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Freya Lockwood e Arthur Crockleford non si parlano da una vita. Una mattina di maggio, Freya riceve da sua zia Carole una telefonata: Arthur è morto, caduto dalle scale del suo negozio. Così Freya, tornata nel Suffolk dopo più di vent'anni, decide di indagare con l'aiuto di zia Carole.

Una nuova serie legata al mondo dell'arte, con una protagonista esplosiva e l'incantevole scenario dell'entroterra ligure. Edna Silvera, cinquantasette anni, è storica dell'arte e restauratrice di grande talento. Abita in una villetta a Chiavari e l'unica compagnia che gradisce è quella del gatto Cagliostro e delle sue galline, che adorano la musica degli Abba e hanno nomi da dive del cinema (la Garbo, Marilyn, Bette Davis, la rossa Rita Hayworth).

Aragon Urrea ist der Kopf eines großen Drogenhandelsunternehmens in Südtexas. Er ist auch der Mäzen der Region - er bietet Arbeitsplätze in legalen Geschäften, Hilfe für die Hilflosen, grobe Gerechtigkeit für die Unterdrückten und eine Zukunft für ein Volk, das normalerweise wenig Hoffnung hat. Er ist kompliziert - ein nicht ganz so guter Mensch, der aus oft guten Gründen schlechte Dinge tut.

This collection of short stories displays Ed Gorman's talents as a masterful storyteller across a range of genres.

A mysterious and beautiful girl who teaches arrogant young men about true love, a lonely traveling salesman who learns that his passenger is Death, children who can absorb the psychic pain of their parents, a desperately pursued serial killer who hides his face under gauze in a hospital room, and a woman who loves the alien infant nobody else wants - these stories and 10 others make up this collection by award-winning author Ed Gorman. Here are stories that led him to be called "one of the best" by Dean Koontz and "one of the most original writers in crime fiction today" by Kirkus Reviews. Here, you'll find the extraordinary range of storytelling skill and powerful emotions that won Gorman the prized International Fiction Award.

Included in Different Kinds of Dead, and Other Tales are "Different Kinds of Dead", "Deathman", "A Girl Like You", "Loverboy", "Muse", "Riff", "The Brasher Girl", "Survival", "Masque", "Second Most Popular", and others.

This collection reveals the extraordinary range of storytelling skill and powerful emotions that won Gorman the prized International Fiction Award. His protagonists, gritty and gruff, are strangely likable, and his writing, according to Mystery News, is "powerful, disturbing, [and] often poetic".

Murder in a Distant Land the stories for this annual collection of the Mystery Writers of America were selected for their strange and exotic locales. Breathtaking suspense, cold-blooded crime, and challenging twists of plot - set in the four corner of the world - make this recording a chilling audio experience. We suggest you listen with the lights on!

Arriving home after another failed burglary, John Dortmunder is shocked to find his apartment occupied by a notorious cellmate that everyone had supposed (and hoped) had been jailed for life. Tom Jimson needs Dortmunder's help. Thirty years before his last prison stretch, Tom had pulled a big job up near Albany, one that left a cool $700,000 in cash buried under a water reservoir near Albany, New York. Tom's plan is to blow up the dam, flood the surrounding countryside, and grab the cash.