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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.

While investigating the origins of a mysterious donation to Oxford University, private detective Charles Maddox encounters the mysterious Baron Von Reisenberg, the subject of many rumors and macabre legends. In the light of day Maddox can find no evidence of anything sinister—until a series of disturbing incidents send him on a quest to expose whatever evil lurks in the Baron's castle. After a terrifying encounter nearly costs him his sanity, Maddox returns home to find London besieged by an elusive murderer branded the Vampire. 

Brought to you by Penguin. Daring, surprising and superbly plotted, this is a fresh, thrilling page-turner from a dynamic new duo in genre fiction Your happiest memory is their deadliest weapon. THIS IS PROPHET. It knows when you were happiest. It gives life to your fondest memories and uses...

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.

Me llamo Darío Pertegaz, soy agente de la Policía Nacional y si están leyendo estas líneas, eso querrá decir que ya estaré muerto. Voy a suicidarme. Así comienza esta novela donde se narra lo que le sucedió a un policía corrupto y a su estricta compañera en el transcurso de una compleja investigación destinada a atrapar a un despiadado asesino en serie cuyo particular código moral le impide matar a personas inocentes. Permítanme contarles esta historia. Hónrenme con su lectura.

Jonas is a transient: a human spy living as an eternal. His mission is simple: always learn, never get caught. In the year 2578, an immortal regime controls the planet. Endless war has pushed humanity to the brink of extinction. Desperate to survive, the remaining factions deploy teenage spies, hoping to defeat the enemy from within. After years in the lion's den, Jonas has grown to admire the eternal civilization. He is learning to love what he blindly hated, blurring the mission and himself.

When private investigator Detective Sebastian Clifford is asked by his former society girlfriend to locate her fiancé—who’s disappeared along with some valuable pieces of art—he’s reluctant to help. He’s left the aristocratic world behind, and for good reason. But when his ex starts receiving threatening letters, Clifford is left with no choice. When he enlists the help of his partner Lucinda Bird, aka Birdie, they start digging and find themselves drawn into London’s underworld.

After an unborn baby's mysterious death, a New York City molecular biologist travels to Puerto Rico to investigate. Fears of a new pandemic mosquito virus haunt her plans and nightmares. Her next DNA experiments reveal a personal stake in a future she is not ready to accept.

Genova: al Porto Antico viene trovato il corpo di una donna. A ucciderla è stata la digossina, un principio attivo che può essere letale. Nelle quattro settimane che precedono il Natale altre quattro donne incontreranno la morte nello stesso modo. Il commissario Mariani si immerge nel tragico mistero senza riserve, un'occasione imperdibile per dimenticare la separazione dalla moglie Francesca. Ma qual è il legame fra le vittime? Oppure il serial killer, se di uno solo si tratta, colpisce a caso?

Amrapali Anna Singh is an historian and analyst capable of discerning the most cryptic and trivial details from audio recordings. One day, a mysterious man appears at her office in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, having traveled a great distance to bring her three Type IV audio cassettes that bear the stamp of a library in Buenos Aires that may or may not exist. On the cassettes is the deposition of an adventure journalist and his obsessive pursuit of an amorphous, legendary, and puzzling "City of Dreams."

From the author of Kings of Broken Things and In Our Other Lives comes a provocative and stylish literary noir about two female war correspondents whose fates intertwine in Europe. Paris, 1938. Two women meet: Mielle, a shy pacifist and shunned Mennonite who struggles to fit in with the elite...

In this epic standalone from David Swinson "one of the best dialogue hounds in the business" (NYTBR), Homicide Detective Alex Blum must answer a terrible question: 'how far would you go to love the wrong woman?' In a red brick house on a tree-lined street, DC homicide detective Alex Blum stares...

Febbraio, 1956. Una coltre di neve è scesa su Roma, ma questo non impedisce ai ladri di fare il loro lavoro. Alla stazione Termini, un uomo è seduto su una panchina in attesa del treno, quando improvvisamente qualcuno alle sue spalle afferra il grande baule a rotelle che ha lì accanto e corre via. Il giorno dopo il questore Passalacqua convoca il commissario Agostino Clodoveo per affidargli un incarico delicatissimo: trovare Clara Tebaldi, moglie di un uomo ricco e importante, Fulco Tebaldi.

Ruben is a successful salesman. Roz hates her boring admin job. Ruben owns his own home. Roz still lives with her nasty mum and dad. One is a serial killer, the other desperate to learn the trade. When high-school misfits Ruben Jones and Roz Smith's paths cross later in life, they see something in the other no one else has and they team up to form a friendship based on the one thing they have in common – murder.