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Tom Ripley is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors and the law when an unexpected acquaintance offers him the chance to start over. Ripley wants money, success, and the good life and he's willing to kill for it. When his newfound happiness is threatened, his response is as swift as it is shocking.

Excuse me if I'm feeling sentimental. I might die tonight. My name is Candy Tran. Before I was hunting down serial killers and feeding men to alligators, I was a normal, church-going, tax-paying citizen. Before all of this. I've been given a chance to tell my story, so please, listen closely. This is going to take a while.

In einer Regennacht findet ein junger Mann in den Straßen von Tokio eine Leiche - und neben ihr einen Revolver. Nishikawa nimmt die Waffe an sich und entwickelt schon nach kurzer Zeit eine unheimliche Obsession. All seine Gedanken, sein ganzes Leben kreisen um das perfekte kleine Wunderwerk. Und um die vier Kugeln, die sich noch immer in der Trommel befinden. Irgendwann ist es nicht mehr genug, die Waffe zu besitzen. Er muss sie abfeuern.

Die 15-jährige Ámbar lebt zwischen einsamen Landstraßen und heruntergekommenen Motels. An der Seite ihres Vaters Víctor Mondragón, einem gefährlichen Gangster, ist sie Gewalt und Kriminalität gewöhnt. Doch je tiefer sie in die Welt und die Vergangenheit ihres Vaters eintaucht, desto mehr Zweifel kommen ihr.

Один воспитанник сиротского приюта вырастает и мстит всем, кто его бросил. Одного изощренного вора крадет картина, которую он украл. Одна книга смотрит с полки на то, как один будущий нобелевский лауреат сходит с ума в день своего долгожданного триумфа. Один писатель сочиняет роман и грозит издателю покончить с собой, если книгу не напечатают. Один бывший солдат, уже совершенно лишившись рассудка, все не может забыть проигранную битву и гибель товарищей на поле боя.... Жауме Кабре (р.

When a troubled young comic meets a bold, unpredictable woman, their story spirals into dark comedy, spiritual questions, and the unexpected hope of redemption. This short-form audiobook delivers a cinematic punch — part redemption story, part black comedy, all heart. Chris is a young alcoholic who wants nothing to do with his family’s bizarre mortuary business. He dreams of being a comedian, of making people laugh — but the economy is brutal, his drug habit is getting worse, and his life is unraveling fast. Then there’s Zoie.

When the death of a reclusive real estate mogul is ruled a heart attack, private investigator Thomas Kaine smells something fouler than the Dunsmore sewers. The man had secrets—powerful ones. And a deed. A single forgotten property deed that could unravel a decades-old web of corruption. As Kaine digs deeper, he finds himself entangled with city officials, land sharks, and a woman in black who plays both sides of the moral line. The deeper he goes, the more dangerous it gets. The ledgers don’t just expose the guilty—they tempt the desperate.

Our Dave has been running Avenue Cars on Chanterlands Ave, Hull, for as long as anyone remembers. You can depend on Our Dave... but it wasn’t always like that. Back in the seventies he did things he isn’t proud of, and buried under the shed on his allotment behind Newland Ave, is a shotgun. There are dark forces in this city. Leatherhead controls the heavy drugs that come through Hessle Road. The Mancs are trying to muscle their way in, and then you’ve got the bent coppers. If Our Dave is to keep his drivers safe, he’ll have to go back to his old ways. It’ll be murder.

Jay has been hunted since he was twenty years old. A contract on his life has been traded like a commodity, rising and falling with Bitcoin. On the run once again, with no passport, and airmiles as his only currency, Jay will have to choose between love and survival, and run for his life! The Runner is a high-concept literary thriller featuring high-finance, con artists, the Book of Jonah, ultramarathons, and how falling in love can change everything.

L'ex investigatore Marco Tanzi ha lasciato Milano da più di due anni. Fino a quando una telefonata lo informa di qualcosa che è accaduto in Italia. Luca Betti sta affrontando il periodo più nero della sua vita. Per loro la città sta per trasformarsi in un territorio di guerra. Ma i legami di sangue tornano sempre a reclamare i loro crediti, e per Marco non c'è altra scelta se non quella di tornare a Milano, dove dovrà combattere una guerra impari contro una pericolosa organizzazione criminale.

Oft called the “big bang” of Roberto Bolaño’s universe, Antwerp is his first novel—or the shattered remnants of one. Written when he was just twenty-seven years of age, it was so intensely strange and solitary that he tucked it away for more than twenty years, certain that any publisher would slam the door in his face. It proceeds in hallucinatory sketches: a lonely highway, a desolate campground, a freshly abandoned hotel room; a tryst, an interrogation, a murder; and somewhere just out of reach, a young, feverish writer named Roberto Bolaño drifting in and out of view.

In 1938 Paris, Pierre Pain, a lonely bachelor and a beleaguered mesmerist, receives a telegram from his friend Madame Reynaud. An acquaintance of hers lies in a hospital bed with a mysterious—and apparently terminal—case of the hiccups, and she entreats Pain to cure him. Quietly in love with Reynaud, and buoyed by her faith in him, he agrees to see the patient, the exiled Peruvian poet César Vallejo. So sets off a nightmarish and labyrinthine chain of events that sees Pain racing, breathless, through the umbrous streets of Paris: He finds himself barred from approaching Vallejo’s bedside.

London, 1943. The streets of Hounslow hide more than ration books and blackouts. A killer is working to a quiet rhythm of death, leaving behind bodies drained of blood and arranged with disturbing care. The press have their theories. The police have few leads. Theodore Nash doesn’t believe in monsters. He sees detail, intent, and the human mind behind every crime. A forensic consultant by trade, and a man more comfortable with puzzles than people, Theo has made a life of distance and control.

Pochi romanzi hanno inciso nell'immaginario collettivo come questo. Nel crime, c'è un prima e un dopo American Tabloid . Una rottura che è una sorta di perdita dell'innocenza: con le sue frasi cadenzate come raffiche di mitra, la vastità dell'impianto e la durezza dello sguardo, James Ellroy ha portato il noir nell'età adulta e costretto i suoi lettori a fare i conti con il passato. American Tabloid mette in scena gli uomini e le donne che hanno contribuito all'ascesa e alla caduta di John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

Henri Valhubert, editore ed esperto d'arte, si è appena precipitato a Roma per indagare sulla dubbia provenienza di un disegno di Michelangelo apparso sul mercato francese. Ma nell'afa della Città eterna, le stanze della Biblioteca Vaticana sembrano coprire delitti ben piú torbidi di un furto. Con un vescovo un po' eccentrico sul punto di diventare cardinale, diplomatici, esperti e mercanti d'arte, una bellissima parigina che fa troppi viaggi a Roma, e tre studenti francesi che l'adorano.

A young hospital security guard with a disturbingly unique taste in women. A maternity doctor with a horrifically unusual appetite. When the two of them meet, they embark on a journey of self-discovery while shattering societal norms and engaging in destructively aberrant behavior. As they unwittingly help each other understand a world in which neither seems to belong, they begin to realize what it truly means to be alive...and that it might not always a good thing.

Noir contains three classic thrillers by Richard Matheson, the grand master of suspense. Originally published in the 1950s, at the very beginning of Matheson’s distinguished career, these page-turning classics are finally on audio for your listening pleasure. Now listeners everywhere can savor three unforgettable tales of crime, corruption, and cold-blooded murder.

An exiled augur who sold her soul to save her brother's life is offered one last job before serving an eternity in hell. When she turns it down, her client sweetens the pot by offering up the one payment she can't resist—the chance to have a future where she grows old with the woman she loves. To succeed, she is given three days to track down the White City Vampire, Chicago's most notorious serial killer. If she fails, only hell and heartbreak await.

Lash by bloody lash, the she-devil from Dallas would get her revenge.

Milano, 2009. La profanazione di una tomba seicentesca fa subito pensare a un vile atto di vandalismo. Ma l'assassinio di tre persone dai cognomi un po' altisonanti obbliga gli inquirenti a una cupa constatazione: tutte le vittime erano discendenti di famiglie che nel Seicento erano state nemiche del marchese Ludovico Acerbi, inquilino della tomba profanata. Diversi come il giorno e la notte, ma uniti dalla stessa sete di verità, l'algido commissario Ardigò e il solare giornalista Malerba, collaborano su una serie di misteriosi omicidi a sfondo esoterico.