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Мелкий бизнесмен Юрий Колокольцев, попавший в криминальную историю, соглашается обменяться документами с приятелем-милиционером, и под его именем пойти работать клерком в МВД. Самого же приятеля не прельщает подобного рода стезя, он разочаровался в профессии и мечтает уехать в Америку, хотя протекцию в аппарат министерства ему составил дядя – вице-премьер правительства. Юрию же некуда деваться: он разбил чужую машину, ранил человека, и теперь ему грозит тюремный срок.

This year's London Marathon is my last chance to win the final place on the Olympic team. The months of rehabilitation after my injury will feel worth it to cross that line. But I wasn't expecting the man who's been making my life a living hell to be there. Last I knew, my stalker was behind bars, but he says he's going to be at the race watching. I have 26 miles to figure out whether it's him, and what he wants, or I could lose more than just the race.

Ein atmosphärischer, wendungsreicher und preisgekrönter Australien-Thriller: Im Sommer 1999 verschwand Mina McCreerys Zwillingsschwester spurlos in den Weiten Australiens. Der Fall ging durch alle Medien und machte Mina zur unfreiwilligen Berühmtheit, für einige sogar zur Hauptverdächtigen. Heute lebt sie allein auf der abgelegenen Farm ihrer Familie. Als der junge Privatdetektiv Lane Holland ihr anbietet, den Cold Case neu aufzurollen, lehnt sie zunächst ab. Erst nachdem Lanes unkonventionelle Methoden rasch zu einer neuen Spur führen, beginnt sie, ihm zu vertrauen. Doch Lane hat seine eigenen, dunkleren Gründe, den Fall lösen zu wollen.

Erano gli anni Settanta e la coppia più brillante del noir italiano, Massimo Felisatti e Fabio Pittorru, dava vita a storie folgoranti e trame tese, avvincenti, in cui la Roma bene si mescola a quella delle periferie. Questo è il primo romanzo che Nero Rizzoli ripropone, in una nuova veste: l'indagine su una ragazza scomparsa in via dei colli della Farnesina. Abitare qui significa essere arrivati, eppure quando i coniugi Carpi si accorgono che la figlia Fiorella, di appena tredici anni, non è in casa si disperano.

One of the great chase novels, The Night of the Hunter centres on the ferocious, unforgettable figure of Preacher, a psychopath who relentlessly pursues two children who may or may not know the secret of where the money from a bank raid is hidden. Set in a brilliantly rendered Depression-era American river town, Grubb's novel is both a study of innocence and evil and a savage picture of human failings as, one by one, the adults who have it in their power to protect the children fall for Preacher's wiles.

Un omicidio brutale in un appartamento alla periferia di Roma. La figlia dell’ambasciatore americano che sparisce nel nulla. Un killer innocente costretto a indagare per salvarsi dalla galera. Un noir ambizioso e mesmerico, che trascina il lettore all’interno della multiforme umanità degli sconfitti, là dove il giusto e l’iniquo confondono i loro confini.«La scrittura visionaria, smisurata, traboccante di Emiliano Ereddia trascina il lettore nel vortice di una storia bella, inebriante, unica»

It's mid-September, a heatwave has descended on the parched hills of LA, and Private Detective Philip Marlowe is called to the Montgomery estate, an almost mythic place sitting high on top of Beverly Hills. Wealthy twenty-two-year-old Chrissie Montgomery, set to inherit an enormous fortune, is missing. She's a walking target, ripe for someone to get their claws into. Her dying father, along with his sultry bottle blonde girlfriend, wants her found before that happens. They've hired Anna Riorden, Marlowe's nemesis, too. The search takes them to the roughest neighbourhoods of LA.

Jack might be a polished, Harvard-educated lawyer on paper, but everyone in the down-at-the-heels, if picturesque, village of Onset, Massachusetts, knows his real job: moving people on the run from powerful enemies. The family business—co-managed with his father, a retired spy—is smooth sailing, as they fill up Onset’s holiday homes during the town’s long, drowsy off-season and help clients shed their identities in preparation for fresh starts.

It’s the worst year of the Great Depression, and America needs all the hope it can get. The Chicago World’s Fair, a glittery city-within-a-city, becomes a symbol of the good that’s yet to come. But every utopia has a seedy side—and that’s Rosa Mancuso’s world. As the mysterious Madame Mystique she mixes magic with a dose of bare skin burlesque, bringing customers to the home of the Fair’s carnival rides and spectacles.

Gran Bretagna, 1984. Il governo annuncia la chiusura di venti miniere di carbone. È l'inizio dell'ultima guerra civile inglese: cinquantatré settimane di sciopero ininterrotto che contrappongono i minatori al primo ministro Margaret Thatcher. Cinquantatré settimane di picchetti e arresti, violenze e intimidazioni, famiglie disperate, licenziati e crumiri, corruttori e corrotti, solidarietà e tradimenti.

Il prequel delle indagini del commissario Mariani. Subito dopo la nomina il giovane Mariani viene assegnato alla questura di Genova. Qui, nel quartiere di Sampierdarena, a ridosso della linea ferroviaria, viene ritrovato il cadavere di un uomo anziano. È senza documenti ma il commissario Mariani lo riconosce subito, è un vecchio amico di famiglia, un ex partigiano che aveva come nome di battaglia Primo.

For 200 years, pastors of unknown origins have set up tent revivals on the outskirts of small towns, preaching their messages of salvation and healing. Are they really seeking to save your soul? Are they hustlers who just want your money? Or is it something even more sinister? Although he’d attended many such revivals as a child, city morgue pathologist Cornelius never gave it much thought–until the dead woman on his table spoke to him.

When a young woman who calls herself Suzie Q. approaches Luke to find her missing cat, Luke takes the job and winds up getting hold of a Magic 8 Ball that correctly predicts the future and answers any question, so long as it has nothing to do with lotto picks or love.

Questa storia inizia un lunedì, come ce ne sono tanti, quando il protagonista esce di casa dopo l'ennesimo litigio con la moglie. È una serata di pioggia, e dopo aver girato per la città nel tentativo di sbollire un po' la rabbia, si ritrova in uno strano centro dove promettono soluzioni efficaci per combattere lo stress. Il passo che compie per varcare la porta di quel luogo lo porterà a essere risucchiato in una spirale di crescente follia, dove il prezzo da pagare per ottenere sollievo, sarà sempre maggiore.

Dove, a recovering alcoholic covered in Emily Dickinson tattoos, serves up drinks and small talk at a casino in Vegas. Russell is a man on a roll. He claims to be a chain-restaurant manager, yet his tells point to different skills. The two leave together at the end of the night, but when all pretense is stripped away, they find themselves in a fight for their lives.

Un noir elegante, divertente, letterario e popolare insieme, dove spiccano i dialoghi e il taglio cinematografico, l'ironia e la voglia irresistibile del lettore di sapere come andrà a finire. Storie che si intrecciano in una Torino che - come ha detto De Chirico - "è la città più profonda, più enigmatica, più inquietante non d'Italia ma del mondo". Totò ha diciassette anni, un padre che è sparito nel nulla anni prima, una madre che mantiene entrambi lavorando da parrucchiera.

Serendipity Dahlquist is a headstrong roller-blading teenager living in LA who has lost her dog. She asks private investigator Leo Bloodworth to help her find the missing pet. In what proves to have been a moment of madness, Bloodworth agrees to take on the case, unleashing an appalling--but also extremely entertaining--series of extremely homicidal events.

Like his earlier novel Golden Hill, Francis Spufford’s Cahokia Jazz inhabits a different version of America, now through the lens of a subtly altered 1920s—a fully imagined world filled with fog, cigarette smoke, dubious motives, danger, and dark deeds. In the main character of hard-boiled detective Joe Barrow, we have a hero of truly epic proportions, a troubled soul to fall in love with as you are swept along by a propulsive and brilliantly twisty plot.

Bergen Private Investigator Varg Veum is perplexed when two wildly different cases cross his desk at the same time. A lawyer, anxious to protect her privacy, asks Varg to find her sister, who has disappeared with her husband, seemingly without trace, while a ship carrying unknown cargo is heading towards the Norwegian coast, and the authorities need answers. Varg immerses himself in the investigations, and it becomes clear that the two cases are linked, and have unsettling - and increasingly uncanny - similarities to events that took place 36 years earlier.

As dusk falls the night before the trial of notorious crime boss Thomas Unwin, the prosecution’s star witness is brutally murdered, his killer escaping in plain sight from a secure hotel. Detective Rick Turner spent months building the case against Unwin, and he’s not willing to give up now. But Unwin has one final trick up his sleeve to turn the trial in his favour: he has Rick’s girlfriend, Jess, kidnapped in a plan to coerce Rick into throwing his own testimony.