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Peter and Adele Robinson were dragged up by an alcoholic, violent father and a beaten mother, their childhood in Manchester preparing them only for a life of crime. Adele studies hard and makes a success of her life whilst Peter immerses himself in the murky underworld of crime, and their once close bond breaks. However, when Adele is in danger, there's only one person she can turn to...her brother.

June Dawson has come a long way from her rough East End background. She now lives in a nice little cul-de-sac in Rainham with her ultra-respectable husband and a lovely social life. But her world collapses when daughter Debbie announces that she is pregnant by her low-life drug addict boyfriend, Billy McDaid. June feels as though she is being sucked back into the world of villains and thugs she thought she had escaped forever.

Detective Inspector Avison Fluke is a man on the edge. He has committed a crime to get back to work, concealed a debilitating illness and is about to be made homeless. Just as he thinks things can't get any worse, the body of a young woman is found buried on a Cumbrian building site. Shot once in the back of the head, it is a cold, calculated execution. When the postmortem reveals she has gone to significant expense in disguising her appearance, Fluke knows this is no ordinary murder.

Weeks before NYPD Detective Michael Bennett is to marry his long-time love, Mary Catherine, an assassin announces their presence in the city with a string of murders. All of the victims are young women. And each has been killed in a manner as precise as it was gruesome. Tasked with working alongside the FBI, Bennett uncovers multiple cold-case homicides across the country that fit the same distinctive pattern. Bennett promises Mary Catherine that the case won't affect their upcoming wedding. But, as he struggles to connect the killings, Bennett may be walking into a deadly trap.

DI Owen Sheen vowed to his father never to return to Ireland. But years have passed, and Sheen needs answers to the questions he has surrounding his brother’s death. He is on loan from the Met under the belief he will be helping set up a new Historical Offences Team. On arrival to Ireland, plans change, and he finds himself partnered with newly promoted DC Aoife McCusker to work on her first appointed murder investigation.

A powerful, gritty novel set in the criminal underworld of Manchester from best-selling author Marnie Riches. Manchester's criminal underworld is shaken to the core when gang leader Paddy O'Brien is found bleeding by the poolside of his sprawling Bramshott mansion. So begins a fierce battle for the South Side, with the leading Manchester gangsters taking the law into their own hands - even when they have to play dirty to win....

Join Cassie on a thrilling journey into the heart of Savannah's mysteries, where secrets are currency, trust is fragile, and every revelation could cost her everything. Will she find the strength to face the past and unravel the enigma that threatens not only her future but the lives of countless others? Dive into this gripping tale, where danger lurks in the shadows, and uncovering the truth could mean paying the ultimate price.

I didn't mean to kill him. The last thing I want is the director of my film—my first big role—dead. Now the cops are here, and even though it's obviously self-defense, I'm done for...my life is over. I'll never work in this town again even if I manage to avoid jail time. I'll be infamous instead of famous. Temperance Johnson is straight out of central casting—a spy master with tiger's eyes and unnatural grace—a real killer. He offers me a solution. He'll sweep all this under the rug and help me reach my goals if I work for him. Well, for the government.

The wealthiest zip code in Florida doesn't just have billionaires, yachts, and private planes - it also has the best murder plots money can buy.

Jennifer Hanson comes home and catches her 12-year-old son, Shane, stabbing their cat to death. Thankfully, he doesn't see her. She has long known Shane has a brain with psychopathic tendencies. Ever since he accidentally shot his father to death at age six, she has done everything she can to ensure Shane doesn't become a full-blown psychopath. She can tell he's changing, becoming increasingly dangerous, but she can't stomach putting him in a psych ward. But then she finds pictures of a dead girl in his phone, a girl everyone thought had died accidentally.

Hendes datter, med de smaragdgrønne øjne og det sødeste smil, betyder alt for hende. “Mor,” siger den lille pige og rører hendes ansigt med rystende fingre, inden hun bliver vristet væk. Kommer hun nogensinde til at se sit barn igen? Da den enlige mor Alison Nolan tager på ferie med sin 6-årige datter, Hazel, glæder hun sig til at tilbringe kvalitetstid med sin lille pige. En ferie ved Silent Lake, hvor sneklædte tinder er omgivet af efterårets gyldne farver, er lige, hvad de trænger til. Men efter få timer forsvinder Alison og Hazel ud i den blå luft.

Shepherd took Claire against her will. Pair-bonded the Omega despite her reluctance, tying their souls together for life. Conquered her city and brought her people to heel. Yet never anticipated he’d fall in love. Or imagine his wonderful mate would grow to despise him to the point she’d risk her life to escape. That cannot stand. He will find his missing mate, he will drag her home, and he will make her adore him. After all, he holds the key to his resistant mate's compliance - the lives of her friends.

A recent college graduate, Rayla Rousseau has been leading a double life that’s given her life extraordinary meaning. Trained from the time she was seven by her grandmother to become the irrepressible thief she is, Rayla has worked for a secret sisterhood since her 13th birthday. In addition, Rayla’s maintained a solo thieving career since she turned 18. Now at 22, she’s a full-fledged high-end thief who steals from the vile, contemptible, and entitled wealthy, taking down real bad guys and keeping a fair amount of the spoils for her trouble.

Die ersten drei Fälle für die unverwechselbare Frankfurter Kommissarin Mara Billinsky - düster, atmosphärisch und hochspannend! "Blinde Rache": Tattoos, schwarze Kleidung, raue Schale: Mara Billinsky eckt an. Auch bei ihren neuen Kollegen in der Frankfurter Mordkommission, von denen sie nur "die Krähe" genannt wird. Niemand traut Mara den Job wirklich zu, schon gar nicht ihr Chef, der sie lieber auf Wohnungseinbrüche ansetzt. Aber dann erschüttert eine brutale Mordserie die Mainmetropole. Mara sieht ihre Chance gekommen. Sie will beweisen, was in ihr steckt.

Wer hoch steigt, wird tief fallen - sehr tief... In Frankfurt werden gleich mehrere Immobilienmakler grausam ermordet. Fieberhaft suchen Kommissarin Mara Billinsky und Jan Rosen nach dem Mörder, als plötzlich eine Ermittlerin aus Frankreich und ihr schwedischer Kollege um Maras Hilfe bitten. Sie jagen einen vermeintlich seriösen Geschäftsmann - der in Wahrheit eine blutige Spur durch Europa zieht und dabei jede Menge Leichen hinterlässt. Mara "die Krähe" hängt sich an seine Fährte.

Neue Reihe, neuer Ermittler - aber unverwechselbar Leo Born! Der erste Band: Eine grausame Mordserie erschüttert Frankfurt: Die Opfer sind Frauen, ihre nackten Leichen schmückt der Täter mit blutgetränkten weißen Lilien. Die Taten haben eine verblüffende Ähnlichkeit mit einer fünf Jahre alte Mordserie, deren brutaler Täter von der Boulevardpresse "Lilienmörder" genannt wurde. Aber der Serienmörder befindet sich hinter Gittern! Handelt es sich jetzt um einen Trittbrettfahrer? Kommissar Jack Diehl vom LKA Hessen rollt den Fall, der damals den Grundstein seiner Karriere bildete, erneut auf.

Ciudad Real. Julio de 2019. Dos operarios del servicio de basuras hallan una inquietante nota junto a unas piezas de ganado descuartizado y una calavera. Lo que inicialmente parece ser un acto de vandalismo de mal gusto acabará por convertirse en un complicado rompecabezas que sacudirá los cimientos de una ciudad en la que, aparentemente, nunca pasa nada. Una serie de macabros asesinatos que parecen obedecer a un ritual de corte satánico terminarán de poner en jaque a las autoridades policiales.

Drei brutale Morde erschüttern die Mainmetropole. Einer der Toten ist ein angesehener Anwalt. Bei ihren Ermittlungen erhält Kommissarin Mara Billinsky Unterstützung von ungewöhnlicher Seite. Gemeinsam mit der Prostituierten Joy will Mara den Sumpf aus Menschenhandel, Drogen und Zwangsprostitution, auf den sie gestoßen ist, trockenlegen. Doch dann muss sie erkennen, dass ihr ein fataler Fehler unterlaufen ist: Sie hat ihre Gegner unterschätzt.

In search of redemption from his sordid past, FBI Special Agent Alex Bailey takes on a new partner, Katherine Mitchel...and a new secret mission. Before being assigned their first joint case, Katherine uncovers damning evidence against a major crime ring known as The Syndicate.

Former time vice detective Tom Mandel lost his wife after failing to stop Malcolm Wolfe from pulling off the biggest time heist in Unity history. Nine years later, with less than a day remaining on his government-allotted Life Tracker, Tom's ready to join her. But when his former partner, Alaina Raines, brings word that Wolfe has escaped prison and is gearing up for another heist, Tom must decide: spend his last hours on Earth in a drug-induced haze or return to the life he left behind to catch the man who broke him.