Showing results by publisher "Audible Studios" in Police Procedurals

Imagine Christmas in Paris and an uneasy feeling that something is very wrong in the case you are investigating. Chief of Police Nico Sirsky returns to work after recovering from a gunshot wound. He's in love and rearing to go. His first day back has him overseeing a jewel heist sting and taking on an odd investigation. Dental students discovered a message in the tooth of a severed head. Is it a sick joke?

The action swings from London to Sweden, and then back into the past, to Franco’s Spain, as Roy and Castells hunt a monstrous killer...in the latest instalment of Johana Gustawsson’s award-winning series. Spain, 1938: the country is wracked by civil war, and as Valencia falls to Franco’s brutal dictatorship, Republican Therese witnesses the murders of her family. Captured and sent to the notorious Las Ventas women’s prison, Therese gives birth to a daughter who is forcibly taken from her.

Vor dem azurblauen Mittelmeer muss sich Leon Ritter dem Schlimmsten stellen. Gerichtsmediziner Leon Ritter und seine Partnerin Isabelle Morell freuen sich auf einen traumhaften Sommer im idyllischen Le Lavandou – besonders, weil sie die letzte gemeinsame Zeit mit Tochter Lilou vor deren Studium genießen wollen. Doch die Sonnentage werden überschattet, als eine Frau in heller Aufregung in der Polizeiinspektion auftaucht, um ihre beiden Kinder vermisst zu melden. Die Zeit rennt, denn allen ist klar: Falls die Kinder wirklich entführt wurden, zählt jede Minute.

When DI Geraldine Steel relocates to the quiet rural town of Woolsmarsh, she expects to find her new home to be somewhere where nothing much ever happens; a space where she can battle her demons in private. But when she finds herself pitted against a twisted killer preying on local young women, she quickly discovers how wrong she is....

La prima raccolta degli audiolibri della serie "Factory" di Derek Raymond riunisce i seguenti titoli: "E morì a occhi aperti", "Aprile è il più crudele dei mesi" e "Come vivono i morti".

One warm spring evening, five teenagers meet in a local park. Only four will come out alive. Six months after the stabbing of 15-year-old Deanna Barker, someone is coming after the teenagers of Stockleigh, as a spate of vicious assaults rocks this small community. Revenge for Deanna? Or something more? Detective Eden Berrisford is locked into a race against time to catch the twisted individual behind the attacks - but when her own niece, Jess Mountford, goes missing, the case gets personal.

Anna Fekete returns to the Balkan village of her birth for a relaxing summer holiday. But when her purse is stolen and the thief is found dead on the banks of the river, Anna is pulled into a murder case. Her investigation leads straight to her own family, to closely guarded secrets concealing a horrendous travesty of justice that threatens them all. How long will it take before everything explodes?

When a dead man is lifted from the freezing waters of Oslo Harbour just before Christmas, Detective Lena Stigersand's stressful life suddenly becomes even more complicated. Not only is she dealing with a cancer scare, a stalker and an untrustworthy boyfriend, but it seems both a politician and Norway's security services might be involved in the murder. With her trusted colleagues, Gunnarstranda and Frølich, at her side, Lena digs deep into the case and finds that it not only goes to the heart of the Norwegian establishment, but it might be rather too close to her personal life for comfort.

Eigentlich hatte sich Rechtsmediziner Dr. Leon Ritter auf einen entspannten Job in der Sonne gefreut. Doch kaum im Örtchen Lavandou angekommen, liegt schon sein erster Fall auf dem Tisch. Ein Mädchenmörder geht in der Provence um und alle Spuren laufen scheinbar ins Leere. Leon Ritter, ein Mann mit großem Sinn für Ordnung und Details, versucht die Ermittelungen voranzutreiben. Doch die südfranzösischen Kollegen ermitteln anders. Als die Tochter seiner Kollegin Isabelle Morell entführt wird, wird es heiß in Lavandou, sehr heiß sogar. Und Ritter merkt zu spät, dass auch sein eigenes Urteilsvermögen getrübt ist.

Detectives Barry Gilbert and Joe Lombardo return after their highly praised debut, Cold Comfort. This time the two are plunged into Toronto's Chinatown district where they are called to investigate the death of Edgar Lau, a man whose history and connections take the detectives on a ride across continents and cultures, deep into the story of one family's struggle to survive against terrible odds

Die Kölnerin Ina macht mit ihrer Familie Urlaub an der Nordsee. Auf dem Rückweg vom Strand holt sie ihre Vergangenheit ein. Sie ist sicher, dass sie den Mörder ihrer vor zwanzig Jahren getöteten Schwester wiedererkannt hat. Kommissar Krumme und seine junge Kollegin Pat von der Kripo Husum nehmen die Ermittlungen auf und finden bald heraus, wen Ina gesehen hat: Pastor Jonas Hartung, ein hoch angesehener und beliebter Mann, ein Pfeiler der Gemeinde. Krumme tut, was er am besten kann - er vertraut seinem Bauchgefühl und nicht der Beweislage.

She couldn't paint to save her life - so someone's given her a lesson by taking it! Most newcomers don't stay long in remote Lochdubh - usually boredom, dampness and nosy locals drive them out. But it looks as if artist Effie Garrand has come to stay. When Hamish Macbeth calls on her he's amazed to find the woman in residence after a particularly harsh winter. Unfortunately, Effie is also quite delusional, having convinced herself that fellow local artist Jock Fleming is in love with her, and that they are engaged.

Die fünfzehnjährige Melody schleicht sich heimlich fort, um den Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Simone zu feiern. Als sie heimkommt, steht der Reiterhof ihrer Mutter in Flammen. Ihre Mutter, ihr kleiner Bruder und eine Pferdewirtin kommen ums Leben. Der Brandstifter wird nicht gefasst. Zwanzig Jahre später kehrt sie nach Martinsfehn zurück und ist erneut auf Simones Geburtstag eingeladen. Simone verkündet auf der Feier, dass sie den Brandstifter kennt.

The arrow sticking out of his chest came from his own hunting bow. A loving husband and father and an active member of a local megachurch, Novak has no known enemies. His family and friends say he was depressed because his best friend died suddenly of a heart attack and Novak blamed himself. But what does his guilt have to do with his death?

A Brock and Poole Mystery - DCI Harry Brock is called to a murder scene on Ham Common early on a Sunday morning. But it is far from being an ordinary sort of murder. The victim has been stabbed to death, locked in a wooden box and set alight. Brock and his assistant, DS Dave Poole, believe that there might be a connection to a gang, which leads them on a journey through Londons underworld...

A woman screams in pain. Twenty-seven times, until she dies. The sound file was sent to DCI Mark Lapslie from an anonymous email address. Why is she screaming? Why would someone record that horrifying noise? And why send it to him? He soon learns that the file was sent from the hospital where he is being treated for synaesthesia - a neurological condition that cross-wires his senses so he tastes sound - and where his new girlfriend works.

When Isabel, a British university student, travels to a remote Spanish town, it isn't only to enjoy the atmosphere. It's also to trace how and why her family name might have derived from the town, a quest her father, Sebastian made nine years ago, not long before his death in a car accident. But as Isabel, aided by local guide Mauricio, starts digging into her family's possible links with Alarcon, she's unprepared for the dark secrets uncovered; secrets that the current ruling nobility of Alarcon are keen to keep buried.

Una joven salta desde el Puente de la Salve tras recibir una llamada de móvil. Aunque en un primer momento el caso se cierra al considerarlo un suicidio, todas las alarmas saltan para la joven forense de la Ertzaintza Natalia Egaña cuando nuevas muertes van uniéndose a este primer misterio.

Peter Shand is the 'safe pair of hands' - a high-flying police administrator seconded to a quiet rural CID team to gain the operational experience he needs for promotion. On his second day he's thrust into a high-profile murder case. A woman's body is discovered in an old stone circle - with another woman buried alive beneath her.

Dopo la morte di sua moglie, portata via da un tumore improvviso, l'ex reporter David Raker cerca di rimettere insieme i pezzi della propria vita risolvendo su commissione i casi di persone scomparse. Il caso di Alex Towne è uno di questi. Ma Alex Towne non è semplicemente scomparso: Alex Towne è morto in un incidente d'auto, così brutalmente che gli inquirenti hanno dovuto identificare il suo cadavere dall'impronta dentale.