Supernatural Police

"L'osservatore oscuro" è l'alter ego negativo che ci portiamo dentro, quello che ci dice che non ce la faremo, quello che alimenta le nostre paranoie, gli incubi peggiori... Per Aurora Scalviati, giovane profiler della polizia di Sparvara, i colleghi Bruno Colasanti, Tom Carelli e Silvia Sassi sono diventati la famiglia che non ha mai avuto. Ma tutto è destinato a cambiare con il ritrovamento, alla Certosa di Bologna, del cadavere di un uomo senza nome né documenti di riconoscimento.

A writer finds a cave keeping a dark secret for nearly a century. A ghost in a Scottish castle seeks blood on a wedding day. A student abroad loses herself in a dreamy art dealer and his dark painting. An undercover cop searches for the lover who’s haunted him for years. These four stories from New York Times best-selling author J.T. Ellison reveal what happens when we allow ourselves to step toward the darkness - and find ourselves consumed with regret and doom.

Magnus "Steps" Craig is part of the elite three-man Special Tracking Unit of the FBI. Called in on special cases where his skills are especially indispensable, Steps is renowned for his incredible ability to find and follow trails over any surface better than anyone else. But there's a secret to his success. Steps has a kind of synesthesia, an ability that allows him to see whatever a person has touched in a unique color - what Steps calls "shine".

It's the year 2000 and the Silicon Valley city of Sunnyview is abuzz with the possibilities of vast fortunes to be made in the Dot Com boom. But to retired cop Benjamin Stone, who has come to Sunnyview to find his estranged daughter, Jessica, the promise of Sunnyview rings hollow. Benjamin grew up in Sunnyview in the 1950s, when it was a sleepy farming town, and he finds its modern day counterpart strange and weirdly insubstantial. After Jessica turns up dead in a creek bed, apparently murdered, Benjamin follows clues that suggest a conspiracy involving a startup company.

L'autore aveva scritto questi due racconti lunghi, giunti ormai, con varianti, alla terza edizione, nel 1994 e nel 1995, di poco anteriormente al sorgere della moda del giallo e poliziesco italiani. Sono opere basate sulle figure di Vittorio D'Aiazzo, commissario e poi vice questore, e di Ranieri Velli, suo aiutante e amico, personaggi che, l'uno o entrambi, ritornano in altri romanzi e racconti di Guido Pagliarino: è uscito da poco per i tipi dell'Editrice Genesi l`ultimo romanzo sul personaggio D’Aiazzo, il prequel ”L`ira dei vilipesi”.

When a young woman is kidnapped, Donal is brought in to deliver the ransom money. But the tightly planned drop off goes wrong, Julie Draper is discovered dead, and Donal finds his job on the line - a scapegoat for the officers in charge. But when Donal is delivered a cryptic message in the night, he learns that Julie was killed long before the botched rescue mission.

While investigating the brutal murders committed by a mysterious serial killer known only as Raithe, bookish LAPD Detective Sarah Milton is unprepared to have her entire world turned upside down. Innate powers to see the dead, lying dormant since her mother's murder, have reawakened in her after a near-fatal shooting. Along for the ride is Sarah's irrepressible 13-year-old childhood "imaginary friend", Anna Nigma, a most atypical poltergeist.

Following a near death experience, 25-year old Arie Stiles decides she might as well take the job nobody else wants: a crime scene clean-up technician. It’s good money, which she could use, and death doesn’t hold a lot of mystery for her. Or so she thinks. Arie isn’t on the job long before discovering she’s been “gifted” with a new psychic talent - the ability to scry. Whether she wants to or not, Arie can read the memories of the dead in their blood.

When the Magic Enforcement Agency is called out to the scene of a dirty magic lab explosion, a body with a bullet wound is found in the smoldering ruins. As Detective Kate Prospero and her partner, Special Agent Drew Morales, hunt down the killer, they uncover evidence that a dangerous new coven may be operating in the Cauldron. It's not long before the bodies start piling up, and the heat is on for the team to make an arrest. Solving the murders will require unraveling dangerous alliances between the city's dirty magic covens.

In the midst of an internal investigation, the police department is thrown into chaos when Captain Frank Morelli is gunned down on his own front lawn. Detective Jane Harper suspects that someone is tying up loose ends - a conviction that only grows stronger when she witnesses the execution of another officer in broad daylight. With no one else to turn to, Jane seeks the help of psychic Ida Lane.

Aspiring actress Elizabeth Smart lands her centre-stage role: her mutilated body is found dumped in North London's red light district. Clasped in her hand is a piece of human hair belonging to an unidentified body of a woman murdered two weeks ago. PC Donal lands himself a place on the murder squad just as his unconventional brother, journalist Finton, unearths the secret double life of Elizabeth. The bodies mount, each clinging to the strands of hair belonging to the previous victim.

Bruno Johnson, a tough street cop, member of the elite violent-crime task force, feared by the bad guys, admired by the good, finds his life derailed when a personal tragedy forces him to break the law. Now he's an ex-con, and his life on parole is not going well. He is hassled by the police at every opportunity, and, to make matters even more difficult, his former partner, Robby Wicks, now a high-ranking detective, bullies him into helping solve a high profile crime...unofficially, of course.

Twentysomething ex-swimsuit model turned television news anchor Lori Matrix wants to prove her producers wrong: She can do hard news. The tall, blonde, blue-eyed journalist, hired to boost her station's ratings, gets her chance when legendary actor Rex Hampton turns up dead at the first gathering of six Hollywood movie legends during the screening of his favorite movie.

Harry Doyle was murdered at age 10 by his religious fanatic mother. Resuscitated by the police, Harry comes back from the dead and survives an event that will shape the rest of his life. Twenty years later, he has dedicated his life to putting killers behind bars as a homicide detective who has the unwanted ability to hear the postmortem whispers of murder victims. Dubbed the Dead Detective by his fellow cops, Doyle now faces his most difficult case.

Young billionaire Sebastian Montero has hunted killers for 700 years, the murder of his baby brother still haunting his dreams. After a teenage girl is ritually butchered, Sebastian joins the LAPD in their search for the man known as "the Voodoo Killer".

Detective John Bloom for the town of Letterson unearths a mystery when a family of three are found drowned in their car. As he investigates, he finds that it was no ordinary car and someone still wants it to remain under water some 50 years later.

Half light. The shadow of his past was always with him. But he never knew what it was, or when it would strike next.Sent to a small coastal town to investigate drug smuggling, Kelso stumbles onto a dangerous organisation and, suddenly, more than just his life is at stake. It's his past, his future, his sanity. Through torture and drugs he discovers the terrifying secret of the The Jonah. And learns, in the most horrifying way, that it can destroy him as well as others.

El sheriff Burt se ve mezclado de nuevo, en una serie de crímenes espantosos, que parecen ser obra de un imitador del asesino apodado Jack pies de pluma, quien dejó un reguero de chicas muertas en el frío invierno. Peter todavía distante de su amor platónico Ann, aunque recuperada la amista de su hermano Denny, se ve involucrado otra vez en una espiral de asesinatos de chicas jóvenes de la escuela secundaria News Academy. Burt decide cerrar el centro, durante el otoño lluvioso, pero los cadáveres aparecen en cualquier parte.

Peter Bray el del "Brillo" solo tenía ocho años cuando vivió su primera experiencia con su don. Tocó suavemente aquella mano desmembrada y la oscuridad se apoderó de él. Tres asesinatos en los que aparecen tres cuerpos de tres niñas descuartizadas, excepto la cabeza, traen de cabeza al sheriff Aston que no sabe cómo actuar ante este panorama. La hija de Bob el Grande; Carietta. Ha desaparecido. Todos dudan de si está viva o si ya está muerta. En la búsqueda se une el alcalde, gran amigo del padre de Carietta.

Ein perfider Serienkiller, brutale Morde und ein Ermittler mit außergewöhnlichen Fähigkeiten: Der FBI-Agent Magnus Craig hat eine ganz besondere Gabe: Er kann am Tatort erkennen, wohin eine Person gegangen ist und was sie berührt hat. Für ihn ist diese Nähe zu den Opfern zwar manchmal ein Fluch - aber bei seiner Arbeit bei der STU (Special Tracking Unit) ist diese Fähigkeit von unschätzbarem Wert. Als Magnus und sein Team einen Serienmörder im Norden Kaliforniens jagen, finden sie sich in einem gefährlichen Katz-und-Mausspiel mit einem brutalen Mörder wieder, der vor nichts zurückschreckt.