England Fiction Mystery

When a shy high-school student's body is found washed up on the shore of a quiet New England beach town - an apparent suicide - 15-year-old Terry Novak doesn't know what to think. Something just doesn't add up, so he decides to do some investigating of his own with the help of his best friend, Abby. It doesn't take long before they learn that asking questions puts them in grave danger, and surviving is going to be a fight.

In the Middle East, refugees fleeing dictatorship and terrorism pour across the borders into Europe, destabilizing countries already in the throes of economic crisis. But not all who seek refuge share the same reasons for so doing.... In the UK, the nationalist far right gathers strength - fueled by a government unable or unwilling to protect its own. England is on the brink. All it will take to send it tumbling into the abyss...is a single push. And in the midst of it all, two men have arrived in London, dark harbingers of death to come.

Along the border in Texas, a deadly firefight claims the lives of two Border Patrol agents. On a highway in suburban Virginia, a bomb blast targets the director of the CIA. From the halls of power in D.C., secrets reach out, signing the death warrants of those who uncover them. For CIA paramilitary Harry Nichols, deceit has become a way of life. Fifteen years in the Clandestine Service have left him weary, recovering from a devastating betrayal. Little does he know the betrayals have only begun. With CIA Director David Lay missing and presumed dead, Nichols finds himself tasked with protecting Lay's estranged daughter and hunted by an ex-Spetsnaz kill team. His only mission is to keep her safe. Her only desire is to find the man who ordered her father's murder.

Eine stürmische Winternacht im England des späten 19. Jahrhunderts: In der Gaststube des "Swan" sitzen die Bewohner von Radcot zusammen und wärmen sich an ihren Geschichten und Getränken, als ein Mann mit einem leblosen Mädchen im Arm hereinstolpert, das er aus der Themse geborgen hat. Die herbeigerufene Krankenschwester kann nur noch den Tod feststellen. Als sie jedoch ein paar Stunden später erneut nach dem Kind schaut, bemerkt sie, dass es wieder atmet. Ein Wunder oder gar Zauberei?

Charlie Rutland, a womanizing journalist, is found brutally murdered. He worked for a muck-raking gossip magazine and therefore had many enemies. Detective Crow is assigned to Yorkshire where he must eliminate a long list of suspects. And where does the German businessman Conrad Gunther fit in? Mysterious lights at Lockyer Tarn, a homeless man hiding out on the Yorkshire Dales, a stolen Volvo, and a former Gestapo officer are all seemingly linked in some manner. And then the British spy services get involved....

Nine-year-old Jenny Carson is brutally murdered in Kenton Wood on her way from school. Then Charles Lendon is found stabbed to death with a skewer through his heart. He was a ruthless lawyer and something of a womanizer. Jenny's father blamed him for her murder. As the local police struggle, Inspector Crow is called in. Can he connect the two killings? He discovers that several of those closest to Charles Lendon had good reason to hate him: his housekeeper lover, her unstable brother, even the boyfriend of his attractive young colleague Cathy Tennant.

Isobel Swan, a sixth form student, has been murdered. First, her ring finger is severed, then her throat is cut. With the investigation going nowhere fast, Detective Inspector Nick Dixon is sent undercover as a trainee teacher into Isobel’s boarding school. But to find the killer, he must first confront his inner demons and lay to rest the ghosts lurking in his own past. If he can… As Dixon digs deeper, the stakes have never been higher and a murder has never felt so personal.

Alan Duncan met Maddy Mills at a party. They fell in love and moved in together. What led to Alan’s murder as he went on his weekly run four years later? In Wiltshire, England, the Crime Review Team was formed to investigate cold cases. Headed by Gus Freeman, the team has several successful cold-case investigations behind them. Gus Freeman suspects that both Alan and Maddy were hiding from someone. The facts of Alan’s murder lead to an intriguing and complex cold case that will take all of Gus’s skills to unravel.

As a young medical student at Edinburgh, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle took classes with the remarkable Dr. Joseph Bell in forensic medicine. Dr. Bell exhibited many of the characteristics that Doyle would later synthesize into the personage of Sherlock Holmes: complete faith in human reason, meticulous powers of observation, and encyclopedic knowledge of the activities and methods of the criminal classes.

Emily Kane arrives at her sister Carrie's house to find the front door unlocked, dinner on the table, and the family nowhere to be found - Carrie, her husband, and two daughters have disappeared. When the police turn up no leads, Emily turns to her former boyfriend David Raker, a missing persons investigator, to track the family down. As Raker pursues the case, he discovers evidence of a sinister cover-up, decades in the making and with a long trail of bodies behind it.

Arnold Landon can’t help but feel drawn to Oldham Manor, an atmospheric medieval house in the middle of nowhere. When he is invited to catalogue the library there, he jumps at the chance. The place is a maze of musty old papers and books. And that’s not all. Late one night, he stumbles on a secret passage, twisting deep under the ground. Where will it take him? And why was it walled up? When a stranger turns up dead in a ditch, Landon begins to realize that someone is watching his every move. And they have a plan to ensure the past stays buried for good.

Es ist ihr großer Tag: Pamela Mitford feiert ihren 18. Geburtstag. Doch die Party endet in einer Tragödie, als der charismatische Adrian Curtis in den Tod stürzt. Die Polizei identifiziert schnell das Dienstmädchen Dulcie als Täterin. Louisa Cannon, Anstandsdame und Vertraute der Mitford-Schwestern - und selbst eine ehemalige Kriminelle -, hält Dulcie allerdings für unschuldig. Aber welcher Gast wurde dann zum Mörder? Und welche Rolle spielen Alice Diamond und ihre Bande der vierzig Diebinnen, zu denen Dulcie Kontakt hatte? Louisa und Pamela stellen Nachforschungen an.

When a cryptographer is murdered, Thomas Charles is sent on a secret mission to uncover the killer – and it’s the perfect opportunity to rekindle his romance with Cat Carlisle, the woman who helped uncover a double agent and solve her own husband’s murder. The victim’s niece – and the police’s top suspect – is Cat’s childhood friend and she begs Cat for help.

When a teenage girl is strangled while out for a run with her friends, it shakes the city of Stoke to its core. Why would anyone want to hurt a child? And who would have the audacity to murder in broad daylight? DS Grace Allendale and her team are brought in to bring a swift resolution, but investigating the case brings up no leads. It is as if the killer chose the girl at random and then disappeared. And then another young woman is found dead....

Det kostede Dolly ni års fængsel, at hun dræbte sin mand, mesterforbryderen Harry Rawlins, som hævn for hans dobbelte bedrageri. Nu er hun ude og klar til at realisere sin drøm - at åbne et hjem for svigtede og hjemløse børn. Til formålet vil hun bruge sin skjulte formue - diamanter fra et tidligere røveri til en værdi af to millioner pund. Men så enkelt er det ikke. For der er andre, som kender til diamanterne og vil have deres andel af byttet. Desværre viser det sig, at diamanterne er forsvundet.

Die erfolgreiche Autorin Ella Martin recherchiert für ihre neue Romanreihe in Canterbury. Als sie beim Einkaufen auf deutsche Touristinnen trifft, die ihre Reiseleiterin Eve vermissen, bietet sie ihnen an, für sie zu dolmetschen. Auch die Polizei und das Reisebüro benötigen ihre Deutschkenntnisse und im Nu steckt Ella mitten in den Ermittlungen zu einem Raubüberfall, dem die Reiseleiterin Eve zum Opfer gefallen ist. Dabei will Ella eigentlich nur ihren Roman schreiben. Doch langsam, aber sicher kommt ihr der Verdacht, dass Eve ermordet wurde.

Første gang, Thomas Lynley og overbetjent Barbara Havers fra Scotland Yard arbejder sammen, er på mordsagen om den halshuggede mand i laden. Det er ikke en sag for sarte sjæle. Da Cromwells soldater for trehundrede år siden tromlede gennem Keldale Valley i Yorkshire, søgte hele landsbyen tilflugt i Keldale kloster. Og sagnet fortæller, at et barn begyndte at skrige, og at landsbyboerne kvalte det af frygt for at blive opdaget. Nu er dalen atter hjemsøgt af et brutalt mord.

A rising star who has garnered some of Europe’s most important literary prizes, Juli Zeh has established herself as the new master of the philosophical thriller. With In Free Fall, she now takes us on a fast-paced ride through deadly rivalry and love’s infinite configurations. Against the backdrop of Germany and Switzerland, two physicists begin a dangerous dance of distrust.

"Katten i dueslaget" foregår på den fornemme engelske pigeskole Meadowbank. For skolens ledelse er det en katastrofe, da den nye idrætslærerinde bliver myrdet, og det bliver ikke det sidste mord på skolen. Politiet står uden spor, men en af eleverne får øje på en sammenhæng og tilkalder mesterdetektiven Hercule Poirot. Hercule Poirot er Agatha Christies belgiske privatdetektiv, der er lige så genial, som han er sær.

Evelyn James is a forensic specialist in the Cleveland Medical Examiner's office who's juggling a demanding workload, a teenage daughter from a failed marriage, and a homicide-detective boyfriend. And somehow she always happens to be involved in some of the twistiest, most challenging crime scenes imaginable.