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Susan didn’t plan on being an amateur sleuth and, after two successful investigations, she’s looking forward to a quiet Christmas. So, when local businesswoman Meera is in desperate need of help, Susan agrees rather reluctantly. The task should be easy enough. The infamous press mogul Duncan Fern is coming back to the Isle of Wight, the scene of his family’s childhood holidays, to celebrate Christmas with his grown-up children and their partners, his new glamorous wife Kirsten who is forever dripping with diamonds, and the spikey editor of his paper the Morning Flame, Antoine.

Irish newsreader Isolde Malone has a face many would recognise; in fact, she can’t walk through the streets of Dublin without bumping into a hoard of fans, all of whom want their picture taken with the darling of broadcast journalism. She’s living a dream life and has never been happier. Until the night everything changes.

For fans of Cottonmouths by Kelly J. Ford comes Negative Girl: an evocative, moody, neo-noir thriller that explores obsession and people dying across America's forgotten spaces.

A thirty-four-year-old American woman—a secret agent—is sent to do dirty work in France. “Sadie Smith” is how the narrator introduces herself to her lover, to the rural commune of French subversives on whom she is keeping tabs, and to the reader. Sadie has met her love, Lucien, a young and well-born Parisian, by “cold bump”—making him believe the encounter was accidental. Like everyone Sadie targets, Lucien is useful to her and used by her. Sadie operates by strategy and dissimulation, based on what her “contacts”—shadowy figures in business and government—instruct.

Maria Viani, biologa in pensione e detective per passione, rispolvera una serie di efferati crimini compiuti 500 anni prima. I colpi di scena si susseguono in quella che si rivelerà la sua indagine più pericolosa. Maria Viani trascorre l'inverno frequentando la biblioteca civica alla ricerca di documenti sulla storia della Repubblica di Genova. In maniera del tutto fortuita le capita tra le mani il verbale di un processo per duplice omicidio, avvenuto nel centro storico nel 1550. Protagonista un ricco artigiano della seta genovese, condannato a morte.

Добро пожаловать в Завораш — город, где плетется паутина заговоров. Жестокие убийства здесь не редкость, а на улицах правит белый тлен — новая чума, от которой гибнут сотни горожан. В этом городе пересекаются судьбы нескольких героев: человека, находящегося в подчинении у загадочных алхимиков крови, священника, наемного убийцы, бездомного наркомана и смертельно опасного маньяка — хирургически модифицированного бывшего солдата, испытывающего непреодолимую тягу к убийствам. В безумном мире, где каждый сам за себя, герои вынуждены бороться со своими внутренними демонами.

In this stylish and gripping historical noir novel, Randall Harker—the controversial city editor of an established progressive daily in the urban Midwest of 1950—excites the wrath of a reckless, corrupt, and ambitious U.S. senator anxious to make a name for himself as the country’s most ardent anti-Communist.

Enrico Ferrari é o subchefe da Cosa Nostra. Um homem que traçou o seu destino optando pela vida solitária com mulheres em sua cama sem precisar assumir um compromisso. Pietra Vacchiano, a princesinha da máfia, filha do chefe da Cosa Nostra, sempre nutriu um amor platônico, que ela escondia de todos, pelo subchefe.

Genova, 1990. Maria Viani, sta eseguendo le analisi necessarie per il trapianto degli organi di Massimo Ghini, entrato in coma per un colpo di arma da fuoco. Le forze dell'ordine hanno stabilito che si è trattato di suicidio. Ma è davvero così? Sia l'ex moglie dell'uomo, scarcerato da poco dopo aver scontato una pena per appartenenza a bande armate, che il suo datore di lavoro e amico, non sembrano convinti di questa tesi. Anche Maria Viani, compilando un rapporto per il Ministero della Sanità, si imbatte in una strana coincidenza che la fa dubitare di questa presunta verità.

When Jenny St. John was eighteen, she moved to Los Angeles from her rural midwestern hometown and scored the lead role in an independent film called The Divide. Under the intimate direction of young auteur Serge Grumet, Jenny was on her way to becoming the next indie darling. But then the movie tanked, and Jenny never caught a second break. Now, two decades later, after floundering on the fringes of the entertainment industry, she’s barely keeping afloat running a low-level grift as a psychic life coach. But when news surfaces that Serge has been murdered, Jenny’s life is turned upside down.

The Stranger (1946), the third film directed by the legendary Orson Welles, is a film noir thriller of the highest order. In the wake of World War II, Mr. Wilson, an official with the Allied War Crimes Commission (played by the legendary Edward G. Robinson), is on the trail of Franz Kindler, an escaped Nazi who was the chief architect of the regime’s mass genocide. Wilson allows a concentration camp commandant, Conrad Meinike, to escape in the hope that he will lead him to the elusive Kindler.

asada en hechos reales que escandalizaron a México hace menos de un lustro, 41 cuenta dos historias paralelas que solo el lector podrá unir a medida que avance en la enigmática intriga. Por un lado, la vida de El Japonés, pequeño habitante de un mundo sórdido donde drogas, violencia intrafamiliar, incesto y pedofilia serán siempre un lugar común. Por el otro, la investigación policial que los ya conocidos judiciales Sabino y Román realizan sobre los misteriosos crímenes perpetrados en contra de homosexuales, entre quienes se encontrará el hermano de un político importante.

Quando rientra all’alba, esausta dopo notti di bevute e sesso occasionale, Elena Blanco ha un rito: esaminare le immagini di una fotocamera che ha piazzato davanti al portone del suo palazzo. Chi ha paura di vedere? O meglio, chi più di ogni altra persona al mondo vorrebbe vedere? C’è un caso irrisolto nel passato di questa eccezionale ispettrice di polizia. L’unico della sua carriera. È molto più di una delusione, è un profondo trauma che ha sconvolto la sua vita e che continua a perseguitare ogni secondo della sua esistenza.

Un cadavere viene trovato nella valle della Meuse, nel cuore delle Ardenne. Incidente, suicidio o omicidio? La capitana Katel Marelle è esterrefatta quando scopre l’identità della vittima. Renaud Duval aveva... tre vite a settimana? Tre donne aspettano il suo ritorno. Ognuna sostiene di essere il suo unico amore. Insieme cercheranno di svelare l’enigma di un’impossibile triplice vita... Ma, come in un teatro d’illusioni, si aggirano ombre pronte a vendicarsi. Chi sa la verità? Chi dirige il gioco? Chi tira le corde? Diffidate dei fili invisibili.

Grace is a thief—a good one. But she's always on the move, always looking over her shoulder, always alone. It's not the life she wants. Then a run-in with an old associate forces her to lie low in a small rural town, where she happens across an antiques shop. The owner Erin is timid but friendly, and has a room to rent. And Grace glimpses a different life, and perhaps a home. But there are dangerous men watching her, and Grace should know better than to let her guard slip. Because no matter how far she runs, her past is always just a few steps behind...

When Varg Veum reads the newspaper headline 'YOUNG MAN MISSING', he realises he saw the youth just a few days earlier - en route to a demonstration against a commercial fish-farming facility in the tiny village of Solvik, north of Bergen. Varg heads to Solvik, initially out of curiosity, but when he chances upon a dead body in the sea, he's pulled into a dark and complex web of secrets, feuds and jealousies.

Echo Paisley has been on her own since her fiancé, Nash, died three years ago. She soon discovered that she didn’t know the man she was going to marry. He had cheated on her with the one person she thought had her back. But that wasn’t the only secret. Echo is about to leave her past behind when she discovers one last secret Nash left behind, which threatens to turn her life upside down. Echo is forced to seek help from her estranged mother with no one else to turn to.

Ex-DCI Luke Sackville investigates a link between a senior executive and a large bet, little realizing that what he is seeing is the tip of the iceberg. Beneath the surface sinister forces are at work, and when he learns of a tragedy following a rugby match Luke spots a possible connection. He sets his team to work and they uncover a gambling syndicate whose cold and ruthless leader will stop at nothing to achieve his aims. It becomes a race against time as they battle to unmask the guilty.

Ray Maloney arrives in Shale City with no memory and few clues as to his identity. Guided by a mysterious figure, he sets up business and begins work as a private detective. But there are many shadows in the streets. Ray will find himself up against shady businessmen, corrupt cops, and other predators waiting for a chance to strike.

Vous n'en ferez qu'une bouchée ! San Francisco, 1971. L'inspecteur Garrett Erickson enquête sur une série de meurtres : des jeunes femmes décapitées dont plusieurs organes ont été prélevés. Obsédé par ces victimes dont on ne retrouve même pas l'identité, il est aidé par l'agent Will Slater du FBI, qui l'incite à penser de manière irrationnelle, à penser comme le meurtrier. Peut-il s'agir d'un cannibale ?