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“The Cutting Season is a rare murder mystery with heft, a historical novel that thrills, a page-turner that makes you think. Attica Locke is a dazzling writer with a conscience.” —Dolen Perkins-Valdez, New York Times bestselling author of Wench Attica Locke’s breathtaking debut novel...

Attica Locke—a writer and producer of FOX’s Empire—delivers an engrossing, complex, and cinematic thriller about crime and racial justice Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist (Mystery/Thriller) Edgar Award Nominee (Best First Novel) The Orange Prize for Fiction (Shortlist) “A...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEY’S WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION From Attica Locke, a writer and producer of FOX’s Empire, this sophisticated thriller sees lawyer Jay Porter—hero of her bestseller Black Water Rising—return to fight one last case, only to become embroiled in a dangerous game of...

Eight colonists were killed at the original Battle of Lexington, but just before Thanksgiving, at the Pittsburgh Museum of American History, the life-sized diorama of that battle has nine bodies.

Ein Cop und eine Auftragskillerin jagen einen Serienmörder. Ein Serienkiller tötet Frauen in Birmingham und arrangiert ihre Leichen in Neon-Art-Installationen. Detective Matt Jackson ist mit der Ermittlung betraut. Allerdings nur, bis seine Frau Polly selbst Opfer des Serienkillers wird. Jackson ist geschockt, seine Welt bricht zusammen. Er wird von dem Fall NEON abgezogen. Doch er lässt sich nicht kaltstellen. Er ermittelt weiter - zusammen mit Iris, einer Auftragsmörderin, denn er weiß: Mit normalen Methoden kommt er nicht weiter.

Jay is a burly insurance company apparatchik whose job is to prevent losses for the company. George Trowbridge is an insured Hollywood actor who faces prison time. Jay decides George needs a jail coach: Katrina Thompson.

Consummate adventurer Jeremy Spade arranges ‘life-changing trips’ in the deserts, mountains and jungles of Asia. His firm lets the world’s richest experience the world’s wildest parts, all from the comfort of an air-conditioned tent with a Michelin-class chef on call. After growing up in the US foster care system, Jeremy is fascinated and repelled by the billionaires. So he never suspects his own life will be changed by one of them.

As a teenager, Hayley DaSilva walked into a nightmare, discovering the bodies of her mother, twin brother, and friend all brutally slaughtered in her home…and her nine-year-old brother missing. Her father, Leonard DaSilva, confessed to the murders, but Ethan was never seen again. He lied. But why? Now, Hayley has fled her dreadful past in Thamespark—until the call from Detective Sebastian Locke. Little bones uncovered in a shallow grave belong to Ethan…and the investigation reveals holes in the case that prove Leonard’s confession was false. He didn’t kill his family. So why did he say he did?

Dall'autore di gialli numero uno Blake Pierce, è in arrivo un nuovo capolavoro di suspense psicologica. "Tracce di speranza" è il libro finale della serie di Keri Locke, che porterà la storia a una drammatica conclusione. In "Tracce di speranza" (Libro 5 della serie thriller di Keri Lock), Keri Locke, detective dell'unità persone scomparse della divisione omicidi del dipartimento di polizia di Los Angeles, è più vicina di quanto sia mai stata a ritrovare sua figlia. Finalmente trova una pista nuova - e stavolta farà tutto ciò che occorre per portare a casa Evie sana e salva.

A former special agent tracks rumors of a dangerous new drug to a remote clinic in Florida, where the investigation brings him into the crosshairs of a powerful pharmaceutical company, and the race is on to expose a terrifying truth: it could rewrite the human genome.

In "Tracce di Omicidio" (Libro #2 nella seria di thriller di Keri Locke), Keri Locke, detective per persone scomparse nella divisione omicidi del Dipartimento di Polizia di Los Angeles, si sente perseguitata dal rapimento della propria figlia. Incoraggiata dalla nuova pista che ha trovato, la prima in anni di ricerca, la segue con tutte i propri mezzi, determinata a trovare sua figlia e riportarla a casa sana e salva.