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Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals. Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three L. A. P. D. detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent...

A novel in The L.A. Quartet. Internationally acclaimed author James Ellroy presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia. Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns—it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an...

“Leonard delivers a certifiable masterpiece of such twisted ingenuity that he transcends even his own bad self….Tishomingo Blues is that good.” —Baltimore Sun Crime fiction Grand Master Elmore Leonard heads to the Deep South for a bracing dose of Tishomingo Blues—a wild, Leonard-esque...

Two generations. Two deaths. A family and town divided. A smart, twisty thriller from award-winning author J. P. Pomare. The worst thing he ever did was tell the truth. When a teenage boy takes a DNA test to prove his innocence for a crime that has rocked the community, the consequences are...

When private detective Sam Spade takes on the mysterious Miss Wonderly, he gets dragged into a deadly hunt for the Maltese Falcon - a priceless, jewel-encrusted artifact covered in black enamel that leaves a trail of corpses wherever it goes. With the San Francisco police branding him their...

Gabriel is good at killing, but rubbish at everything else. It doesn't help that he has a drinking problem and keeps hallucinating an ogre that wants to stick a seagull up his backside. Desperate for money, he takes a job to steal a toy pony and behead one of England's most dangerous gangsters. Now he's wounded, hunted across the country, and travelling with a fifteen-year-old runaway who seems intent on giving him a permanent headache.

A Glasgow killer with a message. And it's personal. A body nailed to a door — throat cut — finger pointing — but to where? DI Fin McKenzie expected his first investigation as SIO to be a big step up, but not the leap into a serial killer's revenge it had just become. The brutal Glasgow murders unfold a story as told by the victims themselves — from the mortuary slab. Two timelines collide and the race is on, but can McKenzie save any of the names on the killer's list?

La agente especial del FBI Kimberly Quincy sigue las pistas digitales dejadas por Jacob Ness, un secuestrador y asesino en serie ya fallecido. Un perturbador hallazgo hace que se ponga en contacto con la sargento D. D. Warren para que forme parte de una unidad especial de investigación, a la que también se incorporan la informante Flora Dane y el experto en true crime Keith Edgar. Al llegar a un pequeño pueblo aparentemente idílico en las colinas de Georgia, les invade la inquietante sensación de que no todo es lo que parece.

Sur l'île de Nantucket au large de la côte Est américaine, la vie d'un restaurant français bascule dans l'angoisse le jour où le mari de la gérante Alix disparaît mystérieusement... Le passé de cette dernière va refaire surface mystérieusement. Certaines révélations ont le pouvoir...

Kjerringøy ist ein beliebter Ferienort, umgeben von mächtigen Bergketten und dem tosenden Meer. Aber die Idylle zerbricht, als drei Freundinnen inmitten der malerischen Landschaft eine augenlose Leiche entdecken. Die Ermittlungen führen Jakob Weber und Noora Yun Sande in eine exklusive Privatklinik, deren aalglatter Leiter jede Zusammenarbeit verweigert.

Das Talent zur Gaunerei wurde Jack Jerkins in die Wiege gelegt. Sein gerade gestarteter Coup allerdings entpuppt sich als eine Nummer zu groß für ihn. Der Grund dafür ist die Hauptdarstellerin in seinem geplanten Meisterstück.

In una Assemini torrida e soffocante, l'investigatore Antony Depin si risveglia dal coma. Nel ventre porta i segni di due pallottole; nella mente, tre settimane di buio profondo. Il mondo è andato avanti a velocità folle e, ad attenderlo fuori dall'ospedale, non c'è più nemmeno il bar del suo amico Billy, sostituito da un bazar di paccottiglia. Mentre le domande si accumulano e il corpo fatica a rimettersi in sesto, una donna inquietante dalla voce melodiosa gli affida un'indagine apparentemente impossibile: trovare un uomo misterioso prima di Natale.

Milano, luglio 1971. Una giovane donna viene massacrata a coltellate nei bagni dell'Università Cattolica: sullo specchio l'assassino ha tracciato con il sangue una croce inscritta in un cerchio. È lo stesso simbolo inserito qualche giorno dopo in un crittogramma con cui viene rivendicato un duplice omicidio. Il commissario Vittorio Maspero si mette sulle tracce del feroce serial killer the Zodiac, così si presenta, che ha già firmato una lunga scia di delitti in California.

Una llamada en plena madrugada. Una escena del crimen manipulada. Una trampa perfecta. ¿Hasta dónde llegarías para salvar a tu compañera? A la 1:03 AM, el detective Luca Bruzzo se despierta con una llamada anónima de alguien que dice querer ayudarlo: Richard Galloway, un respetado capitán de la policía, ha sido asesinado.

En un mundo de mentiras, descubrir la verdad puede matarte. Después de su último caso en Sevilla, Verónica pensó que todo sería como antes. Se equivocaba. Su relación con Santi se tambalea. Él está distante, ausente, como si una sombra lo envolviera. Un atentado contra la figura más importante del país apunta a Santi como uno de los posibles colaboradores.

One murder. Six suspects. Two billion reasons to solve it. Only Murders in the Building meets Schitt's Creek in this charming and quirky cosy mystery set in a funeral home (and B&B). Welcome to the Rite Love Funeral Parlour (and B&B), where the tea is hot and the bodies are cold. Mortician Essie...

Bari, inizio di dicembre, mancano pochi giorni a San Nicola. Mentre la commissaria Lolita Lobosco e il suo nuovo amore Giancarlo Caruso si godono la notte in una casetta di pescatori a Polignano, nella vicina Torre a Mare un uomo viene ammazzato nella sua villetta; sul corposaranno trovate...

One of Ian Rankin's top ten books of 2021. 'One of the thrillers of the year' Scottish Sun When you have a problem that can't be solved, you call John Tyler. Nine people are trapped on an anthrax-infested, government-controlled island off the west coast of Scotland when the door to their...

Will the war be over by Christmas? As the war moves into 1945 the lives of the women of Woolworths continue. When store manager, Betty Billington, announces she is expecting Douglas’s baby her future life is about to change more than she expects. Freda has fallen in love with the handsome...

FROM INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR ANIKA SCOTT Madame Mystique is a performer extraordinaire, come to work her scandalous magic at the glittering 1933 Chicago World’s Fair. Of African American and Sicilian heritage, Mystique – aka Rosa Mancuso – and her fellow performers move on the...