Historical Police Procedural

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.

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....

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.

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.

September 1940 is finally drawing to a close. With London having endured the Blitz for nearly a month, people are calling for vengeance: Britain should retaliate even harder with their own bombing campaign in enemy territory. But once again the night heralds more destruction. At Custom House, anxious residents dutifully head to the nearest public air-raid shelter as the warning siren wails. When dawn brings the all-clear people disperse, but one man remains - he's dead, stabbed through the heart.

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.

Lars and Loris Harding continue their adventure. The missing pieces of their family mystery are finally added when they team up with their nemesis-turned-pal, Sir Donald Badminton. Once again, they prove to be the luckiest men in England.

Brighton, 1882: Albert Moscrop spends his holiday peering at beachgoers through a telescope, piecing together disarmingly trivial observations into a compelling drama for his own amusement. A keen student of human nature, Moscrop concentrates his interest on one particular family - the Protheros, especially the beautiful Zena Prothero, whose husband appears to take her for granted. Moscrop gradually moves into the circle of the Prothero family, only to become involved in a sensational murder.

In the first audiobook in this classic series, a former CIA spy behind the German lines in WW2 and secret agent fighting the Russian KGB in Europe during the Cold War, returns to the states to find himself up against the dirtiest plot ever against the U.S. Russia's top secret agent has infiltrated the country, making an unholy deal with the Mafia, for an unlimited supply of heroin, the Mafia agrees to back all Reds' activities in the United States. The streets will be flooded with smack...and the back alleys with Russian agents working to bring down America.

London, 1894. Aus Scotland Yards Schwarzem Museum, einer Sammlung von Mordwerkzeugen, verschwindet ein Ausstellungsstück. Wenig später wird die Leiche eines Freimaurers in einem Schlafwagen auf der Bahnstrecke London - York gefunden. Chief Inspector Donald Swanson - selbst Freimaurer - sieht sich gezwungen, in den Kreisen seiner eigenen Logenbrüder zu ermitteln. Als jedoch am Tatort eines weiteren Verbrechens Fingerabdrücke gefunden werden, wendet sich das Blatt.

Frühjahr 1943. In Reykjavík herrscht eine angespannte Stimmung - Island ist von den Amerikanern besetzt. In diesen unruhigen Zeiten wird nahe einer Soldatenkneipe im Stadtzentrum ein Mann brutal erstochen. Kommissar Flóvent und sein kanadischer Kollege Thorson von der Militärpolizei nehmen die Ermittlungen auf, während Flóvent noch mit einem anderen Fall befasst ist: Eine männliche Leiche wurde am Strand der Nautholsvík-Bucht angespült. Stehen die Tode mit den Kriegsereignissen in Zusammenhang? Die Kommissare ermitteln in einem heiklen Umfeld und geraten dabei selbst in Gefahr.

Lige før politiets internering i september 1944, bliver en kendt københavnsk filmmand likvideret. Han havde nazistiske sympatier, men en betjent, som undslipper tyskerne, arbejder videre med en anden teori.

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.

London, 1888. Though the beautiful Miriam Cromer has confessed to the murder of her husband’s assistant, she is still confident of her acquittal. But then, she is sentenced to hang. She blames her husband, but he has an alibi. Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray must discover what really happened at Park Lodge on 12th March, 1888, and quickly.

On the night of August 11, 1956, in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs, Jackson Pollock crashed his car into a tree, killing himself. Pollock, the world-renowned abstract painter and notorious alcoholic, also killed his 24-year old passenger, Edith Metzger, in the crash...or did he? Metzger’s autopsy reveals that she was already dead before the crash. Murdered? Perhaps.

When the acclaimed Cuban painter Wifredo Lam turns up dead in his Greenwich Village studio, officers Juanita Diaz and Brian Fitzgerald must investigate the crime. But what they find is much more gruesome than they ever could have imagined. Suspicion soon falls on a tight-knit circle of Surrealist refugees who fled Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II, and Diaz and Fitzgerald must traverse the city, from Chinatown's underworld to Spanish Harlem's gangland, to find the truth. Did one of the artists' bizarre parlor games turn deadly? Or is there something even more sinister afoot?