When Detective Inspector Bill Reid is found murdered in the tranquil grounds of the St Peter’s Police Treatment Centre, and compromising photographs are discovered in his room, DCI Banks is called in to investigate. Because of the possibility of police corruption, he is assigned an officer from Professional Standards, Inspector Joanna Passero, to work closely with him, and he soon finds himself and his methods under scrutiny.It emerges that Reid’s murder may be linked to the disappearance of an English girl called Rachel Hewitt, in Tallinn, Estonia, six years earlier. The deeper Banks looks into the old case, the more he begins to feel that he has to solve the mystery of Rachel’s disappearance before he can solve Reid’s murder, though Inspector Passero has a different agenda. When Banks and Passero travel to Tallinn to track down leads in the dark, cobbled alleys of the city’s Old Town, it soon become clear that that someone doesn’t want the past stirred up.Meanwhile, DI Annie Cabbot, just back at work after a serious injury, is following up leads in Eastvale. Her investigations take her to the heart of a migrant labour scam involving a corrupt staffing agency and a loan shark who preys on the poorest members of society. As the action shifts back and forth between Tallinn and Eastvale, it soon becomes clear that crimes are linked in more ways than Banks imagined, and that solving them may put even more lives in jeopardy.

Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks investigates the chilling case of Brenda Scupham, a welfare mother who unwittingly hands her seven-year-old daughter, Gemma, over to child abductors claiming to be social workers.

Thomas Lynley ermittelt wieder! Nach Wochen der Einsamkeit fernab von London kehrt Thomas Lynley in die City zurück. Als Isabelle Ardery, eine Kollegin aus vergangenen Tagen, ihn um Unterstützung bei einem komplizierten Mordfall bittet, zögert er nur kurz – und tut ihr den Gefallen. Während Ardery im Laufe der Ermittlungen zusehends ins Kreuzfeuer der Kritik gerät, besinnt Lynley sich seiner früheren Stärken. Und seiner genialen Ermittlungspartnerin Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers …

An einem frühen Dezembermorgen wird Guy Brouard — Millionär, Mäzen und Frauenheld — ermordet an einem Strand der englischen Kanalinsel Guernsey aufgefunden. Verdächtige und Motive gibt es mehr als genug. Nur die junge Amerikanerin China River hat keines. Doch alle Indizien weisen ausgerechnet auf sie. China hatte ihren Bruder aus Kalifornien nach Guernsey begleitet, um Guy Brouard die Architekturpläne für ein von ihm gestiftetes Museum zum Gedenken an die deutsche Besatzung der Insel im Zweiten Weltkrieg zu übergeben. Eine andere Verbindung existiert augenscheinlich nicht.Simon St. James, engster Vertrauter von Chief Inspector Thomas Lynley, reist mit seiner Frau Deborah auf die winterliche Kanalinsel, um die Unschuld von China, einer alten Freundin Deborahs, nachzuweisen. Doch je tiefer sie in die verschworene Inselgemeinschaft eintauchen, desto mehr Personen entdecken sie, die dem wohltätigen Mitbürger Guy Brouard alles andere als freundschaftliche Gefühle entgegenbringen — und die auf irgendeine Weise in den Mord verstrickt sind: seine Exfrau, sein Sohn, seine Geliebte, seine Schwester, seine jugendlichen Schützlinge, der tragisch ausgebootete einheimische Architekt. Liegen die Motive in Brouards undurchsichtiger Vergangenheit? Oder reichen sie zurück bis in Guernseys wechselvolle Geschichte?

In a remote countryside lane in North Yorkshire, the body of a young girl is found, bruised and beaten, having apparently been thrown from a moving vehicle.While DI Annie Cabbot investigates the circumstances in which a 14-year-old could possibly fall victim to such a crime, newly promoted Detective Superintendent Alan Banks is faced with a similar task — but the case Banks must investigate is as cold as they come.Fifty years ago Linda Palmer was attacked by celebrity entertainer Danny Caxton, yet no investigation ever took place. Now Caxton stands accused at the centre of a historical abuse investigation and it’s Banks’s first task as superintendent to find out the truth.While Annie struggles with a controversial case threatening to cause uproar in the local community, Banks must piece together decades-old evidence, and as each steps closer to uncovering the truth, they’ll unearth secrets much darker than they ever could have guessed...

**#1 *New York Times* bestselling author Lisa Gardner unites three of her most beloved characters--Detective D. D. Warren, Flora Dane, and Kimberly Quincy--in a twisty new thriller, as they investigate a mysterious murder from the past . . . that points to a dangerous and chilling present-day crime.**

FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy and Sergeant Detective D D Warren have built a task force to follow the digital bread crumbs left behind by deceased serial kidnapper Jacob Ness. When a disturbing piece of evidence is discovered in the hills of Georgia, they bring Flora Dane and true-crime savant Keith Edgar to a small town where something seems to be deeply wrong. What at first looks like a Gothic eeriness soon hardens into something much more sinister . . . and they discover that for all the evil Jacob committed while alive, his worst secret is still to be revealed. Quincy and DD must summon their considerable skills and experience to crack the most disturbing...

Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns — it’s all in a day’s work for Lieutenant Dave Klein, Los Angeles Police Department. Trained as a lawyer in school, schooled as a strongarm on the street, bought and paid for by the mob, there’s nothing he’s not into and nobody’s better at any of it. But In the fall of 1958, when the Feds announce a full-out investigation into police corruption, everything goes haywire.

Suddenly, the game Klein thought he was running has a new set of rules — and they’re not his. He’s been hung out as bait, “a bad cop to draw the heat,” and the heat's coming from all sides: from local politicians, from LAPD brass, from racketeers and drug kingpins — all of them hell-bent on keeping their own dirty secrets hidden. For Klein, “forty-two and going on dead,” it’s dues time.

And it’s Klein who tells his own story — his voice clipped and sharp and as brutal as the events he’s describing — taking us with him on a hellish Journey through a world shaped by monstrous ambition, greed, and perversion. It’s a world he helped create, but now he’ll do anything to get out of it alive...

Fierce, riveting, and honed to a razor-edge, White Jazz is crime fiction at its most shattering, and the most explosive novel yet from James Ellroy.