Shadows

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Arne Dahl

When a Swedish literary critic is found tortured to death in a closet at Newark International Airport, the police realize that the murderer made off with the victim's ticket and boarded a flight to Stockholm. With no clear motive in sight, Detectives Paul Hjelm and Kerstin Holm of Intercrime's A-Unit learn that the method of torture used was not only a highly specialized means of extracting information secretly developed during the Vietnam War-- allowing the victim to whisper, but not to scream-- but also that it was the modus operandi of an allegedly deceased homicidal maniac known only as the Kentucky Killer.

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Pauline Bell

A straightforward case of hit-and-run? Or is there a more sinister reason behind the death of womanizer and wheeler-dealer Donald Markey? The only witness to the fatal accident is Virginia Mitchell, wife of DCI Benedict Mitchell, and she is adamant the driver hit the victim intentionally. Mitchell trusts the instincts of his wife more than the ruling of his superintendent who decides that despite the unpopularity of Donald Markey, his death doesn’t merit the status of a murder enquiry. So flying in the face of authority, in typically impulsive and ebullient fashion, Mitchell determines to solve the crime to his satisfaction – and the satisfaction of his demanding superintendent.

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Patrick A. Davis

Retired Air Force investigator Martin Collins is called in when Colonel Margaret Wildman and her two young children are found brutally slain, and as he wades through a morass of clues, he uncovers a deadly conspiracy leading to the highest levels of the government and the military and links between the victims and a series of fatal airline crashes.

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Judith Cutler

Fran is preparing for her forthcoming wedding to Assistant Chief Constable Mark Turner, but renovations at the rectory they plan to move into are disrupted by the discovery of a skeleton buried in the vegetable patch. As investigations into its identity progress, it's also clear that Mark's two grown-up children are less than ecstatic at the prospect of their father's forthcoming nuptials. In fact, at least one of them seems to be behaving very strangely indeed.