Historical Police Fiction

When a young woman's body is discovered in the summer of 1910 in Vienna, the inspector's wife is certain the figs found in her stomach during the autopsy are the clue to the identity of the murderer - for there are no fresh figs in Vienna at this time of year.

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.

A woman's body is discovered in Angel Meadow, site of one of the most the notorious slums in Victorian England. She has been shot. Caton's investigation uncovers a link to the Troubles in Northern Ireland thirty years ago. The Establishment wants to let sleeping dogs lie. Caton, accompanied by DS Joanne Stuart, finds strange allies from both sides of the divide. And when a second murder occurs nothing is going to stop them from uncovering the truth.

London, november 1944. En ung flicka hittas brutalt mördad. Den vinterkalla staden är mörklagd på grund av kriget och polisens resurser är begränsade i en stad som tvingats ta emot flyktingar från ett härjat Europa. Flickan visar sig vara en polsk judinna, Rosa Nowak, som arbetade på den pensionerade kriminalkommissarien John Maddens gård. Tyngd av samvetskval bestämmer han sig för att hjälpa sina gamla kollegor vid Scotland Yard att lösa fallet.

Efter flera år i Scotland Yards tjänst har kriminalkommissarie John Madden dragit sig tillbaka. Tillsammans med hustrun Helen och deras två barn lever han ett stillsamt liv på landet i det fridfulla Surrey. Men minnena från hans svåraste fall sommaren 1921 då en psykopatisk krigsveteran satte skräck i en hel landsända gör sig fortfarande påminda då och då. När den tolvåriga Alice Bridge försvinner och en omfattande skallgångskedja sätts igång för att hitta henne blir Madden den som bokstavligen snubblar över hennes svårt sargade lik.

Det är sommaren 1921. John Madden vid Scotland Yard tillkallas av polisen i Guildford för att utreda de brutala morden på överste Fletcher och hans familj i Surrey. Den enda som överlevt är femåriga Sophy, men hon är så chockad att hon inte kan frågas ut och tas om hand av familjens läkare, Helen Blackwell. Lokalpolisen vill rubricera morden som inbrottsförsök, men Madden - som själv blivit vittne till många vansinnesdåd under kriget - är övertygad om att de begåtts av en psykopatisk krigsveteran som inte tvekar att slå till igen, och det snart.

Luglio 1932. A Napoli è arrivato il caldo, quello vero, e la città sembra precipitare nell'inferno. In una notte rovente, un notissimo chirurgo cade dalla finestra del suo ufficio. Un uomo dall'aria irreprensibile, ma con qualche magagna nella vita. Scartata presto l'ipotesi del suicidio, Ricciardi e il brigadiere Maione iniziano un'indagine che li porterà a fare i conti con i più indomabili sentimenti e passioni, e ad affrontare i lati oscuri dell'anima. Questa volta saranno le donne della loro vita a reclamare attenzione.

As tensions simmer in Shanghai, children go missing... Shanghai 1932: Inspector Danilov hasn't recovered from the death of his child... but across a Shanghai riven with communal tensions, children are going missing. Missing, and then murdered. Who is responsible? Why have the children's bodies been exhibited for all to see? Just as Danilov thinks the stakes couldn't be higher, there is a new dimension, Japan, a rising power flexing its muscles. In fractious Shanghai, an explosion is long overdue. With the clock ticking can Danilov and his assistant Strachan solve the case?

A woman appears on the streets of Shanghai. She has thousands of cuts - and is screaming for Inspector Danilov... Days later, the woman is dead. But another body is left waiting for the Inspector. Someone is playing with Danilov... someone prepared to kill, just to get their message across. At first, the victims seem unconnected. But with each body bringing a new message for Danilov, he knows this is a riddle especially designed for him. As more bodies start appearing, time is running out to solve the deadly puzzle.

Su nombre es William Monk; su profesión, detective de la policía. Eso, al menos, es lo que le dicen cuando despierta en un hospital londinense, ya que él no recuerda nada. Al parecer, el carruaje en que viajaba volcó y como consecuencia de este accidente el cochero murió y él quedó malherido. Tras pasar tres semanas inconsciente y otras tantas de convalecencia.

Berlin 1919 - Kriminalkommissar Paul Morgenthal hat während des Krieges viel erlebt, dennoch lassen ihn die Taten des Berliner Schlächters, nach dem seit Jahren erfolglos gefahndet wird, nicht kalt. Der Gesuchte schneidet jungen Frauen große Stücke der Haut ab, legt danach die verstümmelten Opfer mitten auf die Straße und deckt sie mit einem Tuch zu. Gemeinsam mit der Stenotypistin Ruth Falkenburg sucht Paul Morgenthal Rat bei Gerichtsmediziner David Hornoff, der einen fast schon krankhaften Wissensdrang in Bezug auf die menschliche Psyche hat

Jens Druwe, der glaubte, als Polizeiinspektor nach 1945 ein neues Leben beginnen zu können, wird als Kriegsverbrecher inhaftiert und verurteilt. Man wirft ihm vor, bei Säuberungsaktionen im Osten dabei gewesen zu sein. Auch seine Freundin Eva, die von ihm schwanger ist, kann ihn nicht retten. Doch da eröffnet sich eine neue Chance. Im Auftrag des britischen Geheimdiensts soll Druwe verdeckt im Zuchthaus arbeiten, um untergetauchte Nazis aufzuspüren. Es geht vor allem darum, einen Mann zu finden, der für Tausende von Tötungen im Osten verantwortlich ist.

Hamburg 1928: Seit einem Jahr gibt es im Hamburger Stadthaus eine weibliche Kriminalpolizei unter Leitung der resoluten Josefine Erkens. Auch die freiheitsliebende Paula heuert dort an. Als eine Tänzerin ermordet und obszön entstellt wird, gelingt es Erkens, Paula und eine weitere Kommissarin in der bisher rein männlich besetzen Mordkommission unterzubringen. Angeführt wird diese Ermittlungsgruppe von Martin Broder, der der Hölle von Flandern entkam. Zu Beginn tut er sich schwer mit den "unfähigen Weibern", doch die Frauen arbeiten mit präziser Logik und kühlem Witz.

Berlin 1949: Ein Arzt stürzt vom Dach einer Klinik für Geschlechts- und Infektionskrankheiten. Spätestens als im sowjetisch kontrollierten Teil der Stadt ein Mord geschieht und der Vater von Kommissar Stein, ein strammer Kommunist und ein Ermittler der Markgraf-Polizei, seinen Sohn bittet, herauszufinden, wen der Tote im Westen hatte treffen wollen, wird Kommissar Stein klar, dass es einen Zusammenhang zwischen den Morden gibt. Statt mit ihm zusammenzuarbeiten, enthält der Vater ihm jedoch wichtige Fakten vor.

Viet Nam, 1963. A female Viet Cong assassin is trawling the boulevards of Saigon, catching US Army officers off-guard with a single pistol shot, then riding off on the back of a scooter. Although the US military is not officially in combat, 16,000 American servicemen are stationed in Viet Nam “advising” the military and government. Among them are Ellsworth Miser and Clovis Robeson, two army investigators who have been tasked with tracking down the daring killer.

Summer 1989: Gunther Fahnstiel, once a tough cop who wasn't averse to taking a little side money from a certain madam, has just escaped the dementia ward of his Wichita nursing home. He's not exactly sure where he wants to go, but wherever it is, it has to do with the bag full of cash belonging to the man he accidentally backed over with his RV in 1979. During his search, Gunther begins to relive the violent fallout of that madam's sex lottery 40 years ago. As Gunther's memories unravel, his past and present will collide in a devastating reckoning.

A lone German bomber crosses the east coast of Britain on a moonless night in the long hot summer of 1940. The pilot picks up the silver thread of a river and, following it to his target, drops his bomb over Cambridge's rail yards. The shell falls short of its mark and lands in a maze-like neighbourhood of terraced streets on the edge of the city's medieval centre. DI Eden Brooke is first on the scene and discovers the body of an elderly woman, Nora Wylde, beside her shattered bed in a terrace house on Elm Street.

Kraken is enjoying life as a family man, content to spend his days with Alba and their young daughter, Deba. But there's no rest for the weary, especially when you're the most famous investigator in Vitoria. Kraken and Esti are charged with investigating the mysterious disappearance of two sisters and finding it hard to make any headway when a wealthy businessman's murder appears to shine a light on the case. The man was poisoned with a medieval aphrodisiac - a crime that has eerie similarities to one detailed in the novel everyone in Vitoria is buzzing about.

W San Francisco Mitzi Fallon zaczyna pracę jako agentka FBI w Wydziale Przestępstw na tle Historycznym, Religijnym i Spraw Niewyjaśnionych. Prowadzi sprawę morderstwa sprzedawcy antyków, któremu skradziono bezcenny celtycki artefakt. Mitzi zostaje wciągnięta w tajemniczą intrygę, która bierze swój początek w zakulisowych posunięciach amerykańskiego rządu i sięga daleko w przeszłość Wielkiej Brytanii, do zdegradowanego niegdyś do postaci mitycznej króla Artura.

London in the early nineties is a hotbed of political activism and intrigue, and times are changing fast - too fast for DCI Rick Bailey, who is starting to think he cannot keep up. But then a young woman goes missing in the run-up to Christmas, and he's convinced Alice's disappearance is related to an unsolved murder that has haunted him for the last three years. He stumbles upon a suspect connected to all the clues, among them a care worker facing betrayal, a cemetery worker hearing music that does not play, an activist running from himself and a blind man who sees more than anyone else.