Island Crime

Hanna Duncker has returned to the remote island she spent her childhood on and to the past that saw her father convicted for murder. In a cruel twist of fate her new boss is the policeman who put him behind bars. On her first day on the job as the new detective, Hanna is called to a crime scene. The 15-year-old son of her former best friend has been found dead and Hanna is thrown into a complex investigation set to stir up old ghosts.

In Europe, the Americans are pulling out their troops in a tide of isolationism. Britain, torn between loyalties to America and the continent, is caught betwixt and between. In America, a space shuttle crashes on landing, killing all but one of the crew on-board: A British man named Mike Dreyfuss, who will become vilified by the US press and protesters. Halfway across the world, Martin Hepton, an English ground control technician watches as they lose contact with the most advanced satellite in Europe.

Vernon and Penelope never want to see their son Caleb again. Not after he bashed his wife and ended up in gaol. A lifetime of careful parental love wiped out in a moment. But when Vernon, a retired teacher, hears that Caleb is being regularly visited and savagely beaten by a local criminal as the police stand by, he knows he has to act. What has his life as a father been if he turns his back on his son in his hour of desperate need? He realises with shame that he has grievously failed Caleb. No longer.

A fantastic nonstop adventure that occurs chronologically one year before the events of the best-selling Pulp Heroes: More Than Mortal, The Hunter Island Adventure is a wild tale that tells the story of what happens when four kidnapped women prove to be much more trouble than their captors expected.

Formerly of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, Kosuke Iwata is now working as a private investigator in California. He may have left Japan, but the crimes Iwata has to face here are just as perplexing. A threatening Serbian man claims his wife is missing. A mysterious connection to Catalina Island. A little girl with red hair. And a woman determined to disappear....

Reykjavík 1941. Ein Handelsreisender wird mitten in der Stadt in seiner kleinen Wohnung tot aufgefunden. Er wurde mit einem Pistolenschuss in den Kopf getötet. Die Polizei ist gleich vor Ort und der Verdacht fällt auf die ausländischen Soldaten, die während der Kriegsjahre die Straßen Reykjavíks bevölkern. Thorson, neu bei der Polizei, und sein erfahrener Kollege Flovent nehmen die Ermittlungen auf. Schon bald stoßen sie auf eine heiße Spur.

As a veteran of the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia, Talmon Bonnett usually holds his PTSD at bay. When a wealthy couple hires him to spy on Rusty Wing, the man responsible for building the Mourning Island’s new resort, Talmon injects himself into Rusty’s inner circle. Lying about his intentions, Talmon gets to know Rusty’s troubled fiancée Claire, his sinister Cuban first mate Santos, and Marlene, Rusty’s alluring sister.

After her parents died in their home from a house fire nine years ago, Skylar Holmes returns to Ashtons Island for her childhood friend’s surprise party. She was sent to New York to live with her only family, Uncle Nate, after the horrific fire. Skylar thought it was time to put all of her nightmares and fears aside and return to the island where family and friends are gathering for the weekend to celebrate her friend’s party.

DCI Michael Gilbert is called out to Sark - the world's first dark sky island - after bones are found on Derrible Bay. He is followed by journalist Jennifer Dorey, driven by a secret in her own past. The remains are decades old, but after a body is discovered Jennifer and Michael fear there may be a killer on the island. Together they follow a dark trail of bad blood and a conspiracy of silence. Everyone on the island is under suspicion. No one is what they seem. And the murderer could strike again at any time....

Der junge, grüblerisch veranlagte Erlendur Sveinsson hat vor kurzem seine Tätigkeit als Streifenpolizist in Reykjavík aufgenommen. In den Nachtschichten lernt er die dunklen Seiten der isländischen Hauptstadt kennen: betrunkene Autofahrer, häusliche Gewalt, Einbrüche, Drogenhandel. Ihn bewegt das Schicksal von Randfiguren der Gesellschaft. An einem Wochenende wird ein Obdachloser in einem Tümpel am Stadtrand ertrunken aufgefunden, und eine junge Frau verschwindet spurlos.

Die Leiche eines Kindes wird in der Parkanlage eines Wohnblocks entdeckt. Es ist ein frostiger Januartag, und die herbeigerufenen Beamten der Kripo Reykjavík sind schockiert: Der kleine, dunkelhäutige Junge liegt mit dem Gesicht nach unten, im eigenen Blut festgefroren, offenbar brutal ermordet.

The Scottish Hebrides. A strange group of people have descended on the small island of West Uist. Camped out in the grounds of the Castle, they are preparing to celebrate the summer solstice. Museum curator Finley McNab becomes suspicious of the cultlike group, and when he challenges them it seems his investigations could be deadly. Inspector Torquil McKinnon is called in to keep an eye on the group. Are they innocent pagan worshippers, or is something more sinister going on behind the scenes? As the day of the solstice draws ever nearer, whispers of murder are on the horizon....

A small, isolated mountain town is thrown into fear as teens begin to turn up dead, completely drained of blood, but with no apparent puncture wounds. Fearing a serial killer walks among them, the local sheriff sets his eye on a young man who has had past trouble with the law and foretold the disaster on his radio program. Also showing up in town is a well-known newscaster looking for a big story that she can spin into national news. There is also an old legend about a blood demon....

In einer hellen isländischen Sommernacht wird die nackte Leiche eines jungen Mädchens gefunden. Sie liegt auf dem mit Blumen geschmückten Grab des isländischen Freiheitskämpfers Jón Sigurdsson. Kommissar Erlendur und seine Kollegen Sigurður Óli und Elinborg von der Kripo Reykjavík finden schnell heraus, dass es sich bei der Toten um eine Drogenabhängige handelt. Warum aber wurde die Leiche gerade auf dieses Grab gelegt?