International Mystery & Crime

Steph spent months planning her perfect birthday celebration. Five days in an idyllic setting with her best friends. Long lazy lunches, crisp white wine by the pool and a climb up the beautiful Mont Ventoux. She couldn't wait. They’ve been there for each other through the good times and the bad. This was the break everyone needed. After their first night partying, they begin their hike. But as the lavender-scented air turns acrid from local wildfires, fierce winds whip up smoke–and tensions in the group. They become separated.

Playboy Roger Carr is handsome, wealthy, and connected. As an occasional lawyer, he’s the right man to send to the French Riviera to secure a villa for an important client. It’s the perfect assignment, complete with fast cars and fast women, until strange things begin to happen and Roger realizes that someone is trying to kill him.

Nathan Tyler ist ein unscheinbarer Mathematikprofessor, der sich ausschließlich der Welt der Zahlen verschrieben hat. Bis ihn eines Tages das Weiße Haus kontaktiert. Bei einer streng geheimen Besprechung erfährt er, dass er eine kryptische Kette von Gleichungen entschlüsseln soll, die möglicherweise das Passwort zum Zugang zu den russischen Nuklearcodes für eine Raketenanlage ist. Alles, was er tun muss, ist, ein Treffen mit dem renommierten russischen Mathematiker zu erreichen, der sie erstellt hat.

Acireale is a coastal town on the southern slopes of Mount Etna in Sicily, facing out towards the Ionian Sea. Nearby are the seaside towns of Acitrezza and Acicastello that look out upon the three great sea stacks that, legend has it, were the great rocks hurled at Odysseus by the monstrous Cyclops. Twenty kilometres away lies the city of Catania, with its baroque historic centre and altogether grittier suburbs. It's an area of extraordinary natural beauty, rich in folklore, which also just happens to have some of the best food in Italy. It might also be a good place for a murder. . .

On a hot midsummer day in the Surrey countryside, close friends Kristin, Vee, Bibi and Hailey are celebrating their Ladies' Team victory at the exclusive Royal Oaks Tennis Club. But when their oh-so-charming coach, Jeremy, collapses after tucking into a carefully decorated sponge cake, it seems the season isn't just ending with a championship trophy—but with a murder.

Eighteen-year-old Jean is stuck. She works in a dead-end job, her life dictated by the whims of her uncaring father, and no boy has ever even noticed her. So, when the glamorous racing driver Vivienne and her rakish husband Robert invite her to travel to Greece with them as a navigator for the summer, she jumps at the chance. Riding around with the fastest woman in Europe, sampling endless local ouzo, and dancing late into the night at the hottest parties has given Jean a taste of a life she could only have dreamed of . . .

A past she ran from. A killer she can't escape. Four years ago, forensic psychologist Dr. Chrissy Ferguson locked the door of her family home in Kinloch Rannoch and walked away from everything she knew. She told herself the visions weren’t real. The flashes of a young girl’s murder. The scream. The blood. But she could never explain them. And she never forgot. Now, another girl has been found—brutally killed in a way that mirrors the horrors Chrissy believed were only in her mind.

Retired diplomat Sam Hough boards a transatlantic flight to Paris after making a seemingly innocent promise to find the five-year-old son of a dying friend, a son the friend has never known. With only the thinnest of clues, Sam quickly realizes that those who agree to help him soon disappear, those who don’t disappear refuse to help him, and still others want to kill him rather than help find the boy. Clearly there are things his friend neglected to tell him. But what did he leave out—and why?

I Surray e i loro cinque figli sono famosi scrittori. Dopo una serata con editori e artisti nella loro casa di campagna dell'Oxfordshire, Ruth, la figlia di mezzo, viene trovata morta nella sua camera, apparentemente suicida. Ma una lettera postuma della stessa defunta recapitata al fratello Richard scombina le carte...

When Sir Reginald Sinclair, one of Britain's greatest actors, is found dead at his country estate along with his housekeeper and the local vicar, the pressure is on Detective Inspector Malcolm Goode and his team to solve the case quickly. But with very few clues and no obvious suspects, the investigation just seems to uncover the many secrets hidden away by the Sinclair family. With every new line of inquiry leading to another dead end and no motive to be found, finding a solution seems impossible.

The Digital Echo is a gripping crime thriller set in the Northeast of England, focusing on the complex dynamics of a missing persons case. The narrative begins with Detective Mortimer Grimshaw, a stoic and enigmatic new addition to the Washington Constabulary, paired with the vibrant and empathetic Sergeant Chloe Harper. Their partnership is forged while investigating the mysterious disappearance of Molly Reid, a 14-year-old girl caught between societal expectations and her quest for identity.

Carol Bruce presents a must-listen for fans of mystery and sleuths.

Several years after a bitter retirement from the Air Force, former fighter pilot Colin Pearce has found a second career: flying Gulfstream and Falcon business jets as a daily contractor. Between the constant travel and his extensive single-malt Scotch whiskey collection, he manages to keep the demons of his past where they belong. It’s a lucrative, solitary existence and that’s the way he likes it. But then he takes a phone call while making a connection in the Atlanta airport and his life changes forever.

In Tragedy at Ravensthorpe, Chief Constable Sir Clinton Driffield arrives at the Ravensthorpe estate just in time for an opulent 1920s masquerade—but behind the silk masks and champagne toasts, danger simmers. A mysterious figure is stalking the halls, family tensions threaten to erupt, and whispers of local folklore—including the enigmatic “Fairy Houses”—haunt the estate grounds.

For nine years, Calvin Thorne was an elite agent for an international crime-fighting agency known as O.P.U.S. (Organization for the Pursuit of Untouchable Syndicates). After being betrayed by his superiors and tricked into assassinating an innocent man, he resigns and apparently vanishes from the face of the earth. Two years later, O.P.U.S. is attempting to erase the connections tying the agency to the illegally contracted murder, and the only agent who knows what really happened is Calvin Thorne.

When a high-ranking U.S. Embassy official is violently murdered in Beijing, seasoned security officer Jack Decker is reluctantly dragged back into action to unravel the mystery. Teaming up with Zheng Lei, a prodigious Beijing police officer, Jack delves deep into the investigation, uncovering a startling link between the murders and the disappearance of Liang Wei, a business tycoon who publicly opposed China's Central Bank Digital Currency before vanishing into thin air.

This is not just fiction, it’s a reflection of a true international scandal that fractured diplomatic relations between Thailand and Saudi Arabia for over 30 years. Salem Saleem masterfully weaves fact and fiction into a razor-sharp narrative filled with tense interrogations, political gamesmanship, and moral reckoning.

Baker Somerset was a Scotland Yard Detective sent to Ottawa to help solve a brutal kidnapping case. After the suspect put four bullets in her, she decided to stay in Ottawa and open her own detective agency. One morning, the body of a British diplomat is found at her office door. Hunting his killer, she learns the murder is tied to the kidnapping that brought her to Canada, and in the process, she unearths bribery, fraud, and illegal activity in the military arms and equipment industry.

Herrmann "Zeke" Walter's life is falling apart. His father has just died and he has lost his job hosting a hunting show called Zeke Hunts the Big Boys. When he finds a package of letters from his grandfather among his father's belongings, he embarks on a journey to discover his ancestry. What initially starts as a simple mid-life rediscovery, quickly turns into a Pandora's box of murder and secret societies.

Im lauschigen Küstenort Kristinestad wird die Leiche des siebzehnjährigen Jonas gefunden. Schnell wird klar, dass er ermordet wurde. Journalistin Eevi Manner macht sich sofort an die Recherche. Dabei trifft sie auf Kriminalkommissar Mats Bergholm, ihre Jugendliebe aus Schultagen.

Meet Riel Brava. Attractive. Razor-sharp. Ambitious. And something much more. Riel, raised in Santa Barbara, California, has been transplanted to Nova Scotia where he is CEO of the Canadian Cannabis Corporation. It’s business as usual until Riel finds his world hanging by a thread. Actually, several threads. It doesn’t take the police long to determine all is not as it appears—and that includes Riel himself. Pulled into a world not of his making, Riel resists the hunt to catch a killer. Resistance is futile.

Monique Chavez, an international traveler and socialite familiar with the upper echelon in the business world and the upper crust and their dealings, is surrounded by strangers she thought she knew, so-called friends in "her" world. As the world's stage's curtain is lifted, she discovers none of them were her friends, none of them were the people they appeared to be.

A perilous journey. A secret worth killing for. A reluctant hero caught in the middle. Hugh Upton never sought adventure—yet adventure found him. Tasked with delivering a secret formula across the treacherous Himalayan mountains, he quickly realizes he is not the only one after it. Pursued by ruthless enemies, facing deadly landscapes, Hugh must navigate a world where trust is scarce and betrayal is inevitable.

Frija Larsson lebt mit ihrer sechzehnjährigen Tochter Sara abgeschieden in der idyllischen Gemeinde Svanberga am Erken-See in Schweden. Ihr ganzes Leben ist geprägt von einem unerschütterlichen Beschützerinstinkt. Sie tut alles dafür, um Sara vor den Gefahren der Welt fernzuhalten. Doch dann passiert das Unfassbare: Sara verschwindet spurlos. Kriminalkommissar Jacob Hedlund, ein alter Freund von Frija, übernimmt den Fall und setzt alles daran, das Mädchen zu finden.

Siete mujeres. Un pasado que las une. Un viaje que lo cambiará todo. Desde que un escritor se presentó en su domicilio, interesado en los sucesos que ocurrieron hace veinte años durante un viaje que su madre, Julia, hizo a Egipto, Lucía no ha dejado de hacerse preguntas: «¿Por qué mi madre me habrá mentido? ¿Estará relacionado con lo que la prensa llamó La Tragedia del Nilo? ¿Será Egipto la clave?». En aquel entonces, el azar llevó a Julia y a seis mujeres de cierta edad a embarcarse en un crucero por el Nilo.