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Between writing, managing the music hall and trying to dissuade her boss from installing a water tank in the building, Minnie Ward has her hands full. Her complicated relationship with detective Albert Easterbrook doesn’t even bear thinking about. But when a performer’s brother mysteriously goes missing, Minnie and Albert are thrown together once more. Then another body is found dead in a trunk, and a strange connection starts to emerge.

New York Times bestseller Deborah Crombie returns with a new novel focusing on Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James as they must solve the stabbing death of a young woman before panic spreads across London. On a rainy November evening, a young woman hurries through the crowd...

After recording the last interview of a month-long media extravaganza orchestrated by the brass, NYPD Detectives Chiara Corelli and P. J. Parker are hoping for time out of the spotlight working cold cases and/or solving low profile murders. But the brutal murder of Alessandra Moreau, a singer on track to becoming a superstar, in the living room of New York State Senator Leigh Drayman, a trans woman, is anything but.

Borore, un piccolo paese del centro Sardegna, è terrorizzato da un killer invisibile, silenzioso e ferale. Entra nelle case, immobilizza le vittime e costringe le mogli a premere il grilletto contro il volto dei propri mariti. Giuseppe Nonnis e Mariano Spada sono morti così, sotto lo sguardo sconvolto delle due donne. Per questo motivo Antonella Demelas ha affrontato il viaggio da Cagliari, la città in cui vive, per raggiungere la regione del Marghine, nell'entroterra.

Forty-five years ago, a young girl went missing. Now, a body is found. The Innocent Dead is the fifteenth book in Lin Anderson's Glasgow-set forensic crime series featuring Rhona MacLeod. 'One of the most satisfying characters in modern crime fiction' – Daily Mail Mary McIntyre's disappearance...

La placida città di Trani è sconvolta dalla morte violenta di un antiquario britannico. Gaia Innocenti, trasferitasi in Puglia per lasciarsi alle spalle una macchia nel suo stato di servizio, dà inizio alla propria indagine, tra fiere di antiquariato, oscuri bar e un intero sottobosco criminale con cui dover fare i conti.

Carolyn knew everything about Veronica Campbell. She knew about the case of murder and retribution that haunted her life and her career. About her stormy relationship with her husband, Drew. About the emotional darkness that was overwhelming Veronica's fragile seventeen-year-old daughter, Jude. But seeing her friend laid out on a cold hard slab of steel in a morgue, and hearing the initial judgments of the investigators, she knows this: there's no way Veronica would have ever taken her own life.

Cupcake-loving croupier Tiffany Black is determined to leave her job at the casino for good. She's one small step away from acquiring her private investigator license and has her eye on the prize. Accepting her first real case - investigating the murder of casino-mogul Ethan Becker - should be exciting. Instead, things spiral out of control, and Tiffany finds herself in over her head as she confronts secretive suspects, corrupt casino henchmen, and a bodyguard with a mysterious past.

BINNENKORT TE ZIEN ALS SERIE, 'PRESUMED INNOCENT', MET JAKE GYLLENHAAL IN DE HOOFDROL.‘De aanklager’ is het eerste boek in Turow’s genre van legal...

Twelve years ago, teenager Molly Singer was tried and convicted for murdering her parents. She was sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison, torn away from her newborn daughter, and forsaken by those closest to her. But now, a series of anonymous letters proclaim her innocence - and point a finger at a deadly conspiracy. Attorney Dani Trumball specializes in defending the wrongfully imprisoned at the Help Innocent Prisoners Project.

Twelve-year-old Frankie Bishop is a model kid: quiet and bright. So everyone, especially his family, is shocked when he's arrested for drug possession - and horrified when he's sentenced to juvenile detention at Eldridge Academy. His uncle, Bruce Kantor of the Help Innocent Prisoners Project, wants to help but knows he's too close to the case.

Ruth Holländer kann sich nicht beklagen: Die Scheidung ist durch, der Sohn aus dem Haus, und die 16-jährige Tochter pubertiert fast nicht mehr. Auch Ruths französisches Bistro läuft erfreulich gut. Aber dann kommt ein Bescheid vom Amtsgericht: Zu ihrem Entsetzen wird Ruth zur Schöffin berufen. Sie muss in einem Mordfall beisitzen. Schon bald hegt sie Zweifel an der Schuld des Hauptangeklagten: Hat der junge Mann wirklich seine Schwester getötet?

When a violent murder shatters the otherwise peaceful idyll of Andaby near Hebden Bridge, DS Charlotte Banks can't help but suspect that her brother Ewan—recently released from prison and now living in Calderdale—is behind it. Ewan claims he's innocent, and even has an alibi to prove it, but DS Banks isn't convinced. So much so that she turns to the only people who can help her in an investigation this personal: Kitt Hartley and Grace Edwards, of Hartley and Edwards Investigations.