Police Procedurals

The beautiful young woman is perfectly still, curled up in the trunk of the car, her long dark hair hiding her face. Her cotton blouse has ridden up a little, revealing two small dots an inch apart on her back. Just like the others....

Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants in this courtroom drama from author David Baldacci....

From a #1 New York Times bestselling author, the 6:20 Man returns, this time sent to the Pacific Northwest to aid the in a complicated FBI case—and he’s about to come face-to-face with his nemesis, the girl on the train.

Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Québec village is impossible to find on any map, someone has managed to track down Armand Gamache, head of homicide at the Sûreté, as he sits with his wife in their back garden.

LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a serial rapist whose trail has gone cold, and enlists a new volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: Patrol Officer Maddie Bosch, Harry’s daughter.

The number one international best-selling author returns with an electrifying novel of devastating secrets and hidden lives that probes the fraught relationship between daughters and mothers and the lengths we go to protect those we love....

Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He works and lives in Southeast D.C. and looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. He's a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed jackets and likes to relax by banging out Gershwin tunes on his baby grand piano.

For GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton, McAlpine Lodge seems like the ideal getaway to celebrate their honeymoon. Set on a gorgeous, off-the-grid mountaintop property, it’s the perfect place to unplug and reconnect. Until a bone-chilling scream cuts through the night.

From the New York Times bestselling author and cohost of chart-topping true crime podcast Morbid comes the thrilling book two in her national bestselling series, told from the dueling perspectives of a notorious serial killer and a medical examiner seeking justice.

Joe Leaphorn may be long retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, but his detective skills are still sharp, honed by his work as a private detective. His experience will be essential to solve a compelling new case.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb spins an epic tale of loyalty, treachery, murder, and the long shadow of war.

Chief Inspector Gamache and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal.

Homicide Detective Eve Dallas hunts a killer who turns a wedding party into a murder scene in the next novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling author, J.D. Robb.

When Nigel Baxter, a middle-aged married banker with an unremarkable past, is found dead in the bath of a plush hotel suite, his wrists slit, it looks as if he's taken his own life....

From New York Times best-selling author Michael Connelly, a new thriller introducing a driven young detective trying to prove herself in the LAPD....

In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful medical intern suddenly disappears.....

Piper cycles off one hot Oklahoma evening for a sleepover with her new friend, Miley, from summer camp. But when she doesn’t come home, her grandparents raise the alarm. Their little angel is missing, last seen on her pink bicycle, heading toward the dark woods on Black Heart Lane....

When a landslip on Pembrokeshire’s stunning coastal path reveals the harrowing remains of two bodies, ex-DCI Evan Warlow’s quiet retirement is shattered....

This is DC Smith's third investigation with the Diver and Diver Associates agency. They have been asked by a member of Norfolk's aristocracy to look into the tragic death of her younger brother, Freddie, the late Lord Thorpe of the title.

Was the biggest case of his career the worst mistake he ever made? Ten years ago, DCI Jack Logan stopped the serial child-killer dubbed "Mister Whisper", earning himself a commendation, a drinking problem, and a broken marriage in the process....

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die....

LAPD detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch team up to hunt the brutal killer who is Bosch’s “white whale”—a man responsible for the murder of an entire family.

A Karin Slaughter Will Trent thriller collection featuring Fallen, Criminal, and Unseen....

In the middle of the night, a controversial US senator is found murdered in bed in his Georgetown pied-à-terre. The police turn up only one clue: a mysterious rhyme signed "Jack and Jill"....

Preston & Child continue their #1 bestselling series featuring FBI Special Agent Pendergast and Constance Greene, as they take a final stand against New York’s deadliest serial killer: Pendergast’s own ancestor…and Constance’s greatest enemy....

Ogden Walker, deputy sheriff of a small New Mexico town, is on the trail of an old woman's murderer. But at the crime scene, his are the only footprints leading up to and away from her door. Something is amiss, and even his mother knows it. As other cases pile up, Ogden gives chase, pursuing flimsy leads for even flimsier reasons. His hunt leads him from the seamier side of Denver to a hippie commune as he seeks the puzzling solution.

FBI Special Agent Avril Dahl has spent a decade chasing shadows—the Frost Killer, a meticulous murderer who stole fifty-three lives, including her mother's. Now, after years of silence, Avril returns to her childhood home in the snowy streets of Täby, Sweden, desperate to leave the hunt behind. But as she sorts through the remnants of her past, she discovers eerie signs that the killer is not only alive but watching her.

När den ensamstående mamman Alison Nolan spänner fast sin sexåriga dotter Hazel i hyrbilen ser hon fram emot semestern och att få tillbringa värdefull tid med sin lilla flicka. Några dagar vid Silent Lake, omgivna av snötäckta berg och natur skrudad i höstens färger är precis vad de behöver. Men några timmar senare är Alison och Hazel som uppslukade av jorden. Den tidigare FBI-agenten Kay Sharp skyndar till platsen. Det enda beviset på att de någonsin varit där är den övergivna hyrbilen med en resväska i baksätet, en påse gummibjörnar i det öppna handskfacket och en teddybjörn på golvet.

It's 1979, and a group of former SS officers are devising a plan to seize power in West Germany. XPD is a brilliant novel constructed around a supposition that Churchill secretly met with Hitler in 1940 to discuss terms of a British surrender.

El legendario restaurador de arte y espía Gabriel Allon une sus fuerzas con las de una bella danesa, hacker y ladrona profesional, para localizar el cuadro más valioso del mundo, que ha desaparecido. Pero pronto se ve inmerso en una carrera desesperada para evitar un conflicto inimaginable entre Rusia y Occidente.

Dimpson McCabe - Dimpsie - has invited his closest friends of the theatre world to join him for Christmas at his castle on a private island some hours' drive from Edinburgh. The festivities have barely begun when Dimpsie is found draped atop the Christmas tree, electrocuted by the lights. It's labelled Accidental Death, but in the swirling snow suspicion is dancing among the flakes. The dogged Inspector Smith begins to circle, seeking to find the leading man or prima donna responsible.

Julia Miller puts her teenage daughter on a plane, secure in the knowledge that she will see her again in a few days. But when the plane lands, Anna is nowhere to be seen. She definitely got on the flight, but then she just…vanished. Julia’s world is about to be rocked. Because when the truth comes about what’s really happened to Anna, nothing will ever be the same again. And time is running out to save her daughter…

Veteran Atlanta detective John Rawlings has lost his way. Struggling with the grief of losing his wife, Sharon—a woman of faith who kept his world anchored—John battles loneliness, aging, and the harsh reality that he no longer recognizes the man he’s become. With his antique .38 caliber handgun hidden away for when life feels like too much, he's on the edge of giving up. But there's a glimmer of hope, a chance that maybe life still has meaning—if he can find the courage to face each day. Across country, John’s estranged daughter, Heather, fights her own battles: a failing ...

Comté de Reachwood, Vermont, hiver 1986. Le jeune Norman Becker disparaît dans la nuit du 24 décembre alors qu’il passait les fêtes dans le domaine familial. Jimmy Birdman, seul suspect, est arrêté malgré les incohérences dans l’enquête. Alors que l'on croyait cette affaire bouclée depuis près de 26 ans, un suicide et une lettre d'aveux vont relancer l'enquête sur la mort du petit Norman Becker. Davis Harper, jeune journaliste New-Yorkais originaire du coin, est envoyé sur place pour faire équipe avec Elisabeth Kumar, l'avocate de Birdman.

On opening day of dove season in Blanco County, Jimmy Ray Gladstone is confronted, then shot, by an attractive stranger with an unusual physical characteristic. But who is she, and how did she know about the robbery Jimmy Ray and his brother Russell had been planning? Game Warden John Marlin will have to figure it out on his own, because the sheriff’s office is stretched thin, Jimmy Ray has a head injury and isn’t making much sense, and Russell is nowhere to be found.

Local girls' soccer coach Sven-Gunnar Erlandsson is practically a saint in the community, known for his good works and volunteering. So when his body is found in Stockholm's beautiful Herräng forest, shot at close range in the back of the neck while walking home from a late-night poker game, the police struggle to find a motive. Nothing has been taken from his pockets except his cell phone, and the only other clues left behind are a cryptic handwritten note and a handful of playing cards.

Das kleine Os im Norden Norwegens ist ein Naturparadies. Der Tourismus boomt. Die Brüder Carl und Roy planen ein Wellness-Hotel und einen Vergnügungspark. Da droht der Bau eines Tunnels den kleinen Ort von den Touristenströmen abzuschneiden. Der sich ankündigende wirtschaftliche Niedergang lässt alle die Messer wetzen. Carl und Roy versuchen zu retten, was zu retten ist. Doch als die Dämonen der Vergangenheit ins Spiel kommen und Fragen nach dem Tod ihrer Eltern aufkommen, ist schnell klar, gemeinsam werden sie nicht gewinnen: nur einer kann hier König sein.

They’ve been murdered, their bodies bound to wooden crosses and left floating in a lake. They aren’t the only ones... After three female bodies are discovered in a Traverse, Michigan lake, FBI Special Agent Lexi Stone and her partner are called in to assist with the investigation. When another body surfaces, Lexi’s fiancé, Adam Quinn, a reporter with the Traverse Record becomes the prime suspect. Refusing to believe the man she plans to marry is a serial killer, Lexi is determined to prove it.

S. A. Cosby, maître du thriller américain contemporain, nous livre un roman poignant avec une intrigue impeccablement ciselée. Il offre un regard incisif et éclairé sur une société américaine encore déchirée.

Le commissaire Brunetti n’aime pas mêler travail et famille, alors quand son beau-père le comte Falier lui demande une faveur, il est bien tracassé. Un de ses meilleurs amis, Gonzalo Rodríguez de Tejeda, a l’intention d’adopter son jeune amant, afin de lui léguer son immense fortune le jour venu. Méfiant, le comte exhorte son gendre peu motivé à mener l’enquête sur le jeune homme. C’est alors que Gonzalo s’écroule raide mort dans la rue. Peu de temps après, une de ses amies, tout juste arrivée à Venise pour lui rendre hommage, est retrouvée étranglée dans sa chambre d’hôtel.

Detective Arias hunts for a murderer on a liberal arts campus that prides itself on its progressive curriculum but is rife with jealousy, racial and sexual tensions, and a hierarchy as real and destructive as a medieval fortress. DJ Arias, good at his job because he sees the worst in people, is challenged by the college community, a neighborhood recluse, and a young Latino gardener he sent to jail ten years ago for a hit-and-run accident.

Hallie, a young and successful fashion blogger, recently married to a station owner, is having trouble adjusting to the flies, dust, snakes and isolation in the Flinders Ranges. Left alone with her baby while her husband, Alex is often out on long bore runs during the day, she also has to contend with her father-in-law, Rod, who insists on making himself at home in their house. Alex is out on a bore run, and as Hallie and their daughter, Ruby, watch him in real time on the camera from the homestead, Alex suddenly disappears from view. He is found later, dead at the bottom of a windmill.

Nella lussureggiante campagna del Lake District, un giovane viene ritrovato morto nella sua autofficina. Tutto farebbe pensare a un suicidio. Ma non è della stessa opinione l’ispettore Meredith, che si troverà coinvolto in un’intrigante indagine sullo sfondo dei suggestivi paesaggi della Cumbria. Pubblicata per la prima volta negli anni Trenta, un’indagine travolgente e ricca di colpi di scena firmata da John Bude, nella quale immergersi pagina dopo pagina, seguendo le orme dell’ispettore Meredith nel mistero più oscuro del Lake District.

When a small town in New Mexico wakes up to find one of its banks robbed overnight, it doesn’t take long for Lieutenant Gorton to identify a suspect. Although the bank’s own longtime loan officer does not strike anyone as a potential criminal, Gorton suspects that the quiet employee is behind the robbery. Plus, the soft-spoken dependable man seems to have undergone a recent dramatic transformation that he managed to conceal from everyone around him.

Vinteren raser i Storbritannien, da Brightons politi bliver presset til det yderste. Et voldsomt regnskyl afslører en primitiv grav på en bakkehøj, alt imens en teenager terroriserer et supermarked med et haglgevær, og et tragisk røveri udspiller sig i én af byens eksklusive butikker. De har desperat brug for ledetråde, men kan de stole på Ciara O’Cleary, røveriets eneste levende vidne, som intet så, men alligevel kan dele afgørende viden om forbrydelsen? Den unge irske kvinde gemmer nemlig på en hemmelighed, for hun har en lugtesans som de færreste.

Detective Trent Williams comes home to find his daughter taking a nap...but he can't find his wife Molly. She would never leave her family and friends, yet the whispers say she did before. For the second time, his reputation and career are on the line. He can’t lose Molly again. Trent launches the most important investigation of his life. The hours add up but the clues don’t. Did her amnesia come back or did someone take her?

When three children mysteriously disappear from the peaceful suburban neighborhood of Woodbury Heights, panic spreads throughout the community. Detective Rachel Moore, a seasoned investigator known for her relentless pursuit of justice, is assigned to the case. As she begins to dig into the families of the missing children, Rachel uncovers unsettling secrets and a disturbing connection between the parents and a shadowy criminal network. The deeper Rachel delves into the investigation, the more dangerous it becomes.

In the village of Castle Farthing a mean-spirited, spiteful, curmudgeonly old man is found drugged and strangled in the kitchen of his cottage, with no obvious clues to the perpetrator of the crime. DI Falconer and Acting DS Carmichael are summoned from the police headquarters in the nearby town of Market Darley and begin to uncover a web of grudges against the old man and a sea of familial connections between those who knew him.

Randolph Carter narra a la policía las circunstancias en que desapareció en el cementerio su amigo Harley Warren. Esa noche, Warren bajó a una tumba, y Carter lo esperó afuera, permaneciendo conectados por unos intercomunicadores.

Ein Toter auf dem See, stümperhafte Polizeiarbeit und ein Campingplatz voller eigenwilliger Originale... So hat sich der ehemalige Schauspieler Björn Kupernikus seinen Ruhestand nicht vorgestellt - oder vielleicht doch? Kaum hat er sich auf dem idyllischen Campingplatz Himmelreich gemütlich eingerichtet, muss er einen kleinen Hund retten, der auf einem Paddleboard mitten im See treibt. Kupernikus zieht das Tier ans Ufer - und mit ihm eine Leiche, die aufwendig unter das Board geschnallt ist. Zwar geht die Polizei von einem Unfall aus, sonderlich erfahren wirken die Beamten aber nicht.