Haarlem, a characteristic city on the river Het Spaarne, is plagued by an unknown perpetrator, who brings great fear to the city and sows death and destruction. The entire city, and all its inhabitants, are in danger, but knowledge about where and how the danger lurks remains unknown for a long time. Everything begins on King's Day, in the market square in the centre of the city, where the annual fair takes place. A complete chaos in the market square marks the beginning of a weeks-long state...

'Maybe it was time I forgot about Nico Peterson, and his sister, and the Cahuilla Club, and Clare Cavendish. Clare? The rest would be easy to put out of my mind, but not the black-eyed blonde . . .'It is the early 1950s. In Los Angeles, Private Detective Philip Marlowe is as restless and lonely as ever, and business is a little slow. Then a new client arrives: young, beautiful, and expensively dressed, Clare Cavendish wants Marlowe to find her former lover, a man named Nico Peterson.Soon Marl...

A Swedish crime writer as thrilling as Mankell, a detective as compelling as Wallander . . .

HÃ¥kan Nesser's astonishingly successful Van Veeteren series continues with the eighth book, The Weeping Girl. Winnie Maas died because she changed her mind . .

. A community is left reeling after a teacher – Arnold Maager – is convicted of murdering his female pupil Winnie Maas. It seems the girl had been pregnant with Maager's child.

Years later, on her eighteenth birthday, Maager's ...

DE COCK EN DE KUS DES DOODS is deel 94 in de 'De Cock'-serie van Baantjer, rondom rechercheur De Cock van Bureau Warmoesstraat in Amsterdam.

Als Joyce Degenaar vermoord wordt aangetroffen, staat De Cock voor een raadsel. Wie zou deze geliefde en bekende Amsterdamse hebben willen vermoorden? Zij was actief in haar buurt en betrokken bij de Voedselbank. Daarnaast was ze ook lijsttrekker van Ons Mooi Amsterdam, een partij die zitting heeft in de gemeentepolitiek.

De aandacht van De Cock richt zic...

Marian and her sister Laura live a quiet life under their uncle's guardianship until Laura's marriage to Sir Percival Glyde. Sir Percival is a man of many secrets. Hence, Marian and the girls' drawing master, Walter, have to turn detective in order to work out what is going on, and to protect Laura from a fatal plot.

THE FIRST BODY IS A MYSTERY. And her corpse, laid out in the office of Boston medical examiner Kat Novak, betrays no secrets - except for a matchbook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers scrawled inside. And Kat's chief suspect is one of the town's most prominent citizens.THE FINAL BODY . . .

In Een studie in rood & andere vroege zaken maken we kennis met een jonge Sherlock Holmes en zien we hoe zijn legendarische samenwerking met Dr. Watson ontstaat. Holmes leert ons dat de waarheid zelden ligt in wat iedereen al weet - maar juist in wat iedereen over het hoofd ziet. Klassiek, meeslepend en nog altijd verrassend actueel.

In Een schandaal in Bohemen & andere klassieke zaken verdiept Sherlock Holmes zich in duisteregeheimen achter gesloten deuren, diplomatiekeintriges en mysterieuze gebeurtenissen inogenschijnlijk keurige huizen. Scherpzinnigonthult hij keer op keer wat anderen niet zien.Iconisch en onweerstaanbaar: Holmes op z'n best.

In A Sicilian Romance (1790) Ann Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror and poetic description that would make her the great exemplar of the Gothic novel, and the idol of the Romantics. This early novel explores the cavernous landscapes and labyrinthine passages of Sicily's castles and convents to reveal the shameful secrets of its all-powerful aristocracy.