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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.

Callum Haffenden swore he’d never return to Granite Creek. But, 30 years after a life-shattering accident, he’s thrust back into the clutches of Far North Queensland and a local legend he worked hard to forget. When a man goes missing in the rainforest, the past begins to resurface, breathing new life into memories of previous tragedies – two girls lost, 17 years apart. In a town where it’s easiest to turn a blind eye, the guilt runs deep. And everyone in Granite Creek has something to hide.

As a twelve-year-old escaping a disordered and unhappy home and parents who loved hard but couldn’t make it work, Travis left the Midwest to spend a summer with his grandparents in the Deep South. There he met Delia, the love of his life, who, tragically, was beyond his reach for two reasons—she was his aunt and she was sixteen years old. That summer made Travis guilty of crimes discovered and undiscovered. For his public wrongs, he did time, six years in a Nebraska reform school. For his undiscovered wrongs, he suffers mightily and wants desperately to be shriven.

When Teddy Colne arrives in the small town of Rye, he believes he will be able to leave his past behind him. Little does he know that fear blisters through the streets like a fever. The locals tell him to stay away from an establishment known only as Berry & Vincent, that those who rub too closely to its proprietor risk a bad end. Despite their warnings, Teddy is desperate to see what really hides behind the doors of his shop. Ada moved to Rye with her young son to escape a damaged childhood but she’s lonely and ostracised by the community.

Boone has been prospecting with the Iron Brotherhood outlaw motorcycle gang for almost a year, trying to earn his patch with the club. When a simple muscle job goes terribly wrong, his world changes forever. He is quickly plunged deeper into a world of drug and intimidation, and the lines between right and wrong blur. The bonds of brotherhood that he forges with other members clash with the dark actions they take. His girlfriend, Faith, represents a danger of another kind, but Boone can’t stop himself where she is concerned, either.

Ayana crosses her sisters, leaving them for dead and stealing the only way to bring back their best friend Osis. Thinking of only herself, she discovered a way to make things go back to normal before they were separated. Yana and Macy search for Ayana in hopes to stop her from making a terrible mistake, but time is running out.

Dopo "Morte a domicilio" e "Il dubbio" ecco la terza indagine per il commissario Antonio Mariani e la moglie Francesca Lucas, ingegnere informatico. La misteriosa morte a Lavagna di Luisa Lercari, scrittrice di gialli, trascina l'ispettore Mariani in una nuova e inquietante indagine che coinvolge Emma (la madre di Mariani, appassionata lettrice della Lercari) ed Enrica sua grande amica. La testardaggine delle due donne spinge l'ispettore ad interessarsi al caso e a condurre ricerche personali parallelamente a quelle dei Carabinieri.

Even small towns can harbor big secrets. Jake Collins, the former Deputy Sheriff in Deadman's Gulch, Texas, knows this all too well.

"Quando c’è un delitto finiscono per soffrire anche tanti che non hanno colpe, per le colpe degli altri. Solo perché sono lì, in zona pericolo, parenti o amici della vittima o dell’assassino." In questo secondo romanzo che vede il commissario Antonio Mariani, protagonista che oscilla fra le precise fasi dell’indagine su alcuni delitti avvenuti in città e la confusa ricerca della verità sulla moglie, Francesca.

After watching the gruesome suicide of a tragic stranger, Audrey has spent years trying to raise money for her mental health clinic for the disabled. Suddenly her dreams are made true by a reclusive stranger…but the money comes at a high price. She must successfully navigate between two powerful forces. If she fails, she won’t just lose her clinic, she’ll lose her life.

When the space station erupts into violence, Detective Sofie Allen races to find the trigger. Someone is pushing the workers to riot, and that means profits are dropping. Interference with commerce is the biggest crime you can commit on the Mallet.

Master Forger David Henty has a problem: a forgery he painted is rejected and suddenly he owes a murderous, blind, female Japanese gangster £5 million.

Ford Merrick is a softhearted detective in a sleepy southern town, Opelika, Alabama—a “one-eyed, blinking sort of place.” A provoking visit from the beautiful Rachel Gunner complicates his work and his life. This stunning woman asks Ford to tail her uncle and discover what he is up to. Taking the case, Ford quickly finds himself swamped in mysteries.

Oía su respiración, solo su respiración. Había ratos, incluso días, que ni siquiera existían para él. No había sonidos, no había tiempo, no había vida… En esas ocasiones intuía que llevaba varios días dormido y, cuando despertaba, con frecuencia pensaba que estaba muerto, que por fin había muerto, pero las bridas rodeándole los tobillos y las muñecas le recordaban dónde se hallaba y en qué estado.

Joe Brody, ex-Special Forces operative suffering post-traumatic stress syndrome so severe that it turned him to drug and alcohol abuse, is getting his life back together. Living with his grandmother in Queens, Joe has taken what should be a simple job as a bouncer at a strip club where he can spend most of his nights reading the classics. The only catch is that his childhood friend Gio Caprisi, now head of New York's Italian Mafia, relies on Joe's extra-legal expertise when things get particularly nasty on the streets.

A Football Story, set in football-crazed Dallas, Texas, is an action-filled drama told with dark humor. The story begins on Christmas Eve, 1988, with Burl Ives singing “Have a Holly, Jolly Christmas” and immediately flashes back six weeks as Matt Story, a young, undermotivated NCAA infractions officer, accompanies his boss, Dick Brotherman, to view a routine post-probation compliance signing at a football powerhouse, Texas Methodist University.

Memo Smith was a talented deputy with the Doña Ana Sheriff’s Department. After letting illegal immigrants go from a traffic stop, the border patrol pressures the department to get rid of him. After resigning from the department and a bitter divorce, Smith moves to Juarez, Mexico, to save money and instead becomes a key player in the new Juarez Cartel.

Seventeen-year-old Camilla Lee faces the unthinkable. Surviving a home invasion, she vows vengeance. But on who? This is a tale of family secrets and lies. Of depression, self-harm, bullying, and lost innocence. Can Camilla remain untainted? Or will she misuse her black belt skills? How many lines will Camilla cross to uncover the truth and deliver payback?

Milano. Una guardia giurata sta facendo un ultimo giro di ronda al museo HangarBicocca, quando si imbatte inaspettatamente nel cadavere di una donna, pugnalata al cuore e abbandonata all'interno della torre detta "Sefiroth". L’indagine viene affidata dal questore a Enrico Tombamasselli, detto affettuosamente Tomba. Il nostro protagonista, che lotta con una grande solitudine e col vuoto lasciatogli dalla morte della moglie, si troverà ben presto a riscontrare inquietanti similitudini fra il delitto e una lunga serie di altri omicidi, avvenuti in varie zone della metropoli lombarda.

This drive through the dark streets of the Motor City “is one of the best in Akashic Books’ noir series. You cannot go wrong with this anthology.”—Reviewing the Evidence From cri….

Il grande parco di villa Pamphili, a due passi dal Vaticano e da Monteverde, ha due volti molto diversi: di giorno è un giardino che accoglie bambini, anziani e sportivi; di notte si trasforma in un rifugio abusivo per senzatetto, drogati e prostitute. All’alba di una gelida mattina di gennaio, una di loro viene trovata senza vita, brutalmente uccisa con un’arma da taglio. Era italiana, aveva poco più di vent’anni, era una ragazza sola, si vendeva per pagarsi l’università.

Diceva Faulkner che il Sud bisogna raccontarlo; che bisogna spiegare perché la gente vive lì, e anzi perché vive. Il Sud raccontato qui è quello della città di Atlanta del 1948, l'anno in cui, per la prima volta, a otto afroamericani fu concesso di arruolarsi nelle forze di polizia per pattugliare i quartieri abitati dalla propria gente.

Following a horrific murder in a sleepy suburb of York, a local journalist receives a cryptic clue from someone claiming to be the killer. The clue hints at where the next murder will take place. Teaming up with the senior investigating officer, Gene Garland, they discover the clue is genuine. They face a race against the clock to stop a sadistic killer....

Quando Dino Lorenzi, il sindaco di Pordenone, viene trovato morto nel suo ufficio in un'umida alba di novembre, sembrano non esserci dubbi: si tratta di suicidio. Ma dove sono finiti il computer e i cellulari del sindaco? In Comune si respira un'aria pesante e sono troppi i dettagli che non tornano, tanti i particolari che non convincono un segugio come il commissario Vidal Tonelli.

From the warped mind who brought you Zombies Don’t Surf and the rest of the Guardians of the Apocalypse saga comes a twisted tale of blood and death and magic in a mythical place called The City. Think The Dresden Files meets Sin City, while hanging out with The Warriors in 1947, then crank it up to 11 and hang on for the ride.

Manny appears throughout the Noir universe and hints of his past are shown but never fully revealed, that is until now. He needs to be seen as he was and what he came to and how he got there. It is no secret this is my favorite book to write to date. In fact, if I am not mistaken, my very first full origin story and I loved every minute of it. So much so I did not want it to end, and being that it is an origin I had to decide where I wanted the cutoff of his story to be.

La squadra di Marco Pellegrini, riluttante vigile urbano del borgo di Monteperso, si è allargata. Non solo è entrato ufficialmente in organico il cagnaccio Patton, l'unico agente che ti fa la contravvenzione con i denti, ma è stato arruolato un giovane aiutante, Lollo Parmeggiani, mezzo uomo e mezzo AirPods. Servono più risorse per affrontare in sicurezza il Gothic Line Festival, manifestazione storica sul cui ospite d'onore, il fascinoso nipote di un eroe di guerra britannico, si concentrano le attenzioni di tutti e in particolare della sindaca Monica.

Raymond il poliziotto, Beatrice l'infermiera, Salvatore il piccolo imprenditore e Regina l'insegnante entrano nel tunnel del coronavirus con tutti gli altri, alla fine di febbraio a Adeago, in provincia di Bergamo. Ci entrano con le loro vecchie paure, frustrazioni, amori perduti e sconfitte, e con un carico di umana meschinità.

Siamo nel 1963. I Beatles cantano Please, Please Me; in Italia le elezioni vedono uno spostamento di voti dal centro a sinistra e le trattative per formare il governo stentano. In una Milano di case di ringhiera, tram e osterie, si muove sulla sua Vespa Carlo Passi, trentenne diviso tra passione e cinismo. Lavora in un quotidiano nato da poco che sta cambiando il modo di fare giornalismo. È stato appena lasciato dalla bellissima collega Enrica Sala che lavora alla tv di Stato.

Roma. Quando tre netturbini, nel pieno della notte, incappano nel cadavere di una ragazza nigeriana, tutti i sospetti ricadono immediatamente sul tassista che la stringe fra le braccia. L'uomo, ricoperto del sangue di lei, è in evidente stato di shock, e continua a ripetere di essere l'unico colpevole. Paolo Proietti viene incaricato delle indagini: Ernesto - questo il nome del tassista - è infatti una sua vecchia conoscenza, anche se l'amicizia è naufragata ormai da tanto tempo.