Category: Crime

By Gwendoline Butler

A chain of it appears indiscriminate murders unearths the paintings of a really sufferer, calculating felony, and leader Commander John Coffin needs to become aware of the hyperlink among the sufferers from an elite London collage and a shelter for battered girls. Reprint. K.

By Harry Dolan

"Witty, refined, suspenseful and never-ending fun..." -- The Washington Post 

By Pieter Aspe

Web als commissaris Pieter Van In denkt dat hij even kan uitblazen na het onthutsende avontuur met het stamcelonderzoek waarbij hij bijna de verdrinkingsdood stierf, krijgt hij een merkwaardig telefoontje van een oude vriendin. Haar broer is spoorloos verdwenen en zij schakelt de discrete hulp in van Van In. Ze wil geen officieel onderzoek, wish haar broer is geheim agent en het is niet toegestaan op enigerlei wijze de aandacht op de geheime dienst te vestigen.

Als Van In zijn privéonderzoek commence, ontdekt hij al gauw dat er binnen de Europese geheime dienst in oprichting verschillende strekkingen zijn en dat afdelingen elkaar niet alleen wantrouwen, maar ook tegenwerken. De agenten houden elkaar nauwlettend en angstvallig in het oog. Van In stuit op een complot binnen de dienst en hij vermoedt dat de broer van zijn jeugdvriendin over aanwijzingen beschikte die hem in acuut levensgevaar hebben gebracht. Er ontstaat een kat-en-muisspel, waarbij Van In uiteindelijk de stervende broer vindt. In een ultieme krachtmeting slaagt hij erin een ramp te vermijden. Daarbij wekt hij de bewondering van de most sensible van de geheime dienst.

By James Patterson

Unsolvable cases

Since former Marine Jack Morgan begun inner most, it has turn into the world's greatest research firm--sought out through the recognized and the robust to discreetly deal with their such a lot intimate difficulties. Private's investigators are the neatest, the quickest, and the main technologically complicated within the world--and they continually discover the truth.

Impossible murders

When his former lover is located murdered in Jack Morgan's mattress, he's immediately the number 1 suspect. whereas Jack is below police research, the mob strong-arms him into recuperating $30 million in stolen prescribed drugs for them. And the attractive supervisor of a luxurious resort chain persuades him to quietly examine a string of murders at her houses.

The number 1 suspect is Jack Morgan

While Jack is scuffling with for his lifestyles, one in every of his such a lot depended on colleagues threatens to depart deepest, and Jack realizes he's confronting the cleverest and strongest enemies ever. With extra motion, extra intrigue, and extra twists than ever earlier than, inner most: no 1 SUSPECT is James Patterson at his unstoppable most sensible.

By Gwendoline Butler

London's moment urban is shaken by way of a terrorist's bomb and a woman's physique is located in a broken development. The face is unrecognizable, the fingertips were got rid of, however the purse via the corpse seems to be to belong to Stella Pinero, the spouse of John Coffin, leader Commander of the second one urban Police.

By Richard North Patterson

A brand new York occasions Bestselling writer -- Adam Blaine is on Martha's winery for the funeral of his estranged father, a recognized and charismatic author and patriarch of his extended family for a few years. once Adam arrives, he discovers that Ben Blaine had disinherited his mom, uncle, and brother in want of his lover, and starts off to wonder whether his father's dying -- because of an inexplicable fall -- will be homicide. utilizing his CIA education, Adam finds more and more anxious relatives secrets and techniques.

By Julia Kristeva

Ce récit fantastique est aussi un roman policier.

Des loups envahissent Santa Barbara, ils tuent bêtes et gens, changent les visages des hommes et des femmes: tout le monde devient smug, criminel, animal.

Une noyée anonyme est repêchée dans le lac. Alba et Vespasien ne songent qu'à s'entretuer, tandis que le Vieil Homme - seul être vigilant qui proceed à refuser l. a. barbarie ambiante - meurt d'une mort inexplicable. Qui est l'assassin?

Stéphanie Delacour, journaliste, se transforme en détective pour mener l'enquête. Elle notice une civilisation en pleine métamorphose. Ex-démocratie populaire ou bien société superlibérale qui a perdu ses valeurs, Santa Barbara est un condensé de haine et de crime banalisé.

Cette imaginative and prescient à l. a. Goya noir, appliquée au monde actuel, s'impose au détective à partir d'un deuil qui brûle au coeur de son magazine intime. Le Vieil Homme et les loups s'adresse ainsi à ceux qui, ayant perdu une personne aimée, s'étiolent d'angoisse devant l'inimaginable de los angeles mort et cherchent à dire los angeles violence de leur solitude sans partage.

Le roman policier rejoint à cet rapid le conte philosophique.

By Lou Berney

“Like Carl Hiaasen, Berney delights within the cartoonish. Like Elmore Leonard, he can force a plot. What units him aside is how good he inspires love, making the romance…as compelling because the mystery.”
—Boston Globe

Lou Berney instantly earned a seat of honor on the secret masters’ desk together with his crackling caper novel, Gutshot Straight—a lightning-fast, fiendishly shrewdpermanent suspenser that screamed for a sequel. And the following it truly is. Former specialist wheel guy Charles “Shake” Bouchon is again, dwelling within the Caribbean paradise of Belize together with his lawless prior a ways at the back of him—until a gunshot tears via his beachside eating place and he’s at the run back. A twisting story packed with lawmen, con males, and  hit males; a gorgeous yet lethal FBI agent; and a murderous thug named child Jesus, Whiplash River remembers the simplest of the off-the-wall crime fiction impresarios—Elmore Leonard, Carl Hiaasen, James W. corridor, Robert Ferrigno, Tim Dorsey—while constructing its personal specific orbit within the noir universe.

In Son of Holmes, John Lescroart brought Auguste Lupa, reputed son of the best detective of all time... and possessor of a super deductive brain in his personal correct. Now, in Rasputin's Revenge, Lupa is summoned to the court docket of the Russian Czar - the place, with somewhat unforeseen the aid of none except Holmes and Watson, he untangles a chilling plot that holds the wintry weather Palace in a deadly grip....

By Arnaldur Indridason

THE so much GRIPPING access but IN ARNALDUR INDRIDASON'S CELEBRATED INSPECTOR ERLENDUR SERIES.

Arnaldur Indriðason, whom The Sunday instances calls "one of the main fantastic crime writers of his generation," has delighted readers all over the world together with his sequence set in Reykjavík. In Black Skies, Indriðason extra cements his place as considered one of contemporary most sensible overseas crime writers.

A guy is creating a leather-based masks with an iron spike mounted in the course of his brow. in the meantime, a faculty reunion has left Inspector Erlendur's colleague Sigurdur Óli unsatisfied with lifestyles within the police strength. whereas Iceland is having fun with an financial growth, Óli's dating is at the rocks and shortly even his place within the division is compromised. while a choose to a chum is going fallacious and a lady dies ahead of his eyes, Óli has a homicide research on his hands.

From the villas of Reykjavík's banking elite to a sordid basement flat, Black Skies is a wonderful tale of greed, delight, and homicide from considered one of Europe's so much winning crime writers.