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Forfatter sporløst forsvunnet.«Herr Franzén, jeg har nettopp lest en bok der De beskriver et perfekt drap. Og vet De hva, jeg fikk nesten en følelse av at De har utført det. Er det en riktig antagelse?»Slik begynner forfatter John Leander Franzéns verste mareritt. Han er invitert til bokkveld på et bibliotek på et lite sted i Midt-Sverige, da en kvinne reiser seg og stiller nettopp dette spørsmålet. Etter nok et bibliotekbesøk, i Kymlinge, forsvinner forfatteren sporløst. Et par dager i forveien har han sendt et uferdig manus til forleggeren sin i Stockholm, En litterats siste dager og død.Ettersom forsvinningen skjer i Kymlinge, er det Gunnar Barbarotti som får i oppdrag å samarbeide med Stockholmspolitiet om å oppklare saken.Sjakk under vulkanen er den syvende boken om politietterforsker Gunnar Barbarotti - en stemningsfull spenningsroman.

'I'm not too late, am I? When does the murder begin?' An announcement appears in the local paper:this Friday, at exactly 6.30pm, a murder will take place. Who could resist such an invitation? Driven by morbid curiosity, the villagers head to the appointed location: a quiet house on the outskirts of the village. The crowd gathers. The clock counts down. And then the lights go out. A mystery that will defy even the most ingenious of detectives. Because, when you turn over a stone in an English village, you have no idea what will crawl out...

Past and present collide in this astonishing novel, when Chief Inspector Armand Gamache must relive the terrible event of his own past before he can bury his dead.

"Maomao leads an unassuming life with her apothecary father, but kidnappers whisk her away to a world of consorts and serving women in the empire's rear palace. Sold into imperial servitude, the girl keeps her quick wit, sharp mind, and medical knowledge a secret. But the head eunuch, Jinshi, shatters Maomao's low profile when she catches his eye. He perceives her true skills and makes her a lady-in-waiting to the rear palace's top consort. Can Maomao quietly pass her term as her lady's food tester, or will observational prowess and curiosity push her into danger as she uncovers turmoil at court?"--]cPublisher's description.

A new collection from Dr Mark Aldridge: the investigation of a lifetime into Agatha Christie¿s Miss Jane Marple.

The brand new novel from the critically-acclaimed international bestseller Chris Whitaker.

A twisty psychological thriller from the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Housemaid and The Coworker!Some doors are locked for a reason¿While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement.Until the day the police arrived at their front door.Decades later, Nora's father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence. Nobody knows about her past, and she'll do anything to keep it that way.Then one of her young female patients is murdered, killed in the same unique and horrific manner that her father used to kill his victims.Somebody knows who Nora is. Somebody wants her to take the fall for this unthinkable crime. But she's not like her father. The police can't pin anything on her. As long as they don't look in her basement¿From New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden comes a riveting psychological thriller about guilt, secrets, and whether it's possible to outrun what's in our blood.

The perfect gift for the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle fan, The Complete Sherlock Holmes is an elegant edition boasting the entire Sherlock Holmes catalog including 4 full-length novels and 56 short stories.

The Beijing Ripper makes a personal vendetta against Detective Li Yan in the thrilling final episode of the series

Dette er den andre boka om Harry Hole.

Ölandskvartetten blir kvintett.En mann dør i et steinras på en øde strand på Öland. På marken ved siden av ham har noen rukket å legge en krans av roser. Da politibetjent Tilda Davidsson løfter på kransen, finner hun beinrester fra en mann som hun sist så sammen med sin gamle slektning, den 86-årige skipperen Gerlof. Gerlof er gammel og svak, men må likevel finne ut hvorfor en tragedie fra fortiden på nytt skaper redsel og hat. Et hat som er så sterkt at mordet på stranden bare er begynnelsen ...

'A richly told tale of tangled loyalties. French ratchets up the tension in increments . . . By the end, these characters have taken on such solidity that, long after finishing it, I often catch myself wondering how they're doing - a testament to the author's mastery of her craft' GUARDIANReturn to the dark underbelly of Ardnakelty in the thrilling new sequel to The Searcher.-----It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in the village. They're coming for gold. What they bring is trouble.Two years have passed since retired Police Detective Cal Hooper moved from Chicago to the West of Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less - in his relationship with local woman Lena, and the bond he's formed with half-wild teenager Trey. So when two men turn up with a money-making scheme to find gold in the townland, Cal gets ready to do whatever it takes to protect Trey. Because one of the men is no stranger: he's Trey's father.But Trey doesn't want protecting. What she wants is revenge.Crackling with tension and slow-burn suspense, The Hunter explores what we'll do for our loved ones, what we'll do for revenge, and what we sacrifice when the two collide, from the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Tana French. ---Nobody writes tension like Tana French:'Terrific - terrifying, amazing' STEPHEN KING'One of the greats of contemporary crime fiction' IAN RANKIN'The most important crime novelist to emerge in the last ten years' WASHINGTON POST'A truly great writer' GILLIAN FLYNN'Among the first rank of great literary novelists' OBSERVER'A masterful, beautiful mystery...' CHRIS WHITAKER'Crime fiction's biggest contemporary star' GUARDIAN'Completely, indescribably magnificent' MARIAN KEYES'Lyrical, suspenseful, unpredictable' HARLAN COBEN'Comes closer to perfection than anything I've read in the last decade' SARAH HILARY'A spectacularly talented writer' LOUISE O'NEILL

Andre bind i en ny serie av Ann Cleeves, forfatteren bak de populære TV-seriene Vera og Shetland.Det er en uvanlig varm sommer, og turistene stimler til kystlinjen i Devon, der to elver møtes før de renner ut i havet. Matthew Venn blir tilkalt til en kunstnerbolig der Dr. Nigel Yeo er funnet drept med en knust vase. Vasen er laget av datteren i huset, som er glassblåser. Det hele ser ut som et tilfeldig, iscenesatt mord.Dr. Yeo er ikke et opplagt mordoffer. Han er en god mann, høyt elsket av datteren, en samfunnsborger som kjempet for pasientenes rettigheter.Men da det blir funnet enda et lik, drept på samme måte som Dr. Yeo, skjønner Matthew at det er noe som skurrer. Det er mange løgner som lurer under overflaten i det lille lokalsamfunnet. Snart er saken faretruende nær Matthews eget privatliv.Den evige hvile ble nominert til en rekke priser, blant annet Theakston Olde Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2022.

White Nights is the second book in Ann Cleeves' bestselling Shetland series - a major BBC One drama starring Douglas Henshall.When Shetland detective Jimmy Perez finds a body in a hut used by fishermen it seems to be a straightforward case of suicide. He recognizes the victim - a stranger with amnesia who had disrupted a local party the night before his death.Yet this is no desperate act of anguish, but the work of a cold and calculating killer. As Perez investigates, he finds himself mired in the hidden secrets of the small Biddista community. Then another body is found.Perez knows he must break the cycle before another death occurs. But this is a crazy time of year when night blurs into day and nothing is quite as it seems . . .

Darrow is a Helldiver, one of a thousand men and women who live in the vast caves beneath the surface of Mars, generations of people who spend their lives toiling to mine the precious elements that will allow the planet to be terraformed. Just knowing that, one day, people will be able to walk the surface of the planet is enough to justify their sacrifice. The Earth is dying, and Darrow and his people are the only hope humanity has left. Until the day Darrow learns that it is all a lie. That Mars has been habitable - and inhabited - for generations, by a class of people calling themselves the Golds. A class of people who look down at Darrow and his fellows as slave labour, to be exploited and worked to death without a second thought. Until the day Darrow, with the help of a mysterious group of rebels, disguises himself as a Gold and infiltrates their society.

*** THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SILENT PATIENT ***'Infinitely thrilling and delicately crafted, the plot keeps everyone guessing until the very end, with an unscrupulous villain to underline just how good it is. DO NOT MISS IT' Daily Mail'Deliciously twisty and fiendishly clever. A highly enjoyable tale of subterfuge, secrets and murder' Observer'My favourite Alex Michaelides yet - the undisputed master of the twist' Lucy Foley'The king of all unreliable narrators, enough twists and turns to power two novels' David Baldacci'You'll think you know where it's going and you couldn't be more wrong' Linwood Barclay'A very special book and highly recommended' Janice Hallett'A masterclass in suspense' Steve Cavanagh'A glorious triumph - just brilliant' Stephen Fry'The best novel yet from Alex Michaelides' Sophie HannahEven better than The Silent Patient... Alex Michaelides is a magician' JP Delaney*****'There were seven of us in all, trapped on the island.One of us was a murderer . . .'On a small private Greek island, former movie star Lana Farrar - an old friend - invites a select group of us to stay.It'll be hot, sunny, perfect. A chance to relax and reconnect - and maybe for a few hidden truths to come out.Because nothing on this island is quite what it seems.Not Lana. Not her guests.Certainly not the murderer - furiously plotting their crime . . .But who am I?My name is Elliot Chase, and I'm going to tell you a story unlike any you've ever heard.BESTSELLING AUTHORS ARE ALREADY FALLING IN LOVE WITH THE FURY'The Fury is a masterfully woven story of Shakespearean twists and Machiavellian turns. A Greek Tragedy in the guise of a postmodern thriller. Do not miss this one' Holly Jackson'A classic, twisting, brilliant murder mystery. A wonderfully drawn cast of characters with a motive to kill for, in a location to die for, keep you guessing until the shocking finale. Clever, and fiendishly fun' Chris Whitaker'A very sophisticated book which takes the format of a classic murder mystery and elevates it to something very devious and clever indeed. The narrator is fabulous - I was throughly gripped' Harriet Tyce'Endlessly evolving, wildly entertaining, and like the very best fiction, impossible to pin down. Just when you think you have it cornered, it moves, impossibly and with stunning flourish, toward a devastating finale. The Talented Mr. Ripley for our time' Blake Crouch'Alex Michaelides is the grand master of the modern mystery. The Fury reads like Hitchcock with a heart, or Agatha Christie running amok on a wind-whipped Greek island. The Fury will, quite literally, blow you away. Totally brilliant' Tony Parsons'One of those rare books where really nothing is as it seems. As usual, Alex Michaelides does not disappoint' Ragnar Jonasson'Glamorous, sinister, and endlessly surprising, The Fury reads like Agatha Christie and Patricia Highsmith took a Greek vacation together and decided to write a book while there. It's twisty, twisted entertainment' Riley SagerThe Fury, the instant New York Times bestseller, January 2024, and Sunday Times bestseller, February 2024

Søsteren, den andre og frittstående delen i The Killer-serien, er en spennende og flerlags kriminalroman som kretser rundt klasse og tilhørighet, kjærlighet og ære.Søsteren starter hjemme hos familien Gyldenstedt der en familiemiddag nærmer seg slutten. Kaffe og avec serveres i salongen mens tykk røyk finner veien blant gjestene. Brannen sprer seg raskt i Skåne-gården utenfor Malmö. 18 år gamle Märtha blir trukket ut av flammene og Gyldenstedt-familiens liv blir knust når de innser at deres yngste datter er død. Myrdet.Etterforskerne Henrik Hedin og Leia Kaplan ved krimavsnittet i Malmø er knyttet til drapsetterforskningen, og de avdekker en sannhet som har vært godt skjult under mange år med stillhet og frykt.

It is a textbook murder - and Pilgrim wrote the book. Pilgrim will have to make a journey from a public beheading in Mecca to a deserted ruins on the Turkish coast via a Nazi death camp in Alsace and the barren wilderness of the Hindu Kush in search of the faceless man who would commit an appalling act of mass murder in the name of his God.

En mørk og gripende reise til nattens ende. En kriminalroman du ikke legger fra deg.Det er natt og storm i Nordsjøen. Helikopteret som frakter kriminalbetjent Kirsten Nygaard til oljeplattformen, ristes av de harde vindkastene. Den norske betjenten etterforsker mordet på en av offshorebasens teknikere.Under oppropet om bord mangler én mann. I kahytten hans oppdager Kirsten Nygaard en bunke fotografier og noen dager senere har disse bildene brakt henne til Frankrike og Martin Servaz.Den savnede heter Julian Hirtmann, en seriemorder Servaz har jaktet i en årrekke og det underlige er at Servaz selv er avbildet på flere av fotografiene man har funnet. Det kan se ut som om noen følger etter ham. Så viser den norske kriminalinspektøren han et fotografi av en ung gutt. Bakpå står navnet GUSTAV. Fra nå av er de to etterforskerne innblandet i en katt og mus-jakt, der ingen vet hvem som vil seire.«Den franske suksessforfatteren har lagt plottet til en stormfylt oljeplattform i Norge i denne dystre pageturneren ...» Cathrine Krøger, Dagbladet (Terningkast 5)

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER"Don't start a Freida McFadden book late at night. You won't be able to put it down!"¿ Natalie Barelli, bestselling author of UnforgivableTwo women. An office filled with secrets. One terrible crime that can't be taken back.Dawn Schiff is strange.At least, everyone thinks so at Vixed, the nutritional supplement company where Dawn works as an accountant. She never says the right thing. She has no friends. And she is always at her desk at precisely 8:45 a.m.So when Dawn doesn't show up to the office one morning, her coworker Natalie Farrell¿beautiful, popular, top sales rep five years running¿is surprised. Then she receives an unsettling, anonymous phone call that changes everything¿It turns out Dawn wasn't just an awkward outsider¿she was being targeted by someone close. And now Natalie is irrevocably tied to Dawn as she finds herself caught in a twisted game of cat and mouse that leaves her wondering: who's the real victim?But one thing is incredibly clear: somebody hated Dawn Schiff. Enough to kill.The Coworker is a tense, unputdownable thriller from New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden that explores the dark ways the past can echo through the present¿with deadly consequences.

Advokaten Martin Benner elsker antikviteter. Da hans venn Henry Schiller dør, får han et tilbud han ikke kan si nei til; å overta Henrys andel i en antikvitetsbutikk i New York. Men lykken blir kortvarig. Samtidig som Martin blir oppsøkt av en mann som hevder at Henry ble drept, skjønner han at han blir overvåket. Noen lusker rundt huset hans om natten og etterlater fotspor i snøen. Martin tvinges inn i en heseblesende jakt på sannheten om Henry. For hvem var han egentlig? Og hva hendte den dagen han døde? Henrys hemmelighet er en spennende og intrikat kriminalroman om hvordan spor fra fortiden ikke kan viskes bort. Det er også en fortelling om familielojalitet og samhold. Det er den tredje boken om advokat Martin Benner, en frittstående fortsettelse av Lotus blues og Mios blues.

After being sold into service to the emperor, whose consorts and serving women live in a sprawling complex known as the hougong, Maomao, an unassuming girl raised by her apothecary father makes the most of life with her curiosity and extensive knowledge of medicine.