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Aaron Platt has spent every day of his life breaking his back to scrape a living from the rocky, played-out fields of the Adirondack farm he inherited from his sadistic father. One winter morning, he follows footprints in the snow to his barn and discovers a man freezing to death in a horse stall. What unfolds between the two men, past and present, is a brisk, gritty depiction of crime and punishment. But their harrowing story is more than that, exposing the shocking hypocrisy of the people who live in the nearby bucolic town.

Since losing his knighthood, Crispin Guest has reinvented himself as an investigator for hire known as the Tracker. But his reputation will once again be put to the test with his latest case. Jacob of Provençal, a Jewish physician at the king's court, is missing a set of documents that he claims contain the power to bring forth a dangerous demon. Meanwhile, it seems a monster has already been unleashed on the city. Vulnerable street children are being abducted and murdered, their mutilated bodies the only clues left behind.

Nome: Lorenzo Falcó. Età: 37 anni. Professione: donnaiolo, ex trafficante d'armi, ora spia franchista nel pieno della Guerra civile spagnola. Segni particolari: eterna sigaretta fra le labbra, cravatta di seta, l'immancabile Browning nella fondina legata alla cintura, un sorriso tra i più insolenti. Nel mese di marzo del 1937 la sua nuova missione lo porta a Tangeri, per spingere alla resa il capitano di un mercantile repubblicano che imbarca un carico d'oro di proprietà del Banco de España.

Nell'autunno spagnolo del 1936, a pochi mesi dall'inizio della guerra civile, la linea di confine che separa gli amici dai nemici è insidiosa e sottile. Ma Lorenzo Falcó, trentasette anni, animo scaltro e scuro e una passione dichiarata per le donne, i bei vestiti e le scarpe di vernice, non ha ideali alti né posizioni da prendere: ex trafficante di armi, avventuriero senza scrupoli, di lavoro fa la spia e si limita a eseguire gli ordini.

Das Verbrechen wurde damals nicht aufgeklärt, die ermordete Frau nie gefunden. Nun, Jahrzehnte später, wird ihr Skelett hinter der gemauerten Kellerwand eines Hauses im Reykjavíker Stadtzentrum entdeckt. Dem pensionierten Kommissar Konráð wird plötzlich klar, dass dieses fast vergessene Verbrechen etwas mit dem Mord an seinem Vater zu tun haben könnte, und beginnt, erneut in dem Fall zu ermitteln. Bald bringen ihn jedoch die Kollegen der Kripo Reykjavík in Bedrängnis.

The Akashic Noir series’ forensic study of Southern California sharpens its focus on one of Los Angeles’ most recognized neighborhoods.

When Death—that uninvited and unwelcomed guest—arrives, all plans cease; everyone has to stop and make adjustments; and everyone has to deal with it. Magali, a young prostitute of Villa Rosario, Panama, has died. Her ex-lovers, including friends Ricardo and Dan Landes, attend her funeral, each harboring different memories of her. In fact, everyone harbors different memories of her, because no one really knew who she was. But her ghost comes back from the grave to prod ex-detective Dan Landes to uncover the truth about her death.

Old Wounds: A Nick Shelby Case and Other Crime Stories is a collection of 15 short crime stories from dark detective noir to domestic murder, crossing time periods as far back as the Victorian era and into the near future—some with a twist of horror, science fiction, or the supernatural. Each story revolves around intriguing characters with twists and turns and on occasion a sting in the tail.

சேலம் ஜில்லாவில் உள்ள பொய் மான் கரடு எனும் இடத்தில் தனது கற்பனை கதாபாத்திரங்களை உலவவிட்டு ஒரு மர்மக்கதையை படைத்துள்ளார் அமரர் கல்கி.

Los Angeles has many faces: the real LA where regular people live and work, the degenerate underbelly of any big city, and the rarified world of wealth, power, and celebrity. LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan’s latest case plunges her into this insular realm of privilege and gives her a glimpse of the darkness behind the glitter. The body of beloved actor Evan Hobbes is found in the rubble of a Malibu rockslide a day after a fake video ruins his career. It’s not clear to Nolan if it’s an accident, a suicide, or a murder, and things get murkier as the investigation expands.

Blackjack addict Frank Savic is deeply in debt and facing family problems when he's asked to delay his retirement to catch a vigilante killer who murders other murderers in a manner the veteran cop has never seen. While dead bodies stack up, the motorcycle-riding policeman also finds himself reluctantly involved with a desperate mother who will do anything to get justice for her dead son. Savic, his investigation complicated by a suspected FBI coverup and a prison bribery scandal, is unaware that the murderer might be the solution to his own financial and domestic dilemma.

Alessandro Pinna è un investigatore privato di cinquant’anni che vive e lavora a Genova. Ama la musica classica, le citazioni in latino ed il suo gatto di nome Catullo. Si occupa, come dice lui, solo di corna ed eredità: fino a quando accetta l’incarico sulla misteriosa morte di un diciottenne a Boccadasse. Semplice incidente oppure omicidio? Eppure Pinna, solo qualche anno prima, era un alto ufficiale dei Carabinieri: abituato ad indagini complesse e delicate. Perché questo cambio di vita? Che cosa gli è successo?

Matteo De Foresta, giornalista di quarant’anni che vive e lavora a Genova, viene aggredito nei caruggi da una misteriosa banda di immigrati. A salvarlo da morte certa sarà Bob, senegalese molto conosciuto in centro storico e personaggio controverso per i suoi comportamenti non sempre ortodossi. Per sdebitarsi, Matteo accetterà di aiutare Bob a scoprire chi si cela dietro la pericolosa organizzazione criminale che lo ha aggredito.

Lance Gedrin is taking in the sights at the San Antonio Riverwalk when he spots a group of thugs trying to rob a young woman. Gedrin gets ready to dispose of the hombres, but he’s too slow. The woman hurts them in record time and Gedrin is smitten. They start chatting, but then everything changes. She gets a text with a gruesome photo of her autistic brother tied to a chair. He’s been kidnapped. Gedrin goes on a mission to find the kid. Disrespecting family in the fight game is unforgiveable. But he’s never navigated the criminal underbelly of Texas.

Un piovoso giorno di novembre del 1998 un Professore scompare misteriosamente dall'Istituto di Anatomia Patologica di Torino. Il Commissario Aurelio Baldanzi, solerte quanto scettico, viene chiamato d'urgenza, ma il mistero appare da subito più intricato del previsto, tra racconti di fantasmi e dell’antica maledizione di un Professore scomparso anni prima proprio nello stesso giorno e forse ancora ansioso di vendetta.

Enzo Fellini, commissario di polizia a Venezia, indaga sugli omicidi perpetrati da un killer che si firma "L'Osservatore". Tutto ciò che Fellini fa e dice viene spiato da una rete di microcamere collegate allo smartphone dell'assassino. A supporto delle indagini c'è una squadra affiatata in cui non mancano, tuttavia, episodi di alta tensione. In tutti i sensi. Almeno su questo c'è l'unanimità: occorre darsi una mano per "gestire" il questore Egisto Badalamenti, omuncolo saccente e narcisista, che si fida ciecamente del quotidiano Venezia Notizie.

Ernesto vive un rapporto ormai logoro con la moglie depressa, il suo taxi è teatro di storie che si intrecciano a un delitto nella Roma "bene". La vittima è uno scultore di fama internazionale, pochissimi avevano accesso all’appartamento dove viene ritrovato cadavere e nessuno ha un movente valido per torturarlo a morte. L’ispettore Paolo Proietti, a capo dell’indagine, intuisce che sta per scatenare un vespaio. La verità lo lascerà schifato, esausto e fragile come mai un poliziotto dovrebbe sentirsi.

Ray Kerze hasn't been having the best time of it. His closest friends are the guys in line with him at the liquor store before breakfast. He lives in his office in the decaying heart of Detroit, and that's only because the building is so far gone, no one shows up to collect rent. An ex-cop turned private investigator, he's not so much investigating as drowning himself in whiskey and helping out other struggling denizens of downtown in his sober moments. His life becomes a bit more interesting—and, some might say, worth living—when a young woman shows up at his office.

Insurance mathematician Henri Koskinen has just restored order in his life, as well as in the adventure park he now owns, when a man from the past appears—and turns everything upside down again. More problems arise when the park's equipment supplier is taken over by a shady trio: Why won't Suomen Leikki Ltd sell the new Moose Jump to Henri when he needs it for the park's main attraction? At the same time, Henri's relationship with the artist Laura Helanto is reaching a breaking point.

Dany Longo is blonde, beautiful—and thoroughly unpredictable. After doing a favor for her boss, she finds herself behind the wheel of his exquisite Thunderbird on a sun-kissed Parisian morning. On impulse, she decides to head south. What started as an impromptu joyride rapidly takes a turn for the chilling when strangers all along the unfamiliar route swear they recognize Dany from the previous day. But that’s impossible: She was at work, she was in Paris, she was miles away...wasn’t she?