Titres dans Polars

An einem düsteren Novembertag finden Bauarbeiter auf dem stillgelegten Flugplatz der US-Armee in Eschborn ein menschliches Skelett, nur wenig später wird eine Frau von einer Brücke auf die Straße gestoßen. Die Ermittlungen führen Pia Kirchhoff und Oliver von Bodenstein in die Vergangenheit: Vor vielen Jahren verschwanden in dem kleinen Taunusort Altenhain zwei Mädchen. Ein Indizienprozess brachte den mutmaßlichen Täter hinter Gitter. Nun ist er in seinen Heimatort zurückgekehrt...

Le troisième couple retrouvé mort chez eux en un mois. Alors que Mackenzie et le FBI se démènent pour comprendre qui peut bien vouloir assassiner des couples heureux, ses recherches l’amènent dans les profondeurs d’une sous-culture et d’un univers troublant. Elle apprend très vite que tout n’est pas parfait derrière les clôtures des maisons apparemment parfaites de banlieue – et que les ténèbres rôdent aux abords des familles qui ont l’air les plus heureuses.

When the body of a teenager is discovered near Eilean Donan Castle several months after she disappeared, DCI Jack Logan and his team journey across the Highlands to investigate. As they start to unpick the young woman’s life, the secrets and lies they expose soon threaten to tear the small rural community apart. But when a second girl goes missing in similar circumstances, it isn’t just a murder investigation that Jack finds himself running. It’s a race against time.

Der zehnte Fall für Polizeiprofiler Robert Hunter! Der grausamste Killer, den das FBI je gejagt hat. Lebenslang in Sicherheitsverwahrung. Doch er ist entkommen. Sein Name: Lucien Folter. Robert Hunter wird nicht ruhen, bis er ihn wieder gefasst hat. Zusammen mit seinem Partner Carlos Garcia jagt Hunter in L.A. nur die brutalsten und gefährlichsten Serienkiller. Definitv keine Hörbuchreihe für Zartbeseitete!

It's Christmas 1952. Blizzards come to Elderby, a remote village high on the North York Moors. Is the dead stranger found lodged up the chimney at Holly House a simple thief or something much more sinister? Inspector Frank Grasby finds himself heading up the investigation. But who is friend or foe? The victim of some most unfortunate misunderstandings, Grasby needs to clear his name. But as is often the way with the unlucky detective, things most certainly don't go according to plan.

Dans la région sauvage du Lake District, au centre de cercles de pierres, un tueur brûle vif des hommes fortunés âgés de soixante à soixante-dix ans. Aucun lien apparent entre les victimes, aucun indice, jusqu'au jour où l'on découvre gravé sur le torse de l'une d'elles un nom : Washington Poe. Celui de l'inspecteur-chef mis à pied pour une erreur ayant entraîné la mort d'un suspect ! Contraint par sa supérieure Stephanie Flynn de reprendre du service, Poe doit faire équipe avec Tilly Bradshaw, une geek surdouée mais socialement inadaptée.

Lady Athelinda Playford has planned a house party at her mansion in Clonakilty, County Cork, but it is no ordinary gathering. As guests arrive, Lady Playford summons her lawyer to make an urgent change to her will - one she intends to announce at dinner that night. She has decided to cut off her two children without a penny and leave her fortune to someone who has only weeks to live.... Among Lady Playford's guests are two men she has never met - the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and Inspector Edward Catchpool of Scotland Yard.

Che cosa unisce Jordan Marsalis, fratello del sindaco di New York ed ex tenente di polizia, e Maureen Martini, commissario di polizia a Roma? Apparentemente nulla. Eppure, per strade e vicissitudini diverse, si troveranno uniti in un'indagine su un beffardo assassino che compone i corpi delle sue vittime come i personaggi dei Peanuts, dopo averle seviziate nei modi più efferati.

Charlene Grant believes she is going to die. For the past few years, her childhood friends have been murdered one by one. Same day. Same time. Now she’s the last of her friends alive, and she’s counting down the final four days of her life until January 21st. Charlene doesn’t plan on going down without a fight. She has taken up boxing, shooting, and running. She also wants Boston’s top homicide detective, D. D. Warren, to handle the investigation. But as D. D. delves deeper into the case, she starts to question the woman’s story.

Le sang sous la glace. Mis en scène dans leur propre appartement, des corps comme des poupées incomplètes, mutilés avec une précision chirurgicale. Justement, c'est peut-être la chirurgie qui relie les victimes entre elles. Et, plus précisément, une erreur médicale commise dans le secret d'une salle d'opération, étouffée par les années. Des nuits blanches attendent la police de Norrköping et la procureure Jana Berzelius. Mais cette dernière a d'autres cauchemars que le tueur au scalpel. Un homme qui la connaît depuis l'enfance.

DI Richard Poole is hot, bothered and fed up. He’s stuck on the tropical island of Saint-Marie, forced to live in a rickety old shack on a beach, and there isn’t a decent cup of tea to be found anywhere. When a boat explodes in the harbour, Richard and his team soon realise there’s a new murderer on the loose. But who is it? And why did the killer leave behind a ruby at the scene of the crime? As the police dig deeper, they uncover secrets that go back decades and a crime from the past that can never be forgiven.

1987. An isolated farm house in the east of Iceland. The snowstorm should have shut everybody out. But it didn't. The couple should never have let him in. But they did. An unexpected guest, a liar, a killer. Not all will survive the night. And Detective Hulda Hermannsdóttir will be haunted forever.

Hardly a day goes by when nine-year-old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions to walking trees to winged beasts in the woods to dinosaurs spotted in the village of Three Pines, his tales are so extraordinary no one can possibly believe him. Including Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache, who now live in the little Quebec village.

"Tra i boschi e le pareti rocciose a strapiombo, giù nell'orrido che conduce al torrente, tra le pozze d'acqua smeraldo che profuma di ghiaccio, qualcosa si nasconde. Me lo dicono le tracce di sangue, me lo dice l'esperienza: è successo, ma potrebbe risuccedere. Questo è solo l'inizio. Qualcosa di sconvolgente è accaduto, tra queste montagne. Qualcosa che richiede tutta la mia abilità investigativa. Sono un commissario di polizia specializzato in profiling e ogni giorno cammino sopra l'inferno."

Following weeks of heavy rain, the earth comes crumbling down on one of Larvik’s residential areas, burying a handful of houses. Detective William Wisting is quick to join the rescue operation. Luckily, by sunrise the next day, it becomes clear that the landslide has claimed no victims. And yet, just twenty-four hours later, a body is found – and the victim was killed before the landslide. As Wisting opens an investigation into the mysterious murder, he soon discovers this death might have dangerous ties to a series of ongoing cases.

"Азазель" Бориса Акунина - первый роман из серии приключений Эраста Фандорина. Благодаря книгам и показу киноверсии романа по телевидению, "Азазель" на данный момент является, пожалуй, наиболее известным широкой публике произведением автора.

When he left the LAPD, Bosch took a file with him: the case of a production assistant murdered four years earlier during a film-set robbery. The LAPD thinks the stolen money was used to finance a terrorist training camp. Thoughts of the original murder victim were lost in the federal zeal, and when Bosch decides to reinvestigate, he quickly falls foul of both his old colleagues and the FBI. When the investigation enables him to meet up with an old friend, shadows from his past come back to haunt him.

A burned corpse is a disturbing mystery for Beijing detective Li Yan until he enlists forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell. Having abandoned a broken life in Chicago for her work, she's as determined as Li to ask difficult questions about the man's death. But some questions have answers they'd rather not hear - facts that others are desperate to conceal. The Firemaker is the first in the acclaimed China series from Peter May, author of Runaway, Entry Island and the internationally best-selling Lewis Trilogy.

Firenze, estate 1963. Nella stanza da letto di una villa settecentesca viene ritrovato il corpo senza vita di un'anziana signora. Sul comodino, un bicchiere con tracce di un medicinale contro l'asma. Il commissario Bordelli, cinquantenne, scapolo, ex partigiano, amico di ladri e prostitute, viene chiamato a guidare le indagini...

A 23-year-old law student commits suicide in broad daylight in Moscow's Alexander Gardens. Fandorin is put on the case to find out what drove him to it, a case that deepens as he discovers that the young man was the son of a rich and influential factory owner. The story is enhanced by its authentic backdrop of 19th century Russia. After all, it's difficult to keep your mind on a case when the new Dostoyevsky novel has just hit the shops.