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"Weizmann’s music bona fides inform the novel’s tone and purpose, but it’s equally clear how steeped he is in the styles of detective fiction past and present...This is a story of murder, but also of vivid life." -- The New York Times “A confident, polished storyteller who honors his...

“Evocative, nostalgic, haunting, twisty, and true, Weizmann’s fast paced and smartly written CINNAMON GIRL is everything there is to love about a classic PI novel and more … much more." — Reed Farrel Coleman, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of SLEEPLESS CITY From the author of the...

Bas Salieri, studioso dell'Occulto, si ritrova a Bologna con il cuore a brandelli e nessun progetto per il futuro. Ad accoglierlo sotto i portici c'è Mario Ghiddi, amico di lunga data e grande esperto di cinema gotico italiano, che per svagarlo lo accompagna a un evento della Bologna underground: un'asta semisegreta in cui verrà battuto il dipinto di un tormentato inquisitore del XVI secolo. Il quadro fa gola a molti, in primis a Verbena Vardi, unica discendente dell'ultima, presunta strega condannata dall'inquisitore.

Repairman Jack doesn’t believe a house can be haunted. But he’s about to change that tune… In the borough of Queens, just across the river from Manhattan, two clever practitioners of spiritualist hocus-pocus use high-tech tricks to dupe their marks. Perhaps they’re too good: they’ve lured too many clients from other mediums and are now under attack. Unable to go to the police for fear of exposing their own scams, they hire Repairman Jack to fix their problem.

Carlos Morales vertreibt sich nach der Trennung von seiner großen Liebe Arina die Zeit nicht mit seinem Studium, sondern mit One-Night-Stands. Nach einer wilden Nacht wird eine seiner Eroberungen brutal ermordet. Als kurz darauf eine weitere seiner Affären tot aufgefunden wird, besteht für den Leiter der Mordkommission kein Zweifel: Carlos Morales ist der Mörder. Die Ermittler Peters und Graham zweifeln jedoch daran und jagen stattdessen ein Phantom. Sie fürchten, dass das Morden weitergeht. Nur, wer ist das nächste Opfer? Carlos' große Liebe Arina?

Ten years after the death of patriarch Xavier Bentheim, long-estranged Till Anschütz returns to Berlin for the wedding of the family’s youngest daughter. Till carries with him the disturbing memories and macabre secrets surrounding Xavier’s death. And although he doesn’t know it, his return to Berlin has set in motion a sinister plan.

Hollywood, the late 1930s. Raymond Chandler writes detective stories for pulp magazines and drinks more than he should. Boris Karloff plays monsters in the movies. Together, they investigate mysterious matters in a town run by human and inhuman monsters. Joh Devlin, an investigator for the DA’s office who scores high on insubordination, enlists the pair to work a case that threatens to expose Hollywood’s most horrific secrets. Together, Chandler and Karloff will find out more than they should about the way this town works.

At an art auction in Madrid, Elías Segado, a religious art appraiser and detective, is getting ready to secure a painting for the bishop of Cartagena. But in a brilliant sleight of hand, the iconic work is stolen, drawing Elías into the confidence of its corrupt and seductive thief.

The Bentheims of Berlin take in Till Anschütz, an orphan on the run, who quickly befriends 12-year-old Max. The boys are intrigued by the office where Max’s cold, distant father, Xavier Bentheim, writes his horror novels. And when they get up the nerve to explore, Max and Till are truly horrified by what they discover behind a hidden door.… Till awakens strapped to a gurney. His belly is burning, and a young woman with dead eyes flicks her forked tongue against his face. "We’ve modified you - you’ll like it," a familiar voice purrs.…

Clark’s investigation begins with cocaine and leads to cold-blooded murder - the discovery of one, and then another, headless corpse. Who is behind the slaughter? Are the killings tied to the drug traffic? Or is a deeper, darker, and even more sinister conspiracy unfolding in the carnival?