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Paige Barrett was living her dream as a journalist in New York City, racking up bylines as a staff writer at The Razor, a cutting-edge online magazine. But when she’s suddenly fired from her job and dumped by her boyfriend, she finds herself back home in the quaint seaside town of Shoreham, Florida, waiting tables and living in her sister’s guesthouse. Restless and itching for something meaningful to occupy her time, she decides to launch a true-crime podcast about the death of Jessica Cady, a beloved teacher who died mysteriously 20 years earlier.

Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. In Hong Kong Noir, 14 of the city’s finest authors explore the dark heart of the Pearl of the Orient in haunting stories of depravity and despair.

Eco -architect Olivia Wells returns from her successful life in New York to the Cornish village of Penbartha intent on fulfilling her god-father’s bequest to expand and oversee a co-working community of eco and creative entrepreneurs in a converted railway building.

Jago Trevithick KC has been busy in London with the complicated and lengthy trial of an underworld criminal. After a disastrous result, he returns to Penbartha to be with Olivia, seeking refuge and peace and to reassess his life choices. The morning after the long-awaited and eventful launch party Jago and Olivia discover a dead body and he immediately fears that his troubles in London have followed him home. As their professional lives collide, will Olivia and Jago be able to work together again to uncover the dark forces that are threatening the success of her latest venture...

Una piccola città, La Rochelle, immersa in una gelida pioggia autunnale; borghesi all’apparenza insospettabili che giocano a bridge; una serie di strani delitti che viene improvvisamente a turbare la vita della città; e due personaggi si affrontano in una sorta di controcanto investigativo vibrante di tensione drammatica.

Julia Malmros is thriving. A former police officer making her way in the world of crime fiction, she’s turning popularity into fame by writing the next book in a world-renowned suspense series. To help her research, Julia connects with Kim Ribbing. More hacker than man, Kim bears a dark past that’s the very antithesis of the promising future she has planned for herself. They share an undeniable spark—yet it’s likely to implode. That’s the least of Julia’s worries. Hounded by publicity, Julia retreats to her cottage in the Stockholm archipelago.

On Easter weekend, a guest at a luxury ski lodge in Åre is stabbed to death in her plush suite. She’s Charlotte Wretlind, a property developer who planned to restore a nearby mountain hotel to its long-gone glory days. It was not a random attack. It was an act of pure aggression leveled against a woman with plenty of enemies. As the murder spreads panic among tourists and Åre residents alike, Detective Inspectors Hanna Ahlander and Daniel Lindskog face a shady staff, a dogged press, and multiple suspects.

Eilean Eadar - eine karge, windgepeitschte Insel, auf der in einer eisigen Nacht vor über hundert Jahren drei Leuchtturmwärter spurlos verschwanden. Als ein junger Mann tot am Fuße des Inselleuchtturms gefunden wird, sollen zwei Polizisten aus Glasgow den rätselhaften Fall untersuchen. Doch kaum auf der Insel angekommen, stoßen die ehrgeizige Georgina und ihr älterer Kollege Richie auf eine Mauer des Schweigens. Was haben die eigenwilligen Bewohner zu verbergen?

Cuando una empresa especializada en limpiezas extremas entra en una vieja villa abandonada en San Sebastián, lo último que espera encontrar es un hombre degollado en medio del caos. Simón Aguado, un sintecho con síndrome de Diógenes, parecía invisible para todos... hasta que apareció muerto. La oficial Carmen Arregui, entre comidas familiares, compañeros impertinentes y el peso de la rutina, se ve arrastrada a una investigación donde los márgenes de la sociedad, la memoria y la compasión se entrelazan.

Due adolescenti svaniscono nel nulla nell'arco di pochi giorni. Per il primo, Luca Alberti, si pensa a un allontanamento volontario, ma quando scompare la seconda, Marta Moretto, e viene rinvenuta la sua bicicletta abbandonata sul ciglio della strada, si inizia a ipotizzare che possa trattarsi di rapimento. Le indagini, affidate al commissario Emma Verdelli e alla sua squadra, si concentrano all'interno della cerchia dei famigliari e dei compagni di scuola. Nel frattempo scompare una terza ragazza, Mirella Vianello.

A la mort de leur père, Liam Noone, un magnat de l'hôtellerie autodidacte, Nora et son frère Sam, qui ne se sont pas vus depuis des années, refusent d'adhérer à la conclusion de mort accidentelle de la police. Ils unissent leurs forces pour découvrir la vérité mais mettent bientôt au jour un secret qui bouleverse leur vision du passé de leur père.

«Commissario Canova, la responsabilità dell'uccisione della giovane Giulia Arrighi è solamente tua. A questo omicidio ne seguiranno altri nei prossimi giorni...». Questa oscura minaccia incombe sul commissario Andrea Canova, chiamato a risolvere una catena di efferati delitti, apparentemente senza un filo conduttore tra di loro: nulla sembra accomunare le vittime, anche il modus operandi non è mai lo stesso. Unico legame un'immaginetta sacra, ritrovata addosso ai cadaveri, raffigurante San Sebastiano. Sul retro, la scritta: "Per il commissario Canova", seguita da due cifre.

Emma Verdelli, commissario della Questura di Varese, viene incaricata di seguire l'indagine, affiancata dall'ispettore Mariano Rossi e dal vicecommissario Oreste Del Carmine. Sono molti i sospettati del misterioso omicidio: tutti sono coinvolti, ma nessuno sembra davvero colpevole. Non si tratta di un semplice assassino, ma di un serial killer. L'omicida non si fermerà finché non verrà catturato.

Laura Lippman, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Most Dangerous Thing, I’d Know You Anywhere, and What the Dead Know, returns with an addictive story that explores how one man’s disappearance echoes through the lives of the wife, mistress, and daughters he left behind...

“Murder Takes a Vacation has all Laura Lippman's trademark razor-sharp insight and effortlessly absorbing writing, plus huge amounts of warmth and fun. Mrs. Blossom is a pure joy, and I'm already hoping for more.” –Tana French Highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Laura...

She is the perfect assassin. A Russian orphan, saved from the death penalty for the brutal revenge she took on her gangster father's killers. Ruthlessly trained. Given a new life. New names, new faces - whichever fits. Her paymasters call themselves The Twelve. But she knows nothing of them. Konstantin is the man who saved her and the one she answers to. She is Villanelle. Without conscience. Without guilt. Without weakness. Eve Polastri is the woman who hunts her. MI5, until one error of judgment costs her everything.

There are excellent reasons why New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has won the Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, Nero Wolfe, and every other major award the mystery genre has to offer. To the Power of Three is just one of those reasons. Lippman’s brilliant and disturbing tale of three...

""Well-plotted, well-written, clear-eyed. I never saw the end coming. There's a hell of a one-two punch waiting for you."" —Stephen King New York Times bestseller Laura Lippman tells the story of Amber Glass, desperately trying to get away from her tabloid past but compulsively drawn back to...

“From its gripping opening pages…Life Sentences may be the most absorbing, entertaining mystery published in the last year.” —Boston Globe USA Today calls Laura Lippman, “A writing powerhouse,” and Life Sentences powerfully confirms it. Past and present, truth and memory collide in...

“Laura Lippman is among the select group of novelists who have invigorated the crime fiction arena with smart, innovative, and exciting work.” —George Pelecanos “Lippman’s taut, mesmerizing, and exceptionally smart drama of predator and prey is at once unusually sensitive and utterly...