Krim og spenning

I 1942 får det matematiske geniet Lawrence Waterhouse i oppdrag å hindre at nazistene finner ut at de allierte har knekket deres berømte Enigma-kode. I nåtida forsøker Waterstones barnebarn Randy å skape et sted hvor dekrypterte data kan utveksles uten innblanding.

A strange death in the desert and Poirot might just be too late... Amy Leatheran had never felt the lure of the mysterious East, but when she travels to an ancient site deep in the Iraqi desert to nurse the wife of a celebrated archaeologist, events prove stranger than she could ever have imagined. Her patient's bizarre visions and nervous terror seem unfounded, but as the oppressive tension in the air thickens, events come to a terrible climax - in murder. With one spot of blood as his only clue, Hercule Poirot must embark on a journey across the desert to unravel a mystery which taxes even his remarkable powers...

Første bok i serien om FBI-agenten John Adderley som møter mørke gjerninger i svensk småby. Datteren til sjefen for en av Sveriges mest suksessrike bedrifter forsvinner sporløst i Karlstad. Hun antas myrdet, men kroppen blir aldri funnet. Ti år senere blir FBI-agenten John Adderley vitne i en høyprofilert rettssak i Baltimore, og som beskyttelse får han ny identitet. Han krever å bli utplassert i Karlstad, og snart er han i jobb på politistasjonen i den svenske småbyen. Det blir raskt klart for leseren at John har skjulte motiver for å oppsøke nettopp dette stedet - og når han begynner å grave i den gamle forsvinningssaken, er det ikke bare av profesjonell nysgjerrighet. Samtidig vokser uroen for at hans virkelige identitet skal avsløres, og han får stadig større problemer med å balansere alle sine hemmeligheter.

It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture, followed by a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. But when Hercule Poirot, who is staying in the village with a friend for Christmas, offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had their own reason to hate the old man...

The Hercule Poirot Collection includes three books by Agatha Christie; The Mysterious Affair at Styles, The Murder on the Links, and Poirot Investigates. The Mysterious Affair at Styles opens with the discovery that the elderly Emily Inglethorp, has been poisoned. Upon his arrival, inspector Hercule Poirot is faced with a mystery of how poison was administered to Inglethorp, and who would benefit most from her considerable wealth. Poirot must discover every link in a chain of evidence in order to unravel the whole complicated plot and lay the guilt where it belongs.In The Murder on the Links, Inspector Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings travel to Merlinville-sur-Mer, France, to meet Paul Renauld, who has requested their help. Upon arriving at his home, the local police greet them with news that Renauld has been found dead that morning. What follows is an enthralling mystery, with Poirot piecing together clues and peculiar events to solve the most difficult case of his detective career.Poirot Investigates is a collection of eleven short stories involving the famed eccentric detective, Hercule Poirot. The problems Poirot unravels are skilfully tangled, and unravelled by the detective's omniscient genius. Throughout the tales, which include The Adventure of the Western Star, The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb, and The Kidnapped Prime Minister, Poirot must solve a variety of mysteries involving greed, jealousy, and revenge.

Femte bok i suksesserien om Fabian Risk begynner i sekundene etter slutten på «Motiv X». Stefan Ahnhem bygger videre på sitt mektige kriminaleops og den stadig ekspanderende verdenen han har skapt omkring Risk og kollegene hans rundt Øresund. Tidlig på sommerkvelden legger en gummibåt ut fra Råå havn. Om bord sitter en mann med et sverd fastspent på ryggen. Oppdraget hans er diktert av terningen: Et menneske skal dø. Hvem?

Winner of the 2017 Crime Writers' Association Diamond Dagger.Hidden Depths is the third book in Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series - which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn, Vera. A hot summer on the Northumberland coast and Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find her son strangled, laid out in a bath of water and covered with wild flowers. This stylized murder scene has Inspector Vera Stanhope intrigued. But then another body is discovered in a rock pool, the corpse again strewn with flowers. Vera must work quickly to find this killer who is making art out of death. As local residents are forced to share their deepest, darkest secrets, the killer watches, waits and plans to prepare another beautiful, watery grave . . .Enjoy more of Vera Stanhope's investigations with The Crow Trap, Telling Tales, Silent Voices, The Glass Room, Harbour Street, The Moth Catcher, and The Seagull.

Dette er den fjerde boken med kriminalbetjent Gunnar Barbarotti. Seks unge mennesker kommer i 1969 til Uppsala for å studere. En sommerreise i Øst-Europa forandrer forholdet mellom dem for alltid, og da Uppsala-tiden tar slutt, har også noe annet tatt slutt. En menneskealder senere blir en dosent i Lund funnet død nedenfor et stup i skogen utenfor Kymlinge. Ifølge folketroen er det en gammel ættestupe. Det var nøyaktig på dette stedet en av de unge Uppsala-studentene døde 35 år tidligere. Gunnar Barbarotti stilles overfor en ny form for alvor og tvinges til å revurdere mange ting i tilværelsen - ikke minst den gamle overenskomsten med Vår Herre.

Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high lonely place, a corpse with a mouth full of sand, abandoned at a crime scene seemingly devoid of tracks or useful clues. Though it goes against his better judgment, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn cannot help but suspect a hint of the supernatural. There is palpable evil in the air, and Leaphorn's pursuit of a Wolf-Witch is leading him where even the bravest men fear, on a chilling trail that winds perilously between mysticism and murder.

Winner of the 2017 Crime Writers' Association Diamond DaggerTelling Tales is the second book in Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series - which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn, Vera. Ten years after Jeanie Long was charged with the murder of fifteen-year-old Abigail Mantel, disturbing new evidence proving her innocence emerges in the East Yorkshire village of Elvet. Abigail's killer is still at large. For Emma Bennett, the revelation brings back haunting memories of her vibrant best friend - and of the fearful winter's day when she had discovered her body lying cold in a ditch. Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope makes fresh inquiries, and the villagers are hauled back to a time they would rather forget. Tensions begin to mount, but are people afraid of the killer, or of their own guilty pasts?Enjoy more of Vera Stanhope's investigations with The Crow Trap, Hidden Depths, Silent Voices, The Glass Room, Harbour Street, The Moth Catcher, and The Seagull.

Den bestselgende svenske krimforfatteren Stefan Ahnhems bøker utgis i 20 land. Den stadig mer populære etterforskeren Fabian Risk er tilbake, i en intens jakt på en iskald drapsmann. Fabian Risk og teamet hans kjemper mot klokken i en etterforskning der ingenting viser seg å være slik det skal. Han begynner å tvile på sine egne vurderinger, og finner de ikke løsningen kommer snart neste offer til å havne i fryseren. En bil kjører over kaikanten i Helsingborgs havn etter en voldsom biljakt. Alt tyder på at det var en ulykke, men når føreren, en it-entreprenør som har blitt steinrik på mobilspill, obduseres, viser det seg at han alt har vært død i to måneder, i nedfryst tilstand.Det er vår og nesten to år har gått siden hendelsene i Offer uten ansikt. I Helsingborgs kriminalavdeling har det vært uvanlig stille. Fabian Risk har kunnet bruke det meste av tiden sin på å lappe sammen familien. Selv om verken han eller kollegene neppe ville sagt det høyt så begynner de å kjede seg. Når den merkelige saken med den nedfryste millionæren havner på bordet deres kjenner alle det samme: Endelig skjer det noe.Like over sundet har Dunja Hougaard blitt nødt til å ta på seg uniformen igjen, i sin nye jobb som ordenspoliti i Helsingør. Når en hjemløs blir mishandlet til døde klarer hun ikke å la være å sette i gang en egen etterforskning. Sporene leder snart til Helsingborg.

16-årige Roger blir funnet drept i et tjern. Kriminalpsykologen Sebastian Bergman blir trukket inn i saka siden han tilfeldigvis er i hjembyen. Han har egentlig trukket seg tilbake fra alt arbeid etter en privat tragedie, men for første gang på lenge har han lyst til å involvere seg i ei mordsak. Dette er den første romanen om Sebastian Bergman.

The breathtaking new DCI Karen Pirie thriller from number one bestseller and queen of crime, Val McDermid. When a body is pulled from the sea, Karen must reopen a case from a decade before, drawing her into a sinister world of betrayal and dark secrets.

Wonderfully entertaining mystery stories set in the world of the acclaimed ROMA SUB ROSA series. It is the Rome of the Late Republic, and Gordianus the Finder has a knack for finding trouble - and dead bodies. Known to many as the one man in the ancient world who can both keep a secret and uncover one, Gordianus lays bare some of his most intriguing adventures in this new volume in Steven Saylor's highly acclaimed mystery series. In 'Little Caesar and the Pirates', Gordianus must act as a go-between for kidnappers, but he begins to wonder who is really being held hostage; in 'The Alexandrian Cat', a mischievous girl and a tell-tale sneeze reveal an ingenious plot of murder and thievery; and in 'The House of the Vestals', blackmail goes horribly wrong and there is no one to take the blame. The result is an engrossing collection of finely wrought mystery tales with all the suspense and craft that are the trademark of Saylor's work.

As civil war between Caesar and Pompey engulfs the Roman world, Gordianus the Finder receives an anonymous message informing him of the death of his son Meto who has been acting as a double agent for Caesar. The search for Meto's fate brings Gordianus to the besieged seaport of Massilia, which is stubbornly holding out against Caesar's troops. As famine and slaughter threaten the blockaded city, Gordianus is drawn into the intrigues of exiled Romans and duplicitous Massilians. His only friend in the city, Hieronymous, has been made the doomed scapegoat elected by city officials to bear the sins of the populace and save them all from annihilation. Meanwhile, Gordianus is constantly frustrated in his efforts to find out what happened to his son - and when he witnesses the fall of a young woman from a precipice outside the city called the Sacrifice Rock, then the plot begins to thicken...

But Withers has returned to his hometown for an easier, safer life as a Private Investigator. Manhattan in the late Fifties is alive with new possibilities, new sounds and new faces, including young presidential hopeful Senator Joe Keneally.

Introducing Dexter Morgan, a serial killer to fall in love with... As seen on TV - DEXTER: NEW BLOOD - major new drama

It is 48 BC.For years now the rival Roman generals Caesar and Pompey have engaged in a contest for world domination. Both now turn to Egypt, Pompey planning a last stand on the banks of the Nile, while Caesar's legendary encounter with the Egyptian queen will spark a romance that reverberates down the centuries. But Egyptitself is torn apart by the murderous rivalry between the goddess-queen and her brother King Ptolemy.Into this hothouse atmosphere of intrigue and deception comes Gordianus the Finder, innocently seeking a cure for his wife Bethesda in the sacred waters of the Nile. But soon he finds himself engaged in an even more desperate pursuit - to prove the innocence of his son, who stands accused of murder. The judgement of Caesar will determine the fate of Gordianus's son; the choice Caesar makes between Cleopatra and Ptolemy will determine the future of the world. Saylor presents a bold new vision of Caesar and Cleopatra, amid bloodshed and battle, in a setting of Egyptian mystery.

One afternoon as Gordianus the Finder is crossing the marketplace, a beautiful young seeress staggers towards him and dies in his arms. Possibly insane, and with no memory of her past Cassandra - like her Trojan namesake - had been reputed to possess the true gift of prophecy. For such a gift there are many in Rome who would pay handsomely...or resort to murder. Cassandra had been the confidante of the rich and powerful, until she fell victim to vicious killer. Obsessed with Cassandra and her mystery, Gordianus begins to investigate. As the citizens of Rome nervously await news of the war and the political situation verges on chaos, Gordianus gradually peels away the veils of secrecy that surround Cassandra's life and death. What he uncovers has deadly implications, involving some if the most powerful women in Rome - Gordianus's pursuit of the truth not only endangers his own life, but could well affect the future of Rome herself.

It's late at night, and all Jonah Stem wants to do is to get home and fall into bed. Working long hours as a medical student, he's seen enough drama - not to mention enough blood - for one day But when he hears a scream ring out in the darkness, and an injured woman is on her knees and begging for her life, Jonah finds himself drawn into a dangerous and irrevocable situation. And this situation means trouble. Jonah's intervention will change not only his own life, but also the lives of those he cares about, in ways he never thought possible.A heart-stopping thriller, masterfully told, Trouble is the story of what can happen when you find yourself in way over your head . . .

Featuring Jack Reacher, hero of the new blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise.You do not mess with Jack Reacher. So when a member of his old Army unit finds a way to contact him, he knows this has to be serious. Reacher's old buddies are in big trouble, and he can't let that go.

Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. And, with the Gestapo just one step behind, March, together with an American journalist, is caught up in a race to discover and reveal the truth - a truth that has already killed, a truth that could topple governments, a truth that will change history.

The new novel from the internatinal bestselling author of Roma, is set against the background of Caesar's stupendous quadruple triumphs in Rome in 46 BC, full of colour and spectacle. Having obliterated the opposition, Caesar is now dictator for life. In the upcoming celebrations, Vercingetorix the Gaul is scheduled to be executed, as is Arsino , the sister of Cleopatra...and Cleopatra herself is in Rome on a state visit, trying to convince Caesar to acknowledge their son as his heir. Marc Antony and Caesar are at odds; Cicero is making a fool of himself with a new teenage bride; and Caesar's wife Calpurnia, having fallen under the spell of an Etruscan soothsayer, is convinced of a plot on her husband's life. Murder and intrigue again draw Gordianus into the vortex of history. Praise for Stephen Saylor'Saylor is on top form with the latest in his extraordinarily vivid series of crime novels set in ancient Rome.' Sunday Times'Saylor's gifts include authentic historical and topographical backgrounds and... sombre themes set off the brilliant scenery and clever plotting.' Times Literary Supplement'Saylor's scholarship is breathtaking and his writing enthrals.' Ruth Rendell'Readers will find his work wonderfully (and gracefully) researched... this is entertainment of the first order.' Washington Post 'Saylor has acquired the information of a historian but he enjoys the gifts of a born novelist.' Boston Globe

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'A high-testosterone adventure . All Jack Reacher wants is a cup of coffee. What are the secrets the locals seem so determined to hide?Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Nothing To Lose is 12th in the series.