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"Ho bisogno di te, Antonio" dice la quasi ex-moglie al commissario Mariani: per un attimo crede che Francesca voglia tornare con lui. Gli sta chiedendo invece di occuparsi della scomparsa di Cabel, un muratore albanese. Mariani si applica con abnegazione per trovare il giovane e finalmente lo rintraccia, ad Asti. È in fin di vita, ma prima di cadere in coma riesce a pronunciare soltanto una parola: cuorenero... La trama della sesta indagine della serie del commissario Mariani si muove su uno sfondo di crudeltà e aberrazione, vita di strada e sfruttamento di minori.

Nicholas Lord, a university graduate and Afghanistan Army veteran, becomes part of the world of drugs when he accepts a position with a New York City drug baron. Cryptocurrency, stolen from the drug baron, forces Lord as the number two man, to move against the suspected thieves which include the Mexican supplier and the gangbangers who distribute the illicit drugs. To complicate his already precarious situation, Lord becomes involved in a love affair with the drug baron's woman.

The sequel to Paid in Blood follows the end of the violent lives of Andy and Maggie as they try to protect their family from ruthless assassins.

Di ritorno da un corso di aggiornamento, durato alcuni giorni, una donna trova il marito ucciso: questa è la sua versione dei fatti... Il commissario incaricato delle indagini si confronta con lei, in ripetuti incontri-scontri, cercando di far luce sul delitto. Perché la vittima, Pietro, non è un uomo qualunque! Ricco di famiglia, attraente, matematico di successo nonostante la giovane età, oltre a suscitare prevedibili rivalità professionali fra i colleghi dell’Università, ha, forse, relazioni extraconiugali. Anche la sorella della vittima aveva motivi per uccidere? Forse.

Easy Rawlins, L.A.'s most reluctant detective, comes home one day to find Easter, the daughter of his friend, Christmas Black, left on his doorstep. Easy knows that this could only mean that ex-marine Black is probably dead, or will be soon. But Easter's appearance is only the beginning, as Easy is immersed in a sea of problems.

Little Frankie Darling wants revenge, Asami Sato wants her inheritance, and Oyabun Kitsune wants the magic artifact hidden in the 150-year-old cherrywood box. They each pay investigator, Axel Webb, to find the box, but things are not always what they seem, and people always lie to conceal their secret agendas.

This story is about a man who goes on a murder spree based on his childhood experiences. The detectives chase his crimes without understanding the reasons for the violence.

DI Amy Winter faces her toughest case yet as a serial killer couple kidnap and hunt their prey. After capture, the victims are released from an unknown location each day. But freedom does not come easily, as the victim’s injuries become more severe, and if they haven’t escaped by day four, they won’t live to see the fifth.

It starts with a few near-accidents: A car almost swipes Mike Hammer when he’s crossing the street. A junkie robs the notoriously hardboiled detective at knifepoint. A fight on a subway platform comes close to pushing him in front of a train. While any one of these could be a coincidence, together they make a conspiracy—one that Hammer will have to end in order to survive. And when it comes to finishing something—or someone—nobody does it better than Hammer.

Murder is nothing new in the Depression-era city, especially to war veterans Inspector Jimmy Dreghorn and his partner ‘Bonnie’ Archie McDaid. But the dead man found in a narrowboat on the Forth and Clyde Canal, executed with a single shot to the back of the head, is no ordinary killing. Violence usually erupts in the heat of the moment – the razor-gangs that stalk the streets settle scores with knives and fists. Firearms suggest something more sinister, especially when the killer strikes again.

It's 1965 in a tight-knit working-class neighborhood in Queens, New York, and Ruth Malone - a single mother who works long hours as a cocktail waitress - wakes to discover her two small children, Frankie Jr. and Cindy, have gone missing. Later that day, Cindy's body is found in a derelict lot a half mile from her home, strangled. Ten days later, Frankie Jr.'s decomposing body is found. Immediately, all fingers point to Ruth. Pete Wonicke is a rookie tabloid reporter who finagles an assignment to cover the murders. He begins digging into the case.

When a defeated looking man shows up at Moonlight’s riverfront loft in the middle of the night seeking the P.I.’s services, he does something quite unexpected. He kills himself with a gunshot to the head. After the APD Chief Homicide Detective Nick Miller arrives on the scene, it’s discovered the now dead man was married to a cheating woman who goes by the unlikely name of Virginia Gamble.

Teen Malibu Makimura discovers she can feel people’s emotions, and senses an ominous voice growing inside her. She lands a job at a women’s nightclub drawing surrealist caricatures. One night while drawing a portrait, she feels a sinister emotion projected by a woman named Luciana, who invites Malibu to her Presidio Heights mansion.

Josh Cybulski’s debut novel explores a generation who were told they could do anything. Some did, and without a doubt still are, and some became disillusioned at the first signs of adversity.

Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon è un minuscolo arcipelago punteggiato di casette colorate al largo della costa del Canada, una sconosciuta appendice di Francia ai confini del mondo che, all'inizio dell'estate, quando i merluzzi attraversano le sue acque, viene inghiottita dalle nebbie. Un luogo ottimo per sondare, sotto i silenzi della neve e il fruscio del vento, le anime degli uomini.

Kenny Ruffin, a former gang leader serving hard time in San Quentin, looks forward to his release so he can get his life back and meet his teenage son for the first time. His destiny becomes entangled with that of a redneck career criminal called Cat McGrath when the two of them are sent back to LA on the same bus.

A year ago, Solomon Drift was the main enforcer for a multi-national crime organisation calling itself "The Group". He had it all, everything a man could want—status, wealth, and power. But then he met Connie Turner, "Connie bloody Turner" who turned his world inside out and upside down.

After the devastating events that took place in Stark, Tanner pursues Soulless while seeking revenge and to finally end the madman’s reign of terror.

Das Audible Original Hörspiel "Wenn der Mordmann kommt" ist ein ruhiger und dennoch packender Crime Noir von Krimi-Koryphäe Friedrich Ani. Zu später Stunde wird die La Luna Bar in München Schauplatz smarter Dialoge, intensiver Monologe und undurchsichtiger Erzählungen eines gegensätzlichen Gespanns: dem mysteriösen und zugleich charismatischen Kommissar Jon Andersen (Peter Kurth), dem klugen und kritischen Barkeeper Hendrik Efeu (Ken Duken) sowie der einsamen Nachtwandlerin und Zuhörerin Ines Morgenroth (Frauke Poolman).

Incluso nella prima selezione del Premio Strega 2023, "Mare mosso" è un noir da ascoltare tutto d’un fiato che si delinea sullo sfondo di un mondo sommerso, le cui profondità celano insidie di ogni tipo... Cagliari, 1981. Al largo delle coste della Sardegna c’è la Izmir, una grande nave cargo battente bandiera turca, che lancia un allarmante SOS. L’ingegnere navale Achille Vitale, che dirige un’intrepida flotta di rimorchiatori per conto di un facoltoso armatore napoletano, si mette subito all’opera: bisogna raggiungere la nave il prima possibile, in modo da salvare l’equipaggio da morte certa.