Psychological Police Suspense

Investigative genealogist Amelia Crenshaw solves clients’ genetic puzzles, while hers remains shrouded in mystery. Now she suspects that the key to her birth parents’ identities lies in a stranger who’s hired her to find his long-lost daughter. Bracing herself for a shocking truth, Amelia is blindsided by a deadly one. NYPD Detective Stockton Barnes had walked away from his only child for her own good. He’ll lay down his life to protect her if he and Amelia can find out where—and who—she is. But someone has beat them to it, and she has a lethal score to settle.

When Detective Superintendent William Lorimer's wife, Maggie, publishes her first book, he is thrilled for her. But joy soon turns to fear when a mysterious stranger starts following Maggie on her publicity tour. Meanwhile Lorimer and the MIT are on the search for the murderer of two young women, but can Lorimer catch the killer and track down Maggie's stalker at the same time...? If you like Cara Hunter, Angela Marsons, Patricia Gibney, Lisa Jewell or Joy Ellis, you will be utterly gripped by this twisty, heart-stopping crime novel.

Det är en het sommarkväll i Dublin när en orolig mamma ringer till polisen och anmäler att hennes 20-åriga dotter är försvunnen. En vecka senare gör en gammal man som rastar sin hund nere vid floden ett fasansfullt fynd. Nu startar jakten på den som våldtagit, skändat och dödat den unga Mary. Kriminalinspektör McLoughlin utses att leda mordutredningen, som länge famlar i blindo då Marys mördare skickligt har undvikit att lämna några spår efter sig. McLoughlin koncentrerar sig därför på den döda flickans mor, Margaret, och snart inser han att intresset för henne har blivit mer än yrkesmässigt.

Franziska, una separazione sofferta alle spalle, guarda verso il mare. Sotto un cielo gonfio di pioggia nuota una ragazza dai lunghi capelli argentati, sembra una sirena. Anche Angiolina Maria la osserva dal suo terrazzo, e quando la vede scomparire tra le onde, avverte la polizia. Ma nessuno crede a una donna anziana che passa il tempo a battagliare con demoni e fantasmi. A Grado è appena arrivata Maddalena Degrassi, il nuovo commissario. Ha un amore perduto oltre confine e un superiore che non vede di buon occhio una donna a capo delle indagini.

Años después de dejar el sanatorio mental donde compartieron celda, Rómulo el Guapo le propone un golpe a nuestro protagonista. Su negativa y la misteriosa desaparición de Rómulo serán el arranque de un enredo para resolver un caso de repercusiones internacionales con la ayuda de un infalible equipo: la adolescente Quesito, el timador profesional Pollo Morgan, el africano albino Kiwijuli Kakawa, conocido como el Juli, la Moski, acordeonista callejera, el repartidor de pizza Manhelik y el señor Armengol, regente del restaurante Se vende perro.

Eine einzige Sekunde hat Susannes Leben für immer verändert. Ein Kind ist tot. Für die junge Frau ein Alptraum, der nie endet, eine Suche nach Sühne, die vergebens ist. Dann sterben zwei Menschen. Sie wurden ermordet. Auch in ihrer Vergangenheit gibt es ein düsteres Geheimnis, eine Schuld, die für immer bleibt. Kommissar Dühnfort verfolgt einen Täter, der auf grausame Weise für seine Vorstellung von Gerechtigkeit sorgt. Ein Rächer, der Gleiches mit Gleichem vergilt und keine Gnade kennt.

Zwölf vermisste Mädchen, ein grausamer Ritualmörder: Sayer Altairs härtester Fall. Mitten in Washington liegt die Leiche eines Mädchens. Die Tote sieht aus, als würde sie schlafen. Wären da nicht die Axt in ihrer Hand, die geschnitzten Affenfiguren um sie herum und eine blutige Botschaft. Alles deutet auf einen Ritualmord hin. FBI-Agentin Sayer Altair übernimmt den Fall. Als herauskommt, dass das Opfer zu einer Gruppe vermisster Jugendlicher gehört, ahnt die Agentin, dass der Täter bald wieder zuschlägt. Ein Wettlauf gegen den grausamsten Mörder, mit dem Sayer es je zu tun hatte, beginnt.

Auf einer Kriminalistentagung lernt Hauptkommissar Georg Stadler die französische Kollegin Isabelle Hernier kennen. Sie erzählt ihm von einem Wesen, halb Mensch, halb Wolf, das in den Wäldern um ihre kleine Gendarmerie im Juragebirge sein Unwesen treibt. Angeblich hat der Wolfsmann bereits eine junge Bagpackerin zerfleischt. Am nächsten Morgen ist Isabelle weg. Stadlers Neugier ist geweckt und er reist ihr hinterher.

DI Louise Blackwell is still reeling from her brother Paul's murder when she is brought back from enforced leave and tasked with solving a strange new case - the slaughter of wild sheep at Cheddar Gorge, a place shrouded in mystery and folklore. When a man is brutally attacked with a machete on the clifftop and a young girl disappears, Louise realises that the horror is just beginning. Rumours of a mythical presence near the gorge are spreading fast, and why is a local environmental cult resisting all attempts to solve the case?

Special Agent Jefferson Haines puts the "order" in law and order. Meal kits. Gray suits. Consistent reps at the gym. But all his routines are thrown into chaos when he's called in to catch a serial killer whose MO is the stuff of urban legend: the Smiley Face Killer. Dripping paint. Wicked slashes for eyes. The taunting curl of a smiling mouth. After years evading capture, the serial killer is back again. As Jefferson races to stop the next attack, the investigation leads to the one man he thought he'd never see again, Fred "Finny" Ashley.

While attending a gala at Prescott University's lavish new campus, Hester Thursby and fellow guest Detective Angela White are called to the home of the college's owners, Tucker and Jennifer Matson. Jennifer claims that someone broke into Pinebank, their secluded mansion on the banks of Jamaica Pond. The more Hester and Angela investigate, the less they believe Jennifer's story, leaving Hester to wonder why she would lie.

Ex-detective Ray Flowers thinks that all he has to worry about is his overgrown honeysuckle until an unexpected phone call shatters his complacence. The drug supplier known as Angel Eyes is back on the streets. They called him Angel Eyes, after the insignia he left behind at every crime scene. A pair of innocent blue eyes on a shred of paper. Angel Eyes vanished without a trace. But the lives he destroyed are still in ruins.

Putting out fires is what Lieutenant Charlie McMahon does best. The streets of Chicago keep him busy and provide a respite from his family's chaos. But everything changes when his rescue squad is called to a house where female victims are found chained to a wall and burned alive. The terror becomes personal as the women are identified, leaving Charlie to reel over one, haunting question: What have I done?

When a young woman falls to her death from a balcony, everyone thinks she lost her balance taking a daredevil selfie - until Psychologist Samantha Willerby steps onto the scene. Called in by the Met to examine a series of cold cases, she uncovers a chilling link between this death and two others. The victims have one shocking detail in common: Their hair was hacked off exactly seven days before they were killed.

When NYPD undercover cop Laney Bird's cover is blown in a racketeering case against the Russian mob, she flees the city with her troubled son, Alfie. Now, three years later, she's found the perfect haven in Sylvan, a charming town in upstate New York. But then the unthinkable happens: Her boy vanishes. Local law enforcement dismisses the 13-year-old as a runaway, but Laney knows better.

When Detective Inspector Joe Lazarus storms a Lincolnshire farmhouse, he expects to bring down a notorious drug gang; instead, he discovers his own body and a spirit guide called Daisy-May. She's there to enlist him to the Dying Squad, a spectral police force who solve crimes their flesh and blood counterparts cannot. Lazarus reluctantly accepts and returns to the Lincolnshire Badlands, where he faces dangers from both the living and the dead in his quest to discover the identity of his killer - before they kill again.

When a teenage girl is found brutally murdered, DS Amelie Davis struggles to keep her own trauma from clouding the investigation. After suffering years of abuse at the hands of her father, Amelie has only ever trusted one man—her husband, Edward. In the middle of the night, she receives a phone call from an unknown number. The voice at the other end asks: Do you think you know your husband?

When the mutilated body of a woman is discovered in her home, DCI Bishop from the Met murder squad is called in to oversee the case. The horrific killing bears a striking resemblance to three other murders years before, but the cases were never solved. Bishop knows they need the help of Holly Wakefield, a criminal psychologist who specialises in getting inside the minds of serial killers. The grisly murders occur every three years, but it is the stick-man drawing left at each crime scene that has the police baffled.

She looked like she’d drifted off to sleep, curled up in her white dress, blonde hair floating in the breeze. They called it the Angel Murder. Eighteen-year-old Angelica Brock is found dead at a local beauty spot, dressed in a pure white nightgown, her white-blonde hair arranged around her. For years her death is a mystery, her killer the one who got away for a whole generation of police.

In North London, families are being slaughtered by a merciless serial killer, with only one female relative left alive each time. There are no clues, just the sinister text messages sent to each surviving victim. Ex-Detective Sergeant Terence Marsland is trying to forget his former life as a policeman and husband, when he's begged by the Family Killer's original victim to privately re-investigate the case.