Bangkok va modifier leurs plans et entraîner la princesse et la photographe dans un tourbillon d'aventures au cœur du Triangle d'or.

Året er 1948, og Anden Verdenskrig er slut. Den flabede, hårdkogte privatdetektiv Bernhard Gunther er sluppet helskindet gennem krigen. Og i det sønderbombede Berlin, hvor spændingerne mellem de vestlige stormagter og Sovjetunionen er voksende, forsøger Gunther at videreføre sin virksomhed...

Velkommen til München og Grækenland 1957, hvor Philip Kerr og hans eminente research igen giver vinger til en hårdkogt krimi om Bernie Gunther og Europa før, under og efter 2. Verdenskrig. Den populære og rutinerede indlæser Bent Otto Hansen formidler på fornemste vis denne fremragende...

Det er sommeren 1956. Bernie Gunther arbejder under falsk navn som receptionschef på det berømte Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat ved Den Franske Riviera. Da verdens måske rigeste og måske mest berømte forfatter, W. Somerset Maugham, mangler en fjerde mand til et spil bridge, træder Gunther...

Berlin 1934: Nazisterne har nu overtaget magten. Livet er forandret for de fleste tyskere, ikke mindst for jøderne, der diskrimineres og udelukkes fra samfundet. Nazificeringen af politiet har fået Bernie Gunther til nødtvunget at forlade korpset og i stedet tage arbejde som hoteldetektiv...

Durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, des peintres se retrouvent dans une singulière bastide provençale où Cézanne vécut les dernières années de sa vie. Ensemble, ils parlent d'art, jouent aux échecs et décident d'entrer en résistance. Quand ils découvrent un carnet ayant jadis appartenu au grand artiste aixois, le cours de leur vie va changer.

Jack Glasser is not like other men. A former prodigy turned reclusive data savant, Jack spends his days hooked up to a self-built Neural Acceleration rig—flooding his brain with unfiltered data streams, burning through medical-grade anesthesia, and pushing his body to the brink of collapse. He doesn’t do it for money, though he has plenty. He does it for clarity. For truth. For control.

Wouters, un commissaire désabusé, se retrouve plongé dans un complot politique obscur qui pourrait devenir un piège mortel. Paris, 1986. Un expert-comptable tombe de la fenêtre de son appartement. Tout laisse à penser à un suicide, l'homme était nerveux et agité, mais sa fille refuse...

1313. En Terre Sainte, une compagnie de brigands attaque une cité isolée. Leur chef, Roncelin de Fos, parvient à s'emparer de la ville, sans se douter qu'elle intéresse fortement deux personnages clés : le Grand maître des Templiers et le légat du Pape. Roncelin prend la fuite avant d'être récupéré par le Temple. Pour payer sa dette, il devra retrouver le seul rabbin capable de décrypter le message que les Templiers ont découvert dans les souterrains du Temple de Salomon.