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IT'S A CRIME THAT HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF. 'Sensationally good - new, fresh, real, authentic, twisty, with characters and dilemmas that will break your heart. ' LEE CHILD 'Every once in a while a writer comes along with an incredible voice. Think Elmore Leonard, or Chester Himes...add S. A. Cosby...

Twenty floors above the shimmering lights of the Hamburg docks, public prosecutor Chastity Riley is celebrating a birthday with friends in a hotel bar when 12 heavily armed men pull out guns and take everyone hostage. Among the hostages is Konrad Hoogsmart, the hotel owner, who is being targeted by a man whose life - and family - have been destroyed by Hoogsmart’s actions. With the police looking on from outside - their colleagues’ lives at stake - and Chastity on the inside, increasingly ill from sepsis, the stage is set for a dramatic confrontation.

In the city of Bristol, young women are dying in mysterious circumstances. The deaths look like suicides - but are they something more sinister? Honor is terrified that her daughter might be next. But as she looks for clues as to what really happened to the girls, she stumbles upon a link to a dark secret in her own past - one that she’s kept from her daughter. Now Honor has the chance to avenge her child for the terrible events of years ago. But how far will she go to protect her daughter and right the wrongs done to her family? 

Cumprindo licença paternidade por causa da filha de apenas cinco dias, Dornelas é tirado da cama no meio da madrugada para atender a um chamado urgente: um crime brutal fora cometido no Centro Histórico, em pleno Carnaval. Ao chegar ao local, o Delegado Titular da Polícia Civil de Palmyra se depara com uma cena sem precedentes na cidade. Tudo aponta para uma execução sumária.

At the height of World War II, the famous writer Ernest Hemingway sought permission from the U.S. government to operate a spy ring out of his house in the Cuban countryside. This much is true... It is the summer of ’42 and FBI agent Joe Lucas has come to Cuba at the behest of J. Edgar Hoover to keep an eye on Hemingway. The great writer has assembled a ragtag spy ring that he calls the “Crook Factory” to play a dangerous game of amateur espionage. But then Lucas and Hemingway, against all the odds, uncover a critical piece of intelligence - and the game turns deadly.

LA, 1946. Private eyes Katherine "Kit" Comfort and Henry Richman, operators of the struggling Comfort & Company detective agency, have their hands full when a simple missing person case turns into a deadly clash with traitors and killers. While trying to locate a wayward army doctor, notorious ex-cop Henry and his ambitious young partner Kit become entangled with both a Nazi underground and the government agents who are stalking them.

Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. In Hong Kong Noir, 14 of the city’s finest authors explore the dark heart of the Pearl of the Orient in haunting stories of depravity and despair.

Napoli, 1962. Il Club 22 è il night più amato della città. Sarà perché il proprietario, il Cavalier Eduardo De Angelis, lo gestisce con generosità e intelligenza. Sarà perché Natalia de Gennaro, meglio conosciuta come Natascia, sa capire i clienti – e convincerli a ordinare carissime bottiglie di “finto champagne” – meglio di chiunque altro. Sarà perché Samuele Caputo, al secolo Sam, è un pianista che non fa rimpiangere il suo omonimo di Casablanca quando suona i successi americani del momento, tradotti rigorosamente in napoletano.

Bloomsbury presents Best Friends Forever by Dawn Goodwin, read by Matt Lowe. Have you ever wanted to kill your best friend? Anna was the perfect wife. Perfect mother. Perfect woman. And now she's dead. Leaving behind her husband, David, and two young children their lives will never be the same...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Chloe Gong's adult epic fantasy debut, inspired by Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, is a fiery collision of power plays, spilled blood, and romance amidst a set of deadly games. The only way to win, is to survive. Every year, thousands flock to San-Er, the...

A drowned child. Estranged sisters. A home steeped in sorrow. Rachel thought she could outrun her past. But when her sister Imogen returns home after years abroad, the walls Rachel built around her begin to crumble. Imogen wants what she believes is hersno matter the cost. Twenty years after the...

In the aftermath of Algeria's war of independence, Paris was a city rife with suspicion and barely suppressed violence. Amid this tension, Jean, a young writer adrift, met and fell for Dannie, an enigmatic woman fleeing a troubled past. Half a century later, with his old black notebook as a guide, Jean retraces this fateful period in his life, recounting how, through Dannie, he became mixed up with a group of unsavory characters connected by a shadowy crime.

Barton & Webb Volume 1 in a single collected edition of all three books.The Azure OrchidDetective David Webb hasn't had a case for a while, the bills are piling up and even his steady intake of bourbon and cigarettes can't seem to make things any better, so when a mysterious and alluring woman...

Chicago. Una stazione della metropolitana. Un uomo immobile sulla banchina. Adam lo vede per la prima volta quasi per caso. È lì, fermo, apparentemente fuori posto. Potrebbe essere soltanto uno sconosciuto in attesa di un treno, una presenza come tante in una città che non smette mai di...

This collection of gripping and addictive crime thrillers includes:Book 4 – The Devil Inside Her.When five friends embark on a hiking holiday across the Lincolnshire Wolds, little did they know that one of them wouldn’t return. The fog is thick, the morning air is frigid, and when the clouds...

Venticinque anni fa, un assassino da tutti chiamato “lo strangolatore di Richmond Park” terrorizzò Londra, uccidendo quattro donne prima di scomparire all’improvviso senza lasciare traccia. Per la giornalista di cronaca nera Holly Sullivan non si tratta solo dell’ennesimo caso irrisolto: è una questione personale. Sua sorella Annabel era stata l’ultima vittima del serial killer. Ora, con la madre in fin di vita, Holly ha sempre meno tempo per trovare le risposte che desidera disperatamente.

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.

From one of Australia’s most loved and celebrated crime writers, the multiple award-winning Garry Disher. 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...

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.