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Quando la sua amante moldava viene rapita, l'incarico di consegnare il riscatto è affidato a Marco Buratti, investigatore senza licenza, e ai suoi soci Max la Memoria e Beniamino Rossini. Ma qualcosa va storto e la donna, nonostante il pagamento di un milione di euro, non viene liberata. L'Alligatore inizia cosí un'indagine non autorizzata per impedire che una vittima rimanga senza giustizia, a dispetto di chi vorrebbe mettere tutto a tacere.

“The greatest writer to have appeared in Latin America since the so-called ‘boom’ . . . I’m tempted to call Bolaño the love child of David Lynch and Jorge Luis Borges—he’s that visceral and erudite—but this wouldn’t do justice to his ambition.” —John Powers, NPR’s Fresh...

Detective Easy Rawlins has settled into the happy rhythm of his new life when a dark siren from his past returns and threatens to destroy the peace he's fought for, in the latest installment from "master of craft and narrative" Walter Mosley in a legendary series (National Book Foundation).

Gordon Shanes nevø og svigerinde er blevet myrdet. I sin jagt på den eller de skyldige kommer han på tværs af et folk, der lever i skjul i en lille by i Vermont, og som vil gøre alt for, at det bliver ved at forholde sig sådan. Christian Mørk (f. 1966) er forfatter og journalist. Allerede som 14-årig rejste han alene til USA for at gå på kostskole, og han har senere bosat sig permanent i landet, hvor han blandt andet har arbejdet på avisen The New York Times og som filmproducent i Los Angeles.

In eisigem Rätsel am Hafen von Kopenhagen. Eine junge Frau, seit zwei Jahren spurlos verschwunden, wird gefunden — tot, tiefgefroren, kunstvoll inszeniert an einem verlassenen Ort. Wer versteckt seine Opfer jahrelang in der Kälte, bevor er sie zur Schau stellt? Bald wird klar: Sie ist nicht das einzige Opfer dieses Phantoms. Ein methodischer Täter geht um, intelligent, geduldig und mit einem beunruhigenden Wissen über industrielle Kältetechnik.

Dylan Shepherd—operative turned pariah—confronts the shadows born from the missions he never wanted to survive. Jill Cunningham—once his closest ally, now his fiercest adversary—hunts the truth buried in his past and her own bloodline. And Thread, the prototype daughter raised from regret and war, must decide whether to continue their legacy… or end it.

When private investigator Thomas Kaine takes on what should’ve been a routine case, he finds himself drawn into something far stranger—a tangle of secrets, shadows, whispers that stretch back farther than he imagined, and danger lurking in every shadow. With Lana Drexler at his side and danger rising from every direction, Kaine begins to suspect the truth isn’t just hidden… it was designed to stay that way.

Il passato torna sempre a colpire... Un terribile evento sconvolge l’idilliaca cittadina di Bakersville, nell’Oregon, e i suoi pacifici abitanti chiedono giustizia. Nonostante un ragazzino abbia confessato l’orrendo crimine, le prove indicano che potrebbe non essere lui il responsabile. L’agente Rainie Conner, alla sua prima indagine di omicidio, si ritrova al centro di una polemica. Il caso la riguarda da vicino e fa riaffiorare i suoi peggiori incubi, minacciando di rivelare i suoi peccati segreti, ma nulla le impedirà di trovare il vero colpevole.

Un pueblo aislado en las montañas; un joven de fuerza sobrehumana con un don para sanar a los animales; una niña que aparece de la nada y que desata todos los rumores en un valle en el que todavía resuenan antiguas leyendas y misterios. Pocos elementos le bastan a Violaine Bérot para trenzar esta inolvidable historia a medio camino entre la novela negra y la fábula.

“Legendary . . . Bolaño has proven [that literature] can do anything.” —Jonathan Lethem, The New York Times Book Review “A supernova of creativity whose light is still arriving at our shores.” —Giles Harvey, The New Yorker Often called the “big bang” of Roberto Bolaño’s...

Aloysius Archer er en ærlig mand, han er krigsveteran fra Anden Verdenskrig, og så er han netop blevet prøveløsladt efter at have været fængslet for en forbrydelse, han ikke havde begået. Udstyret med en lang liste med regler for prøveløsladte begynder han sit nye liv i Poca City. Han får et job som gældsinddriver for byens største forretningsmand. Men jobbet viser sig ikke at være så ligetil, som det ser ud.

Matteo cresceu entre as sombras de uma promessa de vingança. Mas ao encarar o passado, descobre que a besta nunca esteve do lado de fora. Quando a verdade é enterrada junto com a honra, só resta à alma uivar.

When an Army Air Force Major vanishes from his Top Secret job at the Fort Worth airbase in the summer of 1947, down-on-his-luck former Ranger Jefferson Sharp is hired to find him, because the Major owes a sizable gambling debt to a local mobster. The search takes Sharp from the hideaway poker rooms of Fort Worth's Thunder Road, to the barren ranch lands of New Mexico, to secret facilities under construction in the Nevada desert.

Der Erbe des berühmtesten Serienkillers aller Zeiten … und keine Frau ist vor ihm sicher … Zwei Jahre nach ihrer letzten Begegnung mit dem Bösen lebt Penny Archer wieder in Washington D.C. Hier schlägt sich die frühere Ghostwriterin als Sportreporterin bei einem kleinen Lokalblatt durch und kämpft noch immer gegen die traumatischen Erinnerungen ihrer Vergangenheit. Doch als zu Halloween ein Serienmörder die amerikanische Hauptstadt in Angst und Schrecken versetzt, reißen Pennys alte Wunden wieder auf.

Archie Nevenden is many things: amateur archaeologist; theatre impresario; absent father; potential defector. And now, he's a missing person. His daughter, Prim, hasn't seen him for nearly fifteen years. But she's never given up on him, and now she's on her way to Cairo to assist in the search. Harry Taverner claims to work for the British Council, but Prim knows there's more to it. He clearly has a theory about what happened to Archie, one she's not going to like.

Nella camera 310 del Randolph, un lussuoso albergo storico di Oxford, un'anziana turista californiana viene rinvenuta morta, e la borsetta in cui custodiva un inestimabile gioiello antico destinato al museo Ashmolean è sparita. Ma il parere dei patologi è unanime: si è trattato di un semplice infarto. In più, a quanto pare, la porta della camera era stata lasciata aperta, sicché il furto non sembra troppo difficile da spiegare. Neppure la fervida immaginazione di Morse può trasformare la tragica banalità degli eventi in un'indagine stuzzicante.

Non è un sereno ritorno quello che attende Gigi Berté dopo una vacanza in Valcamonica: Renzo Costa, un cronista di nera con cui aveva spesso avuto contrasti, viene trovato in fin di vita sulle colline intorno a Lungariva, in seguito a un pestaggio di cui non si conoscono i responsabili né le motivazioni. Berté inizia a indagare nella vita del giornalista, tra i colleghi di lavoro e le ipotesi relative a un possibile scoop su cui il Costa stava lavorando, senza tralasciare i componenti della sua famiglia, fra cui Pierino Serra, il cognato dalle frequentazioni ambigue e pericolose.

Gabriel verlässt Rio, um zu seiner Schwester Isabella nach Deutschland zu ziehen. In Hamburg läuft für ihn zunächst alles nach Plan: Er findet Arbeit in einer IT-Firma und verliebt sich. Doch dann verschwindet er spurlos. Für Isabella beginnt eine verzweifelte Suche in einem Land, das ihr immer fremder wird.

The death of immigrant Juaquin Escobar has been ruled an accidental drowning in Lake Michigan. The only problem is he never drinks and never swims. When the CPD informs his nephew Ivan Ramirez and closes the case he refuses to believe it’s true. Convinced of foul play Ivan is referred to Ashe Cayne by his friend and socialite Penny Packer. After agreeing to take the case on pro bono he quickly discovers that things are not always what they seem. As Ashe investigates, he learns that Juaquin was last seen getting into a white van belonging to a heating and cooling company before he disappeared.

Вот и трое жителей сонного американского городка, затерянного среди холмов Пенсильвании, независимо друг от друга принимают судьбоносные решения, которые разделят их жизнь на «до» и «после». Пересекаясь, сплетаясь и снова расходясь, линии трех героев — пожарного Нейтана, нашедшего мешок с деньгами, самоотверженной медсестры Келли, страдающей от внешнего уродства, и бывшего наркомана Энди, потерявшего всех, кого он любил, — двигаются к неизбежному финалу, где всем воздастся по грехам их.