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Random House presents the audiobook edition of The White Lioness by Henning Mankell, read by Sean Barrett. In 1992, in peaceful Southern Sweden, Louise Akerblom, an estate agent, pillar of the Methodist church, wife and mother, disappears. There is no explanation and no motive. Inspector Wallander and his team are called in to investigate. As Wallander is introduced to this case, he has a gut feeling that the victim will never be found alive, but he has no idea how far he will have to go in search of the killer.

The execution-style murder of a Swedish housewife looks like a simple case, except that there is no obvious suspect. Wallander follows a lead on a determined stalker. But when his alibi turns out to be airtight, Wallander begins to realize that what seemed a simple crime of passion is actually far more complex and dangerous. Eventually, his search uncovers an assassination plot, and Wallander soon finds himself in a tangle with the secret police and with a ruthless foreign agent.

In "Manhunt", join game warden Jo as she leads a pulse-pounding pursuit against a dangerous fugitive in the unforgiving wilderness. As Officer Hadley, injured but relentless, tracks the suspect, Jo races to save a fellow man and apprehend the fugitive. With time running out, a tightening dragnet, and the threat of hypothermia looming, every decision can mean life or death. Can Jo orchestrate a high-stakes manhunt to capture the fugitive and save an officer's life before the wild claims them both?

Two detectives. Two identical women. One dead body—rapidly becoming two, then three, then four. All knotted up in Japan’s underground BDSM scene and kinbaku, a form of rope bondage which bears a complex cultural history of spirituality, torture, cleansing, and sacrifice. As Togashi, a junior member of the police force, investigates the murder of a kinbaku instructor, he finds himself unable to resist his own private transgressive desires. In contrast, Togashi’s colleague Hayama is morally upright to a fault, with a stalwart commitment to the truth.

"Who am I? Why, I'm you. Or parts of you. The best parts. I'm the touch of Richard Speck, Ed Gein, John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, and Bin Laden in all of you. I am the thousand tiny angers and fleeting rages of your day - at the car that cuts you off on the freeway, at the kid who sneaks ahead of you in line at the movies, at the old fart with the full basket in the eight-items-only express checkout at the supermarket. I'm the nasty glee in the name-callers and the long-suffering pain, the self-loathing, the smoldering resentment, the suppressed rage, and the never-to-be-fulfilled promises of revenge in their targets.

Eigentlich sucht Kommissar Wallander nur ein gemütliches Haus am Meer als Rückzugsort. Doch schon bei der ersten Hausbesichtigung findet er im Garten die Überreste einer Frauenleiche. Und es bleibt nicht bei dieser einen.

Mord oder Selbstmord? Ein Mann steigt in der Nähe des Strandes in ein Taxi und stirbt während der Fahrt. Vergiftet. Doch wer hat ihm das Gift verabreicht? Kommissar Wallander findet heraus, dass der Sohn des Mannes sieben Jahre zuvor ermordet wurde. Der Täter wurde nie gefasst. Und die Richterin von damals wohnt ebenfalls in der Nähe des Strandes...

With a serial killer on the loose in Dallas, Texas, former US Marshal turned FBI agent Sommer Potts is assigned the case. Can she find out who he is and catch him before it's too late or will she become The Artist's next Masterpiece?

Wie die Jahre vergehen: Kurt Wallander lebt inzwischen auf dem Land, seine Tochter Linda ist verheiratet und hat ein Kind. Bei der Geburtstagsfeier ihres Schwiegervaters Håkan erfährt Wallander erstmals von dessen Zeit als Marineoberst. Als kurz darauf Håkan und seine Frau spurlos verschwinden, verstrickt sich Wallander in einen Fall, dessen Spuren bis in den Kalten Krieg zurückreichen. Wenn Tatort-Kommissar Axel Milberg liest, steigert er mit untrüglichem Gespür für Mankells subtile Dramatik die Spannung bis zum atemberaubenden Finale.

A group of intergenerational secret society sadistic pedophiles targets and brutalizes poor young boys in a rigidly conservative southern rural, small-town community. Five victims endure horrific childhoods and become close friends, and all but Eddie grow into men. Two things are in common with the survivors: they want revenge against their abusers and to avenge the death of Eddie.

When an officer's murder in Biscayne National Park threatens to expose a corrupt agency, one man is tasked with finding the killer, but he’s running into a wall of organizational conspiracy built to conceal a devious plot. Special Agent Kurt Hunter is fighting to find the truth hidden behind a maze of twisted coworkers and interagency tensions. From the glamorous Intracoastal Waterway of Miami to the natural beauty of Biscayne National Park, this new mystery from best-selling author Steven Becker reveals the good, the bad, and the ugly of South Florida.

Kurt Hammer's life is falling apart. His family has been found murdered, and his personal life is a shambles. While Kurt tries to leave his past behind and turn a new page, a serial killer is loose in the city of Trondheim, Norway. The police are clueless, and soon Kurt is called in. But can he rise to the occasion and save the day?

Salem is a private investigator hired to find a young girl abducted from her school in the middle of the school day. Local authorities have had zero leads and no good suspects for months and have hit a dead-end. Salem has his own theory, but it leads down a much darker path than he anything the local police could imagine or are equipped to deal with. His investigation is nearly cut short before it could really get underway, when on his first night in town, he finds himself trapped at the beginning of a murder investigation; the killer working very hard to make sure he's the prime suspect.

Den schrecklichen Überfall auf das alte Bauernehepaar werden die Menschen im südschwedischen Schonen nie vergessen: Eines Nachts hält ein Auto vor einem einsam gelegenen Gehöft, Männer schleichen zum Haus, fesseln die Eheleute und ermorden sie brutal. Dann fliehen sie mit ein paar Kronen Bargeld. "Ausländer, Ausländer!" - die letzten Worte der sterbenden Frau - lösen eine Welle der Gewalt gegen Ausländer in Schonen aus...

„Keinen Scheiß jetzt“, sagte der Profi dann zum Ederl, wischte sein Messer an einem Hosenbein des Toten sauber und packte es wieder weg. - Das Grausen könnte einem schon kommen, in diesem Blut- und Beuschel-Drama, diesem echt wienerischen Kriminalroman, den kein geringer als Dr. Kurt Ostbahn, seinem „Trainer“ Günter Brödl in die Feder diktiert hat. Denn: Was grauslich beginnt, geht grauslich weiter und steigert sich bis zu einem grandiosen "Blutrausch“-Finale bei dem der Kurti den Kieberern glatt die Schau stiehlt.

When a plea for help sends retired Detroit cop Kurt Argento to the small desert town of Fenton, Arizona things immediately don’t appear to be as they seem, and he finds himself unraveling secrets that want to stay hidden and questioning his own moral compass.

Kommissar Wallanders Recherchen über die Morde an zwei Anwälten führen ihn auf die Fährte einer international tätigen Organisation, die mit allen legalen und illegalen Mitteln Geschäfte macht. Wozu Menschen fähig sind in einer Welt, in der sich alles nur um Kaufen und Verkaufen dreht, wird Kommissar Wallander im Laufe dieser Ermittlung erfahren.

When a chilling murder rocks the tranquil shores of the Virgin Islands, Kurt Hunter, a seasoned Special Agent, finds himself thrust into the heart of paradise with a mission that goes deeper than the azure waters surrounding him. Assigned to the Virgin Islands National Park on a temporary basis, Hunter must untangle the threads of a sinister plot that weaves through the idyllic landscape, turning paradise into a perilous labyrinth.

Kurt Wallander im Kampf gegen die Apartheid: Eine schwedische Immobilienmaklerin wird gesucht, ein abgerissener Finger gefunden. Ein Haus explodiert und ein Profikiller ist auf der Flucht - kurz: Die Ereignisse überschlagen sich...

Wallanders Debüt: Gerade Anfang 20 ist Kurt Wallander, noch Streifenpolizist und unverheiratet, als er seinen toten Nachbarn Halén findet. Dieser liegt erschossen - den Revolver in der Hand - in seiner Wohnung. Für die Kriminalpolizei steht fest...