International Mystery & Crime

Johannesburg, 1980s Apartheid South Africa. Augustine flees her vengeful ex-boyfriend with nothing but her child and the clothes on her back, terrified he will find her. Because she also possesses a dangerous secret. One he will kill for. One he will never stop hunting her for. But Augustine is rescued by a wealthy white housewife who takes pity on her, offering both employment and refuge. Or so she thinks. It might seem that she is safe inside the walls of the prosperous Diamond family home, but outside her every move is watched. Her sanctuary has become her prison.

Nathan Tyler is an unassuming professor at a middling American university with a rather obscure specialty in mathematics—in short, a nobody from nowhere. So why is the White House calling? Summoned to Washington, DC, for a top-secret briefing, Nathan discovers that he’s the key to a massive foreign intelligence breakthrough. Reading between the lines of a cryptic series of equations, he could open a door straight into the heart of the Kremlin and change the global balance of power forever.

Disgraced Detective Dave Slater is stuck on gardening leave, down in the quiet Hampshire town of Tinton, with just one last chance to redeem himself. He must search for mousy young journalist Ruth Thornhill. Months ago, she vanished from her home, her London job, her life. But the Met don't want to know. Now Slater's boss slips him the file, asking him to investigate discreetly, with the help of an unlikely new assistant. Bedraggled fifty-something Detective Norman Norman.

Two of the most important oil-fields in the world – one in Canada, the other in Alaska. An unknown quantity – deadly and efficient. The oil flow could be interrupted in any one of thousands of places down the trans-Alaskan pipeline. Catastrophe. One man, Jim Brady, is called in to save the life-blood of the world as unerringly, the chosen targets fall at the hands of a hidden enemy…

Stevie 'Minto' Milloy, former star footballer-turned-rookie reporter, finds himself trailing the story of a young Eastern European student whose body has been found on remote moorland outside the city. How did she get there from her hostel at the Sovereign Grace Mission?

Un pueblo tranquilo, tres muertes misteriosas y preguntas sin respuesta: Roger Ackroyd aparece muerto, dejando tras de sí una red de secretos. Solo un peculiar detective recién llegado, amante de los calabacines y la verdad, podrá desvelar el enigma oculto tras las apariencias.

Yorkshire Dales, Summer 1997. Vicky Mott slips out the door of her remote cottage, and into the pale dawn light. She scrawls a note for her friends. Gone to see the sunrise. V xxx That's the last anyone ever hears from twenty-year-old music lover Vicky. Another victim of the Fellside Strangler? That would make Vicky the fourth young woman to lose her life this summer. Snatched by a mysterious killer who stalks the fells . . . But Vicky's body is never found.

A Hollywood A-list actor asks Will to pilot her on a suspicious mission. A secret meeting to reveal Will's ability to vanish goes horribly wrong when the Deputy Director of the FBI assigns Will and Andy a simple, yet unexpected task. And connections between a feared drug cartel and emerging terrorist threat point to a disaster with consequences that will shake American democracy to its core. Just another Tuesday for Will and Andy Stewart. Will and Andy race to stay one step ahead of security and law enforcement authorities bent on taking an international investigation down the wrong road.

Blood has always flown easily for Ian Kelly. He's spent a double life as part of a secret government program. Plucked from the foster care system at a young age for exhibiting a rare personality profile, he was trained to kill and then set loose on enemies of the free world. These days, blood is thicker. With two grown kids old enough to be asking too many questions raising themselves, Ian travels the globe on official murder business. But Ian tells himself just one more mission because world peace means someone has to kill the killers.

Retired diplomat Sam Hough boards a transatlantic flight to Paris after making a seemingly innocent promise to find the five-year-old son of a dying friend, a son the friend has never known.

With only the thinnest of clues, Sam quickly realizes that those who agree to help him soon disappear, those who don't disappear refuse to help him, and still others want to kill him rather than help find the boy. Clearly there are things his friend neglected to tell him. But what did he leave out—and why?

As a lethal militia targets the most powerful man in the world, Jake must thwart their assassination plot and protect the nation's highest office—even if the mastermind behind it is a shadow from his own past.

Satisfying her hunger for epicurean adventure in the French provinces, small-town caterer and minister’s wife Faith Fairchild decides to throw the perfect dinner party. But during cleanup, after the last guest has departed her gastronomical triumph, she encounters something neither expected nor welcome: a dead body lying in her vestibule. Unfortunately it doesn’t help la belle americaine’s credibility when the corpse vanishes before the local gendarmes arrive. But Faith realizes that, though the police refuse to take her seriously, a killer just might.

Rouen, aprile 1983. Ophélie, sette anni, ha visto tutto o quasi. Ma il padre non è l’unico colpevole. Un altro uomo avrebbe potuto salvare la madre. Da allora Ophélie ha un solo obiettivo, ritrovare i testimoni, mettere insieme i pezzi del puzzle che le rivelerà la verità e, con pazienza, compiere la sua vendetta... Orfanella in un centro di accoglienza, alunna ribelle, poi universitaria che si muove con una falsa identità, ogni tappa della vita di Ophélie sarà segnata dalla sua ossessiva e sconvolgente ricerca.

I'm the sole witness to a mafia murder. The head mobster warns me to be silent. Piercing blue eyes, god-like body, sexy lips. I didn't listen, and now he wants to punish me. He takes me captive, threatening... to play naughty, filthy games with my virgin body. Dark, dangerous games to fill me with shame.

All’indomani del gala annuale della Venice Preservation Society, il restauratore e leggendaria spia Gabriel Allon entra nel suo caffè preferito sull’isola di Murano e trova ad attenderlo il generale Cesare Ferrari, a capo del Comando per la Tutela del Patrimonio Culturale. Ad Amalfi, nella villa di un magnate sudafricano recentemente assassinato, è stato scoperto un caveau segreto contenente una cornice e un telaio vuoti che corrispondono alle dimensioni del Concerto a tre di Johannes Vermeer, una delle tredici opere d’arte rubate nel 1990 all’Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum di Boston.

Milo Noone, an American journalist transitioning to civilian life after a 20-year Navy career, is not only facing midlife confusion under the Sicilian sun—he’s also hoping to revive his estranged marriage. Armed with quirky humor and an array of colorful characters, Milo sets out to navigate a tangled web of murderers, mobsters, and a growing entanglement with the CIA, all while trying to figure out how to rekindle the love that seems just out of reach.

Inverness, Schottland: Der wunderschöne idyllische Landstrich wird von einem schrecklichen Verbrechen erschüttert.

A favorite destination—even for New Yorkers—is the venerable Metropolitan Museum of Art. On this particular day, “the Met,” as generally known, experiences an unusually large number of visitors. Visitors have their choice of viewing over two million works of art spanning five millennia of cultures worldwide. But some among them are up to something more sinister.

En bladvändare om maktspel, ondska och hämnd.Tidigt en morgon hittas greven av Brochenborg död på sitt gods. Någon har drogat den 94-årige mannen och fört honom till godsets zoo, där den sibiriska tigern fått sig en festmåltid.Historikern Janus, som bor på godset för att skriva släkten Brochenborgs historia, börjar leta efter sanningen bakom det vidriga mordet.Det visar sig att flera av grevens anhöriga haft motiv att döda honom. Men vem av dem är mördaren? Är det nazistjägaren som har grävt fram mörka hemligheter ur grevens förflutna? Eller den oäkta sonen på jakt efter ett arv?

Ein Hilfeschrei von der luxuriösen Costa Smeralda erreicht Nora und Paolo. Ihr Freund Ernesto ist ohne Erinnerung im Backstage-Bereich eines Theaters aufgewacht – neben sich der Star der Show, vergiftet. Ohne zu zögern beginnen Nora und der Commissario mit ihren eigenen Recherchen, um Ernestos Unschuld zu beweisen. Doch zunächst tappen sie im Dunkeln – hat der Mord etwas mit den Memoiren der Schauspielerin zu tun, die bald veröffentlicht werden sollen, oder hat doch ihr Mann seine Finger im Spiel, der nun ein Vermögen erbt und sich auffällig gut mit Giftpflanzen auskennt?