Tante Poldi ist sauer: Zuerst wird ihr das Wasser abgestellt, dann auch noch der Hund ihrer Freundin um die Ecke gebracht. Ihre Ermittlungen führen sie zum Winzer Avola. Leider ist der nicht nur verdächtig, sondern auch äußerst attraktiv - und Poldi stellt nach einer heißen Nacht ihre Nachforschungen ein. Stattdessen steht am nächsten Morgen die Polizei vor Avolas Tür: Zwischen seinen Reben wurde die Leiche der Wahrsagerin Madame Sahara gefunden. Commissario Montana ist alles andere als erfreut, dass Poldi Avola ein Alibi geben kann. Außerdem bleibt die Frage: Wer hat die Wahrsagerin getötet - und warum?
Zwei mysteriöse Bombenattentate bereiten Commissario Montalbano ebenso Kopfzerbrechen wie seine neuen Nachbarn in Marinella: Liliana Lombardo kreuzt beinahe jeden seiner Wege, ihr Ehemann ist nie zu sehen. Weitere mafiöse Vorfälle und nächtliche Rendezvous der Signora mit dubiosen Galanen lassen einen Zusammenhang mit den Attentaten erahnen. Außerdem scheint jemand geschickt falsche Fährten zu legen, sodass Montalbano sich irgendwann an das mörderische Labyrinth in Orson Welles? Film Die Lady von Shanghai erinnert fühlt-
Die Special Agents Jeremiah Cotton und Philippa Decker werden nach Wien gerufen. Ihr Auftrag: Sie sollen einen wichtigen Zeugen sicher in die USA zurückgeleiten. Der Mann ist kein geringerer als Marek Kompowski, der ehemalige Buchhalter eines Mafiabosses, gegen den das FBI schon seit Jahren erfolglos ermittelt.
Doch plötzlich verlangt Kompowski für seine Aussage eine Gegenleistung. Cotton und Decker sollen seinen entführten Sohn finden. Für die beiden Agents beginnt ein tödlicher Tanz auf blutigem Parkett ...
COTTON RELOADED ist das Remake der erfolgreichen Kultserie und erscheint monatlich in abgeschlossenen Folgen als E-Book und Audio-Download. Die nächste Folge erscheint am 09.06.2016.
Austin J. Small (1894-1929) was a popular British mystery and thriller writer who was published in the United Kingdom under the pseudonym 'Seamark'.
'The Man they couldn't Arrest' - written in 1925 - is a fast paced thriller about Valman Dain, an inventor who (amongst numerous other intriguing gadgets) develops a mechanism for eavesdropping on conversations using the telephone network. Using this technology, Dain sets about tracking down and identifying the various criminal gangs which are plaguing London and sending anonymous tip-offs to Scotland Yard. The hitch is that Scotland Yard is convinced that only a master criminal himself could gather this much information about the gangs... and they focus their attention on finding the anonymous tipster. The criminal gangs too are soon hot on Dain's heels, when he accidently gives his identity away to one of them. But Dain's problems are about to get much worse. He discovers that one of the gang leaders is Willard Lyle, the father of Mercia Lyle - the girl he hopes to marry. And Willard Lyle is on his way to Dain's house with murder in mind...
Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But will the SAS survive a nightmare journey into the tunnel lair of the Viet Cong?
June 1966: 3 Squadron SAS (Australian Special Air Service) set up a Forward Operating Base in Vietnam's Phuoc Tuy province, a swampy hell of jungle and paddy-fields forty-five miles east of Saigon in the heart of enemy territory. The Viet Cong have bases throughout the jungle, and the Australians soon find themselves under constant attack.Enter three members of the legendary 22 SAS, to assist in a major assault against the Viet Cong: Sergeant Jimmy 'Jimbo' Ashman, founding member of the Regiment; Sergeant Richard 'Dead-eye Dick' Parker, veteran of previous SAS operations in Malaya, Borneo and Aden; and Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick 'Paddy' Callaghan, pulled out of administration specially for this secret mission.
Working under appalling conditions, Brits and Aussies must try to forge themselves into a potent fighting machine, as they have been tasked with the fearsome job of rooting the Viet Cong out of their labyrinthine tunnel system. It will be a journey into hell, and some will never return.
Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But will the SAS be able to storm a terrorist stronghold in the mountains of Pakistan?
For Captain Don Headley of the SAS, the police anti-terrorist exercise on the outskirts of Heathrow Airport was to have been just another training job. But in the grey suburban sprawl on the edge of London another, far more sinister plot is about to unfold, a plot that sees him dispatched on a hostage-rescue mission to the Indian subcontinent.
Under the patronage of inscrutable Intelligence chief Sir Anthony Briggs, the operation reunites him with some of the hardest troopers from Hereford, for only such a hand-picked team is capable of storming a terrorist stronghold in the mountains of Pakistan. And only the very best will have a chance of coming back alive.Central to the mission is the mysterious Mr Sanji. It is at the cost of precious lives that Don and his men will learn the horrific secret of this world-weary old man - and understand that the roots of the kidnap plot lie buried in the dying days of the British Raj.
The DI Sean Corrigan Short Story Collection includes four short stories from Luke Delaney's terrifyingly authentic DI Sean Corrigan series: REDEMPTION OF THE DEAD, THE NETWORK, THE RAIN KILLER and AN IMPERFECT KILLING.REDEMPTION OF THE DEAD1993.
The Parkside Rapist has been terrorising the women of South London, and Detective Chief Superintendent Charlie Bannan is in need of a secret weapon if he's going to catch this particular monster.When fresh-faced PC Sean Corrigan is transferred to join the team, Bannan immediately spots his potential. Soon Sean will find himself exploring the scars his own dark past has left him in the race to help his new mentor catch their quarry before he goes on to commit more, and worse crimes...THE NETWORK
Early in his career as a Detective, Corrigan is approached for an undercover assignment. He must take on the identity of a prison inmate and befriend a suspected paedophile, then infiltrate an early internet child abuse ring. Can he tap into his dark side for long enough to uncover the identities of the abusers without serious harm to himself?
THE RAIN KILLERFive women have been murdered. All prostitutes. All with dark, straight hair. Snatched from the shadows of London's red-light districts, their mutilated bodies left out in the pouring rain. Enter DS Sean Corrigan. He's been drafted in to assist the Streatham Police Department - much to the displeasure of the existing DI. But Corrigan has no time for petty squabbles - he has one mission only: find the one they call 'The Reaper', even if it means entering the dark and twisted mind of a cold-hearted killer.
AN IMPERFECT KILLING Sue Evans is a beautiful and successful TV presenter - that is until she's shot dead in the car park of her Southbank studios. DS Sean Corrigan and the Southwark Police Department are under pressure to solve the crime fast. Luckily they don't have far to look - turns out Sue Evans had a stalker and all the evidence points to him.But Corrigan is not so sure - some things just aren't adding up. With everyone convinced it's case closed, he must take a risk to get to the truth. But can he be sure it'll pay off?
Dr. John Watson and Sherlock Holmes meet and set up their lodgings at 221B Baker St. Over the course of several weeks, the good doctor finally persuades his mysterious roommate to reveal what exactly is his occupation. It seems that Sherlock Holmes is a self-proclaimed consulting detective. And as incredible as it sounds, the facts prove it to be true.
A Study in Scarlet is the first Sherlock Holmes story/novella. Also included is the Edgar Allan Poe story: 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', generally considered the very first detective story. In this audiobook you get a firsthand glimpse into the very roots of detective fiction.
Defending a client accused of killing her father, attorney Paul Madriani is drawn into a treacherous conspiracy dating to World War II in this enthralling installment in the New York Times bestselling series. Paul Madriani and Harry Hinds have a new client: Emma Brauer, a woman accused in the "mercy killing" of her aged father, Robert Brauer. Insisting she's innocent, Emma tells Paul about a package sent to her father shortly before he entered the hospital. Bequeathed to him by a member of his unit from World War II, the box contains a key and a slip of paper. Emma fears that this package is connected to her father's death. When Paul's young assistant Sofia is murdered, Madriani is blindsided by the realization that Emma's fears are well-grounded. Digging into Robert's military history, Madriani discovers that other members of the Army unit Robert served with have recently died, under similarly suspicious circumstances. When he finds that the box sent to Brauer relates to a mysterious talisman that went missing at the end of the war, a feared Nazi relic known as the "Blood Flag", Madriani and Hinds realize they are in for the fight of their lives. With Emma's life on the line and their own safety in jeopardy, Madriani must uncover the truth before the evil of the Blood Flag is allowed to spin a new web.
Halloween. In der amerikanischen Kleinstadt Ashburg gibt es dieses Jahr eine große Party. Geladen wird ins Sherwood- Haus. Ein ganz besonderes Haus. Vor vielen Jahren ist dort eine Familie bestialisch ermordet worden. Seitdem wird es gemieden. Doch trotz dieser finsteren Vorboten öffnen sich am Abend die Tore. Das blutige Spiel beginnt ...
Schöner sterben im Ammertal
In Peiting ist Hollywood ausgebrochen, und die Marktgemeinde ist gespalten: Die einen sehen sich schon als neue Stars, die anderen wettern gegen die dummen Bayernklischees. Als Leo Lang, glühender Verehrer des Films, erwürgt aufgefunden wird und teures Equipment verschwunden ist, beginnt Kommissar Gerhard Weinzierl zu ermitteln. War es wirklich ein Raubmord oder steckt doch mehr dahinter? Was er entdeckt, erschüttert die sonst so liebliche Bayernidylle ...
When Bobbie Cheldon falls in love with a pretty young dancer at the Frozen Fang night club, he has every hope of an idyllic marriage. But Nancy has more worldly ideas about her future: she is attracted not so much to Bobbie as to the fortune he expects to inherit. Bobbie's miserly uncle Massy stands between him and happiness: he will not relinquish the ten thousand a year on which Nancy's hopes rest. When Bobbie falls under the sway of the roguish Nosey Ruslin, the stage is set for murder in the heart of Piccadilly - and for Nancy's dreams to be realised. When Chief Inspector Wake enters the scene, he uncovers a tangled web, a cynical Soho underworld, and a motive for murder.
