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Walk the dark halls and threatening streets of 1920s Asheville in this thrilling third installment of The Stephen Robbins Chronicles, as fan-favorite Robbins confronts the dangerous contrast between appearance and reality at the exclusive Grove Park Inn.

Unnur has secrets. A single mother to a beloved daughter, Lilja, she lives a deliberately quiet life in Reykjavík, working at a bakery under an assumed last name and pushing away haunting visions of the last summer of her childhood. Her safety—and Lilja’s—now hinges on discretion.

Deadly truths lie buried beneath the snow. Three people are stranded at a pub on a winter's night – a couple, the Fairweathers, and a woman, Alison Evans. Hours later, in the middle of the night, the pub alarm begins to sound and Alison Evans is missing. Within moments, her body is discovered...

Elisabetta è avvocata in un piccolo studio associato e galleggia tra cause di separazioni, spaccio, affitti non pagati. Dalla penna di uno dei più raffinati scrittori italiani un romanzo di ritmo e suspense che racconta la discesa agli inferi di una giovane donna come tante. Un thriller che inchioda il lettore alla pagina, e insieme una lucida rappresentazione della società contemporanea, che svela la follia che si cela dietro la vita di tutti i giorni.

Auf der Suche nach Inspiration begibt er sich in einen zwielichtigen Club im Zentrum Stockholms und wird dabei Zeuge eines Mordes, der auf unheimliche Weise an den in seinem begonnenen Kriminalroman erinnert. Er gilt von nun an als Hauptverdächtiger, und schon bald wird Tom in ein tödliches Spiel verwickelt, bei dem Fiktion und Wirklichkeit verschwimmen.

Der renommierte Krimiautor Tom Borg kämpft mit einer schweren Schreibblockade. Nach dem Megaerfolg seiner Nordic-Noir-Trilogie kommt er über ein erstes Kapitel nicht hinaus. Auf der Suche nach Inspiration begibt er sich in einen zwielichtigen Club im Zentrum Stockholms und wird dabei Zeuge eines Mordes, der auf unheimliche Weise an den in seinem begonnenen Kriminalroman erinnert. Er gilt von nun an als Hauptverdächtiger, und schon bald wird Tom in ein tödliches Spiel verwickelt, bei dem Fiktion und Wirklichkeit verschwimmen.

Buenos Aires, 1978. A dos años del golpe de Estado, miles de personas son recluidas en centros clandestinos de detención. Julio, joven hijo de un poderoso industrial, es uno de ellos, un «desaparecido» más. Madrid, 2000. Julio se llama ahora Jorge Luis. Durante una salida fortuita, se encuentra con Morales y despierta en él la voz de Julio, que exige venganza. Se introduce en la vida del exmilitar para destruirlo, y desarrolla hacia el hombre que debe matar un afecto que no tuvo por su propio padre.

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.

Estamos en Santa Rita, un antiguo balneario, que luego fue sanatorio y ahora es la casa de una escritora anciana, Sofía, (que escribe novelas de misterio con un pseudónimo y novela rosa con otro), donde viven unas cuarenta personas de todas las edades apoyándose unos a otros y trabajando juntos, en un concepto de "comunidad cordial" transgeneracional. La protagonista, Greta, sobrina y traductora de Sofía, llega para quedarse una temporada y, a través de ella, vamos conociendo a los personajes de la historia.

The unblinking story of two lost and self-destructive drifters - a failed painter working as a counterman in a cheap diner and a woman in flight from domestic violence - trying to find a place for themselves in the back streets of San Francisco, Pick-Up is hardboiled writing at its nihilistic best.

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.

Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon--Private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre that is at once exciting and accessible, provides a classic...

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.

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.

This account of a fugitive gun moll masterfully compresses the essence of "noir" fiction.

Sous les franges jaunes et rouges d’une tente de toile, la grande danseuse a fini de danser. La nuit tiède venue du sud les fait frissonner; des autos noires, de luxe, silencieuses et souples, s’arrêtent au bord du trottoir: l’or ou l’argent d’un soulier de bal, puis, derrière la vitre, un visage de femme, un peu las sous les fards, mais fier, heureux d’avoir été vu trois heures durant au fond d’une loge.

Andy Park can’t stand the sight of blood. Unfortunately, he’s just set a blood feud in motion. He thinks he’s found a clever way to make his family’s enemies pay. He hasn’t thought through the consequences. Things unravel fast. His teenage son is in mortal danger. His daughter and her fiancé are dragged into doing the violence he can’t face himself. Every attempt to regain control only makes things worse.

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.

En las ruinas de un pabellón de Santa Rita aparecen los huesos de un recién nacido junto a unos valiosos cuadros de la escuela expresionista Der blaue Reiter. El especialista suizo encargado de peritarlos es asesinado unos días después en el pasillo de su hotel de Benalfaro. La inspectora Lola Galindo, con la ayuda del ex-comisario Robles y otras personas, investiga, en pleno mes de agosto, un caso lleno de ramificaciones, cuajado de secretos, tanto en el pasado como en la actualidad.

Los Angeles, 1985. Journalist Hallie Pitney is fighting to keep her head above water selling minor stories to gossip magazines. She still dreams of her byline on something better—something that could finally launch her career. Then a whisper reaches her: a legendary movie star may be hiding a devastating secret. For Hallie, this could be the story that changes everything. But a dark choice lurks behind Hollywood’s shuttered gates: the story of a lifetime—or everything she stands for.

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...

When Elena disappears, months pass without explanation. Then her sister calls: Elena was in Bogotá. She left again. No one knows why. Thomas travels to the city on his last night there, chasing an address he doesn’t fully understand. As the streets narrow and detour without warning, memory intrudes—particularly one phone call he let ring a little too long. A private investigator by trade, Thomas has spent his life arriving after the fact, close to the truth but never inside it. In Bogotá, he is forced to confront the pattern that cost him more than he admitted.

Alessandro Gordiani è caduto in una crisi profonda dopo la tragica conclusione dell'ultima causa di cui si è occupato. Si è ritirato nella sua casa al mare e ha deciso di abbandonare la professione. Dopo varie insistenze, la figlia Ilaria, diventata avvocato come lui, lo convince a tornare sui suoi passi per assumere la difesa di Ernesto Boni, il nuovo compagno di sua madre, accusato di omicidio colposo per violazione della normativa sulla sicurezza sul lavoro per una morte bianca avvenuta nel suo cantiere.

Un corpo decapitato viene ritrovato nel cuore di Madrid. La scena del crimine è ispirata all'Inferno di Dante. L'ispettrice Minerva Cadalso, insieme a Claudio Addante, un giovane seminarista esperto di simboli religiosi, si addentra in una rete di crimini dal profondo significato spirituale. Mentre la città trattiene il fiato e la Chiesa resta in silenzio, Minerva e Claudio affrontano una corsa contro il tempo in cui l'obiettivo non è solo uccidere. È punire. È giudicare. È dimostrare che l'inferno si trova già tra di noi.

Il vicecommissario Rudi Carrera ha perso tutto: la compagna, il suo più caro amico e tante anime fragili che lui non ha saputo proteggere. L'ultima, in ordine di tempo, è un'informatrice di nome Teresa, una ragazza madre con un passato di droga e il sogno di diventare musicista, stroncata da un'overdose proprio la notte in cui Carrera era troppo distratto per rispondere alla sua richiesta di aiuto. Distrutto dal senso di colpa, Rudi si getta anima e corpo nel mondo ambiguo della scena trapper, che Teresa stava spiando per lui, ma presto le indagini si trasformano in qualcos'altro.

Sechzehn Jahre saß Markus S. unschuldig im Gefängnis. Als er endlich entlassen wird, erwartet ihn keine Freiheit, sondern Leere: sein Haus verkauft, sein Vermögen verschwunden, von seiner Frau fehlt jede Spur.

Ein spannender Roman über Verrat, Schuld und die Frage, wie viel Wahrheit ein Mensch ertragen kann. Und darüber, was bleibt, wenn einem alles genommen wurde – außer dem Willen, Antworten zu finden.

This atmospheric crime debut is a nod to ’50s pulp noir, a daring heist thriller and sensitive chronicle of the life on the margins of the postwar American dream. Mild-mannered and terminally bored loner Richard works a dead-end job at Eddy & Dowd, a safe deposit company in small-town, postwar...