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Two teenagers go missing on the same day. Just a coincidence? They are from very different backgrounds: Yasmin is the talented, grammar-school-educated daughter of devout Muslim professionals. Ricky disappears after storming out of his council house after an argument with his mum's latest boyfriend. The press is convinced Yasmin's disappearance is a racially motivated abduction. Her family has been the target of a far-right group. But DI Mariner soon discovers Yasmin is far from the innocent victim her parents think she is. 

Island, am abgelegenen Fjord Hvalfjörður: An einem Winterabend klopft ein Nachbar am Haus der Familie Hvarf, die seit einer Woche nicht mehr gesehen wurde. Als niemand ihm öffnet, dringt er durch die Hintertür ins Haus ein, wo sich ihm ein grauenvoll blutiger Anblick bietet, Mutter und Töchter wurden mit einer Axt erschlagen. Polizist Týr, seine Kollegin Karó und die Gerichtsmedizinerin Iðunn werden an diesen Tatort gerufen, um das Verbrechen zu untersuchen.

‘J.D. Barker is a one-of-a-kind writer and that’s a rare and special thing. Stephen King comes to mind and Lee Child, John Sanford. All one-of-a-kinds. Don’t miss anything J.D. writes.’ James Patterson Murder. It’s a family affair. In the midst of one of the worst winters Chicago has...

From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Never before in audio, these vintage stories are the darkest of the dark, and the best of the best.

Crime fiction fans old and new will delight in rediscovering these taut, character-rich, heart-stopping tales, now on audio for the first time.

È il 6 gennaio del '69 e molti italiani si preparano a vedere la "finalissima" di una delle trasmissioni più popolari e seguite, Canzonissima. Anche il commissario Bordelli si siede davanti al televisore per godersi la serata, ma una telefonata della questura lo strappa dalla poltrona e lo costringe a uscire di casa: una ragazza è stata uccisa, proprio mentre andava in onda la sigla... zum zum zum zuuum zum. Da quel momento le giornate del commissario si complicano, altri misteri dovranno essere risolti.

In an African convent, four nuns and an unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered, and the death of the unknown woman is covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two strange murders with an elusive connection to the fifth woman.

Die 15-jährige Ámbar lebt zwischen einsamen Landstraßen und heruntergekommenen Motels. An der Seite ihres Vaters Víctor Mondragón, einem gefährlichen Gangster, ist sie Gewalt und Kriminalität gewöhnt. Doch je tiefer sie in die Welt und die Vergangenheit ihres Vaters eintaucht, desto mehr Zweifel kommen ihr.

Il destino ha riunito un eterogeneo gruppo di viaggiatori sul lussuoso battello da crociera Karnak, in navigazione sul Nilo. Tra di essi la personalità dominante è senz'altro rappresentata dall'affascinante Linnet Ridgeway, la ragazza più ricca d'Inghilterra, abituata a essere sempre al centro dell'attenzione. Attorno a lei gravitano un fidanzato respinto e diversi accaniti ammiratori che se ne contendono i favori. Ciascuno dei personaggi ha però una sua storia e un suo segreto da custodire, accuratamente nascosto sotto un'inappuntabile facciata di rispettabilità e di perbenismo.

In Ostia, a depressed coastal settlement twenty miles from the powerful and corrupt city of Rome, a mighty local crime family, the Mafia, corrupt politicians, and new rabid criminal elements battle each other for a billion-dollar payoff. During the final days of Silvio Berlusconi's reign, a...

Alexandra, Lucy, Bridget, River e Natalie: cinque amici londinesi che preferirebbero non essersi mai incontrati. Perché l'unica cosa che hanno in comune è la cosa peggiore della loro vita: sono tutti perseguitati da uno stalker. Quando Natalie viene uccisa pochi giorni dopo l'uscita di prigione del suo ex fidanzato, il tempo si ferma per tutti. Sanno che le loro vite potrebbero finire in modo altrettanto brutale da un momento all'altro. Il giorno del funerale, attoniti, gli amici ricevono una corona funebre contenente una minaccia anonima: tra dieci giorni uno di loro morirà.

Brought to you by Penguin. For Arthur Rowe the charity fête was a trip back to childhood, to innocence, a welcome chance to escape the terror of the Blitz, to forget twenty years of his past and a murder. Then he guesses the weight of the cake, and from that moment on he's a hunted man, the...

Twenty years ago Charlie Deravin's mother went missing near the family beach shack—believed murdered; body never found. His father has lived under a cloud of suspicion ever since. Now Charlie's back living in the shack in Menlo Beach, on disciplinary leave from his job with the police sex-crimes unit, and permanent leave from his marriage. After two decades worrying away at the mystery of his mother's disappearance, he's run out of leads. Then the skeletal remains of two people are found in the excavation of a new building site—and the past comes crashing in on Charlie.

A gripping standalone thriller from the Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author of the Logan McRae series. Beware of the dark… Welcome to the Misfit Mob – where Police Scotland dumps the officers it can’t get rid of, but wants to. Officers like DC Callum MacGregor, lumbered with all the...

It's 1955. Two young couples move to the uninhabited, isolated fjord of Hedinsfjordur. Their stay ends abruptly when one of the women meets her death in mysterious circumstances. The case is never solved. Fifty years later an old photograph comes to light, and it becomes clear that the couple may not have been alone on the fjord after all....

The absurdly outrageous, sarcastically satiric, and always entertaining New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore returns in finest madcap form with this zany noir set on the mean streets of post-World War II San Francisco, and featuring a diverse cast of characters, including a...

Name's Kane, Kate Kane. I'm a paranormal private investigator, which is like a normal private investigator except - and stop me if you're having trouble following this - more paranormal. This business comes with a few basic rules: don't start drinking before noon, don't get your partner killed, don't sleep with the woman who killed him. Last year I broke all of them.

A victim killed with a single, precise stab to the heart appears at first glance to be a robbery gone wrong. A caring, upstanding social worker lost to a senseless act of violence. But for Detective Kim Stone, something doesn't add up. When a local drug addict is found murdered with an identical wound, Kim knows instinctively that she is dealing with the same killer. But with nothing to link the two victims except the cold, calculated nature of their death, this could be her most difficult case yet.

Adventuress Countess Alessandra Zorzi has a new vocation: reacquiring the occult artifacts she stole to put into the safer hands of Miskatonic University. With her new apprentice, Pepper Kelly, Zorzi tracks the infamous Zanthu Tablets to Paris. But the city is rife with spies and the countess has many enemies. When Pepper is kidnapped, it becomes clear that someone is out for revenge. Zorzi must rescue her apprentice, find the tablets, and prevent an old enemy from summoning an army of vengeful ghouls from the depths of the catacombs. Stealing relics is a lot harder the second time around.

Mataura is a small town in rural New Zealand where, apart from the odd tractor theft, nothing very interesting happens. But when the body of a young mother is found washed up on the banks of the Mataura River, the small rural community is rocked by her tragic suicide. All is not what it seems, however. Sam Shephard, sole-charge police constable in the town, soon discovers the death was no suicide and has to face the realisation that there is a killer in town. To complicate the situation, the murdered woman was the wife of Sam's former lover.

Una giornata d'inverno, un paesino isolato dalla neve, in mezzo alla desolazione della brughiera vicino a Dartmoor e alla sua famigerata prigione. A Sittaford House la signora Willett, che dal Sudafrica è venuta a passare la stagione invernale in questa remota località del Devon insieme alla figlia Violet, tiene salotto, come sempre. Per passare il pomeriggio, gli ospiti decidono di fare una seduta spiritica. Ma quello che doveva essere un gioco si trasforma in un incubo.