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Da mesi, il commissario Antonio Mariani è immobilizzato in ospedale a causa di una ferita e non sa quando riuscirà a guarire. È una notizia avuta dall’amico e medico legale Torrazzi a scuoterlo dal torpore: una giovane donna incinta è stata brutalmente assassinata e le modalità del delitto sono simili a quelle di un caso irrisolto di cui Mariani si era occupato anni prima.

Verano de 1942. Carlos Lombardi se ve obligado por la policía del Nuevo Estado a seguir el rastro de un joven desaparecido. Todavía en libertad provisional, con un inestable trabajo en la agencia de investigación Hermes, el exinspector republicano se enfrenta a un mundo rural para él desconocido en la Castilla profunda; un mundo de silencio y miedo marcado por la cruel represión durante los primeros meses de la reciente guerra civil.

O jovem Stan Carlisle, carroceiro de um circo de variedades, assiste, em um misto de repulsa e curiosidade, a uma das principais atrações do lugar: um alcoólatra, decadente e entregue à própria imundice, é apresentado como um selvagem, sendo objeto de espanto, nojo e escárnio da multidão voyeurística. Stan se pergunta como um homem pode se humilhar e perder a dignidade daquela forma. Ele jura que nunca, de forma alguma, essa desgraça poderia acontecer com ele.

When 84-year-old Ada Fenn was found dead, natural causes were easily assumed. But when the post-mortem revealed that her heart problems had nothing to do with it, a full-blown murder investigation was launched.

Thirty years after the shocking and unsolved 1986 assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme on a snowy street in Stockholm, an activist priest is found gruesomely sacrificed on the altar of a Swedish-American church in Minneapolis. The church’s immigrant janitor is also slain, execution style. The crime shocks Hennepin Island, the church’s time-forgotten riverfront neighborhood, where Span Lokken, a demoralized newspaperman, and his improbable partner, Maggie Lindberg, the murdered clergyman’s stylish young assistant, join forces to search for the killers.

Sydney Green crede di conoscere il quartiere di Brooklyn come le sue tasche, perché è qui che è nata e cresciuta. Eppure da un po’ di tempo c’è qualcosa che Sydney non sa definire, qualcosa di profondamente sbagliato, perché ogni giorno qualcosa cambia, impercettibilmente ma inesorabilmente. L’anziana dirimpettaia all’improvviso non si vede più, intere famiglie se ne vanno senza salutare. E appaiono nuovi vicini, sempre bianchi, sempre più ricchi. E agenti immobiliari, ovunque.

Jolted from sleep by the ringing of the telephone, Imogen stumbles through the dark, empty house to answer it. At first, she can't quite understand the man on the other end of the line. Surely he can't honestly be accusing her of killing her husband, Ivor, who died in a car crash barely two months ago. As the nights draw in, Imogen finds her home filling up with unexpected guests, who may be looking for more than simple festive cheer. Has someone been rifling through Ivor's papers? Who left the half-drunk whiskey bottle beside his favourite chair?

Cynthia, a 12-year-old child, finds herself living alone in a gritty neighborhood of flophouses, bars, and drug dealers. Violence is her path to survival. The cartel recruits her into the underground world of drugs, guns, violence, and betrayal. Cynthia rises in the organization to become the only woman enforcer. She learns to love only to find that her loved ones die a horrible death. Can she survive in her kill or be killed world?

In his new writing project, Donkey, Joey Truman manifests a bizarro literary sitcom as sexy romp, as meditation on being trapped in the working class with no way out.

La prima indagine della celebre serie investigativa - firmata da Maria Teresa Valle - con protagonista Maria Viani, biologa in pensione con il pallino per le storie con delitto. Maria Viani, biologa in pensione, trascorre felicemente le sue giornate in un tranquillo paesino dell’Appennino ligure dividendo il suo tempo tra l’orto e la raccolta di funghi nel bosco. Il ritrovamento del cadavere di un abitante del piccolo paese le offre l’occasione di trasformarsi da tranquilla signora di campagna in detective.

An unputdownable novel full of suspense and secrets from top 30 bestselling author Ruby Speechley Perfect for fans of Shari Lapena, Alice Feeney and Lisa Jewell. Single mum Ellie is shown a missing person post on Facebook. It’s of her three-year-old son, Tyler… But he’s right there...

Con una estructura perfecta y un ritmo endemoniado, El significado del fuego reconstruye los últimos momentos de Machi a través de quienes lo conocieron: desde el fiscal a cargo del caso, pasando por el propio juez, el comisario, la esposa, los hijos, los amigos, los socios del restaurante, hasta los guardias de seguridad del country e incluso las "amigas" que lo visitaban con frecuencia.

Ein grausiger Leichenfund schreckt das beschauliche Jütland im Süden Dänemarks auf. In die Brust des Toten, der aus dem Leichenschauhaus entwendet wurde, ist "Grandberg" eingeritzt, der Name der mächtigsten Familie im Dorf – und des örtlichen Polizeichefs. Und neben der Leiche steckt eine Schaufel im Boden, die ein mörderisches Geheimnis enthüllt: das Massengrab eines Serienkillers, der seine jungen Opfer mit kochender Milch verbrühte.

For years, Donna ignored the guns in her husband's safe, his long hours, and all the cash he couldn't possibly have made as an "efficiency expert." But finally she was forced to admit that Peter Macklin is a killer for hire. Donna wants a divorce, and she wants to take her husband for all he's worth. But she won't get a penny if he's dead.

A twisty unputdownable thriller from Diana Wilkinson, author of the Number One bestseller The Girl in Seat 2A Jealousy can be a killer… Ten years after her boyfriend Mitch’s mysterious disappearance, Rebecca finally learns the truth about what happened. When he finally returns, a happy...

The first three crime thrillers in the Detective Sebastian Clifford series together in a single collection for the first time. This collection includes Web of Lies, Speak No Evil, and Never Too Late.

Henri Koskinen firmly believes in the power of common sense and order. That is until he moves in with Laura Helanto and her daughter. As Henri realises he has inadvertently become part of a group of local dads, a competing adventure park is seeking to expand their operations, not always sticking to the law in the process. Is it possible to combine the increasingly dangerous world of the adventure-park business with the unpredictability of life in a blended family? At first glance, the two appear to have only one thing in common: neither deals particularly well with a mounting body count.

On a snowy winter morning, an abandoned shipping container is discovered near Reykjavík. Inside are the bodies of five young women - one of them barely alive. As Icelandic Police detective Daníel struggles to investigate the most brutal crime of his career, Áróra looks into the background of a suspicious man, who turns out to be engaged to Daníel's former wife, and the connections don't stop there.

Dead Inside is an audio drama that follows Detective Sarah Elsher on a mind-bending thrill ride. Follow Sarah as she uncovers dark secrets of corruption and crime within her city and police department. Can Sarah track down the suspects before it's too late?

Sir Lawrence Linwood is dead. More accurately, he was murdered—savagely beaten to death in his own study with a mediaeval mace. The murder calls home his three adopted children: Alan, an archeologist; Roger, an engineer; and Caroline, a journalist. But his heirs soon find that his last testament contains a strange proviso—that his estate shall go to the heir who solves his murder.