Police Procedurals

When the body of a celebrity author, recently returned to the Isle of Skye seemingly to live out his remaining days, is found on Staffin Beach, D.I. Duncan McAdam is left with a mystery to solve.

Fear stalks familiar ground. Acting DCI Rob Marshall is back in the Borders with a permanent promotion dangled in front of him – but storm clouds are gathering, with his new boss eyeing cutting Marshall’s Major Investigation Team.

A brand new Nikki Galena mystery where echoes from the past haunt the twistiest, most complex investigation of her career.

Are you ready for another darkly thrilling case for DCI Harry Grimm and the team?

The Josephine Tey Collection includes unabridged recordings of all 6 of the novels in the Inspector Alan Grant series....

Newly minted homicide detective Nell Buchanan returns to her home town, annoyed at being assigned a decades-old murder — a 'file and forget'. But this is no ordinary cold case, as the discovery of more bodies triggers a chain of escalating events in the present day.

Kids can be so cruel. They'll call you names. Hurt your feelings. Push you to your death....

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....

Three gripping crime fiction thrillers featuring DCI Whitney Walker and forensic psychologist Dr. Georgina Cavendish: Deadly Games, Fatal Justice, and Death Track....

A dog walker finds a human bone on lonely Salisbury Plain. DCI Mackenzie Jones investigates the grisly discovery but cannot explain how it ended up there. She contacts disgraced ex-detective Atticus Priest and the two of them trace the bone to a graveyard in a nearby village....

Fear prickles her skin. “Noah?” Photos and trinkets from their simple but perfect life together litter the carpet. The coffee table is cracked, blood along its edges. She should be taking in details, but her heart is racing too fast. A strangled cry works its way from Josie’s chest.

Early one morning, DI Clare Mackay receives a message from her boss, DCI Alastair Gibson, telling her to meet him in secret. She does as he asks and is taken to a secure location in the remote Scottish hills....

Following a convention in the Scottish Highlands, eight social media influencers vanish without a trace, leaving their followers–and families–in a state of shock, and the police clueless as to their whereabouts.

A young woman's body is found in a remote barn on the Fens. Before she was killed, one of her fingers had been cut off. Who is inflicting this violence and why? Find out....

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

When a badly mutilated body washes up on the shores of Loch Ness, DCI Jack Logan's dream of a quiet life in the Highlands is shattered. While the media speculates wildly about monster attacks, Jack and the Major Investigations Team must act fast to catch the killer....

This set contains books seven to nine in the gripping, fast-paced crime fiction series featuring DCI Whitney Walker and forensic psychologist Dr. Georgina Cavendish: Ritual Demise, Mortal Remains, and Silent Graves....

Community service clean-up was supposed to be a tedious affair. But, when a young offender stumbles upon a bin bag filled with human remains, a quiet Highland village is thrown into chaos.

When the body of Leanne Wilson is found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, it is classified as a tragic accident. There is no evidence to suggest otherwise.

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....

When another resident of the Rosemary House care home is found dead in her chair one Saturday evening, no one is very surprised - not until the results of a routine post-mortem....

Detective Anna Travis is called out to a motorway service station on the M1, where the body of a young girl has been found in a nearby ditch....

Crimebusting duo DI Jackman and DS Evans are back, solving another crime that will make your skin crawl....

A band of vigilante executioners roam London's hot summer nights, abducting evil men and hanging them....

When a teenage islander goes missing on Burns Night, D.I. Duncan McAdam takes a strong interest despite the apparent lack of concern shown by the boy's father....

Als im Jahr 2018 die 26-jährige Rechtsanwaltsgehilfin Hanna Richter als vermisst gemeldet wird, können am Tatort 13 Blutspuren gesichert werden. Zwölf davon werden dem Opfer zugeordnet, doch die 13. Probe – ein einzelner Blutstropfen – bringt die Ermittlungsarbeiten an einem bislang ungelösten Fall wieder in Bewegung. Über drei Jahrzehnte erstrecken sich grausame Todesfälle, deren Spuren immer wieder an einen Ort führen: NORDEN an der niederländischen Grenze. Auch Hannas Verschwinden scheint auf unheimliche Weise mit den Verbrechen in Verbindung zu stehen.

1925. Elspeth Valentine dreams of leaving Strathallyn Station to pursue an equestrian career in England. Instead, a fateful decision ties her to World War I veteran Thomas Delaney, setting off a series of events that ripple through generations. Present day. When policewoman Bec Whitfield accepts a transfer to Bowen River in remote Northern Queensland, she braces for a challenging return to her hometown and the strained relationship with her father.

In the comfortable English Dorsetshire village of Anneypenny in the 1930s, fruit farmer Douglas Sewell–narrator of the story–sees his friend John die in agony. The death certificate states gastric ulcers but the post mortem’s revealing of poison punctures Anneypenny’s idyllic backdrop. Soon every friend and neighbour seems to harbour something suspicious. Douglas challenges his readers, or listeners, to answer the key questions before throwing out several scenarios and turning them upside-down in a tantalising path to the truth.

A murdered journalist was working on exposing the dark and sinister side of a cult led by a charismatic individual who Drake identifies as being their prime suspect. But the dead man’s private life isn’t what it appears to be, and soon the detectives identify other persons of interest.

Een reeks dodelijke branden en de daaropvolgende gruwelijke moord op twee baby’s in houden Quebec in zijn greep. De branden en moorden lijken verband te houden met een sinistere groep sekteleden, en forensisch antropoloog Temperance Brennan is vastbesloten om de waarheid achter de doden te achterhalen. Terwijl ze dieper in het onderzoek duikt nemen ook de risico's toe... Brennan moet al haar vaardigheden en expertise gebruiken om de zaak op te lossen en de moordenaars voor het gerecht te brengen. Dr. Temperance Brennan wordt gespeeld door Emily Deschanel in de tv-serie 'Bones'.

Grieving the death of his former lover, all Mariner wants is some peace and quiet. But his walking holiday is ruined by the discovery of a body in the woods. The remote stone farmhouses of this beautiful valley hide many buried secrets. As more bodies are discovered, can Mariner clear his name and avoid becoming the next victim?

A deadly, unstable shooter. A trap Malcolm and Seong-Jae can't escape. And more than one life on the line as they find themselves facing down one of the Golden Ratio Killer's proxies in a high-stakes hostage situation that could ramp up the serial murderer's mathematical body counts exponentially. And if Malcolm and Seong-Jae aren't careful, they'll be among the tally.

Plagued by the unsolvable murder that ruined his glowing career, a burnt-out detective is cruising through his final weeks until retirement. Until he is hand-picked to be part of a taskforce investigating old, unsolved murders. Hand-picked because the very killer he failed to catch is still out there. Can he finally get the closure he deserves?

Expert on body language and memory, and consultant to the Oslo Police, psychologist Kari Voss sleepwalks through her days, and, by night, continues the devastating search for her young son, who disappeared on his birthday, seven years earlier. Still grieving for her dead husband and trying to pull together the pieces of her life, she is thrust into a shocking local investigation, when two teenage girls are violently murdered in a family summer home.

On prom night, Caroline Winterfield walked away from the ruins of an abandoned mansion called Haven Cliff and into the woods…never to be seen again. Only her three best friends know what really happened. But a secret is a secret, and a promise is a promise—even when it shatters lifelong friendships. On the twenty-fifth anniversary of that night, Midge, Kelly, and Talia reunite at Haven Cliff, now a gleaming architectural jewel. But they aren’t alone. Someone is watching.

The Problem of Cell 13 is a short story by Jacques Futrelle. It was first published in 1905 and later collected in The Thinking Machine (1907), which was featured in crime writer H. R. F. Keating's list of the 100 best crime and mystery books ever published. Like Futrelle's other short stories, The Problem of Cell 13 features Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen as the main character, although most of the story is seen through the perspective of a prison warden.

First Ben Safford Political Murder revolving around FDA approval of a long lasting egg process.

Ein Leichenfund in einem Sommerhaus in Rørvig. Zwei Geschwister sind brutal ermordet worden. Der Verdacht fällt auf eine Gruppe junger Schüler eines exklusiven Privatinternats, die für ihre Gewaltorgien bekannt sind. Einer von ihnen gesteht. Zwanzig Jahre später. Nachdem Carl Mørck aus dem Urlaub zurückkommt, stößt ihn sein Assistent Assad mit der Nase auf die verstaubte Rørvig-Akte. Doch von oberster Stelle werden ihnen weitere Ermittlungen verboten.

Ein brutaler Serienmörder. Ein todkranker Kommissar. Eine Stadt, die von einer Sintflut bedroht ist. Der Polizist Noah Scott ist herzkrank und weiß, dass seine Lebenszeit begrenzt ist. Doch er ist besessen davon, das Rätsel um den Serienmörder Bible John zu lösen, der Ende der 60er-Jahre junge Frauen tötete und nie gefasst wurde. Jetzt, im Jahr 1983, folgt Noah einer neuen Spur, die ihn nach Bilbao führt. Er weiß, dass sich der Mörder hier versteckt hält und durchforstet die Stadt, deren herbe Schönheit ihn gefangen nimmt, bis sich eine Jahrhundertflut ankündigt, die alles zu verschlingen droht.

Es una calurosa noche de julio en Madrid cuando dos hombres son destripados y lanzados al vacío desde un puente de la M30 en lo que parece un siniestro ajuste de cuentas entre clanes. Sus vísceras aterrizan sobre un descapotable que termina hundiéndose en el Manzanares con sus ocupantes, tres chicas que volvían de fiesta. Una de ellas fallece en el acto: es la hija pequeña del comisario, quien exige a sus agentes respuestas rápidas y poco ruido en los medios.

Alto, magro, capelli rossi, occhi nocciola e ciglia lunghe, Hamish Macbeth sembra (e forse è) pigro, sembra (ma forse non è) confuso, sembra (e forse è) poco ambizioso, più interessato a restare nel suo villaggio con cani, pecore e galline che a fare carriera nella polizia. E infatti Hamish sta già pregustando le delizie dell’estate nelle Highlands, quando l’amata Priscilla ritorna a Lochdubh con un nuovo fidanzato e allora iniziano i guai, che si intensificano allorché nubi di moscerini invadono il paese.

Nella macchina del commissario Ponzetti è stato abbandonato un bambino sordomuto, ma nessuno si fa avanti per reclamarlo. Intanto, un’eccezionale piena...

A killer with a signature, a city on edge, and detectives racing against time. For three years, the 'Rose Slayer' has haunted Los Angeles, leaving behind a chilling pattern: middle-aged women, living alone with their cats, executed with a single shot, a red rose left as a macabre calling card. But when the seventh victim is found with her fingers severed and her laptop missing, Detectives Bill Pawson and Sean Wells realize the killer is evolving—and the stakes are higher than ever. Their investigation takes an unexpected turn when all the victims are linked to a popular online book community.

Zwei Fälle für die schwedische Kommissarin Sara Vallén in einem Hörbuch. Puppenopfer (früher Weißer Flieder): Im Park der schwedischen Universitätsstadt Lundholm wird ein junges Mädchen brutal vergewaltigt, verprügelt und halb tot in einem Gebüsch zurückgelassen. Polizeikommissarin Sara Vallén wird mit dem Fall beauftragt – doch nur kurze Zeit später wird er ihr wieder entzogen, als ein schrecklicher Verdacht die Runde macht: Ihr eigener Sohn Johannes soll für den bestialischen Überfall verantwortlich sein!

Zwei gefährliche Schwestern, ein Waisenhaus voller Geheimnisse und eine Ermittlerin, die nie aufgibt: ein Fall für Idun Lind! Elvira verschwand vor drei Jahren spurlos aus einem Kinderheim. Dann stürzt sie bei einer Trauung vom Kirchturm in den Tod. Hat die junge Frau sich das Leben genommen, oder wurde sie ermordet? Kommissarin Idun Lind beginnt mit ihrem Partner Calle Brand im Kinderheim zu ermitteln, wo sich ein verstörendes psychologisches Porträt von Elvira abzeichnet. Da findet Idun heraus, dass erst vor wenigen Monaten noch ein Mädchen aus dem Heim verschwand.

Spring 1941. It is the third year of war, and when the siren sounds the people of Cambridge trudge to the city's public bomb shelters. Crowded, smoky, often raucous, the shelters have become a way of life for the poor. At dawn the body of a young man is found in a shadowy corner of the Trinity Shelter, one of three on the city's great open space—Parker's Piece. Detective Inspector Eden Brooke searches the body and finds no wallet or papers, save for a cinema ticket dated six months earlier.

Amid the confusion and mounting horror, Detective Claire Porter arrived, a steady anchor in the storm of uncertainty. She was known for her meticulous attention to detail and an almost uncanny intuition for hidden clues. Her reputation had been forged through relentless truth-seeking a quality that often unraveled the most intricate deceptions. Claire entered the factory showroom with quiet confidence. Dressed in a tailored navy suit, she moved with the purposeful stride of a seasoned investigator.

Ein heißer Sommer in Norwegen. Beim Blumengießen bemerkt Studentin Sonja einen Schatten im Haus der verreisten Nachbarn. Sie schöpft Verdacht und ruft die Polizei. Als die junge Polizistin Snø dem Hinweis nachgeht, scheint in dem idyllischen Viertel alles mit rechten Dingen zuzugehen. Aber ein ungutes Gefühl bleibt. Snø will noch einmal mit Sonja sprechen, doch die ist spurlos verschwunden. Wurde sie Zeugin eines Verbrechens und nun zum Schweigen gebracht? Oder weisen die zahlreichen Vermisstenfälle der letzten Monate auf einen Serientäter hin?

FBI Special Agent Emily Slate is no stranger to tragedy. After losing her husband three months ago, then botching the biggest case of her career, she’s barely escaped a full suspension. Determined to get her life back on track or die trying, she takes a seemingly impossible case in hopes she can turn her fortunes around. But as Emily arrives in the small Virginia mountain town and dives into the mystery, she discovers the remains of a woman, buried, with her eyes sewn shut.

Haunted by her brother's brutal murder, FBI Agent Sidney Stone races against time to unravel a chilling wave of child abductions that mirror her own traumatic past, pushing her to the brink of sanity as she confronts both ruthless criminals and her own demons. FBI Agent Sidney Stone has dedicated her life to the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, determined to prevent others from suffering the same fate as her kid brother, Ben. They were abducted when she was 16 and he seven. He was killed while she was let go.