Títulos en Misterios y delitos internacionales

The year is 2026. The US military has a new weapon in its arsenal: an intelligent life-form so versatile that it can not only create a new generation of weapons but can become a weapon itself - entering a host’s body to manipulate (or kill) them. Admiral James Curtiss is tasked with deploying the new weapons, first in Cuba, then Venezuela, then China. But the news of the military’s breakthrough has gotten out and there are menacing forces trying to steal it. What’s more, a single man has somehow harnessed the new power and has become something more than human - godlike.

In The Boy Who Followed Ripley, Highsmith explores Ripley's bizarrely paternal relationship with a troubled young runaway, whose abduction draws them into Berlin's seamy underworld. More than any other American literary character, Ripley provides "a lens to peer into the sinister machinations of human behavior." (John Freeman, Pittsburgh Gazette).

On Midsummer's Eve, three role-playing teens dressed in 18th-century garb are shot in a secluded Swedish meadow. When one of Inspector Kurt Wallander's most trusted colleagues, someone whose help he hoped to rely on to solve the crime, also turns up dead, Wallander knows the murders are related. But with his only clue a picture of a woman no one in Sweden seems to know, he can't begin to imagine how.

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.

Just graduated from the police academy, Linda Wallander returns to Skane to join the police force, and she already shows all the hallmarks of her father - the maverick approach, the flaring temper. Before she even starts work she becomes embroiled in the case of her childhood friend, Anna, who has inexplicably disappeared.

It’s been over a year since Cassidy Miller retired from the United States Marine Corps, but try telling that to her nightmares. She knew that coming back after eight years in a war zone wouldn’t be easy, but she’d underestimated the real difficulties of transitioning back to civilian life. War is hell, but the aftermath is endless. Looking for a fresh start, she’s left her friends and career in Minneapolis to be a police officer in northern Minnesota. It’s in the tiny town of Embarrass where she learns more about Julia Desjardin.

David Cartwright, long buried, has left his library to the Spooks’ College in Oxford, and now one of the books is missing. Or perhaps it never existed. River, once a “slow horse” of Slough House, MI5’s outpost for demoted and disgraced spies, has some time to kill while awaiting medical clearance to return to work, and starts investigating the secrets of his grandfather’s library.

Based on the hit mobile game, a cozy murder mystery set in 1920s Paris by a USA Today bestselling author, perfect for fans of Richard Osman and Agatha Christie. June’s friend has been brutally murdered, and the police have the wrong man. Can she solve the case before the killer catches up to...

Im brandneuen Band der erfolgreichen Gardasee-Krimireihe steht die Familie Pitti vor einem scheinbar unlösbaren Rätsel, das in die pompöse Villa Feltrinelli und tief in die dunkle Vergangenheit Italiens führt. In der Redaktion der soeben neu aufgestellten Seezeitung Messaggero del Garda wird die Leiche eines unbekannten Mannes gefunden. Erschossen. Es stellt sich heraus: Der Unbekannte war Gast im besten Haus am Westufer in Gargnano: der Villa Feltrinelli.

A mother. A detective. A case that could cost her everything. When Detective Callahan's instincts scream that a suicide is actually murder, she knows there's more at play—especially when the victim's employer is tied to international smuggling. Uncovering the truth will put her life at risk...

Siete pies, cortados y atados entre sí, aparecen flotando en el río Sena, cerca de la sede central de la Policía Judicial francesa. Se forma rápidamente un equipo de investigación, dirigido por el capitán Martin Vaas. La búsqueda de los cuerpos a los que pertenecen esos pies hace que se reabran casos de hace más de veinte años, crímenes en los que al cadáver le faltaba un pie, cometidos cerca del curso de un río. Sin embargo, las piezas no terminan de encajar. Una misteriosa inscripción (en uno de los pies se lee «ganador») podría encerrar la clave de todo.

Al igual que en las grandes novelas de aventuras que se escribían a finales del XIX, y a las que Travesía del horizonte rinde cariñoso y también burlón homenaje, esta novela, publicada a los veintiún años, tiene como hilo conductor una atrevida expedición: el capitán Kerrigan, millonario y excéntrico, ha organizado un viaje a la Antártida para hombres de letras y científicos.

The United States occupation of Iraq is a swamp of incompetence and self-delusion. The CPA has disbanded the Iraqi army and police as a consequence of its paranoid policy of de-Ba'athification of Iraqi society. Tales of hubris and reality-denial abound, culminating in Washington hailing the mess "a glorious mission accomplished". Inspector Muhsin al-Khafaji is a mid-level Iraqi cop who deserted his post back in April. Khafaji has lived long enough in pre- and post-Saddam Iraq to know that clinging on to anything but poetry and his daughter Mrouj is asking for trouble.

On Christmas Eve, DCI Mackenzie Jones is called to a shooting at a remote farmhouse. Ralph Mallender believes his father lies dead inside. When three more bodies are discovered, it's clear a festive family gathering has turned into a gruesome tragedy. At first it seems like an open and shut case: a murder suicide committed by Ralph's volatile brother Cameron. Then new evidence makes Mack suspect the man who reported the crime is in fact the perpetrator. But Mack isn't the only one with a stake in the case.

When Inspector Peter Glebsky arrives at a remote ski chalet on vacation, the last thing he intends to do is get involved in any police work. He's there to ski, drink brandy, and loaf around in blissful solitude. But he hadn't counted on the other vacationers, an eccentric bunch, including a famous hypnotist, a physicist with a penchant for gymnastic feats, a sulky teenager of indeterminate gender, and the mysterious Mr. and Mrs. Moses.

Il commissario Maugeri, sfidando depistaggi e contraffazione di prove, indaga su due omicidi avvenuti all’interno di un CRAL (Circolo Ricreativo Aziendale Lavoratori). Quello che scoprirà, legato a filo doppio a vecchie storie di guerra, avrà dell’incredibile... Milano, 1949. Una nuova indagine per il commissario Maugeri, che, stavolta, ha a che fare con l’assassinio di un barista all’interno di un circolo ricreativo. Perplesso dalla ricostruzione ufficiale dei fatti, il detective troverà in un secondo omicidio il pretesto giusto per andare più a fondo nell’inchiesta.

Heads You Lose … Phil Nellis is missing, which is bad – but nowhere near as bad as the reason he had to disappear. His dearly departed uncle double-crossed some truly heinous individuals who have some very specific ideas about how to exact their revenge. Fifty-two hours is an unreasonably short amount of time to be given to steal Ireland’s greatest national treasure, but then again, having a bomb strapped around your neck is an unreasonable form of motivation.

A student data scientist from England knows that somewhere in a small town in Norway someone is going to be murdered. The victim is unknown. The killer is a mystery. The police don’t believe her. But she knows it will happen. Now she has to stop a murder. She’s not a detective, she doesn’t speak the language, she doesn’t even like to fly. She's going to need some help, but who can she turn to? Well… there is one person in this remote Norwegian town that the locals say might be able to help.

Before there was James Bond, there was Simon Templar—better known to the world as The Saint. Meet the Tiger is the thrilling first appearance of Simon Templar, introducing a hero who is sharp-witted, fearless, and relentlessly clever. When a trail of stolen gold, betrayal, and violence points to a mysterious criminal figure known only as The Tiger, Simon is drawn into a dangerous pursuit that will test him to the limits. What begins as a hunt for missing treasure quickly becomes a battle of minds.

Mord und Mysterium auf hoher See... Rachel Prince hat Dienstfrei und freut sich auf eine wohlverdiente Entspannung an Bord der prächtigen Coral Queen. Mit einer kostenlosen Luxuskreuzfahrt nach New York und ihrer besten Freundin Sarah, die als Schiffskrankenschwester arbeitet, was könnte schon schiefgehen? Alles, wie es sich herausstellt.