Traditional Detectives Police Procedural

Bei der Weltausstellung 1851 in London kommt es zu einem dramatischen Vorfall, der vor der Öffentlichkeit vertuscht wird. Vierzig Jahre später werden Sherlock Holmes und Doktor Watson von einer Klientin beauftragt, ihren verschwundenen Mann zu suchen. Das Ehepaar war damals auf der Weltausstellung und weiß um die Ereignisse im Kristallpalast. Die beiden sind seit Jahrzehnten einer gewaltigen Verschwörung des britischen Militärs auf der Spur, und nun scheint ihr Mann bei seinen Nachforschungen Erfolg gehabt zu haben.

Un tueur en série sévit entre Paris et Genève. Ses victimes ont toutes un point commun, elles se prénomment Greta. Chargé de l’enquête, le procureur Jemsen est empêtré dans une procédure disciplinaire : il a fait libérer une de ses proches, activiste écologiste. Très vite, le meurtrier est identifié. Mais son nom correspond à celui d’un petit garçon décédé de longue date. Un assassin fantôme. La traque commence entre la France et la Suisse.

La historia comienza con el Dr. John Watson, que se instala en Londres para recuperarse de una herida que sufrió mientras actuaba como médico militar durante la Segunda Guerra de Afganistán. Por una serie de casualidades del destino, Watson conoce al excéntrico detective Sherlock Holmes. Ambos acabarán viviendo juntos, resolviendo un caso de asesinato y formando una de las parejas más reconocidas de la literatura. Luis Roberto Guzmán es el encargado de narrar esta novela protagonizada por Sherlock Holmes, personaje creado por Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

En sommarkväll 1994 blir Inger Lövgren brutalt våldtagen i sitt hem av en okänd man. Nästan 25 år senare kontaktar hon Klas Hagberg på Göteborgspolisens Kalla fall-grupp och ber honom om hjälp. När Klas börjar gräva i fallet upptäcker han att det finns fler kvinnor som utsatts för liknande övergrepp och allting tyder på att en serievåldtäktsman fortfarande går fri. Trots chefens protester går Klas vidare och än en gång tar han hjälp av sin vän Sara Douhan, som jobbar inom hemtjänsten. Återigen tvingas de båda att tänja på reglerna i jakten efter sanningen.

Kurz vor seiner Pensionierung wird Vincent Romero noch ein letzter Fall zugeteilt: In der Frankfurter Innenstadt werden die Leichen von zwei jungen Frauen aufgefunden, welche auf besonders brutale Art und Weise getötet wurden. Gemeinsam mit seiner Kollegin Antoinette muss Romero in die digitale Welt der Frankfurter Chat-Szene eintauchen, um diesen Fall aufzuklären.

When a toddler goes missing in the middle of a bustling Bradford park in broad daylight, Detective Daniel Ward is put on the case. It ought to be an open and shut investigation, but the hours tick by, and Millie Thompson is nowhere to be found. There’s only one conclusion DI Ward can come to: She was taken. When a known child-killer is spotted in the vicinity, Ward fears the worst. He has to catch up with the only lead he has before the infamous Hunters - merciless vigilante justice seekers who will seek retribution at any cost - catch up with his suspect first.

The explosive follow-up to Eye Contact finds DI Harland face-to-face with a killer.... He didn't intend to let her get so close. But now that Kim's become important to him, Robert Naysmith decides to tell his girlfriend his deadly secret. He wants her to recognise the power he holds. He hopes he won't have to kill her. Detective Inspector Harland hasn't forgotten the serial killer who got away from him. But with nothing to go on, he fears he will never bring him to justice.

In una fredda e nebbiosa notte milanese, il commissario De Vincenzi riceve la visita del suo vecchio amico di collegio, Giannetto Aurigi, visibilmente agitato dopo una serata alla Scala. Poco dopo, De Vincenzi viene chiamato sulla scena di un omicidio: il banchiere Mario Garlini è stato trovato morto per un colpo di pistola nell’appartamento di Aurigi. Quest’ultimo, che doveva una grossa somma di denaro al banchiere, diventa il principale sospettato. Tuttavia, De Vincenzi sa che le apparenze possono ingannare e che la verità potrebbe essere più complessa di quanto sembri.

It is a serendipitous encounter for the hapless DI Greg Byrne when retired sleuth James Munro stumbles upon his crime scene. And perhaps also for Munro himself, who, his protégé Charlie West having firmly snapped his apron strings, needs other lambs to wean. The day is far less auspicious for the victim in the affair, the unfortunate property developer Rebecca Barlow, who has been trussed up like a scarecrow in her yard. Though occurring off DI West’s Ayrshire patch, the investigation will soon intertwine with one of her own.

Fisheries officer Simone Lord is transferred to Quebec's remote Magdalen Islands for the winter, and at the last minute ordered to go aboard a trawler braving a winter storm for the traditional grey seal hunt, while all of the other boats shelter onshore. Detective Sergeant Joaquin Moralès is on a cross-country boat trip down the St Lawrence River, accompanied by Nadine Lauzon, a forensic psychologist working on the case of a savagely beaten teenager with Moralès' old team in Montreal.

When the managing director of Wainwright Enterprises dies everyone is amazed to find he was far richer than they supposed, and that he's left his estate to his nephew Alex and his wife Sally. She uncovers accounting irregularities within the company, but resists involving the police - until the firm's accountant is murdered. But DCI Andrew Fenwick's investigation reveals a web of corruption reaching the highest levels of the local community that puts his own child's life in peril.

DC Paul Winter has gone undercover in an attempt to infiltrate the inner circle of the city's premier drug lord Bazza McKenzie.

In this second mystery featuring Chief Inspector Peter Cammon, the veteran detective is lured out of retirement once more. With a familiar cast of characters reacquainting themselves with readers of the series, the novel follows Peter as he embarks on his seemingly simple assignment: Travel to Canada to retrieve the body of a murdered Scotland Yard colleague. But Peter can’t resist delving into the oddities of the crime. His colleague was brutally attacked, run over by a car, and then dumped into a canal - all seemingly for the theft of three letters from the American Civil War era, one of which is signed by John Wilkes Booth.

El policía Carlos Galeote, joven e idealista, forma pareja en el Grupo de Atracos con José Pulido, un agente cínico y resignado que suelta puños con facilidad. Ambos compartirñan una serie de desventuras: desde casos de prostitución infantil, en los que están implicadas figuras de la vida pública, hasta asuntos de corrupción policial, sin pasar por alto los discretos manejos financieros que afectan al desarrollo de la economía del país.

A tough-love school for troubled teens opens its doors in Trout Run, New York. What could go wrong? The locals are thrilled. The North Country Academy promises more jobs and more money flowing into town. But all Police Chief Frank Bennett sees is a throng of juvenile delinquents unpacking on his turf. Then Frank's worst fears are confirmed. An Academy teacher leading a wilderness expedition is mauled to death by a bear. Evidence points to sabotage.

Bazza Mackenzie, Pompey’s top criminal, is now beyond reach of DI Joe Faraday. Hungry for power and profile, Bazza decides to stand for Portsmouth North in the general election. And his campaign is taking the city by storm. But politics is an expensive business and so Bazza turns to ex-cop Paul Winter to call in a multi-million pound drug debt. Winter, though, is facing a nightmare of his own and knows his time with Bazza has to end.

No one liked Jake Kinsey. A rich man, he turned up out of nowhere, acquired Exmouth’s trophy penthouse flat, and then bought his way into the local rowing club. And now he’s dead. D/S Jimmy Suttle, a newcomer to the Devon and Cornwall force from his old job on Major Crimes in Portsmouth, is the one detective who suspects that Kinsey has been killed. His boss, beset by budget cuts and the pressure of other cases, needs to move on. The enquiry is dead in the water.

St Benjamin's Medical School is the greatest of its kind, any death occurring within its walls would have created ripples within the academic world, but the death of Nikki Exner is far from being ordinary. Raped, and then grotesquely executed, her theatrical murder horrifies everyone. John Eisenmenger, a former forensic pathologist, finds himself dragged unwillingly into the case. Teaming up with solicitor Helena Flemming, Eisenmenger sets out to discover what really did happen to Nikki Exner.

Past midnight, a horribly mutilated body is found on a road in Portsmouth. The victim has been killed in a hit-and-run. On the evidence, DI Faraday’s latest case seems cut and dried; the dead man had been responsible for the bullying and murder of a boy from his estate. Bazza Mackenzie, the city’s drug lord, has a job for ex-cop Paul Winter. His daughter is having an affair with a high-ranking policeman and he wants Winter to investigate.

Merry Folger is more than ready for a romantic vacation with her fiancé, Peter, when fate - and her police chief father - intervenes. Twenty-one-year-old Jay Santorski never should have drowned in the frigid waters off the Nantucket shore. What was the athlete, Harvard scholar, and part-time scalloper doing out alone in the storm-churned bay? At her father's insistence - and over Peter's objections - Merry returns to the island to investigate.