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Hailed by Salman Rushdie as a "brilliantly innovative thriller-writer," Philip Kerr is the creator of taut, gripping, noir-tinged mysteries that are nothing short of spellbinding. In this second book of the Berlin Noir trilogy, The Pale Criminal brings back Bernie Gunther, an ex-policeman who...

Una apasionante historia de crímenes y enigmas y, a la vez, una farsa burlesca y una sátira moral y social «En aquella época me entretenía leer novelas policíacas. Acababa de leer una de Ross McDonald cuyo nombre no recuerdo, y tuve el capricho de seguir sus pasos a mi manera, más como un...

PREMIO NACIONAL DE LAS LETRAS«De todos los personajes, Bruna Husky es el más cercano a mí en un sentido muy íntimo», Rosa Montero. Independiente, poco sociable, intuitiva y poderosa, la detective replicante Bruna Husky sólo tiene un punto vulnerable: su gran corazón. Cuando el inspector...

"Narrator Euan Morton's gravelly voice and Australian accent embody Ted...His excellent pacing and gripping delivery maintain tension." — AudioFile Magazine on Crimson Lake #1 New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author Candice Fox delivers a compulsive new crime thriller with Gone by...

She's defending one man, but thousands of lives could be riding on the case's outcome. No pressure. In the second installment of the Cadence Elliott Legal Thriller Series, a tech entrepreneur is murdered and Cadence steps in to defend the accused. Her client is a homeless man named Brandon...

"The Adventure of the Three Gables" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, collected as one of 12 in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in The Strand Magazine in 1926 as a serial. The story begins with a visit to 221B Baker Street from Steve Dixie, a black man and a cowardly ruffian who warns Sherlock Holmes to keep away from Harrow.

Where power and greed collide, one attorney fights for justice in the shadows of the nation's capital. In The Lawyer's Heart, the highly anticipated third book in the Cadence Elliott legal thriller series, DC's sharpest defense attorney is back and ready for her toughest case yet. Tasked with...

'Fresh, pacey, and exciting! You’ll be racing to the finish at breakneck speed!' L C North Run for your life... This morning I woke up to flowers - they should be well wishes for my big race but I know they’re not. They’re from him. He shouldn’t be here. He shouldn’t even be in the...

Police officer Sebastian Clifford never planned on becoming a private investigator. But when a scandal leads to the disbandment of his London based special squad, he finds himself out of a job. That is, until his cousin calls on him to investigate her husband’s high-profile death, and prove that it wasn’t a suicide. Clifford’s reluctant to get involved, but the more he digs, the more evidence he finds. With his ability to remember everything he's ever seen, he's the perfect person to untangle the layers of deceit.

Ellery Queen returned to Wrightsville to solve the mystery of a rich man - believed poor - who died of "old age," a poor man - believed rich - who committed suicide, and a scholarly drunk who disappeared. Shortly it occurred to Queen that the puzzle had a pattern. A twisted mind was committing murder according to an old nursery rhyme! Doctor, lawyer, merchant, chief…and to at least one person in town, the chief was Ellery Queen.

In this gripping adventure - the first V.I. Warshawski mystery - America’s top private eye is tossed into a dangerous adventure when a seemingly straightforward assignment becomes complicated and deadly. Hired by a man who calls himself John Thayer, V.I.’s assignment is to find Thayer’s son Peter’s missing girlfriend. But when V.I. finds young Peter’s dead body instead, her client disappears.

There's a body beneath the skip bins. Fae on the forklift. A vampire in the manager's office. And there's definitely something skeevy going on in the locker rooms. Hi. I'm Pet. Well, not exactly Pet. I am a pet. I was meant to stay out of it, but somebody's gotta do something when humans are being killed by Behindkind creatures. 

When you get up in the morning, the last thing you expect to see is a murdered guy hanging outside your window. Things like that tend to draw the attention of the local police, and when you're squatting in your parents' old house until you can afford to buy it, another thing you can't afford is the attention of the cops. Oh yeah. Hi. My name is Pet. It's not my real name, but it's the only one you're getting. 

Tinker's Cove is abuzz with excitement when Norah, the queen of daytime TV, comes to town and selects Lucy and her pals to be featured in her "Women Who Make a Difference" episode. In recognition for their charitable work, the ladies and their husbands are awarded a dream vacation in Paris, complete with classes at Le Cooking School with renowned pastry chef Larry Bruneau. But their bon voyage is cut short when Lucy discovers the chef in a pool of blood on the second day of class.

It is the autumn of 1880, and Dr. John Watson has just returned from Afghanistan. Badly injured and desperate to forget a nightmarish expedition that left him doubting his sanity, Watson is close to destitution when he meets the extraordinary Sherlock Holmes, who is investigating a series of deaths in the Shadwell district of London. Several bodies have been found, the victims appearing to have starved to death over the course of several weeks, and yet they were reported alive and well mere days before.

Victor a disparu. Tous les mercredis depuis le divorce, l'enfant est raccompagné par son père chez sa mère. Il aime prendre l'ascenseur tout seul et, par jeu, il appuie sur les boutons, s'arrêtant sur chaque palier avant d'atteindre celui de sa mère, au dernier étage. Mais, ce jour-là, la porte s'ouvre sur une cabine vide. C'est ce qu'essaient de comprendre la commissaire Jeanne Péroni et la capitaine Pauline Brézulier, amies et collègues complices qui vont avoir treize jours pour tenter par tous les moyens de retrouver Victor.

Italy. 1950. Private detective Jack Broderick arrives on the Amalfi Coast expecting sun and celebrity. Instead, he finds himself drawn into a labyrinth of murder, corruption and dangerous secrets that reach from the glamorous world of Hollywood to the highest levels of post war Italy. As powerful families, organised crime and American studio executives all fight to protect their interests in this coastal community, Jack discovers that every answer leads to another body. Trust is a luxury he cannot afford, and the truth may cost him everything.

London, 1882. American agents Henry and Johanna McClellan need the help of the World’s End Bureau to find Bruno Schmidt, a cunning lecturer who cajoled a young American woman called Ava into eloping to Europe. Now Ava’s father wants her back. Though the McClellans have followed the missing pair’s trail to London, they can’t find their way around the busy city without help. PI duo Lily and Felix accept the case and soon discover a promising clue regarding Bruno and Ava’s whereabouts.

Wer mit einem Killer verheiratet war, hat einen guten Blick fürs Böse … Kalifornien 1966: Auf den ersten Blick sind Margo, Bev und Elsie gewöhnliche Freundinnen – doch gewöhnlich ist nichts, seit ihre Männer als eiskalte Serienmörder überführt wurden und sich das Auge der Öffentlichkeit erbarmungslos auch auf sie richtet. Wie kann es sein, dass sie nichts von den Abgründen ahnten? Als das Böse nun, Jahre später, erneut zuschlägt und mehrere Frauen brutal ermordet werden, setzen die drei alles daran, den Täter zur Strecke zu bringen.

The A.A. Western Detective Agency rides into Galveston in 1894 Texas, a city of elegant Victorian mansions and dark waterfront secrets, when a wealthy businessman burns to death in his own warehouse under far-too-convenient circumstances. With Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer on the case, Old Red's obsession with Sherlock Holmes is finally put to the ultimate test. Their client's household is crawling with suspects: a brilliant female scientist, an eccentric would-be snake-oil salesman, a volatile socialite, and a charismatic "healer" whose devoted followers will do anything she demands.