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Forty years ago, on a sweltering summer evening in southern Ohio, seven-year-old Michael Adkins vanished into thin air. Two years later, in the dead of winter, his case long gone cold, Michael's remains were found in a well-searched area, just one hundred yards from where he disappeared. The discovery provided no answers, only more questions. Last week, Michael's now elderly mother walked into Detective Jake Cashen's office with a tantalizing clue that just arrived on her doorstep. A handwritten letter filled with chilling details only someone close to the decades-old crime could know.

Nicola Fischer ist die Tochter des berüchtigten Ellicott Creek Ripper – und für alle in ihrem Heimatort genauso schuldig wie ihr Vater. Freunde, Job, Ruf: Nach und nach verliert sie alles. Nur Greer Woods scheint sie zu verstehen. Sie ist erfolgreiche Anwältin, gefeierte True-Crime-TV-Ikone – und selbst die Tochter eines Serienkillers. Doch ihre Freundschaft endet, als Greers TV-Show andeutet, Nicola könnte ihrem Vater geholfen haben.

The stories were about sex. They ended with murder. A woman is murdered. The truth is buried. And the people responsible believe they’ll never be exposed. Frances Neagley knows better. Following a trail of carefully protected secrets, Neagley uncovers a chilling connection that turns an ordinary investigation into a race against an unseen enemy. One who believes punishment is justified—and permanent.

Eine junge Frau wählt einen qualvollen Suizid – ein erschütternder Fall, der die Grenzen des Vorstellbaren sprengt. Paul Wagner, ein Priester, und die Privatermittlerin und Ex-Polizistin Anne Steinbach werden beauftragt, dem rätselhaften Fall gemeinsam auf den Grund zu gehen. Kaum, dass das ungleiche Duo die Untersuchungen aufnimmt, überschlagen sich die Ereignisse. Die beiden Ermittler sind nun die Gejagten und befinden sich in akuter Lebensgefahr.

En una ciudad pequeña donde se ocultan muchos secretos, la misteriosa muerte de una chica sacará a la luz las más desgarradoras verdades Una joven es encontrada sin vida en la ciudad costera de La Línea de la Concepción. ¿Suicidio, homicidio o accidente? Olivia, una brillante psicóloga...

Die schockierende Wahrheit über ihre Vergangenheit erschüttert Anna Greenwoods Welt in ihren Grundfesten und stellt alles in Frage, was sie über ihr Leben zu wissen glaubte. Die Informationen, die sie entdeckt, veranlassen sie dazu, einen Mann in einer einflussreichen Position, der durch seinen Status geschützt zu sein scheint, zur Rechenschaft zu ziehen. Annas Bemühungen scheinen jedoch vergeblich zu sein – bis Hilfe von unerwarteter Seite kommt. Annas Reise bringt sie an den Rand einer Tragödie und führt letztendlich beinahe zu ihrem Tod – und dem Tod einer anderen unschuldigen Frau.

JOYLAND is a whodunit noir crime novel and a haunting ghost story set in the world of an amusement park. It tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a 'carny' in small-town North Carolina and has to confront the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a...

When Anaïs de Froissart calls Parisian private investigator Aimée begging for help, Aimée assumes the woman wants to hire her to do surveillance on her philandering politician husband again. Aimée is too busy right now to indulge her. But Anaïs insists Aimée must come, that she is in...

Introduction by George Easter, Editor and Publisher of Deadly Pleasures Magazine Legendary LA sleuth Jack Liffey is back, and facing down a changing world, when his brazen daughter Maeve enlists him to help find Benjy—a gay social justice activist gone missing. Meanwhile, a needless act of...

A deadly and mysterious case pushes a Swedish detective squad to its limit in this novel from "a very exciting new voice from the north" (Ragnar Jónasson). Dawn, Stockholm's Hammarby neighborhood. A naked young woman is spotted by the side of the road. Later, she shows up outside piano...

A classic California noir with a feminist twist, this prescient 1947 novel exposed misogyny in post-World War II American society, making it far ahead of its time. Los Angeles in the late 1940s is a city of promise and prosperity, but not for former fighter pilot Dix Steele. To his mind nothing...

War doesn’t always start with a gunshot… sometimes it starts with betrayal. In Southside Kings II: The Outside War, the pressure is heavier, the moves are deadlier, and the cost of loyalty is higher than ever. What once felt controlled is now spiraling, and every decision carries consequences that can’t be undone.

YOU CAN’T KEEP A GOOD WOMAN DOWN Revenge waits patiently for the wicked. In Cork, the young female employees of the glamorous cosmetics counter at Green Matthews are too scared to report what happens during their ‘training sessions’ with the wealthy owner. But when two of them vanish and...

Martina Monroe knows some cases leave scars that never heal. After a year that nearly destroyed her life and threatened her family, she’s sworn off anything that could pull her back into danger. That is, until a desperate and heartbroken father walks into her office. His twenty-three-year-old daughter, Lena, is missing. The police are stalled, and he believes time is running out. Martina tries to hand the case to another investigator, but the father refuses to give up.

In the hallowed city of Tours, the death of a sixteen-year-old dressed as an 'Immortal Knight' appears to be a tragic overdose. Juge d'instruction Matthieu Lombard is called in to investigate. When, weeks later, a provocative author is found brutally murdered, Lombard suspects the two deaths are connected by a sinister, coercive force. As he digs deeper, the case begins to challenge his loyalties and unearth disturbing echoes from his own past. What started as apparent roleplay turns into something far darker — and far deadlier.

DESCUBRE A YRSA, PREMIO BEST NOVEL VLNEGRA 2025. «La reina islandesa de la novela negra.» The Guardian MÁS DE 5.000.000 DE LECTORES. En 2006, un grupo de niños entierra una cápsula del tiempo en una escuela islandesa. Diez años después, esa cápsula es desenterrada, junto con una carta...

“LeeAnne James’s latest kidnapping thriller is a tragic exploration of evil borne of ignorance.” –Cam Torrens, award-winning author of the Tyler Zahn series When Sergeant Steve “Mac” MacIntosh interviews a young victim of kidnap and rape, he’s appalled. She came forward to say she’d been kidnapped by an older man wearing glasses. He held her captive in a damp and dark underground bunker for over a year and raped her daily. Even more disturbing, he appeared to think he was treating her well!

While searching for a wayward music student, PI Wendy Winkworth is assaulted by a savage police sergeant. Escaping bruised and battered, she seeks refuge with two low-life teens who seem headed for tragedy. With the vengeful cop in hot pursuit, Wendy is about to learn what truth and justice really mean.

‘An utterly terrifying, yet believable chiller.’ Daily Mirror To open this cage is to unleash a monster . . . Detective Phil Brennan is called to a derelict house on the edge of Colchester. The place looks empty. But someone still visits after dark. Detective Phil treads the rotten stairs...

Une attaque sanglante. Une enfant disparue. Un tueur prêt à tout. L’inspectrice Louise Blackwell peine encore à se remettre du meurtre de son frère Paul lorsqu’elle est rappelée de force en service. Sa nouvelle affaire semble d’abord étrange : des moutons retrouvés massacrés dans...