Historical Police Fiction

Berlin, Hauptstadt der DDR, 1987. Die Stadt ist von einer Unruhe erfasst, die sich kaum noch kontrollieren lässt. Da werden an einem Tag zwei Leichen gefunden, und nur die tote Frau war Republikbürgerin. Oberleutnant Otto Castorp bekommt es daher gleich mit den Kollegen von der Staatssicherheit zu tun. Der Tod des Westbesuchers verweist auf politische Hintergründe. Und auf fremde Geheimdienste. Die Spur führt nach Südafrika. Und dann ist da noch Erika Fichte. Ihr Chef, verantwortlich für die Unterstützung des ANC durch die DDR: spurlos verschwunden. Erika macht sich auf die Suche.

Two Australian police officers travel to San Francisco and Los Angeles in the summer of 1967 in search of a missing young man, only to find themselves fully immersed in the world of music, free love, drugs and hippie counterculture. They soon realise this isn't just any ordinary missing person investigation. A big gig is the perfect place to get away with murder, and their search becomes a thrilling journey through the seamy side of the 1960s counterculture.

Oakland, California, 1983: a city churning with violent crime and racial conflict. Officer Hanson, a Vietnam veteran, has abandoned academia for the life-and-death clarity of police work, a way to live with the demons that followed him home from the war. But Hanson knows that justice requires more than simply enforcing the penal code. He believes in becoming a part of the community he serves - which is why, unlike most officers, he chooses to live in the same town where he works. This strategy serves him well...to a point. He forges a precarious friendship with the drug king of East Oakland.

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....

Eine Mordserie erschüttert die junge BRD, und die Spuren führen weit zurück und tief hinein in einen Sumpf aus alten braunen Seilschaften. Düsseldorf, 1965: Für den jungen Kommissar Thomas Engel ist die Großstadt der verheißungsvolle Beginn seiner Karriere. Er stürzt sich ins Leben, als ihm seine Arbeit den ersten Mord beschert. Ein junges Mädchen wird in der Ruine Kaiserswerth tot aufgefunden. Engel versteht nicht, dass seine Kollegen nicht gleich die Spur verfolgen, die geradewegs in die dunklen 1930er Jahre führt.

Düsseldorf, 1965: Für den jungen Kommissar Thomas Engel ist die Großstadt der verheißungsvolle Beginn seiner Karriere. Er stürzt sich ins Leben, als ihm seine Arbeit den ersten Mord beschert. Ein junges Mädchen wird in der Ruine Kaiserswerth tot aufgefunden. Engel versteht nicht, dass seine Kollegen nicht gleich die Spur verfolgen, die geradewegs in die dunklen 1930er Jahre führt. Versucht man etwas vor ihm zu verheimlichen, und warum will niemand sehen, was so offensichtlich auf der Hand liegt?

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.

December, 1939. Having solved the case of the Suffolk Vampire, Inspector Betty Church and her colleagues at Sackwater Police Station have settled back down to business. There's the elderly Mr Fern, who keeps losing his slippers, Sylvia Satin's 13th birthday party to attend and the scintillating case of the missing bookmark to solve. Though peace and quiet are all well and good, Betty soon finds herself longing for some cold-blooded murder.

This new collection of mystery stories set in New Orleans features O'Neil De Noux's recurring characters - 1940s Private-eye Lucien Caye, 1890s NOPD Detective Jacques Dugas as well as NOPD Homicide Detectives John Raven Beau, and Dino LaStanza (he's back!). There are also a couple ghost stories, a maniac story, the gold bug of Jean Lafitte, a man with moon hands and a future-cop story with a guy named Max.

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.

When a signalman discovers a mutilated body inside a railway tunnel near Groote Park, it seems to be a straightforward case of a man struck by a passing train. But Inspector Vandam of the Middeldorp police isn’t satisfied that Albert Smith’s death was accidental, and he sets out to prove foul play in a baffling mystery which crosses continents from deepest South Africa to the wilds of northern Scotland, where an almost identical crime appears to have been perpetrated.

Florence, October 1966. The rain is never-ending. When a young boy vanishes on his way home from school the police fear the worst, and Inspector Bordelli begins an increasingly desperate investigation. Then the flood hits. During the night of 4th November the swollen River Arno, already lapping the arches of the Ponte Vecchio, breaks its banks and overwhelms the city. Streets become rushing torrents, the force of the water sweeping away cars and trees, doors, shutters and anything else in its wake.

L'autore aveva scritto questi due racconti lunghi, giunti ormai, con varianti, alla terza edizione, nel 1994 e nel 1995, di poco anteriormente al sorgere della moda del giallo e poliziesco italiani. Sono opere basate sulle figure di Vittorio D'Aiazzo, commissario e poi vice questore, e di Ranieri Velli, suo aiutante e amico, personaggi che, l'uno o entrambi, ritornano in altri romanzi e racconti di Guido Pagliarino: è uscito da poco per i tipi dell'Editrice Genesi l`ultimo romanzo sul personaggio D’Aiazzo, il prequel ”L`ira dei vilipesi”.

I juli 1932 står politiet i Berlin over for en gåde: En mand bliver fundet død i en vareelevator i "Haus Vaterland", det legendariske forlystelsessted på Potsdamer Platz, og alt tyder på, at han er druknet i etablissementets svømmepøl. Men han er åbenbart ikke den eneste, der er omkommet på den måde... For at opklare sagen Vaterland må kriminalassistent Gereon Rath ud p en usædvanlig efterforskningsrejse, som blandt andet bringer ham helt til Østpreussen - og Rath når grænsen for, hvad han kan klare.

In 1938, at the height of the Great Depression, a madman hunts his victims through the hobo jungles of Cleveland, terrorizing the city. Ethel Harding, a prostitute struggling to survive both the cold streets and the Torso Killer, takes refuge with a devout missionary sect - only to find that its righteous facade conceals the darkest of secrets. Sixty years later, the police find the butchered body of Alfred Wiley in the woods. But before his daughter, Kris, can even identify the remains, things he never told her begin to surface one by one.

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....

On Christmas Eve, 1943, the newly formed but undermanned Homicide division of the Melbourne police force is called to investigate the vicious double murder of a father and son. When Military Intelligence becomes involved, Homicide's Inspector Titus Lambert must unravel the personal from the political. If only the killings had stopped at two. The police are desperate to come to grips with an extraordinary and disquieting upsurge of violence.

Washington, D.C., 1972. Derek Strange has left the police department and set up shop as a private investigator. His former partner, Frank "Hound Dog" Vaughn, is still on the force. When a young woman comes to Strange asking for his help recovering a cheap ring she claims has sentimental value, the case leads him onto Vaughn's turf, where a local drug addict's been murdered, shot point-blank in his apartment. Soon both men are on the trail of a ruthless killer: Red Fury, so called for his looks and the car his girlfriend drives, but a name that fits his personality all too well.

Nazityskland 1944. Tredje riket är på väg att falla och många nazister försöker fly innan det är försent. Många vill ta sig till Sverige och säkerhetspolisen Loman får i uppdrag att övervaka flyktingvågen. Loman är less på sin roll i ett cyniskt spel och är snart något annat och intressantare på spåren; mystiska vapenleveranser. Loman är något på spåren men i bakgrunden lurar svenska nazisympatisörer. Karl Arne Blom föddes den 22 januari 1946 och uppväxt i Nässjö i Småland.

Sir Maurice Newbury is bereft as his trusty assistant Veronica Hobbes lies dying with a wounded heart. Newbury and Veronica's sister, Amelia, must take a sleeper train across Europe to St. Petersberg to claim a clockwork heart that Newbury has commissioned from Faberge to save Veronica from a life trapped in limbo. No sooner do they take off then sinister goings-on start to plague the train, and it is discovered that an old villain, thought dead, is also on board and seeking revenge.