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Film producer Pero Baltazar thought he was taking a Berlin filming assignment. He needed the work, needed to get back in the saddle after fighting off a life-threatening experience in East Africa - al-Shabaab had attacked his crew, intent on a much larger terrorist attack. Suddenly he finds himself under orders from his part-time employers at the State Department and the CIA when he is handed a mysterious package. It's an assignment he doesn't want. The problem is, it is a job contracted by mysterious patrons.

The sequel to Puzo's epic and brutal Mafia classic The Godfather. Once again Puzo brings the history of the Corleone family to life. Michael Corleone's exile in Sicily is ending, but on the instructions of his father, The Godfather, he must bring back to him the young man known as Salvatore Giuliano - if he can find him.

Angela Savino, agente immobiliare di Locorotondo che con il bandito Mazzacani sta trattando la compravendita di un castelletto nelle campagne, assolda il bandito e il suo secondo, Luigi Mascione, per scoprire la verità sulla morte del fratello Riccardo, bancario irreprensibile e dalla reputazione limpida. Nel tentativo di venire a capo di un suicidio a dir poco sospetto in una zona ad alto tasso criminale, Carlo Mazzacani e Luigi Mascione cominciano a cercare negli ambienti della Sacra Corona Unita e in quelli della mala barese.

La aparición del cuerpo decapitado de una joven en el Parque Ecológico de Plaiaundi, con las yemas de los dedos abrasadas con ácido sulfúrico, pondrá de nuevo en jaque a la unidad de investigación criminal de la Ertzaintza.

Reseng was raised by cantankerous Old Raccoon in the Library of Dogs. To anyone asking, it’s just an ordinary library. To anyone in the know, it’s a hub for Seoul’s organised crime and a place where contract killings are plotted and planned. So it’s no surprise that Reseng has grown up to become one of the best hit men in Seoul. He takes orders from the plotters, carries out his grim duties and comforts himself afterwards with copious quantities of beer and his two cats, Desk and Lampshade.

Buckle up for Underdogs, an adrenaline-fueled action-thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Spider Shepherd series. Perfect for fans of Lee Child and James Patterson. ‘He has the uncanny knack of producing plots that are all too real’ – DAILY MAIL 'A writer at the top of...

Paul Temple erhält Besuch von einer gewissen Miss Hardwick. Diese ist die besorgte Tochter eines spurlos verschwundenen Wissenschaftlers, dessen revolutionäre Erfindung das Interesse krimineller Kräfte geweckt hat. In falschen Händen könnte sie zu einem Desaster führen. Wenig später ist die junge Frau tot. Temples Ermittlungen führen in ein schottisches Dorf. Der schreibende Detektiv findet heraus, dass ein großer Unbekannter, der sich »Z« nennt und der Anführer einer gefährlichen und skrupellosen Spionagegruppe ist, hinter allem steckt.

In a remote sea loch on the west coast of Scotland, a fisherman disappears without trace. His remains are never found. A young man jumps from a bridge in Glasgow and falls to his death in the water below. DS Max Craigie uncovers evidence that links both victims. But if he can’t find out what cost them their lives, it won’t be long before more bodies turn up at the morgue. Soon cracks start to appear in the investigation, and Max’s past hurtles back to haunt him. 

ANOTHER EXPLOSIVE THRILLER FROM THE MILLION COPY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Welcome to the Crazyhouse. Where unwilling contestants play the game of death. The north of England is rocked by two horrifying but bewildering crimes: a £600,000 drugs heist, the couriers and the buyers all slain. And the...

The Queen of Thieves is back! Queen of Clubs is the second in Beezy Marsh’s thrilling UK historical series about a ring of all-female gangsters in 1950s London. London, 1957: After rising up against gangland’s queen, Alice Diamond, formerly downtrodden Nell is living the perfect life of...

‘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...

Deadlier than the Mafia, the Camorra never forget, and never forgive. She is an Italian accountancy student in London, and her boyfriend Eddie teaches at a language school. But the prime reason Immacolata Borelli came to Britain was to look after her gangster brother, wanted for multiple murders back home in Naples. For the Borelli clan are major players in the Camorra, a crime network more close-knit and ruthless than the Sicilian Mafia.

In his finest, most compelling blend of wild humor and powerful drama, Joseph Wambaugh leads us into the Hollywood scene to demonstrate the effects of that heady, amoral world on four sets of police partners enmeshed in the glamour and the grime, the hustle and the horror. They live and work in a dizzying mix of moguls and starlets, elaborate parties, outrageous and sordid actions; a place where sex and drugs are open and the big deals are undercover.

After six years in prison, Sweden's most notorious criminal, Leo Duvnjac, is free, acquitted of all but two of the 10 bank robberies he and his two younger brothers pulled off. While behind bars, he befriended Sam Larsen, who was convicted of murdering his own father - and also happens to be the brother of the cop who caught Leo, Detective Superintendent John Broncks. With Sam at his side, Leo seeks out his now-law-abiding brothers for one last job and a chance at redemption - or revenge.

It all started when we found the body. Then nothing was ever the same. The Dry meets Stand by Me and True Detective in this stunningly written tale of the darkness at the heart of a small mid-Western town and the four kids who uncover it. In the heatwave summer of 1971, four kids find a body by...

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Simon Templar never goes anywhere with the intention of getting into trouble, but trouble seems to like following him. In seven adventures 'round Europe, he discovers dead bodies, missing jewels, kidnappers, and swindlers galore. He was meant to be on holiday - but when push comes to shove, he'll make sure that justice is done. Leslie Charteris was born in Singapore and moved to England in 1919. He left Cambridge University early when his first novel was accepted for publication.

After cutting Aram Petrosyan's trafficking operation off at the knees, Detective Jamie Johansson and her new ward Alina are square in the crosshairs. Retribution must be had, and to carry out the task, Petrosyan unleashes upon them a man like no other. The Nhang moves without being seen and kills without mercy. And he's coming for them both. Can Jamie stay one step ahead of this deadly new adversary? She'll have to use all of the skills at her disposal if she hopes to survive and finally close in on the elusive Aram Petrosyan. 

Starting in New York City, The Plan quickly moves to the Mississippi Delta and winds up in Ecuador. Based on a true story of two murdered civil rights lawyers, Susan Klopfer’s intriguing work weaves factual history through alternative or paranormal fiction themes.

‘Engaging, gripping, addictive and completely unpredictable. An absolute must read. Ali Blood is an author to watch’ NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ She's moved on Three years after her fiancé was murdered, Gemma Morgan is, at last, starting to move on with her life. He's long gone But...