Hårdkogte krimier, krimi noir

Hver nat klokken to stillede hun sig på molen og ventede på noget, der aldrig dukkede op. Indtil hun en dag var forsvundet … Da efterforskeren Jessica Niemi bliver beordret på betalt orlov, beslutter hun sig for at rejse til en søvnig, lille ø i den ålandske skærgård for at finde tiltrængt ro. På øen går der sagn om en lille pige, der har boet her på et børnehjem, som ikke længere findes. Hver nat klokken to tog pigen efter sigende sin blå frakke på og gik hen og stillede sig på molen og ventede på noget, der aldrig dukkede op. En nat forsvandt hun og blev aldrig fundet. Da en anden udefrakommende på øen kort tid efter bliver fundet død, vågner Jessica op fra sin dvale. Tingene eskalerer, og Jessica ved ikke, om hun står over for en morder eller - ligesom sagnet siger - et spøgelse, pigen i den blå frakke.Om forfatteren:Max Seeck (f. 1985) er en af Finlands mest succesrige krimiforfattere. Han brød igennem internationalt med Den trofaste læser, bind 1 i hans Jessica Niemi-serie. Serien udkommer i mere end 40 lande, og filmrettighederne er solgt til Hollywood. Max Seeck er selv en passioneret læser af nordiske krimier og thrillere.

Sie hat die Hölle durchlebt. Ein Teil von ihr blieb dort zurück.Eine Jugendliche entrinnt nur knapp dem Tod. Schwer verletzt und traumatisiert wird sie in die Berliner Charité eingeliefert. Identität unbekannt.Klinik-Psychologe Samuel Holler kann es nicht fassen: Das Mädchen sieht aus wie seine Tochter - wäre die nicht vor Jahren gestorben.Ist Mia noch am Leben? Was ist mit ihr geschehen? Als sich Samuel der Antwort nähert, blickt er in einen Abgrund, der seine schrecklichsten Albträume übersteigt.

BJØRN AGGER ER KRIMINALASSISTENT PÅ STATION CITY PÅ VESTERBRO – OMGIVET AF JUNKIER, LUDERE OG SVINDLERE. LEON ER SMÅKRIMINEL, THOR ER ROCKERPRÆSIDENT, OLE ER ADVOKAT, RADA ER BORDELMUTTER, OG AMPORN ER PROSTITUERET.Fem vidt forskellige mennesker, der kun har det til fælles, at de til daglig færdes i et miljø, hvor vold er hverdag, penge betyder alt, og kvinder er en handelsvare. Og hvor politiet ofte ser magtesløse til, mens politikerne belejligt kigger den anden vej. Alt det ændrer sig dog, da tre tyrkere røver og voldtager en ansat på en lokal massageklinik og sætter en kædereaktion i gang. Ejeren af klinikken vil have hævn, rockerne lugter blod, og tyrkerne gør klar til bandekrig. Bjørn Agger, som netop er i gang med en større kontrol af bordellerne på Vesterbro, aner pludselig en mulighed for at grave dybere i miljøet end nogensinde før. Men inden han når så langt, er fire mennesker døde.Det onde netværk er første bind i serien om kriminalassistent Bjørn Agger fra Station City på Vesterbro i København.

"Here in one volume is an exceptional selection from Chester Himes's acclaimed Harlem Detectives series. Winner of France's prestigious Grand Prix de Littâerature Policiáere and lauded by Jean Cocteau as a "prodigious masterpiece," A Rage in Harlem introduces detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson in a searing escapade. In The Real Cool Killers, the duo investigates a shooting and discovers an unsettling personal connection. In The Crazy Kill, a man is found in a breadbasket, stabbed to death, leaving Himes's detectives to find out who among the many suspects did it. And in Cotton Comes to Harlem, the brazen robbery of a notorious con man running a back-to-Africa scam sets off a hunt for a bale of Southern cotton. These masterful novels exhibit Himes's evocative, baroque descriptions of Black life in Harlem and his famously blistering social commentary."--

When is a hot blonde with a winning lottery ticket a problem?

Good girls and boys obey. Bad ones become... Broken Angels

Velkommen til Chapel Croft. Her blev otte protestantiske martyrer brændt på bålet for 500 år siden. For 30 år siden forsvandt to teenagepiger ud i den blå luft. Og for blot to måneder siden begik den lokale præst selvmord. Byens nye præst, Jack Brooks, ankommer til Chapel Croft med håbet om en ny begyndelse og en fredelig tilværelse sammen med sin femtenårige datter. Men da Jack og hendes datter begynder at se ildevarslende syner, og rituelle pindedukker dukker op på deres dørtrin, står det klart, at byens blodige fortid stadig spøger. Jack kan ikke undgå at blive viklet ind i et spind af hemmeligheder, og snart må hun kæmpe for sin og sin datters overlevelse. Det er nemlig ikke ufarligt at søge sandheden i Chapel Croft, hvor alle har noget at skjule. Udgivelsen er en storskrift-udgave til svagsynede i serien MAGNUMBØGER Lindhardt og Ringhof.

Seventy-five years following the internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry, an elderly Nisei hires Ava Rome to find out how his best friend, a Japanese-American Buddhist priest, died in the Tule Lake Internment Camp. In the course of her investigation she uncovers another cold case, the rape and murder of a Japanese-American teenager on the eve of the Pearl Harbor attack. Was the same person responsible for both crimes? Ava suspects so. She travels to the Tule Lake site in Northern California where an attack on her life proves that the cold cases are deadly hot. Other people close to the case are murdered on orders from a powerful individual, whose reach stretches from Hawaii to halfway across the continental United States, and who will kill to keep the past secret. Returning to Honolulu, Ava experiences a devastating act of betrayal before solving the murders and revealing a seven decades-long history of evil. Praise for SPLINTERED LOYALTY: "What happened decades ago that WH Global will kill to cover up? Former Army MP Ava Rome is determined to find out. A non-stop thriller with a strong back story of people caught up in the World War II internment of Americans of Japanese descent in Hawaii." -Terry Shames, Macavity Award-winning author of the Samuel Craddock mysteries "Splintered Loyalty is an exhilarating plunge into a dark past. Mark Troy's heroine, Ava Rome, is tough, talented and tenacious and riveting to watch! Bravo!" -Matt Coyle, author of the Shamus, Anthony and Lefty Award-winning Rick Cahill crime series "Long one of my favorite short-story writers, Mark Troy proves himself equally deft as a novelist. Splintered Loyalty, the latest in the Ava Rome private eye series, finds Rome digging deep into the past to investigate the death of a Buddhist priest during WWII. The tension slowly builds as Rome uncovers long-hidden secrets that lead to an explosive conclusion. I highly recommend Splintered Loyalty." -Michael Bracken, Anthony-, Edgar-, and Shamus-Award nominee "Ava Rome is a great protagonist-hard-boiled and humane-who tackles historical injustice with style in this multifaceted thriller. A gripping and satisfying read." -Tom Mead, author of Death and the Conjuror "Mark Troy's Splintered Loyalty is one part Cold Case Files mixed with two parts Magnum, PI. Ava Rome is sexy, tough and enjoys a good vodka (or three.) If I'm ever in trouble in Honolulu, she's my first phone call." -Tim O'Mara, author of the Raymond Donne series "Ultra-tough protector of the weak, Ava Rome works out of the island of Oahu where during World War II, a Japanese priest died in an incarceration camp. Ava promises to look into how the man died 77 years before. She doesn't know what to expect, but it isn't exactly what she finds, nor is it what she anticipates being of such current importance. Author Mark Troy surprises his readers and makes a true heroine of his smart and powerful protagonist." -G. Miki Hayden, teaching Writing the Thriller and Writing the Mystery at Writer's Digest University online

"In Hollywood, secrets can wield tremendous power. Some would kill to keep their secrets. Others would kill to learn them."June, 1938. Hollywood, California. Clayton Mosby is waiting on the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street, an area known within the motion picture industry as "Gower Gulch." Soon a truck from Republic Pictures will arrive to round up extras for one of their low-budget westerns. Clay, a down-on-his-luck former Texas Ranger, is just hoping for a few days of work as a movie cowboy. He could sure use the money.Money is no problem for Irene Durand, the beautiful actress who is Monarch Pictures' biggest star. Her problem is blackmail, and she's willing to pay handsomely to make it go away...quietly. Around Hollywood Clay has become known as "The Gunslinger." It's a reputation he despises. But "The Gunslinger" is exactly who Irene is looking for. And the money is certainly tempting. Almost as tempting as Irene herself.But Clay soon discovers he's drawn the attention of Eddie Kessler, Monarch Pictures' notorious "fixer," who has designs on the beautiful actress. Kessler is accustomed to getting what he wants, and he wants Irene Durand. Blackmail suddenly turns to murder as Clay finds himself entangled in a deadly Hollywood plot of secrets and lies...a plot in which "The Gunslinger" has become both the hunter and the hunted.

The case that MEANS THE MOST to himMight also be the one that BREAKS HIMDevastated by the death of his best friend, Detective Inspector Andrew 'Ziggy' Thornes is out for justice. At any cost. During the day he and his team are trying to unravel a murky web of money laundering and organised crime. At night, he conducts his own murder investigation, and he's about to uncover the twisted link between the two cases. As tension mounts, and struggling to decide who he can still trust, Ziggy needs to make decisions that mean breaking the sacred oath he took by continually pushing the boundaries of acceptable behaviour for a serving DI. But as he digs ever deeper, can Ziggy prevent a devastating finale that will leave him questioning everything he's ever believed in? Join Ziggy on his latest case that readers are calling an exhilarating and unmissable read.

RED NIGHT REVENGE is a psychodrama. Amir and Serena, naturalized Americans from Lebanon, lose their only child, Lelah, to a mass shooting at her college. Serena slowly recovers from the shock and grief. But Amir develops and succumbs to a voice in his head, that of The Beast, an angry, vicious entity lusting for revenge against the 'gun people' whom it blames for Lelah's death. As Amir does its bidding, his life is awash in blood, and he will struggle to preserve what has not been lost. This story is for adults; it is not recommended for children, adolescents, or members of the National Rifle Association.

Once a police detective in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rushmore McKenzie has become not only an unlikely millionaire, but an occasional unlicensed private investigator, doing favors for friends and people in need. When his stepdaughter Erica asks him for just such a favor, McKenzie doesn't have it in him to refuse. Even though it sounds like a very bad idea right from the start. The father of Malcolm Harris, a college friend of Erica's, was found murdered a year ago in a park in New Brighton, a town just outside the Twin Cities. With no real clues and all the obvious suspects with concrete alibis, the case has long since gone cold. As McKenzie begins poking around, he soon discovers another unsolved murder that's tangentially related to this one. And all connections seem to lead back to a group of friends the victim was close with. But all McKenzie has is a series of odd, even suspicious, coincidences until someone decides to make it all that more serious and personal. Praise for What the Dead Leave Behind: "Unlicensed PI Rushmore 'Mac' McKenzie tackles perhaps his most complex case yet in Edgar-winner Housewright's witty 14th Minnesota-based mystery...Housewright is such a pro at plot and character development that it's nearly impossible to put this entry down." -Publishers Weekly "It's a distinct pleasure to follow McKenzie as he uncovers layer upon layer of corporate corruption, from sexual harassment to industrial espionage, while every second woman in the cast comes on to him. The hero emerges with his virtue intact and a brace of new heads for his trophy wall. The surprising number of malefactors at the company isn't a strength of the tale, but they're all well worth your cathartic scorn." -Kirkus Reviews

A timeless narrative of suspense and intrigue, Fergus Hume's The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886) is the original Australian best-selling crime novel set in pre-Federation Melbourne. From the salons of the city's elite to the slums of Little Bourke St, the exquisitely plotted story follows the investigation, inquest and trial of the murder of a little-known English migrant. At first a self-published book, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab became a blockbuster with over half a million copies of the 1898 edition sold by its London publisher and inspired the genre of detective fiction, including Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series. This new edition of The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, with introduction by Robert Dixon, is a part of the Australian Classics Library series intended to make classic texts of Australian literature more widely available for the secondary school and undergraduate university classroom, and to the general reader. The series is co-edited by Emeritus Professor Bruce Bennett of the University of New South Wales and Professor Robert Dixon, Professor of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney, in conjunction with SETIS, Sydney University Press, AustLit and the Copyright Agency Limited. Each text is accompanied by a fresh scholarly introduction and a basic editorial apparatus drawn from the resources of AustLit.

Dave Beckett, a homicide detective who doesn't color within the lines, is regulated to the lowest job in the division and is known by his peers as The Bone Dick. He handles all "bag of bone" cases found in San Bernardino County's twenty thousand square miles, at present, count 256 pending unsolved. It's a boring, mundane job...until it isn't. In A Lonesome Blood-red Sun, Beckett is called to a house far out in the desert where a dog has brought a bone to the back door. Beckett investigates and discovers the victim, two years dead, is someone he knows. Beckett, with his usual verve and colorful methods, tracks the killer. The trail leads through a warren of dead ends until he discovers a most unlikely suspect hiding in plain sight.A Lonesome Blood-red Sun is fiction melded with true-life incidents that makes for a non-stop thriller of the first order.

Dirk Turby, an Americana Shakespearean drama of family and death and inheritance and deception, is about a small-time mid-Michigan drug dealer trying to save the family farm.

From the creator of Jurassic Park and ERCharles Raynaud has found the perfect cover for his smuggling operation running out of Mexico, because how many customs agents are going to want to inspect a carton of venomous snakes? When Raynaud runs into his old Yale buddy Richard Pierce, a chance to play bodyguard feels like even easier money. Pierce has a large inheritance coming, but a series of thwarted attempts on his buddy's life makes Charles begin to smell a rat. Who's really trying to kill whom? And why is Charles starting to believe that he's the real target?With a new introduction by Sherri Crichton

"No parting words, no pausing for speeches, no judgements rendered only a sentence carried out." - Roger Grimes.Part 4 in the Grimes series. Roger Grimes can't quit. Not when everything he has been violently working towards is about to unravel. Attorney Willis Sanford, Grimes' employer, tells him there has been a break-in at the office. The only thing taken, files on every case the Vigilante worked. If those files get out every cop and every criminal will know Grimes is the true vigilante. The state prosecutor is about to make a big move on the child trafficking case that made Grimes who he is, but the star witness has disappeared. Now Grimes must dig up the past he so desperately buried to find an old career thief that is dead or hiding. Making matters worse is a nosey FBI Agent eager to work with the infamous Grimes. The extra help would be nice except there are a lot of bodies Grimes would like to keep buried as he uses all his underworld contacts to find the missing witness. Now Grimes must navigate the FBI, State Police and all the criminals he has put away as he ties up all the loose ends to finally put his violent past to rest.

One woman's haunting journey when her husband returns home and everything she thought she knew about their life together has suddenly changed.