Category: Crime

By Pieter Aspe

Céline Dubois, een jonge vrouw, wordt vermoord aangetroffen bij haar thuis op de couch. Alles wijst op zelfmoord. De huisarts die het overlijden vaststelt, heeft echter zijn twijfels. Het onderzoek wijst uit dat hij gelijk heeft. Céline Dubois is vergiftigd met het extract van de bessen van de taxus baccata. Werner Candries, zaakvoerder van een groothandel in bloemen en planten met wie ze een verhouding had, is de eerste verdachte, maar al snel blijkt dat hij niets met de zaak te maken heeft. Toch heeft de guy geen onbesproken verleden. Van In ontdekt dat hij betrokken used to be bij de illegale handel in sigaretten en dat hij er nogal strange seksuele gewoontes op na houdt, maar ook dat is niet voldoende om hem voor de rechter te brengen.

De zaak neemt een onverwachte wending als 'de guy op de motorfiets' zijn intrede doet. Hij dringt bij Candries binnen en slaat met een hamer zijn knieën kapot. Gaat het om een ordinaire afrekening in het milieu of bestaat er een verband tussen 'de guy op de motorfiets' en de andere gebeurtenissen waarbij steeds meer mensen betrokken raken?

By Alan Hunter

You'll locate lots of our bodies stretched out on a summer time seashore - yet they're no longer often dead... In a British seashore vacation hotel on the top of the season, you are going to look forward to finding a prom and a pier, perhaps a few donkeys, 'Kiss-Me-Quick' hats, sweet floss and children construction sandcastles. you wouldn't look forward to finding a unadorned corpse, punctured with stab wounds, mendacity at the sand. leader Inspector George lightly is termed in to enquire the aggravating homicide. The case should be wrapped up quick to calm the nerves of involved holidaymakers. not anyone desires to imagine that there's a maniac at the free within the city yet without outfits or making a choice on marks at the physique, lightly has a difficult time setting up who the sufferer is, not to mention discovering the killer. meanwhile, who understands the place or whilst the assassin may well strike back?

By David Peace

David Peace's acclaimed pink using Quartet maintains with this exhilarating follow-up to Nineteen Seventy-Four. it really is summer time in Leeds and town is anxiously looking forward to the Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Detective Bob Fraser and Jack Whitehead, a reporter on the Post, even if, produce other issues on their minds-mainly the very fact that somebody is murdering prostitutes. The killer is readily dubbed the “Yorkshire Ripper” and every guy, all alone, works tirelessly to capture him. yet their investigations flip grisly as they every one have interaction in affairs with the prostitutes they're supposedly preserving. because the summer time progresses, the killings speed up and it kind of feels as though Fraser and Whitehead are the one males who suspect or care that there is extra than one killer at huge.

By Elizabeth George

Award-winning writer Elizabeth George provides us an early glimpse into the lives of Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James, and woman Helen Clyde in a superlative secret that also is a desirable inquiry into the crimes of the guts. Lynley, the 8th earl of Asherton, has delivered to Howenstow, his relatives domestic, the younger girl he has requested to be his bride. however the savage homicide of an area journalist is the catalyst for a deadly sequence of occasions that shatters the calm of a picturesque Cornwall village and embroils Lynley and St. James in a case some distance outdoor their jurisdiction—and a bit too as regards to domestic. while a moment demise follows heavily at the heels of the 1st, Lynley reveals he can not help taking the research personally—because the proof issues to a killer inside of his personal family.

From the Paperback edition.

By John Sandford

He feels like the sort of great guy. You’d by no means bet what used to be occurring in his mind…

Art background professor James Qatar has a pastime: he's taking mystery pictures of girls to gasoline extra tricky fantasies. while he’s on my own. in the back of locked doorways. Then at some point, he is going a step extra and... good, something results in one other. Qatar has no selection. He has to kill her. and also you understand anything? He likes it.

When Deputy leader Lucas Davenport takes the case, he assumes it’ll be undemanding police paintings. He couldn’t be extra fallacious. because the research path takes a few unforeseen turns, it turns into transparent that not anything is simple approximately this killer, his sufferers, or his factors. And to forestall him Lucas has no selection yet to stroll correct into his lair.

WITH a brand new advent through JOHN SANDFORD

By Irvine Welsh

Trainspotting is the radical that first introduced Irvine Welsh's fantastic career―an actual, unrelenting, and surprisingly exhilarating episodic staff portrait of blasted lives.

It finished for its personal time and position what Hubert Selby, Jr.'s Last go out to Brooklyn did for his. Rents, unwell Boy, mom enhanced, Swanney, Spuds, and Seeker are as unforgettable a take hold of of junkies, impolite boys, and psychos as readers will ever come across. Trainspotting used to be made into the 1996 cult movie starring Ewan MacGregor and directed through Danny Boyle (Shallow Grave).

By Louis Ferrante

From the freewheeling rush of hijacking vans to the brutal race wars that marked his decade-long stint in detention center, former Mafia insider Louis Ferrante describes his awesome trip from emerging mobster to federal legal inmate to full-time author.

As Louis Ferrante tells it, the base line was once money—and his be aware was once strong. in the course of his teenage years, Ferrante and his group contributors hijacked supply vehicles and drove them to drop-offs everywhere big apple, reselling the item and pocketing hundreds of thousands of greenbacks in keeping with load. For a seventeen-year-old who cherished fist battling and speedy automobiles, it used to be the fastest cash in the street, and it quickly earned Ferrante the eye of the notorious Gambino crime relatives, led through past due Mob boss John Gotti. within the early nineties, Ferrante's becoming Mafia connections enabled him to drag off probably the most profitable heists in American history—all via the age of twenty-one.

however the similar handshakes that when sealed bargains quickly may well not be depended on, and the betrayal through a number of of his shut pals introduced the feds banging down Ferrante's door. Symptomatic of the nation's higher crackdown on prepared crime, indictments got here from the key carrier, the Nassau County equipped Crime strength, and the FBI. via 1994, Ferrante confronted a lifestyles sentence in legal. He pleaded responsible and may serve approximately a decade in essentially the most infamous penitentiaries in the United States. With raucous violence teeming round him, Ferrante trusted his Mob connections and road smarts to maintain him alive—until an unforeseen trade with a shield propelled him to a painful self-reckoning: Who am I? what's it that makes me this manner? Do i've got a purpose?

wanting to get away from his bleak atmosphere, Ferrante immersed himself within the research of historical past and literature. Over the time period of his incarceration, every one publication turned a much-needed sanctuary from the brutal chaos of his daily lifestyles, every one web page a problem to his speedily increasing wisdom of the area. Ferrante learn voraciously—a trip of the brain that took him from philosophy and historical classics to nineteenth-century fiction. He additionally realized the artwork of writing and studied the foremost international religions, finally finding out to develop into an Orthodox Jew. And with in basic terms restricted entry to criminal texts, Ferrante taught himself sufficient concerning the American justice method to effectively allure his personal conviction, in a case that's now pointed out in courtrooms around the state.

Gritty and hard-hitting, Ferrante's memoir recounts his fast upward push to the higher echelons of the Mafia hierarchy, his time in criminal, and his fight to show his lifestyles round. Unlocked is an amazing journey—a precise tale of non-public transformation that's either stunning and unforgettable.

By Bill Pronzini

Shamus Award-winning author

Few writers have ever had any such unswerving reader following as invoice Pronzini and his "Nameless Detective." when it comes to existence at the revealed web page, the "Nameless Detective" celebrates his thirty fifth birthday in 2003. The fourteen tales during this assortment span the whole 35 years of "Nameless's" existence.

As a result of its connections to violent crime and inventive detective paintings, forensic technology is a topic of unending fascination to most people. A felony case can usually hinge on a bit of facts comparable to a hair, a blood hint, a little saliva on a cigarette butt, or the telltale mark of a tire tread. excessive profile instances have stoked this curiosity lately and a few of the most well-liked indicates on television--such as CSI: Crime Scene research and its raft of spin-offs--attest to the iconic acclaim for forensic technological know-how as a kind of grisly leisure. This Very Short Introduction appears to be like on the nature of forensic technological know-how, interpreting what forensic technology is, the way it is utilized in the research of crime, how crime scenes are controlled, how forensic scientists paintings, the various recommendations used to recuperate facts, and the diversity of tools to be had for research. It additionally considers how forensic technological know-how serves the felony justice procedure and the demanding situations of speaking advanced medical proof in a court docket of law.

About the sequence: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and magnificence, Very brief Introductions offer an creation to a few of life's finest themes. Written by means of specialists for the newcomer, they reveal the best modern brooding about the relevant difficulties and concerns in enormous quantities of key themes, from philosophy to Freud, quantum idea to Islam.

By Trevor Hoyle

Calderbook CB453. A chase mystery that evolves right into a awful, erotic, suspense-filled story with deep mental undertones. 248 pages.