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Nanao, nicknamed Ladybug - the self-proclaimed “unluckiest assassin in the world” - boards a bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka with one simple task: Grab a suitcase and get off at the next stop. Unbeknownst to him, the deadly duo Tangerine and Lemon are also after the very same suitcase - and they are not the only dangerous passengers onboard. Satoshi, “the Prince”, with the looks of an innocent schoolboy and the mind of a viciously cunning psychopath, is also in the mix and has history with some of the others.

‘HELP! I am addicted to this series! Unputdownable’ NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Snow is falling. Murder is calling. Journalist Gordon Carver receives news that sends a chill down his spine. Rushing home from the pub, he frantically calls his police contact, DCI James Walker to share...

Evan Michaels struggles with being different, with having the complete memories of two other people who lived sequentially before him. He fights loneliness and believes he is unique until he meets Poppy. She recognizes his struggle because she is like him, except that she is much older, remembering seven consecutive lives. But there is something else she must share with Evan - she is a member of the secretive Cognomina. They are, in effect, immortals - compiling experiences and skills over lifetimes into near superhuman abilities that they have used to drive history over centuries.

Adapted from the major television series created by Mark Gatiss - out now! 'A delicious read' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ READER REVIEW London, 1946. Gabriel Book is an erudite and unconventional London bookseller married to Trottie, the owner of the wallpaper shop next door. He is also a sleuth who uses...

All they want for Christmas is you . . . 'This should be on every crime reader’s Christmas wish list’ CHRIS WHITAKER, bestselling author of We Begin at the End *THIS WINTER'S MOST CHILLING KINDLE TOP 20 AND AUDIBLE TOP 10 BESTSELLER* * In the picturesque village of Kibblesworth, DI Tom...

Ingrid will never forget what John did. The people he hurt. The way he lied about it so easily. The way she defended him. Now he’s back. He says a murderer is after her. He says only he can protect her. Would you trust him? The clock is ticking for Ingrid to decide. Because the killer is ready to strike again.

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM WARNER BROS. STARRING BRUCE WILLIS, EDWARD NORTON, AND WILLEM DAFOE From America's most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel. Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own Human Freakshow, an orphan...

The most chilling read of the Christmas season. As the snow begins to fall, the body count begins to climb… DI James Walker is ready for a quiet family Christmas in the sleepy village of Kirkby Abbey. But when he opens an early Christmas present left on his doorstep, he soon realises it is no...

Here are 50 short stories about investors in musicals, angels taking walks on the wild side, a man risking his life for a jelly donut, and much more.

Two teenagers fresh out of stir set their sights on what looks like easy money in Dolores Hitchens’s Fools’ Gold (1958)—and get a painful education in how quickly and drastically a simple plan can spin out of control. The basis for Jean-Luc Godard’s film Band of Outsiders, Fools’...

Rusty Sabich, viceprocuratore capo della Contea di Kindle, viene incaricato di svolgere le indagini sullo stupro e l'omicidio di una sua collega, Carolyn Polhemus, una donna energica, affascinante e sensuale, ma anche ambiziosa e di pochi scrupoli. La sua morte è fonte di grave imbarazzo per il procuratore distrettuale Raymond Horgan che, dovendo affrontare le imminenti elezioni per il rinnovo della carica, affida le indagini a Rusty nella speranza che una rapida soluzione del caso salvi la sua vacillante situazione politica.

Fletch, now newly engaged and happily living out his days in Italy, finds himself embroiled in yet another scandal. His soon-to-be father-in-law has been kidnapped and is now presumed dead, and the priceless collection of rare art that belongs to his fiancée’s family has been stolen. Ever the investigative reporter, he receives a tip about the missing art that lands him in Boston, where he walks right into a murder scene in his apartment. What clearly looks like a setup to the unfazed Fletch looks quite different to the detective assigned to the case, Mr. Francis Xavier Flynn.

The godfather of the hard-boiled detective novel, Dashiell Hammett is widely acknowledged as one of America's greatest mystery writers. This collection brings together the BBC radio adaptations of his works for the first time, including the iconic The Maltese Falcon featuring his most famous...

Alfred Hitchcock and Ernest Lehman's unfinished screenplay, completed by Mark Gatiss 'Achingly tense scenes... and a masterpiece of a climax' Radio Times The annals of movie history are full of lost treasures - spectacular scripts from world-renowned writers that could have been classics, had...

Leutnant Teniente Mario Conde hat noch einen furchtbaren Kater von der Silvesterfeier. Doch als er trotz freien Wochenendes von seinem Chef den Auftrag erhält, ein verschwundenes hohes Tier aus der kubanischen Nomenklatura zu suchen, merkt er bald, dass es sich bei dem Verschwundenen um Rafael Morín handelt, einen Schulkollegen.

In den höllischen Tagen des kubanischen Frühlings kommen zusammen mit der Fastenzeitauch die heißen Südwinde. Leutnant Mario Conde, der erst vor kurzem Karina kennen gelernt hat, eine strahlend schöne Frau, die sich für Jazz und Saxofon begeistert, wird mit einer heiklen Untersuchung beauftragt. Eine junge Chemielehrerin der Schule, an der auch Conde gewesen war, wurde ermordet in ihrer Wohnung aufgefunden, in der auch Spuren von Marihuana entdeckt werden.

Ein gefährlicher Sniper in New York - und ein ehemaliger Cop und Astrophysiker als sein Widersacher. Hart, packend, ungewöhnlich! Während eines Blizzards wird in New York ein FBI-Mann in seinem SUV erschossen - von einem Dach und von einem offensichtlich äußerst fähigen Scharfschützen. Das FBI steht vor einem Rätsel - und wendet sich an den ehemaligen Polizisten Lucas Page, der nun als Professor an der Universität lehrt und Experte für Ballistik ist. Page weigert sich zunächst zu helfen - bis er erfährt, wer der Tote ist: sein ehemaliger Partner.

Es war ein langer, zermürbender Einsatz, bis die FBI-Profilerin Maggie O'Dell den Serienkiller Albert Stucky überführen konnte - jetzt ist er geflohen und setzt seineBluttaten grausam fort: Frauen werden ermordet und entsetzlich verstümmelt. Als Maggie bei ihrem Boss endlich erreicht, dass sie wieder den Fall übernimmt,scheint Stucky gewonnen zu haben. Denn es gehört zu seinem durchtriebenen Plan, sich ausschließlich Opfer zu suchen, die Maggie kannte.