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Elvis Cole is hired to find a woman who’s disappeared, a seemingly ordinary case, until he learns the missing woman is an explosives expert and worked for a Defense Department contractor. Meanwhile, LAPD K-9 Officer Scott James and his patrol dog, Maggie, track a fugitive to a house filled with explosives - and a dead body. As the two cases intertwine, they all find themselves up against shadowy arms dealers and corrupt officials, and the very woman they promised to save may be the cause of their own deaths.

Stubbornness has landed private eye V.I. Warshawski in big trouble at her Chicago office. With her grand old Loop building set to be razed, she's become a hold-out tenant amid frayed wiring and scary, empty corridors. Then she finds a homeless woman with three kids in the basement, and before she can rescue them, they disappear. Worst of all, she's been implicated in a murder - after the body of Deirdre Messenger, a prominent lawyer's wife, turns up sprawled across her desk.

Other than the bullet lodged less than a centimeter from his heart, former Detroit police officer Alex McKnight thought he had put the nightmare of his partner’s death and his own near-fatal injury behind him. After all, Maximilian Rose, convicted of the crimes has been locked in the state pen for years. But in the small town of Paradise, Michigan, where McKnight has traded his badge for a cozy cabin in the woods, a murderer with Rose’s unmistakable trademarks appears to be back to his killing ways.

Anthony Award-winning author William Kent Krueger crafts this riveting tale about a small Minnesota town’s ex-sheriff who is having trouble retiring his badge. Cork O’Connor loses his job after being blamed for a tragedy on the local Anishinaabe Indian reservation. But he must set aside his personal demons when a young boy goes missing on the same day a judge commits suicide—and no one but O’Connor suspects foul play.

When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days - as he has done before - and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realises. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published it would ruin lives - so there are a lot of people who might want to silence him.

January 1910. A journalist has been killed in a suspicious blaze. Everything points to a group of suffragettes, but the apparent culprit insists she is innocent. When Lady Hardcastle receives a letter from a suffragette requesting her urgent help, the retired spy turned sleuth knows only she stands between an accused young woman and the gallows. Evidence at the scene makes Lizzie Worrel’s innocence difficult to believe, and with the police treating it as an open-and-shut case of arson, Lady Hardcastle faces a barrage of resistance as she tries to dig out the truth.

William Kenward, directeur adjoint de la police du Surrey, enquête sur la disparition de l'auteure de romans policiers la plus en vogue de son temps : Agatha Christie. Son véhicule a été retrouvé abandonné dans le Newlands Corner. L'affaire est un puzzle, baignée dans l'imagination de cette femme portée disparue, camouflée derrière l'hypocrisie de son mari et d'autres personnages mystérieux. Agatha Christie devient un fantôme, une obsession pour Kenward dont l'enquête commence à prendre une tournure personnelle.

Hiram Gottschalk, owner of the Palm Beach shop Parrots Unlimited, fears for his life. First, he finds a photo of himself and his deceased wife slashed to ribbons; then, a Mass card with his name on it is taped inside of his closet door; now, someone has wrung the neck of his beloved pet bird. In desperation, he turns to McNally & Son for a private investigation. McNally meets with Gottschalk, along with his client's cursing parrot.

Quiet, gentle, young Faustina Crayle is dismissed from her teaching position at Brereton School for Girls after just a few weeks. She is given no explanation, but it’s clear certain staff and pupils fear her. Her friend and fellow teacher Gisela contacts psychologist and sleuth Dr Basil Willing who offers to investigate these outlandish claims. But this only confirms two damning facts – first, that this happened at a previous school and, second, people believe there are two sides to enigmatic Faustina.

Die Sherlock Holmes Box 17 beinhaltet die Hörspiele "Gottes Mühlen", "Der zehnte Earl", "Die Spuren auf der Treppe" und "Mr. Marburys Hände".

Sherlock Holmes und Doktor Watson versuchen das Rätsel um den Untergang der Titanic im Jahr 1912 zu lösen. Dabei lernen sie Überlebende des Unglücks kennen, darunter den Kopf einer gefährlichen Verschwörung. Ihm ist die Frau auf den Fersen, die Holmes schon einmal hinters Licht geführt hat: Irene Adler, die Frau im Leben des großen Detektivs. Zwischen Holmes und Irene Adler entbrennt erneut ein erbitterter Kampf.

TÖDLICHE SCHÖNHEIT: Die junge Oberösterreicherin Luisa nimmt einen Termin in einem tschechischen Beautystudio wahr, und kehrt nie mehr nach Hause zurück. 14 Monate später wird sie perfekt gestylt im Eisstockteich der tief verschneiten Mühlviertler Gemeinde Au gefunden. Mit einem einzigen Schönheitsfehler: Sie ist tot. Es mag etwas pietätlos klingen, aber hätte es Luisa nicht gegeben, wäre im beschaulichen Au noch alles beim Alten: Eine Schriftstellerin würde Historienromane schreiben, während sich ihr Kater Dru hauptberuflich durch das Vogelprogramm des Lokalsenders zappt.

As a former police officer and a psychic detective, Max Summerlin and Jonah Kendrick may not be the most conventional business partners. But together, they have years of investigative experience, and opening Celina Investigations feels like a natural decision. When a man walks into their office searching for his missing girlfriend without a past or even a name, Max and Jonah realize their newest client may present their hardest challenge yet. Their first task: find out why he refuses to go to the police.

They say nothing compares to striking gold… well, that person was never pregnant with twins and launching a PI business! Join all the usual suspects in gold country as Kate and Vicente Domingo take a romp in his old town, Golden,…oh–and a dead body or two are sure to appear! Can Kate solve her most dangerous case before the killer strikes again?

When British investigative reporter Ralph Buchanan is sent to Pakistan, he figures his best days are behind him. But he's about to embark on a story that will change his life forever. In the Punjab region, Dr Simone Jasnin listens to an abused woman's harrowing story just before she dies. Afra's tale of sadistic cruelty is an all too common one in the region, but Dr Jasnin is determined not to let Afra's story die with her—and she goes to Buchanan for help exposing the injustice. Seven years later, members of a prominent Pakistani family are being brutally murdered, one by one.

To Do: 1. Buy diapers (double as many as I think necessary). 2. Plan Laurie's one-year birthday party. 3. Rest. 4. Do NOT get involved in another mystery… 5. Okay…solve said mystery before twins are born!

Im märchenhaften Kamelienpark in Locarno wird eine kopflose Leiche gefunden. Commissaria Roberta Casanova erkennt in dem Toten einen alten Bekannten: Marco della Valle, den Leiter der Wellnessoase, die zwei Jahre zuvor Schauplatz eines Mordes war. Die Commissaria vermutet einen Zusammenhang mit dem ersten Mordfall, tappt aber zunächst im Dunkeln. Marco della Valle hat ein sehr zurückgezogenes Leben geführt - und offenbar ein Geheimnis gehütet. Wurde er etwa von Schatten aus seiner Vergangenheit eingeholt?

Im malerischen Romantikhotel "Zum Räuberherz" laufen die Vorbereitungen für die Traumhochzeit von Frederik von Thalheim und Constanze Engelhard auf Hochtouren. Doch die Idylle trügt. Nur wenige Tage vor der Trauung wird eine Leiche im hoteleigenen Rosengarten entdeckt. Während die Hochzeitsgesellschaft in Aufregung und Schock versetzt wird, wittert die Rentnerin Anneliese einen nächsten Fall. Loni, ihre engste Vertraute ist sich da noch nicht so sicher. Handelt es sich überhaupt um einen Mord? Oder war es vielleicht doch ein Unfall?

The Bell vibrated with a low, guttural tone—too deep for the ear, but heavy in the ribs. It wasn’t ringing. It was gathering. Calloway turned as Graves and Thorne crossed the threshold. Her eyes didn’t show fear—just fatigue sharpened by defiance. Calloway (dryly): Took you long enough. Graves (already at her wrists): Traffic was hell. Her shackles were lined with symbols—sacramental, but wrong. Graves worked the lock with a practiced flick. Thorne: We stopping a ritual or robbing a bank? Graves: With these bastards, it’s the same thing. Click.

When a zombie infection begins to spread around town, anyone with half a brain would stay indoors. Right? But Toby, a dog with a brain the size of a small planet, has been summoned to assist a Yorkshire terrier friend whose owner appears to be the source of the outbreak. Toby can’t turn his back on an old mate, even if that means putting his own favorite human at risk of infection.