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New Orleans Requiem is written in Donaldson's unique style: A hard-hitting, punchy, action-packed prose that’s dripping with a folksy, decidedly southern, sense of irony. Add in Donaldson's brilliant first-hand knowledge of forensics and the sultry flavor of New Orleans, and the result is first class forensic procedural within an irresistibly delectable mystery.

When black-ops asset Nathan Stone took out the heads of the Commission, a secret deep-state organization, he thought he’d destroyed them for good. Now he’s gone off the grid, trying to get as far away from his past as possible. But the Commission isn’t done with him yet. Lying low in a Miami bar, Stone knows something’s up when an alluring actress strikes up a conversation with him. His suspicions are correct. The Commission is hot on his trail, and Stone is soon forced to run deep into the heart of the Everglades with the terrified woman as his hostage.

On a flight from Mexico City, Wanda Stroud sees troubling content on the laptop of a passenger seated ahead of her. The next day, Wanda fails to show up for a coffee date she's made with her friend. Ray Wyatt investigates the story while clinging to his last thread of hope that his son, Danny, is not dead.

Grégoire Morvan, graue Eminenz des französischen Innenministeriums, hütet dunkle Geheimnisse aus seiner Vergangenheit in Zaire. Dort hatte er in den Siebzigerjahren einen bestialischen Killer zu Fall gebracht. Doch jener "Nagelmann", der seine Opfer einem grausamen Ritual folgend mit Nägeln und Spiegelscherben gespickt zurückließ, scheint einen mysteriösen Nachfolger zu haben. Als eine Serie ähnlich gearteter Anschläge Morvans gesamte Familie bedroht, begibt sich Sohn Erwan, Pariser Polizeikommissar, im Alleingang in den Kongo, um die wahre Geschichte seines Vaters zu ergründen.

Eric Delarue, poco piú di cinquant'anni, origini francesi, bello, istrionico, di successo, sposato con una donna ricca: un po' per sfotterlo, un po' per invidia, gli operai della fabbrica di cui era il responsabile lo chiamavano Julio, come Julio Iglesias di cui aveva l'irresistibile sorriso. Chi poteva odiare uno così al punto da sparargli sulla porta di casa?

The Viking job has to get easier in time, right? That's wishful thinking on Valerie's part. The Jarls keep dropping her and Jacob into problems it would take Heimdall's foresight to unravel. Someone is messing with an inexplicable list of companies right here in America. Their connection is unclear, but Valerie sees Cleopatra behind every move. When will it stop? Is her enemy renting space in her head for free?

"¿Es el suicidio el crimen perfecto? Descubre, a través del personaje de este espléndido thriller, el verdadero significado del suicidio. Hay muchas formas de acabar con la vida propia. Suicidarse no es simplemente tomar una pistola y jalar el gatillo, tampoco es aventarse desde lo más alto...

It takes a killer to catch a killer. And no one understands the motives of ruthless murderer The Sandman quite like Rhett Voss. Having spent his childhood in the shadows of the deranged lunatic, he's become an expert on the topic. Killing is in his blood, and as a hitman for hire, Voss maintains a steady diet of carnage, himself. Except lately, it's lost its appeal. Until he's enticed to track down the clever Sandman who has his sights set on Nola Tensley.

“Terrific entertainment . . . A powerful portrait of Los Angeles in our time: swift, colorful, gripping, a real knockout.”—Dean Koontz The day starts like any other in L.A. The sun burns hot as the Santa Ana winds blow ash from mountain fires to coat the glittering city. But for private...