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Irene ha ucciso, forse. Ne è convinto il tribunale che l’ha condannata a quindici anni di detenzione, ne era convinta l’opinione pubblica anche prima che la sentenza venisse pronunciata, e persino lei si ritiene colpevole benché la sua memoria di quel giorno sia molto sfocata. Del resto Irene aveva il migliore dei moventi, dato che la ‘vittima’, se così si può chiamare, era l’assassino di Giulio, suo figlio. Caso chiuso. Ora, scontata l’intera pena, la donna è di nuovo libera e può provare a ricostruirsi una vita nella sua città, Genova.

È un romanzo composto da una serie di dodici racconti legati da un filo narrativo e interdentale. A causa di un ascesso terribile, un uomo si reca al Pronto Soccorso dentistico notturno. Sulla poltrona il protagonista della storia, mentre sta cercando di vincere il dolore del trapano, fa volare la fantasia. Ecco allora le storie raccontate da Pinketts: dall'horror al noir, dal surreale al fantastico, i racconti si muovono tutti sul livello del paradosso e della metafora. Per ogni dente un racconto, in un caleidoscopio di immagini, di giochi di parole, di invenzioni fantastiche.

Miss Rachel Murdock, anziana cacciatrice di intrighi, ha escogitato un modo per girovagare senza spese: fingersi interessata alle case in affitto e farsi scarrozzare per tutta Los Angeles dall'agente immobiliare di turno. Durante uno di questi sopralluoghi, nel giardino di una casa vuota di periferia una bambina intristita sta celebrando il funerale di un rospo schiacciato da una scarpa. Claudia è una bambina chiacchierona e dopo un po' spiffera alla affettuosa vecchietta dell'ostilità tra le famiglie dei suoi nonni, gli Hayes e i Byers, che abitano le due case limitrofe.

Il 14 dicembre 1994 non è un mercoledì come tutti gli altri a Peckham Rye, nel sud di Londra. Diana Lloyd giace ai piedi delle scale della sua antica villetta a schiera in stile georgiano. Qualcuno l’ha spinta giù dal terzo piano, prendendola alle spalle. La pioggia batte incessante sui vetri e Diana ha la vista oscurata, riesce solo a sentire il bisbigliare confuso dei suoi inquilini. L’anziana proprietaria non voleva che quella bizzarra famiglia piena di debiti entrasse in casa sua, ma non si possono scegliere gli inquilini in quella parte della città. La casa di Rye Lane allontana tutti.

È un periodo tranquillo per il commissariato di Rivorosso Umbro, e Adalgisa Calligaris comincia già a pregustare le gioie della pensione. Ma la quiete viene interrotta bruscamente dal medico legale Carlo Petri, che si mette in testa di organizzare una rimpatriata con i vecchi compagni delle medie. Adalgisa, che conserva un pessimo ricordo di quel periodo della sua vita, non vorrebbe saperne niente, ma purtroppo Petri non sente ragioni: non solo la invita, ma la incarica anche di rintracciare i tredici ex alunni che non vivono più a Rivorosso.

In The Thirty-Nine Steps, Hannay struggles to thwart an assassination plot designed to hasten war between Britain and Germany. Later he is plucked from the trenches first, in Greenmantle, to frustrate a plot to ferment an uprising in the Islamic world; and then, in Mr. Standfast, to undertake a vital secret mission against a German spy ring operating among pacifist elements in England. After the war, his adventures continue in The Three Hostages; and then in The Island of Sheep, when an old oath to protect the son of a friend from his days in Africa draws him into new danger.

Twenty years ago Charlie Deravin's mother went missing near the family beach shack—believed murdered; body never found. His father has lived under a cloud of suspicion ever since. Now Charlie's back living in the shack in Menlo Beach, on disciplinary leave from his job with the police sex-crimes unit, and permanent leave from his marriage. After two decades worrying away at the mystery of his mother's disappearance, he's run out of leads. Then the skeletal remains of two people are found in the excavation of a new building site—and the past comes crashing in on Charlie.

A completely revised edition of the first Henry Rios mystery, The Little Death, Lay Your Sleeping Head introduces Michael Nava’s singular protagonist, gay Latino criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios. Rios, beset by personal and professional problems, begins a passionate affair with the black sheep heir to a great California fortune who tells Rios an improbable tale of murder and sexual predation in his wealthy family. When the young man is found dead of an apparent drug overdose, Rios begins an investigation that ultimately reveals much more than murder.

A man with dark thoughts on his mind is racing along the remote snowy roads of Hurmevaara in Finland when there is flash in the sky and something crashes into the car. That something turns about to be a highly valuable meteorite. With euro signs lighting up the eyes of the locals, the unexpected treasure is temporarily placed in a neighbourhood museum, under the watchful eye of a priest named Joel.

On the shores of a tranquil fjord in Northern Iceland, a man is brutally beaten to death on a bright summer's night. As the 24-hour light of the arctic summer is transformed into darkness by an ash cloud from a recent volcanic eruption, a young reporter leaves Reykjavik to investigate on her own, unaware that an innocent person's life hangs in the balance. Dark, terrifying and complex, Blackout is an exceptional atmospheric thriller from one of Iceland's finest crime writers.

Un pirata informático que se infiltra en el Vaticano. Una iglesia barroca, en Sevilla, que mata para defenderse. Tres pintorescos malvados que aspiran a mantener viva la copla española. Una bella aristócrata andaluza. Un apuesto sacerdote-agente especialista en asuntos sucios. Un banquero celoso y su secretario ludópata. Una septuagenaria que bebe Coca-cola. La tarjeta postal de una mujer muerta un siglo atrás. Y el misterioso legado del capitán Xaloc, último corsario español, desaparecido frente a las costas de Cuba en 1898.

When Hedda Hellberg fails to return from a retreat in Italy where she has recently been grieving for her dead father, her husband discovers that her life is tangled in mystery. Hedda never left Oslo, the retreat has no record of her and, what's more, she appears to be connected to the murder of an old man gunned down on the first day of the hunting season in the depths of the Swedish forests....

Nightmare Alley is American author William Lindsay Gresham’s first and best-known work. The novel - most admired by noir fiction fans - was published in 1946, adapted into a film in 1947 starring Tyrone Power and subsequently printed as a graphic novel by Spain Rodriquez. During the 1940s Gresham worked as an editor for a genuine crime pulp magazine in New York, during which period he wrote this book; characters range from hustlers to Machiavellian femme fatales in a dark world of show business.

Chief Detective David Wolf's son has a new girlfriend, and when she discovers her father-a well known man in ancient fossils trade circles-has been murdered, she and the rest of her shattered family turn to Wolf to bring them justice.

FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she's dreaded for years, the one that tells her the Poet has surfaced. She has never forgotten the serial killer who wove lines of poetry in his hideous crimes - and apparently he has not forgotten her. Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets a call, too - from the widow of an old friend. Her husband's death seems natural, but his ties to the hunt for the Poet make Bosch dig deep.

A compelling thriller introducing a driven young detective trying to prove herself in the LAPD. Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. A once up-and-coming detective, she's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor.

Winter 1999. An old man is driving home when his headlights catch an animal on the empty road up ahead. He stamps hard on the brakes. But it is not an animal at all. It is a young boy, frightened and alone, with a set of deer antlers strapped firmly to his head. Fourteen years later, a body is found in a mountain lake. Within weeks, three people have died. Each time, the killer has left a clue, inviting Special Investigations Detectives Munch and Krüger to play a deadly game - a game they cannot possibly win. Against the most dangerous and terrifying kind of serial killer.

Traumatized by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend, and struggling to assimilate into French culture, the Sympathizer finds Paris both seductive and disturbing. As he falls in with a group of left-wing intellectuals he meets at dinner parties given by his French Vietnamese “aunt”, he finds stimulation for his mind but also customers for his narcotic merchandise. But the new life he is making has perils, whether the self-torture of addiction, the authoritarianism of a state locked in a colonial mindset, or the paradox of how to reunite his two closest friends.

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

When the body of a young girl washes up on the shores of the French Broad River, Cord McRae, newly elected sheriff of Acre County, Tennessee, suspects her death might be connected to the Glad Earth Farm, a commune just outside the small town of Falston.

A death, a con man, and murder plus an avenging woman.

Un concentré d'adrénaline, désormais une série Netflix. Une adolescente qui disparaît, une journaliste qui traque les prédateurs sexuels, une petite ville qui cache les secrets les plus inavouables... Pourriez-vous pardonner à ceux qui ont brisé votre vie ? Secrets, disparitions, complots, cabales sur le net, confréries malfaisantes, vengeance... Plus machiavélique que jamais, une plongée au cœur d'une effroyable machination.

Che cos'è la terapia psicanalitica se non un racconto, un racconto infinito? Andrea G. Pinketts ce lo dimostra lasciandoci assistere ai propri incontri con la dottoressa B., analista transazionale. Invece di Edipi, traumi e scene primarie, in luogo di madri e padri ci vengono incontro nani, serial killer, premi Nobel affamati, licantropi, vedove malandrine e golem assassini: il fantastico caravanserraglio della mitologia pinkettsiana.

It’s Midsummer’s Eve, the celebration of the longest day of the year, and on Sandhamn it’s the longest party of the year. But the fun comes to a dead halt when a young reveler is murdered, a teenage girl is found drugged and dazed on the beach, and other young women vanish. So far, what links the victims is a mystery. For Nora Linde and her new boyfriend, Jonas Sköld, the crimes are personal: one of the missing girls is Wilma, Jonas’s daughter. And her disappearance could test Nora and Jonas’s relationship in ways they never expected.

Susan has always taken comfort in the peaceful rhythm of life on the Isle of Wight. But when her daughter Zoe invites her to a Halloween ghost walk at a remote castle, Susan has a sense of foreboding she can’t quite shake. It’s meant to be a bit of fun for the group of old school friends, the thrill of an overnight stay behind the castle’s ancient gates. But when one of them is found dead, the weekend away takes a sinister turn. With the castle locked down and the group trapped inside, it soon becomes clear the killer would have been amongst them.

Il commissario Mariani riceve una telefonata dalla commissaria Nicoli che gli chiede informazioni sul suicidio di Biagio Ferrero, un caro amico di suo marito Luca. Mariani non ne sa molto perché aveva delegato tutto all'ispettore Lorenza Petri, ma comincia a raccogliere informazioni: Ferrero si era “tuffato”, come ha riferito una testimone, in una voragine causata dalle piogge dei mesi precedenti, voragine in cui era precipitata una donna.

Il detective Bacci Pagano deve sventare un potenziale attentato ai danni del Presidente del Consiglio. Genova è in fermento per l’imminente visita del Primo Ministro italiano. Il misterioso furto di una vecchia carabina mette in allerta le forze dell’ordine: fonti certe sostengono che quell’arma desueta sarà usata contro il Premier. Toccherà a Bacci Pagano scandagliare ogni singolo carruggio della città vecchia per scovare l'attentatore in una corsa contro il tempo.

Forced out of the police department after the disappearance of a dangerous suspect, Rainer Hase finds himself at a crossroads. When his former Lieutenant offers him a chance to extract a college girl from a cult, he sees it as a shot at redemption. Rainer soon finds that Cainstown is hiding monstrous secrets.

Sherlock Holmes bekommt einen sonderbaren Brief. Der Name des Absenders ist Daniel Drake. Er bittet Holmes um Hilfe. Jedoch geht aus dem wirren Schreiben nicht hervor, in welcher Angelegenheit. Wie Holmes herausfindet, ist Drake der Autor eines Schauerromans. Die Geschichte spielt in dem Ort, in dem der Brief abgestempelt wurde. Es geht um einen Schriftsteller, der aufgrund von Einsamkeit den Verstand verliert. Holmes entschließt sich, der Sache auf den Grund zu gehen.

Damage’s club has had an offer it can’t refuse, to patch over to join The Brethren MC. But as the bikes rumble and roar across the wild Northern fells, what does this mean for Damage and his brothers? What choices will they have to make as they ride through the wind? What bloody oil stained history might it reawaken? And why are The Brethren making this offer? Loyalty to his club and his brothers has been Damage’s life and route to wealth, but what happens when business becomes serious and brother starts killing brother?