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Dostoevsky’s Underground Man is a composite of the tormented clerk and the frustrated dreamer of his earlier stories, but his Notes from the Underground is a precursor of his great later novels and their central concern with the nature of free will. Initially musing on his “sickness” and the detested notion of self-interest, the maladjusted and willful Underground Man turns to a series of incidents from years earlier.

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In this accessible guide, franchise expert Rick Grossmann and franchise attorney Michael J. Katz impart decades-worth of insight and advice on what it takes to make your franchise operation successful. Grossmann and Katz share expert tutorials, tricks of the trade, and access to sample franchise documents, checklists, and questionnaires designed to get you organized, support you through the process, and get your new franchise off the ground.

Criminal investigator Thomas Ravnsholdt—better known as Ravn—is on leave from Copenhagen’s special crime unit following the brutal murder of his wife. Wracked with guilt over her death, Ravn has withdrawn to a ramshackle houseboat with only his grumpy Old English Bulldog to keep him company. But his self-imposed exile ends when a friend asks him for help finding a young woman who disappeared without a trace a few years earlier. The investigation brings Ravn back to his former workplace and the underworld he’d hoped to leave behind.

From Danish crime master Michael Katz Krefeld comes a gripping Nordic noir. In the eye of the storm, truth is her only anchor... Dr Maja Holm seeks solace in a desolate Norwegian coastal town, fleeing a turbulent past. But as her gruelling work hours and self-medication take their toll, she teeters on the edge. When a patient's mysterious death raises suspicions, Maja's intuition sparks a daring alliance with local TV journalist Stig Norland. Together, they plunge into the town's secrets, racing against the impending polar storm.

Police inspector Cecilie Mars is a different kind of cop. She has a heavy cocaine habit, fantasizes about vigilante violence, and constantly falls in love with men she shouldn’t. Late one night, while tailing a suspect, Mars makes an ill-fated choice that has far-reaching consequences. Unluckily for her, her misstep has been observed and filmed. Now, an anonymous foe is threatening to reveal the truth unless she submits to his terrifying agenda.

New propulsive thriller from Denmark’s King of Crime Criminal investigator Thomas Ravnsholdt—better known as Ravn—is on leave from Copenhagen’s special crime unit following the brutal murder of his wife. Racked with guilt over her death, Ravn must navigate the seedy underbelly of Stockholm he'd hoped to leave behind when he is informed of a young woman's strange disappearance. As he races to determine if the woman is still alive, Ravn's investigation takes a dangerous turn when he is drawn into the web of a sadistic murderer...

La justicia podría no ser suficiente...En medio de una serie de asesinatos violentos a mujeres en Dinamarca, la inspectora jefe Cecilie Mars es arrastrada a las sombras de un mundo oculto lleno de odio. Los asesinatos se remontan a un antiguo caso de violación olvidado que une a un grupo de hombres con una rabia desmedida contra las mujeres. En su investigación, Mars descubre una sociedad secreta y no tardará en darse cuenta de que la ley no basta para detener a los autores.

Kriminalbetjent Thomas Ravnsholdt, kaldet Ravn, bliver sendt på sygeorlov fra Station Citys specialenhed, efter hans kæreste, Eva, er blevet brutalt myrdet under et hjemmerøveri. Fuld af selvbebrejdelse over Evas død har Ravn søgt tilflugt på sin gamle motorbåd i Christianshavns kanal. Her bor han sammen med hunden Møffe, en aldrende engelsk bulldog med kroniske maveproblemer.

SI MANDA EL VÍDEO, ¡LO PERDERÁ TODO!. Es de noche, tarde, y la recién nombrada inspectora, Cecilie Mars, comete un gran error que tendrá graves consecuencias para ella. Ese error ha sido grabado por una figura anónima que empezará a chantajear a Cecilie con revelar todo si no sigue su astuto plan. Involucrada en un siniestro dilema de chantaje y vigilantismo, Cecilie se ve obligada a dedicir hasta dónde está dispuesta a llegar para que realmente se haga justicia.

When Denmark is rocked by a wave of bestial killings that strikes fear in the hearts of women across the country, police inspector Cecilie Mars traces the clues back to an unsolved rape case and a shadowy circle of men driven by a misogynistic fury that knows no limits. Mixing detective work with a quest for retribution, Mars quickly determines the law alone is not enough to stop the perpetrators. But her brash and uncompromising style creates new enemies—both within police leadership and near her home in Copenhagen’s Nordvest area, where a gang war is raging.

Callous cults and colossal consequences... Hired by CEO Ferdinand Mesmer to find his estranged son Jakob, the founder of a notorious cult, Ravn quickly discovers he's not the first PI on this dark case - one has already vanished... As Ravn delves deeper, he realises that although the cult harbors chilling secrets, it's the untold horrors in the Mesmer family's past that threaten catastrophic consequences for everyone... The haunting third book of Michael Katz Krefeld's acclaimed Ravn series is a pulse-pounding thriller from the Danish crime master that will leave you on the edge of your seat.

Suspended from his job, criminal investigator Thomas "Ravn" Ravnsholdt lives a lonely, dissolute existence—until he crosses paths with a woman desperate for help locating her missing brother. Driven to embezzlement, the man has vanished without a trace on a visit to Berlin. Ravn's investigation takes a chilling turn when he uncovers a pattern of similar disappearances involving single men in the German capital. As the pieces of this puzzle start to fall into place, Ravn finds himself entangled in a web of darkness and deception that dates back to the era of the Stasi.

Ondskaben kender ingen grænser. Den erfarne privatopdager Ravn får sin mest uhyggelige sag til dato, da en klient beder ham finde en gammel skolekammerat, som han ikke har haft kontakt med i 17 år. En række bestialske overfald på kvinder, der ryster København har givet klienten mistanke om, at hans skolekammerat står bag, fordi overfaldene minder om det, som han og kammeraten begik på en lille pige tilbage i 1993, og som endte fatalt.

En mordbrand viser sig at have forbindelse til både en mystisk sekt og til de højeste kredse i det danske erhvervsliv, da Ravn får en tilsyneladende banal sag: Han hyres af den velhavende direktør Ferdinand Mesmer, som er ekspert i ledelsesstrategi, til at finde Mesmers forsvundne søn Jakob, der for 10 år siden grundlagde den nu skandaleramte sekt "Guds udvalgte".

En morderisk forsvindingssag vækker fortidens rædsler til live. "Savnet" er en højspændt krimi om en ensom mand, der begår underslæb for at rejse til et hemmeligt møde i Berlin, men forsvinder sporløst. Thomas Ravnsholdt bliver gennem mandens søster Louise involveret i eftersøgningen og må sande, at flere enlige mænd er forsvundet på mystisk vis i den tyske hovedstad. Det bliver til en nervepirrende jagt på sandheden og gerningsmanden, som står bag.

One missing person. Endless buried secrets... When a man vanishes after embezzling funds for a secret rendezvous in Berlin, Ravn is drawn into a chilling investigation by the man's sister, Louise. The mystery deepens as Ravn discovers a pattern of lonely men disappearing under mysterious circumstances, a trail leading back to the dark days of Stasi-Germany. As he gets closer to the truth, Ravn finds himself caught in the crosshairs, stirring up horrors better left buried.

Freelance private detective Thomas "Ravn" Ravnsholdt is attempting to move on with his life following the murder of his girlfriend. But when wealthy business mogul Ferdinand Mesmer enlists his help finding his son, Ravn reluctantly takes on what he thinks will be a straightforward missing person case. A decade ago, Jacob Mesmer founded the mysterious and scandal-scarred religious sect "God's Chosen." Now he's vanished without a trace. As Ravn digs deeper, he discovers the previous private eye assigned to the case has also disappeared.

A shadowy figure stalks the streets of Copenhagen, preying on unsuspecting single women. Each victim becomes another macabre addition to the murderer's twisted collection, sending shockwaves of terror through the Danish capital. Enter Cecilie Mars, the maverick detective newly thrust into the spotlight as head of the city's homicide division. Tasked with bringing this fiend to justice, she faces not only the relentless pressure of a fearful public but also insidious opposition from inside the ranks of the police force.

En bilbombe dræber treogtyve personer på en fashionabel restaurant i det indre København. Alt tyder på et terrorangreb, men endnu har ingen taget ansvaret. Nikolaj Storm, der er chef for PET's enhed for kontraterrorisme, sættes i spidsen for efterforskningen. Med sin nyoprettede task force forsøger han at finde frem til gerningsmændene, men han plages samtidig af samvittighedskvaler over ikke at have forhindret angrebet.