Modern Detectives

When Devon and Cornwall Police begin to investigate the strangulation and skinning of a young man, they discover the remains of a missing child nearby. Having recently arrived from London, DCI Peter Moone is put in charge of the case alongside the tough talking local DS Mandy Butler. They soon find themselves sinking deep into a dark world of child abuse and murder.

A young girl found stranded on a raft off the coast of Baja California is marked for death by a violent gang. Shunned by locals for fear of retribution, ex-pat Chase Grant is unable to leave the girl to her fate. But the girl isn’t the only one with secrets, and Grant’s past will be thrust into the present as it threatens to upend the second chance he was given with his family.

Perché l'indagine che lì si era aperta non si è ancora conclusa. C'è poi il fatto più grave, l'assassinio di Adele, una cara amica del vicequestore, uccisa da un killer mentre dormiva nel letto di Rocco. Costretto a scavare nel proprio passato il vicequestore cercherà di chiudere il cerchio una volta per tutte.

Beneath the sun and sea of South Florida, dark crimes and bone-chilling secrets are lurking. Introducing a brand-new twisty mystery series from award-winning author Elaine Viets. When the body of adult film star Sammie Lant is found buried next to the courtyard pool of the Florodora, Norah McCarthy’s apartment complex, she quickly becomes the police’s prime suspect. Norah was witnessed having an argument with Sammie six months ago, the last day Sammie was seen alive—the day she gained notoriety for a shocking public stunt with a college football player.

Desmond never did have much luck with women – except in getting them through their driving tests. Now a coach driver, he is at the most crucial crossroads of his life. His wife has thrown him out. The crisis serves only to deepen his despair over another failed liaison – until he elects to steer his coach on a spectacularly reckless quest for the son he has never seen.

Septiembre de 1954. En un islote llamado Shutter Island, frente a la costa de Boston, se alza un conjunto de edificios de aspecto siniestro: se trata de un hospital psiquiátrico cuyos internos, todos hondamente perturbados y sometidos a una vigilancia estricta, han cometido algún crimen grave. El agente federal Teddy Daniels y su ayudante, Chuck Aule, son enviados allí porque una de las reclusas, Rachel Solando, parece haberse evadido de algún modo incomprensible de una celda cerrada a cal y canto. La única pista es una hoja de papel con una serie de números y letras sin significado aparente.

Retired diplomat Sam Hough boards a transatlantic flight to Paris after making a seemingly innocent promise to find the five-year-old son of a dying friend, a son the friend has never known. With only the thinnest of clues, Sam quickly realizes that those who agree to help him soon disappear, those who don’t disappear refuse to help him, and still others want to kill him rather than help find the boy. Clearly there are things his friend neglected to tell him. But what did he leave out—and why?

Jesse King is an assistant district attorney in Detroit who takes comfort in taking dangerous criminals off the streets. When Detroit's mayor, Harris Yancy, is murdered, authorities implicate his mistress, Ramona Blake. Ramona had been with Yancy before he died and, worse, fled the scene with Yancy's locked briefcase. Enter Jesse King, who becomes convinced that Ramona is innocent and, when he launches his own investigation, is accused of Yancy's murder. While hunting the real killer, Jesse goes on the run, searching for the truth in Detroit's violence-ridden streets.

В Париже происходят странные убийства — то ли ритуал, то ли дело рук маньяка. Людивина Ванкер, сотрудница Парижского отдела расследований, вновь сталкивается со злом, с союзом хищников, в чьих преступлениях на сей раз нет и намека на мистику, отчего они не становятся менее инфернальными. Извращенное сознание способно на страшные вещи — но что будет, если поставить его на службу стройной идеологической системе? Людивина вновь окажется с ними лицом к лицу и узнает, как бороться со злом, если оно неуловимо.

Ад всегда рядом. И у каждого он свой. В Голодном мире ткань реальности расползается на части, а знакомые до боли образы деформируются до неузнаваемости, обретая зловещее обличье. Здесь московская квартира оказывается порталом в иное измерение, ЗОЖ приводит жертву к хищнику, а с бандитами помогают «решать вопросики» пенсионеры-каннибалы.