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“Joyland is a breathtaking, beautiful, heartbreaking book....Even the most hardboiled readers will find themselves moved” (Charles Ardai, Edgar- and Shamus Award-winning editor of Hard Case Crime). Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the...

A popular young girl disappears without a trace, her skeletal remains discovered three years later in the ashes of a burned-out house. There's a suspect and compelling circumstantial evidence of his guilt, but no concrete proof. When he isn't indicted, he returns to mock the girl's family. And this isn't the first time he's been suspected of the murder of a young girl; nearly 20 years ago, he was tried and released due to lack of evidence. Chief Inspector Kusanagi of the Homicide Division of the Tokyo Police worked both cases.

Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! * On New Year's Day, a dog finds a bone in the Hollywood Hills--and unearths a murder committed more than twenty years earlier. It's a cold case, but for Detective Harry Bosch, it stirs up memories of...

Brought to you by Penguin. Read by award-winning narrator Jeff Harding. **NOW A MAJOR PRIME TV SERIES STARRING ALAN RITCHSON** Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary decision he's about to regret. Reacher is the only...

【原作　山本周五郎】時代小説の名手。貧しさや虐げられた者たちが必死で生きていく作品が多い。人生の喜怒哀楽を知り尽くした作家が描く時代物、歴史物。

Federal Air Marshal Case Younger has grown tired of fighting and wants nothing more than to leave the anger fueled days of his past behind. After thwarting a hijacking—the first of its kind since the tragic events of 9/11—and narrowly escaping the relentless glare of the media, Case yearns for peace. He returns to his tranquil hometown in Virginia, seeking solace.

Bonus feature includes an original afterword by James Ellroy, titled "Hillikers," read by Stephen Hoye. On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia–and so begins the greatest manhunt in...

Brought to you by Penguin. Read by award-winning narrator Jeff Harding. **NOW A MAJOR PRIME TV SERIES STARRING ALAN RITCHSON** There's trouble in the deadly wilds of Nebraska . . . and Reacher walks right into it. He falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire country...

Small-time stoolie Jake "The Spinner" Jablon made a lot of new enemies when he switched careers from informer to blackmailer. And the more "clients," he figured, the more money - and the more people eager to see him dead. So he's greedy but scared, and he turns to his old acquaintance Matthew Scudder, who used to pay him for information back in Scudder's days as a cop. Scudder's his insurance policy - if anything happens to "The Spinner," Scudder can check up on the people who wanted him dead. No one is too surprised when the pigeon is found floating in the East River....

【原作：山下利三郎】江戸川乱歩と同時期に活躍した探偵小説の先駆者の一人。意外な結末やどんでん返し。日本のミステリー界に大きな影響を与えた。【朗読:園枝大輝】落ち着きのある語りの中にひと匙の遊び心。老いも若いも、渋いもひょうきんも、変幻自在の語り口で、物語の世界へと案内させていただきます。

【原作:新美南吉】宮沢賢治と並び称される童話作家。代表作には「ごん狐」「おぢいさんのランプ」「牛をつないだ椿の木」などがある。【朗読：呉羽藍依】少女からしっとりとした妖艶な大人の女性まで幅広く声を使い分け、落ち着いた聞きやすい声質で物語の世界に引き込みます。山の道では水がなくてみんな困っていました。人力車ひきの海蔵さんはみんなのために井戸を掘りたいと考えます。

“Crackling dialogue, plenty of action, and expert writing.”—The New York Times Rachel Wallace is a tough young woman with a lot of enemies. Spenser is a tough guy with a macho code of honor, hired to protect a woman who thinks that kind of code is obsolete. Privately, they will never see...

Si estás leyendo esto, he desaparecido. Todos dicen que estoy paranoica, pero simplemente me estoy preparando, porque mis secretos me han puesto en grave peligro. Así que, si ocurre lo peor, esta carpeta contiene todo lo que mi mejor amiga necesitará para encontrarme, escondida en un lugar que solo ella podría adivinar. Desde que éramos niñas es la que me conoce mejor, y es la única capaz de unir las piezas y descubrir la verdad.

In this gripping adventure - the first V.I. Warshawski mystery - America’s top private eye is tossed into a dangerous adventure when a seemingly straightforward assignment becomes complicated and deadly. Hired by a man who calls himself John Thayer, V.I.’s assignment is to find Thayer’s son Peter’s missing girlfriend. But when V.I. finds young Peter’s dead body instead, her client disappears.

In Matt Scudder's mind, money, power, and position elevate nobody above morality or the law. Now the ex-cop and unlicensed PI has been hired to prove that socialite Richard Thurman orchestrated the brutal murder of his beautiful, pregnant wife. During Scudder's hard-drinking years, he left a piece of his soul on every seedy corner of the Big Apple. But this case is more depraved and more potentially devastating than anything he experienced while floundering in the urban depths.

Ex-police officer Sebastian Clifford is quickly finding that life as a private investigator is never quiet. His doors have only been open a few weeks when DCI Whitney Walker approaches him to investigate the brutal attack that left her older brother, Rob, with irreversible brain damage. For nearly twenty-five years, Rob had no memory of that night, but lately things are coming back to him. Whitney's worried that her brother might–once again–be in danger.

Deadlock, V. I. Warshawski’s second case, involves the huge Great Lakes shipping industry. Once again the subject is murder - this time the “accidental death” of Boom-Boom Warshawski, an ex-hockey star and V. I.’s beloved cousin, who fell - or was pushed - off a rain-slicked pier on Chicago’s busy waterfront. Convinced that Boom-Boom was in fact killed because of information he had uncovered about criminal doings on the shipping lines, V. I. begins a long and frustrating search for her cousin’s murderer.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'So you need help. What's your name and trouble?' Private Investigator Philip Marlowe's latest client is Orfamay Quest. She's come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas, to find her missing brother Orrin. Or at least that's what she tells Marlowe, offering him just twenty...

Matthew Scudder and his wife, Elaine, talk of the night they met while listening to music in various places around their part of New York.

Spenser investigates a case that hits dangerously close to home in this latest installment of Robert B. Parker's beloved series. Spenser is waiting out the latest Boston snowstorm when he gets word that Rita Fiore has been shot. Rita's always been a tricky one: flirting with Spenser for years...

INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES 'THE LINCOLN LAWYER' - THE HOTTEST NEW THRILLER DRAMA ON TV Defense attorney Mickey Haller - a.k.a The Lincoln Lawyer - has been down on his luck but has a shot at the big-time. When another lawyer is killed, Mickey inherits his entire practice, including an...

Detective Sergeant Tony Heaton has been living a lie for thirty years. Plagued by his failure to solve a brutal slaying in a peaceful seaside town, Tony is weeks from retirement when a new piece of evidence comes to light. He knows the case better than anyone on the planet, and is perfectly positioned to dive straight back in. But DS Heaton doesn’t need to solve the case. He already knows who the killer is, so as those around him sift the truth from the lies, he must work to stay one step ahead. The truth must stay hidden, even if that means lying to himself.

When notorious gangster "Fat Sam" Mahood is murdered, the chief suspect is arrested nearby. But he seems to have suffered a breakdown. Incarcerated in a mental institution, he's known only as the Man in the White Suit. The suspect remains an enigma until Nurse Brenda calls on Mystery Man, Belfast's finest mystery bookshop owner, to bring his powers of investigation to bear....

A trio of desperate convicts has hijacked a bus carrying a group of deaf and mute schoolgirls who are now being held hostage in a disused slaughterhouse. FBI agent Arthur Potter is flown in to negotiate with the men, as are local police, state troopers, politicians and the media. Not everyone...

Накануне вторжения армии Наполеона в Россию жизнь в Смоленской губернии идет своим чередом. Однако в воздухе уже витает зловещий дух войны. А когда в лесу местного помещика Бурмина находят нечто ужасное, дела принимают мрачный оборот. Сам Бурмин, ветеран первой русской войны с Наполеоном и сражения под Аустерлицем 1805 года, возвращается домой совсем другим: теперь его мучают странные приступы, обоняние обостряется, собственное тело перестает слушаться и вдобавок ко всему этому — провалы в памяти.

I quit my job. I walked away from everything I knew. I couldn't lose anyone else. Not again. Working for James Martin wasn't supposed to be complicated or lethal. Too bad someone wanted him dead, and I was the only thing standing in the way. When eccentric playboy CEO James Martin's life is threatened, he decides to hire Alexis Parker, an attractive, feisty, former federal agent, to be his new security consultant and personal bodyguard. 

À Chantepie-de-Tricastin, c'est l'affolement. Le très respecté M. Numa Courtiol est retrouvé, au petit matin, mort, dans son lit, un poignard planté dans le cour. Dans la maison, ni la nièce du défunt, ni la bonne, ni même le jardinier, n'ont entendu le moindre bruit et nulle trace d'effraction n'a été découverte.

Rocheplate, petite bourgade de quatre mille âmes, voit son calme usuel perturbé. À potron-minet, le magasin d’horlogerie locale est retrouvé fracturé et, fait étrange, juste un vieux réveille-matin appartenant à M. Louvier est porté manquant. Cet événement, à lui seul, n’aurait pas justifié le déplacement des gendarmes, du Parquet et du célèbre Commissaire ROSIC, mais la découverte, le même jour, d’un corps sans vie étranglé dans sa chambre, change la donne, surtout que le mort n’est autre que M. Louvier...

Jacques Vix, joyeux rentier, ancien professeur de philosophie et, accessoirement, détective émérite et méconnu, croise, par hasard, à Orange, un camarade de guerre avec qui il a partagé les tranchées de Verdun et les éclats d’un même obus. Heureux de cette rencontre, il accepte l’invitation de son frère d’armes qui veut lui présenter sa femme et lui faire visiter sa propriété composée d’un château, d’une métairie et de terres. Si l’on ajoute qu’un bal et des festivités sont inscrits pour le lendemain soir, le destin a tout prévu pour le distraire...

À Rocheplate, Garnoulin est mort ! En rentrant du dîner posthume organisé en l'honneur de son défunt ami, Bastidon a la désagréable surprise, sur le chemin menant chez lui, de découvrir une chaussure... avec un pied à l'intérieur. Sans nul doute, la chaussure et le pied appartiennent à Garnoulin. Après les premiers émois passés, les autorités font ouvrir le cercueil du mort. Horreur ! Le corps trouvé n'est pas celui de Garnoulin, mais d'un jeune homme inconnu poignardé en plein cœur.

*A Slough House Christmas short story from the Sunday Times number one bestseller of BAD ACTORS.* Here in Slough House, the intelligence service's home for inept spies, it's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas. Roddy Ho is used to being the one the slow horses turn to when they need miracles...

Two skeletons are discovered in Lamentation Tarn, a mountain lake. Talented detective Mike Nash and his team have little evidence with which to work, until a surprising discovery prompts them to contact law enforcement agencies in Eastern Europe.

It keeps coming back to Hammer... The image of bloodshed in his office remained etched in Mike Hammer's mind forever - his secretary sprawled on the floor and a stranger sitting dead and mutilated at his own desk. In one moment a storm of madness entered the private eye's life. As he starts...

Joe Brody is just your average Dostoevsky-reading, Harvard-expelled strip club bouncer who has a highly classified military history and a best friend from Catholic school who happens to be head mafioso Gio Caprisi. FBI agent Donna Zamora, the best shot in her class at Quantico, is a single mother stuck at a desk manning the hotline. Their story lines intersect over a tip from a cokehead that leads to a crackdown on Gio's strip joint in Queens and Joe's arrest. 

Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count and rip apart language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable. When Frank is fatally stabbed, Lionel's world is suddenly turned upside down.

In the midst of a Manhattan snowstorm, Mike Hammer halts the violent robbery of a pair of college sweethearts who have stumbled onto a remarkable archeological find in the Valley of Elah: the perfectly preserved femur of what may have been the biblical giant Goliath. Hammer postpones his marriage to his faithful girl Friday, Velda, to fight a foe deadlier than the mobsters and KGB agents of his past: Islamic terrorists and Israeli extremists bent upon recovering the relic for their own agendas.

When LAPD detective Michael Gideon and his police-dog partner, Sirius, are assigned to the Special Cases Unit (SCU), Gideon knows their work lives will be anything but ordinary. SCU gets the cases no one else wants, the unusual and bizarre crimes that need special handling and special investigators. When a high-school student is found crucified in a local park, Gideon and Sirius must face up to the gruesome tableau and the motivation behind the murder. Complicating matters is a nightmare from their past, the scars of a terrible fire that nearly cost them their lives.

An ancient brotherhood meets annually in the back room of a swank Manhattan restaurant, a fraternity created in secret to celebrate life by celebrating its dead. But the past three decades have not been kind to the Club of 31. Matthew Scudder - ex-cop and ex-boozer - has known death in all its guises, which is why he has been asked to investigate a baffling thirty-year run of suicides and suspiciously random accidents that has thinned the ranks of this very select group of gentlemen.

Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett disappears. Everyone thinks he's run away -- until the comic strip ransom note arrives. It doesn't take Spenser long to get the picture -- an affluent family seething with rage, a...