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No one could figure out exactly why Sandra McDowell had to die. What was her connection to the Raven, an aging hit man 20 years on death row with only days left to live? Clues are plentiful, but all are dead ends. The Raven is a mind-bending mystery thriller, a twister of a tale that will keep you up listening long into the night. You can’t hear just one! Join Harry Starke as he tries to unravel the nightmare world of...The Raven.

Die Leiche eines Mannes mit einer Schusswunde in der Brust wird an einen Strand an der Küste von North Yorkshire gespült. Der einzige Hinweis zur Identität des Opfers ist ein Ring mit zwei eingravierten Namen. Zum ersten Mal seit über dreißig Jahren ist DCI Tom Raven wieder in seiner Heimatstadt Scarborough. Als ihm vorgeschlagen wird, die Mordermittlungen zu leiten, nimmt er das Angebot an.

DCI Tom Raven is enjoying the long summer days when an encounter with an old army pal spouting conspiracy theories reignites long-buried memories he would rather forget. A few days later, walkers crossing the North York Moors discover the burnt remains of a body beside a stone cross on a Bronze Age burial mound. When the investigation leads to a top-secret military base, Raven is drawn into a plot that threatens national security.

When a young woman’s body is found at a cave entrance by the pretty fishing village of Robin Hood’s Bay, DCI Tom Raven is called to investigate. A trail of footprints leads from the body on the shore to the nearby youth hostel. But the killer’s identity is far from clear as the picturesque façade of Robin Hood’s Bay conceals more than it reveals.

A collapsed ceiling. A dead body. What starts as a routine 999 call takes an unexpected twist when Erika Foster arrives on the scene and discovers the body of a woman in an empty flat, with all DNA evidence scrubbed away. When forensics find cocaine residue coating every surface of the ceiling, Erika calls in the drug dogs, who lead her to a mysterious parcel locker on the outside wall of the property. Chasing down the locker’s owner leads Erika back where she never expected to be–staring into the eyes of Jerome Goodman, the drug dealer who murdered her husband, Mark, ten years ago.

Hang on to your shamrocks and shillelaghs, folks! Max Blake, that hard-boiled private detective and former muck-raking journalist, along with his fearless fiancée Caeli Brown are back in action and up to their Walther P99s in slick, hypnotic robberies and terrorist plots in their newly adopted Irish homeland. A favor to a new friend who works with the Irish police brings them out of retirement to solve a series of thefts at Bunratty Castle and Folk Park which cater to the tourist crowd.

Detective Kjeld Nygaard wants nothing more than to forget his family and Varsund, the small mining town he once called home, even exist. But while on suspension after his last case went disastrously wrong, his estranged father, Stenar, leaves a message on Kjeld’s phone claiming he’s seen a murder. But with no evidence and Stenar suffering from Alzheimer’s, the local police think he must have imagined it.

Ein ungelöster Fall. Neue Wahrheiten, die es aufzudecken gilt. Ein Mörder, der gestoppt werden muss. Als die Leiche eines Kollegen im Hafen von Scarborough gefunden wird, setzt DCI Tom Raven alles daran, die Hintergründe seines Todes aufzudecken. Der Mord weist Parallelen zu einem Cold Case auf – dem Tod der Mutter des Opfers. Hat dessen heimliche, inoffizielle Ermittlung ihn ins gefährliche Fahrwasser gebracht? Oder steht sein Tod in Zusammenhang mit den aktuellen nächtlichen Übergriffen auf Frauen?

Back in 1964, tragedy struck when Peter Redburn and his friends were playing together. Now an adult, Peter has never been able to escape his feelings of guilt. A funeral forces him to confront the rivalries and secrets of the past.

Ein Unfall mit Fahrerflucht. Ein rätselhafter Todesfall. Ein tödlicher Racheplan. Nach einem Jahr im Koma wacht Sam Earnshaw endlich auf – doch von Feierstimmung keine Spur. Stattdessen enthüllt er, dass der Unfall mit Fahrerflucht, der ihn fast das Leben gekostet hätte, gar kein Unfall war. Jemand hatte ihn absichtlich vor ein heranrasendes Auto gestoßen.

Ein vergrabenes Skelett. Eine dunkle Verschwörung. Ein skrupelloser Mörder. Nachdem Sturzfluten in einem beliebten Ausflugsgebiet ein menschliches Skelett freilegen, wird DCI Tom Raven mit den Ermittlungen beauftragt. Wer war der Tote und wie kam er dorthin? Ihm zur Seite steht die forensische Anthropologin Dr. Chandice Jones, die die Herausforderung liebt, mit alten Knochen zu arbeiten. Doch ist Raven eine Herausforderung, die sie an ihre Grenzen bringt?

Ravens in the Rain is an unconventional noir love story between a woman with a past and a man with no future where love is no fairy tale, fantasy is foreplay, and sex is had on second dates. Carney and Pru, down on luck and down on love, meet over a game of chance, and the mystery of the other's intentions, compounded by their overwhelming attraction toward each other, compels them into a game of cat and mouse. They ante up and play this game of love or survival that has you wondering who's the villain and who's the hero and how it will all play out.

When a series of high-profile murders rocks the city of Birchwood, Detectives Xander Walsh and Damon Schaeffer are called in to unravel a chilling mystery. Each crime scene is marked by a haunting signature—a poem, hinting at the killer’s motivations. Detective Walsh, a fierce investigator with a reputation for solving the unsolvable, must dive into a dark labyrinth of clues that blur the line between art and madness. As he delves deeper into the case, his mysterious past comes back to haunt him.

It's a fast-moving murder mystery that begins when Jordan comes home early to find a beautiful but unknown blonde half-dressed and very drunk in his apartment. From then on things get ever more complicated, as murder and intrigue rear their twin heads with Jordan stuck in the middle, trying to solve the crime and clear himself of a murder charge.