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Dead and Buried: A Scottish Detective Mystery by John Carson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSometimes, the past is better left behind...Detective Chief Inspector Harry McNeil had found himself back in CID after a leave of absence saw his team disbanded. Now he's been temporarily assigned to an existing Major Investigation team, working alongside his old friend, Detective Inspector Frank Miller, after Miller's DCI dies suddenly.A body is found in the city centre, torn to pieces... -
![Bună seara, Melania! by Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu]()
Bună seara, Melania! by Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRodica Ojog-Braşoveanu a publicat romane poliţiste, istorice şi alte povestiri. Maestră in arta suspansului, Rodica Ojog-Brasoveanu se arată o fină cunoscătoare a maștilor dincolo de care se ascund întotdeauna oamenii și în literatura, și în viata. Această carte o dovedește din plin.Despre "Ciclul Melaniei": Melania este cheia întregii serii, prin unicitatea ei... -
![Worth the Risk by Crystal Chard]()
Worth the Risk by Crystal Chard
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen everything's at stake, how close is too close?Forensic Psychologist, Grace Weatherford, wants her old job back with the Covert Intelligence Squad, but on her own terms. Yet when CIS offer up a case with a mysterious female perp at the centre, she can't say no. The catch? Grace's speciality is undercover guidance – she now has to go all in.Nadia Florescu is nobody's fool... -
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Trigger by Jessica L. Webb
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDr. Kate Morrison doesn’t know how or why someone would create human bombs that are triggered by touch. But when Sergeant Andy Wyles blocks Kate from touching the patient who collapses in her Vancouver ER, Kate joins the investigation to demand answers, regardless of the danger... -
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![Le ossa parlano by Antonio Manzini]()
Le ossa parlano by Antonio Manzini
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMentre Rocco Schiavone affronta a Roma i suoi fantasmi con la sensazione che a quella città non abbia più niente da dire, ad Aosta nei boschi vicino Saint-Nicolas, vengono rinvenute alcune minuscole ossa umane. Sono di Mirko Sensini, un bimbo di 8 anni strangolato dopo aver subito violenza sessuale. Rocco stavolta dovrà scavare nel terreno più torbido della psicopatologia la pedofilia... -
![Vecchie conoscenze by Antonio Manzini]()
Vecchie conoscenze by Antonio Manzini
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRocco Schiavone indaga sull’omicidio di una professoressa in pensione. E intanto l’ombra del passato si fa pressante: la pena per Sebastiano, l’amico fraterno che non ha mai smesso di dare la caccia a Enzo Baiocchi, che gli ha assassinato la moglie, lo rende inquieto e gli ruba il sonno... -
![Killing Moon by Jo Nesbø]()
Killing Moon by Jo Nesbø
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the thirteenth novel in the New York Times best-selling series, brilliant rogue police investigator Harry Hole is back, this time as an outsider assembling his own team to help find a serial killer.Harry has gone to Los Angeles to drink himself to death, in the wake of his life back in Oslo falling to pieces... -
![Ο λαβύρινθος των πνευμάτων - τόμος 2 by Carlos Ruiz Zafón]()
Ο λαβύρινθος των πνευμάτων - τόμος 2 by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsΗ Αλίθια έβρεξε την πένα στο μελανοδοχείο και την άφησε να γλιστρήσει πάνω στο χαρτί, χαράζοντας μια γραμμή σε μπλε γυαλιστερό χρώμα. Έγραψε το όνομά της κι έμεινε να κοιτάζει το μελάνι που στέγνωνε σιγά σιγά. Η απόλαυση της λευκής σελίδας, που πάντα στην αρχή ανάδινε ένα άρωμα μυστηρίου γεμάτο υποσχέσεις, χάθηκε μεμιάς... -
![Rainey's Christmas Miracle by R.E. Bradshaw]()
Rainey's Christmas Miracle by R.E. Bradshaw
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs a holiday gift in 2011, author R. E. Bradshaw gave fans of the Rainey Bell Thriller series this sweet short story. It is now available as a companion piece to MOLLY: HOUSE ON FIRE, due out in April 2012.When readers last saw the striking former FBI Behavioral Analyst, Rainey Bell just learned she was about to be a mother... -
![Kamer 19 by Marc Raabe]()
Kamer 19 by Marc Raabe
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOp het openingsevenement van de Berlinale zorgt een snuff-movie voor een massale schok. Ruim 1800 sterren en beroemdheden zien hoe een gruwelijke moord op camera is vastgelegd. Het slachtoffer is de dochter van burgemeester Otto Keller. De dader dreigt dat het niet bij deze moord zal blijven. Rechercheur Tom Babylon en psychologe Sita Johanns staan met hun onderzoek naar de moord onder hoge druk... -
![The Circle: MM Dark Found Family Fantasy Adventure LGBTQ+ by Silencio]()
The Circle: MM Dark Found Family Fantasy Adventure LGBTQ+ by Silencio
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDeep in a forest, miles from any town, stands Whitewood Orphanage, a place of heavy silence and long shadows.When fifteen-year-old Tristan arrives, he braces for strict rules and cold discipline. Instead, he finds a place where friendship blurs into forbidden longing, and every shadow hides a secret too heavy to name... -
![The Second Cut by Louise Welsh]()
The Second Cut by Louise Welsh
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAuctioneer Rilke has been trying to stay out of trouble, keeping his life more or less respectable. Business has been slow at Bowery Auctions, so when an old friend, Jojo, gives Rilke a tip-off for a house clearance, life seems to be looking up. The next day Jojo washes up dead... -
![Wildrose by Max Ellendale, R.M. Bruce]()
Wildrose by Max Ellendale, R.M. Bruce
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHomicide Detective, Evelyn Grant, has her life wrapped up in a tidy bundle. As long as you don't look too closely. When a child disappears from an end of summer party, Evelyn and her team set out to solve the case. With little to go on and a heavy need for forensic evidence, Evelyn is forced to rely on the genius medical examiner, Ainsley Monson, for information... -
![Tell Tale by Mark Sennen]()
Tell Tale by Mark Sennen
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratings`A wonderfully twisty maze' JAMES OSWALDDI CHARLOTTE SAVAGE KNOWS WHO KILLED HER DAUGHTER But before Charlotte can get her revenge, disturbing events start to unfold on Dartmoor...A woman's naked body is found near an isolated reservoir on the bleak winter moors. When the woman's housemate also goes missing, Charlotte knows she must move fast... -
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![Mördaren ljuger inte ensam by Maria Lang]()
Mördaren ljuger inte ensam by Maria Lang
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRutger Hammars stuga Lillborgen ligger på Ön i sjön Uvlången i Bergslagen. Där samlar han och hans fru under en sommarhelg en handfull gäster för att umgås, bada och segla.Men när Puck Ekstedt under en promenad överraskas av ett skyfall och tvingas fly in under en gran gör hon ett makabert fynd: en av Hammars gäster ligger där strypt med en röd sidenscarf om sin hals... -
![The American Girl by Monika Fagerholm]()
The American Girl by Monika Fagerholm
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn 1969, a young girl makes a trip from Coney Island to the swampy coastland on the rural outskirts of Helsinki, Finland. There, her death will immediately become part of local mythology, furnishing boys and girls with fodder for endless romantic imaginings. Everyone who lives near the swamp dreams about Eddie de Wire, the lost American girl. . . -
![The Black Sisterhood Files by Kristina Naydonova]()
The Black Sisterhood Files by Kristina Naydonova
Rated: 3.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCrime has befallen the quaint town of Parkersburg, West Virginia. Upon moving to her new home, Lexie Torres soon realizes that her life has morphed into a never-ending cycle of murder, mystery, and peculiar discoveries. Lexie joins a town clan called The Black Sisterhood, a group of teenage girls that often assists the police with solving crimes... -
![Murder on the Thirty-first Floor by Per Wahlöö]()
Murder on the Thirty-first Floor by Per Wahlöö
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen the nation's sole publishing conglomerate receives a mysterious bomb threat, Chief Inspector Jensen is ordered to find a culprit within a week--or else. As his investigation begins to reveal the unsavory secrets of a growing list of suspects, Jensen realizes that he has uncovered a tragic story of betrayal and death in which he will play the central role... -
![30 дни мрак by Jenny Lund Madsen, Джени Лунд Мадсен]()
30 дни мрак by Jenny Lund Madsen, Джени Лунд Мадсен
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsХана е датска писателка на изтънчена литература, но въпреки забележителната критика, книгите й не са сред предпочитаните от масовия читател. В самотата и отчаянието си се поддава на предизвикателството да напише криминален роман за 30 дни. Заминава за малко, спокойно градче в Исландия да търси вдъхновение. Но под повърхността на идиличния Хусафьордур бушуват силни течения... -
![Paper Butterfly: A Mei Wang Mystery by Diane Wei Liang]()
Paper Butterfly: A Mei Wang Mystery by Diane Wei Liang
Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsModern-Day Beijing. Mei Wang, 31, lives and works as a private detective in China's capital city. After her resignation from the Ministry for Public Security, Mei saw her status drop swiftly in the eyes of her former colleagues, her TV-star sister, and even her mother... -
![Criminal: The Deluxe Edition, Vol. 2 by Ed Brubaker]()
Criminal: The Deluxe Edition, Vol. 2 by Ed Brubaker
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe second oversized hardback of the award-winning crime series from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips is finally here! The first edition has gone through four printings, in sellout after sellout, and now the rest of Brubaker and Phillips' noir masterpiece is collected in the same format... -
![The Complete Frank Miller Batman by Frank Miller, Dennis O'Neil]()
The Complete Frank Miller Batman by Frank Miller, Dennis O'Neil
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Complete Frank Miller Batman contains: Batman Year One, Wanted: Santa Claus Dead Or Alive and The Dark Knight Returns. With a new introduction by Richard Bruning, then DC design director. Batman Year One and The Dark Knight Returns are reprints of their trade paperbacks and not individual issues so they include the introductions to those volumes by Frank Miller and Alan Moore... -
![Criminal: The Deluxe Edition, Vol. 1 by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips]()
Criminal: The Deluxe Edition, Vol. 1 by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA fantastically-designed and printed book showcasing the Eisner and Harvey Award-Winning crime comics from the creators of Sleeper and Incognito, this oversized, deluxe hardback edition features Criminal books 1 thru 3 - Cowards, Lawless, and The Dead and the Dying... -
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![Daredevil by Brian Michael Bendis & Alex Maleev: Ultimate Collection, Book 2 by Brian Michael Bendis]()
Daredevil by Brian Michael Bendis & Alex Maleev: Ultimate Collection, Book 2 by Brian Michael Bendis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBrian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev's Eisner award-winning run is collected across three titanic trade paperbacks! In this volume, Matt Murdock is forced to reckon with the problems and legal ramifications that have emerged as a result of his public outing... -
![Daredevil by Frank Miller Klaus Janson by Frank Miller, Marv Wolfman]()
Daredevil by Frank Miller Klaus Janson by Frank Miller, Marv Wolfman
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrank Miller's spellbinding scripts and pulse-pounding pencils herald one of Daredevil's greatest eras, just in time for the Kingpin and Bullseye's efforts to rob the Man Without Fear of everything he holds dear Featuring the first appearances of Elektra, Stick and the Hand The daring discovery that drew Ben Urich into Daredevil's domain of darkness Such forgotten-yet-formidable foes as... -
![Gotham Central, Tome 2 by Ed Brubaker]()
Gotham Central, Tome 2 by Ed Brubaker
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCops just don't have it easy in the city of the Bat. Not only do they have to deal with the violence and corruption of the world's most notoriously crime-infested city, catering to some of the most insane and homicidal criminals, but they also have to deal with a vigilante who's hellbent on playing by his own rules... -
![Daredevil by Brian Michael Bendis & Alex Maleev: Ultimate Collection, Book 1 by Brian Michael Bendis]()
Daredevil by Brian Michael Bendis & Alex Maleev: Ultimate Collection, Book 1 by Brian Michael Bendis
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsDuring a character-defining run, Brian Michael Bendis crafted a pulp-fiction narrative that exploited the Man Without Fear's rich tapestry of characters and psychodrama, and resolved them in an incredibly nuanced, modern approach... -
![Gotham Central, Tome 4 by Greg Rucka]()
Gotham Central, Tome 4 by Greg Rucka
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWitness the gritty side of the Gotham City Police Department from their perspective, as teens dressed as Robin the Boy Wonder start turning up dead. In this final volume (collecting GOTHAM CENTRAL #32-40), the dead body of Robin the Boy Wonder is found on the streets... -
![Daredevil: Born Again by Frank Miller, David Mazzucchelli]()
Daredevil: Born Again by Frank Miller, David Mazzucchelli
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCollects Daredevil #226-233. "And I -- I have shown him... that a man without hope is a man without fear." The definitive Daredevil tale! Karen Page, Matt Murdock's former lover, has traded away the Man Without Fear's secret identity for a drug fix. Now, Daredevil must find strength as the Kingpin of Crime wastes no time taking him down as low as a human can get...
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