Psychological Police Suspense

Cambridge, England: Outside the city, the badly decomposed body of a teenage girl has washed up in the flooded fens. Detective Inspector Chloe Frohmann and her partner, Morris Keene, must work quickly to identify the victim before the press takes off with the salacious story. Across the hallowed paths and storied squares of Cambridge University, the detectives follow scant clues toward the identity of the dead girl. Eventually, their search leads them to Deeping House, an imposing country manor where, over the course of one Christmas holiday, three families, two nannies, and one young writer were snowed in together.

Charlie Resnick is the last person to see the attractive young woman who vanishes after a Christmas office party, but he can’t even remember the color of the car in which she left. Days later, a tape-recorded ransom note arrives at police headquarters, and Resnick—along with his faulty memory—is the key to outsmarting the abductor.

Julia Gooden remembers nothing about the worst night of her life. Thirty years ago, her nine-year-old brother, Ben, was abducted from the room they shared. Now a crime reporter at a Detroit newspaper, Julia tries to give others the closure she's never found. But guilt and grief over Ben's disappearance have left her fearful that whoever took her brother is going to come back. And then, on the anniversary of Ben's disappearance, Julia's worst fears are realized when her two-year-old son, Will, is snatched from his bed.

At 22, Sylvie Carson has known a lifetime's worth of trouble. When she was a child, her baby brother was shot to death by a man named Preacher Eli. Orphaned in her teens, Sylvie is now raising her own baby with no partner in sight. For all these reasons, Leah Teal, the only police detective in Alvin, Alabama, tries to be patient when Sylvie calls the station day and night, always with some new false alarm. But now, Preacher Eli is out of prison and moving back to town.

Imprisoned for the attempted murder of a federal agent, Gabe Quinn is keen to make amends for his mistakes - so when a gruesome murder forces his freedom, he is determined to do everything in his power to bring the killer to justice and prove himself to the FBI. But the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and the killer has something else in mind for Gabe Quinn, something that will raze everything he loves to the ground.

Pools of blood, scenes of carnage, signs of agonising death - who deals with the aftermath of violence once the bodies have been taken away? Judith Kepler has seen it all. She is a crime-scene specialist. She turns crime scenes back into habitable spaces. She is a cleaner. It is at the home of a woman who has been brutally murdered that she is suddenly confronted with her own past. The murder victim knew Judith's secret: as a child Judith was sent to an orphanage under mysterious circumstances - parentage unknown.

In novels such as Killer Instinct and Darkest Instinct, FBI pathologist Dr. Jessica Coran has probed the deepest recesses of the criminal mind, coming face-to-face with killers as brilliant as they are vicious. But now Jessica must face a deadly new foe. A murderer terrorizing the American West from Arizona to Montana who ties his victims down, drowns their sins in gasoline, and cleanses them with flame. He is on a Satanic mission - and only by stepping into the fire can Jessica stop him.

Twenty-five-year-old Linda Donovan has spent her life working for her father, Anthony, at Donovan and Daughter Exterminators in New York City. On the anniversary of her mother’s death, her father makes his annual visit to his late wife’s grave while Linda heads to a Park Avenue apartment building to work solo. When she arrives, she finds the body of an elderly resident, partially eaten by rats. The gruesome death not only speaks poorly of the Donovans’ exterminating services, it also points to foul play.

Looking for clues about her sister’s death amid the crumbling decay of a derelict and near-deserted London neighbourhood, urban explorer Connie Darke makes a terrifying discovery: William Stark, the estate’s architect and long-time resident, is hanging from the church’s vaulted ceiling. For DI Lew Kirby, there’s no doubt that Stark was lured to his death—but who wanted him dead, and why? As Connie begins a covert investigation, desperate to find a connection to her sister, Kirby soon discovers that the remaining residents have something to hide.

En ung mand bliver skudt og dræbt i Stockholms Gamla stan. Kajsa Nordin er tilfældigvis i nærheden og bliver den første betjent på gerningsstedet. Sammen med sin tidligere kollega Christian Modig begynder Kajsa at grave i sagen, og de opdager et særligt kendetegn på den dræbte: en tatoveret cirkel på indersiden af håndleddet. Sporet fører til den verdensberømte kunstner Zeta, der har en tatovering magen til. Via Zeta bliver Kajsa og Modig inddraget i et virvar af løgne, hemmelige selskaber og risikable eventyr.

Als de achtjarige wees Jack bij het bezoeken van het graf van zijn ouders een meisje ontmoet, Stella, is hij direct weg van haar. Maar hun ontmoeting wordt plotseling beëindigd door een mysterieuze vrouw, die Stella dwingt in een witte SUV te stappen. Wekenlang blijft Jack naar de begraafplaats gaan, hopend een glimp van Stella op te vangen. Altijd tevergeefs. Tot hij exact een jaar later weer het graf van zijn ouders bezoekt en de witte SUV opnieuw opduikt.

Een waanzinnig spannende literaire thriller met een actueel thema: adoptiefraude. In een chique wijk in de Haïtiaanse hoofdstad Port-au-Prince wordt voor de tweede keer in een week een vermoord echtpaar aangetroffen. Hun verminkte lichamen liggen aan het voeteneinde van het bed. Alles wijst op een rituele moord. In Haïti, waar voodoo een officiële godsdienst is, berichten de kranten dan ook al snel over een voodoo-seriemoordenaar.

Gullan Storm lämnar en stressad tillvaro i Helsingfors och beger sig till det stillsamma samhället Tulisaari i Österbotten. Där ska hon tillbringa några månader i ett ensligt torp och hoppas finna lugnet i den finska naturen. Efter pojkvännens svek behöver hon verkligen hitta tillbaka till sig själv. Men hennes vistelse blir inte riktigt som hon hade tänkt sig. Gullan möter kärleken igen fastän hon inte alls är redo. Och samtidigt som hon blir alltmer nyfiken på den äldre damen som tidigare bodde i torpet blir hon varse några av de mörka hemligheter som Tulisaari ruvar på.

Was tust du, wenn jemand versucht, deine Familie zu zerstören? DI Adam Fawley wird an einen schrecklichen Tatort gerufen: Aus einem brennenden Haus werden nachts zwei kleine Kinder geborgen, von den Eltern fehlt jede Spur. Bald ist klar: Es war Brandstiftung. Offenbar hat die Familie sich in den Wochen zuvor seltsam verhalten. Nachbarn berichten, dass die Mutter sich zu Hause nicht mehr sicher gefühlt habe und der Vater eine aufwändige Alarmanlage installieren ließ. Dann wird in den Trümmern des Hauses eine Leiche gefunden - die Mutter der Kinder. Und sie war schwanger.

An einem regnerischen Junitag muss Angelina Maria mit ansehen, wie eine junge Frau im Meer ertrinkt. Aber niemand schenkt ihr Glauben. Als jedoch eine weitere Frau verschwindet, muss Kommissarin Degrassi erkennen, dass ein Mord stattgefunden hat - und die beschauliche Ruhe in Grado weicht einer bedrohlichen Atmosphäre der Angst. Dunkle Wolken an der Adriaküste: ein intensiver Psychothriller.

Laat op de avond komt een jonge vader thuis. Zijn dochtertje ligt rustig in haar bedje te slapen, maar die aanblik is een schrijnend contrast met de ravage die hij aantreft in zijn slaapkamer, waar zijn vrouw dood in bed ligt. Op brute wijze is ze om het leven gebracht. Een paar dagen later komt een moeder thuis van een late dienst en treft haar tienerzoon aan in de woonkamer. Vermoord.

Gammon is under immense pressure in his latest quest to find a horrendous serial killer stalking the Peak District. The killings are mounting up, and the pressure that goes with his DCI position with Bixton Police is beginning to tell.

On the outskirts of the remote town of Sherwood, everyone is abuzz about the big glamorous new mall that is soon to open. To add fuel to the excitement, some lucky shoppers will be able to spend the night at the Village Square Mall before its grand opening. As the malls' doors are being locked shut, a wickedly rad party is about to commence.

As bogus corruption charges loom over her, DS Kat Ballantyne finds herself deskbound and stuck with cold cases. Her hated boss, DI Carver, has given her just one week to explain how £50,000 found its way into her bank account. If she can’t, she’ll be lucky to have a desk at all. Then a close friend calls her from a murder scene, claiming to have strangled a local gangster’s wife. Kat has no choice but to disobey orders and investigate. Despite overwhelming forensic evidence supporting her friend’s confession, something still doesn’t add up…

In this follow-up to Justin Fulkerson’s psychological thriller Freckles the Clown, Detective Burks is on the trail of a serial killer leaving body parts all around Lubbock, Texas, for unsuspecting victims to find while geocaching. As the hunt begins, it becomes obvious that the killer is the true culprit in several missing persons and closed murder cases. Burks and his partner Ramirez are forced to watch their detective work picked apart as wrongly convicted men are freed from prison and every case they worked is called into question.