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From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and John D. MacDonald got their start in Black Mask. The urban crime stories that appeared in Black Mask helped to shape American culture. Modern computer games, films, and television are rooted in the fiction popularized by "the seminal and venerated mystery pulp magazine" ( Booklist).

Bank robberies should run like clockwork, right? If your name's Parker, you expect nothing less. Until, that is, one of your partners gets too greedy for his own good. The four-way split following a job leaves too small a take for George Uhl, who begins to pick off his fellow hoisters, one by one. The first mistake? That he doesn't begin things by putting a bullet in Parker. That means he won't get the chance to make a second. One of the darkest novels in the series, this caper proves the adage that no one crosses Parker and lives.

Two detectives. Two identical women. One dead body—rapidly becoming two, then three, then four. All knotted up in Japan’s underground BDSM scene and kinbaku, a form of rope bondage which bears a complex cultural history of spirituality, torture, cleansing, and sacrifice. As Togashi, a junior member of the police force, investigates the murder of a kinbaku instructor, he finds himself unable to resist his own private transgressive desires. In contrast, Togashi’s colleague Hayama is morally upright to a fault, with a stalwart commitment to the truth.

The violent slaughter of the Primrose family while they slept shocked the nation. Their young live-in chef, Bill Kareama, was swiftly charged with murder and brought to justice. But the brutal crime scarred the idyllic town of Cambridge forever. Seventeen years later, true-crime podcaster Sloane Abbott tracks down prison psychologist TK Phillips. Once a fierce campaigner for an appeal, TK now lives a quiet life with Bill's case firmly in his past. As Sloane lures a reluctant TK back into the fight, evidence emerges that casts new light on the Primroses—and who might have wanted them dead.

Un cadavere al cimitero: si direbbe tutto regolare. Ma non se si tratta dell'ingegner Adone Giacomo Forlanini riverso sulla tomba di famiglia, ucciso con una stilettata. Un caso banale, pensa il commissario siciliano Eriberto Passalacqua, arrivato da poco in una Milano che in quel 1975 è martoriata dalla violenza politica e dalla criminalità. Nel giro di poche ore, è costretto a ricredersi.

Infiltrating the inner circle of enigmatic criminal Zain Carver is dangerous enough. Pulling it off while also rescuing Isabelle Rossiter, a runaway politician's daughter, from Zain's influence? Impossible. That's why Aidan Waits is the perfect man for the job. Disgraced, emotionally damaged, and despised by his superiors. In other words, completely expendable. But Aidan is a born survivor. And as he works his way deep into Zain's shadowy world, he finds that nothing is as it seems. Zain is a mesmerizing, Gatsby-esque figure who lures young women into his orbit - women who have a bad habit of turning up dead.

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.

When it comes to family, there’s little Lupita Sanchez won’t do—even if it means throwing herself in the path of a man as feral as his predatory namesake. Julian “Jaguar” Domingas has carved out a violent reputation as one of the most powerful and dangerous drug lords alive. He’s exactly the kind of beast Lupita has learned the hard way to run far, far away from—but desperate times call for insane measures. Jaded and cynical, Jaguar has seen it all when it comes to the multitude of schemers and spies eager for even a taste of his power—and convincing him to help her won’t be easy.

Il giornalista Matteo De Foresta pensa di aver chiuso per sempre con le indagini che lo hanno portato più volte vicino alla morte. Ma non può tirarsi indietro quando riceve la confessione di un ergastolano riguardante un caso irrisolto di quasi cinquant’anni prima: il luogo in cui trovare il cadavere di Giovanna Barberis, rapita e scomparsa nel 1978. Grazie alla collaborazione con Francesca Santi, agguerrita giornalista (genovese come lui), scoprirà che quello scheletro, nascosto così a lungo, riserva molti più misteri di quanto non si pensasse... Marvin Menini è nato a Genova nel 1971.

Le giornate si trascinano nell’apatia, quando in un campo a Coronata, sulle alture di Cornigliano, nel ponente di Genova, viene trovato il corpo di un uomo. È Alberto Delorenzo, un manager di successo, scomparso due anni prima. Mariani dovrebbe indagare, ma sente la mancanza di qualcuno con cui confrontarsi, perché l’ispettrice Petri è chiusa in un ostinato silenzio e lui non vuole o non sa come smuoverla. Capisce che la sua collaboratrice si sente responsabile per la morte di Bareto... Come lui. Ma il caso deve essere risolto, l’omicida deve essere trovato.

Un vecino de Comillas encuentra un coche abandonado y con el reproductor de música encendido frente a un acantilado. El vehículo pertenece a la joven Emma Berger, y esta es la única pista sobre su paradero. El teniente Bruno Marciel, junto a su equipo, tratará de reconstruir las últimas horas de la joven antes de desaparecer. Olivia Llanos, una joven periodista afincada en Madrid, regresa a su pueblo natal, Comillas. Es la hermana melliza del sargento Max Llanos, miembro del equipo de Bruno, y conocía a Emma desde el instituto.

El nuevo caso de la serie de éxito de la inspectora Manuela Mauri. Más de 100.000 lectores UNA NOVELA NEGRA COMBATIVA. A las puertas de las vacaciones de verano, la inspectora de homicidios Manuela Mauri no pasa por su mejor momento. Ha vivido en poco tiempo varias experiencias que le han hecho comprender que hay sentimientos y vivencias que no se pueden verbalizar y cosas que es imposible nombrar. Lo percibe cuando sus hijos, Manuel y David, le hablan de la repentina muerte de su padre (su exmarido) y ella no encuentra el modo de consolarlos.

Als die zwei verirrten Wandersleute Hermine und Wilhelm endlich in einer Sturmnacht ein Obdach in einer abgelegenen Hütte im Hexenmoos finden, bekommen sie dort vom alten Wolfs-Martin einen unglaublichen Bericht über längst vergangene Geschehnisse zu hören, die ihre Schatten bis in die Gegenwart zu werfen scheinen... Welche Bewandtnis hat es mit dem Auftauchen des tiefschwarzen Hirschs im Moos? Und was geschah tatsächlich bei dem verfallenen Gedenkkreuz am Wegesrand, an dem die Wanderer noch kurz zuvor vorübergekommen waren?

Join Detective Molly Malone in her first queer noir adventure! 1943, San Francisco. And Molly Malone has secrets. Between pretending to be the secretary of her own detective agency and late-night visits to her favorite gay club Whiskers (where a secret knock grants entry), Molly's life is lived in the shadows. But when distraught housewife Sylvia seeks help from a detective, Molly's professional and personal life begin to merge.

Daniel Lohr, sensing that the Nazis are closing in on the Jews, leaves his dying father in Berlin and boards a ship to Shanghai. His passage is dependent upon him delivering a package to his shady uncle, his father’s brother, upon arrival. Daniel has no idea what the package contains. On board is Leah, also fleeing the Nazis. She and Daniel conduct a passionate but brief shipboard affair, but are separated as soon as the ship docks in Shanghai. Will he ever see her again?

In this all-consuming, suspenseful story, a stay-at-home father with something to prove finds a wealthy Wall Street investor's body washed up on the shore—and decides to take the investigation into his own hands…

In a Stockholm city park, police discover the hideously abused body of a young boy. Detective Superintendent Jeanette Kihlberg heads the investigation, battling an apathetic prosecutor and a bureaucratic police force unwilling to devote resources to solving the murder of a nameless immigrant child. But with the discovery of two more mutilated children's corpses, it becomes clear that a serial killer is at large.

When a man is shot at point blank range outside an isolated country pub, Kay Hunter is thrust into one of the most dangerous cases of her career. As personal and political disputes threaten to undermine her efforts to track down the killer, Kay’s investigation is complicated further when her superiors elect to coordinate the subsequent manhunt themselves. Uncovering a covert trade in outlawed weapons and faced with witnesses too scared to talk, Kay will have to do everything in her power to stop the killer and prevent another tragedy.

When a championship jockey discovers the body of a young woman during a cold morning’s training ride, the local racing community is shocked to its core. Everyone says she was the perfect friend, the perfect daughter and the perfect fiancée. However as Detective Mark Turpin delves into the girl’s fateful last hours, he discovers a past full of lies and mystery. Investigating the truth behind her savage death, Mark uncovers jealousy and ambition within the tiny community, accompanied by a disturbing reluctance to help the police.

When a brutal attack on a business owner is followed by a suspicious death, the police first suspect the beginning of a new underworld drugs war. Then a second victim is found dead, and the truth starts to look like something much worse. With the death toll rising and her career under scrutiny from the media and her own superiors, Kay Hunter is running out of time to unravel the deadly secrets hiding behind ruthless ambition and treachery. But Kay isn’t going to give up easily. Because this time, the first victim is closer to home…