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It's 1931 in Shanghai, and the stage is set for a new decade of intrigue. Four years ago, Rosalind Lang was brought back from the brink of death, but the strange experiment that saved her also stopped her from sleeping and aging—and allows her to heal from any wound. In short, Rosalind cannot die. Now, desperate for redemption from her traitorous past, she uses her abilities as an assassin for her country.

It was never just a job. Becoming a hitman was the only way Mario could cover his young daughter's medical expenses. But before long, his family is left in pieces, and he's barely even put a dent in the stack of bills. Then he's presented with an offer: one last score that will either pull him out of poverty forever or put a bullet in the back of his skull. A man named Juanca needs help stealing $2 million dollars from a drug cartel. Together, they begin a journey to an underworld where unspeakable horrors happen every day.

Crawford the were-rat checks into a shady hotel and promptly stumbles over a dead man. A mysterious troll is obsessed with finding the dagger that killed him—a dagger possessed by a demon! The demon denies that he is a demon and is obsessed with regaining his freedom. Meanwhile, the hotel’s night clerk is obsessed with the hooker on the third floor. Crawford is obsessed with what’s in the hooker’s room: a solid gold statuette of a demon-slaying goddess! Crawford has checked in, but when obsessions collide, does he have any hope of checking out?

London, June 1965. Karl Braun arrives as a lodger in Pimlico: hatless, with a bow-tie, greying hair, slight in build. His new neighbours are intrigued by this cultured German gentleman who works as a piano tuner; many are fellow émigrés, who assume that he, like them, came to England to flee Hitler. That summer, Braun courts a woman, attends classical concerts, dances the twist. But as the newspapers fill with reports of the hunt for Nazi war criminals, his nightmares become increasingly worse.

Frankie Avicious is a hard-luck fellow with a sordid past. Living in a dreary meatpacking town, stuck in a loveless marriage, and spending his days slaughtering cattle, Frankie has nothing to look forward to but his next swallow of bargain whiskey. His wife is threatening to leave him, and the local sociopath is threatening to kill him. And then there’s Scarlett Acres, a stripper with a heart of fool’s gold. Frankie can’t stop thinking about her.

A mysterious Iraq war veteran with a horribly scarred face… A disturbed young man in a strange mountain town… A masked preacher with a terrible secret… Amidst a firestorm of violence, betrayal, and horror, their three worlds will eventually collide in an old mining shack buried deep in the mountains.

While all Iraqis will readily agree that their life has always been noir, the majority of the stories in Baghdad Noir are set in the years following the American invasion of 2003, though one story is set in 1950 and three are set in the 1970s and 1980s. Yet it is this recent history of Iraq—over the last few decades—that serves to inform its present....

Detective Smith thought his golden years would be easy now that he had retired from killing dames of the night. But the life he left behind isn’t through with him…yet. The black-veiled witch Anya and her army of ghouls make different plans when Smith’s hotshot replacement fails to appease Anya and botches her century-old tradition of cleansing the streets of its deviants and filth. Anya sets her sights on a new protégé—Smith’s teenage granddaughter, Melissa.

Vivere senza dolore, era questa la speranza di Isa Lodi, una giovane donna che era stata staffetta partigiana sull'Appennino Tosco-Emiliano durante la Resistenza. Ma un giorno di novembre del 1948 viene uccisa nel suo appartamento sui Navigli, strangolata con un giubbotto celeste ricavato dalla stoffa di un paracadute. A trovarla senza vita è il suo convivente, Ludovico Colzi, il tenente che sui monti si faceva chiamare Mosca. Qual è il mistero che si cela dietro questo crimine che sembra venire dagli anni della guerra?

Frank, a frustrated singer-turned-music professor finds himself entangled in a love affair with Shelley, a highly-educated, unhappily married woman. Jonesing to quit his teaching gig, Frank jumps at the chance to implement his new girlfriend's scheme to steal the skimmed-cash treasure from her marijuana business tycoon husband. Feeling they need a third, she introduces him to Ramon, her go-to bartender, armed with a nomadic upbringing and a gun from behind the register, who likewise is all in.

El nombre es Daniels, Jack Daniels, como el whisky que conoces. Soy Detective Privado. Y no puedo evitar meter la nariz en los asuntos de otras personas. Es lo que hago. Te acostumbras. Se convierte casi en una forma de vida. Después de un tiempo te resulta natural, automático, como respirar o comer, aunque no tan placentero. Es un hábito que simplemente no puedo romper. Simplemente no puedo evitarlo. Pero a veces puede llevarte a problemas...

Corrupción, escándalos, blanqueo de capitales, espionaje, violencia, sexo... son algunos de los ingredientes de esta novela negra en la que Andreu Martín retrata de un modo extraordinariamente crítico los tiempos que estamos viviendo. Una obra actual y oportuna, con diálogos vivos y mordaces. La historia comienza con el asesinato de dos socios de una asesoría financiera. Todo apunta a Germán Rojo, magnate que trata a todo el mundo como meros insectos. Sin embargo, Germán pronto descubrirá que hasta los insectos tienen la capacidad de vengarse.

When a dying millionaire hires Lucius Anoraq to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, Anoraq finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.

Two skeletons are discovered in the grounds of St Mary's Choir School. This was not a centuries-old Christian burial. They are wearing modern-day clothes, and there is evidence of foul play. Consecrated land has been sadistically violated.

Detective Inspector Gilbert Markham is a rising talent of the Bromgrove police force. He is on the trail of the murderer when another life is brutally claimed. Who is the savage killer lurking in this innocent place?

Dionysos Mavroulis is a man without a future: a man who embraces destiny and risks everything for love. A refugee from Asia Minor, he escapes Smyrna in 1922 disguised as an old woman. Alienated and plagued by feelings of remorse, he spirals into poverty and seeks solace in the hashish dens around Piraeus. Hitting rock bottom, he meets Aleko, an accomplished bouzouki player. Recognizing in the impoverished refugee a rare musical talent, Aleko offers to teach him the bouzouki.

Back in the 1950's and 60's, Orrie Hitt was a prolific writer of romance novels. The "hanky panky" in his novels is tamer and less explicit than in many of today's romance novels, but the storylines were incredibly engaging. His characters are so fully developed that you either love them, hate them or pity them. In this novel, overworked and underpaid Danny O'Conner decides to take a little vacation at a resort, then decides to stay and work there. He soon becomes involved with three women, a lot of intrigue, and a great deal of danger.

La Milano degli anni Sessanta è un organismo in attesa di qualcosa. Gli studenti si riuniscono, chiacchierano nei bar all'ora dell'aperitivo, sognano ribellioni. È estate, e i Beatles hanno cantato da poco in città. Il commissario Caronte si trova ad indagare sulla sparizione di una studentessa, Ersilia, parente del prefetto, di cui non si hanno più notizie da diversi giorni. Caronte si getterà a capofitto in questa nuova indagine, portando alla luce verità insabbiate e segreti destinati a rimanere tali.

Curzio Malanotte, aspirante suicida fuori dal comune, decide di compiere l'estremo gesto in modo, diciamo così, "sociale" per farla pagare alla sua famiglia, colpevole di essere indifferente al suo malessere esistenziale. Ma proprio all'Isola, quartiere di Milano dove progetta di mettere in scena la sua pantomima suicida, imperversa un maniaco che uccide le prostitute seguendo uno strano rituale. Per il commissario Musante, le tracce del killer incrociano spesso, troppo spesso, il cammino di Malanotte, che diventa il sospettato numero uno.

Last night two children knocked at his door. Someone is looking for them...Nicholas Hooper wanted to be left alone. Looking to escape his past and his unfortunate present, the best-selling author rented a luxury house in the Poconos to finish what very well could be his very last book. But his plans change when one night he opens his front door to find two frightened children. A young girl and boy all alone. They refuse to speak. Looking for help. Hooper takes them into town to see if the local police can help uncover the mystery of what has happened to these children.

Xavier "Scarecrow" Wallace, a mixed-race MMA fighter on the wrong side of thirty, is facing the fight of his life. Xavier can no longer deny he is losing his battle with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), or pugilistic dementia. Through the fog of memory loss, migraines, and paranoia, Xavier does his best to stay in shape by training at the Philadelphia gym owned by his cousin-cum-manager, Shot, a retired champion boxer to whom Xavier owes an unpayable debt. With his memory in shreds and his life crumbling around him, can Xavier hold on to the focus he needs to survive?