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The concluding Hammer novel begins with a 21st-century funeral before flashing back to summer, 1973. Nine years after the events of Dig Two Graves, Hammer takes another unlikely vacation—this time on Long Island to help look after his partner Velda Sterling’s seventeen-year-old sibling, Mikki. When Mikki gets hooked on heroin, Hammer—filled with contempt for dope dealers—goes on a rampage. He will find those behind the drug racket and teach them what shooting up is all about.

Helen Appleby just wants a quiet life. Recently released from prison for the manslaughter of her partner, she's trying to forget her past mistakes—all of them—to rebuild her life and move on. When she decides to open a bookshop, she’s certain this is the perfect new start. Here, amongst the quiet shelves of her shop and between the covers of her books, she can hide away from the real world and begin again. But the past can never stay hidden…

She needed a boxman; she chose me. The best. She was a torch singer with a voice like an angel and a face like the girl next door. But a dark secret haunts her past, threatening her life. She hired me to fix that secret. To kill it. But killing a secret can sometimes become lethal. And that simple in and out job…nothing but catastrophe. Smoke Gets in My Eyes, a vintage noir mystery

戦地において友軍への誤爆という罪を犯した男――ディムズデイル=ボイルド。

Sheriff Elven Hallie is a shell of himself. He’s lost everything. His house, his Jeep, his girl. But most of all, his reputation. When an entire library full of people is massacred, Elven is forced to pull himself together to catch the killer. To make matters worse, it’s election time, and this go around, Elven’s not running unopposed. Zane Rhodes is highly respected in the community. A business owner, involved in the church, and has the backing of the governor.

Il ritrovamento di un cadavere e la scomparsa di due pescatori sconvolgono Catania. Qual è il mistero che collega i due casi? La notte stessa in cui Luigi e Giovanni Cannizzo svaniscono nel mare, i coniugi Mariolina e Manfredi ritrovano un corpo tumefatto sul bagnasciuga della spiaggia. Questo è solo l'inizio di una serratissima indagine... Un mistero inspiegabile, che terrà le esistenze di tanti appese a un esile filo.

The stockbroker and psychopath Christopher Silfverbielke has no scruples, he is cunning, manipulative and takes what he wants, be it money, drugs or life. Hans Ecker is Christopher's best - and perhaps only - friend. On the verge of a serious relationship with Veronica, but not ready to let go...

A little old lady turns vigilante on the streets of London in this gritty, witty crime thriller. Gloria Jones has had enough. She's sixty-five, approaching retirement, and nearing the end of her tether. When someone flings away a gun in her local park, it ends up in Gloria's hands and changes...

Madrid, estate 1962. Mentre la Spagna soffoca sotto il pugno di ferro del generalissimo Francisco Franco, le morti misteriose di alcuni bambini vengono archiviate troppo in fretta. L’ispettore Florentino Abedes non è convinto della versione ufficiale: per lui, a colpire è un imprendibile infanticida. Uomo di destra, ma dai valori non negoziabili, Abedes crede a un’idea di giustizia spesso in contrasto con la legge applicata dai funzionari del regime. Così, non ci pensa due volte a coinvolgere nell’inchiesta Camilo Blanco, professore di filologia.

Ben Weaver relocated to a small desert town to escape his past failures. But not everyone is happy with Ben’s arrival. When a young girl vanishes from her bedroom the morning of the town’s famous Harvest Moon Festival, Ben uncovers an unsettling legend dating back to the town’s inception. With the local’s distrust of outsiders, Ben will discover how dangerous this sleepy desert town can be.

A Milano, nei pressi di Lambrate, viene assassinato l'ennesimo extracomunitario. Semplice resa dei conti o vero e proprio crimine d'odio? La giovane Layla vuole sapere la verità su suo marito, un richiedente asilo barbaramente ucciso. Fra depistaggi e falsi indizi, questa volta il commissario Lorenzi avrà bisogno di aiuto per far emergere l'inquientante verità. Parola-chiave: memoria.

Diana’s work on the Southside Restoration has progressed to the point that only the vagrant situation is holding things back–and suddenly, they start disappearing from the streets. The unusually mild winter has resulted in an equally unusual number of homeless deaths. Jimmy’s curiosity discovers more oddities than coincidence could explain, and suspicions that Diana might be involved.

Agent J seems to be everywhere and at every point in time. And who really is Natasha? A series of seemingly unconnected clues, that are found in what appear to be disjointed cliff-hanger vignettes, lead you deeper in a world where science, religion, peculiarities, absurd humor, historical twists, and conundrums collide and blend into a strange porridge. This collection of short, noir detective-ish stories builds the foundation of the Agent J universe. As author JT Dwyer puts it, "You are holding in your hands what may be the most extraordinary and unorthodox book I have ever encountered."

Private detective Tracer Spence is being stalked by the song "You're So Vain," hearing it every day for a year. When he's hired by a man with the same problem, Spence realizes that his case is connected to another that he's working on-that of a kidnapped sister. In the process of solving both mysteries, Spence uncovers violent henchmen, a Mick Jagger doppelganger, and man-eating shadow creatures.

Frontenac is a corrupt city of vice, sin, and murder. On a rainy day (but what day isn't rainy in that industrial wasteland?) an underage prostitute and a rookie cop are murdered. No one cares. No one lifts a finger. Killebrew cares. Recently returned from the big war overseas, Killebrew has learned a few skills, like how to break things and kill people. He is now determined to use his knowledge to remove anything and anyone standing between him and justice for his kid sister.

Chicago, 1987. Home of mediocre baseball teams, gangs that rule the streets, and a Mexican drug cartel that supplies the city with heroin. Chicago Police Detective Marcelle DeSantis and her partner, Bernie Bernardelli, are working a series of heroin-related murders, and their job just got more complicated. The man who sabotaged the Vietnam operation, Robert Thornton, is now the chief enforcer for a Southeast Asian heroin cartel, and after fifteen years overseas he's arrived in Chicago to eliminate the reigning cartel and seize control of the city's heroin trade.

それでも、この世界で生きる。バロットは壮絶な闘いを経て、科学技術発祥の地"楽園"を訪れ、シェルの犯罪を裏付けるデータが、カジノに保管された4つの100万ドルチップ内にあることを知る。

Dirk De Graaf has kept his deadly secret for twenty-three years. Not one person on the planet knows. Until today. A chance encounter in the street threatens to expose everything and topple an empire he built with little more than ruthless cunning. But it's just one man. One old man. And one old man can be dealt with easily enough. Or so Dirk De Graaf thinks.

When the body of a homeless man is discovered on Southend seafront, wedged between the beach huts of Thorpe Bay, the people of Essex don’t raise an eyebrow. But when the post-mortem reveals the identity to be that of local MP, Herbert Tucker, the town begins to sit up.

In the shadows of Canyon Park, attorney Samuel Ross confronts his greatest case yet—one where justice can't be found in a courtroom. Still haunted by personal tragedy, he reluctantly joins a memorial hiking trip that transforms into a nightmare of deception and human trafficking. Samuel must evolve from calculating lawyer to determined warrior, discovering that redemption sometimes requires more than logic—it demands courage.