Crime Thrillers

She's looking for the perfect man. He's looking for the perfect victim.

The violent slaughter of the Primrose family while they slept shocked the nation. Their young live-in chef, Bill Kareama, was swiftly charged with murder and brought to justice. But the brutal crime scarred the idyllic town of Cambridge forever.

Barrington University is home of the Lords, a secret society that requires their blood in payment. They are above all—the most powerful men in the world. They devote their lives to violence in exchange for power. And during their senior year, they are offered a chosen one....

A body is found on a quiet lane in Exmoor, victim of a hit and run....

The first three crime thrillers in the Detective Sebastian Clifford series together in a single collection for the first time. This collection includes Web of Lies, Speak No Evil, and Never Too Late....

Detective Lauren Pengelly has only been part of the Penzance police force for less than two years, but that’s enough time to know that the sleepy Cornish town doesn’t see many murders....

When Detective Kim Stone is woken before dawn because local journalist Tracy Frost wants to show her a message, she’s not impressed. But her blood turns cold when she reads the note. She has 36 hours to follow a trail set by an anonymous challenger.

While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement. Until the day the police arrived at their front door.

When the bonds of brotherhood are strained, who do you turn to? The celebration of the Viking Festival of Scira ensures that thousands descend on the small coastal town of Sheringham, but when one man dies amidst the grand finale, it falls to DI Tom Janssen to identify the victim....

When a body turns up in a golf course bunker, covered in blood and sand, DS Vicky Dodds must switch from her usual Dundee patch to search for a murderer in her home town of Carnoustie.

DS Lucas Walker is on leave in his hometown, Caloodie, looking after his dying grandmother. When two young German backpackers vanish from the area on their way to a ranch, he finds himself unofficially on the case....

As DS Lucas Walker recovers from his injuries, he heads from Caloodie, Queensland, to the Gold Coast....

Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey in these definitive BBC radio dramatisations of Dorothy L. Sayers' best-selling novels....

Bristol detective DS George Cross, champion of the outsider, the voiceless and the dispossessed. DS George Cross can be rude, difficult and awkward with people. But his unfailing logic and dogged pursuit of the truth means his conviction rate is the best on the force....

When a woman plunges to her death from Edinburgh's iconic Scott Monument, crime reporter Doug McGregor is sent to chase the story behind the shock.

D.I. Duncan McAdam is dispatched home to the Misty Isle. A body has been found buried in a remote location on the Waternish peninsula. Well-preserved in the peat, Isla Matheson—missing for the better part of two decades—is revealed to a shocked island community....

Detective Sebastian Clifford and his partner Lucinda "Birdie" Bird are about to embark on their most challenging case yet when Lady Angelica Charing tasks them with finding the son she secretly gave away when she was only sixteen.

From BookTok sensation J.T. Geissinger comes Ruthless Creatures, a scorchingly hot mafia romance about two people bound together by a debt that must be collected. No matter the cost.

When the chief suspect in the notorious "peekaboo cop killer" case blew himself up, almost taking lead investigator DCI Duncan Bone with him, the psychologically damaged detective thought his days on the force were over....

Stepping into the dark cave just a short distance from the safety of her college friends, the blonde-haired girl immediately senses danger. A tall figure steps out of the shadows, and she knows there’s no time to run…

DCI Craig Gillard will be pushed to his limits. But will he break? It seems like a routine disappearance, a case of musician’s stage fright....

Ex-Police Scotland detective Bob Hoon has made himself some powerful enemies. Following his brutal search for the missing daughter of an old army colleague, Hoon is being hunted by the Loop....

When the remains of a brutally murdered young woman are left hanging from the Glenfinnan Monument in the Highlands of Scotland, DCI Jack Logan and his Major Investigations team are dispatched to investigate. At first, the case appears to be fairly open and shut....

Former soldier. Ex-copper. Current man on the edge. Shunned by his old colleagues, and dividing his time between a dead-end job and the bottom of a whisky bottle, former Police Scotland detective superintendent Bob Hoon’s life is a mess....

A chilly morning mist blankets the Cornish countryside, shrouding the barn in an eerie silence. Inside, a woman lies motionless, her unseeing eyes fixed on the rafters above. A blood-stained note flutters in the breeze. Her death is only the beginning…

While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement. Until the day the police arrived at their front door. Decades later, Nora's father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence. Nobody knows her father was a notorious serial killer. And she intends to keep it that way. `Then Nora discovers one of her young female patients has been murdered. In the same unique and horrific manner that her father used to kill his victims.

Quando riceve una telefonata dalla sua ex compagna di università Gabby, che la invita a trascorrere il Natale nella sua casa sul lago in una sperduta località della Scozia, Sasha sa che sarebbe meglio non accettare. Dodici anni prima, mentre festeggiava la Vigilia di Natale con le cinque persone a lei più care, era accaduto un fatto orribile che aveva cambiato per sempre la loro amicizia. E da allora Sasha non ne ha più parlato con nessuno.

Picho, voiced by the sagacious Harvey Guillén, serves as our guide through the intricate tapestry of frauds woven by his intimidating con man of a father, Pietro La Greca, played with captivating charm by the one and only Peter Stormare. Pietro, our suave protagonist, moves from one con to another, finally running Mexico’s biggest money-laundering scheme during the worst economic period in the country’s history.

Cuando ya creía estar habituada a convivir con esa carga en su conciencia, una llamada telefónica vuelve a sacudir su vida. Se trata de su amiga Gabby Shard, la anfitriona de aquella fiesta, que doce años después pretende reunir a todos los asistentes para pasar página de aquella terrible noche, cuando tenían veintitrés años y se preparaban para el futuro prometedor que se abría ante ellos después de la universidad.

Psycho-Thriller-Fans aufgepasst! Gemeinsam mit Deutschlands erfolgreichstem Autor Sebastian Fitzek bringt Audible seine Meilenstein-Bestseller als völlig neue Hörerfahrung heraus. Überarbeitet von den besten Hörspiel-Dramaturgen, besetzt mit einem atemberaubenden Cast und begleitet von einem vollen Orchester-Soundtrack, dringt die Spannung intensiver ins Ohr als je zuvor - dieses Mal mit der sehr eindringlichen Hörspiel-Version von einem der unheimlichsten Thriller von Sebastian Fitzek: Der Heimweg.

On a midsummer's night, a stolen car packed with teenagers crashes at high speed on the southern edge of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. DI Jan Talantire arrives at the scene to find the victims of the crash. It appears to be a tragic accident until a worried mother turns up at the scene of the accident. Her daughter, Rhiannon, a friend of the joyriders, hasn't been seen since the previous night. The account dovetails with the statement of the householder who claimed to see a girl running near the crashed vehicle the moment he emerged.

On a winding cliff edge on the wild Irish coast, two cars collide. In one is Maura Claffey’s niece, Finn, and her baby daughter. In the other, Kathryn with her own newborn—and her own secrets. Both women survive, but one of the girls does not. In the aftermath, bruised and heavily medicated, both women struggle to come to terms with what happened that day.

È una bella giornata di sole a Cambridge, Massachusetts, ed è anche il compleanno di Kay Scarpetta, che sta per partire per una vacanza a Miami con il marito Benton Wesley. Mentre è nel patio di casa sua a controllare la brace del barbecue, Kay nota sette centesimi di rame disposti in fila sul muro del giardino. Si tratta forse di un gioco di bambini? Ma se così fosse, come mai quelle monetine sono tutte datate 1981 e risplendono come se fossero state appena coniate?

If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson the day before, or the day after, he would not have been arrested and charged with the murder of his best friend. And when the four prosecution witnesses are a barrister, a popular actor, an aristocrat and the youngest partner in an established firm's history, who is going to believe his side of the story. Danny is sentenced to 22 years and is sent to Belmarsh prison, the highest security jail in the land, from where no inmate has ever escaped. But everyone has underestimated Danny's determination to seek revenge.

Every morning, I sit at the same table of my favourite café, sip my cappuccino, and watch them. The woman has no idea I’m watching, day after day, unravelling the secrets of her life. I see the way she smiles when he arrives, how she glances over her shoulder… like someone who is hiding something. She thinks she’s in control, but has no idea I’m on to them… I know a lot more about the man. For a start, he’s not who he pretends to be – his lies are as plain as the nose on your face. There’s more to this story than meets the eye, a lot more than I’ll ever let on.

Han tror att hans hemlighet är säker. Men hon vet sanningen... Min man är läkare. Han är smart och charmig, och alla litar på honom. Alla utom jag. Vid första anblicken kan det verka som om jag har allt: det perfekta äktenskapet, den perfekta mannen, det perfekta livet. Men det är långt ifrån sanningen. Drew Devlin är inte den ansevärda person han utger sig för. Anledningen till att vi flyttade till det här vackra, gamla huset med utsikt över havet, var att vi behövde en nystart, lämna vårt förflutna bakom oss.

Eine Mordserie an der Ostsee: der neue spannende Thriller von Bestsellerautor Elias Haller. Das Foto einer schrecklich zugerichteten Frauenleiche wird zusammen mit einer kryptischen Botschaft auf Instagram gepostet. Hardy Finkel, der nach zwanzig Jahren beim BKA in die Ostseeregion zurückgekehrt ist, wird gleich am ersten Arbeitstag zusammen mit seiner neuen Partnerin Greta Silber mit diesem grausamen Fall betraut. Als ein weiteres Opfer auftaucht und dadurch der Ermittlungsdruck steigt, stoßen Hardy und Greta auf weitere Puzzleteile. Bald wird klar, dass sie einen perfiden Gegner jagen.

After his twin brother's imprisonment for murder, DI Fraser Brodie has devoted his life to catching the very worst criminals of the Hebrides. When a local mechanic is found dead and mutilated, Brodie is on the search for a murderer. But then more bodies start turning up, and it doesn't take long for Brodie to conclude he has a serial killer on his hands. The investigation isn't proving so easy to crack, and when he discovers the missing link between the victims has connections to his own past, the race is on to find the culprit before more damage is done...

"Wenn man den Pfad der Vergeltung beschreitet, soll man zwei Gräber ausheben."(Konfuzius) Jules Lefèvre ist Lehrer an der Public École im normannischen Lion-sur-Mer. Jules und seine Frau Malin genießen das Familienglück mit der kleinen Tochter Lilou. Doch dann zwingt ein Burn-out Jules, sich zu Hause einzuigeln. Die Genesung verläuft schwierig, denn seine Wahrnehmung ist getrübt. Er ist psychisch instabil und paranoid.Auch als ihm Paul Moreau, der Rektor seiner Schule, einen Besuch abstattet, misstraut Jules dessen Freundlichkeit und Hilfsbereitschaft.

Stanley Harper war einst einer der gefürchtetsten Männer der gesamten USA. Monatelang versetzte er das Land - und die reichsten der Reichen - in Angst und Schrecken. Er machte es sich zur Aufgabe, Machtmissbrauch und Korruption in einem kaputten System zu bekämpfen und ermordete mehr als zwanzig Menschen, bevor er vom FBI geschnappt wurde. Doch zuvor tötete Harper die Frau des leitenden Agenten John Greyson. Fünf Jahre nach der Festnahme entgeht Stanley Harper seiner Hinrichtung. Er entkommt und macht sich zurück auf den Weg nach Washington D.C.

Der zweite Fall des unkonventionellen Ermittlerpaars Nicolas Eichborn und Helen Wagner – eine rasante Story mit wahrem Hintergrund. In Deutschland werden ...

What began as a weekend fishing trip, turns into the fight of his life when lawyer Ben Carter finds a young boy alone on the side of a road in upstate New York. Quickly linking the boy to a murder scene more than a hundred miles away, the pair travel to nearby Pittsburgh, where a mystery thrusts them both into the fight of their lives.

Ein perfekt codierter Tresor, ein meisterhafter Rätsellöser, ein skrupelloser Psychopath - und nur einer kann gewinnen. Das renommierte Rätselgenie Mike Brink wird vom japanischen Kaiser persönlich eingeladen, nach Tokio zu kommen und dort am großen Wettbewerb um die Lösung der sagenumwobenen Drachen-Rätselbox teilzunehmen. Was diese enthält, ist ein Mysterium, aber es ist gewiss von unschätzbarem Wert.

Polo Nord. Anna Aune, ex soldato delle forze speciali, si unisce a una missione scientifica isolata nel gelo artico. Durante la notte di Ognissanti, un razzo di segnalazione proveniente da una base di ricerca squarcia l'oscurità. Anna e il professor Zakariassen sono costretti a intervenire. Quello che trovano è terrificante: i corpi congelati di alcuni scienziati, uccisi da qualcuno che si nasconde tra i ghiacci. Una tempesta di neve incombe, escludendo ogni possibilità di fuga. Intrappolata nella base, Anna dovrà scoprire chi è il killer prima che colpisca di nuovo.

It's been years since Zoe last saw them – since they graduated, drifted apart, and lost touch. Years since Zoe ended things with Dan because the memories were too painful to bear. Years since that night – the night an unexpected death shattered their close-knit group of friends. Now, Zoe is invited to Scotland for a wedding – a grand affair at a manor house on a remote island. Apprehensive about the reunion, she hopes the long drive with Lily will help ease her nerves. But things are far from simple.

Catherine Cross is the most successful female televangelist in the country. Her congregation in the western suburbs of Orlando is one of the wealthiest. She's comfortable and charismatic in front of a camera, but when her youngest daughter goes missing not even she is ready for the media firestorm that follows.

A decade after leaving prison, Shea Stevens has put her criminal past in her rearview. But when someone abducts her eight-year-old niece, the tough-as-nails ex-con doesn't trust the police to find her. Instead, Shea forms an uneasy alliance with her estranged family’s drug-dealing biker gang to locate the missing girl and rain hell on those who took her. But the motorcycle club's violence and treachery only puts Shea and her niece in further danger.

As a limousine does a drive-by shooting, was this literal “shotgun wedding” real… for everyone? Or was a celebrity stalker outsmarted by her bodyguard? It’s another ‘street fight on a chessboard’ as Major Shields hires courtroom war king Miles Turner. It’s a staring contest into a ‘mirror with hallucinations.’ Was the victim, Mr. Wright, really right about a secret love affair? Was the bodyguard really shooting his ‘competition?’ Do reflections change in the only homeless eye-witness? And will this mirror reveal even more as The Jury Whisperer employs her most dangerous legal strategy?

Crimson Tide is a thrilling crime drama that weaves together murder, corruption, and personal redemption. As Sam races to solve the mystery, he faces the ultimate question: can he stop the tide of blood from overtaking Harbor Point, or will the dark waters claim him too?

For over a decade, Detective Ethan Cole has been haunted by the Faceless Man, a cunning and elusive killer who has left a trail of bodies across the city without leaving a shred of evidence. Known for his precision and complete anonymity, the Faceless Man has become a ghost story among the police force—a terrifying legend whose name strikes fear into even the most seasoned detectives. But Ethan knows the Faceless Man is all too real.