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Dans Le Bayou Tèche, les marais forment un enchevêtrement où il est facile de disparaître. Elise, une Française, s’y est réfugiée pour fuir quelque chose de sombre, d’indicible, qu’elle a laissé en France. Elle est partie du jour au lendemain, abandonnant tout derrière elle. L’indicible est un personnage trouble et difficile à cerner : son mari. Ce roman croise les histoires respectives du laissé-pour-compte en Dordogne, et de la fugitive en Louisiane.

Israel, 1974-2008. Zwei Polizisten führen uns durch fast vier Jahrzehnte israelischer Geschichte. Cohen, der Strippenzieher im Hintergrund, und Avi Sagi, der den korrumpierenden Versuchungen seines Jobs nicht widerstehen kann. Diese Geschichte ist die dunkle Geschichte Israels. Der Patriot Cohen kennt nur eine Aufgabe – seinen Staat zu beschützen, auch wenn er dafür die bittersten Realitäten akzeptieren muss und gnadenlos danach handelt.

Thaddeus Cutter's life is on the mend. His detective business is growing, he's dating a sim-coder named Sakura, and he still has a roof over his head. If the dark, neon world of Kapamentis wasn't suffering its worst storm in decades, he'd say he had it pretty good. When a woman shows up at his door asking him to investigate her abusive husband and his shady business partner, Thaddeus assumes he's got an easy case on his hands. But when somebody close to the investigation is murdered, Thaddeus becomes the prime suspect, and he soon falls foul of both the law and the lawless.

जयंतनगर में छोटे-छोटे बच्चों का क़त्ल हो रहा है, पर क़ातिल का कोई सुराग़ नहीं मिल रहा। पुलिस को लगता है कि ये एंटी-नैशनल लोगों का काम है, जो हिंदू-मुस्लिम एकता को तोड़ना चाह रहे हैं, जिससे जयंतनगर में लॉ एंड ऑर्डर की समस्या खड़ी हो जाए। शहर में NRC और CAA का विरोध हो रहा है। पुलिस को लगता है कि कोई ऐसा आदमी इस सिचुएशन का फ़ायदा उठना चाह रहा है, जिसकी पकड़ हिंदू और मुस्लिम दोनों ग्रूप में है। इधर सुगंधा की शादी को काफ़ी साल हो गए हैं पर उसे अभी तक बच्चा नहीं हुआ, इसलिए वह बच्चा पाने के लिए किसी भी हद तक जाने को तैयार है।

Eighty-one-year-old Maggie Burkhardt has left it all behind. After the death of her husband and the tragic loss of her daughter Julia, she fled her native Wisconsin and has spent the last five years ping-ponging between the world’s luxury hotels. Now she has finally come to rest somewhere she can imagine staying forever: the Royal Karnak Hotel in Luxor, Egypt. Maggie is no sweet old lady. She has a nasty, nosy little habit: she spies on her fellow guests and manipulates situations to 'liberate' them from what she sees as unhappy relationships.

Peut-on jamais vraiment connaître les personnes qui partagent notre vie ? Un thriller psychologique impossible à lâcher.

Comienza la década de los setenta y la ciudad de Nueva York parece más sucia y peligrosa que nunca. Mientras en las calles de Harlem estalla una guerra abierta entre el Ejército Negro de Liberación y la policía estatal, Ray Carney, al frente de su próspera tienda de muebles, intenta mantenerse alejado de los negocios turbios y ser un honrado padre de familia.

Klara Larsen is one of Denmark's most skilled fire experts. One day she is called out to a case in a small Jutland town. It is the remains of a family's home, and their grief is great. The local police are at a standstill. It turns out that it's not just a house that's burned down; the examination of the fire scene reveals a gruesome crime and a child's disappearance. Klara is desperate to find the child and reveal the truth of this shocking crime.

Un uomo di mezz’età si presenta nell’ufficio di Bacci Pagano. Si esprime in un italiano ricco, con marcato accento genovese. È timido e cortese, ma un fatto sconcerta il navigato detective: Mario Canepa è un uomo di colore…Figlio adottivo dei Canepa, Mario è ora titolare della ditta di famiglia, che importa caffè dal Corno d’Africa. "Ritrovi mio figlio dottor Pagano. Si chiama Giovanni, ha vent'anni e non vuole parlare con me!”. Inizia così per Bacci un'inchiesta velata di malinconia, nella quale il suo senso di giustizia, lo spinge ad andare con determinazione oltre il proprio mandato.

Written years before Jordan Harper’s breakout success, Everybody Knows, this stirring and brutal bildungsroman tells the story of young Luke Crosswhite, who after years apart from his criminal family returns to their flock deep in the California desert. Luke’s father is serving time for a brutal murder that Luke himself witnessed; now, his uncle vies for power and rival biker gangs encroach on the family’s various criminal enterprises.

Del autor revelación de la novela negra vasca, una trepidante y peligrosa investigación. "Altamente inquietante." Carmen Mola. Un lugar perdido en las montañas del País Vasco. Una misteriosa desaparición en plena borrasca. Una investigación al límite.El cadáver de una montañera aparece en el santuario de San Miguel, en la sierra de Aralar (Navarra). Todo indica que la destructiva borrasca Cordelia ha sido la culpable de su muerte. Pero cuando el forense Aitor Intxaurraga acude al lugar de los hechos, descubre algo extraño en el cuerpo de la mujer. Su muerte pudo no haber sido accidental.

È gennaio e Antonio Mariani è ancora in congedo per malattia a causa dell'incidente di novembre quando ha rischiato di morire travolto dall'esondazione del torrente Cerusa. Trascina le giornate nell'apatia, sente e patisce la freddezza della moglie Francesca, evita anche di girare per la città che ha sempre amato. Accetta quindi, con un senso di liberazione, la richiesta di sua madre Emma di andare a Nizza Monferrato per parlare con Giuditta, la figlia di Noemi, deceduta nell'inverno.

Los hermanos Carl y Roy Opgard han triunfado, por así decirlo, en la vida. O al menos lo han hecho partiendo de las ínfimas posibilidades que les brinda un pueblo pequeño como Os. Carl dirige el ostentoso balneario, mientras que Roy sigue a cargo de la gasolinera y sueña con un parque de atracciones a lo grande, con una gigantesca montaña rusa, la mayor del mundo construida en madera.

When the murdered body of a woman is found in a Sheffield carpark, former cop turned private investigator Matt Forrester finds himself embroiled in the case, because the last call the victim made was to him…But the case isn’t as simple as the drug theft it looks like, and – when a young boy becomes the next victim – Matt and his life partner, DI Karen Nelson, realise they’re investigating a terrifying series of revenge killings. Arrests start to be made, but enemies are being made. And, as the killings continue, nobody is safe…

Miami da la bienvenida a un nuevo detective particular: ROMÁN EL INFALIBLE. Ingenioso como Spade y Marlowe, tan duro como Hammer y Shaft, Román Negrón alias El infalible se convierte en el terror de los criminales y políticos corruptos a la par, que acechan a sus víctimas en las aristas de nuestra ciudad... ¡Puro Noir con sabor latino!

In the unremarkable French town of Saint-Louis, a mysterious stranger stalks the streets; an elderly woman believes her son is planning to do away with her; a prominent manufacturer drops dead. Between visits to the town’s hostelries, Chief Inspector Georges Gorski ponders the connections, if any, between these events, while all the time grappling with his own domestic and existential demons.

Bartleby is one of the final works of fiction published by Herman Melville before he slipped into despair over the continuing critical dismissal of his work after Moby Dick. Set in the mid-19th century on New York City's Wall Street, Bartleby is often thought of as Melville's most prescient story: what if a young man caught up in the rat race of commerce decides they have had enough, and chooses to live a different kind of life?

When Victoria escapes her broken home for university in London, she is determined to reinvent herself and make a fresh start. She falls in love with Nick, who welcomes her into his privileged circle of friends, opening her eyes to a world she only ever dreamt of. But things don’t go to plan and life takes a darker turn. Twenty-five years later, the circle is reunited alongside a host of glittering guests to celebrate the wedding of Hollywood darling Ingrid Olsson to well-connected Julian Draper. Victoria has spent years trying to forget Nick and put the horror of what happened behind her.

Brand-new stories by: Tom Abrahams, Robert Boswell, Sarah Cortez, Anton DiSclafani, Stephanie Jaye Evans, Wanjiku Wa Ngugi, Adrienne Perry, Pia Pico, Reyes Ramirez, Icess Fernandez Rojas, Sehba Sarwar, Leslie Contreras Schwartz, Larry Watts, and Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton.

Hollywood, 1951. Jack Shannon—hobo, rising star, wounded vet, studio publicist—is in exile. Blackballed by the majors for his unauthorized effort to solve the mystery of a sexpot actress’ disappearance, he’s now a stuntman—a drug-store cowboy working from Tinseltown’s Poverty Row, where the budgets are tight and the jobs scarce.