Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Crime

Die attraktive Lydia halt sich fur eine geniale Lenkerin der Geschicke anderer Menschen. Hochst raffiniert und immer auf den eigenen Vorteil bedacht zieht sie die Faden, an denen die sie umgebenden Personen wie Marionetten tanzen. Ihre Eltern, zwei Ehemanner, einige Liebhaber, Freundinnen und Kolleginnen und nicht zuletzt ihre gutglaubige, sanftmutige Schwester Ulrike werden zu Opfern ihrer Manipulationen. In der Wahl ihrer Mittel ist Lydia dabei durchaus nicht zimperlich: Verleumdung, Rufmord und sogar Mord gehoren zu ihrem Repertoire. Doch irgendwann beginnen ihr die Faden zu entgleiten und...

Una rapina trasformatasi in strage senza motivo apparente; un operaio scomparso all'uscita dal suo cantiere; una banda portoricana che arma il suo esercito nel labirinto degli slum. Settanta giorni dopo i fatti di "Sangue chiama sangue," sono fantasmi in carne e ossa quelli che popolano i giorni e le notti di Noah Parker e dei suoi colleghi. Sullo sfondo delle strade assolate di un Barrio sempre piu decadente, scorre senza sosta il secondo romanzo della saga dedicata all'Undicesimo Distretto."

A British bestseller comes to American shores

British mystery fans are well acquainted with David Raker, missing-persons investigator and star of Tim Weaver's bestselling crime series. When Emily Kane arrives at her sister Carrie's house, she discovers the front door unlocked. Dinner is in the oven--but Carrie, her husband, and their two daughters are gone. When the police are unable to find a lead, Emily enlists the help of missing persons investigator (and former boyfriend) David Raker. But as he gets closer to the truth, Raker begins to uncover evidence of a sinister cover-up,...

The New York Times hails David Mark's work as "in the honorable tradition of Joseph Wambaugh and Ed McBain." SORROW BOUND is the third installment of the internationally acclaimed Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy series.

The sweltering summer heat is pushing Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy and the Serious and Organized Crime Unit to the brink as a sadistic new boss takes over the local drug trade and violent crime escalates. Then, McAvoy and DS Trish Pharaoh are distracted by something deadlier: a serial murderer with a taste for the macabre. McAvoy comes to suspect these...

A Quinn Colson Novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Broken Places

Thirty-six years ago, a nameless black man wandered into Jericho, Mississippi, with nothing but the clothes on his back and a pair of paratrooper boots. Less than two days later, he was accused of rape and murder, hunted down by a frenzied posse, and lynched.

Now evidence of his innocence has surfaced, and county sheriff Quinn Colson sets out to identify the stranger's remains and charge those responsible for the lynching. But as he starts to uncover old lies and secrets of...

A city is paralyzed by fear after a series of violent crimes that break ultimate taboo: harming infants and young children. The police suspect a pedophile; the media fuel fears of a violent new gang. Meanwhile, a street-smart shrink and a hard-nosed cop defy the focus of the larger investigation to pursue the real serial killer, a raging time bomb who's planning an ultimate attack on innocents. Based on actual events, this chilling, fast-paced novel pulls the reader into the world of violent troubled individuals?and what happens when we fail to help them.

The disappearance of a supermodel is sensational enough for the quiet town of Merrydale, but it sparks the unfolding of a broad web of criminal activity bringing together unsolved cases from the past, as well as revealing embarrassing secrets about well-known personalities, one in particular causing ructions. Central to it all is a highly sophisticated yet brutal criminal gang which hitherto has proved impossible to pin down by police forces in various parts of the country, enabling them to carry on their nefarious activities unchecked, including the neatly conducted but violent elimination...

South Africa, a country abundant in many natural resources, has a problem keeping its mineral wealth safe. In order to protect their rich supply of gold; the government decides to build the biggest vault in the world in the most unusual place-a cave called the Elephant's Eye. The most suitable man to be in charge of this project is William Tyler. Gifted and tough like well-tanned leather, he's an ex-special forces soldier possessing a Master's degrees in Mechanical and Civil engineering, and a brilliant strategist proven time and again. However, his abilities are about to be tested, as the...

Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov est un etudiant sans le sou, age de vingt-trois ans. Par manque d'argent, il a du abandonner ses etudes et vit dans un quartier mal fame de Saint-Petersbourg. Ronge par la pauvrete, il s'isole du reste du monde. Alors qu'il vend son dernier bien, la montre de son pere, a une usuriere, une idee lui vient a l'esprit: un meurtre est-il moralement tolerable s'il conduit a une amelioration de la condition humaine ? Il a decide d'assassiner l'usuriere depuis quelque temps, mais son plan ne se deroule pas comme prevu et il commet un double meurtre. Pris de remords et...

Meet Davie McCall -- not your average henchman. Abused and tormented by his father for fifteen years, there is a darkness in him searching for a way out. Under the wing of Glasgow's Godfather, Joe 'the Tailor' Klein, he flourishes. Joe the Tailor may be a killer, but there are some lines he won't cross, and Davie agrees with his strict moral code. He doesn't like drugs. He won't condone foul language. He abhors violence against women. When the Tailor refuses to be part of Glasgow's new drug trade, the hits start rolling. It's every man for himself as the entire criminal underworld turns on...

Henry Smith, a Senior Immigration Officer has been murdered. His funeral is attended by a mysterious woman of extraordinary beauty who tosses an object into the open grave. Also there is Smith's assistant, Susan Harvey who stands to inherit his art collection worth millions, and Colin Jackson who is dating Smith's daughter and is also a suspect in an international drug investigation. Henry Smith had been under investigation by Internal Affairs for granting permanent residency to asylum seekers even though they didn't meet the criteria and one of these had been his close friend Ivan Renowicz....

Homicide-detective Jim McDonald tackles the most challenging murder case of his career. Only he believes there has been a murder committed. And for him, it is not belief, it is fact. Three apparently unrelated accidents have claimed three apparently unrelated victims in Halifax. The first, a wildly successful businessman who roamed the highways of Nova Scotia in his armor-plated Cadillac as if he owned the roads. The general consensus suggested he could afford to own them many times over. The second, a middle-classed salesman type who was just trying to grind out a daily living....

Find out why Jimmy decided to become a serial killer. Jimmy Harden was a man that had it all, a beautiful wife, a nice house, and a promising career in the Army. When he returned from his latest deployment to Afghanistan he found that things had changed. His wife had filed for divorce and took out a restraining order barring him from both her and their house. Devastated and dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder, he moved into a rundown trailer park and tried to make due as best that he could. Every day he thought about how he could get her back. His options were limited so after reading...

Denzil Grant is a wounded ex-commando of the elite Special Task Force of Sri Lanka. While working as a journalist at the Vancouver Sun, he is recruited by Russell Doherty, a billionaire businessman and philanthropist as his Personal Assistant and Publicity Manager. Soon after Denzil begins work, Russell's bodyguard is killed. Together with the investigations into this murder, Russell's business empire and the lives of the main characters in the story are brought to light. Problems ailing the business empire magnify when Russell gets threatened with blackmail by a small-time thief. Denzil, in...

In un convento sconsacrato, abbandonato all'incuria, alle erbe infestanti e agli animali randagi, viene ritrovato il cadavere martoriato di un barbone. "La solita rissa fra clochard ubriachi ," cosi liquida l'omicidio il Commissario capo della Brigata criminale di Nizza. Ma il giovane capitano Lakand non e d'accordo. Il suo fiuto di fine investigatore gli fa intuire un caso piu complicato. L'ex convento nasconde inquietanti verita. Le spire del passato sembrano annodare con violenza il presente e trascinare inaspettatamente nel loro vortice lo stesso capitano. Sega Elisabetta, italiana di...

It's mid-August in Chipping Bonhunt. Many of the local children are attending Summer Bible Club and at Bonhunt Academy students are anxiously awaiting their A-level results.It's a busy time for Inspector Wendy Pepper. An arson attack on the Friends' Meeting House is followed by a hit and run in the Market Place. Is it an accident or deliberate? When the victim of a gruesome murder is discovered she realises that this could be part of something much more sinister. Beneath the surface of this pleasant North Essex Market Town a deeply disturbed individual is planning retribution on a scale that...

Damien Castelle can not get the memories of his past out of his head. One twisted Halloween night through a fog of drugs and booze he finds himself in a world he may not ever come back from.

Anna est une jeune femme arrachee des bras de son pere a l'age de dix ans par des policiers venus proceder a l'arrestation de ce dernier. Elle se retrouve orpheline d'une mere decedee alors qu'elle n'avait que trois ans et d'un pere condamne a perpetuite. Elle vit avec le traumatisme d'etre une enfant concue par un meurtrier ayant execute six personnes des manieres les plus sordides. A vingt ans, elle trouvera reconfort aupres d'un psychologue qui deviendra bien plus pour elle par la suite malgre leur difference d'age. Anna a aujourd'hui trente ans, vingt ans se sont ecoules sans aucun...