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Välj inläsare! Jakten på Amos Decker, som är den första delen i Baldaccis serie om Amos Decker, finns även inläst av Reine Brynolfsson. Amos Decker är en före detta NHL-spelare som sadlat om till polis. Fotbollskarriären avslutades abrupt i hans första NFL-match i och med en brutal tackling av en motspelare. Han är fortfarande hemsökt av en bieffekt från hjärnskadan han ådrog sig vid olyckan: diagnosen hypertymesi - han minns allt som händer honom, inklusive saker han skulle föredra att glömma. Idag är Amos Decker en bruten man.

Come ogni anno, sui laghi e i torrenti che circondano la famosa cittadina del Maine, Cabot Cove, si svolge il tradizionale torneo di pesca. Jessica è stata tra le prime a iscriversi alla gara e, in vista della sua partecipazione, ha affittato un piccolo cottage a Moon Lake, immerso nella foresta. Una sedia a dondolo sul portico, il profumo dei pini e il riflesso del sole che si specchia nell'acqua: la situazione perfetta per trascorrere un po' di tempo in solitudine, rilassandosi sulla riva del lago, in compagnia di un buon libro, nell'attesa che i pesci abbocchino.

Buenos Aires all'inizio del Novecento è una grande città in crescita tumultuosa. Per molti immigrati "è come quando si sta in prigione e ti manca l'aria; solo che qui la gabbia è fatta di troppe strade, di case troppo affollate, di rogge puzzolenti di acque luride". C'è un assassino che si aggira per la città, e che per anni, impunito, fa strage di innocenti. Le vittime sono soprattutto i figli degli italiani che vivono nei conventillos in condizioni di assoluta povertà.

The stories that you will hear in this collection highlight all things Accra, everything that the city was and is - the remaining vestiges of colonialism, the pride of independence, the nexus of indigenous tribes and other groups from all over the world, the tension between modernity and traditionalism, the symbolism and storytelling both obvious and coded, the moral high ground, the duplicity and deceit, the most basic human failings laid bare alongside fear and love and pain, and the corrupting desire to have the very things you are not meant to have.

Ater a tour in Vietnam and several years working the streets of Detroit as a private investigator, Amos Walker has seen a lot. But he’s never encountered anything quite like his newest assignment. Ann Maringer, an aging stripper hard at work at one of the city’s many low-grade joints, hires him to find a missing person: herself. She expects to disappear any day now, she says, and she wants to be found.

Spring has come to Detroit's Sugartown enclave, and Amos Walker would like to feel kindly toward the human race. Unfortunately, his first case of the new season immediately leads him into trouble among the Polish settlers of neighboring Hamtramck, when old Martha Evancek hires him to look for her missing grandson. But even before Walker gets a chance to investigate, he's presented with a second case: an eminent Russian novelist who fears that someone is out to kill him.

Marla Bernstein is a pretty, dark-haired teenager who also happens to be the ward of Ben Morningstar - a semi-retired mobster who prefers to keep family business out of the newspapers. When Marla suddenly disappears, the gang boss is forced to call in private eve Amos Walker, who quickly learns his new employer doesn't take "no" for an answer when he offers a job opportunity. Unfortunately, the only clue to Marla's whereabouts is a pornographic photograph that clearly proves that she's become part of a world that disgusts even her criminal guardian....

Somewhat-retired LA Private Eye Amos Parisman is hired by lonely booking agent Pinky Bleistiff to find one of his missing singers, Risa Barsky. But what starts as a simple investigation turns into a complex puzzle when Pinky is murdered and Risa is still nowhere to be found. With suspects dropping dead at every turn, Parisman must act quickly to discover the truth about Risa's relationship with Pinky before an innocent person gets sent to prison.

When a controversial celebrity rabbi drops dead over his matzoh ball soup at the famed Canter's Deli in Los Angeles, retired private eye Amos Parisman - a 60ish, no-nonsense Jewish detective who lives with his addled wife in Park La Brea - is hired by the temple's board to make sure everything is kosher. As he looks into what seems to be a simple, tragic accident, the ante is raised when more people start to die or disappear, and Amos uncovers a world of treachery and hurt that shakes a large LA Jewish community to its core.

בכפר מבודד, מנותק מן העולם, חיים התושבים באימה מפני הלילה ומפני היער שהכפר גובל בו. שכן לילה אחד, לפני שנים רבות, כשתושביו המבוגרים של הכפר עדיין היו הילדים, נעלמו ממנו כל בעלי-החיים ולא שבו להיראות עוד. עבור ילדי הכפר החיות אינן אלא שמועה, ספור בדים שחלק מהמבוגרים מספרים בלחש. דבר אינו ידוע על מאורעות אותו הלילה, להוציא העובדה שהאחראי להיעלמות בעלי-החיים הוא השד נהי. מיה ומתי, שני ילדים אמיצים שסוד משותף מרחיק אותם משאר הילדים ועושה אותם מטרה ללעגם, מרהיבים עוז ונכנסים אל עומק היער כדי לגלות את האמת על בעלי-החיים ועל השד נהי.

Detroit's favorite private investigator, Amos Walker, barrels through this collection of five short stories by Shamus Award winner Loren D. Estleman. General Murders upholds Estleman's reputation as a master of the short story. Both card-carrying fans of Amos Walker and those who are new to the series will devour these stories as they, with Walker, expose crime in some of the most corrupt alleys and steamy streets of Detroit.

In the private eye business, mistakes can be fatal. Just ask Amos Walker.

What could be more innocent than watching old movies? For Neil Catalin, a wealthy man with a happy home, old-fashioned pictures were a hobby that became an obsession. But he wasn’t watching The Wizard of Oz. Crime movies were his passion, the sort where life is cheap and death is free, and Catalin sank himself into them as an escape from the stresses of suburbia. Now he has disappeared, and his wife believes the clue may be in his collection of gruesome classics.

ÖVER 150 MILJONER BÖCKER SÅLDA! FBI-agenten Amos Decker minns allt. Det betyder inte att han vet allt, inte ens allt om sitt eget förflutna. När han besöker hemstaden Burlington i Ohio tillsammans med FBI-kollegan Alex Jamison konfronteras han av en till synes okänd man. Namnet däremot känner Decker genast igen: Meryl Hawkins. Hawkins var Amos Deckers första mordfall. Åren i fängelse har fått Hawkins att åldras till oigenkännlighet. Trots att han nu är döende hävdar han fortfarande att han blev oskyldigt dömd för mord.

On screen, Sandy Broderick is everything a newscaster is supposed to be. He has a deep voice, a 10,000-watt smile, and the God-given ability to banter with weathermen until his ears fall off. But when the cameras turn off, he has a private problem: His 20-year old son, Bud, has disappeared. Amos Walker is going to find him. The boy and his junkie girlfriend are both gone, and Broderick is terrified - not for his son, but for his career. The station is about to do an exposé on drugs in Detroit, and the newscaster doesn’t want his boy’s addict girlfriend to get in the way of his Pulitzer.

Seit einem Unfall kann Amos Decker, der Memory Man, nichts mehr vergessen. Eine Eigenschaft, die ihn nach dem schrecklichen Mord an seiner Familie fast in den Wahnsinn getrieben hätte. Aber nun hat er ein neues Lebensziel gefunden: Innerhalb einer Spezialeinheit des FBI klärt er ungelöste Schwerverbrechen. In seinem ersten Fall geht es um Melvin Mars, einen ehemaligen Footballstar, der seit zwanzig Jahren in der Todeszelle sitzt. Er soll seine eigenen Eltern ermordet haben.

La famiglia Sancasciano è stata sterminata a Collegno, in provincia di Torino, senza un apparente movente. L'Ispettore Milani viene chiamato a indagare sul delitto in quanto la scena del crimine, raccapricciante e complessa, è la copia esatta dell'assassinio che sterminò la sua famiglia venti anni prima. Si tratta del medesimo killer o di un segreto ancora più terribile? Per scoprirlo dovrà confrontarsi con il suo passato trovandosi di fronte a inaccettabili segreti, morti improvvise e ritrovamenti inspiegabili.

He wasn't always a killer. At first, he just wanted to talk. D.C. Charlie Stafford has an odd case on her hands. And it may be her toughest one yet. A burglar who isn't interested in valuables, the subject of Operation Greystream is a strange but smooth operator. In the dead of the night, gloved and masked, he visits the elderly. He doesn't hurt them and, if they beg, he won't take anything of real value. All he wants is conversation... and they're powerless to refuse him. But then 87-year-old Florence Briarly is found by her friend, cold to the touch and neatly, too neatly, tucked into bed.

A baby lies abandoned amongst the rubbish, her tiny face as white as alabaster, her body as stiff as a miniature doll. A young prostitute lies beaten, her figure lying like a mannequin on the frozen concrete, her blood spilt, her life ebbing away. As DC 'Charlie' Stafford and her boss, DI Hunter, struggle to identify the victim from the violator, their hunt brings them to the crack houses of Lambeth, littered with damaged people, their lives scarred by tragedy and violence, most broken beyond repair.

A faithful dog lies wounded beside the mutilated body of its owner. A woman is discovered bound and gagged, dead in her own bed. Both are police officers. Both have a red rose at their side...worryingly, more will follow. Lies and accusations abound, but who is behind the murders, and why are the victims being targeted? Charlie, Hunter and the team must find the killer targeting their own, before another body is found.