Police procedural Books

A remote island community starts its new life. A dead body leads to locked doors and closed mouths. Can Macleod and McGrath find the killer hell bent on destroying paradise?Leaving behind the city of Inverness, DC Ross travel to the fledgling paradise of...

A burglary, a murder, and a killer who wears a maskA woman is found dead in her bed, badly beaten. Precious items are missing from the house, including a Fender Stratocaster guitar belonging to her husband. Was it just a burglary gone wrong?Perhaps...

The dark side of the internet comes to disturb a sleepy Northern townDavid Hunter and his wife are found dead in a small Yorkshire village. The apparent victims of a hit and run. They led successful and quiet lives, so police are stumped when looking for...

A hypnotically good murder mystery... read this and you'll be spellbound!DI Stewart Gardener is adding the final touches to his motorbike restoration project when a murder case drops a spanner in the works.A man has stumbled upon his...

"Mommy, wake-up," he cries, pulling at her beautiful blonde hair. She's silent, and her skin is deathly white. Tears roll down his cheeks as he realizes something is very wrong... As snow falls on the small town of Lost Creek, Colorado, a...

The early morning light illuminates the girl's ivory skin. Little cuts are carved into her cheeks-one under each eye. But her body is still. The perfectly round wound above her heart has stopped it beating forever... When Detective Casey White is...

Nicht vergeben. Nicht vergessen. Als ein hingebungsvoller Familienvater ermordet und seine Leiche gut für seine Familie sichtbar auf einem Feld gefunden wird, beginnt für Detective Robyn Carter ein neuer, entsetzlicher Fall. Gerade als Robyn mit...

Our darkest secrets are best left buried...When a local journalist is found dead in an isolated spot on Roydon Common, lying beneath a hangman's noose on the anniversary of a teenager's suicide, DI Tom Janssen is asked to take on the investigation as a...

Our darkest secrets are best left buried...When a local journalist is found dead in an isolated spot on Roydon Common, lying beneath a hangman's noose on the anniversary of a teenager's suicide, DI Tom Janssen is asked to take on the investigation as a...

Meet Belinda Penshurst. Castle owner, dog lover... crime solver? Belinda Penshurst loves her home village Little Challham, with its shady lanes, two pubs and weekly market, and she's determined to keep it peaceful. She may live in Challham Castle...

She didn't see the patch of black ice until it was too late. The car started to spin, and as it veered off into the deep ditch and the mounds of snow beside the road, she saw him. The little boy frozen in the ice. When the remains of two bodies are...

The beautiful young woman's long black hair clings to her face like seaweed. As Nadine turns the body, she prays this will be different: but seeing the wounds, her prayers go unanswered. It's just like the others. An exact match to her mother's victims...

Her chestnut hair, long and shiny, fanned around her head, moving gently in the wind. Her eyes, still open, stared at the back door, and her hand stretched out in a pleading gesture. Her lips, pale under the rosy lip gloss, were parted slightly as if to...

From award-winning author Eliot Parker comes the gripping story of a cop who must fight to protect a city and his family from a dangerous new drug threatening to rip the city apart.When off-duty Charleston police sergeant Ronan McCullough responds to the...

When FBI Special Agent Frank Jankowski goes undercover at Isabelle Anderson's Brownstone on E. 83rd, he thinks he's the one calling the shots. Isabelle knows she is. As Isabelle's butler, Ronnie Charles is privy to all her schemes-knowledge that will...

Gangsters and hoodlums prey upon people's weaknesses for a quick buck in an era that saw few bucks to spare, making criminals of everyday folks in the rural Great Depression. In a place as wild as the West ever was, during the heyday of the badmen and...

How do you stop a killer you can't even see?It's been two years since Detective Marissa Ambrose nearly lost her life working the Couple's Killer case, but time hasn't stopped the vivid nightmares. She still carries the heavy guilt of her partner's death,...

<i> "We have a dead child, and a crime scene that has been remarkably well kept for us."</i> <br><br>A young child lies mummified in a barrel. His hands, cable-tied, appear to be locked in prayer. As forensic officers remove the...

With her special abilities, top LAPD Robbery-Homicide detective Calamity Jane Randall thought she knew all about interrogation until she was partnered with detective Ray Pagan. Wielding a suspect’s vocal intonations, emotions, and physical gestures...

A Portland socialite is found dead at the bottom of the stairs of her N.E. Alameda Street mansion under suspicious circumstances. Was Charlene Davies murdered or was it just a simple, albeit tragic, accident.With each chapter, Detective Bill Karb and...

When the body of young Ben Harris is found after a Colorado snowstorm, Detective Nick Severs is drawn into a missing child case that went cold twenty years ago. As he and his hacker girlfriend Claire begin the investigation, every dark turn takes them...

In the desert landscape of northern Baja, a vacation turns deadly when a family man is brutally murdered on the peaceful pickleball courts of San Amaro. Detective Sergeant Julia Garcia is thrust into a web of lies, deceit, and hidden motives. As the...

A group of women gather at a fertility clinic, where Dr. Margherita Dumas offers a revolutionary treatment for their infertility problems. A year later, each of them gives birth to a healthy baby boy.Thirty years later, a killer begins to wipe out the...

When a monk is found poisoned at St. Emma's Priory, the Chief Constable - a friend of the Prior - insists that Andy Ross and his team handle the investigation.The case turns out to be more complex than they first thought. After a second victim is found...

In the Small town of Finchley, upstate New York, three bodies are discovered in an old mine. Soon after, Sheriff Doug Harrison contacts the FBI for help.Ronin Nash is an ex-FBI special agent who wanted nothing more than to finish restoring the old family...

In una dormiente, storica città dell'Iowa, la stagione turistica è in pieno svolgimento, e il più strano dei serial killer che il mondo abbia mai conosciuto vaga a suo piacimento. Inizia tutto con l'esplosione di una casa, un uomo severamente...

Heads roll. Corpses dance. People will believe what they want to believe.After Sister Winfrede, leader of the second violins in the famous Nun's Orchestra in Portsmouth, is found decapitated, both the police and the MI5 are called in to investigate.More...

Wer mit dem Feuer spielt, wird sich verbrennen …Der zweite Fall für Gusenberg und Schröder wird noch gefährlicherGusenberg ist nach seinem spektakulären letzten Fall wieder im Dienst. Das nächste Verbrechen auf seinem...

In the early 1980s, a stranger by the name of Kenny Collins moves to Down East Maine—a place rooted in the traditions of those who were born and bred there, and meets Mary Bagley, a woman who knows all too well the insidious nature of certain...

A blood-soaked stranger. A cryptic alias. Time slipping away...Detective Inspector Robbie Chilcott faces the ultimate test when a half-naked man is discovered wandering a desolate country road, his body soaked with the blood of another. The man's...

A cop targets those who shatter the innocence of the young in this novel by the author of The Magpie, finalist for the Lindisfarne Prize for Crime Fiction.DSI Billie Wilde is back at work after a shocking case that saw her life thrown into utter turmoil...

What is justice? If the police and the legal system failed you, how far would you go to make things right?A serial killer is burning people alive in London. But these are no random murders - there is a method in the madness. Ten years ago, events were...

In this sophisticated novel of suspense, a killer with a taste for literature lurks in the shadows of Oxford University . . .After a student is found decapitated in the cupola of the Sheldonian Theatre and a cryptic note in an unknown...

She wakes surrounded by an inky black darkness and can barely breathe. A sack is covering her head, and her hands are tied behind her back. She desperately tries to struggle free as she hears footsteps walking toward her. She silently starts to cry as a...

Guardando la sua amica trascinata via in manette, Josie non riuscì a credere nemmeno per un secondo che Gretchen avesse ucciso quel povero ragazzo. Confessione o no, qualcun altro era coinvolto. Avrebbe scoperto chi... Quando il corpo di un giovane...

After a policeman is shot dead, DCI John Blizzard seizes a chance to settle old scoresWhen a high-profile detective on a reality TV cop show is killed, John Blizzard fancies old-school gangster Nathaniel Callaghan for the crime.With the aging boss's...

A female serial killer with a deadly agenda. The detective who must stop her. Luxury holiday lodges in the stunning Peak District. The game begins . . .Callum is lured to an isolated boathouse by an attractive older woman. When she gets him alone, she...

Please note this was previously published as Deadly Waters.The head mistress of a Portsmouth school is found brutally murdered on an old structure in the middle of Langstone Harbour. Detective Andy Horton of Portsmouth CID leads the investigation.A note...

Please note this was previously published as Dead Man's Wharf.Detective Inspector Andy Horton has a lot on his plate.A celebrity receives threatening phone calls.A nursing home resident assaulted.A man found in a pit with several of his fingers...