Lucien Comte de Chacarasse entstammt einem französischen Adelsgeschlecht, das seit Generationen eine hohe Kunst an die Nachkommen weitergibt: die Kunst des Tötens. Der Legende nach waren seine Vorfahren Auftragsmörder für die Bourbonen, Napoleon und den Vatikan. Zwar wurde Lucien für diese Aufgabe trainiert, aber als junger Mann steigt er aus und betreibt stattdessen ein Bistro in Villefranche-sur-Mer. Er liebt die Frauen, den Wein und die kulinarischen Genüsse der südfranzösischen Küche.

Isabelle Bonnet, hochdekorierte Leiterin einer geheimen Spezialeinheit in Paris, wäre bei einem Sprengstoffattentat fast ums Leben gekommen.Um sich zu erholen, reist sie in ihren beschaulichen Geburtsort Fragolin im Hinterland der Côte d'Azur. Doch aus der ersehnten Ruhe wird nichts: In einer Villa wird eine halbnackte Frauenleiche gefunden, und der Hausherr, ein mysteriöser Engländer, ist spurlos verschwunden. Isabelle Bonnet lässt sich überreden, den Fall zu übernehmen - was bei den Kollegen vor Ort nicht gerade Begeisterung auslöst.

Die sagenumwobenen Glénan-Inseln vor Concarneau wirken wie ein karibisches Paradies. Kommissar Dupin möchte am liebsten bei bretonischem Hummer in der urigen Inselkneipe sitzen, doch es wartet Arbeit auf ihn. Drei Leichen liegen am Strand und alles deutet auf Tod durch Ertrinken hin. Als Dupin erfährt, welchen Geschäften die drei nachgingen, gerät er ins Zweifeln. War der tragische Unfall in Wahrheit ein kaltblütiger Mord?

Capitaine Roger Blancs erster Fall: Von der Frau verlassen und in die Provinz versetzt: Capitaine Roger Blanc steht vor den Trümmern seines Lebens. Bis vor Kurzem war er erfolgreicher Korruptionsermittler in Paris, doch dabei ist er mächtigen Leuten auf die Füße getreten. Und so findet er sich bald allein in seiner neuen Behausung in der Provence wieder, einer verfallenen Ölmühle, die ihm vor Jahren ein Onkel vermacht hatte...

Das bayerische Ermittlerduo Wallner und Kreuthner steht vor einem Rätsel: Wer schoss an einem schönen Oktobersonntag dem Kleinkriminellen Kummeder auf dem Gipfel des Riederstein mit einem Präzisionsgewehr den Kopf weg? Die Suche nach dem Täter sorgt für einigen Wirbel in der oberbayerischen Idylle. Schnell wird klar, dass das tragische Geschehen in einer Neumondnacht vor zwei Jahren während einer legendären Schafkopfrunde seinen Anfang nahm.

When Sasha receives a call from her old university friend Gabby inviting her to spend Christmas at Gabby’s remote Scottish lake house, Sasha knows she shouldn’t go. Twelve years ago, on Christmas Eve, when Sasha and her five closest friends were celebrating the festive season, something truly horrific happened that would change the course of their friendship forever. Something that meant Sasha hasn’t spoken to any of them since that night.

Two little girls stand with their heads bowed in my living room. I’m told they’re my granddaughters. Daisy is nine, and Alice seven. Daisy is the spitting image of her mother. This is the first time I’ve met them since my daughter and I fell out after she married that waste of space, Vince. They’ve come to live with me because their mother — my daughter — was murdered. In her own home while they slept close by. I think Vince killed her. But the police can’t prove it. I’ve always known he was no good. He treated my daughter like dirt. I said he’d cheat on her — but she wouldn’t listen.

Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of best-selling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read.

After the killing of a prominent mob lawyer, NYPD homicide detectives Jacob Jackson and Caitlin Grimes start receive chilling, written “rules” for how to commit the perfect murder. "Rule number one for the perfect murder: Evidence is your enemy. Leave none behind." Jackson (Reid Scott) and Grimes (Cobie Smulders) race to find the killer, setting them on a collision course with the city’s crime underbelly, and a perpetrator who seems happy to toy with them. “Rule number two. No crimes of passion. The perfect murder is always business, never pleasure.”

Jenny sits in the same seat on the same train every week, seeing familiar faces come and go. Until a chance encounter shatters her world. Sixteen years ago, Jenny survived a traumatic ordeal that left her best friend, Susie, missing and presumed dead. The world has its theories about what happened to Susie Patterson, and one of those theories points the finger at Jenny. Now she lives a quiet life, volunteering at a crisis helpline while trying to deal with her own anxiety and the true crime fans obsessed with finding her missing friend.

It’s been two years since Anna Cartwright’s life fell apart. During her first school trip as a young teacher, a student went missing and was never found. Not only was her career ruined, she was also accused of having an affair with fellow teacher and prime suspect Graham. Facing questions from journalists, police and family, Anna said she didn’t know what happened. She was lying. Now, Anna has returned to Australia. Her only hope is Land’s End Area School, an isolated concrete wasteland perched on the cliffs.

Kidnappers grabbed Jenna in broad daylight, right in front of her children and their horrified classmates. Her family was issued an insane ransom demand: $25 million in cash and jewels, payable by the end of the school day, otherwise they’ll never see her again. As Jenna’s mother scrambles to gather the money, detectives Mo Butler and George Ortega follow the trail of the kidnappers, which will lead them through a sordid landscape of jealous lovers, broken dreamers, and twisted schemers. But every second counts, and there’s one thing Jenna Wade doesn’t have: very much time.

My fiancé brought me tea and scrambled eggs in bed that morning, and we snuggled together, talking about buying our rings, and about our perfect wedding next year. Then we headed into town. He held my hand and gazed at the ring I liked best, a smile spreading slowly over his face. Then a glass of bubbly to celebrate. I felt flushed, excited and ready for the rest of my life with the man I loved. We race to get on the train home. It screams to a halt and I run towards its open doors. Made it. I think he’s right behind me — but when I turn around, he’s gone.

Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down.

England, 1914. The world is at war. Captain Hastings, injured and shaken, is invited to Styles Court to recover. It’s a grand old country house - the family home of his old friend - and a perfect haven. Or so it seems. But in the blistering summer heat, trouble is afoot. Simmering tensions are tearing the family apart, and it all comes to a head in the most horrifying way.