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Ever since I met my handsome husband Dr Gabe Bonneville, I started playing the role of the perfect housewife. He works hard as a surgeon, so I look after our home, and throw elaborate dinner parties with champagne cocktails for his best friends Hugh and Anita. He’s my safe place and my chance to have the family I’ve always wanted. I’ve managed to hide the mornings when I wake up and see a face in the shadows. I haven’t told Gabe the truth about the woman who raised me, or told him about the therapy I’ve been getting so my secrets stay hidden in the dark.

A beautiful model's death uncovers an ugly conspiracy stretching all the way to Westminster in Rosie Gilmour's darkest case to date. When rags-to-riches Scots supermodel Bella Mason plunges to her death from the roof of a glitzy Madrid hotel, everyone assumes it was suicide. Except that one person saw exactly what happened to Bella that night, and she definitely didn't jump. But Millie Chambers has no one she can tell - alcoholic, depressed herself and now sectioned by her bullying politician husband, who would believe her?

Can Jane Tennison uncover a serial killer? The fourth in the Sunday Times best-selling Jane Tennison thrillers, Murder Mile is set in 1979 at the height of the 'Winter of Discontent' when economic chaos has led to widespread strikes across Britain. Jane Tennison, now a Detective Sergeant, has been posted to Peckham CID, one of London's toughest areas. As the rubbish on the streets begins to pile up, so does the murder count: two bodies in as many days. There are no suspects, and the manner of death is different in each case.

The headless body of a wealthy widow is discovered decomposing in Chelling Forest. Then a second victim is found. Detective Inspector Lorne Simpkins and her partner, DS Pete Childs, are assigned the case. Before they can discover the identity of the killer they must make a connection between the two victims. After a third murder, Lorne receives a grisly surprise. Clearly, a vicious serial killer is on a rampage, and Lorne has become the killer's fixation.

As old friends the Wiksells and the Anderssons raise their glasses, their teenage children host their own party across town, finally free to let loose. But the next morning, seventeen-year-old Jennifer Wiksell is missing. The hours tick by. The police get involved. And no one knows who to trust. These two families have a lot to hide. Could the answer to Jennifer's disappearance lie close to home?

For eight long years, Detective Inspector Lorne Simpkins has tracked the vicious criminal known as The Unicorn. But the killer has frustrated MI6 at every turn and has remained successful at Impeding Justice. When Lorne is targeted in a trap that results in the death of her partner, the tragedy shakes her confidence to the core. Before she has time to recoup, her teenage daughter is kidnapped. More than Lorne's professional reputation rests on her bringing The Unicorn to justice.

FBI Special Agent Anna Turnipseed, a Modoc Indian from California, and Bureau of Indian Affairs Investigator Emmett Parker, a Comanche from Oklahoma, are a team, sent by the Feds wherever there are problems in tribal territory.

Efter succén med Smögenserien kommer nu deckarförfattaren Anna Ihrén med den nya internationella serien - Morden vid havet. Stella York kallas ner till Albufeira i Portugal för att utreda det mystiska mordet på den svenske prästens hustru. Paula hittas död under en liten fiskebåt vid strandruinen mitt i den gamla staden. Längs Algarvekusten saknas Stellas kompetens som expert inom Modus operandi. Hennes uppdrag blir att analysera brottsplatsen och obduktionsprotokollet för att genom sin erfarenhet och unika metoder hitta mördaren. Men hennes chef på Stockholmspolisen, Nick Ernekow, sliter...

Il rione Sanità è un’isola. Un lungo ponte lo divide dal resto di Napoli. Qui, i vivi e i defunti convivono da secoli e non vi è posto, più di questo, in cui morte e vita siano così strettamente intrecciate. Ed è qui che, dopo quarant’anni, due fratelli si rincontrano. Raffaele, dato in adozione giovanissimo alla morte della madre, ci torna come parroco della basilica di Santa Ma - ria alla Sanità. Peppino, invece, è il boss del quartiere. Due uomini che non potrebbero essere più diversi l’uno dall’altro.

En ung mand vågner fra sin koma og opdager, at hans forældres mordere har ham i sigtekornet – alt imens en person udgiver sig for at være en berygtet Newzealandsk seriemorder. Hvordan fanger man en morder... Når det eneste bevis, man har, er en drøm? James Garrett blev kritisk såret, da han blev skudt i forlængelse af sine forældres henrettelse, og der var ingen, der forventede, at han ville vågne op fra sin dybe, traumatiske koma. Men da han alligevel kommer til bevidsthed ni år senere, bliver kriminalkommissær Rebecca Kent sat på sagen.

En välkänd företagares kropp hittas flytande i Göta älv. Hans flotta lägenhet är tömd på allt av värde. Erika Ekman och hennes kollegor på Grova brott gruppen går snart in i en återvändsgränd men oväntat upptäcks märkliga likheter med andra fall där fler män har blivit plundrade och sedan försvunnit spårlöst. Alla har dejtat på nätet. Allt får en ny dimension när Zora, syster till en av utredarna, får sparken från sitt jobb som copywriter på en reklambyrå i Stockholm samtidigt som hennes sambo gör slut.

En oväntad julklapp har gjort privatdetektiven Kinsey Millhone misstänksam. Från ingenstans har hon med ens blivit femtusen dollar rikare. Men vem är det egentligen som har satt in pengarna på hennes bankkonto? Mysteriet tätnar då hon plötsligt står anklagad för att ha anlagt en mordbrand på beställning.

Polisen Erika är sjukskriven och åker hem till Norrland tillsammans med sin hund Boss. Hon har inte berättat för någon att hon är gravid efter den våldtäkt som hennes man utsatte henne för. Snart dras hon in i en lokal utredning av det som först ser ut att vara ett makabert självmord på en gammal avrättningsplats i Östersund. När ytterligare en man tagit sitt liv på en forntida offerplats i Göteborg börjar man se ett samband. Det andra offret har fått en film där det första offret torteras. Vad har offren gemensamt? Kommer de att bli fler?

This book is an example of the noir thriller genre. Drake Mardoon is a private detective brought in by the Chicago Police Department to assist tracking down a serial killer.