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In Dark Angel, the second in the Lassiter/Martinez Case Files series, Detectives Barbara Lassiter and Susan Martinez pick up where they left off in Borderline. Assigned to a murder case, they discover that their suspect is much more than a one-off killer. In fact, the murderer appears to be a vigilante hell-bent on taking revenge against career criminals who the criminal justice system has failed to punish.

An acclaimed “5 Under 35” fiction writer’s much-anticipated first novel In 2012, Claire Vaye Watkins’s story collection, Battleborn, swept nearly every award for short fiction. Now this young writer, widely heralded as a once-in-a-generation talent, returns with a first novel that...

It happened the day of the Moon Festival. It could have been left behind, they all could have moved on with their lives. But secrets have a habit of rising to the surface, especially in small towns. Two couples, four ironclad friendships, the perfect coastal holiday town. With salt-stung houses perched like lifeguards overlooking the shore, Lago Point is the scene of postcards, not crime scenes. Wife and mother Abbi, town cop Blake, schoolteacher Hannah and local doctor Will are caught in their own tangled webs of deceit.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a dramatic historical novel of three young women searching for family amid the destruction of the post–Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who learns of their story and its vital connection to her...

A dynamic, timely history of nineteenth-century activists—free-lovers and socialists, abolitionists and vigilantes—and the social revolution they sparked in the turbulent Civil War era “In the tradition of Howard Zinn’s people’s histories, American Radicals reveals a forgotten yet...

These eight new stories from the celebrated novelist and short-story writer Nathan Englander display a gifted young author grappling with the great questions of modern life, with a command of language and the imagination that place Englander at the very forefront of contemporary American fiction...

When the phone wakes Phil Broker on the morning of his forty-eighth birthday -- six months removed from his surviving a January cold snap that (in Absolute Zero) nearly claimed his life -- it's already ninety-two degrees. It's July, and Stillwater, Minnesota, finds itself in the middle of the...

Scrap Allenbach is a living legend to the Steel Bones MC. A vigilante hero. Ten years ago, he gave up his freedom for me. I never asked him to. Now he's back, with some idea about how it's gonna be. He's wrong. Things are different now. I'm not the same girl he knew. After what happened, I'll never be that person again. Not with the baggage I carry and the secrets I keep.

Almost out of ammunition, but not resolve, the Department operative is pinned down by Taliban fighters deep in the barren terrain outside Kandahar. He swears that if he escapes this firefight he will visit vengeance on the man who betrayed him ... at the top of his own organisation. Then a grenade lands at his feet...

Julia findet sich nach ihrer Festnahme im Maßregelvollzug wieder. Ein Gutachter hat ihre verminderte Schuldfähigkeit, aber auch eine weiterhin bestehende Gefährlichkeit festgestellt. Mit diesem Urteil will Julia sich nicht abfinden, sie setzt alles daran, zu erfahren, was wirklich geschehen ist.

Quando i mariti mettono insieme i risparmi di una vita per investirli in un fondo che si rivela fallimentare, all'improvviso i piani per il futuro iniziano a sembrare grigi... proprio come i loro matrimoni. Le amiche hanno in mente un piano, e per attuarlo avranno bisogno di un sicario.

Sechs Jahre konnten sie sie wegsperren und bei dem Gedanken an sie beruhigt aufseufzen. Aber diese Zeit ist jetzt vorbei, weil sie wieder da ist: Asa, die Legende, Asa, die Unbezwingbare, die große Jägerin, deren Feinde sie ehrfurchtsvoll »mir« nennen, Frieden. Und sie wissen: Ihr Frieden wird ein endgültiger sein, Asa hatte sechs Jahre Zeit für ihren Racheplan. Denn Rache wird sie nehmen. An all jenen, die die unbarmherzige und grausame Tradition, die »Prüfung«, weitergeführt und ihr damit das Liebste genommen haben.

Tras la creciente preocupación de una enfermedad, el padre de Santiago consulta al doctor Mansano y se somete a procedimientos médicos que a la postre terminan con su vida. Santiago, decidido a vengar la muerte de su padre, asesina al doctor Mansano. Aunque sus acciones fueron cuidadosas, Santiago se ve obligado a huir. En su regreso a casa, descubre que todo lo que cree conocer es, en realidad, una mentira.

Giorgia Cantini ha un'agenzia investigativa a Bologna. In genere si occupa di banali pedinamenti per coniugi o fidanzati gelosi, ma stavolta le è stato affidato un caso di sparizione. Dora vuole sapere cosa è accaduto all'amica Vanessa Liverani, per tutti Van, madre di un bambino di dieci anni, Willy. Van è una giovane prostituta che conduce una vita solitaria ed è sparita senza lasciare traccia. Ma il suo corpo senza vita viene presto ritrovato nella Grotta delle Fate e Giorgia, per scoprire la verità, si concentra sulle confessioni che la donna ha affidato a un quaderno.

Journalist Justine Goodman, stifled by new motherhood, surrenders to an obsession with Project Nemesis—an all-women group of eco-anarchists set on dismantling dirty energy companies. She risks everything to gain entry into their inner circle, but tragedy strikes before she can even begin to savor her involvement. Zoe Rasmussen, wearied by her role as energy magnate Phil Rasmussen's wife, clings unhappily to her situation for her daughter's sake. When grief-stricken Justine, armed and unhinged, appears with a demand, Zoe is torn between terror and excitement.

Cosa: Mattia Vusso, sei anni, viene investito mentre cerca il suo pupazzo, una medusa rossa fatta all'uncinetto. Qualche giorno dopo, sua madre scompare per sempre. Quando: Diciotto anni fa la tragedia Vusso; oggi, prima quindicina d'agosto, tempo di vacanze per tutti (o quasi). Dove: Bagni L'Ultima Spiaggia di Varazze, stabilimento vecchio stile gestito da Oscar Fatali, sessantenne panzuto che, in crisi di mezz'età, ha lasciato Brianza e famiglia per trasferirsi al mare con una velina di provincia.

Un giovane spiantato emigrato a Parigi si innamora di un'enigmatica ragazza francese, che scompare nel nulla obbligandolo a una rocambolesca indagine privata. Martino si è già pentito di essersi trasferito a Parigi, troppo cara e respingente. Ma l'amore per la misteriosa Johanna sembra ridargli slancio e, adesso che lei è scomparsa, gli offre anche l'occasione di una missione da compiere. Incappando in personaggi strani e problematici – fra cui un'attivista anarchica e un giovane multimilionario – Martino si troverà immerso in una storia più grande di lui.

Romanzo finalista al Premio Strega 2012. Un uomo con un passato traumatico cerca redenzione occupandosi di una bambina rimasta orfana di entrambi i genitori. In una decadente periferia post-industriale, Estefan cerca di sopravvivere convivendo coi propri demoni. Lui e il suo migliore amico Martino, accomunati dal dolore, si aggirano per il mondo alla ricerca di uno scopo.

Yu-hee kann mit Menschen nicht viel anfangen. Ihre eigentliche Liebe gilt den Pflanzen. Und so tauscht sie ihren frustrierenden Bürojob gegen einen eigenen Pflanzenladen in Sejin. Hier, zwischen Avocado, Agave und Rosmarin fühlt sie sich wohl. Ihr „Pflanzen-Shop“ wird zu ihrer Oase. Und auch andere Frauen sehen in Yu-hees Pflanzenladen bald einen Rückzugsort vor ihren persönlichen Dramen und Nöten, die nicht selten mit übergriffigen Männern zu tun haben. Für ihre Kundinnen hat Yu-hee immer ein offenes Ohr. Doch das ist nicht alles: Sie sorgt dafür, dass die Männer verschwinden.

Vigilante assassin Silence Jones was supposed to be on a mundane mission—a simple cross-country transport. But a detour to a quiet Wisconsin town drags him into something far deadlier.