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This collection of stories continues the adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle’s much-loved fictional detective. In these intriguing tales, Holmes and Watson solve cases that range from the suspicious to the downright strange, and encounter mysteries as diverse as vanishing staff, secret plans and eccentric lodgers.

Silas West studied the darkest minds in the world. Now one of them is studying him. When a mutilated body washes ashore near Kingston, Washington, the local authorities are out of their depth. The injuries aren’t just brutal, they’re deliberate. A gruesome fusion of military torture and ritualistic branding. Former military psychologist Silas West left D. C. to write a memoir and rebuild his life in a quiet town on Washington's Puget Sound. But when he’s asked to consult on the case, what begins as a favor turns into an obsession.

A story about "love at first sight", from a man's point of view! A story that immediately will draw you into it. Lively read by Craig Van Ness: When you love someone, when you truly love them, you won't let anything hurt them. Even if it's you. After his life falls apart, Drew rebuilds himself by selling placebo medication to the people whose lives are in more of a shamble than his own. The broken will do anything to help themselves and step on anyone to get ahead. When he falls for one of his clients, his need to protect her outweighs his need to survive.

The year is 1971 Tension is brewing between India and Pakistan One secret could change the course of history . . . It's now up to her When a young college-going Kashmiri girl, Sehmat, gets to know her dying father's last wish, she can do little but surrender to his passion and patriotism and...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this “powerful, historically accurate novel” (The New Yorker), the sole Spartan survivor recounts the bloody and epic battle of Thermopylae that decimated his fearsome society. “Vivid and exciting . . . Pressfield gives the reader a perspective no ancient...

When the dead body of a famous fund manager, Anant Kapoor, is found in his house, it isn't hard for the police to pin the murder on his wife. She has no alibi, and she is the direct beneficiary of his death. But when the police look deeper, they discover two more suspects just as likely to...

La seconda raccolta degli audiolibri della serie "Factory" di Derek Raymond riunisce i seguenti titoli: "Il mio nome era Dora Suarez", "Il museo dell'inferno" e "Quando cala la nebbia rossa".

La prima raccolta degli audiolibri della serie "Factory" di Derek Raymond riunisce i seguenti titoli: "E morì a occhi aperti", "Aprile è il più crudele dei mesi" e "Come vivono i morti".

Il secondo volume della serie "Factory", un caposaldo della letteratura noir. Londra. In un magazzino sulle rive del Tamigi viene rinvenuto il cadavere di un uomo orrendamente mutilato. I dettagli della scena del crimine fanno pensare a un'esecuzione, il lavoro di un killer prezzolato che però, chissà per quale ragione, ha deciso di lasciare dietro di sé un'orribile traccia.

L'ultimo capitolo della serie "Factory", il ritratto imparziale e rivelatore di un criminale legato indissolubilmente al proprio destino. L'esistenza che Gust ha scelto per sé è quella del criminale solitario, indurito dalla strada ma non estraneo a una propria regola morale, che gli impone di cercare la linea sottile che separa il bene dal male. Proprio come il sergente della sezione Delitti irrisolti, ma dall'altra parte della barricata.

Having survived a double tour on Lancasters in WW2 (and won two DFCs), Flight Lieutenant Silk rejoins Bomber Command much later and qualifies to fly the Vulcan bomber. Welcoming him, the airbase commander says: “You have the best, and the worst, job in the world. You have the Vulcan, incomparably the finest bomber. That's the best bit. Your job is to fly to the Soviet Union and destroy cities.

Derek Harrington, retired Marine Force Recon and SERE instructor, is barely scraping by teaching the basics of wilderness survival. His fledgling bushcraft school is on the cusp of going out of business and expenses are piling up fast. His only true mission these days? To get his ailing father into a full care facility and to support his ex-wife and their son. When one of his students presents him with an opportunity too good to be true—$20,000 to instruct a private group for 30 days in upstate New York—Derek reluctantly takes the job.

La notte in cui un colpo di pistola alla testa mette fine alla vita di Felix Roatta, uno dei soci di uno squallido locale londinese, il Parallel Club, il corpo della giovane Dora Suarez viene ritrovato orribilmente seviziato. Un delitto misterioso quanto efferato, il tipo di indagine che ogni poliziotto vorrebbe evitare e che solo il sergente della sezione Delitti irrisolti sembra in grado di gestire. La morte di Dora Suarez diventa però per lui un’ossessione quando l'autopsia rivela dettagli a dir poco sconcertanti.

Il quinto volume della serie "Factory", una guida nel Museo dell'inferno, attraverso i corridoi più oscuri di una mente omicida.

Quali abissi deve aver attraversato l'anima di un uomo capace di fare a pezzi i corpi delle proprie vittime per ricomporli poi con dedizione maniacale, estatica, come un artista che plasmi la sua materia per l'allestimento di una galleria degli orrori?

Thornhill, dintorni di Londra. Marianne Mardy, un'affascinante e talentuosa cantante francese, è scomparsa lasciando dietro di sé un alone d'inquietudine. A occuparsi del caso è il sergente del dipartimento più malvisto della polizia londinese, la sezione Delitti irrisolti, un uomo naturalmente incline all'empatia ma forgiato dalla strada, dove l'unico insegnamento che vale la pena di seguire è quello di tenersi il più lontano possibile da ogni coinvolgimento.

Columbus is back and as deadly as ever. But the hunter has now become the hunted, in this sequel to the national best seller The Silver Bear. He told you not to like him. To get close to Columbus, the Silver Bear, means death. Exactly whose death remains to be determined in Derek Haas highly anticipated new thriller.

He calls himself Columbus. Some call him the Silver Bear. All know him as one of the deadliest assassins in the world.Now, as he tracks a powerful politician with presidential aspirations, the fragmented pieces of his own life begin to point to a terrible truth that will unmake everything he is, tear apart the shadowy, criminal world he rules-and put him right in the crosshairs.

When Rosie Trethewey, a disillusioned doctor turned market researcher, unexpectedly inherits a shack on the remote northern tip of Great Barrier Island, she decides it's time to begin a new life. Arriving at her new home, Rosie finds she has two neighbors sharing the wilderness: Red O'Hara, a refugee from horrific wartime experiences on the Burma Railway, and Angus McLeod, a retired policeman who's abandoned a society he sees as soft and contemptible. Rosie's appearance panics Red and Angus, both fearing she'll disrupt their ordered lives...and they're right.

M. R. James was the master of the uncanny. His classic supernatural stories have haunted readers and listeners for over a century and been adapted countless times for radio, TV and film. This collection features dramatisations of 12 of his most popular stories: The Mezzotint, Casting the Runes, The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral, A Warning to the Curious, Rats, Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come To You, My Lad, The Tractate Middoth, Lost Hearts, The Rose Garden, Number 13, Martin’s Close and Count Magnus.

Seven years ago, Hadleigh Castille fell into my bed and never left my heart. Then she disappeared and my hunger for vengeance was born. My body wasn’t the same after that night. She left for war, but I lived a daily life of blood and violence for the Irish Mob. Now, I’ve risen to power in my own right, but to keep my crown I must align with the enemy. When he presents his sister to me as a bride, my heart takes a tumble. The woman I knew, the siren I never got over isn’t Hadleigh Castille, Navy Lieutenant. She’s the missing Greek Princess, Ava Zervas.