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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»

Eine Liebe um jeden Preis? Berlin hält den Atem an, als die bereits vierte Frauenleiche einer tragischen Mordserie gefunden wird. Doch obwohl gefährliche Zeiten herrschen, denkt sich Lia nichts dabei, als sie Tristan in der Bahn kennenlernt – den umwerfend gut aussehenden Mann mit den blausten Augen, die sie je gesehen hat. In dem Glauben, endlich den Richtigen gefunden zu haben, geht sie mit ihm nach Hause und erlebt eine heiße Nacht. Schnell stellt sich jedoch heraus, dass sich hinter Tristans hübschem Gesicht eine grenzenlose Dunkelheit verbirgt.

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.

Melchor Marín, il poliziotto appassionato di libri con un passato da galeotto, dopo la morte della moglie Olga ha lasciato la divisa e lavora come bibliotecario a Gandesa, in Terra Alta. Con lui vive la figlia Cosette, ora adolescente, che non perdona al padre di averle nascosto per quattordici anni il vero motivo della morte di sua madre, causata dall’ostinazione di Melchor nel perseguire i colpevoli durante la sua prima indagine.

Luke and Lyle have gotten used to investigating lost pets and cheating spouses. Then, Marva DeLonghi walks into their office. Someone's out to kill her, but her story's vague.

English artist Alice Bulbeck and her twin brother, Edward, approach Axel Webb to find a lost Shakespeare play entitled The History of Cardenio. The play, performed only once for James I, has been lost for 400 years. It wasn’t included in the 1623 First Folio published by Shakespeare’s friends after his death. It is the only known play credited to William Shakespeare that has never been published. The question is, why?

Bienvenido al número 12 de la Rue des Amants, un hermoso bloque de apartamentos antiguo, lejos de las luces brillantes de la Torre Eiffel y de las bulliciosas orillas del Sena. Donde nada pasa desapercibido y todos tienen una historia que descubrir.

Armando Dalmasso è un giornalista free-lance che collabora con "La Stampa" di Cuneo. Inviato al Conservatorio "Ghedini" per assistere a un evento musicale, conosce la simpatica "vichinga" Fiona McQueen, un’esperta d’arte di origine italo-irlandese. Durante il concerto, la pianista all’improvviso cade a terra, colta da un malore. I due la soccorrono, ma alcuni segnali indicano chiaramente che è stata avvelenata. Difficile capire chi possa essere il responsabile, perché sono molti, dentro l’Istituto Musicale, ad avere motivi di risentimento nei confronti di quella "vecchia strega"...

Phillip Pliant is the wealthy opportunist plastics dealer, and CEO of Pliant Industries. He’s also a master thief—creating a pervasive threat to the manufacturing infrastructure in the Caribbean islands markets. With the cartel as his stealth client, the naïve city leaders have been seduced, enabling the production of more than 3-dimensional building materials.

En hjemløs i Chicagos gader ser i en åbenbaring Jomfru Marias ansigt vædet med tårer af blod på en garagemur under et luksushotel. Og inden længe valfarter andre udstødte kvinder til muren. Men hotellet vil have fjernet de hjemløse, der virker provokerende på gæsterne, og beder hotellets advokat, Harriet Stonds løse problemet.

Tabitha Willard was a beautiful, wealthy young woman with everything to live for, so why did she take her own life? What did powerful US Congressman Gordon “little Billy” Harper have to do with it? And then there’s Lester, “Shady” Tree, a crooked entrepreneur and a man with secrets. What about him? Harry Starke, an ex-cop turned private investigator, wants to know, and his search for the answers leads him deep into the shadows of the underworld, and the body count begins to rise. Can Starke find the answers he needs and stop the carnage?

Carla Manara credeva di essere guarita dal trauma doloroso che l’aveva colpita dieci anni prima: suo marito Roberto era stato assassinato in un modesto ed equivoco albergo di Roma, probabilmente dalla donna con la quale era stato visto allontanarsi dalla stazione ferroviaria. Carla non ne aveva mai accettato l’omicidio, anche perché la polizia non era riuscita a rintracciare la presunta assassina, la donna dai lunghi capelli biondi e il viso nascosto da un paio di grossi occhiali neri, che lo aveva sgozzato con un rasoio.

Reggio Calabria, fine anni ’80, una Mercedes lanciata a tutta velocità lungo un viadotto sfonda un guardrail e plana sugli ulivi, alla guida rimane ucciso un ex pilota di Formula 2, Renato Panuccio, pregiudicato appena uscito di prigione dopo aver scontato una pena per contrabbando e associazione a delinquere. Sul posto a osservare la strana linea della frenata e di una ruota che sembra aver perso inspiegabilmente aderenza, arriva il giovane pubblico ministero fresco di nomina Mimmo Cangemi.

A short story about the challenges of being a detective with a disability.

Испания. 1940 год. В качестве переводчика британского посольства Гарри Бретт по заданию британской секретной службы приезжает в разрушенный Гражданской войной Мадрид. Гарри должен установить контакт с Сэнди Форсайтом, старым школьным другом, который, по данным британской разведки, занимается сомнительным бизнесом. А в это время подруга Сэнди, Барбара Клэр, выполняет собственную секретную миссию - пытается найти своего бывшего любовника Берни Пайпера, воевавшего на стороне интернациональных бригад и пропавшего без вести в одном из сражений.

Carl Schroder og Theodore Tate – ”Komastrømerne”, som medierne kalder dem – er omsider ved at få deres liv på ret køl igen. Tate er vendt tilbage til sit arbejde som kriminalassistent og føler sig taknemmelig over, at hans kone, Bridget, er kommet hjem igen. Schroder har det hverken godt eller skidt. Den kugle, der sidder inde i hans hoved efter skyderiet et halv år forinden, har ikke slået ham ihjel, men til gengæld har den slukket for alle hans følelser, hvilken kan vise sig at være mindst lige så farligt.

London, 1930s: Rachel Savernake has been invited to a private view of an art exhibition at a fashionable gallery. The artist, Damaris Gethin, known as 'the Queen of Surrealism', is debuting a show featuring live models pretending to be waxworks of famous killers. Before her welcoming speech, Damaris asks a haunting favour of the amateur sleuth: she wants Rachel to solve her murder. As Damaris takes to a stage set with a guillotine, the lights go out. There is a cry and the blade falls. Damaris has executed herself.

JESTEŚ JEJ TERAPEUTKĄ. ONA JEST TWOJĄ KLIENTKĄ. ALE TUTAJ, W LESIE... NIC NIE JEST TAKIE, JAK SIĘ WYDAJE. Kristina jest odnoszącą sukcesy terapeutką, która pracuje w centrum Oslo. Z chłodnym profesjonalizmem, dzięki któremu dotarła na szczyt, pomaga klientom rozwiązywać ich życiowe problemy. Ale kiedy jej pacjentka, Leah, znana pisarka, błaga Kristinę, by przyjechała do jej domku w lesie, równowaga zaczyna się chwiać. Terapeutka niechętnie wyrusza w dzikie ostępy, by odnaleźć kobietę, która może być w niebezpieczeństwie. Znajduje niedokończony rękopis Leah, a czytając go, uświadamia sobie, że główna bohaterka jest zatrważająco znajoma.