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Greetings. There is a body buried on your property, covered in your blood. The unfortunate young lady's name is Rita Jones. In her jeans pocket you'll find a slip of paper with a phone number on it. Call that number. If I have not heard from you by 8:00 P.M., the police will receive an anonymous call. I'll tell them where Rita Jones is buried on your property, how you killed her, and where the murder weapon can be found in your house. (I do believe a paring knife is missing from your kitchen.)

A cluster of suicides among the elderly. Such things are not unknown to the police and the deaths are quickly dismissed by the police as routine. Only one man is convinced that something more sinister is taking place. However, no one listens to Tom Thorne anymore. Having stepped out of line once...

Cash and Sheriff Wheaton make for a strange partnership. He pulled her from her mother's wrecked car when she was three. He's kept an eye out for her ever since. It's a tough place to live - northern Minnesota along the Red River. Cash navigated through foster homes, and at 13 was working farms. She's tough as nails, five feet two inches, blue jeans, blue jean jacket, smokes Marlboros, drinks Bud Longnecks. Makes her living driving truck. Playing pool on the side. 

Bloomsbury presents The Lost Boys by Tim Sullivan, read by Finlay Robertson. Don't miss THE BOOKSELLER, the latest George Cross Mystery - available now. A short story from the George Cross Mystery series. DS George Cross's father, Raymond, always takes an annual holiday in a local care home. He...

Jo Strong is the youngest widow in the East End. Running her late husband's jewellery shop, mercilessly bullied by her evil mother-in-law, she is trying to get her life back together again. But then the 14-year-old daughter of one of the East end's most notorious gangsters is kidnapped, and Jo finds herself in a deadly race against time to rescue the girl - before it is too late. And to get her back, she'll have to join forces with damaged but handsome bad boy Gabe Miller, a man who has a dark past of his own…

Brought to you by Penguin. Late at night in a New York café army-cop-turned-drifter Jack Reacher orders coffee in a cup made of foam, not china, so that he can move on at a moment's notice. He owns nothing, carries less, has never encountered a female colleague he can't bed, or a case he can't...

While the Highlands north of the Great Glen are recovering from recent earth tremors, much of Scotland senses there’s worse to come. Returning from a futile trip to Lewis, Gill busies himself in an archaeological dig close to his home. It’s routine work–recovering bones from an old graveyard that’s listed for redevelopment. Routine, until something unusual is discovered, hinting at a far darker secret buried beneath the ancient tombs.

”Effektiv krimi” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Jyllands-Posten Hvor godt kender du egentlig din teenager? Ukendt stof er første bind i krimiserien om Victoria Storm. Ukendt stof handler om en almindelig mors desperation og fortvivlelse over en søn på afveje. Tvunget af omstændighederne må...

NY KRIMI AF JAKOB MELANDER Hvad anmelderne har sagt om forfatterskabet: “I en krimibranche med mange metervarer er det sjældent at læse noget så velskrevet.”Weekendavisen “Glæd dig til et par nætter uden megen søvn.” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Nordjyske "Melander skriver...

Intet paradis uden slanger. Pernille Plaetner og Marianne Rohweder står bag den succesfulde krimiserie om den kvikke og kloge politikvinde Martha Munk. Forfatterne har et kærligt og skarpt blik for dramaerne inde bag de velklippede ligusterhække i provinsens mikrokosmos. I SLANGEREDEN...

Unge piger i gymnasiealderen drives til at sælge stoffer og sig selv. For nogle ender det med døden. BIRGITTE WULFF er forfatter til en række bestsellerbiografier og erfaren kriminalreporter. Hun brillerer med sin research i den anmelderroste og populære serie om journalisten Anne Velin...

“I en krimibranche med mange metervarer er det sjældent at læse noget så velskrevet.” Weekendavisen “Glæd dig til et par nætter uden megen søvn.” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Nordjyske "Melander skriver fremragende (…) med et godt skud intellektuelle og musikalske vitaminer"...

في "روي لوبيز"، يأخذنا في رحلة مثيرة عبر ضباب لندن في عام 1952، حيث يلتقي محققٌ متمرس مع جريمة قتل غامضة. يتتبع المحقق خيوط الجريمة التي تحاكي لعبة الشطرنج، حيث يتوجب عليه كشف القاتل الذي يترك وراءه أحرفًا محفورة على ضحاياه.

In "Red Harvest" we follow the Op as he arrives in the corrupt mining town of Personville (nicknamed "Poisonville"). Hired to investigate threats against a newspaper publisher, the Op finds himself in the middle of a war between rival gangs and corrupt officials. He orchestrates a brutal campaign to pit the criminal factions against each other, cleansing the town through violence and manipulation. The Dain Curse involves the Op investigating a diamond theft that spirals into a complex case involving the Dain family's supposed curse.

Auf der Flucht vor seinen inneren Dämonen erreicht John Milton tief in den Wäldern von Michigan die Stadt Truth. Er sucht nicht nach Ärger, aber der Ärger sucht ihn. Er gerät an einen Kleinstadtpolizisten, der weder weiß, mit wem er es zu tun hat, noch ahnt, wie gefährlich er ist. Aber Milton wird reingelegt und schwer verletzt. Unbewaffnet und allein flieht er in die abgelegenen Porcupine Mountains, ein Suchtrupp ist ihm dicht auf den Fersen.

I 1767 flygter en fattig visesanger fra Stockholm, efter at have fornærmet datteren til en af byens mægtigste mænd. Samme år finder den fordrukne og stridbare politimester Nils Bayer et afklædt mandeligt lig på lysten uden for Trondheim. Næsten 250 år senere bliver en kvinde fundet...

Amor, pasión, celos... muerte. El perspicaz detective Philip Marlowe debe tirar del hilo de una maraña seria y salvaje. En La dama del lago (1943), la cuarta novela de Raymond Chandler, el detective Philip Marlowe investiga la desaparición de dos mujeres: Crystal Kingsley, esposa de un rico empresario, y Muriel Chess, mujer del vigilante de la finca de los Kingsley en el lago Little Fawn. En realidad a Marlowe no le importa lo que les haya ocurrido—no le pagan por su empatía—pero descubrir la verdad será un imperativo cuando se dé cuenta de que su vida está en juego.

Da en tilfældigt forbipasserende finder et skelet på en øde rasteplads nær Hastings, vækker det uhyggelige minder om den berygtede seriemorder, Dukkemorderen, som terroriserede Sydengland for tyve år siden. Dukkemorderen blev dengang formodet død, så er der en copycat på spil, eller er...

År 1528. En ung, omrejsende franciskanermunk gør et kort ophold i Bergen, inden han fortsætter sin rejse nordpå. Med sig fra byen tager han et udvalg af knive og et ubehandlet skind med en hemmelig historie. Næsten fem hundrede år senere dukker et lig op på et museum i Richmond, Virginia...

One cold night in 1983 in a coastal town in Japan a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl disappears on her way home from badminton practice. The local police explore all avenues, but as is often the case, when there are no clues, there are no answers. Decades later, the repercussions of her mysterious disappearance are still being felt in Japan in unspoken secrets and lies and broken lives that are left littered behind.