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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.

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.

Nella sala d'aspetto dell'aeroporto di Francoforte, un gruppo di viaggiatori attende di partire per Londra. Tra costoro c'è anche Sir Stafford Nye, un diplomatico inglese noto soprattutto per il suo spirito caustico e i suoi atteggiamenti stravaganti. Mentre si guarda intorno in cerca di un diversivo, una giovane donna gli si avvicina e gli chiede di cederle mantella e passaporto: potrà così imbarcarsi al suo posto, per sfuggire a un misterioso assassino.

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 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.

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.

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.

Una nuova indagine per Marco Pisani, avogadore a Venezia. 1753. È uno degli ultimi giorni di Carnevale quando suor Maria Angelica, monaca di clausura a Murano, viene trovata barbaramente uccisa nel suo appartamento segreto di Venezia. Mentre la città è in festa, tra balli in maschera nei palazzi e per i campi, spettacoli nei teatri e cortei notturni, l'avogadore Marco Pisani non tarda molto a scoprire che la religiosa aveva una doppia vita.

C'è più ombra che luce a Milano nel mese di novembre. Non sono giorni facili per le donne e gli uomini della UACV, l'Unità di Analisi del Crimine Violento, che saranno travolti da otto incredibili giornate intrise di sangue e crudeltà. Cosa lega i cadaveri, orribilmente seviziati, di due noti collezionisti d'arte, alla sparizione di un libro esoterico che custodisce un antico segreto?

Philip Marlowe is on the hunt for a missing heiress—and up against a rival PI—in this smart and atmospheric authorized mystery from acclaimed crime writer and "one-of-a-kind storyteller" Denise Mina (James Patterson), the first woman to recreate Raymond Chandler’s infamous detective. Has...

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.

Criminal defense attorney Caron Mooney's life is blown apart when her Hamptons home is destroyed in a gas explosion . . . and the naked bodies of her husband Jason and a woman identified as Emma Shipman are found in the smoking rubble. It's obvious that Jason was having an affair, a revelation that only deepens Caron's heartbreak and confusion. Evidence at the scene soon points to murder and to Emma's spouse Neil as the killer. But Neil proclaims his innocence and Caron, who shares his sense of loss and betrayal, shocks everyone by agreeing to defend him.

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.

In the dying days of 1850, the young detective Charles Maddox takes on a new case. His client? The only surviving son of the long-dead poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and his wife Mary, author of Frankenstein. Charles soon finds himself being drawn into the bitter battle being waged over the poet's literary legacy. When a chance discovery raises doubts about the death of Shelley's first wife, Harriet, he starts to question whether she did kill herself—or whether what really happened was far more sinister…

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.