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En seriemorder mishandler og brænder folk levende. Han efterlader sig ingen spor, og politiet står magtesløst. Medierne døber ham brændoffer-manden.

Da den kontroversielle, suspenderede efterforsker Washington Poes navn viser sig at være snittet ind i brystet på de forkullede rester af seriemorderens tredje offer, ender Poe mod sin vilje med at blive kaldt tilbage og sat på sagen.

A new Nissan plant is coming to the depressed Rust Belt town of Baxter, and Captain Delia Merola has been busy cleaning up the crime-addled city ever since the deal was announced. But when the 15-year-old daughter of the lead bidder on the construction project—a wealthy out-of-towner—suddenly disappears, and it becomes clear that a professional kidnapping ring may be responsible, Delia realizes that the factory's influx of cash could bring with it an entirely new sort of danger, never before considered in this working class milieu.

Stavolta l'investigatore Giorgio Martinengo - frutto della straordinaria fantasia di Borgio - non fa i conti con una storia qualsiasi: la vittima in questione, infatti, è Vittoria Squassino, suo antico amore di gioventù. Ingaggiato poco tempo prima dalla banca tedesca per cui Vittoria lavorava, Martinengo non ha mai creduto fino in fondo alle insinuazioni sul suo conto. Anche se la relazione che la donna intratteneva con Valerio Cortese (magnetico imprenditore in campo enologico, nonché, a sua volta, vecchia conoscenza del detective) sembrerebbe aprire un paio di piste interessanti.

Set during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, we meet Max Carrados, the celebrated blind detective who can read a newspaper headline with the touch of his fingers and shoot a villain by aiming at the sound of his beating heart...and Norman Conquest, the fast talking, hard hitting adventurer with a nose for trouble and a hell-rake disregard for danger, who keeps up good cheer while he biffs the baddies...and not forgetting Ben, the chivalrous and perky non-descript little man, whose thumbs itch just before ‘something ‘orrible ‘appens’.

Following the success of the popular BBC Drama series, Norman Conquest is back! Set during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, where every story promises a 'Thousand Thrills!', with ingenious plots, full of twists and surprises, driven along with exciting action and tongue in cheek humour, our fast-talking, hard-hitting adventurer with a nose for trouble keeps up good cheer while he biffs the baddies in four action packed adventures.

Resourceful Bingo Riggs and his partner, Handsome Kusak, are in the sucker-bait business, snapping candid pics of tourists off Central Park. Their fly-by-night enterprise can be irresistible to souvenir lovers, but with one camera in a pawnshop and their developing room in the bathtub of a two-room dump near Hell’s Kitchen, their venture is wretchedly underexposed - until they stumble upon an insurance fraud scheme between the allegedly dead eccentric Mr. S. S. Pigeon and his business partner and beneficiary.

Lucas Carr went to Glenbury Hall, an old country manor house turned hotel. He signed in at reception, took his key, and went upstairs to his room. But he never got there. Somehow he vanished along the way, with not a single clue to suggest what might have happened to him. Lucas belonged to the same mysterious organization that employs Ishmael and Penny, so they are sent in to solve the mystery. But when they arrive at grim and isolated Glenbury Hall, they discover it has a reputation as one of the most haunted old houses in England.

Febbraio, 1956. Una coltre di neve è scesa su Roma, ma questo non impedisce ai ladri di fare il loro lavoro. Alla stazione Termini, un uomo è seduto su una panchina in attesa del treno, quando improvvisamente qualcuno alle sue spalle afferra il grande baule a rotelle che ha lì accanto e corre via. Il giorno dopo il questore Passalacqua convoca il commissario Agostino Clodoveo per affidargli un incarico delicatissimo: trovare Clara Tebaldi, moglie di un uomo ricco e importante, Fulco Tebaldi.

A serial killer known as "The Reader" is murdering journalists in the manner of their most famous stories. Dubbed the "Media Murders" by the press, the killings baffle authorities, turn once-aggressive reporters into prey and shock the country in what soon becomes a national story. The cunning killer's first strike is cleverly disguised as a political assassination, mirroring John Hinckley's attempt on Ronald Reagan. As it turns out, the fallen reporter had covered Reagan's shooting.

It’s been fifteen years since Vivian Delacroix unleashed her followers on the town of Cardinal Falls. The cult members killed anyone Vivian told them was a threat to their beliefs. Now, another killer takes young girls of nine or ten, all related to Vivian’s original victims. He drugs them, suffocates them, and painstakingly arranges them in ritualistic poses. The bodies give up no evidence to the killer’s identity.

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Ein grausiger Fund erschüttert Frankfurt am Main. Vor dem Eingang eines Supermarkts wurde ein Müllsack abgelegt, er enthielt einen Leichnam ohne Kopf. Selbst der hartgesottene Chefermittler Jim Devcon ist geschockt. Weitere Enthauptete werden gefunden. Was steckt hinter den entsetzlichen Taten? Der Islamisten-Verdacht erhärtet sich nicht. Jim Devcon und sein Team bekommen es mit der »Weißen Lilie« zu tun. So nennt sich eine Gruppe junger Menschen. Ihr Kampf gegen die Ausbeutung auf dem Arbeitsmarkt sollte unblutig werden.

In Prag wird ein Geschäftsmann brutal ermordet. Alle Spuren führen nach Linz in Österreich zu einem zwielichtigen Konzern mit großem Einfluss. Ist der psychopathische Konzernchef in den Mord verwickelt und was befindet sich auf den Fotos, die seine Schwester erhält? Und welches persönliche Interesse hat die Werbeagenturchefin Anna Lange an dem Fall, in den ihr Vater tief verwickelt ist?

Jonas Reed signs up for a routine memory rental—a calm, curated experience designed to ease stress and fade away without consequence. Instead, he witnesses a murder embedded inside the memory itself. The victim whispers a single name before everything fractures. That name belongs to Mara Kline. Mara is a memory auditor for Memex, the corporation that rents memories to the public and erases what customers aren’t supposed to keep. She is trained to flag corruption, delete anomalies, and move on.

Albert Smith might be retired, but a long career as a police detective has left him with skills that just won’t switch off. So on a walking tour of the British Isles, it doesn’t take long for his eyes to spot something he wasn’t supposed to see.

Logan Walsh’s life is disintegrating. When his broken marriage teeters on divorce, this desperate firefighter-turned-PI moonlights as a bail bondsman to support the family he longs to restore. But when his skip pleads innocent and prophesizes his own murder, the determined father of two doesn't listen … until the skip is murdered in jail. Guilt-ridden over ignoring the man’s plea, Logan embarks a broken trail of biker gangs, bent cops, and greedy land speculators. And in a case where when even the police are suspect, he has nowhere to turn.

Jenny Stone, a prosecuting attorney, finds herself in a precarious situation after concluding a major money laundering case. She notices she is being followed and decides to take a vacation to Italy to visit Warren Steelgrave, a distant relative by marriage. Upon her arrival, she confides in Warren about her fears and the thumb drive containing sensitive information given to her by a suspect, Jacob Colburn. As they navigate through Italy, they realize they are being pursued by dangerous individuals connected to the case.

When 25-year-old Wendy Winkworth decides to take a break from her PI business and visit her brother in Bern, Illinois, she simply wants to catch up on family affairs. Soon family affairs have her in over her head. She’s hired by a teacher to find out if his ex-con mother is going to show up and ruin his chances of marrying the love of his life and the richest girl in town. Wendy’s mechanic brother appears to be thieving on the side. And the local sheriff is trailing her, either because he likes her looks or because he wants her to stop looking too closely at what’s going on in town.

Da kriminalkommissær Kim Stone skynder sig hen til gerningsstedet, er der ikke noget lig, der venter på hende: Paramedicinerne forsøger desperat at redde offerets liv. Den afdøde mand, Eric Gould, virker helt almindelig, indtil teamet graver i hans fortid. Som drenge var begge ofre en del af en gruppe på seks, som pralede med deres forfærdelige forbrydelser. Er der nogen, som er i gang med endelig at få hævn … eller tror vedkommende, at mændene stadig er farlige?

Da en 19-årig dreng, Jamie Mills, bliver fundet hængt i et træ i en lokal park, bliver hans død erklæret et selvmord. Kriminalkommissær Kim Stones mavefornemmelse siger hende, at der er noget galt. I forsøget på at opklare denne foruroligende sag følger Kim spor, der fører hende ind bag de gamle victorianske mure på klinikken, som drives af familien Gardner. Så bliver liget af en ung kvinde fundet. Hun er blevet kvalt, og hendes død er også iscenesat, så det ligner et selvmord.