International Mystery & Crime

It’s the opening night of The Manor, the newest and hottest luxury resort, and no expense, small or large, has been spared. The infinity pool sparkles; the “Manor Mule” cocktail (grapefruit, ginger, vodka, and a dash of CBD oil) is being poured with a heavy hand. Everyone is wearing linen.

The pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, 118 cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world's most secretive election....

After surviving the most dangerous mission of his career, John Dempsey is back at Ember. But Ember has changed—and so has he. Meanwhile, a new adversary sees an opportunity to rise. As Dempsey and Vice President Jarvis soon discover, the world stage is about to get deadlier than ever.

The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series....

In her most imaginative novel yet, number one New York Times best-selling author Lisa Jewell (None of This Is True) launches the Marvel Crime series of thriller books for adults with an original story starring the private detective Jessica Jones.

Case One: A little girl goes missing in the night. Case Two: A beautiful young office worker falls victim to a maniac's apparently random attack....

As New York Times bestseller Ann Cleeves's beloved Vera series explodes in popularity, this stunning eleventh book explores the web of secrets surrounding a young man's death....

In this New York Times bestselling installment of the "outrageously entertaining" Strike series (Financial Times), detective duo Cormoran and Robin must rescue a man ensnared in the trap of a dangerous cult.​

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient comes a masterfully paced thriller about a reclusive ex-movie star and her famous friends whose spontaneous trip to a private Greek island is upended by a murder....

In this “highly entertaining” New York Times bestseller from Nelson DeMille and Alex DeMille, Army CID Special Agents Brodie and Taylor “are the modern warriors the world needs” (BookReporter) and they’re on the hunt for the cold-blooded murderer of one of their fellow agents.

A shocking murder rattles an exclusive London neighborhood in this “fast-paced, decadent skewering of upper middle-class motherhood” (Sarah Bonner, New York Times bestselling author) from the author of Greenwich Park.

Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate.

Gemma Tate has a new job and a new address. She is putting her past—her memories of nursing in the Crimean war—behind her. But when Jacob Harrow, a journalist with ties to Crimea, is found brutally killed, Gemma is pulled into the investigation.

Will Robie, a stone-cold hitman, may have just made the first - and last - mistake of his career....

Amos Decker's life changed forever - twice. The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person from his hometown of Burlington ever to go pro....

It’s 1996, and Reacher is still in the army. In the morning they give him a medal, and in the afternoon they send him back to school. That night he’s off the grid. Out of sight, out of mind. Two other men are in the classroom—an FBI agent and a CIA analyst....

My dog once took a bullet that was intended for me. A bullet that ripped through his chest, narrowly missing his heart, and exited through his shoulder blade. This left him unconscious on the floor of my home. Amazingly, this bullet did not kill him....

A meandering drive on a beautiful day, a visit to a local apple orchard, a chance for Bertie the dog to stretch his legs but… has Kitty Underhay just found a dead farmer?

On the eve of the publication of an expose on a sex trafficking organization , the two reporters responsible for the story are brutally murdered.....

In this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller, a burglar, Luther Whitney, breaks into a Virginia mansion, and witnesses a brutal crime involving the president—​a man who believes he can get away with anything....

Something sinister is going on in Baronville. The rust belt town has seen four bizarre murders in the space of two weeks....

Rescuing an oil survey team from a freak wave on Russia's Lake Baikal is all in a day's work for adventurers Dirk Pitt and partner Al Giordino.

Amos Decker witnesses a murder just outside FBI headquarters....

The discovery of an oil field off the coast of Guyana plunges Jack Ryan, Jr into a cauldron of lies in the latest entry in this New York Times bestselling series.

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth audiobook in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's beloved series.

When the CIA approaches celebrity chef Sebastian Pike about using his award-winning food and culture travel show as cover for espionage, the outspoken bad-boy host says no. They push. They'd embed their top agent in his crew to do the spy work. And when romantic sparks crackle between him and the female agent, Pike's all in, kicking off a romantic spy thriller in which the globetrotting celebrity chef uses his TV series to help sneak Putin's accountant out of Russia before he's exposed as a mole.

At a former sanatorium in the north of Iceland, now a hospital ward, an old nurse, Yrsa, is found murdered. Detective Hulda Hermannsdottir and her boss, Sverrir, are sent to investigate her death. There, they discover five suspects: the chief physician, two junior nurses, a young doctor, and the caretaker, who is arrested following false testimony from one of the nurses, but subsequently released. Less than a week after the murder, the chief physician, is also found dead, having apparently fallen from a balcony.

When Washington D.C. human rights attorney Craig Malcault’s investigations uncover connections to U.S. military intelligence and the mysterious wife of an international biochemical conglomerate’s founder, the assassins are dispatched. Craig’s job is to extract evidence from the hellish pitfall while the top candidate is en route to face and pass his final test.

Eliza Bennett expected a quiet quilting conference in the Scottish Highlands, but Thistlewood Manor had other plans. When Eliza and her sharp-eyed cat, Merlin, stumble upon a body in the manor’s sprawling grounds, they’re plunged into a mystery that stretches far beyond the conference. With the locals acting strangely and the manor's past shrouded in secrets, Eliza must rely on Merlin’s instincts to untangle the clues. As she navigates cryptic townspeople and hidden histories, Eliza finds herself unraveling more than just quilts—she's piecing together a mystery that has haunted ...

A perfect murder… until it isn’t. In tribute to Agatha Christie, this modern-day mystery series braids together a mesmerizing tapestry of illusion and enigma set in the idyllic Amish town of Paradise, PA. In Book 1, Tina Sheng and her eccentric friend, Amelia Pak, unravel a human trafficking case. Now, a year later, Tina Sheng works as a fraud investigator in Paradise, Pennsylvania. She and Amelia find a series of internet posts about a faceless doll that appears with each occurrence of death. The writer warns that a serial killer is at large. After a beloved friend passes, a similar ...

Widowed genealogist Ellie McLellan has spent years healing her ravished heart by carefully constructing a new and quiet life away from the hungry glare of the paparazzi. She now fills her days with genealogical research for various clients, safe in the small town of Percyville, Quebec. Until her bid to save a child's life is caught on camera and ambitious tabloid reporter Diane Cooper recognizes her. Turns out Ellie is not safe at all. With Diane sniffing around for dirt and her "big break" story, Ellie learns a dark family secret with the power to destroy the only family she has left.

Ein guter Tag zum Sterben... Nicht weit von Seattle gerät die Studentin Karen Harding in ein fürchterliches Unwetter. Dann gibt auf dem verlassenen nächtlichen Highway auch noch ihr Wagen den Geist auf. Als ein Fremder anhält, um ihr zu helfen, ist die junge Frau sehr erleichtert. Zu spät wird ihr klar, dass der Mann sie offenbar schon länger beobachtet... Der junge Reporter Jason Wade wittert eine Riesenchance, als er vom Fall einer Studentin hört, die auf einem Highway spurlos verschwunden ist.

El atropello de una joven será la punta de lanza de una trama colosal de crimen y poder en la que todas las piezas que la componen empezarán a tambalearse. Un policía a las puertas de la jubilación es desterrado por los suyos hasta la tranquila Lanzarote, donde deberá pasar los últimos años de su carrera. Lo que no puede imaginar, ni él ni nadie, es que la investigación del caso del atropello de una joven de diecinueve años originaria de Europa del Este va a desenmascarar una trama de crimen y poder en varias ciudades europeas.

The call comes early in the morning. David and Helen Tremaine have discovered a body buried in the grounds of their large Victorian manor house, Llys Faen Hall, just north of Cardiff. DI Jemima Huxley and her partner, DS Dan Broadbent, race to the scene to discover that a second body has been unearthed in a shallow woodland grave. And the forensic team working the site believe this is just the start. Jemima knows this is the biggest case of her career. But it couldn't have come at a worse time.

A UN peacekeeping mission has gone wrong. Peacekeepers are dead, a soldier is held hostage, and a country looks for answers. Special forces operators and intelligence officers are given the task of settling the score in a country where corruption and chaos are a way of life. The best of Canada's military and intelligence services converge in a race against time and hidden agendas to save one of their own and repair a country's honor.

Han pasado más de veinte años desde que Olof Hagström se fue de casa. Al regresar a la casa de su familia, sabe al instante que algo anda mal. La llave de la puerta de entrada, escondida debajo de una piedra familiar todavía está allí. En el interior, hay un perro en pánico, un hedor terrible y agua estancada en el suelo. Arriba, en la ducha, el padre de Olaf está muerto. Para la detective de policía Eira Sjödin, la investigación de esta muerte sospechosa resucita pesadillas olvidadas hace mucho tiempo.

Chloe Todd believes her baby daughter is sleeping peacefully in her pram in the back garden. She lifts away the blanket to check on her – and gasps in shock. Chloe's neighbor calls the police. But all is not as it seems . . . Chloe Todd is in a loveless marriage. Her husband a villain who works for a man called Dean Rawlins. Rawlins has been missing for a year. Det Superintendent Hedley Sharp arrested Rawlins just before he went missing. Something he's had to live with. Hedley is suspicious but his inspector is on Chloe's side – a bone of contention throughout the investigation.

The Paris conference was supposed to be the biggest moment of investment banker Adam Macias's career, a chance to impress his CEO and rub shoulders with their firm's top investors. Instead, Adam arrives at a glamorous rooftop party in time to see his CEO-and his career-go up in flames when a dangerous conflagration interrupts the event.

Sophie vive a Parigi, ha trent'anni, lavora come babysitter del piccolo Léo. Il resto della sua vita è un mistero, anche perché Sophie dimentica cosa ha fatto nel giro di poche ore e vive in un costante stato di oblio. Una sera si ferma a dormire dai suoi datori di lavoro. Il mattino dopo si ritrova sola in casa, nella cameretta il corpo di Léo, strangolato nel sonno. Inizia così la sua lunga fuga, una discesa fin negli abissi del crimine per salvarsi da un omicidio che non ha commesso ma per il quale è l'imputata perfetta. Fino a quando scoprirà cosa è davvero accaduto quella notte.

The chin tattoo confirms the victim is Maori. The whorls of ink from her lower lip to her chin - the moko - is worn only by Maori women. So her ethnicity is a given. Finding who murdered her and dumped her body in the pool at the base of Mason's Rock waterfall is DI Nyree Bradshaw's latest case.

Sam Hawkins is running out of money when a phone call sends him to the Caribbean. An offer of five grand to fly to Antigua and find an ailing woman's missing uncle. How hard could it be? Track down kindly Uncle Sal on a tiny island? But some people who go missing don't want to be found, while others lie in wait with offers of temptation.

Francis Ackerman jr. verlässt zum ersten Mal Amerika. In Glasgow wartet eine Liste auf ihn, die die Namen aller Mitglieder des größten und gefährlichsten Verbrechersyndikats der Welt enthält. Aber das Tablet, auf dem sie gespeichert ist, kann nur von Ackerman und der Tochter seines verstorbenen Erzfeindes gemeinsam entsperrt werden. Seine Feinde werden alles daransetzen, ihn und die junge Frau zu töten, bevor dies geschehen kann.

Discover the secrets that history left behind with Unsolved Mysteries of Hungary: Murders, Mysteries, and Paranormal Activity. This captivating collection takes you deep into the heart of Hungary, where ancient legends and real-life enigmas intertwine to create a tapestry of intrigue and wonder. From the eerie ghost stories that haunt the streets of Budapest to the unsolved disappearances that have baffled investigators for centuries, each chapter offers a thrilling exploration of the unknown.

How can she prove her innocence to save her son, when she's already been convicted of murdering his father? Art school dropout Lucie is on a backpacking trip across Europe when she arrives in the idyllic Swiss Alps. A holiday romance with ski instructor Mathieu takes a crucial turn when Lucie discovers she is pregnant. Spiralling into a relationship of coercion and dark domestic abuse, Lucie is powerless to escape her marriage without losing her son.

Im Showgeschäft wird der Begriff back to back verwendet, wenn dieselbe Veranstaltung an mehreren aufeinanderfolgenden Tagen in verschiedenen Städten stattfindet. Die deutsche Übersetzung Rücken an Rücken steht aber auch für die unerschütterliche Freundschaft zwischen dem Toningenieur Chris Mücke und Esteban Gomez, einem ehemaligen Söldner. Mücke findet zufällig eine teure Uhr. Zwei Tage später ist er mit seinem Freund Esteban auf der Flucht, bis sie entscheiden, dass Angriff nicht nur die beste Verteidigung ist, sondern auch der letzte Ausweg.