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Dopo una cocente delusione sentimentale, dall'inquietudine dei suoi ventisei anni Etsuko vede davanti a sé solo una distesa di angoscia, tanto piú che nel Giappone del secondo dopoguerra le coetanee hanno già marito e focolare da tempo. Il padre, noto avvocato della Tokyo altolocata, corre ai ripari promettendola in moglie a un collega suo pupillo. Quell'accordo ha i confini di una prigione, e quando Etsuko incontra per caso Yoshihiro, timido professore universitario, intravede la via di fuga che porta alla felicità. In poche settimane tra i due giovani nasce un'intesa speciale.

In The Thirty-Nine Steps, Hannay struggles to thwart an assassination plot designed to hasten war between Britain and Germany. Later he is plucked from the trenches first, in Greenmantle, to frustrate a plot to ferment an uprising in the Islamic world; and then, in Mr. Standfast, to undertake a vital secret mission against a German spy ring operating among pacifist elements in England. After the war, his adventures continue in The Three Hostages; and then in The Island of Sheep, when an old oath to protect the son of a friend from his days in Africa draws him into new danger.

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.

A completely revised edition of the first Henry Rios mystery, The Little Death, Lay Your Sleeping Head introduces Michael Nava’s singular protagonist, gay Latino criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios. Rios, beset by personal and professional problems, begins a passionate affair with the black sheep heir to a great California fortune who tells Rios an improbable tale of murder and sexual predation in his wealthy family. When the young man is found dead of an apparent drug overdose, Rios begins an investigation that ultimately reveals much more than murder.

A man with dark thoughts on his mind is racing along the remote snowy roads of Hurmevaara in Finland when there is flash in the sky and something crashes into the car. That something turns about to be a highly valuable meteorite. With euro signs lighting up the eyes of the locals, the unexpected treasure is temporarily placed in a neighbourhood museum, under the watchful eye of a priest named Joel.

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.

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.

FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she's dreaded for years, the one that tells her the Poet has surfaced. She has never forgotten the serial killer who wove lines of poetry in his hideous crimes - and apparently he has not forgotten her. Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets a call, too - from the widow of an old friend. Her husband's death seems natural, but his ties to the hunt for the Poet make Bosch dig deep.

It was a vicious, calculated murder. The killer selected his victim at London's Euston station, followed her home on the tube, strangled her to death in front of her child. At the same time, killed in the same way, a second body is discovered at the back of King's Cross station. It is a grisly coincidence that eerily echoes the murder of two other women, stabbed to death months before on the same day.

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.

Winter 1999. An old man is driving home when his headlights catch an animal on the empty road up ahead. He stamps hard on the brakes. But it is not an animal at all. It is a young boy, frightened and alone, with a set of deer antlers strapped firmly to his head. Fourteen years later, a body is found in a mountain lake. Within weeks, three people have died. Each time, the killer has left a clue, inviting Special Investigations Detectives Munch and Krüger to play a deadly game - a game they cannot possibly win. Against the most dangerous and terrifying kind of serial killer.

Unas cartas anónimas, un cadáver oculto y una ciudad que nunca olvida: Misterio en el Barrio Gótico . La novela de Sergio Vila-Sanjuán que recorre el alma secreta de Barcelona Víctor Balmoral, un periodista próximo a la jubilación, recibe unas cartas amenazantes que lo empujan a desentrañar misterios en el emblemático Barrio Gótico de Barcelona . Mientras lidia con este desafío y con las visitas que le hace el fantasma de su mejor amigo, se dedicará también a aclarar qué ocurrió con una mujer desaparecida hace décadas .

Si la mienne a été parfaitement heureuse, elle n'a pas été normale. J'ai grandi, sans le savoir, mais en le pressentant, à l'ombre d'une menace, d'une histoire d'épouvante que personne n'a jamais voulu me raconter. Ce livre est la réponse.

Barclay Flint is the eccentric proprietor of The Bottle Bank wine shop in Lewes, the small Sussex town renowned for its annual Bonfire Night festival. Barclay can taste a kaleidoscopic universe in a single glass of wine - and will delight in luring you to share in its charms. Barclay passes his days happily matching his customers to the wines of their dreams, but when his friend, struggling regenerative vineyard owner Victor Crawshaw, goes missing, Barclay falls under suspicion and must deploy his wine detection skills to crack the case and clear his name.

Crime reporter Will Finch and private investigator Eve Noon are out of time. A villain from the ashes of the Soviet Union has cast a shadow over San Francisco, threatening not only their lives, but also their enigmatic ally, Sochi. But the real danger is still unseen—an even deadlier force pulling the strings from the dark.

Abismo es un dios cruel, de cuyo capricho dependen la vida o la muerte, y Misericordia Dagger, verdugo metódico e inflexible, trabaja incondicionalmente bajo sus órdenes. Pero su obediencia se ve puesta a prueba cuando se enamora de la nieta de su próxima víctima. Esta novela es una extraordinaria parodia de los fieros tiempos actuales, marcados por el delirio de gobernantes autoritarios, irracionales y criminales. Tragicomedia universal, teatraliza cíclicas épocas de terror que anuncian el caos definitivo, o tal vez presagian un mundo nuevo.

En un lluvioso día de verano, en el suburbio danés de Brabrand, el cadáver de una niña de diez años aparece en un contenedor de basura. Cuando el crimen se relaciona con un chat en línea en el que la víctima tenía un perfil, comienza la caza del asesino. Y todo se complica aún más cuando desaparece una segunda niña: la mejor amiga de la primera víctima.

Il decesso dell'anziana e ricca vedova del notaio, mentre nel villaggio una donna partorisce due gemelli, altera l'immobilità numerica della comunità, e il medico locale nota qualcosa di strano in quella morte, e chiede aiuto a un vecchio compagno di studi, il celebre medico-imbalsamatore Efisio Marini. Attraverso l'autopsia, lo scienziato non solo svela un omicidio, ma scopre anche l'incredibile arma del delitto.