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Artemus Black doesn't believe in fate...but even a hardened Hollywood PI can question destiny when cases turn ugly. With an assistant who mocks him relentlessly, an obese cat that loathes him, a romantic life that's deader than Elvis, money problems, booze, nicotine, and anger management issues, how much worse can it get? The answer is plenty, and Black finds himself in a web of deceit, betrayal, and murder - and bad hair days.

THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE NEVER RUNS SMOOTH It's 1987, and Soho is in the grip of another hot summer. While working part-time in The Red Lion, Joe finds himself agreeing to help a notorious gangster search for her missing girlfriend. Antonia The Gecko Lagorio is daughter to the ruthless but ageing...

J.D. Scrbacek has just won the biggest trial of his career, but even as he crows to the press, his entire life blows sky-high. Was the bomb meant for him, or for his mobster client? In this seaside casino town where the tables run hot and the tensions run high, the odds say the attorney is a marked man. Alone and on the run, Scrbacek flees into the city's forgotten underbelly, a ruined corridor called Crapstown, where he is forced to confront the ghosts of his past, his present, and his future.

Der Höllenhund ist zurück: In drei neuen Kurzromanen und zahlreichen Stories und Artikeln richtet Ellroy sein Mega-Spotlight vor allem auf L.A. und erzählt bissig und schonungslos über dunkelste Obsessionen, korrupte Bullen, ungelöste Mordfälle und seinen eigenen Werdegang. Er berichtet über seinen Vater, die Todesstrafe, die Justiz und die Opfer von vierzig Jahre zurückliegenden Verbrechen. Wir begegnen einem verrückten Detective, der von einer Schauspielerin aus Hollywood besessen ist, und auch Danny Getchell läuft uns über den Weg.

A brilliant reporter, haunted by her husband's death....A disgraced cop, tangled in a web of lies....Two unlikely heroes, brought together by one unthinkable crime....

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.

Das Verbrechen wurde damals nicht aufgeklärt, die ermordete Frau nie gefunden. Nun, Jahrzehnte später, wird ihr Skelett hinter der gemauerten Kellerwand eines Hauses im Reykjavíker Stadtzentrum entdeckt. Dem pensionierten Kommissar Konráð wird plötzlich klar, dass dieses fast vergessene Verbrechen etwas mit dem Mord an seinem Vater zu tun haben könnte, und beginnt, erneut in dem Fall zu ermitteln. Bald bringen ihn jedoch die Kollegen der Kripo Reykjavík in Bedrängnis.

Verena Zornickel foi treinada para servir a um único homem, seu futuro marido. Aos treze anos descobre que foi prometida ao Don da Cosa Nostra. Tommaso Vacchiano é um dos Dons mais temidos. Chefe sarcástico, sem meias palavras, ninguém consegue parar o homem. Ele deseja firmar uma aliança com a In Ergänzung e obtém isso através de um jogo sujo. Aproveitando-se de um momento de fragilidade do Don da máfia Suíça, Heinz, o convence a selar o casamento da sua irmã, Verena, com ele.

An einem stürmischen Herbstabend wird die neunzehnjährige Gina im Hafenbecken des idyllischen Fischerdorfs Greetsiel tot aufgefunden. David Büttner und Sebastian Hasenkrug gehen aufgrund von Ginas Lebensumständen davon aus, dass das Motiv für den Mord im privaten Umfeld der frisch gebackenen Abiturientin zu finden ist.

This quartet of crime stories about deadly books, penned by award-winning contemporary mystery writers, includes The Little Men, What's in a Name?, The Book of the Lion, and From the Queen.

È una delle estati più calde degli ultimi anni, e neanche la Riviera Ligure scampa a quell'afa che mozza il fiato. A Villa Moncalvo, il conte regge tra le mani il suo bene più prezioso. Suo padre gliel'aveva detto: "È un ritratto preso di profilo e t'inganna. Tu credi di poterlo guardare senza essere visto, in realtà è lui che legge dentro di te." Ma ora che la fine è imminente, il vecchio, senza moglie né figli, non deve rendere conto a nessuno. Forse solo a quel tesoro che nasconde da una vita, e che ora vorrebbe proteggere da mani avide.

It's Christmas Day in the sleepy town of Sorenson, Wisconsin, but instead of unwrapping presents, deputy coroner Mattie Winston is at the burnt remains of a house, where a charred body has been found. The victim is none other than Jack Allen - a paraplegic who recently won a huge casino jackpot. Upon closer inspection, Mattie and Detective Steve Hurley are convinced Jack was murdered to steal his winnings, giving the phrase Black Jack a whole new meaning....

Elusive online journalist Scott King examines the chilling case of a young vlogger found frozen to death in the legendary local ‘vampire tower’, in another explosive episode of Six Stories. In the wake of the 'Beast from the East' cold snap that ravaged the UK in 2018, a grisly discovery was made in a ruin on the Northumbrian coast. Twenty-four-year-old vlogger Elizabeth Barton had been barricaded inside what locals refer to as 'The Vampire Tower', where she was later found frozen to death.

1354: Nicolas Eymerich, il sinistro inquisitore, è in Sardegna con re Pietro IV d'Aragona per soffocare la rivolta di Mariano, giudice d'Arborea. Mariano però ha un alleato potente e misterioso: lo chiamano Sardus Pater, una divinità sconosciuta e terribile... 1942, New York: lo psicologo austriaco Wilhelm Reich si è rifugiato in America per sfuggire ai nazisti e ha fatto una scoperta rivoluzionaria. Tanto da costringere le autorità a rinchiuderlo in prigione, dove una serie di inspiegabili allucinazioni sembra metterlo in collegamento proprio con Eymerich.

Charlie Rutland, a womanizing journalist, is found brutally murdered. He worked for a muck-raking gossip magazine and therefore had many enemies. Detective Crow is assigned to Yorkshire where he must eliminate a long list of suspects. And where does the German businessman Conrad Gunther fit in? Mysterious lights at Lockyer Tarn, a homeless man hiding out on the Yorkshire Dales, a stolen Volvo, and a former Gestapo officer are all seemingly linked in some manner. And then the British spy services get involved....

Sherlock Holmes bekommt einen sonderbaren Brief. Der Name des Absenders ist Daniel Drake. Er bittet Holmes um Hilfe. Jedoch geht aus dem wirren Schreiben nicht hervor, in welcher Angelegenheit. Wie Holmes herausfindet, ist Drake der Autor eines Schauerromans. Die Geschichte spielt in dem Ort, in dem der Brief abgestempelt wurde. Es geht um einen Schriftsteller, der aufgrund von Einsamkeit den Verstand verliert. Holmes entschließt sich, der Sache auf den Grund zu gehen.

It's been a year since professional thief Crissa Stone last pulled a job, and she's spent that time under the radar, very carefully not drawing attention to herself. That kind of life is safe, but it's boring, and it's lonely, and it's not very lucrative. So when Crissa starts to get antsy - and low on funds - she agrees to act as a thief for hire, partnering with a wealthy art collector to steal a truckload of plundered Iraqi artifacts before they're repatriated to their native country. But what's supposed to be a "give-up" robbery with few complications quickly turns deadly.

La notte in cui un colpo di pistola alla testa mette fine alla vita di Felix Roatta, uno dei soci di uno squallido locale londinese, il Parallel Club, il corpo della giovane Dora Suarez viene ritrovato orribilmente seviziato. Un delitto misterioso quanto efferato, il tipo di indagine che ogni poliziotto vorrebbe evitare e che solo il sergente della sezione Delitti irrisolti sembra in grado di gestire. La morte di Dora Suarez diventa però per lui un’ossessione quando l'autopsia rivela dettagli a dir poco sconcertanti.

It was the standard blackmail scheme. For years, sultry Lysa Dean's name on a movie had meant a bonanza at the box office. Now a set of pictures could mean the end of her career.When first approached for help by lovely Dana Holtzer, Lysa's personal secretary, Travis McGee is thoroughly turned off by the tacky details. But being low on cash, and tenderly attracted by the star's intriguingly remote secretary, McGee sets out to locate his suspects -- only to find that they start turning up dead!

Jack und Cliff verfolgen die Spur des verschwundenen Mr. O‘Sullivan zum Peril Point. Sie durchsuchen den alten Leuchtturm, als sie auf einmal durch Geräusche aufgeschreckt werden. Wer befindet sich noch auf dem Leuchtturm? Zu ihrem Entsetzen müssen sie feststellen, dass die Tür fest verschlossen ist, sie sitzen fest. Ihr Gegenspieler will mit allen Mitteln verhindern, dass Jack und Cliff das verschollene Testament vor ihm finden und hat sich so einen Vorteil verschafft.