Police Procedurals

From a #1 New York Times bestselling author, the 6:20 Man returns, this time sent to the Pacific Northwest to aid the in a complicated FBI case—and he’s about to come face-to-face with his nemesis, the girl on the train.

LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a serial rapist whose trail has gone cold, and enlists a new volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: Patrol Officer Maddie Bosch, Harry’s daughter.

Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Québec village is impossible to find on any map, someone has managed to track down Armand Gamache, head of homicide at the Sûreté, as he sits with his wife in their back garden.

Preston & Child continue their #1 bestselling series featuring FBI Special Agent Pendergast and Constance Greene, as they take a final stand against New York’s deadliest serial killer: Pendergast’s own ancestor…and Constance’s greatest enemy....

Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn's happy small-town family life was torn apart by a terrifying attack on their family home....

Fifteen years ago, Sara Linton’s life changed forever when a celebratory night out ended in a violent attack that tore her world apart. Since then, Sara has remade her life. A doctor, she has finally managed to leave the past behind her. Until one evening, on call in the ER, everything changes....

The New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling Department Q series comes to a thrilling conclusion when the team must turn inward to solve the cold case that has put their own leader behind bars, a place where his enemies are plentiful and time is quickly running out.

This is DC Smith's third investigation with the Diver and Diver Associates agency. They have been asked by a member of Norfolk's aristocracy to look into the tragic death of her younger brother, Freddie, the late Lord Thorpe of the title.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb spins an epic tale of loyalty, treachery, murder, and the long shadow of war.

Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He works and lives in Southeast D.C. and looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. He's a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed jackets and likes to relax by banging out Gershwin tunes on his baby grand piano.

Secrets worth dying - and killing - for, in a novel of suspense inspired by a horrific true crime by Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestselling author Loreth Anne White....

After his wife and two children are killed in a car crash, Ryan Tapia starts a new life in Maine. But his first case there is a puzzling oddball—the corpse of a fisherman washes up on federal land, while the man's boat drifts into waters that are part of an Indian reservation.

Atlanta, Georgia. Present day. A young woman is brutally attacked and left for dead. The police investigate but the trail goes cold....

The number one international best-selling author returns with an electrifying novel of devastating secrets and hidden lives that probes the fraught relationship between daughters and mothers and the lengths we go to protect those we love....

On a hot summer night, a scientist from the Centers for Disease Control is grabbed by unknown assailants in a shopping center parking lot. Vanished into thin air, the authorities are desperate to save the doctor....

Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants in this courtroom drama from author David Baldacci....

A murder victim dumped at the dead end of a lonely country road, face and hands obliterated by a shotgun blast, is not the way sheriff’s detective Nick Fourcade wants to start his week.

From New York Times bestselling author Mia Sheridan comes the twisted story of one detective’s pursuit of a serial killer who’s taunting her…and the familiar connection between them that’s haunting her....

Secrets hide within the fog deep in the mossy forests of the Pacific Northwest, in this ninth thrilling installment in award-winning author Margaret Mizushima’s Timber Creek K-9 Mystery series.

It's the most dangerous case of Will Trent's career. He knows this from the moment he sets foot in the abandoned Atlanta warehouse where a body lies on the floor—the body of an ex-cop....

In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful medical intern suddenly disappears.....

As the snow begins to fall, the body count begins to climb....

Chief Inspector Gamache and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal.

Some places seem too beautiful to be touched by horror. Summit Lake, nestled in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, is that kind of place....

In this twisted journey into the shadows of the Golden Gate, a detective and an FBI agent must track down the source of an unknown drug, but their attraction and their own secrets keep getting in the way.

FBI Special Agent Avril Dahl has spent a decade chasing shadows—the Frost Killer, a meticulous murderer who stole fifty-three lives, including her mother's. Now, after years of silence, Avril returns to her childhood home in the snowy streets of Täby, Sweden, desperate to leave the hunt behind. But as she sorts through the remnants of her past, she discovers eerie signs that the killer is not only alive but watching her.

The streets of San Francisco aren’t as sunny as the city pretends they are. Detective Lennon Gray has learned this the hard way, and it’s starting to wear on her. When a new case plunges her into the depths of the transient community, Lennon must once again face ugly truths about humanity. Her new partner makes things a little easier, though. Agent Ambrose Mars is charming—innocent, somehow, despite his own hard years in the field. The combination leaves Lennon fascinated and disturbed at the same time, and she’s even more drawn to him for it.

It's 1979, and a group of former SS officers are devising a plan to seize power in West Germany. XPD is a brilliant novel constructed around a supposition that Churchill secretly met with Hitler in 1940 to discuss terms of a British surrender.

After years working as detective, Sergeant Rakesh Siyal is back in uniform and facing the hard realities of Edinburgh’s streets. With a missing teenager sucking away manpower, his frontline team have to contend with a pub fight in danger of spiralling out of control and turning into something far more dangerous.

You break into the wrong house. You find a woman locked in a box. You die nine days later. When Jimmy Magwood breaks into a house, he's shocked to find a young woman locked in a metal box. A few days later, after he's arrested for burglary, he decides to tell Detective David Hudson about the woman. However, he's poisoned before he can tell the detective the kidnapper's name and address. Hudson has no doubt that Magwood's murder was arranged by the kidnapper. A search of missing persons reports reveals that the woman in the box is Michelle Garnett, who disappeared a month and a half before. ...

Agent Don Trask needed a break from his hectic job, and when an invitation to fish at a remote Canadian cabin arrived, he saw it as the perfect opportunity for some much-needed relaxation. But when his identical twin brother, Sheriff Dave Trask, joins him on the trip, they find themselves in a nightmare they never could have imagined. Stranded on an island with a killer, the Trask brothers must use all their skills to survive and uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearances of their fellow anglers. As a storm rages on and the body count rises, Don and Dave realize that this may be...

After the newspaper she works for folds and the freelance assignments no longer pay the bills, Maya Wong reluctantly returns to her native Hawaiʻi to ghostwrite controversial land developer Parker Hamilton's biography. But when the Hamilton patriarch is found dead under suspicious circumstances, Maya is unwittingly drawn into the investigation. Maya’s family and friends aren't happy about her work for Hamilton. And now, with her ex, Detective Koa Yamada, on the case, she’s forced to contend with the very person she was determined to avoid.

In the wee hours of a 1960s Tokyo morning, a dead body is found under the rails of a train, and the victim's face is so badly damaged that police have a hard time figuring out the victim’s identity. Only two clues surface: an old man, overheard talking in a distinctive accent to a young man, and the word “kameda.” Inspector Imanishi leaves his beloved bonsai and his haiku and goes off to investigate—and runs up against a blank wall. Months pass in fruitless questioning, in following up leads, until the case is closed, unsolved. But Imanishi is dissatisfied.

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...

Veteran Atlanta detective John Rawlings has lost his way. Struggling with the grief of losing his wife, Sharon—a woman of faith who kept his world anchored—John battles loneliness, aging, and the harsh reality that he no longer recognizes the man he’s become. With his antique .38 caliber handgun hidden away for when life feels like too much, he's on the edge of giving up. But there's a glimmer of hope, a chance that maybe life still has meaning—if he can find the courage to face each day. Across country, John’s estranged daughter, Heather, fights her own battles: a failing ...

Le autopsie possono rivelare i segreti dei DEFUNTI. E questa vittima sta inviando a Kay Scarpetta un messaggio. Mentre è impegnata nel caso di omicidio di una bambina, la anatomopatologa Kay Scarpetta viene convocata in un parco a tema abbandonato per recuperare un cadavere, ed è sconvolta nell'apprendere che la vittima è l'astrofisico Sal Giordano, vincitore di un premio Nobel e collaboratore della Casa Bianca, ma soprattutto l'uomo di cui Kay un tempo era innamorata.

Former police officer turned private detective Davis Reed is taking refuge in the mountains of Cruso, North Carolina, after a run-in with a biker gang dealt him an unfavorable hand. When respected real estate agent Prentiss Wells is killed by an errant golf ball, Davis has no reason to suspect it wasn't an accident. But then a wealthy couple hires him to prove the death was murder and catch the killer. In desperate need of cash, Davis takes the job.

Une enquête doublée d'une quête intime, au coeur des montagnes, pour une jeune capitaine de police aussi brillante que décalée. Un commissariat morne que seul un délit de conduite en état d'ébriété peut sortir de sa torpeur, de nouveaux collègues plus calmes qu'un pré suisse à l'heure de la sieste, un voisin envahissant : voilà ce que Charlie, jeune capitaine de police angoissée et obsessionnelle, découvre alors qu'elle se retrouve parachutée dans un village de montagne après une enquête criminelle douloureuse qui lui a coûté son poste.

Au Campo Santa Margherita un doux soir d’été, deux étudiantes américaines partent en balade dans la lagune avec deux beaux Vénitiens et sont grièvement blessées dans un accident de bateau. L’incident semble anodin, mais la curiosité du commissaire Guido Brunetti est piquée par le comportement des garçons, qui ont abandonné les victimes à l’entrée de l’hôpital. Le commissaire en est certain, ces deux suspects ont un secret à protéger. Aidé par sa collègue Claudia Griffoni, Brunetti découvre un vaste réseau de corruption où des bateliers véreux sont impliqués dans un sinistre trafic nocturne.

Quand le médecin d’un hospice vénitien appelle la police car une patiente en fin de vie souhaite témoigner, le commissaire Brunetti et Claudia Griffoni se rendent aussitôt au chevet de la jeune femme. Ses derniers mots évoquent son défunt mari Vittorio qui selon elle, a été assassiné. Brunetti lui jure de mener l’enquête. Il découvre alors que Vittorio, qui travaillait pour une compagnie chargée de vérifier la qualité des eaux vénitiennes, est officiellement mort dans un accident de moto.

As her police department's newest hire, police psychologist Dot Meyerhoff has a lot to prove. Especially since everyone on a small-town force doesn't see any reason for a shrink on staff. So when the rookie cop commits suicide, everyone's looking to blame Dot—even Dot herself. Dot knew Ben Gomez was struggling to adjust to police work, but how had she missed the signs that he was at the end of his rope? Now, with Ben's and her reputation on the line, Dot goes looking for answers.

Ein Cold Case. Ein ermordeter Verdächtiger. Eine missverstandene Zeugin. Ein Fall für Kommissarin Sheridan Holler. Ein unerwarteter Fund auf dem Friedhof: In einem Grab wird ein Toter entdeckt, der dort nicht hingehört. Die Ermittlungen führen Kommissarin Sheridan Holler von der Mordkommission Liverpool zu einem Cold Case. Vor sieben Jahren wurden zwei Frauen niedergeschossen, eine starb, eine überlebte knapp. Der einzige Verdächtige war ein Kleinkrimineller – der Tote im Grab.

El legendario restaurador de arte y espía Gabriel Allon une sus fuerzas con las de una bella danesa, hacker y ladrona profesional, para localizar el cuadro más valioso del mundo, que ha desaparecido. Pero pronto se ve inmerso en una carrera desesperada para evitar un conflicto inimaginable entre Rusia y Occidente.

S. A. Cosby, maître du thriller américain contemporain, nous livre un roman poignant avec une intrigue impeccablement ciselée. Il offre un regard incisif et éclairé sur une société américaine encore déchirée.

Local girls' soccer coach Sven-Gunnar Erlandsson is practically a saint in the community, known for his good works and volunteering. So when his body is found in Stockholm's beautiful Herräng forest, shot at close range in the back of the neck while walking home from a late-night poker game, the police struggle to find a motive. Nothing has been taken from his pockets except his cell phone, and the only other clues left behind are a cryptic handwritten note and a handful of playing cards.

El escritor, Jaime Valdés, viaja a Santander para impartir su primer taller de novela. Su llegada coincide con el resurgir del caso del asesino bautizado como El Vengador. Una fotografía enviada a la policía y al Diario Montañés en la que se muestra el cuerpo sin vida de un individuo con un cartel sobre el pecho que reza; culpable, refleja sin lugar a dudas la forma de actuar del famoso asesino. Un asesino que falleció dos años antes.

El primer caso de la ya famosa pareja, Bevilacqua y la agente Chamorro. El cuerpo desnudo de una joven austriaca pende atado de las manos en un chalet mallorquín. Ni los signos de violencia, ni la pestilencia de una muerte estival ocultan su inquietante belleza. En el revólver hallado en la basura abundan las huellas de una sesentona suiza de fama libertina, pero la vida turbia de la joven, Eva Heydrich —un ser irresistible consagrado tanto al placer como a la destrucción—, sugiere que la sencillez del crimen es tan sólo la punta de un iceberg.

Die Tote, die zu viel wusste. Sandrine Perrot wird von ihrem Assistenten Adel Azarou zu einem ungewöhnlichen Tatort in der Altstadt von Saint-Malo gerufen. Bei der Toten handelt es sich um eine bekannte Influencerin und Radiomoderatorin, die sich mit ihren Meinungen und Themen in der Region einige Feinde gemacht hat. Der Mörder hat die Leiche und den Tatort nicht nur professionell inszeniert, sondern die Tat auch minutiös aufgezeichnet. Die hinterlassenen Spuren deuten auf mehrere Verdächtige hin.

Wie alles begann: Horndeich ermittelt in seinem ersten Fall in Darmstadt. Für alle LeserInnen von Nele Neuhaus und Wolfgang Burger. "Schon während Margot sich neben den Toten kniete, überfiel sie ein Gefühl, dass dieser Mann noch etwas verbarg und drehte den Kopf in ihre Richtung. Dann wusste sie, was es war. Sie hatte den Augenblick immer gefürchtet, und doch gewusst, dass er eines Tages kommen würde: Sie kannte den Toten." In Darmstadt gibt es ein Treffen der so genannten "Madonnenkinder".

Nach einem Erdbeben nördlich von Rom gibt der »Sacro Bosco« ein grauenhaftes Geheimnis preis. In einem Massengrab werden die Überreste enthaupteter Frauen entdeckt, die zum Zeitpunkt ihrer Hinrichtung Föten in sich trugen. Kardinal Calitri, der den heiligen Wald vor kurzem erwarb, ist entsetzt. Erste Untersuchungen ergeben, dass die Skelette Jahrhunderte alt sind, doch dann werden jüngere Frauenleichname entdeckt, und eine davon stammt aus dem letzten Winter.