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‘Dark and dramatic, with an explosive ending’ Diane Saxon A woman on the run… Madeleine Frost knows she has to get away from her partner Liam. His behaviour has become increasingly controlling and Maddie fears for her safety and that of her young daughter Poppy. Desperation leads Maddie to...

Matt Connell, a formerly successful literary agent who’s been in prison for four years for a crime of passion—homicide by strangulation after learning his wife slept with a friend—receives an early release from Sing Sing to join an FBI undercover investigation of multiple murders in Manhattan. Killings continue to mount as Matt does his best to calm his “Ferrari brain”—a condition in which his mind accelerates wildly into negative thoughts and worst-case scenarios—even as he falls in love with a suspect, then discovers disturbing truths about his past and hers.

Marcus Kemp is a beat cop living a normal life in San Diego, California—until the day he makes a shocking discovery: a dead body in the trunk of a stolen car. Worse, the victim turns out to be the man who abused him as a child. Marcus instinctively wants to help the killer get away with murder and, disregarding his police oath, will stop at nothing to make it happen. With both his job and freedom in jeopardy, Marcus’s investigation leads him to an unexpected suspect, and he is soon faced with an impossible decision.

Island, am abgelegenen Fjord Hvalfjörður: An einem Winterabend klopft ein Nachbar am Haus der Familie Hvarf, die seit einer Woche nicht mehr gesehen wurde. Als niemand ihm öffnet, dringt er durch die Hintertür ins Haus ein, wo sich ihm ein grauenvoll blutiger Anblick bietet, Mutter und Töchter wurden mit einer Axt erschlagen. Polizist Týr, seine Kollegin Karó und die Gerichtsmedizinerin Iðunn werden an diesen Tatort gerufen, um das Verbrechen zu untersuchen.

In una torrida estate romana, un anziano cammina nel parco di villa Sciarra, nell’elegante quartiere di Monteverde. Un odore tremendo attira la sua attenzione. Vicino a una macchia di cespugli scopre, con terrore, una mano mozzata. Poco più in là, gli arti amputati di un uomo sono disposti sul terreno a disegnare una celebre formula fisica. Il brutale omicidio turba la quiete del quartiere, ma soprattutto sconvolge l’instabile equilibrio del commissario Ansaldi, che con il trasferimento nella capitale sperava di aver trovato una tregua agli orrori cui ha assistito nella sua lunga carriera in polizia.

Betty Foster is known as a socialist, wife, and ballerina. But no one knows the real Betty Foster. The story unfolds when her car is found one morning but Betty seems to be missing. A search begins as questions arise. Is Betty dead? Or is this just a game to her? With every truth comes another lie. At the heart of this mystery there is one big question that needs answered; Who is Betty Foster?

Brought to you by Penguin. When the body of an Australian backpacker is found in Spain, an online group of amateur true crime sleuths springs up around the world, attempting to solve the mystery of her death. Foremost on the message boards is Astria, a young Norwegian woman whose feverish...

Raven Man and Other Tales of Terror and Suspense is a collection of six disturbing stories, ranging from classic gothic horror to contemporary crime with a wicked twist.

A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently — from the bestselling author of Golden Hill. In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a snowy night at the end of winter, two detectives find a body on the roof of a skyscraper...

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.

The world writhes as a remorseless terror sweeps across the planet. The age of immortals is drawing to a close and the vestige of humanity lies in tatters. Jonas, the failed leader of the human resistance, is adrift in a world that rejected him. Having witnessed the cold cruelty of annihilation, he spent hours in a state of debilitating shock. But now he must venture back to the ruins of civilization in search of hope.

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? 

It’s Halloween, and when an elderly billionaire is discovered dead in the locked study of his stately Highland home, DCI Jack Logan and his team must race the worsening weather to get to the scene of the crime. There, among the victim’s extended family and staff, Jack finds no shortage of suspects. Everyone, it seems, had reason to want the old man dead, and they all have something to hide.

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?

Everyone knows sex sells. But for some, sex also empowers. And for Jessica Amber Star—a top performer in the adult entertainment industry—she knows this to be true. Unfortunately, no one else does. Not her family. Not her friends. Seems like no one. What's worse is that no one understands that working in the industry has provided her an opportunity to start over. An opportunity to start a new life. An opportunity to be the person she's always wanted to be. Dreamed to be. An opportunity to be...reborn.

Before he dies, Remi decides to stockpile as much money as possible for Kayla’s future. When a chance to participate in a lucrative gun-for-hire scheme arises, Remi, out of desperation, agrees to execute a hit on a shady Philadelphia drug dealer.