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DCI 'Mac' McNeill, haunted by unresolved trauma, faces his most devious adversary yet in a case that defies logic and threatens to unravel his world. As leader of Edinburgh's Serious Crime Unit, Mac is thrust into the hunt for a cold-blooded killer who once wielded power from the peak of society. Now, orchestrating twisted games from the shadows, the killer weaves a complex web of deceit, challenging Mac's every instinct and escalating tension, distrust, and confusion both professionally and personally.

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).

Carleton Myatt meets Coral Musker, a naïve English chorus girl, aboard the Orient Express as it heads across Europe to Constantinople. As their relationship develops, they find themselves caught up in the fates of the other passengers and drawn into a web of espionage, murder and lies.

Ende März verschwindet in München die zwölfjährige Greta spurlos. Sie ist nicht das erste Mädchen, wissen Polizeihauptkommissarin Mo Celta und ihr Kollege Nico Braun von der Kripo München. Ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit beginnt. Kurze Zeit später taucht in der Nähe eines Einkaufszentrums ein Teenager auf, gekleidet wie ein Obdachloser und hungrig. Und das, obwohl er viel Geld in seinem Rucksack hat. Geld, das die Ausreißerin Peggy dringend braucht.

Il maresciallo Bonanno indaga su un’imprevedibile omicidio avvenuto in un antico castello, set cinematografico di un film in corso di produzione... Per sfuggire al caldo estivo, Bonanno quest’anno ha pianificato una lunga vacanza a Siculiana, assieme alla fidanzata e a sua figlia. L’arrivo di una troupe al castello di Villabosco, tuttavia, rovina tutti i suoi piani. L’incombere di una mano assassina – che fa strage fra i membri della troupe cinematografica – riporta poi a galla antiche leggende medievali.

Hugh Densmore picks up a young hitchhiker on a deserted stretch of road. Though he initially takes pity on her, something doesn’t add up: her backstory is barely believable. Despite this, ‘Iris’ cunningly gets Hugh to take her all the way to Phoenix, then shows up at his motel the same evening hinting that she needs an abortion. Already unnerved, panic seizes Hugh when two officers show up to question him following reports of a girl’s body in a canal. Then comes a revelation which upends the entire novel.

In StreetWhys, underground detective Dickie Cornish faces a vindictive murder rap from his past if he doesn’t agree to help prove that the fentanyl ravaging the streets of DC is bankrolled by shadowy donors of a certain former president. Broke and desperate, Cornish soon finds himself on a collision course with shady public defenders and corrupt police officers, forcing him to use his street connections to flip their plan. Or die.

John Milton has started to hope that he might have a future. He has a job driving a taxi around the streets of San Francisco. He has his anonymity and his solitude. Being invisible has become a comfortable habit. He doesn’t want to be found. But when a girl he drives to a party goes missing, Milton is worried. Especially when two dead bodies are discovered and the police start treating him as their prime suspect. Milton is a fugitive from the British Secret Service and a man in his position needs extra attention like he needs a hole in the head.

A fast paced novella about a woman with a dark past who enters a nunnery to escape the demons that haunt her. She was involved in an unsolved murder and wants to put it all behind her. She becomes obsessed by a disturbing thought and vows to silence the one man who can send her to Hell.

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.

It is an ordinary Yorkshire morning, cold and miserable. The streets are not yet busy. Police cars hurriedly pull up in the centre of town, but none of their lights are flashing and the sirens are silent. A body has been found, elaborately and painstakingly positioned to send a message. But what message? And to who? It’s DCI Harry Virdee’s job to find out. But Harry doesn’t know that the killer is watching him, that the killer is coming for him. Because this is personal.

The Best American series, launched in 1915, is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction, and it is the most respected—and most popular—of its kind. Don Winslow, the Raymond Chandler Award-winning author of City in Ruins, picks the best twenty mystery and suspense stories from the previous year.

1199: è la vigilia della festa di san Nicola e Kaspar Trevi, cavaliere templare, viene convocato dal reggente del Regno di Sicilia, in visita a Bari per assistere ai festeggiamenti. All'alba un uomo è stato trovato ai merli della fortezza, con il ventre squarciato e le viscere esposte: si tratta di Giuseppe Filangieri, un tempo consigliere della defunta regina Costanza di Altavilla. Dell'omicidio è ritenuta responsabile Filomena Monforte, la bellissima dama della regina, su cui ricade la terribile accusa di stregoneria.

Jack beobachtet beim Ausliefern von Paketen an die Fairfield Klinik, wie eine Patientin am Verlassen des Gebäudes gehindert wird. Unbemerkt kann sie ihm einen Ring zustecken. Der Ring zeigt ein prächtiges Familienwappen. Jack und Cliff forschen nach. Wer ist die Unbekannte und welches dunkle Geheimnis umgibt das abgelegene Sanatorium?

Ein geheimnisvoller Siegelring führt Jack und Cliff auf eine heiße Spur nach Richmond. Die Schachspielerin Liz Kaplan wurde bedroht. Jemand scheint unbedingt zu verhindern wollen, dass sie die Virginia Open spielt. Ihre Spur führt in die Fairfield Klinik am Stadtrand von Seaport. Wird Liz dort gegen ihren Willen festgehalten? Cliff geht ein riskantes Spiel ein: Er gibt sich als Patient aus und lässt sich in das geheimnisvolle Sanatorium einweisen.

‘The Ten Golden Rules for Successful Armed Robbery’ if rigidly adhered to will catapult two trainee robbers—Frank and Stick—into Detroit’s criminal elite. But for how long can they maintain the Rules’ austere discipline as the lurid, fun temptations pile up?

Mickey is bored and angry with her life as a housewife in suburban Detroit, trapped with her dreary, golf-obsessed husband. Then she is kidnapped by a deeply unimpressive criminal gang who want to trade her for a huge ransom from her—as it turns out—crooked husband. But what if she doesn’t really mind being kidnapped?

Questa non sarà un’autopsia di routine. L’anatomopatologa Maura Isles ne è certa. Ad attenderla, all’ospedale, c’è lei: Madame X, coperta interamente da bende di lino impregnate di resina, che risalgono a duemila anni prima. I suoi organi interni sono stati asportati, solo il cuore è rimasto al suo posto, perché è lì che gli antichi egizi credevano risiedesse l’intelligenza. Madame X infatti è una mummia, ritrovata per caso negli scantinati di un museo. Quando la TAC arriva alle gambe, Maura scorge qualcosa di impossibile.

Ein verschwundenes Testament, vergraben unter einem Nussbaum. Jacks und Cliffs Interesse ist geweckt und sie wollen Mr. O’Sullivan helfen, an sein rechtmäßiges Erbe zu kommen. Doch es gibt jemanden, der mit allen Mitteln verhindern will, dass das Testament gefunden wird. Jack und Cliff beobachten durch ein Fenster, wie O’Sullivan mit einer Vase niedergeschlagen wird. Danach ist er spurlos verschwunden. Ein Hinweis führt zum alten Leuchtturm am Peril Point. Jack und Cliff machen sich mit ihrem Boot, der Ghost, auf den Weg.

Jack und Cliff verfolgen die Spur des verschwundenen Mr. O‘Sullivan zum Peril Point. Sie durchsuchen den alten Leuchtturm, als sie auf einmal durch Geräusche aufgeschreckt werden. Wer befindet sich noch auf dem Leuchtturm? Zu ihrem Entsetzen müssen sie feststellen, dass die Tür fest verschlossen ist, sie sitzen fest. Ihr Gegenspieler will mit allen Mitteln verhindern, dass Jack und Cliff das verschollene Testament vor ihm finden und hat sich so einen Vorteil verschafft.

In California, Sonny Boden, fresh out of prison for killing his grandparents, hides behind a mask of normalcy while luring hitchhikers to their deaths. But when paranoid schizophrenic Dwight Paulson witnesses one of Sonny's murders, he believes they share a twisted bond and begins his own killing spree. Meanwhile, Joe Wilder, a shattered family man plagued by apocalyptic voices, is drawn into the carnage. As their paths intertwine, bodies amass, and Sonny’s carefully constructed lie begins to unravel. He’s caught between two killers—each one threatening to expose his crimes.

The concluding Hammer novel begins with a 21st-century funeral before flashing back to summer, 1973. Nine years after the events of Dig Two Graves, Hammer takes another unlikely vacation—this time on Long Island to help look after his partner Velda Sterling’s seventeen-year-old sibling, Mikki. When Mikki gets hooked on heroin, Hammer—filled with contempt for dope dealers—goes on a rampage. He will find those behind the drug racket and teach them what shooting up is all about.

Rumba Stoner, avocate, est prise au piège dans son propre corps et par ses pensées. Elle oscille entre 1984, un présent dans lequel elle mène une bataille contre elle-même, et 1976, un passé qui lui revient. Comme si elle y était. Pour sortir de sa prison mentale, elle doit renouer avec ses souvenirs d'adolescence et reprendre le fil de sa toute première enquête. Un matin, à Chambéry, une jeune femme est retrouvée assassinée. Discrète et déterminée, la jeune Rumba suit son oncle à la trace, le commissaire Martinez, pour démasquer le coupable.

Der Privatdetektiv Derek Adams wird von einer unbekannten Schönen beauftragt, nach einem gestohlenen Amulett zu suchen. Adams willigt ein. Damit beginnt seine Albtraumfahrt durch das Reich des Grauens. Raymond Chandler trifft auf H. P. Lovecraft. Ein düsterer Noir-Krimi.

È la torrida estate del 2022. Dalla finestra che affaccia sul giardino di Villa De Fabbris appare una scena raccapricciante: una figura avvolta nell’ombra sta trascinando sull’erba il corpo senza vita di Valentina, come fosse una bambola rotta. L’opinione pubblica si scaglia immediatamente contro il marito, Mauro, personaggio inquieto e incapace di tessere relazioni sociali durature. A cercare di far luce sul mistero della morte violenta di Valentina è un gruppo di donne agguerrite e pronte a tutto perché la verità venga a galla.

Marco Todisco legge Il mistero della camera gialla di Gaston Leroux, un audiolibro della collana Anche i giovani leggono i classici, con cui Audiolibri Salani propone grandi classici della letteratura internazionale interpretati da celebri volti giovani in una chiave moderna e coinvolgente. Un classico che Agatha Christie definì “un capolavoro” del genere giallo costruito intorno a un omicidio commesso all’interno di una camera chiusa ermeticamente.

Los Angeles has many faces: the real LA where regular people live and work, the degenerate underbelly of any big city, and the rarified world of wealth, power, and celebrity. LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan’s latest case plunges her into this insular realm of privilege and gives her a glimpse of the darkness behind the glitter. The body of beloved actor Evan Hobbes is found in the rubble of a Malibu rockslide a day after a fake video ruins his career. It’s not clear to Nolan if it’s an accident, a suicide, or a murder, and things get murkier as the investigation expands.

The mean streets are awash with violence, with robberies and murders taking place in every dark corner of Dodge City. While the police know who is to blame, they find themselves up against something never encountered before and catching the madman will be no easy task. Go It Alone is an explosive tale of revenge and bloodshed unlike anything else.

Un homicidio en el casino de Saint-Vincent, uno de los más prestigiosos de Europa, sumerge a Rocco Schiavone en el mundo de la ludopatía, los juegos de azar y la avaricia. A pesar de la complejidad del caso, el subjefe no puede liberarse de su pasado... y recomponer su vida se torna más difícil porque la sombra de su enemigo Enzo Baiocchi todavía se cierne sobre él. Y aún quedan muchas preguntas por responder: ¿qué pasó con Caterina?, ¿por qué lo traicionó?, y ¿por qué la fiscalía comienza a investigar la muerte de Luigi Baiocchi?

Drei Freundinnen, drei Trennungen - ein Wochenendtrip, der tödlich endet. Gib mir deine Angst ist ein raffinierter psychologischer Thriller aus den USA mit unvorhersehbaren Twists. Sam ist heilfroh, als ihre Freundinnen Margaret und Diana, die ebenfalls unschöne Trennungen hinter sich haben, einen Wochenendtrip vorschlagen: einfach mal raus aus New York und die düsteren Gedanken für eine Weile beiseiteschieben! Doch dann haben die drei ausgerechnet in der Kleinstadt Catskill eine Autopanne, in der Sams Ex mit seiner neuen Freundin lebt.