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It’s just before Christmas, 1953. Grasby and Juggers are investigating a puzzling murder in the remote village of Uthley’s Bay. A fisherman has been found dead on the beach, with a stocking wound tight round his throat. Hundreds of pairs of stockings, in neat cellophane bags, soon wash up on the shore. A blizzard cuts off Grasby and Juggers from help, and the local innkeeper is murdered. Any remaining Christmas cheer goes up in smoke as the villagers refuse to talk, leaving the two detectives chasing false leads in the snow.

While working one afternoon on the Northern Divide, a young tree-marker makes a grisly discovery: in a squatter's cabin near an old mill town, a family has been murdered. An army vet coming off a successful turn leading a task force that took down infamous biker criminals, Detective Frank Yakabuski arrives in Ragged Lake, a nearly abandoned village, to solve the family's murder. But no one is willing to talk. With a winter storm coming, Yakabuski sequesters the locals in a fishing lodge as he investigates the area with his two junior officers.

It's Christmas 1952. Blizzards come to Elderby, a remote village high on the North York Moors. Is the dead stranger found lodged up the chimney at Holly House a simple thief or something much more sinister? Inspector Frank Grasby finds himself heading up the investigation. But who is friend or foe? The victim of some most unfortunate misunderstandings, Grasby needs to clear his name. But as is often the way with the unlucky detective, things most certainly don't go according to plan.

Ex-priest DI Farrell is called on to investigate a gruesome death in rural Scotland. All evidence points to suicide, except for one loose end: every light in the cottage was switched off. Why would he kill himself in the dark? The question sparks a murder investigation that leads to the mysterious Ivy House, home of ‘The Collective’, a sinister commune of artists who will do anything to keep their twisted secrets hidden. And when the remains of a young girl are uncovered on a barren stretch of coastline, Farrell realises that there is something rotten in this tight-knit community.

Even after the apocalypse, crimes must be solved. In 2019, the AIs went to war. It lasted three days, until the electromagnetic pulse from hundreds of nuclear bombs destroyed the infected circuits. Billions of people succumbed to radiation, starvation, and disease. But millions survived, and they rebuilt. Twenty years later, a ceremony is being held to mark the first transatlantic broadcast since the Blackout. The Prime Minister of Britain and two of the Presidents of the United States will speak to an audience of nearly 10 million people. Not all are celebrating. Crime is on the rise, and power is once again a prize worth murdering for. Ruth Deering, a new graduate from the police academy, doesn't care about ancient history or current affairs. She only joined the force to escape the smog-infested city. Those hopes are dashed when she is assigned to the Serious Crimes Unit, commanded by the disgraced Sergeant Mitchell. Her first case seems like a simple murder, but the investigation uncovers a counterfeiting ring and a conspiracy that threatens to destroy their fragile democracy.

As nations rebuild, democracy is under threat. In 2019, the AIs went to war. Millions died before a nuclear holocaust brought an end to their brief reign of terror. Billions more succumbed to radiation poisoning, disease, and the chaotic violence of that apocalypse. Some survived. They rebuilt. Twenty years later, civilisation is a dim shadow of its former self. Crime is on the rise. During the investigation of a routine homicide, Police Officer Ruth Deering prevents a group of Luddites from destroying the telegraph. This act of sabotage is only the beginning. As arrests are made, and criminals are caught, evidence emerges that the saboteurs are connected to the AIs, the counterfeiting, and to the assassination. The shadowy figure behind the conspiracy must be unmasked before their fragile democracy is destroyed.

In 2019, the AIs went to war. Three days later, hundreds of nuclear missiles were launched. The electromagnetic pulse destroyed the machines, but the radiation and famine nearly destroyed humanity. By 2039, civilization had regressed to the age of steam, but newer technologies were on the horizon. The future looked bright until the warlords swept through Europe. Villages and towns were laid waste, the few thousand people who'd hacked out a life in the continental wasteland were butchered. It was only when the barbarians reached the British garrison in Calais that they were stopped.

In der staubigen Hitze des Dresdner Sommers im Nachkriegsjahr 1948 gehen die Aufbauarbeiten an der zerstörten Stadt nur schleppend voran. Lebensmittel sind knapp und aus der Gefangenschaft heimkehrende Familienväter schwer traumatisiert. Der erschütternde Fall eines toten Vierzehnjährigen gibt Max Heller Rätsel auf. War es ein Unfall, Mord oder sogar Selbstmord? Und was hat es mit seiner Verbindung zu der kriminellen Jugendbande auf sich, die mit gestohlenen Lebensmittelkarten und Medikamenten handelt?

In this second book in the Frank Yakabuski Mystery series, Yakabuski is called in to investigate a gruesome crime scene. A body has been left hanging from a schoolyard fence. On closer inspection, Yak finds a large diamond in the murder victim’s mouth. Two criminal gangs - the Shiners and the Travellers - are fighting with each other, and Yakabuski turns to his father, a now-retired detective who has a long history with the gangs, for advice in the interrogation. And as if this weren’t enough for one detective, a serial killer is taking a deadly road trip through the United States.

Vino, Mord und Bella Italia! ist eine gemütliche Italien-Krimi-Serie mit Schauplatz Toskana. In dem malerischen Städtchen Fontenaia erbt Anna Wagner nicht nur die alte Villa ihrer Nonna, sondern stolpert auch über den ein oder anderen Mord. Sehr zum Missfallen des Commissario Vico Martinelli, der es überhaupt nicht leiden kann, wenn sich eine Amateurin in seine Fälle einmischt. Doch schon bald hat Anna viele neue Freunde in dem Ort gefunden, die ihr bei der Spurensuchen und der Jagd auf Verbrecher tapfer zur Seite stehen.

Wahnsinn oder Strategie? Köln, 1999: Ein scheinbar harmloser Geschäftsmann fällt einem grausamen Verbrechen zum Opfer. Die Tat eines Verrückten? Vera Gemini, Kölner Detektivin, die wider Willen in den Fall hineingezogen wird, erkennt schon bald die perfide Logik hinter der angeblichen Wahnsinnstat. Die Spur führt zurück ins Jahr 1991, in die letzten Tage des Golfkriegs, und zu einem Geheimnis in der kuwaitischen Wüste - begraben, aber nicht vergessen.

A violent robber is loose in River City. Meet the cops that must take him down. Stefan Kopriva, a young hotshot. Katie MacLeod, a woman in what is still mostly a man’s world. Karl Winter, about to retire but with one more good bust left in him. And Thomas Chisolm, a former Green Beret who knows how dangerous a man like the Scarface Robber can be. These are the patrol officers of River City - that mythical thin blue line between society and anarchy.

When the body of Rufus Moorcroft, a middle-aged widower with a distinguished war record, is found in his summerhouse, the verdict is suicide. But both reporter Jill Francis and her lover, Detective Richard Thornhill, approaching the case from different angles, discover there's more to it than that. The sixth instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth series.

Prepperszene und Polizistenmord. Gekonnt verpackt Goldammer aktuelle Themen in einen starken Plot. In den frühen Morgenstunden werden zwei Polizisten auf einer Landstraße bei Dresden erschossen. Die junge Beamtin und der Familienvater waren beliebt und unauffällig, in ihrem Umfeld finden die Ermittler Felix Bruch und Nicole Schauer zunächst keine Spur. Zeugen wollen einen schwarzen Pickup am Tatort gesehen haben. Dessen mutmaßlicher Besitzer führt die Ermittler in ein Milieu des Untergangs - zu einem Prepper, einem Mann, der an den Ernstfall glaubt und sich akribisch darauf vorbereitet.

Britain's most popular bobby turns detective! A delightful account of Constable Nick’s foray into the CID, or as he thinks of it, Constable In Disguise. Nick joins the Criminal Investigation Department to learn about the work of the detectives in civilian clothes. Asked to keep a watchful eye on a house thought to be used as a brothel, Nick quietly climbs the roof and sends a tile crashing through the window. When the woman inside and her five brothers attack the neighbours for causing the damage, the police turn out in force and arrest everybody. Meanwhile Nick lies low on the roof.

Love and need make unexpected bedfellows, and both are blind. As the grip of a long hard winter tightens on Lydmouth, a dead woman calls the dying in a seance behind net curtains. Two provincial newspapers are in the throes of a bitter circulation war. A lorry driver broods, and an office boy loses his heart. Britain is basking in the warm glow of postwar tranquillity, but in the quiet town of Lydmouth, darker forces are at play. The rats are fed on bread and milk, a gentleman's yellow kid glove is mislaid on a train and something disgusting is happening at Mr Prout's toy shop.

When Mattie Harris' body is found drowned in the river, everyone in Lydmouth knows something is wrong. Mattie wasn't a swimmer - it can't have been a simple accident. She was drunk on the last night of her life - could she have fallen in? Or was she pushed? Mattie was a waitress, so when Lydmouth's most prominent citizens become very anxious to establish that her death was accidental, Jill Francis' suspicions become roused. In the meantime she is becoming ever closer to Inspector Richard Thornhill and discovering that the living have as many secrets as the dead.

Ein Stadtteil am Rande Dresdens ist in Aufruhr: Ein zwölfjähriges Mädchen ist spurlos verschwunden. Felix Bruch wird mit der neuen Ermittlerin Nicole Schauer auf diesen Fall angesetzt. Schauer merkt schnell, das Bruch ein Einzelgänger ist, kein Wunder, denn er legt scheinbar keinen Wert darauf von anderen gemocht zu werden. Schauer plant eh schon wieder ihre Versetzung, sie versucht nicht gekränkt zu sein. Die Ermittlungen laufen schleppend an.

Im August 1881 wird Kriminalrat Gustav Heller in die Villa von Adele Blumfeld gerufen, um den plötzlichen Tod eines Teilnehmers der gerade stattgefundenen Séance aufzuklären. Heller glaubt keine Sekunde an Geister oder die übersinnlichen Kräfte der exzentrischen Gastgeberin. Doch das morbide Haus und vor allem das stumme und mit Narben übersäte junge Dienstmädchen scheinen ein Geheimnis zu hüten, dem der Kriminalrat auf den Grund gehen will. Nach weiteren mysteriösen Todesfällen beschließt Heller, selbst an einer Geisterbeschwörung teilzunehmen….

The latest in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins involves the murder of a notorious criminal in the home of a famous millionaire. But there are no clues, no evidence. The police are convinced that someone may have just committed the perfect crime. The Detective Story Club, launched by Collins in 1929, was a clearinghouse for the best and most ingenious crime stories of the age, chosen by a select committee of experts.