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Venti racconti scritti per giornali e riviste tra il 1936 e il 1948, raccolti in "tre tempi" della carriera dello scrittore - spiega il curatore del volume Roberto Pirani cui si deve il loro ritrovamento - che documentano per la prima volta le tappe del lungo percorso "noir" di Scerbanenco, di quel "noir" da molti ancora legato esclusivamente alle opere degli anni Sessanta.

L'investigatore privato Bacci Pagano non sa dire di no alla richiesta di Mara, una delle donne della sua vita: dovrà tenere a bada le inquietudini del dottor Nicolò Ingroia, detto il Gigante, lo psicoanalista che vive sulle alture che sovrastano Genova Nervi. In realtà avrebbe più di un motivo per rifiutare l'incarico: non è il suo mestiere occuparsi di un alcolizzato che ha tentato il suicidio; e poi il Gigante l'aveva già incontrato vent'anni prima, quando indagava sulla morte di un suo giovane paziente misteriosamente ucciso in Thailandia.

On Christmas Eve in 1988, seven-year-old Alfie Marsden vanished in the Wentshire Forest Pass when a burst tyre forced his father, Sorrel, to stop the car. Leaving the car to summon the emergency services, Sorrel returned to find his son gone. No trace of the child, nor his remains, have ever been found. Alfie Marsden was declared officially dead in 1995. Elusive online journalist Scott King, whose Six Stories podcasts have become an internet sensation, investigates the disappearance, interviewing six witnesses, to try to find out what really happened that fateful night.

Plume acérée, personnages inquiétants et humour noir : après "Fausses promesses", Linwood Barclay livre un nouvel opus riche en suspense pour conter les secrets et mystères d'une bourgade américaine pas si tranquille. La ville de Promise Falls est sous le choc. L'écran du drive-in vient de s'effondrer en pleine séance. Bilan : quatre morts. Accident ? Acte malveillant ? L'impassible inspecteur Barry Duckworth enquête. Et un détail le perturbe : l'heure de l'explosion, 23h23 ; un chiffre qui évoque d'autres crimes non élucidés... De son côté, le privé Cal Weaver travaille sur une sombre affaire.

Jan Nyman, the ace detective of the covert operations unit of the National Central Police, is sent to a sleepy seaside town to investigate a mysterious death. Nyman arrives in the town dominated by a bizarre holiday village - the ‘hottest beach in Finland’. The suspect: Olivia Koski, who has only recently returned to her old hometown. The mission: find out what happened, by any means necessary.

Une enquête de Léon Sadorski, le sinistre et fascinant inspecteur des renseignements généraux. Le pire des salauds, le meilleur des enquêteurs. Paris, mars 1943. Une femme est arrêtée dans un bistrot du 10e arrondissement. Elle aurait franchi la ligne de démarcation munie de faux papiers, pour un trafic de métaux précieux. L'inspecteur principal adjoint Léon Sadorski voit dans cette enquête une parfaite occasion de s'enrichir. Mais il a d'autres soucis, notamment protéger Julie, la lycéenne juive réfugiée chez lui depuis la rafle du Vél' d'Hiv.

Lynn Naismith gave up the job she loved when she married Ed, the love of her life, but it was worth it for the happy years they enjoyed together. Now, 10 years on, Ed has been diagnosed with early onset dementia, and things start to happen - things more sinister than missing keys and lost words. As some memories are forgotten, others, long buried, begin to surface...and Lynn’s perfect world begins to crumble. But is it Ed’s mind playing tricks, or hers....?

From a writer whose work has been praised by Junot Díaz as “Latin American fiction at its pulpy phantasmagorical finest,” Don’t Send Flowers is a riveting novel centered on Carlos Treviño, a retired police detective in northern Mexico who has to go up against the corruption and violence that caused him to leave the force, when he’s hired by a businessman to find his missing daughter. A 17-year-old girl has disappeared after a fight with her boyfriend that was interrupted by armed men, leaving the boyfriend on life support and the girl an apparent kidnapping victim.

Due efferati omicidi da risolvere per Salvatore Vivacqua, siciliano trapiantato a Torino, con più cicatrici che capelli e un carattere quadrato come la sua stazza. Il romanzo ci trasporta nei meandri più torbidi della Torino bene. "C'è sempre una mollica, anche piccola, basta avere occhi buoni per trovarla". È questa la frase che il commissario Vivacqua ripete come un mantra ogni volta che si trova alle prese con un nuovo caso. E Salvatore Vivacqua - Totò per gli amici - sa bene che dove c'è un delitto c'è sempre anche una traccia che il colpevole si è lasciato dietro.

In una Portland plumbea e in balìa di una selvaggia gentrificazione, Lucky Supreme, lo squallido negozio di tatuaggi, resta un'istituzione. Il locale vanta decenni di storia ed è ormai un'enorme croce nera sulla mappa mentale della brulicante vita notturna della Città Vecchia. Ma per quanto tempo ancora riuscirà a sopravvivere? Al suo interno, Darby Holland, quarantenne tormentato da demoni del passato pronti a condurlo sull'orlo della pazzia, nasconde preziosi bozzetti e segreti inconfessabili.

On May 23, 1992, a roadside explosion killed the Palermo judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three police officers. A few weeks later judge Paolo Borsellino and five police officers were killed in the center of Palermo. These anti-mafia judges became heroes but the violence spread to the region of Bari in Puglia, where we meet a new, memorable character, Maresciallo Pietro Fenoglio, an officer of the Italian Carabinieri. Fenoglio, recently abandoned by his wife, must simultaneously deal with his personal crisis and the new gang wars raging around Bari.

Vancouver is the so-called City of Glass. A nice place, in any case, and much too nice for noir. Looked at from afar, Vancouver may seem idyllic. But living here is different - cold and baffling and occasionally hostile. While outsiders focus on high-test BC bud, locals see a heroin crisis: Vancouver is home to the first legalized safe-injection site in North America, now heavily taxed by overdoses resulting from street drugs cut with fentanyl.

When a dead man is lifted from the freezing waters of Oslo Harbour just before Christmas, Detective Lena Stigersand's stressful life suddenly becomes even more complicated. Not only is she dealing with a cancer scare, a stalker and an untrustworthy boyfriend, but it seems both a politician and Norway's security services might be involved in the murder. With her trusted colleagues, Gunnarstranda and Frølich, at her side, Lena digs deep into the case and finds that it not only goes to the heart of the Norwegian establishment, but it might be rather too close to her personal life for comfort.

Condamné pour un meurtre qu'il n'a pas commis, Max Ender a été jeté en pâture à ses codétenus par ceux-là mêmes censés assurer l'ordre et la discipline au sein de la prison. Lorsqu'il est reconnu innocent et libéré, ce n'est plus le même homme. Il n'a désormais plus qu'une seule idée en tête : se venger de cette société qu'il hait par-dessus tout. Pour frapper ses bourreaux au cœur, il va enlever leurs enfants et, méthodiquement, au fil des ans, faire de ces petits anges des bêtes féroces.

La petite ville de Promise Falls est sous le choc : les Langley viennent d'être sauvagement assassinés. Qui pouvait en vouloir à cette famille en apparence tranquille ? Qui a bien pu commettre cet acte aussi barbare que gratuit ? Les rues de cette banlieue réputée paisible sont-elles encore sûres ? Seul témoin du drame : Derek Cutter, dix-sept ans, qui n'aurait jamais dû se trouver là.

New Orleans: Lew Griffin hat seine Vergangenheit als Privatdetektiv hinter sich gelassen. Er ist jetzt Schriftsteller und verbringt seine Tage in einem alten Haus im respektablen Garden District - immer darum bemüht, den heiklen Verführungen der Straße zu entfliehen. Doch als seine ehemalige Freundin LaVerne stirbt und ihre Tochter Alouette verschwindet, sieht er sich gezwungen, der Sache auf den Grund zu gehen. Lew Griffin taucht hinab in die schwülen Nächte der pulsierenden Stadt.

"Serre-moi fort." Cela pourrait être un appel au secours désespéré. Du jeune Nick, d'abord. Marqué par la disparition inexpliquée de sa sœur, il est contraint de vivre dans un foyer brisé par l'incertitude et l'absence. Obsédés par leur quête de vérité, ses parents sont sur les traces de l'Origamiste, un tueur en série qui sévit depuis des années en toute impunité. Du lieutenant Adam Gibson, ensuite.

Un bain. Du sang. Un cadavre qui baigne dans le sang… Beaucoup de sang. Beaucoup trop pour une seule personne. D’où vient tout ce sang? Où sont les autres corps? Pourquoi le bain est-il exposé dans une vitrine? Au cours de son enquête, l’inspecteur Henri Dufaux croisera notamment des trafiquants d’êtres humains, un mafieux pianiste et philosophe, un ministre adepte de galipettes thaïlandaises, une psychanalyste gentiment sarcastique et un producteur porno qui veut sauver l’Occident....

Two days before Christmas, a young woman is found dead beneath the cliffs of the deserted village of Kalfshamarvik. Did she jump, or did something more sinister take place beneath the lighthouse and the abandoned old house on the remote rocky outcrop? With winter closing in and the snow falling relentlessly, Ari Thor Arason discovers that the victim's mother and young sister also lost their lives in this same spot, 25 years earlier....

Ran McGhie's world has been turned upside down. A young, lonely and frustrated writer, and suffering from mental health problems, he discovers that his long-dead mother was related to one of Glasgow's oldest merchant families. Not only that, but Ran has inherited Newton Hall, a vast mansion that belonged to his great-uncle, who appears to have been watching from afar as his estranged great-nephew has grown up.