Police Procedural Cozy

James Randolph is murdered early one evening and his body found a few hours later. When the police arrive, they discover that Randolph's safe has been ransacked, and discarded wrapping paper litters his bedroom floor. Perhaps by chance or perhaps by design, Trent seems to have been the last person, other than the murderer, to see Randolph alive. But this is only one aspect amongst many which connect Trent with the murder and stimulate his interest.

Im beschaulichen Rosenheim will der Polizeipsychologe Stefan Schwab Abstand zum Job finden. Stattdessen zweifelt er bald an seinem sonst so analytischen Verstand: Kinder verschwinden, sagenumwobene Gegenstände tauchen auf und uralte Ammenmärchen bekommen plötzlich eine blutige Brisanz. Bald zieht sich eine Spur an Gräueltaten durchs Voralpenland.

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 Sheriff Bud Shumway gets a call to fly into Utah’s remote and mysterious Maze District to help recover the body of a man wearing a tuxedo, he has no idea that it’s only the beginning of a series of strange happenings, from a missing symphony orchestra to a ragtag boatman who seems to be from the long-ago past.

Fame comes at a price. Some pay with their privacy. Others pay with their pride. Khloe Everest paid with her life. Determined to get her pretty face in front of the cameras, Khloe Everest fakes an abduction only to make a grand entrance in the midst of a press conference held by Spencer's Police Chief David O'Callaghan.

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?

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.

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.

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.

A weekend visit to picturesque Newfoundland by a large crew of outlaw bikers leaves behind another mess for Sgt. Windflower to clean up. This time, he’s facing violence, murder, mystery, and intrigue. This adventure has Windflower questioning everything he thought he knew. There are troubles on the home front, cutbacks in the policing budget, old friends leaving, and new ones not quite here yet. Windflower is seeking to find answers in territory that is both dangerous and unfamiliar.

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.

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.

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.

Mord im Sarntal: das neue Hörbuch des Bestsellerautors Lenz Koppelstätter. Gefährlicher Aberglaube, tödliche Delikatessen und ein finsteres Kapitel der Südtiroler Geschichte: Sein siebter Fall lässt Commissario Grauner an seinem Verstand zweifeln. Im Sarntal, im Herzen Südtirols, liegt zwischen Schluchten und mit wilden Latschenkiefern bewachsenen Hängen eines der besten Restaurants der Welt: das Tan. Ausgerechnet eine berühmte Goumetkritikerin kommt hier unter mysteriösen Umständen zu Tode.

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....

Dirigió Alemania con mano firme. Ahora no le temblará el pulso para resolver un caso de asesinato. Angela Merkel se retiró hace seis semanas y acaba de mudarse con su esposo, el guardaespaldas y su perrito Putin a una despoblada pero encantadora región del interior de Alemania. Acostumbrada a una vida turbulenta que le llevó a enfrentarse a duros líderes mundiales, situaciones límite y unos tres mil banquetes de Estado, ahora tiene dificultades para concentrarse en la tranquilidad del campo. Dedicarse sólo a hacer pasteles y senderismo va camino de convertirse en un soberano aburrimiento.

“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.