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Josh Cybulski’s debut novel explores a generation who were told they could do anything. Some did, and without a doubt still are, and some became disillusioned at the first signs of adversity.

Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon è un minuscolo arcipelago punteggiato di casette colorate al largo della costa del Canada, una sconosciuta appendice di Francia ai confini del mondo che, all'inizio dell'estate, quando i merluzzi attraversano le sue acque, viene inghiottita dalle nebbie. Un luogo ottimo per sondare, sotto i silenzi della neve e il fruscio del vento, le anime degli uomini.

Kenny Ruffin, a former gang leader serving hard time in San Quentin, looks forward to his release so he can get his life back and meet his teenage son for the first time. His destiny becomes entangled with that of a redneck career criminal called Cat McGrath when the two of them are sent back to LA on the same bus.

While investigating the origins of a mysterious donation to Oxford University, private detective Charles Maddox encounters the mysterious Baron Von Reisenberg, the subject of many rumors and macabre legends. In the light of day Maddox can find no evidence of anything sinister—until a series of disturbing incidents send him on a quest to expose whatever evil lurks in the Baron's castle. After a terrifying encounter nearly costs him his sanity, Maddox returns home to find London besieged by an elusive murderer branded the Vampire. 

Brought to you by Penguin. Daring, surprising and superbly plotted, this is a fresh, thrilling page-turner from a dynamic new duo in genre fiction Your happiest memory is their deadliest weapon. THIS IS PROPHET. It knows when you were happiest. It gives life to your fondest memories and uses...

A year ago, Solomon Drift was the main enforcer for a multi-national crime organisation calling itself "The Group". He had it all, everything a man could want—status, wealth, and power. But then he met Connie Turner, "Connie bloody Turner" who turned his world inside out and upside down.

After the devastating events that took place in Stark, Tanner pursues Soulless while seeking revenge and to finally end the madman’s reign of terror.

Das Audible Original Hörspiel "Wenn der Mordmann kommt" ist ein ruhiger und dennoch packender Crime Noir von Krimi-Koryphäe Friedrich Ani. Zu später Stunde wird die La Luna Bar in München Schauplatz smarter Dialoge, intensiver Monologe und undurchsichtiger Erzählungen eines gegensätzlichen Gespanns: dem mysteriösen und zugleich charismatischen Kommissar Jon Andersen (Peter Kurth), dem klugen und kritischen Barkeeper Hendrik Efeu (Ken Duken) sowie der einsamen Nachtwandlerin und Zuhörerin Ines Morgenroth (Frauke Poolman).

Incluso nella prima selezione del Premio Strega 2023, "Mare mosso" è un noir da ascoltare tutto d’un fiato che si delinea sullo sfondo di un mondo sommerso, le cui profondità celano insidie di ogni tipo... Cagliari, 1981. Al largo delle coste della Sardegna c’è la Izmir, una grande nave cargo battente bandiera turca, che lancia un allarmante SOS. L’ingegnere navale Achille Vitale, che dirige un’intrepida flotta di rimorchiatori per conto di un facoltoso armatore napoletano, si mette subito all’opera: bisogna raggiungere la nave il prima possibile, in modo da salvare l’equipaggio da morte certa.

Me llamo Darío Pertegaz, soy agente de la Policía Nacional y si están leyendo estas líneas, eso querrá decir que ya estaré muerto. Voy a suicidarme. Así comienza esta novela donde se narra lo que le sucedió a un policía corrupto y a su estricta compañera en el transcurso de una compleja investigación destinada a atrapar a un despiadado asesino en serie cuyo particular código moral le impide matar a personas inocentes. Permítanme contarles esta historia. Hónrenme con su lectura.

Jonas is a transient: a human spy living as an eternal. His mission is simple: always learn, never get caught. In the year 2578, an immortal regime controls the planet. Endless war has pushed humanity to the brink of extinction. Desperate to survive, the remaining factions deploy teenage spies, hoping to defeat the enemy from within. After years in the lion's den, Jonas has grown to admire the eternal civilization. He is learning to love what he blindly hated, blurring the mission and himself.

When private investigator Detective Sebastian Clifford is asked by his former society girlfriend to locate her fiancé—who’s disappeared along with some valuable pieces of art—he’s reluctant to help. He’s left the aristocratic world behind, and for good reason. But when his ex starts receiving threatening letters, Clifford is left with no choice. When he enlists the help of his partner Lucinda Bird, aka Birdie, they start digging and find themselves drawn into London’s underworld.

After an unborn baby's mysterious death, a New York City molecular biologist travels to Puerto Rico to investigate. Fears of a new pandemic mosquito virus haunt her plans and nightmares. Her next DNA experiments reveal a personal stake in a future she is not ready to accept.

Genova: al Porto Antico viene trovato il corpo di una donna. A ucciderla è stata la digossina, un principio attivo che può essere letale. Nelle quattro settimane che precedono il Natale altre quattro donne incontreranno la morte nello stesso modo. Il commissario Mariani si immerge nel tragico mistero senza riserve, un'occasione imperdibile per dimenticare la separazione dalla moglie Francesca. Ma qual è il legame fra le vittime? Oppure il serial killer, se di uno solo si tratta, colpisce a caso?

Amrapali Anna Singh is an historian and analyst capable of discerning the most cryptic and trivial details from audio recordings. One day, a mysterious man appears at her office in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, having traveled a great distance to bring her three Type IV audio cassettes that bear the stamp of a library in Buenos Aires that may or may not exist. On the cassettes is the deposition of an adventure journalist and his obsessive pursuit of an amorphous, legendary, and puzzling "City of Dreams."

From the author of Kings of Broken Things and In Our Other Lives comes a provocative and stylish literary noir about two female war correspondents whose fates intertwine in Europe. Paris, 1938. Two women meet: Mielle, a shy pacifist and shunned Mennonite who struggles to fit in with the elite...

In this epic standalone from David Swinson "one of the best dialogue hounds in the business" (NYTBR), Homicide Detective Alex Blum must answer a terrible question: 'how far would you go to love the wrong woman?' In a red brick house on a tree-lined street, DC homicide detective Alex Blum stares...

Febbraio, 1956. Una coltre di neve è scesa su Roma, ma questo non impedisce ai ladri di fare il loro lavoro. Alla stazione Termini, un uomo è seduto su una panchina in attesa del treno, quando improvvisamente qualcuno alle sue spalle afferra il grande baule a rotelle che ha lì accanto e corre via. Il giorno dopo il questore Passalacqua convoca il commissario Agostino Clodoveo per affidargli un incarico delicatissimo: trovare Clara Tebaldi, moglie di un uomo ricco e importante, Fulco Tebaldi.

Ruben is a successful salesman. Roz hates her boring admin job. Ruben owns his own home. Roz still lives with her nasty mum and dad. One is a serial killer, the other desperate to learn the trade. When high-school misfits Ruben Jones and Roz Smith's paths cross later in life, they see something in the other no one else has and they team up to form a friendship based on the one thing they have in common – murder.

Ginko, all'anagrafe Giuliano Casablanca, sembra tutto tranne che un poliziotto. Non che la sua squadra sia molto meglio: tra Panettone che non vede l'ora di andare in pensione, Marco Zhong che parla il romanesco di Trilussa, e Minimo Sindacale che se si presenta al lavoro è già tanto, questo Ufficio Passaporti della Questura di Milano pare più un gruppo delle superiori che un corpo di Stato. In quest'ufficio Ginko ci è arrivato dalla Omicidi.

Cosa accade quando le trasgressioni di un gruppo di giovani satanisti si saldano - tra omicidi, rapimenti e traffico d'organi - alle trame di misteriosi circoli esoterici e di laboratori di ricerca coperti da segreto militare? Enrico Bonetti, cronista di nera in un giornale di provincia, si trova suo malgrado coinvolto in una catena di delitti terribili che aprono scenari insospettabili. Con l'aiuto di un maresciallo dei carabinieri e di un frate davvero fuori dal comune (esorcista e pirata informatico) proverà a combattere il disegno criminale.

New York, 1934. The cat burglar called The Smoke turns good Samaritan. A down-on-his-luck boxer has been swindled, beat up, and tossed to the streets. Using his special skill set, The Smoke is determined to help the poor sap. But after he stumbles over the body of a fight promoter with a freshly crushed skull, the Smoke and his new boxer friend become prime suspects for murder.

When a local father is convicted of the possession and distribution of child pornography, the tight-knit, middle-class community is quick to unravel. He is granted permanent name suppression, and soon friend turns on friend, neighbour delivers up neighbour, and hysteria rapidly engulfs them all. Who among them was capable of such moral trespass?

The best noir writers make us feel the heat of the sun, the touch of a lover. Setting can be gritty but can also be sublime, no longer relegated to urban locales and seedy hotel rooms but also mansions and swimming pools. Hence, Palm Springs, which may seem like an odd setting for a collection of dark short stories—it’s so sunny and bright here. The stories in this collection come on like the wicked dust storms common to the area.

Mike Romeo is an ex-cage fighter living off the grid in LA. Running from a dark guilt that dogs him, he's finally found a place where he can rest and even heal. Then a church blows up. And with it all of Romeo's hopes to be left alone. When he stops to help an injured woman whose kids are missing, someone decides to put a target on his back.

Decades after playing the titular killer in the eighties horror franchise Night of the Reaper, Howard Browning has been reduced to signing autographs for his dwindling fanbase at genre conventions. When the studio announces a series reboot, the aging thespian is crushed to learn he's being replaced in the iconic role by heartthrob Trevor Mane, a former sitcom child-star who's fresh out of rehab. But as Howard fights to reclaim his legacy, the sinister alter ego consumes his unraveling mind, pushing him to the brink of violence.

Laura García Hernández, una niña de catorce años, ha desaparecido. La última vez que se la vio fue entrando en un conocido centro comercial, cuando acudía a una misteriosa cita. A los pocos días aparece descuartizada en el aparcamiento de la planta baja. El cuerpo presenta mordeduras de animal, pero su hermano Jaime insiste en que fueron causadas por un ser humano. Todo se complica cuando Pablo, un publicista que trabaja en la agencia más prestigiosa del país, sospecha que el asesinato puede estar relacionado con la muerte de algunas famosas influencers.

Rachel Evans, a selfie queen and social media superstar, went to school and never came home. DI Alan Williams and his team launch a desperate investigation to find her. As the country is plunged into lockdown, the price of narcotics skyrockets, causing friction between rival dealers.

Chicago Sun-Times reporter Paul Crawford is asked to investigate a series of recent murders he eventually calls the "Houdini Victims". He begins with the investigation of a corporate executive who vanishes from a parking garage in the Chicago Loop without a trace.

Brought to you by Penguin. Los Angeles. August 4, 1962. The city broils through a mid-summer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parker's looking for some getback. The Monroe deal looks like a moneymaker. He calls in Freddy...

Lucia Gomez, capo della polizia nella città di Highland Isle, nei pressi della Kindle County, è sempre stata consapevole del fatto che per una donna che lavora nelle forze dell'ordine è fondamentale farsi rispettare. Fino a ora Lucia si è guadagnata una reputazione impeccabile mantenendosi in difficile equilibrio tra l'esercizio della sua autorità e il cameratismo.

Rich Mallette is nothing but a distant memory. But with him out of the picture, it doesn’t mean Brett Jacobs is living on easy street. With the city wide open for a new leader for the criminal element, new prospects emerge, hoping to take over. And that means Jacobs will get drawn into another war. Now the question will be, who gets dragged in with him?

Sei ragazze in fuga da se stesse e da un’implacabile aguzzina. Un viaggio dal Nord al Sud dell’Italia per dimenticare il passato, salvare il presente e sognare il futuro. Un meraviglioso romanzo noir sulla speranza, il dolore e l’amicizia, scritto a dieci mani da cinque grandi autori italiani. Veneto, una cascina tra le verdi colline coltivate a prosecco ospita un gruppo di ragazze. Sono tutte minorenni e in fuga. Dalla famiglia, dalla polizia, da se stesse. Anna ha sedici anni ed è incinta, e assieme a sua sorella Claudia nasconde un terribile segreto.

Southern California, 1996: a peaceful, scenic day in the coastal community of Santa Monica, except that there is a meter maid lying next to the sidewalk–dead. Fresh from a messy divorce case, North Hollywood private investigator Clive Wilts is on the case to find the killer before the bodies start stacking up and the city streets become a parking free-for-all.

After a brutal battle for supremacy between opposing Yakuza syndicates goes south, gun violence explodes in the Tokyo underground and quickly spreads throughout the city. Desperate to curb the influx of firearms, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is forced to seek help from Interpol.

Nella pensione Au Soleil Redouté, sull'isola di Hiva Oa, uno dei paradisi equatoriali della Polinesia francese sotto la guida del celebre romanziere Pierre-Yves François detto PYF, si svolge un laboratorio di scrittura al quale partecipano cinque aspiranti scrittrici. A un certo punto PYF sparisce e nella pensione si affaccia la morte sotto forma di un misterioso omicidio su cui ognuno indaga a modo suo, ma giungendo tutti a un’identica conclusione: l’assassino non può che essere uno di loro!

Una Genova opaca e autunnale avvolge la quarta indagine del commissario Mariani. Orlando Zagheri, da tutti conosciuto come Mago Zagor per la sua attività di cartomante in una tv privata che ha sede in via XX settembre (per i genovesi semplicemente via Venti), viene ritrovato morto nella sua abitazione. Mariani deve trovare l'assassino, ma non è mai stato così poco interessato ad un caso, perché non riesce a pensare ad altro che alla separazione richiesta dalla moglie Francesca. A Mariani importa pochissimo della vittima, una noncuranza che lo trascinerà in un vortice pericoloso.

After his son is convicted of capital murder, Vietnam War veteran Jeremiah Fitzjurls takes over the care of his granddaughter, Joanna, raising her with as much warmth as can be found in an Ozark junkyard outfitted to be an armory. He teaches her how to shoot and fight, but there is not enough training in the world to protect her when the dreaded Ledfords, notorious meth dealers and fanatical white supremacists, come to collect on Joanna as payment for a long-overdue blood debt.

The world is in economic meltdown, but a mining town on the edge of nowhere is booming. With the town's population exploding, it's easy enough to hide a crime—or even a dirty past. Banished to the stock squad after the fallout from a police frame-up, Detective Senior Sergeant Cato Kwong is brought in from the cold to solve the case of a torso washed up on the wild shores of the Great Southern Ocean. When Kwong's investigation lifts the lid on the exploitation of migrant workers and disturbs an even darker criminal mind, the fallen cop faces powerful opposition.

It starts with a few near-accidents: A car almost swipes Mike Hammer when he’s crossing the street. A junkie robs the notoriously hardboiled detective at knifepoint. A fight on a subway platform comes close to pushing him in front of a train. While any one of these could be a coincidence, together they make a conspiracy—one that Hammer will have to end in order to survive. And when it comes to finishing something—or someone—nobody does it better than Hammer.

Against this backdrop of Mafia turf wars, local gang battles, and political power-plays in the mayoral election, the bodies begin stacking up. An unlikely assassin arrives fresh from Naples after killing a top member of the Camorra to avenge the murder of her family.