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Bill O'Mallow ist ein heruntergekommener Privatdetektiv, der sich gerade so mit „leichten Fällen" wie Ehebruch und Versicherungsbetrug über Wasser hält. Seine dunkle Familienvergangenheit macht ihn nicht gerade zum Liebling der Chicagoer Polizei. Scheinbar zufällig gerät Bill bei der Beschattung eines heimlichen Liebespaars in eine brisante politische Affäre, als es plötzlich zu einem blutigen Doppelmord kommt.

Pourquoi la ville de Locronan en veut-elle tant à Anne ? Quel délit avait pu commettre Anne pour se voir rejetée de Locronan à vingt ans et victime d'un sabotage criminel lors de son retour au pays, près de trente années plus tard ? Ami de la victime qui s'apprêtait à lui révéler les faits, Paul Capitaine se joint, avec Sarah, aux investigations des gendarmes locaux. Sous les giboulées de mars, Locronan révèle sa face obscure ; les vieilles légendes ressurgissent, les habitants jouent le mutisme, le climat devient pesant. L'enquête piétine et s'enlise.

Schnee fällt auf Malmö – doch Gier und Mordlust kann er nicht zudecken Als die prominente Malmöerin Rebecca Rönn verschwindet, wird Reporter und Familienvater Sven flau im Magen: Gerade hat er die attraktive, engagierte Stadträtin noch interviewt, dann jedoch eine mysteriöse Nachricht von ihr übersehen. Es stellt sich heraus, dass Rebecca anonyme Drohungen erhielt, und die Polizei beginnt, unter jungen Migranten zu ermitteln.

Privatdetektiv Paul Tyler erholt sich noch von seinem letzten Besuch in der Kitty-Bar, als die völlig aufgelöste Alison Blackwell in sein Büro stürmt. Die junge Frau ist verzweifelt, da die Polizei ihren Bruder Nathaniel festgenommen hat. Nathaniel Blackwell wird vorgeworfen, versucht zu haben, seine frisch angetraute Frau Pearl Blackwell zu töten. Alison Blackwell ist sich jedoch sicher, dass ihr Bruder nicht der Täter ist.

Pierre a tout abandonné, il vit dans sa voiture, sur l'autoroute. Là où sa vie a basculé il y a six mois. Il observe, il surveille, il est patient. Parmi tous ceux qu'il croise, serveurs de snack, routiers, prostituées, cantonniers, tout ce peuple qui s'agite dans un monde clos, quelqu'un sait, forcément. Week-end du 15 août, caniculaire, les vacanciers se pressent, s'agacent, se disputent. Pierre n'a jamais été aussi proche de celui qu'il cherche.

A sadistic serial killer targets women attorneys, leaving body parts scattered across town. Will local detectives working alongside a FBI agent and an odd FBI profiler track down the killer before he or she strikes again? Or, will the killer sow destruction across teo communities, forcing neighbors to suspect neighbors. What hideous creature hides behind small town smiles?

En un rascacielos habitado por los multimillonarios de Milán, un famoso exfutbolista aparece muerto en su lujoso apartamento. Colomba Caselli, antigua subjefa de policía que ahora colabora con los servicios secretos, se encargará de un caso que se precipita cuando aparecen más cadáveres entre la clase alta. Necesitará la ayuda de su colaborador Dante Torre, genial y maniático perfilador de mentes criminales, con quien comparte las cicatrices de un pasado traumático.

Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: private investigator Philip Marlowe. He is willing to help a man down on his luck, but later Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty. Marlowe is drawn into a sordid crowd of adulterers and alcoholics in LA's Idle Valley, where the rich are suffering one big suntanned hangover. Marlowe is sure Lennox didn't kill his wife, but how many more stiffs will turn up before he gets to the truth?

When Harriet White rebuffs the advances of her boss at the Baker Street building society where she works, she finds herself demoted to a new position… a very unusual position. Deep in the postal department beneath the bank, she is tasked with working her way through a mountain of correspondence addressed to Baker Street’s most famous resident: Mr Sherlock Holmes.

When Toru Narazaki's girlfriend, Ryoko, disappears, he tries to track her down, despite the warnings of a private detective he's hired to find her. Ryoko's past is shrouded in mystery, but the one concrete clue leads him to a compound in the heart of Tokyo, with a group that seems to be a cult led by a charismatic guru. Narazaki plunges into the secretive world of the cult, ready to expose himself to any of the guru's brainwashing tactics if it means he can learn the truth about Ryoko. But the cult isn't what he expected, and he has no idea of the bubbling violence beneath its surface.

“[Robert B.] Parker's brilliance is in his simple dialogue, and in Spenser.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer A bitter divorce is only the beginning. First the father hires thugs to kidnap his son. Then the mother hires Spenser to get the boy back. But as soon as Spenser senses the lay of the...

In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her 60s, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people; she’s unconventional, believing in the stars; and she is fond of the poetry of William Blake, from whose work the title of the book is taken. When members of a local hunting club are found murdered, Duszejko becomes involved in the investigation.

A New York Times Bestseller A New York Times, Washington Post, and Associated Press Notable Book Named a Best Book of the Year by The Los Angeles Times, Vulture, TIME, The Guardian, The New Republic, and LitHub The new novel from Thomas Pynchon, author of Gravity's Rainbow, The Crying of...

General Sternwood ist steinalt, steinreich und hat zwei schöne, wilde Töchter. Die aufreizende Carmen wird erpresst, und Privatdetektiv Philip Marlowe soll die Sache aus der Welt schaffen...

Fuminori Nakamura's Akutagawa Prize-winner plunges us into the depths of a young man's winding, troubled psyche. An unnamed taxi driver in Tokyo has experienced a rupture in his everyday life. He cannot stop daydreaming of suicide, envisioning himself returning to the earth in what soon become terrifying blackout episodes. His live-in girlfriend, Sayuko, is in a similarly bad phase, surrendering to alcoholism to escape the memory of her miscarriage.

Tough, cynical PI Sam Spade is hired by the story's irresistible femme fatale, Brigid O'Shaughnessy, to locate the client's sister by tailing her companion. Spade's partner, Miles Archer, takes on the assignment, and quickly both he and the man he was shadowing are murdered. As Spade pursues the mystery of his partner's death, he is drawn into a circle of colorful characters - all of them after a legendary statuette of a falcon fashioned long ago for King Charles of Spain.

Kayleigh Morris is just trying to survive her first year at St. Kellum’s University. Freshers’ Week is a blur of social anxiety, parties, and the weight of trying to fit in. But when Kayleigh’s panic attack becomes the talk of the campus, she retreats into herself, shutting herself away in her room. Everything changes when she’s selected for a mysterious new module, led by Professor Lady Marian, who introduces her and a group of misfits to a psychedelic drug believed to cure anxiety and promote productivity.

Cuatro cadáveres. Un sospechoso. Ninguna pista … Primera novela de la serie de misterio del detective Roy Grace, un hombre atormentado por el recuerdo de su mujer muerta. A Michael Harrison pretenden gastarle una broma inolvidable en su despedida de soltero; algo que jamás pueda olvidar: enterrarlo vivo durante unas horas. Todo se complicará cuando sus amigos, que son los únicos que conocen el verdadero paradero de Michael, mueran esa misma noche en un accidente de tráfico.

Fifteen-year-old Ámbar has never known any parent other than her father, Víctor Mondragón, nor any life other than his. When a tattooed mercenary kills Víctor’s best friend and vows that Víctor is next, father and daughter set off on a joyride across Argentina in search of bloody retribution....

Dive into the gritty world of crime and corruption with Dashiell Hammett's "Red Harvest," masterfully narrated by Mike Vendetti. Set in the lawless town of Personville, also known as Poisonville, this classic detective story follows a relentless detective as he navigates a web of deceit, murder, and betrayal. Hammett, the undisputed master of detective fiction in late 1920s America, delivers a hard-hitting tale that will keep you on the edge of your seat.