Historical Police Fiction

Berlin 1931: To hjemløse unge, Benny og Alexandra, går ind i byens prægtigste indkøbstempel KaDeWe for at stjæle smykker og ure. Men det går frygtelig galt, og Alexandra må nøjes med at være tilskuer, da Benny styrter i døden - måske som offer for vold fra en politimand. Fra det tidspunkt bliver hun jaget. Et andet sted i byen sidder kriminalkommissær Gereon Rath og keder sig. Han har fået til opgave at overvåge den jødisk-amerikanske gangster Abraham Goldstein, som er ankommet til Berlin og har indlogeret sig på det fornemme Hotel Excelsior. Men Goldstein er tilsyneladende from som et lam. Sa

It's 1976. Dr. Colin Sanford, a brilliant, ambitious obstetrician in the Pacific Northwest city of Emerald, has a plan to create the first in vitro baby. He recruits Dr. Giselle Hearn, an experienced laboratory geneticist/embryologist at the university who’s frustrated by the ultraconservative policies of her department chairman. Drs. Sanford and Hearn, working secretly, set out to put their names in the history books. Unfortunately, a secret that big is hard to keep....

Two years after the firebombing that devastated the historic East German city, the suffering continues in the throes of a brutal winter. The wary and exhausted citizens scramble to survive, wolf packs of orphans scavenge for food, and Detective Max Heller is called to the scene of a savage murder. A Russian officer was stabbed to death, and not far from the frozen corpse is an abandoned backpack containing another man’s severed head.

November 1940. Darkness descends, and another anxious night begins for those tasked with guarding the industrial heartland of London from enemy attack. As a policeman patrols the Royal Albert Dock, something catches his eye - a man is sprawled awkwardly across a nearby barge, a dagger lodged in his back. Detective Inspector John Jago of West Ham CID discovers the victim was a dock worker by day and a Home Guard volunteer by night - and there are things even his wife doesn't know about his past.

Ukochana Hamisha, Priscilla Halburton-Smythe, wraca do Lochdubh z nowym narzeczonym, więc nic dziwnego, że posterunkowy jest załamany i wszystko go drażni. Najbardziej jednak działa mu na nerwy niejaka Trixie Thomas, idealna pani domu, mieszkanki Lochdubh do zdrowego egoizmu. Gdy ktoś ucisza ją na zawsze, męska część mieszkańców miasteczka może wreszcie odetchnąć z ulgą. Hamish odetchnie dopiero wtedy, gdy znajdzie mordercę.

Kiedy posterunkowy Hamish Macbeth otrzymuje wiadomość o morderstwie w domu bezlitosnego żartownisia Arthura Trenta, traktuje to jako jego kolejny kawał. Jednak na miejscu okazuje się, że Trent bez wątpienia został zamordowany. Na dodatek jego dom pełen jest chciwych krewnych, których bardziej interesuje treść testamentu Arthura niż znalezienie jego mordercy. Jakby tego było mało, okazuje się, że w sprawę zamieszana jest dawna miłość Hamisha, Priscilla Halburton-Smythe. Sytuacja się komplikuje.

Para horror de los integrantes de la Brigada Nocturna, el mejor amigo y protector de Pierre Le Noir es asesinado con la misma técnica que empleaba Jack el Destripador. Cuando Scotland Yard confirma que dicho asesino se encuentra en Francia y que su siguiente objetivo será Pierre Le Noir, el joven agente debe salir de París mientras sus colegas controlan la situación.

When Tokyo falls victim to a deadly terrorist attack, Detective Sergeant Mariko Oshiro knows who is responsible, even if she doesn't have proof. She urges her commanding officers to arrest the perpetrator - an insane zealot who was just released from police custody. When her pleas fall on deaf ears, she loses her temper and then her badge as well as her best chance of fighting back.

Against all the visible evidence, a homicide cop embarks on a quest to prove a Hollywood goddess' innocence for the crime of killing her husband in this chilling tale set in the heart of New Orleans.

In 1920s Munich, the body of Anna Gross, a young society wife, has been found in the English Gardens, still clothed in finery. Soon a second body is discovered, also a woman of high society. When a third body is found, homicide detective Axel Berg realizes he's dealing with unprecedented evil. Is the murderer politically motivated? Is he a lone madman? Or worse, is the killer possessed by both political and personal demons?

The Bronx, 1958. The Policewoman's Bureau doesn’t officially exist, and yet it handles those cases only a woman's touch could solve. Marie Cirile, a young officer with the 44th Precinct, has joined the few women stepping away from the select matronly duties available to female officers to take up serious cases. With courage and a stiff upper lip when undercover, Marie is dispatched in often grim and scary circumstances, using her air of innocence and others' prejudice against her to take down degenerates and sex offenders.

Eine gefährliche Raubmörder-Bande treibt ihr Unwesen in Berlin, als im Herbst 1932 die 75-jährige Frau eines Markthändlers in ihrer Wohnung überfallen und umgebracht wird. Die Spur führt Kommissar Gennat zum Ringverein „Felsenfest“. Doch die Ermittler stoßen dort auf eine Festung des Schweigens. Gennat bittet seinen Freund, den Polizeireporter Max Kaminski, um Hilfe. Der fürchtet allerdings, von den Ringbrüdern schnell enttarnt zu werden. Kaminskis Frau Lissy hat die zündende Idee: Mit falscher Identität sucht sie den Kontakt zu den Frauen und Freundinnen der Ringbrüder.

Dem Eisenbahnattentäter auf der Spur. Max Kaminski ist eigentlich Reporter, aber viel zu neugierig, um nicht auch selbst auf die Fährte von Verbrechern zu gehen. Als 1931 in der Nähe der Kleinstadt Jüterbog bei Berlin ein Zug entgleist und ein anonymer Brief mit einer Geldforderung auftaucht, ruft das die Berliner Kriminalpolizei auf den Plan. Aber Kommissar Gennat und seine Kollegen tappen zunächst im Dunkeln. Nach einigen Monaten entgleist dann in Ungarn der legendäre Orient-Express auf dem Weg nach Wien.

Mark Sanderson does for the 30s what Jake Arnott did for 60s London – vividly revealing its hidden underworld in this follow up to Snow Hill. On a sweltering day in July 1937, reporter John Steadman is in London’s St Paul’s Cathedral waiting for his girlfriend … But romance is pushed aside when he witnesses a man falling to his death from the Whispering Gallery, killing a priest in the process. Did he jump or was he pushed?

October, 1940. Bombs are falling on Stratford when air-raid warden Sylvia Parks sees a house with a light shining like a beacon to the enemy aircraft overhead, violating the strict blackout regulations. With no answer at the door she manages to break in, only to discover the body of a young woman – and she's been strangled with a stocking. For Detective Inspector John Jago, the scene brings back memories of the gruesome Soho Strangler, who murdered four women in the mid-1930s but has never been caught. Is there a connection?

Berlin kriminell zur Zeit des Ersten Weltkrieges Berlin 1916. Eine Frau ist ermordet worden, und ihre Leiche wurde in einem Reisekorb von Berlin nach Stettin geschickt. Der blutjunge Reporter Max Kaminski, kriegsuntauglich, ermittelt zusammen mit dem Kommissar Ernst Gennat in der Ackerstraße in Berlin-Mitte.

It’s spring 1962, and a sergeant with the Memphis Police Department is found dead only hours before his scheduled testimony before a grand jury. Was it suicide, or was it murder? What was he going to testify about? A handwritten note left by the sergeant and addressed to the district attorney disappears.

It is 1905, and Chicago is an open town. The most accessible part of town is the Levee District. It is an area of the city that's hard to tell the crooks from the cops. There are brothels, madams, opium dens, gambling joints and plenty of alcohol, but it all comes at a price in the Levee, and the two Ward Aldermen get their share of every vice's dollar. With the hanging of serial killer, Simon Kluge, police Detective Patrick Moses is suddenly without a case. Before Moses can relax, he is approached by an aging retail mogul who asks him to investigate the mysterious shooting of his son.

Reconstrucció dels assassinats comesos en 1949 per John George Haig, un assassí en sèrie que, en ser detingut, va confessar que era un vampir que necessitava alimentar-se de sang humana. Els jutges van sospitar que s'estava fent passar per boig per eludir la condemna de mort i, després de moltes deliberacions, el van enviar a la forca. Narrada en primera persona, la novel·la és una minuciosa aproximació als fets reals i exactes que van succeïr al mateix temps que reflexiona sobre la demència i sobre el crim i va amanit amb l'homenatge a tres mestres....

The detectives in Josie's squad don’t fit the spit and polish image of the Adam 12 LAPD. They’re grubby, unshaven, disrespectful to authority, and generally do police work in an effective, if not by-the-book way. She’s comfortable balancing on the edge of legality to make a good arrest until one night an informant tells her that a cop has stepped over the line and is selling rock cocaine. In Josie’s mind, there’s nothing worse than dirty cops. She learns the hard way that they can be vicious, clever, and determined to do anything - including murder - to avoid capture.