Historical Police Procedural

It is May 1963, in Birmingham, Alabama. As Martin Luther King, Jr.’s civil rights demonstrations begin to fill the streets, prejudices awaken and tempers flare. Amid the violence and confusion, a deaf black girl is found raped and murdered. Veteran homicide detective Ben Wellman pursues the murderer through the throngs of protesters, the pool halls of the black district of Bearmatch, the white mansions of Mountain Brook, and, finally, even in his own department. As he did in Sacrificial Ground, Cook has created a novel of uncommon force and resonance.

It is 1906, and in New York City, the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a spree: kidnapping, extortion, arson. Detective Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Agency is hired to form a special Black Hand Squad, but the gangsters appear to be everywhere - so much so that Bell begins to wonder if there are imitators, criminals using the name for the terror effect.

Why did literary legend Wynn Staniland suddenly become a recluse in the 1980s? Most assumed he stopped writing because of his wife's bizarre suicide. And now a promising young author called Zac Wilkinson is working on Staniland's biography and hopes to reveal the true story to a waiting world. When Wilkinson is found brutally murdered, DI Wesley Peterson finds links to the unexplained poisoning of a middle-aged couple - and Staniland appears to be the connection.

1948 kehrt Hans-Joachim Stein in seine von Spaltung und Blockade gebeutelte Heimatstadt Berlin zurück: Als Kommissar will er helfen, Recht und Ordnung wiederherzustellen. Doch in der neu gegründeten Mordinspektion West schlagen ihm Vorbehalte und Misstrauen entgegen. Der brutale Mord an einem bekannten Schieberkönig wird schließlich zum ersten Fall für den jungen Kommissar. Kurz darauf geschieht ein weiterer Mord mit ähnlicher Handschrift - den Steins Vorgesetzter mit allen Mitteln zu vertuschen sucht.

Jens Druwe, der glaubte, als Polizeiinspektor nach 1945 ein neues Leben beginnen zu können, wird als Kriegsverbrecher inhaftiert und verurteilt. Man wirft ihm vor, bei Säuberungsaktionen im Osten dabei gewesen zu sein. Auch seine Freundin Eva, die von ihm schwanger ist, kann ihn nicht retten. Doch da eröffnet sich eine neue Chance. Im Auftrag des britischen Geheimdiensts soll Druwe verdeckt im Zuchthaus arbeiten, um untergetauchte Nazis aufzuspüren. Es geht vor allem darum, einen Mann zu finden, der für Tausende von Tötungen im Osten verantwortlich ist.

Kiedy Priscilla Halburton-Smythe przywozi do rodzinnego domu w Lochdubh swojego narzeczonego, wszyscy w miasteczku są zachwyceni...x wyjątkiem zakochanego w niej po uszy Hamisha. Uczucia muszą jednak zejść na razie na dalszy plan, ponieważ podczas polowania na głuszce zamordowano gburowatego kapitana Bartletta, zaproszonego na zaręczynowe przyjęcie Priscilli. Szybko okazuje się, że wszyscy jego uczestnicy mieli powód, aby życzyć kapitanowi śmierci. Hamish będzie musiał nie tylko łagodzić zaistniałe podczas śledztwa spory, ale przede wszystkim złapać mordercę.

To the outside observer, Salt Lake City seems to be the squeaky-clean “City of Saints” - its nickname since Mormon pioneers first arrived. Its wide roads, huge Mormon temple topped by a horn-blowing angel, and orderly neighborhoods give it the appearance of the ideal American city. But looks can be deceiving. When beautiful socialite Helen Kent Pfalzgraf turns up dead, Salt Lake County Deputy Art Oveson - a twenty-something husband, dad, and devout Mormon just getting his start - finds himself thrust into the role of detective.

Settembre 1988. Un grigio impiegato del Catasto viene ucciso a revolverate mentre è nel giardino della sua villetta, vicina al Parco Lambro. Un tentativo di rapina? Un incidente? Il gesto folle di qualcuno in preda ai fumi della droga? O una vendetta? I trascorsi professionali dell'uomo non offrono supporti a quest'ultima pista, in apparenza la più promettente. Ma forse il grigio impiegato non era poi così prevedibile nella quotidianità delle proprie azioni: si scopre infatti che il vecchio padre disabile.

It is 1905, and Chicago is an open town. The most accessible part of town is the Levee District. It is an area of the city that's hard to tell the crooks from the cops. There are brothels, madams, opium dens, gambling joints and plenty of alcohol, but it all comes at a price in the Levee, and the two Ward Aldermen get their share of every vice's dollar. With the hanging of serial killer, Simon Kluge, police Detective Patrick Moses is suddenly without a case. Before Moses can relax, he is approached by an aging retail mogul who asks him to investigate the mysterious shooting of his son.

DI Hardcastle tracks a killer who’s left his hat behind... July, 1917. DI Ernest Hardcastle and his assistant, DS Charles Marriott, investigate the murder of a cashier operating in London’s Victoria Station. An army officer claims to have seen the murderer running away, and an army cap left behind appears to identify the criminal. Hardcastle believes that it will be a simple matter to go to Aldershot and arrest him, but things are never as easy as they seem.

Kiedy Jane Wetherby zaprasza posterunkowego Hamisha Macbetha do swojego SPA "Szczęśliwy Wędrowiec" na wyspie Eileencraig, ten z radością przyjmuje zaproszenie. Niestety, wizyta nie ma nic wspólnego z relaksem. Mieszkańcy wietrznej wyspy nie chcą u siebie ani SPA, ani jego właścicielki. Goście Jane też nie należą do sympatycznych. Wszystkim na nerwy działa zwłaszcza Heather Todd. Kiedy więc zostaje znaleziona martwa u stóp klifu, nikt nie wydaje się przejęty jej śmiercią. Ale nie Hamish.

Paris, 1940. As the city adjusts to life under Nazi occupation, Detective Eddie Giral struggles to reconcile his job as a policeman with his new role enforcing a regime he cannot believe in but must work under. He's sacrificed so much in order to survive in this new world, but the past is not so easily forgotten. When an old friend and an old flame reappear, begging for his help, Eddie must decide how far he will go to help those he loves.

When workmen converting former girls' boarding school Chadleigh Hall into a luxury hotel discover a skeleton in a sealed room, DI Wesley Peterson and his boss, Gerry Heffernan, are called in to investigate. But within minutes they have a second suspicious death on their hands: a team of marine archaeologists working on a nearby shipwreck have dragged a woman's body from the sea. And it becomes clear that her death was no accident. The dead woman's husband may be linked with a brutal robbery of computer equipment, but Wesley soon discovers that the victim had secrets of her own....

In December 1941, America is reeling from the brutal attack on Pearl Harbor. Both patriotism and paranoia grip New York as the city frantically mobilizes for war. Nurse Louise Hunter is outraged when the FBI, in a midnight sweep of prominent Japanese residents, storms in to arrest her patient’s wife. The desperately ill Professor Oakley is married to artist Masako Fumi. The nurse vows to help the professor free Masako. But when the murdered body of Masako’s art dealer is discovered in the gallery where he’d been closing down her controversial show, Masako’s troubles multiply.

On a hot August day in 1994, 76 holidaymakers travel to an island off the North Norfolk coast. Only 75 return alive - a young man is murdered, the case left unsolved. Twenty years later, using state-of-the-art forensics, the DNA results of a blood-soaked towel prompt DI Peter Shaw to summon all 75 original suspects to a mass screening. But one of them is found dead in her bed. Is there a link to the 1994 murder? DI Shaw and DS Valentine become immersed in the secrets of an isolated community.

The new Charlie Woodend mystery - Angela Jackson has been missing for over 24 hours and, in the opinion of Dr. Stevenson, the psychiatrist who Woodend turns to for advice, her kidnapper will first torture and then kill her. With damaging strains operating within his own team, the more the investigation proceeds the less hope Woodend can see. And he knows deep within himself that he will fail in bringing Angela back alive....

Von Opfern und Tätern. Ende April 1945. Der Krieg geht zu Ende. Nachdem er schwer verwundet wurde, ist Jens Druwe aus Berlin nach Schleswig-Holstein abkommandiert worden. Hier soll er als Polizist für Ordnung sorgen. Als ein hoher Funktionär der NSDAP ermordet wird, wollen seine Vorgesetzten sogleich den ersten Verdächtigen, einen entflohenen Häftling, aburteilen. Doch Druwe stellt sich gegen die Profiteure des untergehenden Regimes. Ihm zur Seite steht allein die Schwester des Verdächtigen, die wie er voller Mut und Hoffnung den Kampf gegen einen übermächtigen Gegner aufnimmt.

A woman's body is discovered in Angel Meadow, site of one of the most the notorious slums in Victorian England. She has been shot. Caton's investigation uncovers a link to the Troubles in Northern Ireland thirty years ago. The Establishment wants to let sleeping dogs lie. Caton, accompanied by DS Joanne Stuart, finds strange allies from both sides of the divide. And when a second murder occurs nothing is going to stop them from uncovering the truth.

Dresden, 18. Juni 1953, ein Tag nach dem blutig niedergeschlagenen Arbeiteraufstand in der DDR: Max Heller wird zu einem Todesfall in einem Betrieb für Wärmeisolierungen gerufen. Dem dortigen Betriebsleiter wurden brutal die Atemwege mit Isolierwolle verstopft. Unter Mordverdacht gerät eine ehemalige Angestellte, die von sich selbst behauptet, eine frühere KZ-Aufseherin und jetzt Spionin für den Westen zu sein. Doch Heller glaubt ihr nicht. Zumal alle Angestellten des kleinen Betriebes hartnäckig die Aussage verweigern.

Trieste, primavera del 1902. Il ricordo dei fatti di sangue seguiti al primo sciopero operaio dell'Impero asburgico è ancora vivo nella mente della cittadinanza. A pochi giorni dalla revoca dello stato d'assedio proclamato dal governo di Vienna, un sottufficiale dell'esercito viene trovato morto e sfigurato in un vicolo. Intanto, una preziosa reliquia cristiana, il Mandylion, viene rubata, perduta e infine ritrovata da Davorin, un ragazzino di dodici anni che in seguito a ciò pare acquisire strani poteri.