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Twenty-nine-year-old Cynthia Galbraith is serving a life sentence for murder, and struggling with the traumatic past that put her behind bars. When the prison counsellor suggests Cynthia write a personal journal exploring the events that drove her to murder, she figures she has all the time in the world and very little, if anything, to lose. So she begins to write, revealing the secrets that haunt her and the truths she’s never dared tell.

In una Genova definita da uno dei protagonisti impalpabile e perennemente distratta, la famiglia Sperlinghi viene sconvolta dallo stupro della figlia minore Michelle. Il padre, l'ingegner Giorgio, erede di una delle dinastie più influenti e facoltose della città, aiutato dal suo uomo di fiducia Gualtiero, scatena la caccia ai colpevoli. Sospetta che i mandanti siano da ricercare tra gli imprenditori rivali nei traffici internazionali, interessati a sottrargli il lucroso commercio delle Terre Rare.

Lavagna, estate 1998. Pietro Farné è un giovane maresciallo dei carabinieri, fresco di nomina, incaricato di una strana missione: sorvegliare un'anziana turista di origine tedesca, Frau Gertrud Stingel, e la sua accompagnatrice, Viviana Prestigiacomo. Un compito apparentemente noioso, ma al quale si interessano addirittura i servizi segreti. Mistral Garlet, invece, è una studentessa universitaria, che si è concessa qualche giorno di vacanza perché sente l'esigenza di riflettere sul proprio futuro.

One frightened blonde, eight chorus girls, a singer and three strippers... Hundreds of rancorous Reenactors itching to fight the Civil War all over again... Harry Horne hot on the trail of a stolen million somewhere on the battlefield.... A dozen big-city mobsters with .45s in Civil War regalia hot on Harry’s trail... It’s a recipe for excitement, sex, and lots of action.

P.I. Jack "Keeper" Marconi understands the criminal mind. And he knows what it takes to break a man. His own life came apart the day a black Buick broadsided his car—and his wife died horrifically in the seat beside him. Years later, on the eve of his second marriage, Marconi catches a split-second glimpse of the driver who killed his wife. Suddenly hurtled back into the past, he is determined to take one last shot at hunting him down. That is, until he is offered a job he can't refuse: to bust a beautiful woman out of a hellish Mexican prison.

Ten years ago, Seven House was found guilty of a heinous crime, the murder of a fellow police officer. After his surprising release, House attempts to track down who framed him, uncovering a shocking revelation about his old police department.

A friendly poker game leads Henry Swann out to Hollywood where he tries to find the man, Rusty Jacobs, responsible for embezzling $1,000,000 from his client, and then bring back the dough. Swann finds Jacobs, but the mercurial wannabe film producer is involved in a "surefire" movie project aimed at the growing Christian market. And the money? Well, it seems to have vanished into thin air.

Lars Harding travels to Boston to help a man. However, he learns right away that this man is missing, and no one, including the police, want him found.

Someone sank a luxury yacht in Newport, Rhode Island. No one seems interested in solving the mystery except the man wrongly accused of doing it.

When a young woman who calls herself Suzie Q. approaches Luke to find her missing cat, Luke takes the job and winds up getting hold of a Magic 8 Ball that correctly predicts the future and answers any question, so long as it has nothing to do with lotto picks or love.

Faithless Street is a collection of four short stories that set the scene for the novel Old Gold, the first book in the Eoin Miller Trilogy. Each story is set in the Black Country, in the English Midlands, and shows glimpses of people's lives as they try to make ends meet amidst gang life, drugs deals, and Roma camp evictions.

DI Paul Riddick is a man tormented by his own actions and determined to right the wrongs of his past any way he can. But when his instincts lead him to follow a child he believes to be in danger, Riddick gets in deeper than he ever imagined...especially when the child is found dead. DCI Emma Gardner doesn’t believe Riddick has blood on his hands, but he’s off the case until she can clear his name. If she can clear his name. Because Riddick seems determined to chase ghosts that only get him into more trouble.

Når man er Jack Reacher, er sandheden altid værd at rejse langt for. Gerrardsville, Colorado. Én tragisk hændelse. To øjenvidner. To modstridende beskrivelser. Det ene vidne ser en kvinde kaste sig ud foran en bus – det er tydeligvis selvmord. Det andet vidne er Jack Reacher. Og han ser, hvad der i virkeligheden sker – en mand i grå hættetrøje og jeans, hurtig og tyst som en skygge, skubber offeret i døden for derefter at tage hendes taske og komme væk.

Mød kriminalassistent George Cross, opdageren fra Bristol, outsidernes, de hjemløses, de stemmeløses forsvarer. Endnu en britisk krimi du ikke må gå glip af. Kriminalassistent George Cross kan være uhøflig, vanskelig og akavet over for folk. Men hans aldrig svigtende logik og hans stædige jagt på sandheden gør at han er den i politistyrken der har flest domfældelser bag sig. Så da hans kolleger affejer en mands død som resultatet af et skænderi blandt Bristols hjemløse, er Cross ikke overbevist.

Der erste Tote wird mit einem brennenden Reifen um den Hals gefunden, es gibt außerdem Anzeichen einer Strangulierung sowie diverse Stichwunden. Zur gleichen Zeit hinterlässt jemand kleine Knochenbündel vor Detective Inspector Logan McRaes Tür, die dieser jedoch ignoriert. Als eine weitere Leiche gefunden wird, zeigt sich eine Verbindung zwischen den Morden und der Handlung eines Bestsellers um Hexen und Hexenjäger, der gerade in Aberdeen verfilmt wird. Und plötzlich erweisen sich auch die Knochenbündel als weit weniger harmlos, als McRae dachte.

Raymond Mackey is a struggling crime writer. His friends call him Mack. But friends are in short supply these days. Mack’s 30 years as a homicide detective came to the kind of abrupt, ignominious end that tends to make friends dry up and blow away. It matters little that Mack was never actually a mole working for a shadowy, seemingly omnipresent mob boss. Somehow, the evidence was there anyway, and the scandal ended everything for him overnight.

If you've ever heard “A Scandal in Bohemia” and wondered what Watson's allusion to “Mr. John Hare” means, aren't sure who was in charge in southeast Asia when Mycroft Holmes mentions “the present state of Siam", or you’re wondering about Watson’s portrait of General Gordon, Holmes’s Vernet relatives, or what Scottish expert on poisons Scotland Yard consulted when the Baker Street duo weren’t available–this is your book.

Mariangelo mastica amaro. Il cadavere di padre Giovanni Rossi, noto alle cronache per i suoi affari con la malavita locale e l'accoglienza dei migranti, viene trovato nella piscina della sua lussuosa villa. Mentre le alte sfere ecclesiastiche chiedono una rapida risoluzione del caso, il maresciallo Mariangelo e il brigadiere Fascia si fanno largo tra prostituzione, mafia, traffico di migranti e un progetto di accoglienza per orfani. Finiranno in una fiaba nera come la notte più buia, un inferno dal quale non vi è uscita e le nefandezze umane sono lame nel costato dei giusti.

Milano, marzo 2020. Anche il vivace quartiere di Porta Venezia cambia volto, dopo le disposizioni governative che invitano la popolazione a restare chiusa in casa. Le strade si svuotano, le convivenze forzate mettono a dura prova i rapporti di coppia e le persone faticano a imparare le regole per contrastare il nuovo virus. Con le saracinesche dei negozi che si abbassano, solo la vecchia e bizzarra magliaia Delia rimane arroccata nel suo laboratorio di via Lecco. Il momento è difficile per tutti.

Im New Yorker Schwarzenviertel Harlem ist ein Koffer voller Goldstücke das Ziel eines erbitterten Kampfes zwischen Schurken, Ganoven und Betrügern aller Art. In diesem scheinbaren Goldrausch wissen alle Beteiligten genau, dass die Baren gefälscht sind, aber dass man sie für einen großen Betrug gut gebrauchen könnte. Ed Sarg und Joe Grave Digger stellen Ermittlungen an. Sie glauben, an ihrem Ziel zu sein, als sie auf die Leiche einer Nonne stoßen, die in Wirklichkeit ein Transvestit war. Und was weiß die hübsche Imabelle wirklich über die ganze Angelegenheit? Der Fall wird immer komplizierter und mitten drinnen ein Mann namens Jackson.