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The decomposed remains of a body are found entombed in the depths of a disused Manchester cotton mill. Detective Rachel King is called in to investigate the grisly discovery.With gunshot wounds to the knees, this was no accident. This was murder. But the...

Secrets, lies, bodies. Nothing stays buried forever . . .It starts on an abandoned campsite in Norfolk.Developers unearth a human skeleton. The remains of an eighteen-year-old girl.Robina Scanlon - a blast from the past that shocks Detective Tom Mariner...

Please note this was previously published as The Suffocating Sea.One foggy December night, Detective Inspector Andy Horton is called to the site of a burning boat on Horsea Marina. He finds a charred body onboard.The autopsy reveals startling...

Palm trees, white sandy beaches and a perfect turquoise sea. Jamaica's Montego Bay might just be paradise. If people didn't keep getting murdered.Detective Preddy hoped for a quiet start to the new year. But there's a murder at Sugar Rush Beach. A man is...

Palm trees, white sandy beaches and a perfect turquoise sea. Jamaica's Montego Bay might just be paradise. If people didn't keep getting murdered.The beautiful Caribbean Sea laps lazily against the verandah where Jamaican Supreme Court Judge Everton...

Meet Detective Inspector Andy Horton. It's his second day back in Portsmouth's CID and things aren't going well.Please note this was previously published as Tide of Death.DI Andy Horton is on his morning run along an isolated stretch of beach when he...

FROM #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR JOY ELLIS, A TOTALLY ABSORBING CRIME THRILLER FULL OF STUNNING TWISTS AND TURNS. YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO PUT IT DOWN.Discover the author who's sold over two million books globally.When everyone is sleeping, he comes into their...

FROM TWO-MILLION-SELLING AUTHOR JOY ELLIS COMES ONE OF THE MOST HIGHLY ANTICIPATED MYSTERIES THIS YEAR.Now.In the beautiful gardens of Shelley House a shocking discovery is made. A blackened hand dangles over the side of a wheelbarrow. The horrific scent...

His mentor slain. A detective out for revenge. A criminal mastermind always one step ahead.Detective Rob Miller is at home with his crying newborn son when he gets the news. Retired Chief Superintendent Sam Lawrence, Rob's friend and mentor, has been...

A two-month-old baby is missing. James's parents left him with a babysitter while they went out for dinner. But when they get home, there's no sign of baby or sitter.This is the last thing DCI Rachel King wants to hear on her last night of maternity...

A man is found dead in his bed, suffocated, covered in confetti and with his ring finger missing. Detective Rachel King informs his daughter and takes her to identify the body. But she's never seen the man before in her life.Then a second murder. This...

From the award-winning author of Hearts of the Missing and the Nicky Matthew Mysteries seriesTHE THIRD WARRIORAncient prophecies and murderWhen Fire-Sky Pueblo Police Sergeant Nicky Matthews is guided by an eerie spirit to the body of a missing...

Detective Sam Lawson heads to Martha's Vineyard for another entertaining and suspenseful page-turner. He had hoped his impromptu trip the island would be a chance to take some time off and rekindle his relationship with Carla Davenport. But when a...

Billy "Two Bears" Simpson is a member of the St. Paul Police Force. He is of mixed race, half Dakota Sioux and half White. He has been raised in the White community, but still has ties with the Mdewakanton Dakota Reservation.Kelly Stewart is Billy's...

A homicide surfaces on the outskirts of Santa Fe and blindsides newlyweds Detective Rick Romero and Jemimah Hodge, derailing their honeymoon plans and putting their married life on hold. Romero's preliminary investigation reveals that this...

Chicago Police Officer Pete Shannon's life is about to take a dramatic turn. His wife has a dark secret that she's about to reveal to him; his partner's life is about to be in jeopardy, and worst of all one of his own colleagues will present him with...

In their gripping eighth mystery, Kincaid and Jones investigate murder and racial tensions in 1960s Notting Hill.

Young Linda Gomez is thrilled when she graduates from the police academy and is assigned to Precinct 105 in the Cicero District of Chicago. Partnered with the chauvinistic and unkindly Officer Walker, Linda will soon learn how dangerous a police...

The search for a cure for multiple sclerosis begins as a noble quest, but quickly degenerates into greed: the insatiable hunger for more and more money, backed by murder. The executive/researcher whose dreams have become corrupted, learns that the...

The Scarlet Rider is a novel written by Bertha Runkle and first published in 1913. The story is set in the American West during the late 19th century, and follows the life of a young woman named Mary Ogden who is forced to flee her home after her father...

They died heart to heart, chest to chest.Detective Kovelant, haunted by the fiery death of two women, investigates why Chloe Bisset, mother and wife, swerved last-second into oncoming traffic. What drove her to this impulse?L'appel du vide, he soon...

Three books from the Det. Lt. Nick Storie MysteriesTrigger Happy/Strange FishTwo more that were too long for shorts, but too short for booksWrong NumberBe careful what you put on autodial. Nick is called because of the numbers on a missing person's phone...

Introducing Det. Lt. Nick Storie, Homicide and some of the continuing charactersPeople are dying who shopped at Watson's Market for produce. Is it because of a psycho – or to get rid of specific persons?

McNamara's on the hunt again. An apparent suicide leads the detective to a terrorist plot. What will he do when his lady's life is on the line?

Four mystery novels in one collection! Join detective Joe Phillips and banker Maryanne Larkin as they team up to solve four financially motivated murders in their hometown on the Florida Panhandle. Was it suicide—or murder? Who was smuggling drugs?...

Three book in the Det. Li. Nick Storie series.Dead Men Don't DreamA cheap hood is shot in an expensive hotel. There are some gangsters from the northeast, a newscaster, a car salesman, a retired rock star, an actress – and a few others who might...

Briar County is in Southern Ohio - the gateway to Appalachia. People there move at their own pace. They hunt, they fish, they farm - but their secrets run deeper than the fishing holes that dot the countryside. And Dalton Edwards, DEA agent, is about to...

Jihadist terrorism comes to Florida's East Coast. First, a suicide bomber destroys an offshore oil rig platform in the Gulf of Mexico.  Then the government suspects an extremist plot to destroy airplanes at nearby Eglin Air Force base. Local...

When you need to hide and one man will be your protector in this gripping romantic suspense. Preslie Summers defines beauty and kindness, but her dark past haunts her, and now she is being hunted. She takes refuge with Miles, the cop who was assigned to...

Improbable killers. A stubborn and relentless detective. Misleading evidence. To muddle the waters, a tempting young woman worms her way in the cold detective's heart. McNamara, a Scottish C.I., fights crime in the streets of Edinburgh and in...

An improbable killer. A stubborn detective. Misleading evidence.Nothing is what it seems to be. A beheaded victim leads to revealing a sordid story. Throw a new crime in the middle, and you may get lost in the evidence. Follow McNamara and his team...

Termination of the plagueGirl Next Door IIMeet Zoe, loving mother. Also a loving wife, at least, she was, before her husband had an affair and was killed by a police officer. Her husband was killed for killing his mistress, Kim.Meet Boyd, a police...

Schuldig ist der Relaunch des 2018 veröffentlichen Titels Henker. Die Story hat eine komplette Überarbeitung und einige, teils gravierende, Änderungen erfahren. Des Weiteren wurde das Manuskript noch einmal vollständig neu lektoriert. Neben dem Titel ist...

Eine Mordserie erschüttert das beschauliche Bremen-Nord.Das Team um das Ermittler-Duo Hanna Wolf und Kai Siemer übernimmt den Fall.Schnell wird klar, dass die Morde im Zusammenhang mit dem Verkauf von jüdischem Schmuck stehen.Aber wie stehen die Opfer...

Alex Subitz hatte in seinem Leben nahezu alles, was ihn glücklich machte: eine liebevolle Ehefrau, zwei aufgeweckte Töchter, eine Villa, einen lukrativen Job. Wäre da nicht etwas gewesen, das ihn überallhin verfolgte. Immer wieder muss er sich...

Die untereinander völlig zerstrittenen Nachkommen des angesehenen Hamburger Bankiers Ludwig Godeffroy kommen nach dessen Tod auf der Insel Neuwerk zusammen, um das Familienoberhaupt dort zu bestatten und im Anschluss daran über das Testament des...

Das idyllische Ukranenland ist ein Freilichtmuseum in der Nähe des Stettiner Haffs, südlich von Ueckermünde - ideal für Familienausflüge und historisch interessierte Menschen, die etwas über das Leben der Slawen von vor über tausend Jahren kennenlernen...

Rechtsanwalt Rainer Esch mag es nicht glauben: Selbst mit den Lebensversicherungen Todkranker werden noch Geschäfte gemacht. Als der Mandant, der ihm davon erzählt hat, sehr überraschend stirbt, stößt Rainer auf noch mehr unglaubliche Vorgänge im...

Ein sportlicher, junger Mann wird mit Alkohol und Drogen vollgepumpt ermordet aufgefunden. Niklas Mayer wurde mit einem Harpunenschuss in den Kopf getötet. Die Kriminalpolizei Fulda übernimmt den Fall.Die Ermittler Philipp Jung und Robert Thalberg...

Es ist ein ganz normaler Tag und der übliche Trubel auf den Straßen nimmt Formen an. Detektiv Erwin Müller ermittelt mit Hauptkommissar Hagedorn in einem Viertel in Bremen, wo Gastronomie, Prostitution und Kriminalität vorherrschen. Schlägereien,...

Der Stechapfel gehört zur Familie der Nachtschattengewächse. Sein Gift führt zu Lähmungen, Halluzinationen oder zum Tod. Das müssen mehrere Kunden des Dampfershops von Jasmin Schubert erfahren, als eine Reihe von Giftanschlägen in dem Geschäft verübt...

Wulfenstein! Das beschauliche Städtchen in Deutschland wird Schauplatz eines brutalen Mordfalls. Die gesamte Stadt samt Oberbürgermeister ist entsetzt. Kommissar Hohenfurch steht vor einem großen Rätsel, da das Mordopfer ein undurchsichtiges Geheimnis...

Die Worte des Mörders hallten in seinen Ohren wider: "Auge um Auge. Zahn um Zahn. Leben um Leben."Der brutale Mord an einem renommierten Psychiater hält das personell noch immer geschwächte Team des Essener K3 in Atem. Als das Team schließlich erste...

Le fruit de la haine est un roman policier dont l'action se déroule en 1968 dans le petit village manitobain de Rochelle. Une résidente du village est retrouvée morte sur le sentier qui mène à l'épicerie. Le caporal Sylvain Trudel de la GRC est...