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Raoul Sforza, nato dalla fantasia di Ferrario e già protagonista del precedente "Il banchiere di Milano" (2021), è un uomo senza scrupoli, impegnato ad architettare intrighi finanziari e a ricattare i vertici dello Stato per mantenere una vita di lussi e di svaghi. Dividendosi fra la villa di Brera e l’amenità del comune ligure di Bonassola, Sforza si ritrova suo malgrado a dover far luce su una serie di misteriosi omicidi, che dal lontano 1945 macchiano la Val Bisagno.

Un joven y sagaz forense se enfrenta a la cara más siniestra de San Sebastián en una tormentosa noche de investigación y persecución sin tregua. Una llamada nocturna interrumpe la relativa tranquilidad del forense Aitor Intxaurraga. Han encontrado un cadáver en el Peine del Viento y él, el novato del Instituto Anatómico, debe hacerse cargo.

Pharmaceutical giant VirtuaPharm is attempting to create that world through their partnership with a fellow megacorporation who’s developing a closed neural network. The network, enhanced through the use of VirtuaPharm’s drugs, is worth trillions. They’ll do everything in their power to protect the product launch, including employing a private army of enforcement officers to stop any interference in their business.

Left to die and trapped at the bottom of the ocean by their younger sister Zaira, Ayana and Yana are rescued by their father, Black Ice, who gave them a new life, but Ayana is having trouble dealing with the change he made to her and only the death of one person can make her feel better.

Chicago homicide detective Riley Walker is no stranger to death, but this case will push her to the physical and psychological limits. Following her wrongful removal from the elite Violent Crimes Task Force, Riley is demoted to working cases on Chicago’s South Side. It’s a tough beat for any detective, but it quickly becomes worse when she is assigned a maverick partner who has little respect for the rules. Now she must learn to work together in order to solve the most difficult case of her career, or it could be her last.

"Il commissario Saverio Mineo odia molte cose: per esempio i guanti, la forfora, i piedi brutti, la fretta, i pigiami a righe, il suo assistente Milito e sua moglie. Ma la cosa che odia di più sono i delitti, perché lo costringono a fingere di lavorare, mentre lui vorrebbe starsene in pace a leggere "La Gazzetta dello Sport", nel suo ufficio o al limite su una panchina vista mare. In fondo, perché dovrebbe succedere qualcosa nei tranquilli paesini di Cinisi e Terrasini?"

They say love hurts—but they never mentioned it could make you bleed. His deceit was like wine. I drank it in. Let it intoxicate me. But he’s not the man I fell for.

Bobby Zorn, a once successful screenwriter and recovering addict, gets a call from an ex-girlfriend. But she doesn’t want to get back together, she wants him to find Kyle Strange, an old running partner of Bobby’s. Kyle was with the ex's sister when she overdosed at a seedy LA motel. The ex claims she's trying to recover a family heirloom that was in her sister's bag, but what she’s really after is something far more valuable.

It’s 1975, and cowboy Johnny Riles is a headcase. He’s depressed, he’s drunk, and he’s lonesome as hell. Left by his family to care for the ranch on his own, Johnny manages to keep the cattle alive while struggling to justify his own existence. Embittered by the success of his younger brother, Kitch, a professional basketball player, it is only thanks to a salt-dry sense of humor and a plentiful supply of whiskey that Johnny keeps himself aboveground.

Life on an ore refining space station is miserable. When sickness spikes and ignites protests, only one cop can find the answers. Sofie Allen is forced to track down the source of the sickness on the Mallet. Her boss is determined to dump the political pressure on her. And worse, she might be a victim as her symptoms escalate. Will Sofie arrest the culprit before the Mallet is destroyed?

Rick and Frank are recovering addicts and accomplished house thieves. They do not steal randomly—they steal according to order, hired by a mysterious handler. The jobs run routinely until they're tasked with taking a seemingly worthless trophy: an object that generates interest and obsession out of proportion to its apparent value. Just as the robbery is completed, the two are involved in a freak car accident that sets off a chain of events and Frank disappears with the trophy.

Piera è una leggenda e ha scritto la storia del teatro italiano. Soprattutto, è ostinata e ribelle, non ama i potenti, e sa bene quant'è sottile la differenza tra il palco e la vita. Del resto, nello spettacolo della commedia umana si mente, si tradisce, si recita a soggetto. E può anche capitare di uccidere. Adesso Piera ha deciso di sfidare Shakespeare e allestire la prima rappresentazione al femminile del Riccardo III. Lei è fatta così. Intanto Roma soffoca nell'afa di luglio. Il delitto, però, non va mai in vacanza.

It's 1991, and Rita is looking forward to her return to Manchester after a few years in Greece with her husband Yansis. But once back she finds a cuckoo in the family nest – a dope-smoking 'businessman' called Leroy. Worse, he is her sister Jenny's boyfriend, and father of her unborn child. Rita and Yansis retreat to stay with friends Julie and Vinny, now living in a comfortable suburb of the city. But Rita is anxious to find out just what hold Leroy has over her family, and she'll stop at nothing to find out.

A valiant band of lobsters stage a daring escape from a restaurant on Valentine's Day. A miniature ballerina in a glass globe dances with a beauty that transcends time, space, and reality. A mild-mannered man is driven to violent madness by the machinations of an enormous spider who has invaded his home. A hard-nosed, hard-drinking detective tracks a talking femme fatale cat in a hardboiled kitty city. Temporal manifestations of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse struggle with familiarly human existential crises.

As Jacobs becomes more at ease with his nickname and starts using his abilities to help others, he finds he is still not done with Mallette’s bunch. Or at least what they used to be known as. Lawrence Wiggins, Mallette’s lawyer, is found dead, leading the imprisoned crime boss to getting a new attorney appointed from New York. Only this one comes with caveats.

Dieter Webber, a former Jump Armor pilot, lost his war. Years later as a broken ex-pat, half a galaxy away, the former combat pilot is haunted by the ghosts of the war and looming debts to organized crime. An encounter with an Android, Reis, serves as an invitation from his former commander to a reluctant escape: Mercenary work in her company, Valkyrie LLC.

Il commissario Enzo Fellini, già protagonista di "Giallo veneziano" (2019), è incaricato dal questore Badalamenti di un nuovo, delicatissimo caso. In una gondola, infatti, è stato ritrovato il cadavere di Gudrun Kessler, una soprano tedesca stabilitasi da tempo nella città lagunare. Scontrandosi con l'ossessione del questore per l'opinione pubblica, oltre che con un imprevisto flirt, Fellini si immerge in un'indagine che ben presto assume toni decisamente allarmanti: chi è il Superuomo (come l'assassino stesso ama firmarsi)?

Durante il capodanno del 1964, al commissariato di Siracusa, l'agente Camurro riceve una telefonata inquietante: è la signorina Russo che dichiara di aver visto tre uomini uccidere Antonio Passanisi, proprietario del ristorante "La spada blu". Arrivato sul posto, il commissario Paolo Portanova si trova al cospetto di una scena del crimine del tutto inedita. Il cadavere di Passanisi è scomparso e con lui anche la più piccola traccia del colpevole. Una porta chiusa a chiave, nel retrobottega, farà da perno alla vicenda e sarà causa di guai neri.

When a photo she took ends up splashed across a sleazy tabloid, Tootsie launches into an investigation to figure out who leaked it. Pounding the pavement, she follows the leads to a seedy massage parlor. One step inside and she knows something isn’t right.

Basil Stark isn’t the man he once was. A reformed pirate and private detective, he walks the line between criminal and hero, living in the corners of what was once the island of Neverland, its magic slowly fading into the new world of the 1950s. But when a routine missing-persons case turns into a murder investigation, Basil finds himself pulled into a tale of organized crime, murder, unstitched shadows and dangerous espionage. With only a handful of fellow outcasts and a stubborn determination to bring a killer to justice, will he survive the many people who want him dead?

Book 1 in the best-selling "Roland Benito" series. On a humid and rain-filled summer day in the Danish suburb of Brabrand, the body of a ten-year-old girl is found lifeless in a dumpster. Detective Inspector Roland Benito is immediately put on the case. Reporter Anne Larsen and freelance photographer, Kamilla Holm, are covering the case for The Daily News and the deeper they look into the story, the more entangled they become. It quickly becomes apparent to all involved, that the crime is linked to an internet chat site where the murdered girl had a profile.

You can’t escape the past. When newly elected Sheriff Robert Yates investigates the death of a mine manager found in the ditch by two young Vietnam vets, Yates has no idea what’s brewing under the surface in his quiet, picturesque town. Along with his two deputies, Bonnie James and Peter Thomas, Yates is lead to an abandoned cabin where he finds the body parts of a second victim and clues that open questions pertaining to a stash of lost heist money dating back to the early 1900s.

A cabinetmaker, private investigator, journalist, mystery lady, homemaker, police officer, true-crime writer, and flavorist. Between them they witness, investigate, perpetrate, and are victims of serious crime. Murder in the midst of carjacking, fraud, statutory rape, theft, vindictive bullying, and serial arson.

Benito Mussolini approda a Genova per una visita ufficiale. Siamo nel maggio del 1938 e il Duce conta di fermarsi in Liguria per quattro giorni. Il commissario Boccadoro, ricevuta la soffiata da un detenuto, segue attentamente gli spostamenti di Mussolini nella città, cercando di mettere insieme i pezzi di un probabile complotto dai contorni difficilmente afferrabili. Mescolando personaggi reali alla più pura finzione letteraria, con Nero dominante d'Amaro costruisce un thriller politico dalla rigorosa ambientazione anni Trenta.

When he comes back from fighting in Europe, he finds the city is upside down, there are new rules in place, new criminals have taken over, and to make matters even more fun, his wife has left him but returns with some gangsters hot on her heels. Did she take the money and kill her "gangster" boyfriend? Or is she wholly innocent? And what of Doc Weaver? He is now a turn coat and wanted by the mob as well and in the middle is Jack Manson.

It begins when Harry Starke and his team, including an aging Vietnam vet with a taste for violence, are recruited by the FBI to track down an elite Iranian military unit armed with a tactical nuclear weapon.

Eli Hagin can’t finish anything. He hates his job, but can’t seem to quit. He doesn’t want to be with his girlfriend, but doesn’t know how end things with her, either. Eli wants to write a novel, but he’s never taken a story beyond the first chapter. Eli also has trouble separating reality from fiction. When his best friend kills himself, Eli is motivated, for the first time in his life, to finally end something himself, just as Mike did. Except sessions with his therapist suggest that Eli’s most recent ‘first chapters’ are not as fictitious as he had intended.

This audiobook contains the following Cooper short stories: 351 - "Not What It Seems"; 352 - "Bingo"; 353 - "Way Back When"; and more....

Erma Johnson lives in a rough part of Baltimore. Gangs are a fact of life. She lost her daughter and grandson to their violence. She's convinced, however, that her grandson wasn't in a gang. Hacker turned private investigator C.T. Ferguson takes her case. The more he looks around, the more he thinks she's right.

Charity Fellner thought she had found the man of her dreams. After getting away from a would-be assailant her freshman year of college, she thought no one would be able to break down the mile-high walls she had built around herself. Charity put all of her insecurities behind her and fully focused on her new life, her new husband. Without even realizing it, years flew by, and Charity had become some sort of recluse.