Historical Police Fiction

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.

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.

Milano, 1956. L'appartamento di via Borsieri è in penombra. Ovunque sono ammassati libri. Ce ne sono migliaia, stipati sugli scaffali e accatastati per terra. Accanto alla finestra, una scrivania, anch'essa incorniciata da colonne di libri, e, dietro, quello che potrebbe sembrare un insieme di vestiti ammonticchiati alla rinfusa ma che, avvicinandosi, si svela in tutta la sua oscenità: il cadavere di Cesare Paladini-Sforza, raffinato slavista e traduttore per la casa editrice Feltrinelli.

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.

London 1894 - Während in den Salons der feinen Gesellschaft rauschende Feste gefeiert werden und spiritistische Sitzungen, Hellseher und Geisterbeschwörer der letzte Schrei sind, kommt auf dem Markt von Covent Garden ein Straßenjunge unter mysteriösen Umständen zu Tode. Was zunächst nach einem Routinefall aussieht, entpuppt sich schließlich als unheimliches Verbrechen, das Chief Inspector Swanson nicht nur an seinem gesunden Menschenverstand zweifeln lässt, sondern ihn und sein Team auch an die Grenzen ihrer Kräfte bringt.

A chilling locked-room mystery! Impossible for the murderer to escape, yet, he did. Powerful officials conspire against Chief Bucky's attempt to solve the case, including the KKK, whose members particularly resent Bucky's friend, Charlotte, a Harvard-educated "Negro" lawyer. When they drag her off to a hanging - her hanging - Bucky reaches the end of his rope.

A reckoning with the persistence of evil in post-Civil War Atlanta. After leaving Atlanta in disgrace three years before, detective Thomas Canby is called back to the city on the eve of Atlanta's 1881 International Cotton Exposition to partner with Atlanta's first African American police officer, Cyrus Underwood. The case they're assigned is chilling: a serial murderer who seems to be violently targeting Atlanta's wealthiest black entrepreneurs. The killer's method is both strange and unusually gruesome.

London, April 1912. The third Irish Home Rule Bill is passing through Parliament, and the situation is growing ever more tense. Closely involved in the negotiations, cabinet minister Edmund Latimer finds himself under growing pressure, which only intensifies when his seven-month-old niece, Lucy, is snatched away in her pram in Regent's Park. Could there be a connection between Lucy’s kidnapping and the Irish talks? With her husband under intolerable strain, Edmund's wife, Alice, makes it her business to find out.

È l'estate del 1899, e l'Italia è più unita sulle mappe che nel cuore dei suoi abitanti. Il giovane vicebrigadiere Ghibaudo viene trasferito nell'entroterra sardo con un gruppo di carabinieri provenienti da tutto il Regno per fondare un avamposto nella lotta al brigantaggio. Il mondo che lo attende è profondamente diverso dalla Torino in cui è cresciuto: i crimini sono tanti, ma poche le denunce, a dimostrazione che lì i torti vengono raddrizzati non dalla legge ma dai coltelli. È dunque una sorpresa quando la popolana Lianora si rivolge ai carabinieri per un caso di furto.

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.

Von Krimipreisträger Max Annas: Der erste große Kriminalroman, der in der DDR spielt. An einer Bahnstrecke nahe Jena wird 1983 eine entstellte Leiche gefunden. Wie ist der junge Mosambikaner zu Tode gekommen? Oberleutnant Otto Castorp von der Morduntersuchungskommission Gera sucht Zeugen und stößt auf Schweigen. Doch Indizien weisen auf ein rassistisches Verbrechen. Als sich dies nicht länger übersehen lässt, werden die Ermittlungen auf Weisung von oben eingestellt. Denn so ein Mord ist in der DDR nicht vorstellbar. Also ermittelt Otto Castorp auf eigene Faust weiter.

Jena, 1985. Ein junger Mann ist ermordet worden. Ein Punker, so nennen sich diese Gestalten, die vom sozialistischen Staatswesen so schwer auf Linie zu bringen sind. Die Ermittler der Morduntersuchungskommission um Oberleutnant Otto Castorp nehmen schnell den Vater des Opfers ins Visier, einen Antiquitätenhändler mit Westkontakt, der dem Arbeiter- und Bauernstaat feindselig gegenüber steht. Der Ermordete, das weiß Castorp, hatte sich als Informeller Mitarbeiter bei der Staatssicherheit verpflichtet.

The year is 1976. Veteran New Haven homicide detective Frank Suchy has finally learned to cope with the demons in his life and the daily pressure of "the job" - being exposed to every manner of death that could possibly befall someone - all the while celebrating his third year of sobriety. But when his best friend's child is brutally murdered in broad daylight outside a downtown shopping mall, his world begins to deteriorate, bringing back the nightmares that he thought were locked away long ago.

September 1940. As the Blitz takes its nightly toll on London and Hitler prepares his invasion fleet just across the Channel in occupied France, Britain is full of talk about enemy agents. Suspicion is at an all-time high, and no one is sure who can be trusted. In Canning Town, rescue workers are unsettled when they return to a damaged street and discover a body that shouldn’t be there. When closer examination of the corpse reveals death by strangling, Detective Inspector John Jago is called upon to investigate.

When Mary Corbet walks into private investigator Jennie Redhead's rundown Oxford office one pleasant spring day in 1974, she is a desperate woman. Although she's convinced her daughter has been murdered, she can get neither the police nor her husband to agree with her. Jennie is not convinced either, but more out of compassion than conviction agrees to take the case. The only clue she has to go on is a fragment of an obscure 17th-century poem she finds in Linda's bedroom.