Police Procedural Cozy

Former soldier, Frankie McGill, has returned home from Afghanistan minus half of her left foot and with a plate in her head. After some months in medical care, she’s ready to take on the new battle of finding and holding a job. But not just any job. Frankie is a combat-trained paramedic. When all she can find is a position in the small, mostly volunteer fire department of her old hometown, Frankie is immediately plunged into much more than dealing with her own trauma and holding down a job.

Luc Verlain liebt gutes Essen, Frauen und sein sorgenloses Leben in Paris. Doch als sein Vater schwer erkrankt, lässt Luc sich versetzen. Ausgerechnet nach Bordeaux in die Region Aquitaine, von wo er als junger Polizist geflohen war. Zurück in seiner Heimat muss Luc sich seinen Erinnerungen stellen. Und schon kurz nach seiner Ankunft erschüttert ein Mord die Gegend: Ein Mädchen liegt erschlagen am Strand von Lacanau-Océan. In dem kleinen Dorf kochen schnell die Spekulationen hoch.

Joe was born in poverty, but he married well. And he was smart. Smart enough to become the darling of Wall Street. But something was missing, and the Desert Ashram, a spiritual refuge, provided it for him. Too bad his wife didn’t agree. Too bad his brother didn’t agree. Too bad his father-in-law didn’t agree. Too bad Joe was murdered. Was it out of greed, revenge, or just plain jealousy? Lots of players. Lots of suspects. And it’s up to Detective Jeff, with a little help from his wife, Marty, and their psychic dog, Patron, to figure it all out.

Playboy Thompson C. Briephs has just been found strangled in his bed. The police believe the Newcastle Herald crossword editor, a scion of a blue-blooded New England family, died from kinky sex gone wrong. But cop-turned-private investigator Rosco Polycrates thinks there's a six-letter word for what happened. Enlisting the help of Annabelle Graham, the crossword editor for a rival paper, Rosco unearths a crazy quilt of suspects who had it in for the victim - and one of them was blackmailing him.

Commissario Luca führt ein beschauliches Leben in einem kleinen Dorf in der Toskana, umgeben von wunderschönen Olivenhainen und drei anhänglichen Eseln. Doch dann wird eine Olivenbäuerin erschossen aufgefunden. Wer hätte sie ermorden sollen und aus welchem Motiv? Um diesen Fall aufzuklären wird dem Commissario eine Ermittlerin aus Florenz an die Seite gestellt. Neben ihren detektivischen Fähigkeiten ist sie auch wunderschön – ein Umstand, der den Commissario nicht ganz kalt lässt. Gemeinsam begeben sie sich auf die Suche nach dem Mörder.

What part did mollies and Fireball whiskey play in a murder at a country music festival held outside of Palm Springs, California? Why was the celebrity chef, Jacques Rushon, owner of the French Food Obsession food truck murdered? The suspects at the top of the sheriff's list are Marty Morgan's friends John, the owner of The Red Pony food truck, and his assistant, Max.

When a violent murder shatters the otherwise peaceful idyll of Andaby near Hebden Bridge, DS Charlotte Banks can't help but suspect that her brother Ewan—recently released from prison and now living in Calderdale—is behind it. Ewan claims he's innocent, and even has an alibi to prove it, but DS Banks isn't convinced. So much so that she turns to the only people who can help her in an investigation this personal: Kitt Hartley and Grace Edwards, of Hartley and Edwards Investigations.

Mitten im Wald, zwischen Tannen, Totholz und Touristenströmen, finden Spaziergänger den leblosen Körper des Industriellen Jakob Drittenbass. Ein Herzinfarkt beim Wandern oder Mord? Reifenabdrücke im moosigen Erdboden und verdächtige Finanzflüsse im Netz führen Kommissar Jennerwein und sein Team rasch auf die Spur des Täters. Doch dann gerät Jennerwein in Schwierigkeiten, die er sich in seinen wildesten Albträumen nicht hatte vorstellen können - unversehens steht er selbst unter Mordverdacht.

When a member of the film crew is found dead, everything goes sideways. The mayor pushes Gordon to adopt a business as usual mentality, and let the film company handle the investigation. But a murder on Mapleton soil makes it Gordon's jurisdiction, and nothing the mayor says can make him halt his investigation. When other members of the cast and crew haven't reported in, Gordon wonders if he's looking for more suspects or more victims. Will Gordon listen to the mayor, or risk his job to find the truth?

Philippe Lagarde, ein ehemaliger Kommissar, hatte eigentlich vor, sich in seinem malerischen Dorf Barfleur zur Ruhe zu setzen. Allenfalls wollte er seiner Freundin Odette beim Kochen helfen und vielleicht dann und wann aufs Meer hinausfahren. Doch als ein deutscher Student auf mysteriöse Weise verschwindet, ist Lagardes Hilfe gefragt. Er hat nur einen Hinweis: eine Postkarte von Barfleur, die der junge Mann vor seinem Verschwinden abgeschickt hat. Bald findet Lagarde die erste Spur - und eine Leiche.

Am sagenumwobenen Brennerpass, inmitten der Alpenidylle zwischen Südtirol und Österreich, müssen Commissario Grauner und sein neapolitanischer Kollege Saltapepe einen grausamen Mord aufklären. Ein alter Mann wurde an ein Pferd gebunden zu Tode geschleift. Er lebte zurückgezogen, spielte manchmal mit seinen schweigsamen Freunden aus Jugendtagen eine Partie Karten. Als diese befragt werden sollen, verschwindet einer von ihnen spurlos. Die Ermittlungen führen den Commissario bis in die dunkelsten Abschnitte der Südtiroler Geschichte.

The Kemps were a Cornish Catholic family who had held on to Kellycoryk, their family home, for almost five hundred years. But it was beginning to look as though the present century would be their last. Roger, head of the shrinking clan, was desparate to save the house and land. His second marriage, to the shrewd and tough businesswoman, Bridget, offered a way out.

Mrs. Gillespie is famous around the northwest of Sutherland for being the best charwoman ever. Of course, if anyone has any social pretensions one does not say charwoman, one talks about "my maid". Hamish Macbeth wins Mrs. Gillespie's services in a church raffle but spends most of the day trying to avoid her. She is a malicious gossip and she bangs around the furniture and clanks pots--he wonders how on earth she managed to get such a good reputation.

When Detective Superintendent William Lorimer's wife, Maggie, publishes her first book, he is thrilled for her. But joy soon turns to fear when a mysterious stranger starts following Maggie on her publicity tour. Meanwhile Lorimer and the MIT are on the search for the murderer of two young women, but can Lorimer catch the killer and track down Maggie's stalker at the same time...? If you like Cara Hunter, Angela Marsons, Patricia Gibney, Lisa Jewell or Joy Ellis, you will be utterly gripped by this twisty, heart-stopping crime novel.

Predlagaem vashemu vnimaniyu audioknigu ZH. Simenona "Megrei staraya dama". Komissar Megre nosit davno vyshedshie iz mody kotelok i pal'to, ne rasstaetsya s trubkoj, predpochitaet dozhdlivuyu pogodu, obozhaet gret'sya u ognya i hodit', zalozhiv ruki za spinu. Mrachnyj, nemnogoslovnyj, on obladaet redkim darom vnushat' doverie, emu izvestny tajnye pruzhiny chelovecheskoj dramy. Razgadyvaya samye slozhnye prestupleniya, rasputyvaya samye prichudlivye intrigi, Megre rukovodstvuetsya odnim bezotkaznym principom: chtoby najti vinovnyh, nuzhno prezhde vsego ponyat' smysl ih postupkov.

Gordon Hepler, Mapleton’s Chief of Police, has his hands full. During the groundbreaking ceremony for expansion of the community center, he discovers a dead body. Shortly afterward, the center’s CEO is assaulted. Does someone have it in for the community center and its new programs designed to benefit the homeless? Or does it have something to do with the highly contested upcoming mayoral election?

Was lange gärt, wird endlich Mord! Das Krindelsdorfer Klosterbier soll die Welt erobern! Brauereibesitzer Brandl hat einen Riesen-Deal an Land gezogen. Doch die Verhandlungen werden von seinem Onkel Erwin Dimpflberger gestört - genauer gesagt: seiner Leiche. Denn kaum besucht Dimpflberger nach Jahrzehnten mal wieder seine Heimat Krindelsdorf, treibt er tot im Braukessel. Hauptkommissar Hirschberg und seine Kollegin Hansen begeben sich auf Mörderjagd.

Two people are brutally murdered in their summer place on Deep Creek Lake. Suspected of the murders, former child star and one-time teenybopper idol Lenny Frost takes innocent bystanders hostage in a local pub and demands that Mac Faraday find the killer. Can Mac save the hostages and himself from the wrath of the enraged has-been by piecing together the clues in less than twelve hours? Or will it be a fatal last call at the stroke of midnight?

Carl Finch is a desperate man. Cut out of his stepfather's will, he is heavily in debt, and unless he can persuade his stepsister Hattie to bail him out, he'll be in even more trouble. Hattie's husband, Guy, has never liked Carl and wants his wife's inheritance for his own use, so Hattie agrees to meet Carl in secret to discuss his predicament. Little does she realise that when she arrives at their meeting point in Crooked Man Wood, she'll find Carl's dead body....

“Dispute in progress, lethal weapons involved.” Deputy Pegasus Quincy takes the call to resolve violence on a Friesian horse ranch in Arizona. Intent on his own personal vendetta, partner Shepherd Malone refuses to declare a murder in a fatal fire at the ranch. Peg unwisely circumvents the law to investigate anyway. Two families feuding over water rights, a Gypsy clan suspected of drug dealing, and a blackmailer on the loose, all lead Pegasus astray on her quest to find the killer in a desert mountain town beset by flash floods and arsenic-laced creeks.