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Morris Duckworth teaches English to the pampered rich of Verona, and Morris is not pleased. Living a meager existence in a squalid apartment, he regards his privileged students with envy and disdain, first wreaking revenge by petty theft and then, like all good criminals, graduating to grander larceny. When one of those students, a beautiful but vapid heiress named Massimina, falls in love with him, Morris can almost smell upward mobility.

Soy Daphne Wood, la librera de Castle Combe. Mi vida era apacible hasta que el autor superventas Jill Holland se mudó al pueblo. Compró la casa que está al lado de la mía, la de la difunta Bettie, y se convirtió en mi nuevo vecino. Las chicas del club de lectura envidiaron mi suerte. Yo también pensé que era afortunada, hasta que empecé a ver cosas de lo más inquietantes.

Esta narración es una historia enigmática; un relato escalofriante en el que en ningún momento se sabe exactamente qué sucede ni por qué.

Sixteen delightful holiday short stories by some of your favorite Soho crime authors! This captivating collection of short mysteries and crime capers - which features New York Times best-selling authors, Crime Writers Association Gold and Diamond Dagger winners, and Edgar Award nominees - contains laughs aplenty, the most hardboiled of holiday noir, and heartwarming reminders of the spirit of the season.

Murder never shocks Leonora Spencer. Violence is a fact of life in Victorian London, and most of the corpses Leo attends to inside her uncle's city morgue are its victims. But when she witnesses a woman's death at a popular night club, and then follows a suspicious hooded figure retreating from the scene, Leo lands herself in the center of another complex Scotland Yard investigation—right where Detective Inspector Jasper Reid doesn't want her.

The New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series turns her prodigious talents to this World War I standalone novel, a lyrical drama of love struggling to survive in a damaged, fractured world. By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since...

Mikael Blomkvist, un jurnalist căzut în dizgrație, este angajat să investigheze un caz neobișnuit. Însă când acesta face legătura între dispariția Harrietei și un lanț de crime terifiante, săvârșite cu 40 de ani în urmă, misiunea lui devine imposibil de finalizat fără ajutorul unui asistent. Lisbeth Salander, o tânără de 24 de ani, cu o înfățisare de hacker și o inteligență de geniu, pare a fi candidatul perfect pentru această poziție.

En agosto de 2005, mucho antes de los crímenes que conmocionaron el valle del Baztán, una joven Amaia Salazar de 25 años, subinspectora de la Policía Foral, participa en un curso de intercambio para policías de la Europol en la Academia del FBI, en Estados Unidos, que imparte Aloisius Dupree, el jefe de la unidad de investigación. Una de las pruebas consiste en estudiar un caso real de un asesino en serie a quien llaman "el compositor", que siempre actúa durante grandes desastres naturales atacando a familias enteras y siguiendo una puesta en escena casi litúrgica.

"A València apareixen els cadàvers de dos polítics que havien estat involucrats en trames corruptes amb un conseller d’alta volada de la Generalitat, que va fugir a l’altre punta del món abans de ser condemnat per aquests tractes il·legals. Ara totes les sospites recauen sobre l’exconseller que pot haver torn at a fer justícia, però ningú no sap on és. Ni tan sols la seva família. El fill és un aspirant a novel·lista que vol escriure la seva gran obra a partir de la història del pare. La muller és una dona de classe alta vinguda a menys que viu en la inòpia des de la fugida del marit."

A dying cop asks DCI Christine Caplan to fulfil her last wish: to investigate a cold case that’s still preying on her mind. The naked body of a young man that was found in a lonely wood, dismissed as a down and out by her superiors. Caplan connects the case to other victims left to die in the bleak Scottish forests, injured and unable to escape. As the scent grows stronger, the cold cases suddenly seem dangerously hot.

Kommissarin Thea Molt reist nach Mallorca, um mit ihrem Freund, Sargento David Martinez von der Guardia Civil, in einer einsamen Berghütte im Tramuntana-Gebirge ein paar erholsame Tage zu verbringen. Doch mit der Idylle ist es schnell vorbei, als der romantische Rückzugsort zum Schauplatz eines Verbrechens wird. Zwei Leichen liegen inmitten eines Filmsets am Gorg-Blau-Stausee. Drapiert wie das Liebespaar aus der mallorquinischen Sage »Romeo und Julia von Almallutx« werfen die Toten Rätsel auf.

Kommissarin Thea Molt ist zurück auf Mallorca. Und kaum ist sie auf der Insel angekommen, wird sie schon wieder in einen mysteriösen Fall verwickelt. Ein deutscher Student ist verschwunden. Die mallorquinische Polizei glaubt nicht an ein Verbrechen. Doch seine Freundin ist vollkommen verzweifelt und bittet Thea um Hilfe. Entschlossen, die Wahrheit aufzudecken, stößt Thea auf ein tödliches Netz aus Lügen und Intrigen.

Leonora Spencer has an acquaintance with death. Sixteen years ago, only she survived the brutal murder of her family. Now, as an assistant in her uncle's London morgue, she uses her photographic memory to catalogue details for his coroner reports. She also isn't opposed to helping him during postmortems if his skilled hands begin to shake. After a thief breaks into the morgue and steals a locket from a young woman's corpse, Leo is determined to understand why, even if it means going against Detective Inspector Jasper Reid's express orders to keep her nose out of it.

“Fantastic...my favorite series ever!” --Shari Lapena, New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door From Cara Hunter, the New York Times bestselling author of Murder in the Family, comes the fourth novel in her DI Fawley detective series, one of Britain’s most enduringly...

Kommissarin Thea nimmt sich gerade eine berufliche Auszeit, als ihre Freundin sie um Hilfe bittet: Thea soll ihr in ihrem Feinkost-Laden auf Mallorca aushelfen. Die ersten Tage im malerischen Küstenort Paguera sind herrlich, doch dann wird ihr Nachbar ermordet! Thea ist schockiert und beginnt auf eigene Faust, Nachforschungen anzustellen. Dabei gerät sie mit dem spanischen Polizisten David Martinez aneinander. Doch Thea wird seine Hilfe noch brauchen. Denn sie ahnt nicht, was sie mit ihren Ermittlungen losgetreten hat...

Arturo aiuta a venire al mondo quel che ha bisogno di nascere. Sa intuire l'invisibile, dare compimento alle potenzialità. Lo fa nella scuola in cui insegna storia dell'arte, perché non perde mai la curiosità nei confronti dei ragazzi e sa vedere oltre l'armatura di disinteresse e sbruffonaggine con cui si difendono dal mondo. E lo fa nella vita privata: uno scolapiatti, visto dalla giusta prospettiva, può sostituire il soffione della doccia rotta, un phon può essere convertito, con un mix di scienza ed estro, in un fabbricanuvole.

Estate 1957. Un viaggio in treno porta Toni, giovane giurista, da Cagliari a Sorgono, paese d'origine della sua famiglia, dove si reca dopo molti anni di assenza. Deve esaminare alcuni documenti relativi ad un caso giudiziario che prima della guerra ha coinvolto la sorella Letizia, ora trattenuta presso un manicomio criminale. Nel 1932, Letizia promessa sposa a Ugo, un possidente molto più vecchio di lei, si innamora invece di un giovane poeta, Angelino. Il giorno degli sponsali Ugo viene trovato ucciso, Angelino si dà alla macchia, ma, dopo qualche giorno, anch’egli viene ritrovato cadavere.

A man is discovered stabbed to death in a nature reserve, a ball of cloth rammed in his throat. When a second body is found, Carruthers is convinced that the reason for the deaths lies in the past. But how is the historical disappearance of a boy, the murder of a former journalist and a bitter dispute about a nature reserve connected? Are they hunting for one killer...or more?

Octogenarian Paul Jacobson returns to Hawaii for a vacation with his family and becomes involved in a series of crimes, while struggling with the problems of his short-term memory loss. He faces a number of strange coincidences involving acts of vandalism, drug dealers, and two murders. Paul puts all the pieces together, escapes a watery grave, and with the help of his friends, solves the murders.

From the New York Times bestselling author of the TikTok sensation Murder in the Family and the popular DI Adam Fawley series comes a brand-new gripping thriller in which a true-crime TV show turns up the heat on a controversial case from Fawley’s past… When Nick Vincent, producer of...