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Veteran scriptwriter Vincent McInerney draws on his lifelong knowledge of Liverpool and his background in the Merchant Marine in these engaging thrillers, in which the gruff, indomitable John Crust and his sidekick Minty probe the circumstances surrounding a missing husband, a stolen sculpture and a hidden treasure.

Officer Walter O'Brien is called to a murder scene on his first night with Detroit PD. A terrified young woman has bludgeoned her attacker with shocking skill. She is also a brilliant escape artist. Her flight from police custody makes the case impossible to solve—and, for Walter, impossible to forget. His fascination with the missing, grey-eyed woman approaches obsession. And when Walter discovers that he's not alone in his search, only one thing is certain. The string of murders didn't begin in his home city—but he's going to make sure it ends there.

The world thinks that Jacob Shepherd can speak to the dead. He can’t. For years, he has gotten by through deception and intuition. When hired to clear a country estate of angry spirits, Jacob sees it as a great opportunity for a much-needed getaway with his six-year old daughter Grace. But relaxation turns to terror as Jacob and Grace are pulled into a web of lies, betrayal, murder, and very angry ghosts.

You might think that a guy with the name of Steve Jobz would be one lucky man. That he'd be rich and have the world at his fingertips. But instead, Jobz is barely making ends meet at the New York State Department of Unemployment Insurance Fraud. A former cop who was forced to retire early after shooting a young man of color during a convenience store holdup, Jobz has since resigned himself to wasting away his days in a four-by-four cubicle inside an office space that's more boring than watching the paint dry.

Wie kann eine Person an mehreren Orten zugleich sein? Im Reihen-Auftakt "Im Auge des Zebras" von Bestsellerautor Vincent Kliesch muss Kommissarin Olivia Holzmann einen Fall lösen, den es gar nicht geben kann. Was physikalisch vollkommen unmöglich ist, geschieht in ganz Deutschland: Überall werden Teenager entführt, die Eltern kurz darauf ermordet. Und allen Beweisen nach wurden die Taten zur selben Zeit und von derselben Person verübt! Kommissarin Olivia Holzmann vom LKA Berlin tappt im Dunkeln und weiß nur, dass den Jugendlichen die Zeit davonläuft.

Mörderische Schnitzeljagd in Berlin - Fall 2 für Kommissar Severin Boesherz. Im 2. Boesherz-Thriller von Bestseller-Autor Vincent Kliesch (u. a. Auris) wird der geniale Kommissar von den dunkelsten Seiten seiner Vergangenheit eingeholt. 16 Jahre ist es her, dass Kommissar Severin Boesherz versagt hat: Den bizarr inszenierten Mord an einem Arzt, der in seiner eigenen Praxis ausgeweidet wurde, konnte er nie aufklären. Bis heute verfolgt ihn die Frage, was er übersehen hat.

Drei Morde in vier Tagen - Fall 1 für Kommissar Severin Boesherz! "Bis in den Tod hinein" ist der erste harte Thriller mit dem genialen Kommissar Boesherz von Bestseller-Autor Vincent Kliesch. Berlin wird von einem selbsternannten Racheengel terrorisiert: Ein polizeibekannter Brandstifter, der bei lebendigem Leib in einem Auto verbrennt, ist bereits das dritte Opfer innerhalb von nur vier Tagen.

When a local teenager discovers a severed hand and foot washed up on the shore of the small town of Point Mettier, Alaska, Cara Kennedy is on the case. A detective from Anchorage, she has her own motives for investigating the possible murder in this isolated place, which can be accessed only by a tunnel. After a blizzard causes the tunnel to close indefinitely, Cara is stuck among the odd and suspicious residents of the town—all 205 of whom live in the same high-rise building and are as icy as the weather.

On a frigid February day, Anchorage Detective Cara Kennedy stands by the graves of her husband and son, watching as their caskets are raised from the earth. It feels sacrilegious, but she has no choice. Aaron and Dylan disappeared on a hike a year ago, their bones eventually found and buried. But shocking clues have emerged that foul play was involved, potentially connecting them to a string of other deaths and disappearances.

The Ghosts of Overlook Manor cannot rest in peace. Their history is filled with love, betrayal, disappearance, and murder. They roam the halls of their ancestral home in an endless pursuit of justice. When Jenessa inherits the house from an unknown relative, she is immediately thrust into this family's secret affairs, working to unravel a blood-soaked mystery that could help the souls of the departed find their peace, or trap her for all eternity in their ghostly hell.

Detective Mickey Rourke is called to a late night homicide in Queens, New York. The scene resembles a slaughterhouse. The sole victim had been torn apart. A distraught elderly neighbor informs Rourke that the victim was a serial killer—the victim? She then asks the NYPD detective to look "behind the walls" of the apartment. What is found within sickens a shocked and petrified populace.

What really happens to the 'lost children' of this world, and what really goes on in the mind of a serial killer? Nemesis links a young psychic girl’s vision to a paedophile serial killer’s seven young victims and her efforts to identify the murderer to a young woman police officer before a total mental collapse. The killer remains at large; the horror ceases, but for how long?

Kurz vor seiner Pensionierung wird Vincent Romero noch ein letzter Fall zugeteilt: In der Frankfurter Innenstadt werden die Leichen von zwei jungen Frauen aufgefunden, welche auf besonders brutale Art und Weise getötet wurden. Gemeinsam mit seiner Kollegin Antoinette muss Romero in die digitale Welt der Frankfurter Chat-Szene eintauchen, um diesen Fall aufzuklären.

"True Stories" is one of Vincent Zandri's most anthologized short stories. Based on the true story of Zandri having tackled and apprehended a car thief who was rampaging through his upstate New York neighborhood, this literary thriller begins with a 'seed of truth' around which grow invented circumstances - the result being a clever mesh of truth and creation.

Matthias Hegel est un expert phonéticien et le meilleur profileur audio d'Allemagne. Il est capable de créer un profil psychologique et visuel des personnes en décodant uniquement les sons, les bruits, les dialectes et les couleurs de voix. C'est grâce à lui que certains des criminels parmi les plus dangereux d'Allemagne ont été condamnés. Des maîtres chanteurs, des preneurs d'otages, des assassins, pour lesquels les enquêteurs ne disposaient souvent que de courts enregistrements audio. Hegel est un personnage fascinant, charismatique, difficile à comprendre.

Victor Landis est shérif dans une petite ville de Géorgie. C'est un homme solitaire, qui a voué son existence au travail. Pour toute famille, il ne lui reste que son frère, Frank, avec qui il a partagé une enfance misérable avant qu'une brouille ne les sépare. Lorsque Frank est retrouvé mort dans des circonstances étranges, Victor décide de se rendre dans le comté de Dade, près de la frontière avec le Tennessee, afin d'en savoir plus.

Matthias Hegel est un expert phonéticien et le meilleur profileur audio d'Allemagne. Il est capable de créer un profil psychologique et visuel des personnes en décodant uniquement les sons, les bruits, les dialectes et les couleurs de voix. C'est grâce à lui que certains des criminels parmi les plus dangereux d'Allemagne ont été condamnés. Des maîtres chanteurs, des preneurs d'otages, des assassins, pour lesquels les enquêteurs ne disposaient souvent que de courts enregistrements audio. Hegel est un personnage fascinant, charismatique, difficile à comprendre.

After being summarily thrown out of the DEA Task Force, Office Patrick MacKenna finds himself once again pushing a marked police car around on street patrol in the city of Syracuse, New York. The middle-aged cop is reevaluating his law enforcement career while solely taking care of his three children when he receives a call from the captain of the new Abused Persons Unit asking him to come on board. Mac deliberately passed on a transfer request to APU—but now he has a feeling that if he doesn’t take the captain up on her offer, he may never get back to wearing a gold shield again.