Traditional Police

The murder, a brutal stabbing, definitely took place on Guy Fawkes night. It was definitely by the bonfire on the village green. There were definitely a number of witnesses to a row between a group of Teddy Boys. And yet, was it definitely clear to anybody exactly what they had seen? In the writhing, violent shadows, it seems as if the truth may have gone up in smoke.

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.

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.

An escaped prisoner eludes police in the thick forests and remote fishing cabins of the Adirondack Mountains. Using his backwoods skills, he stays one step ahead of his pursuers, mocking them as he slips away. To some, Ronnie Gatrell is a folk hero, bravely resisting government authority. To others, he's a harmless prankster. Everyone in Trout Run, New York, seems to enjoy watching him play the police for fools. Except Police Chief Frank Bennett. He knows Ronnie is dangerous and unstable, and he's determined to bring him to justice. Then the game of hide-and-seek turns deadly.

Four men had arranged to fly to Dublin. When their aeroplane descended as a fireball into the Irish Sea, only three of them were on board. With the identities of the passengers lost beneath the waves, a tense and perplexing investigation begins to determine the living from the dead, with scarce evidence to follow beyond a few snippets of overheard conversation and one family’s patchy account of the three days prior to the flight.

Malaje. (De mal ángel.) 1. adj. Dicho de una persona: Desagradable, que tiene mala sombra (Fuente: RAE). Los inspectores Jiménez y Villanueva se huelen que la cosa no está para bromas. Todo el mundo parece estar loco detrás de "la sagrada lanza" con la que Longinos hirió a Cristo -solamente falta Indiana Jones-. Pero los dos detectives saben que tras el robo de este objeto hay algo más... un plan diabólico que los llevará a un infierno muy particular.

The discovery of a dead body is nothing new for Detective Simon Grave, but when the body and the murderer are both invisible, well, that's another matter entirely, even in the futuristic town of Crab Cove. The question is whether he and his human and android team are up for the challenge, which also remains to be seen. Making his job even more difficult is the sudden retirement of Captain Henry Morgan, who taps Grave as acting chief.

Verdadero icono de la novela policíaca japonesa, la celebridad de Edogawa Rampo se extendió también fuera de su país. Publicado el año 1934, este libro no sólo es una de sus obras más emblemáticas, sino también un claro ejemplo de la figura del investigador entendido como gran maestro de la deducción y de la lógica, en la línea del Auguste Dupin de Poe y el Sherlock Holmes de Conan Doyle.

Hotelier Stephen Sanderson is dead. Stabbed after hosting a police officer’s wedding. Chief Superintendent David Ashworth is a family friend of the victim and assigns the case to Meredith. Sanderson had a past that the family would rather keep quiet if it’s not related to his murder, but Sanderson’s life style provides the police with many suspects, including some in his own family.

1936 in einem Kurort der Normandie: Percival Danby ist ganz gewiss nicht auf eigenen Wunsch hierher gereist, in das Land der grässlichen Zigaretten und absurd in die Länge gezogenen Brotlaibe. Doch was tut man nicht alles, um einen alten Schulfreund glücklich zu machen – und wenigstens ist der Wein gut. Aber als er in Deauville eintrifft, fehlt von seinem Freund jede Spur, und als Danby sich... auf einer Cocktailparty vergnügen will, stirbt der Gastgeber vor seinen Augen! Die Ursache: Gift. Die Verdächtigen: alle Gäste auf der Yacht – auch Danby. Die Anklage: Mord.

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.

Una misteriosa logia protege al Poema Perfecto en las catacumbas de un colegio. Hasta que lo roban. El juez del caso sospecha que el Poema fue a parar a la pequeña localidad de Totoral, un lugar aparentemente apacible pero marcado por la rivalidad entre los habitantes de dos casonas, llamadas "El Kremlin" y "El Vaticano". La intrigante novela de Rodrigo Agrelo, donde irrumpen escritores míticos de la talla de Pablo Neruda y Rafael Alberti (que efectivamente se hospedaron en ese pueblo), juega con el lenguaje y confirma el gran momento del policial cordobés.

Anna Katharine Green (1846 - 1935) was one of the crime novelists and paved the way for later female writers of detective novels, like Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Ngaio Marsh.

En sommarnatt 1995 blir den artonåriga Klara våldtagen och mördad då hon är på väg hem genom Östra kyrkogården i Göteborg. Trots vittnen lyckas man inte hitta den skyldige. Två år senare omkommer en ung kvinna, Mia, i en brand som till synes beror på sängrökning. Göteborgspolisen Klas Hagberg är dock övertygad om att det rör sig om en mordbrand och att gärningsmannen är densamme som i fallet med Klara. Men han blir motarbetad internt och tvingas bort som utredare.

Although at first the dead man floating in the old swimming pool at the edge of town seems to have been an accident victim - a staggering drunk tumbling into the water - Rhodes and his small but colorful staff soon uncover murder. It's the second strange death in two weeks (the other was that of John West, killed when he blew up carrying a gasoline can across a field). But where was the Cherokee wagon John was carrying the gas to? And why is his widow so jaunty? West was a solid citizen; Pep Yeldell, the swimming pool decedent, was a man with many enemies.

Maigrets privatester Fall: Ein Familienmitglied wird des Mordes beschuldigt. Der junge Inspektor Philippe Lauer hat einen Fehler gemacht: Der Pächter des Nachtlokals Floria, das er überwachen sollte, ist umgebracht worden, und in all der Aufregung hat Philippe auch noch Spuren am Tatort in der Rue Fontaine hinterlassen. Jetzt glaubt die Polizei, er selbst habe den Mann getötet. Da kann nur einer helfen: Jules Maigret, Kommissar im Ruhestand und Philippes Onkel.

Ted Darling was about to kill a man. For the first time in his life... You’ve never met a copper like Ted Darling. He’s small, quiet. He doesn’t smoke. He’s packed in the booze. But he’s a Specialist Firearms Officer. With black belts in four martial arts. Then a shift in circumstances makes him swap guns for the CID. His first case is the brutal murder of a teenage girl. His new boss thinks he can wrap it up easily. Ted has doubts over the suspect. Has he made the right choice in switching jobs? Or has he, as his Firearms boss warned him, committed career suicide?

A social media shaming. A killer with a message. A deadly combination. When the body of a man is left in the city centre set up as a realistic police crime scene, DI Hannah Robbins is forced to enter a world that can break a person, a case and a reputation. Social media platforms light up, and Hannah is pitted against the raging online monster and a killer who has already lost everything. Can she catch the killer and put him behind bars, or will she become part of his sadistic game?

The derelict house on the edge of the sleepy seaside town was a haven for courting couples, down-and-outs - and someone with altogether more sinister intentions. It was there that they found the corpse of 17-year-old Jenny Hyde. She'd been strangled.

Peter Maxwell is delighted when an old college friend asks him to be the historical adviser on a film being made on the coast near Leighford. Dreams of becoming the next Spielberg soon founder when he discovers that the world of film is pretty much the same as the world of education - full of incompetents and backstabbers. Unfortunately, shooting becomes all too literal when the director takes a musket ball to the head. With one of his students implicated, another off on a jealous rant, and almost everyone out to get everyone else, Maxwell finds telling the truth from fiction to be more difficult than even he could have imagined.