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Staten Island, 1981. La bicicleta de Daniel Miller aparece abandonada en las inmediaciones de su casa. No hay rastro del pequeño. Treinta años después, en 2011, la periodista de investigación del Manhattan Press Miren Triggs sigue una pista que la conduce hasta el terrible hallazgo de un cadáver con los labios sellados.

Once a child prodigy of puzzles and logic games, Gillian Charles now barely ekes out a living in Los Angeles. With her sick mother facing eviction from her care facility, Gillian can’t say no when her childhood nemesis, Tommy, shows up at her apartment with a $50k offer. All she has to do is return to the place where it all started, where she swore she’d never set foot again: Miscellany.

After an accidental bump to the head, Lily finds herself in Hollywood, 1949. Like a dream come true, she is rubbing shoulders with the great and good of Tinseltown. Including Honey Black. Horrified, Lily realises that the actress has only two weeks left to live before she will be murdered. Could this be why she has found herself in 1949? To find the killer and stop them in their tracks?

Der Mieter erzählt die Geschichte eines schüchternen, friedliebenden Menschen, der eine heruntergekommene Wohnung in Paris bezieht. Nicht allein, dass sich seine Vormieterin aus unerklärlichen Gründen aus dem Fenster gestürzt hat, das Haus und insbesondere seine Nachbarn verhalten sich ihm gegenüber immer merkwürdiger und feindseliger. Der Mieter beginnt nach und nach, den Sinn dieses Spiels zu verstehen und versucht, seine Gegner mit ihren eigenen Waffen zu schlagen.

Milano, Cimitero Maggiore, all’improvviso tra le tombe iniziano a passeggiare personaggi che dovrebbero risiedere nei loculi. Zombie? Niente affatto, e ci vuole poco ad Anita Valli per capire che gatta ci cova. Forse l’agenzia di pompe funebri Legno di Pero ne sa qualcosa? Come è possibile che persone morte e sepolte vadano a zonzo così? E chi c’è nella tomba al posto loro? Insieme all'inseparabile amica Mirella, Anita avvia una nuova indagine strampalata che porta le due squinzie di via Gallarate ad occuparsi di clochard invisibili, sepolture sospette e baristi troppo gentili.

Genova, 4 gennaio 1954. Un'improvvisa nevicata ha imbiancato tutta la città, ma sul candore della neve spicca una macchia vermiglia. Sul selciato della via dei palazzi storici, ancora in corso di restauro a causa dei danni della guerra, giace ormai cadavere Ferdinando Maria Passano Della Rovere. Il commissario capo Damiano Flexi Gerardi, soprannominato Becchino, è chiamato a risolvere quello che a tutti gli effetti appare come un omicidio efferato. A causa del tempo inclemente nessuno si trovava nella via. Nessuno ha visto o sentito nulla, ma forse un testimone c'è.

There are just 77 days before a deadly asteroid collides with Earth, and Detective Palace is out of a job. With the Concord police force operating under the auspices of the U.S. Justice Department, Hank's days of solving crimes are over...until a woman from his past begs for help finding her missing husband.

Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association with 'damnable young man' Edward Hyde, the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer, and the final revelation of Hyde's true identity is a chilling exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evil. The other stories in this volume also testify to Stevenson's inventiveness within the Gothic genre.

Milano. L’architetto Mirella Bonetti trova un geometra morto assassinato in un ufficio del Comune e dà l’allarme. Anche se la polizia avvia l’inchiesta Mirella e la sua amica Anita conducono una indagine parallela, aggirandosi su un vecchio furgone per Milano e dintorni, con il loro linguaggio colorato, innaffiato dagli immancabili bianchini. Le due si rendono presto conto che tra i progetti vagliati dal geometra (buonanima) ce n’era uno che presentava... strane caratteristiche.

Handsome con artist Ulises has long charmed lonely women via letters to steal their money, but money is hard to come by in 1940s Mexico. Ulises knows his looks won't last forever, and he's desperate to get his hands on a real fortune. He thinks he's found it when he captivates his newest correspondent, Perla, the owner of a small-town boardinghouse in picturesque Veracruz. But when he meets her, he finds something he didn't expect. The woman has a niece, Inés, who is as observant as she is desperate to escape her aunt’s household.

In Few & Far Between, award-winning writer Jan Carson imagines an alternative version of Northern Ireland's recent past. It's summer 2017 and the last few residents of the Lough Neagh Archipelago are facing imminent eviction. The flood planned to combat a devastating algae outbreak will submerge their homes, forcing them back to the Mainland for the first time in fifty years.

Einst symbolisierten Margery und die Sieben das Gute, doch nun stellen sie sich gegeneinander. Kann jemand, der den Tod eines anderen will, wahrhaft gut sein? Ist jemand böse, nur weil er überleben will? Wenn sich das Gute nicht mehr vom Bösen unterscheiden lässt, steht das Ende bevor. In einem letzten Kampf zwischen Mutter und Tochter zeigt sich, ob dieses Märchen gut ausgeht.

Paul Tyler ist Mitte dreißig, Privatdetektiv und hoch verschuldet. Gerade als er überlegt, seine Detektei im Theatre District früher zu schließen, taucht der Regisseur John Wallers bei ihm auf. Er bittet ihn, sich auf die Suche nach Angelica Farmer zu machen. Doch schon bald ist er sich nicht sicher, ob ihm sein Auftraggeber die ganze Wahrheit erzählt hat.

Por la noche, las apacibles montañas que rodean Sainte-Agathe quedan ocultas bajo un manto de niebla que se disipa al amanecer. Sin embargo, hoy la luz del sol ha revelado un macabro suceso. Mientras conduce hacia un pequeño pueblo del País Vasco francés, Zaida no puede dejar de pensar en lo que la espera allí. André, su novio, que se encontraba visitando a la familia, se ha despeñado desde uno de los picos cercanos. Al llegar a su destino, los peores presagios se confirman al tiempo que surgen muchas dudas sobre el accidente y sobre la personalidad de su pareja.

Polizeihauptmann Felix Bojko wird zu einem Tatort in die ukrainische Geisterstadt Pripyat gerufen und mit einer grausam verstümmelten Leiche konfrontiert. Da Kanyukov den ukrainischen Ermittlungsbehörden misstraut, schickt er den russischen Polizisten Alexej Markow in die Ukraine, um den Täter ausfindig zu machen. Hauptmann Bojko wird von Mo Celta begleitet, die an einem Austauschprogramm der EU-Ermittlungsbehörden in Kiew teilnimmt und in der Ukraine ihre Schwester sucht.

Mr. Saltz—known only as The Undertaker—runs a funeral parlor with secrets hidden beneath every floorboard. Emotionless, tasteless, and cold by nature, Saltz disposes of bodies for the city's most powerful crime boss, Manford Van Johnson. But when a relentless detective begins to connect the dots, and rival families move in to clean house, the quiet shadows start to stir.

Joseph can't live with the fact that he's responsible for his daughter's death. He checks into The Gate as his final destination, but after the disappearance of a guest everything begins to unravel. Days go missing, people are acting strange, and nothing is what it should be. At every turn, he's reminded of this most painful mistake. Joseph disappears down a rabbit hole of mysterious events, all the while keeping up the battle against his own inner demons. Now he is trapped inside a haunted hotel trying to find a guest that may not even exist.

Tom Mangold hat das Leben auf die Bretter geschickt: Einst gefeierter Mordermittler, dümpelt er heute - ständig auf Koks - als Hundefänger in einer Laubenkolonie vor sich hin. Als ihn eine herrenlose Hündin zu einer Leiche führt, kommt alles noch schlimmer. Er trifft auf eine betörend schöne Frau mit einem nachtschwarzen Geheimnis - und verliert sich in einem Strudel aus brutalem Mord und zerstörerischen Leidenschaften.

Fourteen-year-old Jesse is shipped halfway round the world after the death of his father. He struggles to adapt to life on the Welsh Atlantic coast but eventually befriends John, a popular, charismatic, and outwardly charming boy. But as their friendship grows, a darker side to John emerges. Will Jesse notice before it's too late?

It has been almost 10 years since Matthias graduated from the elite Blackburne School, where his roommate and best friend, Fritz, fled into the woods, never to be heard from again, in the middle of their senior year. Fritz vanished just after an argument over Matthias' breaking of the school's honor code, and Matthias has long been haunted by the idea that his betrayal led to his friend's disappearance. When he is offered the opportunity to return to Blackburne as an English teacher, he sees it as a chance to put his life back together.