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Finiti i tempi gioiosi del commissariato "La Bella Napoli", nascosto fra le bellezze degli Appennini, Prisco si ritrova ora sbattuto in Sardegna per ordine ministeriale. La vita, laggiù, anche se condita da belle spiagge e birra a volontà, è tuttavia tediosa. Neanche la relazione con Lia, moglie di un assessore, sembra ridare a Prisco un po’ di quella gioia di vivere che ha sempre avuto. Ma un nuovo caso, l’omicidio di un concessionario di macchine di lusso, sembra giunto proprio al momento giusto, obbligando il nostro commissario a rimettersi in pista e dare inizio a una delle sue indagini...

When your new employer tasks you with investigating the first successful mass shooting in twelve years, it’s understandable to be nervous. Fortunately, detective-in-training Cowan Soto has a Personal Brain Assistant—a cybernetic implant—that allows him to firewall pesky emotions like worry and guilt and redact memories of bullet-riddled corpses. Unfortunately, Cowan soon learns it was his suspect’s PBA which allowed a ruthless hacker to puppet her into a shooting rampage.

Set against the enchanting background of post war Vienna, with its beautiful palaces and gardens, its disenchanted residents and scars of war, E.C.R. Lorac constructs a characteristic detective story, sure to puzzle and excite. This exceedingly rare mystery, first published in 1956, makes its triumphant return for the first time since its original appearance.

Brooklyn Anderson knows it looks bad. She was found wiping down a gun. His blood on her hands. Her father now dead. The incomprehensible nightmare has started. Seven days earlier, Brooklyn had returned to Eden to care for her beloved father, who lay helpless in a hospital bed. Her estranged sister, Ginny, said he fell. But as Brooklyn soon realizes, Ginny is prone to lying. Former Eden resident Darius Woods was in the hospital, too. The famous actor had written a screenplay that would lay bare all the secrets of the town, but within hours of his return, someone shot him.