German Detectives

Three days in the mountains. No satellite signal. No sign of life. When Gemma Hartley’s pager sounds before dawn — MISSING PERSON, 72 HOURS OVERDUE — she and her legendary German Shepherd Kira are in the truck within twelve minutes. That’s what they do. That’s what they are. But what Gemma expects to be a routine search becomes something else entirely when Kira finds Alexis Mercer’s body at the base of Devil’s Ledge — and the evidence points not to accident, but to murder. Fresh from Minneapolis and still carrying the grief of a SAR operation gone wrong, Gemma came to Elk ...

*NATIONAL BESTSELLER* What happens when your worst nightmare becomes your reality? One sunny day in California, Jessie is hugging her nine-year-old son, Dylan, goodbye at the airport. He's travelling alone, all the way across the country, to visit his grandparents and father, Jessie's soon-to-be...

Ein toter König, sechs Verdächtige und nur eine Nacht, um die Wahrheit herauszufinden. Doch bevor Costis verraten kann, warum er sie versammelt hat, wird der König ermordet. Die sechs schließen daraufhin einen riskanten Pakt: Niemand darf von Costis' Tod erfahren, bevor der Vertrag unterzeichnet ist.

A supremely disturbing thriller set in the ruins of the Third Reich by an internationally acclaimed master of historical suspense. Bernie Gunther had his first brush with evil as a policeman in 1930s Berlin and came to know it intimately as a private eye under the Nazis, when each case drew him...

Experience the first episode of the Baumgartner & Momsen detective story series for German learners on your stereo or headphones, at home or on the go! The narration style and speed of this audiobook is aimed at providing learners with real-world spoken German which is clearly understandable, not too fast, but also not too slow.

A thirteen-year-old secret is buried in the Colorado mountains. A K-9 handler and her aging German Shepherd are about to dig it up. When skeletal remains surface on a remote trail outside Elk Creek, newlywed SAR handler Gemma Hartley-Reyes and her veteran air-scent dog Kira are pulled into a cold case that no one in town wanted reopened. As Gemma trains a new recruit and navigates married life, the investigation uncovers a web of silence stretching back over a decade. Someone in Elk Creek knows exactly what happened. And they're watching Gemma get closer. Perfect for fans of Margaret ...

Russell Vaughn told his wife he was in Denver on business. His car turned up at a trailhead with keys in the ignition. And Russell Vaughn hasn’t been seen in forty-eight hours. Autumn has settled over Elk Creek in layers, aspen gold and mountain frost, the deep blue of skies that seem to go on forever, the first dusting of snow on the highest peaks. It is Gemma and Marco’s first autumn as a married couple. It is also Kate Soren and Scout’s first real case. Russell Vaughn was a respected Elk Creek businessman. He was also, as the investigation quickly reveals, running a very careful ...

‘The Silk Code had me absolutely hooked… A great storyline full of bravery, trust, love, survival, betrayal and determination.’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Based on the true story of ‘Englandspiel’, one woman must race against the clock to uncover a traitor, even if it means...

Warren Haskell is behind bars. Marco has proposed. Spring has arrived in Elk Creek. Everything should finally feel like enough. When a social media influencer with 2.3 million followers disappears on the Colorado Trail, Gemma and a visibly aging Kira are called to search the same high country that started it all. But what looks like a missing hiker becomes something far more sinister, the influencer had a follower who wasn’t content to just watch, who had been tracking her route across the state for months, who saw her public posts as an invitation. The Jade Brown case forces Gemma to ...

A terrifyingly twisty, wholly original thriller following a group of amusement park visitors who get stuck on a roller coaster high above the ground—with no way down. Six hundred and fifty feet in the air, no one can hear you scream. Some might say that thirtysomething Cady Ellison landed...

Colorado Trail Days brings the whole town together. Someone in the crowd has been hiding in plain sight for twenty-six years. The annual celebration has transformed Elk Creek into a carnival — food vendors, parade floats, and thousands of hikers who’ve made their way through these mountains all summer. Gemma is working the SAR booth with Kira at her feet when the case cracks open: new evidence places Warren Haskell at the scene the night Brianna Hartley vanished, and for the first time, there’s enough to push. But Warren Haskell is not the kind of man who falls easily. He built this ...

The Case of The Dead Dowager A fancy ladies luncheon at a posh Richmond restaurant goes south when one of the ladies collapses on the table. Can Mic and K9 Angel solve the case? When Countess Dottie Borghase's friend, Camilla Rothrock, collapses at a lunch gathering of old friends, the Countess's only concern is to dial 911 for help. But Camilla's subsequent death has authorities buzzing about international safety, national security, and terrorism, because her son is decorated U.S. Army four-star General, Stuart Rothrock. As other restaurant patrons in Richmond meet similar fates, Michaela,...

Eigentlich ist der Fall abgeschlossen: Vor fünf Jahren wurde die Schülerin Andie Bell von ihrem Freund Sal Singh ermordet. Die Polizei ist sich sicher, dass es so war. Die ganze Stadt ist sich sicher. Alle - außer Pippa. Für ein Schulprojekt will sie den Fall noch einmal aufrollen. Bewaffnet mit ihrem Laptop, einer Diktiergerät-App und viel Mut beginnt Pippa, Fragen zu stellen. Doch bald merkt sie, dass nicht alle wollen, dass die dunklen Geheimnisse der Vergangenheit gelüftet werden ..

Ein altes Foto ist die einzige Erinnerung, die Tanja an ihre Mutter hat. Nach deren tragischem Tod wuchs sie bei strengen Großeltern auf – bis die schockierende Wahrheit ans Licht kommt: Ihre Mutter lebt, auf einer Insel in Malaysia. Entschlossen reist Tanja nach Langkawi, nur um dort zu erfahren, dass ihre Mutter nach einem Unfall im Koma liegt. Doch wer ist der rätselhafte Mann, der täglich an ihrem Krankenbett wacht? Gemeinsam mit dem charmanten Weltenbummler Chris begibt sich Tanja auf die Suche nach Antworten – und stößt auf ein Netz aus Geheimnissen, das alles für immer verändern könnte.

"Fred Berman brings the team to life. His well-paced delivery allows the story's laugh-out-loud humor to shine, particularly the dry one-liners and wisecracks from Corey and Andy...Berman's narration, along with the fun and engaging mystery, results in a thoroughly enjoyable listen." --...

New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver returns with a propulsive new thriller featuring forensic criminalist Lincoln Rhyme and detective Amelia Sachs (from The Bone Collector) as they investigate a series of arsons in New York City. When a harrowing arson in Manhattan burns a building...

Experience the fourth episode of the Baumgartner & Momsen detective story series for German learners on your stereo or headphones, at home or on the go! The narration style and speed of this audio book is aimed at providing learners with real-world spoken German which is clearly understandable, not too fast, but also not too slow.

From the USA Today bestselling author of This Girl's a Killer, comes a southern gothic thriller with the bite of Sharp Objects and a dash of Practical Magic, following two estranged sisters who will do anything to protect each other – even murder. Again. Milly can't divine the future anymore...

A darkly comic, speculative debut following an adrift Pakistani translator in London who attends a mysterious language school which boasts complete fluency in just ten days, but at a secret, sinister cost. Anisa Ellahi dreams of being a translator of “great works of literature,” but instead...

The classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. The guns of Navarone, huge and catastrophically accurate, embedded atop an impregnable iron fortress in the Mediterranean Sea. Twelve hundred British soldiers trapped on a nearby island, with no hope of rescue...