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Where I Can See You
By Larry D. Sweazy. 2017
Haunted by the disappearance of his mother when he was eight years old, detective Hud Matthews begins his own investigation…
to find out what really happened so many years before. When a rare murder occurs in the lakeside community, Hud's veteran skills are called upon to capture the killer. Pulled deep into the threads of the community with ties to the past, Hud quickly becomes a target, not only of the killer, but of those who wish the past to be left alone. As Hud gets closer to discovering the truth about the crimes, he has to face a choice of enforcing the law, or stepping outside of it to make sure that his version of justice is served.From the Trade Paperback edition.An Unsettling Crime for Samuel Craddock
By Terry Shames. 2017
When the Jarrett Creek Fire Department is called to douse a blaze on the outskirts of town, they discover a…
grisly scene: five black young people have been murdered. Newly elected Chief of Police Samuel Craddock, just back from a stint in the Air Force, finds himself an outsider in the investigation headed by the Texas Highway Patrol. He takes an immediate dislike to John Sutherland, a racist trooper Craddock's fears are realized when Sutherland arrests Truly Bennett, a young black man whom Craddock knows and respects. Sutherland cites dubious evidence that points to Bennett, and Craddock uncovers facts leading in another direction. When Sutherland refuses to relent, Craddock is faced with a choice that will define him as a lawman--either let the highway patrol have its way, or take on a separate investigation himself. Although his choice to investigate puts both Craddock and his family in danger, he perseveres. In the process, he learns something about himself and the limits of law enforcement in Jarrett Creek.From the Trade Paperback edition.Bulli e pupe
By Madeleine Urban, Abigail Roux, Martina Nealli. 2014
Seguito di Forza e coraggioSerie Armi & bagagli, Libro 3 Gli agenti speciali Ty Grady e Zane Garrett sono finalmente…
riusciti a trovare un equilibrio fra il loro rapporto lavorativo, basato sull'istinto di proteggersi a vicenda, e quello personale, dove invece è una lancinante passione a farla da padrona. Reintegrati al lavoro sul campo, vengono assegnati a una missione speciale: raccogliere informazioni su un traffico internazionale di contrabbando d'arte sostituendosi a due dei membri -- una coppia gay sposata -- per una crociera ai Caraibi. Come dice il loro capo, senz'altro preferiranno darsi qualche bacetto che farsi sparare addosso, no? Calarsi nel ruolo dei due ricchissimi criminali richiede a entrambi un cambio di atteggiamento, nonché una buona dose di pazienza, visto che la missione è basata sull'attesa. Quando le parti che interpretano cominciano a influenzare anche il loro rapporto privato, Ty e Zane capiscono che essere partner non significa soltanto guardarsi le spalle... finché l'indagine non prende una svolta inaspettata e Ty non rischia la vita. I due si ritroveranno quindi a navigare in acque assai tempestose, fra segreti, bugie, e rivelazioni - alcune delle quali decisamente personali.The Secret Place: A Novel (Dublin Murder Squad #5)
By Tana French. 2014
The photo on the card shows a boy who was found murdered, a year ago, on the grounds of a…
girls' boarding school in the leafy suburbs of Dublin. The caption says I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM. Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to get a foot in the door of Dublin's Murder Squad--and one morning, sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey brings him this photo. "The Secret Place," a board where the girls at St. Kilda's School can pin up their secrets anonymously, is normally a mishmash of gossip and covert cruelty, but today someone has used it to reignite the stalled investigation into the murder of handsome, popular Chris Harper. Stephen joins forces with the abrasive Detective Antoinette Conway to find out who and why. But everything they discover leads them back to Holly's close-knit group of friends and their fierce enemies, a rival clique--and to the tangled web of relationships that bound all the girls to Chris Harper. Every step in their direction turns up the pressure. Antoinette Conway is already suspicious of Stephen's links to the Mackey family. St. Kilda's will go a long way to keep murder outside their walls. Holly's father, Detective Frank Mackey, is circling, ready to pounce if any of the new evidence points toward his daughter. And the private underworld of teenage girls can be more mysterious and more dangerous than either of the detectives imagined. The Secret Place is a powerful, haunting exploration of friendship and loyalty, and a gripping addition to the Dublin Murder Squad series.A Sud della Morte
By Tanya Anne Crosby, Emanuele Mattei. 2016
"Suspense, segreti e scandali del Sud serviti come nessun altro!" – Harlan Coben, scrittore e autore del miglior bestseller nella…
classifica del New York Times L'autrice di numerosi bestseller Tanya Anne Crosby ci riporta fra le vaste paludi e le fatiscenti piantagioni di Charleston, dove un terribile omicidio e un nuovo rapimento alimentano i sospetti sulla presenza di un serial killer a piede libero... Augusta Aldridge è convinta dell'innocenza di Ian Patterson, nonostante questi sia stato arrestato per aver ucciso due giovani donne e mutilato i loro cadaveri. Questo perché la notte del delitto lei era in sua compagnia, nascosta all'ombra di un pontile sulla spiaggia e avvinta in un abbraccio selvaggio e passionale con l'uomo il cui pericoloso fascino poteva aver fatto cadere in trappola anche le altre vittime. Dopo aver ritrovato un altro cadavere, la polizia è convinta di trovarsi di fronte a un imitatore, ma Augusta è certa che dietro le sbarre ci sia l'uomo sbagliato, ed è pronta a mettere in gioco la sua reputazione e la sua vita pur di dimostrarlo...I'm Traveling Alone: A Novel (Munch And Krüger Ser. #1)
By Samuel Bjork, Charlotte Barslud. 2015
International bestseller Samuel Bjork makes his US debut, a chilling and fast-paced thriller in which two detectives must hunt down…
a vengeful killer--and uncover the secret that ties each of them to the crimeA six-year-old girl is found in the Norwegian countryside, hanging lifeless from a tree and dressed in strange doll's clothes. Around her neck is a sign that says "I'm traveling alone." A special homicide unit in Oslo re-opens with veteran police investigator Holger Munch at the helm. Holger's first step is to persuade the brilliant but haunted investigator Mia Krüger, who has been living on an isolated island, overcome by memories of her past. When Mia views a photograph of the crime scene and spots the number "1" carved into the dead girl's fingernail, she knows this is only the beginning. Could this killer have something to do with a missing child, abducted six years ago and never found, or with the reclusive religious community hidden in the nearby woods? Mia returns to duty to track down a revenge-driven and ruthlessly intelligent killer. But when Munch's own six-year-old granddaughter goes missing, Mia realizes that the killer's sinister game is personal, and I'm Traveling Alone races to an explosive--and shocking--conclusion.From the Hardcover edition."She was a dangerous girl and people think she'll be a dangerous woman." Nonie Blake is back home from a…
mental institution where she has spent the last twenty years, and people in Jarrett Creek are worried. Maybe too worried, for within a week of her return, Nonie is murdered. Chief Samuel Craddock thinks the only possible suspects are members of her tight-lipped family. Ever since Nonie tried to kill her sister when she was fourteen and was sent away to the institution, the family has kept to itself. Clues are scarce and Craddock is stumped. So he checks with therapists at the mental hospital to see whether they can add anything useful to his investigation. But he discovers that she has not been there for ten years. Now Craddock has to find out where Nonie has been all this time. Soon Craddock finds himself dealing not only with murder, but layers of deception and secrets, and in the midst of it all--a new deputy, one Maria Trevino, sent by the sheriff to beef up security in the small Texas town.From the Trade Paperback edition.Dark Saturday: A Novel (A Frieda Klein Novel #6)
By Nicci French. 2016
Recommended for summer reading by TIME magazineLOUISE PENNY says Nicci French's books are "fabulous." JOSEPH FINDER says they're "in the…
rich vein of Kate Atkinson." And TAMI HOAG calls them "truly unique."Enter the world of NICCI FRENCH with Dark Saturday, an electrifying, sophisticated psychological thriller about past crimes and present dangers, featuring an unforgettable protagonist...A decade ago, 18-year-old Hannah Docherty was arrested for the shocking murder of her family. It was an open-and-shut case, and Hannah has been incarcerated in a secure psychiatric hospital ever since.When psychotherapist Frieda Klein is asked to meet Hannah and give her assessment, she reluctantly agrees. But what she finds horrifies her. Hannah has become a tragic figure, old before her time. And Frieda is haunted by the idea that Hannah might be as much of a victim as her family — that she might, in fact, be innocent.As Hannah's case takes hold of her, Frieda begins to realize that she's up against someone who will go to any lengths to keep the truth from surfacing — even kill again.Utterly compelling and enthralling, Dark Saturday speeds readers down a twisting trail of secrets, suspense, and murder.Ao Sul da Morte
By Tanya Anne Crosby, Lislaine M. Oliveira. 2016
"Crosby serve suspense, segredos e escândalo sulista como ninguém!" - Harlan Coben, primeiro lugar na lista de mais vendidos do…
New York Times Autora na lista de mais vendidos do New York Times, Tanya Anne Crosby retorna aos pântanos fervilhantes e fazendas decadentes de Charleston, onde um sequestro e homicídio horripilante despertam novamente as suspeitas de um assassino em série à solta... Augusta Aldridge acredita na inocência de Ian Patterson, mesmo após ele ter sido preso por matar duas jovens mulheres e mutilar seus cadáveres. Ela estava com ele na noite de um dos crimes, escondida nas sombras debaixo de um píer na praia, presa em um abraço selvagem e descuidado com o homem cujo perigoso fascínio pode ter fatalmente seduzido outras vítimas. Agora que outro corpo foi encontrado, a polícia suspeita de um imitador, mas Augusta tem certeza de que eles estão com o homem errado atrás das grades. Ela vai arriscar sua reputação e a vida para provar isso...Written in Blood
By Layton Green. 2017
A career homicide detective returns to his small hometown and is soon asked to investigate a series of local murders…
with a perverse literary twist.Detective Joe "Preach" Everson, a prison chaplain turned police officer, is coming home. After a decade tracking down killers in Atlanta, and with a reputation as one of the finest homicide detectives in the city, his career derailed when he suffered a mental breakdown during the investigation of a serial killer who was targeting children. No sooner does Preach arrive at home in Creekville, North Carolina--a bohemian community near Chapel Hill--than a local bookstore owner is brutally killed, the first murder in a decade. The only officer with homicide experience, Preach is assigned to the case and makes a shocking discovery: the bookstore owner has been murdered in exactly the same manner as the pawnbroker in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.With the help of Ariana Hale, a law student and bibliophile who knew the victim, Preach investigates the local writer's community. As their questions increase, a second body is found, this time eerily resembling the crime scene in a famous Edgar Allan Poe novella. Preach and Ariana realize that their adversary is an intelligent, literate killer with a mind as devious as it is disturbed. And one or both of them may be his next target.Deadlight (Isis Cassettes)
By Graham Hurley. 2004
'There is no one writing better police procedurals today.' Daily TelegraphA twenty-year-old crime throws DI Joe Faraday into the violent…
legacy of the Falklands War...Freshly promoted to the elite Major Crimes Team, DI Joe Faraday is thrown into the deep end with the investigation into the murder of prison officer Paul Coughlin. Was the violent Coughlin killed by a recently released con he brutalised in prison? Or is his death a legacy of a wider, more savage violence from twenty years before? Coughlin was an ex-petty officer in the Royal Navy. Not much liked, he served on HMS Accolade, a Type 21 frigate sunk during the Falklands war with the loss of 19 men. If Faraday is to solve the murder, he must first penetrate the wall of silence thrown up by the Navy. But as he digs deeper, he uncovers a disturbing connection to a crime that has waited twenty years to be avenged...Why readers love Graham Hurley:'There is no one writing better police procedurals today.' Daily Telegraph'Well-written and plotted, utterly convincing and really exciting... Excellent' Daily Mail'One of the great talents of British police procedurals... every book he delivers is better than the last' Independent on SundayFans of Ian Rankin, Peter James and Peter Robinson will love Graham Hurley:Faraday and Winter1. Turnstone 2. The Take 3. Angels Passing 4. Deadlight 5. Cut to Black 6. Blood and Honey 7. One Under 8. The Price of Darkness 9. No Lovelier Death 10. Beyond Reach 11. Borrowed Light 12. Happy Days Jimmy Suttle1. Western Approaches 2. Touching Distance 3. Sins of the Father 4. The Order of Things * Each Graham Hurley novel can be read as a standalone or in series order *Death Notice: A Novel
By Zhou Haohui, Zac Haluza. 2018
An elite police squad hunts a manipulative mastermind out to publically execute criminals the law cannot reach. A wild thriller…
and deadly game of cat-and-mouse from one of China's most popular authors. For fans of Jo Nesbo, Se7en, and Hong Kong police cinema. The brutal murder of respected police officer Sergeant Zheng Haoming sends shock waves through Chengdu, a modern metropolis in the heart of China's stunning Sichuan province. He had been obsessed by an unsolved, eighteen-year-old murder case until an entity calling itself Eumenides (after the Greek goddess of vengeance and retribution) releases a terrifying manifesto. Is the manifesto a sick joke, or something more sinister? Soon, the public starts nominating worthy targets for Eumenides to kill, and, two days later, Sergeant Zheng is dead. Eumenides' cunning game is only getting started. The police receive a "death notice," a chilling note announcing the killer's next target, the crimes they have committed, and the date of their execution. The note is both a challenge and a taunt to the police. When the first victim dies in public, under their complete protection, the police are left stunned. More death notices are coming. The chase is on. Death Notice is an explosive, page-turning thriller filtered through a vibrant cultural lens. Zhou Haohui expertly adds an exhilarating new perspective to the twists and tropes of the genre all fans love, making for a uniquely propulsive and entertaining read.Meurtres dans la communauté gay
By John Simpson, Laura Brohan, Kiéran Logan. 2017
Une communauté ciblée, tome 1Un tueur en série a pris pour cible la communauté homosexuelle, s’attaquant à eux dans les…
bars populaires et les parcs. Assigné à cette affaire, la nouvelle recrue Pat Saint James se sent un peu trop proche des victimes. Il est gay, mais aucun de ses collègues ne le sait. Le fait qu’on lui demande de réaliser une mission d’infiltration en se faisant passer pour un homoseuel ne manque pas d’ironie. Pat et son collègue, Hank, passent leurs soirées dans les bars afin d’obtenir des informations sur le tueur. Parallèlement, Pat est à la recherche de l’homme parfait et jongle entre trois hommes, espérant trouver le partenaire idéal. Il a rencontré Bill dans un bar, Dean est un ami de longue date… et autre ironie du sort : Hank, son partenaire, est également gay et sur la liste de ses prétendants. Comme le tueur continue à sévir, étranglant et violant ses victimes, Pat doit se concentrer sur son travail en espérant que sa vie personnelle survive à ce train de vie complètement dingue. Mais quand ses espoirs de trouver le bonheur et l’enquête se chevauchent, Pat pourrait bien foncer droit vers les problèmes.Der Einbruch in der Royal Street
By Scotty Cade, Jutta Grobleben. 2004
Buch 1 in der Serie - Die SpürnasenAls wertvolle Kunstwerke aus einer beliebten Galerie in New Orleans gestohlen werden, wollen…
der NOPD Lead Detective Montgomery „Beau“ Bissonet und sein Partner den Fall lösen. Als Tollison Cruz von der Versicherungsgesellschaft der Galerie zum Big Easy geschickt wird, um unabhängige Ermittlungen durchzuführen, prallen Persönlichkeiten aufeinander und Fronten tun sich auf. Der Einbruch wird schnell zu einem politisch hochkarätigen Fall und Detective Bissonet rast vor Wut, als ihm befohlen wird, mit Ermittler Cruz zusammenzuarbeiten, um eine zügige Verhaftung zu erreichen. Die Temperatur zwischen ihnen erreicht neue Höhen, als die beiden erkennen, dass sie mehr gemeinsam haben, als ursprünglich angenommen. Nachdem die Spannung zwischen ihnen für den Moment gelöst ist, können Bissonet und Cruz endlich zusammenarbeiten, auf mehr als nur einem professionellen Level. Aber alles kommt zum Stillstand, als Beau herausfindet, dass sein zeitweiliger Partner Informationen zurückhält, die den Fall betreffen, und eine sehr zweifelhafte Vergangenheit verschwiegen hat. Was als Nächstes passiert, stellt selbst die sengende Sommerhitze in den Schatten.Dig Your Grave
By Steven Cooper. 2018
Detective Alex Mills turns to psychic Gus Parker to help him solve a series of baffling murders perpetrated by a…
deranged killer who leaves his victims' bodies and taunting clues in the cemeteries of Phoenix, AZ.A killer is on the loose, leaving fresh bodies among the dead in Phoenix cemeteries, and marking the murders with ghoulish signs that warn of more evil to come. It's a crude camouflage that has Detective Alex Mills stumped. As he has done before, Mills turns to his buddy, the reluctant psychic Gus Parker. His visions, as cryptic and baffling as they sometimes are, mean something.But just as the investigation heats up, and Mills needs him most, Gus Parker receives ominous threats from a mysterious source. Is this a crazed fan who is trying to get to Gus's love interest, rock-and-roll legend Billie Welch? Or are these threats related to the spree of cemetery killings? There are nefarious secrets hiding in the shadows of the valley's most well-heeled neighborhoods, and some of the most prominent residents have the most to fear.Exit-Strategie – Ein Wirtschafts-Thriller mit Katerina Carter (Wirtschafts-Thriller mit Katerina Carter #1)
By Colleen Cross, Kay-Viktor Stegemann. 2018
Diamanten, Mord und verschwundene Milliarden – ein Wirtschafts-Thriller mit Katerina Carter Wirtschaftsermittlerin Katerina Carter weiß einfach nicht, wann sie besser…
die Finger von einer Sache lassen sollte. Kein Wunder, dass sie immer wieder in chaotische und gefährliche Situationen gerät. Jetzt ist sie arbeitslos und praktisch pleite, also braucht sie neue Klienten, oder sie muss bei ihrer alten Firma wieder um einen Job betteln. Das ist für Kat schlimmer als der Gedanke an ihre Schulden. Als die Vorstandsvorsitzende der Liberty-Diamantenminen, Susan Sullivan, Kat beauftragt, den verschwundenen Liberty-Finanzvorstand und eine große Summe unterschlagener Dollars wiederzufinden, ist Kat deshalb fast zu begierig auf den Job. Ein leeres Konto motiviert sehr, auch schwierige Fälle zu übernehmen. Dann aber werden zwei Mitarbeiter der Firma brutal ermordet, und aus Kats Eifer wird bald schon Entsetzen. Ihr wird klar, dass ihre Ermittlungen gefährlicher sind als erwartet. Und als ob das noch nicht kompliziert genug wäre, deckt sie bei ihrer Arbeit eine Verbindung zwischen Blutdiamanten und dem organisierten Verbrechen auf. Sie muss nur noch die nötigen Beweise beschaffen – und dabei vermeiden, umgebracht zu werden. Ein paar Freunde und ein exzentrischer Onkel sind ihre einzigen Verbündeten, und Kat muss sich vorsehen, dass ihr erster großer Fall nicht auch zu ihrem letzten wird ... Exit-Strategie ist ein packender Wirtschafts-Thriller in der Tradition von Michael Connelly und John Grisham. Alle Bücher der Serie sind voneinander unabhängig und können in beliebiger Reihenfolge gelesen werden.J.D. Robb In Death Collection (In Death #21-25)
By J. D. Robb. 2011
In this collection including books 21-25 in J. D. Robb's #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series, the incomparable…
Eve Dallas—a hard-shelled homicide detective whose logical mind, fierce heart, and brilliant police work in a futuristic New York City have attracted millions of fans—takes on five unforgettable cases...Sea of Cortez (A Detective Lane Mystery #10)
By Garry Ryan. 2018
After a series of assassinations rocks Calgary’s underworld, Detective Lane is conscripted along with his husband Arthur into working undercover…
to seek out links in the Mexico - Canada drug connection and stop the violence.As tensions mount back in Canada and outright war on the streets seems imminent, the laconic detective and his allies must use some unorthodox tactics to avert disaster in the Gulf of California and dismantle the cartel.Hushed in Death: An Inspector Lamb Mystery
By Stephen Kelly. 2018
In the third volume of the Inspector Lamb mystery series, a murder at a hospital for veterans in rural England…
leaves Lamb with a village full of suspects, each with a motive and secrets of their own. In the spring of 1942, with the war in Europe raging, a gruesome murder shocks the rural community of Marbury, where a once-grand estate called Elton House has been transformed into a hospital for “shell-shocked” officers sent back from the front lines. When Detective Chief Inspector Lamb arrives to solve the case, he quickly learns that the victim, Elton House's gardener Joseph Lee, had plenty of enemies in Marbury—and so he and his team have plenty of suspects. Along with his team of investigators, which includes his daughter Vera, Lamb begins to untangle the threads of rivalry and deceit that lie beneath the surface of the seemingly-peaceful countryside village. It soon becomes clear that Lee’s mysterious past is intertwined with the history of Elton House itself, which fell into disrepair a generation earlier after a shockingly similar murder, and the mystery deepens further when Lamb discovers that one of the prime suspects has seemingly committed suicide. As Lamb pieces together the connections between the crimes of the present and those of the past, he must dive into the darkest, most secret corners of Elton House to discover who is committing murder, and why.Night Dogs (Mulholland Classic)
By Kent Anderson. 1998
Acclaimed crime writer Kent Anderson's "fiercely authentic and deeply disturbing" police novel, following a Vietnam veteran turned cop on the…
meanest streets of 1970s Portland, Oregon (Los Angeles Times).Two kinds of cops find their way to Portland's North Precinct: those who are sent there for punishment, and those who come for the action. Officer Hanson is the second kind, a veteran who survived the war in Vietnam only to decide he wanted to keep fighting at home. Hanson is good at war, and he follows his own code of justice.But Hanson can't outrun his memories of another, warmer battleground. His past threatens his future now: an enemy in the department is determined to unearth the darkest agonies of his war record. When another piece of his past surfaces, Hanson decides to risk his career, his sanity--even his life--for honor.