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The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson. Philip Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case...

Friseur und Barbershop-Sänger Jimmy Luntz steckt in Schwierigkeiten. Weil er seit Jahren das Geld zwielichtiger Kredithaie verspielt, sind ihm nun skrupellose Geldeintreiber mit großkalibrigen Waffen auf den Fersen. Auf der Flucht wird die schöne Indigene Anita seine Gefährtin – und plötzlich geht es nicht mehr nur um ein paar Riesen für Lotterie und Poker, sondern um sein Leben, Sex und 2,3 Millionen Dollar. In Keine Bewegung! entführt Denis Johnson die Leser in die abgründige Welt eines Kleingangsters.

Ritornano con una nuova avventura i due investigatori involontari, Saverio Lamanna, giornalista senza lavoro, sarcastico e realista, e Peppe Piccionello, sua spalla, confidente e mentore. Nati e cresciuti al livello del mare, si trovano in trasferta sulle alte Madonie in soccorso di Suleima, sconfortata per la morte del suo ultimo datore di lavoro. Un incidente di montagna che però presto si rivela molto più che una tragica fatalità.

A propulsive, electrifying novel about a hitman who is forced to take an impossible job, by the rising literary sensation and comedian Sam Tallent, author of Running The Light Robert Beaujolais forfeited the last years of his youth to the Marines, watching his friends die. Beaujolais survived...

When a violent man is framed, mercy is not an option. Joe Hope makes his living hurting people. If you borrow money in Edinburgh and don’t pay it back, Joe is the problem you can’t avoid. Then his teenage daughter is found dead. The police call it suicide. Joe knows better. And before he can even bury her, he’s arrested for her murder. For the first time in his life, Joe Hope is innocent. Which means he has nothing left to lose. Cut loose by the law, he turns to the only people he can trust: Scotland’s hardest men, and one woman who’s just as dangerous.

Un omicidio irrisolto al centro dell'ultima indagine dell'ispettore Morse che nel tentativo di inchiodare l'assassino dovrà affrontare anche i fantasmi di un passato che è molto vicino al suo cuore. Un magnifico romanzo, l'ultimo della serie dell'ispettore Morse, che ci farà rimpiangere a lungo l'intelligenza, l'abilità, l'ironia di un personaggio tra i più riusciti del giallo classico.

It’s Midsummer’s Eve, the celebration of the longest day of the year, and on Sandhamn it’s the longest party of the year. But the fun comes to a dead halt when a young reveler is murdered, a teenage girl is found drugged and dazed on the beach, and other young women vanish. So far, what links the victims is a mystery. For Nora Linde and her new boyfriend, Jonas Sköld, the crimes are personal: one of the missing girls is Wilma, Jonas’s daughter. And her disappearance could test Nora and Jonas’s relationship in ways they never expected.

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.

In the stillness of his Paris apartment, Jean Daragane has built a life of total solitude. Then a surprising phone call shatters the silence of an unusually hot September, and the threatening voice on the other end of the line leaves Daragane wary, but irresistibly curious. Almost at once, he finds himself entangled with a shady gambler and a beautiful, fragile young woman, who draw Daragane into the mystery of a decades-old murder. The investigation will force him to confront the memory of a trauma he had all but buried.

Ancien sportif reconverti dans les relations publiques, Myron tombe des nues quand il reçoit l'appel de Terese, dont il est sans nouvelles depuis sept ans. À peine arrivé à Paris, le cauchemar commence... Qui en veut à la vie de Terese ? Quels secrets lui a-t-elle cachés ? Pourquoi le Mossad, Interpol et la CIA les traquent-ils sans relâche ?

1901. Pour fuir la violence de sa famille mafieuse, Nando Russo choisit l'exil. Il devient mineur en Lorraine et apprend à arracher le fer à la montagne comme nombre de ses compatriotes italiens. Mais son passé le rattrape et le replonge dans une spirale meurtrière irrépressible. 1913. Antonio Russo arrive à son tour dans la vallée de la Chiers. Huit ans plus tôt, sa mère et lui ont brutalement perdu tout contact avec Nando. Antonio découvre le destin tragique qui a frappé son père et les crimes qu'on lui a imputés.

Brought to you by Penguin. Three rival mages race for power, vengeance, and the fate of Atherin in the epic second instalment of the Silvercloak Saga, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Our Infinite Fates. After the disastrous events in the Havenwood, Saffron Killoran’s revenge has...

La principal misión de Verónica Cuevas es salvar a las víctimas. Después de resolver su primer caso importante en la Brigada de Homicidios y Desaparecidos del Cuerpo Nacional de Policía, una nueva desaparición en la ciudad de León la enfrentará a su mayor reto. La posible relación con un crimen cometido semanas atrás, desatará una serie de acontecimientos que la llevarán a perseguir a un peligroso depredador, en una lucha contra el reloj antes de que vuelva a asesinar.

Although Tina Alvarez escaped a trafficking ring, her newborn daughter wasn’t so lucky. Sold on the black market, the baby vanished without a trace. Most people would’ve given up, but Tina never stopped searching. When Ari Wilburn offers to help, it sounds easy enough: Find the child. It should be simple. It isn’t. Because the deeper Ari digs, the more twisted the threat becomes. People connected to the case are turning up dead. And the clues point to one disturbing truth: This isn’t just about a missing child—it’s about Ari. Her past. Her secrets. And a killer who is watching. Waiting.

La mujer de un rico ingeniero de Bilbao ha sido secuestrada y el marido, cuando se dispone a pagar el rescate, descubre que tiene un amante. El profesor Loizaga siente la curiosidad para llegar hasta el final de la historia y descubrir qué se esconde detrás de todo, así que decide investigar con la ayuda de su amigo, el oficial de la Ertzaintza Román Escudero.

A missing tenant, an irate mother–in–law, and a killer hiding in a Toronto rooming house—out–of–work PI Patrick Bird is back in business. Patrick Bird thought he was helping his mother–in–law collect back rent from a deadbeat tenant at her Ossington Avenue rooming house, not...

È una Genova invasa dall'acqua, quella che fa da sfondo alla fuga di Olmo Vivera, un vecchio rapinatore che si trova improvvisamente e ingiustamente accusato di aver rubato una valigetta misteriosa, fregando il suo capo banda e la mafia russa. Il povero Olmo si trova così ad affrontare una caccia all'uomo spietata, aiutato solo da Mara, una cantante jazz di poca fortuna, e dall'amico d'infanzia Carlo, suo complice d'un tempo. E proprio insieme a Carlo, Olmo cercherà di organizzare un colpo molto ambizioso provando a chiudere la questione una volta per tutte...

È giugno, le figlie del commissario Mariani e sua madre Emma sono in vacanza, mentre lui è a Genova al lavoro come la moglie Francesca. Forse l'essere soltanto in due migliorerà l'umore della sua Fran che da febbraio sente nervosa e spesso assente. Ma un caso di omicidio in un B&B vicino al Ponte Monumentale lo costringe ad affrontare momenti difficili e inaspettati, non solo dal punto di vista professionale, ma perché la vittima aveva avuto ripetuti scambi di messaggi e telefonate con Francesca.

Saint-Étienne, mai 1944. Dans une ville qui étouffe sous la botte allemande, Lucien Bornier, dit « l'Embaumé », mène la belle vie. Alors que le bombardement allié du 26 mai réduit le quartier de Tardy en cendres, Lucien commet l'irréparable. Des décennies plus tard, l'ombre du passé ressurgit dans le quotidien d'Ernest Cafuron. Ernest est un habitué du Café de la Paix. Ce Stéphanois pur jus va se retrouver mêlé à une histoire qui le dépasse.

In a small village in England a mysterious death is just the beginning of the horror.