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Il commissario Enzo Fellini, già protagonista di "Giallo veneziano" (2019), è incaricato dal questore Badalamenti di un nuovo, delicatissimo caso. In una gondola, infatti, è stato ritrovato il cadavere di Gudrun Kessler, una soprano tedesca stabilitasi da tempo nella città lagunare. Scontrandosi con l'ossessione del questore per l'opinione pubblica, oltre che con un imprevisto flirt, Fellini si immerge in un'indagine che ben presto assume toni decisamente allarmanti: chi è il Superuomo (come l'assassino stesso ama firmarsi)?

Durante il capodanno del 1964, al commissariato di Siracusa, l'agente Camurro riceve una telefonata inquietante: è la signorina Russo che dichiara di aver visto tre uomini uccidere Antonio Passanisi, proprietario del ristorante "La spada blu". Arrivato sul posto, il commissario Paolo Portanova si trova al cospetto di una scena del crimine del tutto inedita. Il cadavere di Passanisi è scomparso e con lui anche la più piccola traccia del colpevole. Una porta chiusa a chiave, nel retrobottega, farà da perno alla vicenda e sarà causa di guai neri.

"Nel cuore del centro storico" è la prima avventura del giornalista Matteo De Foresta, nato dalla fantasia di Menini nel 2015. In una Genova ombrosa, perfetta scenografia per un romanzo noir dai contorni nostalgici, De Foresta conduce un'esistenza tutto sommato ordinaria, fra i contraccolpi emotivi di un matrimonio naufragato e le partitelle a calcetto con gli amici.

When a photo she took ends up splashed across a sleazy tabloid, Tootsie launches into an investigation to figure out who leaked it. Pounding the pavement, she follows the leads to a seedy massage parlor. One step inside and she knows something isn’t right.

A city united in grief. A journalist ready to kill to keep his secrets. A copper capable of darker deeds than murderers. An unworldly detective fighting to save an innocent man. Newly appointed DS McAvoy is an outsider to his new force and must confront his darkest fears, while hunting a killer that nobody else believes in. In a landscape at once tender and brutal, McAvoy must tread the path between the darkness and the light, before facing an enemy who will brand him for life.

When 22-year-old Candy goes missing on a popular hiking trail, suspicion falls on her recently paroled ex-boyfriend. It was Candy's testimony that got him put away...and now he's after revenge. The ensuing manhunt leads Savage and his team into the unforgiving Colorado mountains, where avoiding the wild animals are the least of their worries. Just when they think they've got their man, a new development spins the case on its head. Who was Candy really running from? And are they still after her?

After the murder of a high-flying executive in one of Tokyo’s wealth management firms, Detective Hiroshi finds himself investigating the financial schemes that secure the money of Tokyo’s elite investors. His forensic accounting gets sidetracked, though, by a second murder and the abduction of two girls from the home of a hotshot wealth manager.

1947. Thomas Armstrong, a young Marine, returns home from the war in the Pacific. He hopes to forget the terrifying experience and pursue his dream of becoming a Hollywood screenwriter. But when a gang of escaped convicts led by sociopath Dimitri Smalls hijacks the bus he's on, Thomas instinctually becomes a machine of war. He thwarts the killers in a bloody melee but finds himself the target of Smalls, now thirsty for revenge.

Eli Hagin can’t finish anything. He hates his job, but can’t seem to quit. He doesn’t want to be with his girlfriend, but doesn’t know how end things with her, either. Eli wants to write a novel, but he’s never taken a story beyond the first chapter. Eli also has trouble separating reality from fiction. When his best friend kills himself, Eli is motivated, for the first time in his life, to finally end something himself, just as Mike did. Except sessions with his therapist suggest that Eli’s most recent ‘first chapters’ are not as fictitious as he had intended.

Erma Johnson lives in a rough part of Baltimore. Gangs are a fact of life. She lost her daughter and grandson to their violence. She's convinced, however, that her grandson wasn't in a gang. Hacker turned private investigator C.T. Ferguson takes her case. The more he looks around, the more he thinks she's right.

1963. Luccicano le luci di Roma al tempo della Dolce Vita. Lampeggiano i flash delle macchine fotografiche tra le mani svelte e nervose dei paparazzi, gli scandali sono l'altro nome della mondanità. Nei caffè si tira tardi, il sogno più bello è quello che si sogna insieme. Sogna anche una ragazza tedesca: ha ventitré anni, si chiama Greta e vuole fare l'attrice. Finché, un giorno di maggio, viene trovata uccisa a coltellate in un palazzo nei dintorni di via Veneto. Sotto la superficie abbagliante della capitale, infatti, si nascondono gli abissi.

Trasferito dalla Campania a un paesino dell'entroterra sardo, il maresciallo Dioguardi intuisce subito che Bonela è diversa dagli altri posti dove ha vissuto. C'è un ermetismo quasi mistico che isola la cittadina dal resto del mondo: figure imperscrutabili, uomini e donne vestiti in nero compongono una comunità sospesa nel tempo. Così, leggende e paure serpeggiano tra le case, voci di personaggi oscuri che si nascondono dietro la luminosità delle istituzioni.

Nevada's attorney general is missing. At dusk on a deserted Nevada highway in a thunderstorm, ex-IRS agent and PI-in-training Mortimer Angel comes across a pretty, scantily clad girl—Harper Leland. She's cold and alone, 30 miles from the nearest town.

Sex, money, murder: it ain’t pretty. But it’s my life. My name is Art Zeffer. After being canned by Chicago PD on a cooked-up corruption rap, I hung out my shingle as a PI. Then she walked into my office. And everything changed. You see, I used to spend my days catching love rats and round-heeled dames two-timing their lawfully wedded spouses. It wasn’t a bad life. Barring the occasional half-assed beating from an enraged husband and the full-a--ed kind from a bottle of Wild Turkey, I got along okay.

Lieutenant Peter Bank's Narcotics Unit hit a house looking for dope. What they found was a prototype rifle and a congressman’s son moonlighting as the criminal elite. The paperwork on the arrest isn’t even finished before an army of politicos a come down on Banks and his unit like a thousand-year flood. Everyone wants to make the arrest of a prominent politician’s kid go away, even Bank’s own chief. Normally that wouldn’t be a problem. Most cops follow orders from the chief, most cops have a stake in their career.

Er ist schlau, er ist unsichtbar, er ist böse... Das Profiler-Team, das während einer teambildenden Maßnahme auf der "Norwave" reist, wird von der bitteren Realität eingeholt. Beim ersten Landausflug in Bergen entdeckt ihr Chef Thorsten Büthe in seiner Jackentasche eine mysteriöse Botschaft. Jemand hat eine Szene gezeichnet. Vorsichtig interpretiert könnte es sich dabei um einen Leichenfundort handeln. Aber seine Kollegen lachen ihn aus, denn der Papierfetzen ist mit "Troll" signiert.

Und er kennt all deine Sünden... Henry Kilmer ermittelt in einem düsteren Serienmordfall. Eine brutal zugerichtete Leiche taucht im Fluss auf: Die Kehle wurde durchgeschnitten und ein seltsames Zeichen befindet sich auf der Haut. Während Kommissarin Linda Liedke von einer Treibgutverletzung ausgeht, ist ihr neuer Kollege Henry Kilmer sicher, dass das Zeichen eine Bedeutung haben muss und ein Serien-Killer die Stadt heimsucht. Als eine weitere Leiche auftaucht, scheint sich sein Verdacht zu bestätigen, und den Ermittlern rennt die Zeit davon.

Wenn Wut die Kontrolle übernimmt. Von einem, der auszog, um dich das Fürchten zu lehren. Der Weg eines unschuldigen Kindes zum rechtsradikalen Mörder: vorbestimmt oder frei gewählt? Leo ist ein unschuldiges Kindergartenkind – Leo ist ein rechtsradikaler Mörder. Sein Hass hat einen Ursprung: Leos Vater. Denn der weiß ganz genau, wie sein Sohn zu sein hat: als Kind gehorsam und ordentlich, als Erwachsener autoritär und angesehen. Leos Mutter steht daneben und fängt die Schläge ab, bevor sie Leo treffen. Aus ihr macht das eine gebrochene Frau. Und aus Leo?

Auf einen Nachtclub, den queere Partyleute gerne besuchen, wird ein Anschlag verübt. Ein Fanatiker, der sich in einem Bekennervideo als "Abgesandter" bezeichnet, hat Handgranaten in den Nachtclub geworfen. Fünf Menschen werden getötet und viele schwer verletzt. Kommissar Henrik Oksman von der Kripo in Pori übernimmt die Ermittlungen. Oksman war kurz vor dem Anschlag jedoch auch in dem Club - wovon niemand etwas wissen darf. Der Anschlag sorgt für große mediale Aufmerksamkeit.

Henry Rohmers New York Detective Reihe vereint spannende Kriminalfälle mit dem authentischen Bild der Großstadt New York. Rasant erzählt und immer am Puls der Zeit, taucht der Privatdetektiv Bount Reininger tief in die Unterwelten der Metropole ein, auf der Spur von Kleinkriminellen, Terroristen und Serienmördern. Eine tote Frau in Central Park, ein vermisster Hacker und eine Reihe ungeklärter Attentate - all diese Fälle lassen die Polizei ratlos zurück und erfordern die Hilfe eines Helden der etwas anderen Art.