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When poor little New Hampshire rich girl Mindy Hollis gets lost in Los Angeles, her big sister hires private detective Ed Traynor to find her. Traynor and Hollis's security chief, Jack McMahon, take off for Tinseltown to track down the aspiring actress - but they discover the only part she ever got was the one that killed her. Their hunt for her killers takes them from the bowels of Mexico City to the glitz of Los Angeles, north to the set of The Black Orchid in Vancouver, and then back again to Hollywood, where the angels are dying.

Chesterton's allegorical masterpiece is a surreal, psychologically thrilling novel that centres on seven anarchists in turn of the century London who call themselves by the names of days of the week. The story begins when poet Gabriel Syme is recruited as a detective to a secret anarchist division of Scotland Yard by a shrouded, nameless person. Syme infiltrates a secret meeting of anarchists who are intent on destroying the world and becomes known as 'Thursday', one of the seven members of the Central Anarchist Council.

When a sniper kills four people on Boston Common, Boston homicide detective Mike Houston and his partner Anne Bouchard are sent to investigate the case. Amidst the blood and terror, Houston discovers similarities, likenesses the killer’s positioning, his choice of victims, and his code of ethics between the crime scene and his own training as a US Marine scout and sniper. And with the staging of the scene set for prime shock value, Houston has to wonder what it is this murderer intends to accomplish.

"Deve essere difficile per il vero colpevole sfuggire alle vostre investigazioni. Può non aver lasciato alcuna traccia materiale, ma voi cercate invece quelle morali e finite per trovarlo". Di Scerbanenco colpisce, soprattutto nei cinque gialli della serie con Arthur Jelling, il miscuglio di realismo e fantastico, di logica investigativa e psicologia. Un insieme che, ben amalgamato, dà ai suoi polizieschi una vaga atmosfera da cruda fiaba. L'effetto fiabesco è marcato dalla singolarità del timidissimo investigatore, dotato di una profondità psicologica da veggente.

Per contagiare l'ascoltatore, a Scerbanenco bastano pochi tratti. Già la presentazione iniziale, secca e lapidaria, degli Steve, i "filosofi", e del loro "antro", è sufficiente a rendere inevitabile il crimine. Il giallo si preannuncia subito come il dramma del fanatismo e delle sue conseguenze fatali.Sono quattro gli Steve, cultori teorici e pratici di scienze morali, vivono monacalmente in una squallida villetta di periferia, l'antro dei filosofi.

Kimberly è bella, bionda e famme fatale. È la donna di Mirko Sladek, uomo di fiducia del boss La Cocca, che controlla lo spaccio sulla costa Ovest degli Stati Uniti. Durante una compravendita di droga, la ragazza scompare con una valigia piena di eroina. Da chi e perché scappa Kimberly? Dal suo amante? Dalla vita criminale che conduceva?Tra tradimenti e morti ammazzati, Kimberly fuggirà da Los Angeles a Cremona, inseguita dai sicari della malavita americana e dalla polizia italiana. Alla fine, la sua fuga sarà stata solo un azzardo?

Joe è un ex marine e un ex agente dell'FBI che ha visto troppe scene del crimine e conosciuto troppi traumi, e non solo nella sua vita professionale. Solitario e tormentato, ha scelto di essere invisibile: non ha amici o amanti e passa la sua vita a salvare giovani ragazze finite nelle grinfie mortali del sesso a pagamento.

It's time to finish what he started... A young girl is snatched in broad daylight from outside her school and later found brutally murdered and hanging from a tree. When recently retired San Francisco Police Inspector, Bob Farrell, sees this on the news, he realises his worst nightmare has just come true. The same brutal killer a government agency stopped him from putting away twenty years before is once more on the loose....

Born and raised in Chicago, Detective John Lynch might just be about to die there too. Because one dark secret might be about to tear a whole city apart. A pious old woman steps out of the Sacred Heart confessional and is shot dead by a sniper with what at first appears to be a miraculous and impossible shot. Colonel Tech Weaver dispatches a team from Langley to put the shooter and anyone else who gets in the way in a bodybag before half a century of national secrets are revealed.

In Burning Midnight, master of the hard-boiled detective novel Loren D. Estleman gives readers a hot new Amos Walker mystery. Amos Walker knows Detroit, from the highest to the lowest, and that includes the gangs of Mexican town. When a friend asks Walker to get his son's brother-in-law out of one of two feuding gangs, Walker gets in trouble fast. First, dead bodies start to pile up; then come suspicious fires and the bottle bombs. Walker is caught in the middle of a gang war. Whether or not a middle-aged gringo like him can cool things off between the Maldados and the Zapatistas, he's got to try; he did promise his friend.

Aurelio Zen returns to his native Venice to investigate the disappearance of a rich American resident but he soon learns that, amid the hazy light and shifting waters of the lagoon, nothing is what it seems. As Zen is drawn deeper into the complex and ambiguous mysteries surrounding the discovery of a skeletal corpse on an ossuary island in the north lagoon, he is also forced to confront a series of disturbing revelations about his own life.

The second wacky comedic murder romp for Hollywood film detective Valentino. Valentino wants to keep The Oracle, his beloved run-down movie palace, from being condemned before it even reopens, but murder keeps intruding into his otherwise quiet life. At a gala party held in memory of screen legend Greta Garbo, he's having fun until the host, a hotshot developer named Rankin, tells Valentino about a certain letter from Garbo to his late wife. She and Garbo had been...close. Such a letter is of great interest to a film archivist like Valentino. But the plot thickens when Rankin tells Val that his assistant, Akers, is using this letter to blackmail him.

DCI Mark Lapslie suffers from a rare neurological condition that ‘cross-wires’ his senses. The sickening clamour of sounds he can taste has smothered his marriage and stifled his career...and it’s getting worse. His colleagues have written him off as a drunk – or worse – and Lapslie has quarantined himself in an isolated Essex cottage. Carl Whittley has got his own problems to deal with too: he’s just tortured a minor TV celebrity to death and blown an apparently anonymous commuter to pieces.

All his life, for almost as far back as he could remember, Victor had had a phobia. In prison, inevitably, he reflected on the grotesque way it had begun, about the panics and violent anger. He asked himself, too, why the child of happily married, middle-class parents should have needed to make motiveless and unreasoning attacks on women. Holed up in that house with the girl, he had not meant to pull the trigger. It was panic.

Back in 1964, tragedy struck when Peter Redburn and his friends were playing together. Now an adult, Peter has never been able to escape his feelings of guilt. A funeral forces him to confront the rivalries and secrets of the past.

Andrew Taylor's Roth Trilogy has just been made in to a three-part TV adaptation for ITV called Fallen Angel.
It is 1970. David Byfield, a widowed parish priest with a dark past, brings home a new wife to Roth. Soon the murders and blasphemies begin. But does the responsibility lie in the present or the past? And can Byfield, a prisoner of his own passion, break through to the truth before the final tragedy destroys what he most cherishes?

Die Leiche des Malers Felix Brandner liegt blutüberströmt in seinem Atelier. Eine besondere Tragödie, da erst vor sechs Monaten seine Frau einem Mörder zum Opfer gefallen ist, der nie gefasst wurde. Die Kommissare Speer und Bogner ermitteln im Umfeld des Verstorbenen und stoßen auf zahlreiche Verdächtige. Doch dann wird erneut eine Frau ermordet und der Täter lässt ihren Ehemann gefoltert und entstellt neben ihrer Leiche zurück.

Il Marinachiara è uno degli alberghi più importanti di Rocca Tirrenica, rinomato centro turistico della costa toscana. Ed è stato anche l’ultimo lavoro di cui si è occupato l’architetto Serpieri, prima di perdere la vita in un tragico incidente stradale. Così, quando dopo un anno la vedova Cristina ritrova tra le cose appartenute al marito una borsa con ventimila euro in contanti, ecco che Dante Baldini, ex poliziotto ora investigatore privato, viene chiamato a scoprire l’origine di quei soldi e il motivo per cui erano nascosti.

Geheimnisvoll, düster, wendungsreich – ein literarisches Spannungs-Highlight Die geheimnisumwitterte Künstlerin Vanessa Chapman ist schon lange tot, doch ihre Werke sind berühmter denn je und werden in den renommiertesten Häusern ausgestellt.

Dante Baldini è un investigatore privato. Ex poliziotto, si è lasciato alle spalle la sua vita da sbirro per rintanarsi in una casa sul mare, a Rocca Tirrenica. Si muove tra il mondo dorato delle frequentazioni illustri del posto e il mondo sommerso che popola il “dietro le quinte” della città. A lui si rivolge uno studio legale che vuole vederci chiaro sulla morte di Bianca Cataldi, la moglie di un importante affarista. Qualcuno l’ha uccisa nella pineta dietro al Daphne, uno degli stabilimenti balneari più esclusivi della zona.