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La principal misión de Verónica Cuevas es salvar a las víctimas. Después de resolver su primer caso importante en la Brigada de Homicidios y Desaparecidos del Cuerpo Nacional de Policía, una nueva desaparición en la ciudad de León la enfrentará a su mayor reto. La posible relación con un crimen cometido semanas atrás, desatará una serie de acontecimientos que la llevarán a perseguir a un peligroso depredador, en una lucha contra el reloj antes de que vuelva a asesinar.

The absurdly outrageous, sarcastically satiric, and always entertaining New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore returns in finest madcap form with this zany noir set on the mean streets of post-World War II San Francisco, and featuring a diverse cast of characters, including a...

Her body is found on Wednesday morning. Hanging from a tree. Halfway between May Beck and Falling Foss. Brady’s got one clue. And only one clue. Five tarot cards. But are they a message for him? A warning for the dead woman? Or a reading for a client? Is the answer in her past? Or in someone else’s future?

How far would you go to avenge the one you love? Blum has a secret buried deep in her past. She thought she'd left the past behind. But then Mark, the man she loves, dies. His death looks like a hit-and-run. It isn't a hit-and-run. Mark has been killed by the men he was investigating. And then, suddenly, Blum rediscovers what she's capable of.... Kill Bill meets Dexter via The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Woman of the Dead is a wild ride of a thriller where the first stage of grief is revenge.

Richard Hudson, woman chaser and used-car salesman, has a pimp's awareness of the ways women (and men) are most vulnerable. One day Richard decides to make an ambitious film, which turns into a fiasco. Enraged, he exacts revenge on all who have crossed him.

At first, Katherine dismisses her early-20s intern as a millennial ‘snowflake’: soft, entitled, moralistic. Yet as Lily’s youth and beauty increasingly remind Katherine of everything she once had, she starts to develop a dark fascination with her new colleague. But is Lily as perfect as she seems - or does she have a sinister hidden agenda? As Katherine is drawn into an obsessive power struggle with the intern, a disturbing portrait emerges of two women hiding dark secrets - and who are desperate enough to do anything to come out on top.

Brought to you by Penguin. Nobody knows yet that she is a murderer... Abandoned at the gates of a London park one winter's night in 1850, baby Lily Mortimer is saved by a young police constable and taken to the London Foundling Hospital. Lily is fostered by an affectionate farming family in...

Het idyllische eilandje Sandhamn is altijd een veilig toevluchtsoord geweest voor advocate Nora Linde. Dus als ze ontdekt dat haar man is vreemdgegaan, zoekt ze troost op Sandhamn, al is het dan midden in de winter. Ze hoopt in alle rust te kunnen nadenken over haar relatie, maar dan stuiten haar kinderen terwijl ze spelen in het bos op een afgehakte arm. Door deze gruwelijke ontdekking kruisen de wegen Nora Linde nogmaals die van Thomas Andreasson, als blijkt dat het lichaam toebehoort aan een vermissingszaak die hij enkele maanden daarvoor had opgegeven.

Bloomsbury presents L.A. Women by Ella Berman, read by Nerissa Bradley. 'My Brilliant Friend meets Daisy Jones and the Six in this immersive story of friendship and rivalry... Berman is at her finest' T. Greenwood, author of Keeping Lucy *** An electrifying novel about the complicated friendship...

A fist-fight by an open grave leads Dorothy to investigate the possibility of a faked death, while a young woman's obsession with Hannah threatens her relationship with Indy and puts them both in mortal danger. An elderly man claims he's being abused by the ghost of his late wife, while ghosts of another kind come back to haunt Jenny from the grave...pushing her to breaking point. As the Skelfs struggle with increasingly unnerving cases and chilling danger lurks close to home, it becomes clear that grief, in all its forms, can be deadly.

When Amos Walker was a teen, he had a poster of Gail Hope on his wall. A 60s bombshell in the beach-blanket tradition, she has fallen hard since her glory days as one of the dying studio system’s final starlets. But when she calls on Amos Walker she remains as lovely as ever: an elegant beauty with a $750,000 problem.

Half a million dollars in drug proceeds, guarded by three men with automatic weapons - for professional thief Crissa Stone and her team, stealing it was the easy part. But when the split goes awry in a blaze of gunfire, Crissa finds herself on the run with a duffel bag full of stolen cash, bound by a promise to deliver part of the take to the needy family of one of her slain partners.

Ella Matthews has it all. A beautiful house, a charming husband and a precious baby daughter – her life has pretty much turned out exactly as she planned. But when Ella’s mother tragically dies, her perfect life starts to crack. Her mother had been harbouring a life-long secret. Ella has a sister – an older sister – called Colleen. Excited by the thought of no-longer being an only child, Ella can’t wait to find her.

‘A stunning read from a superb storyteller.’ Clare Mackintosh From the #1 ebook and Sunday Times bestseller, comes the tale of a young woman in search of her past, and the mother who will do anything to keep it hidden… What if you were the worst crime your mother ever committed? Dahlia...

Genova, 1990. Maria Viani, sta eseguendo le analisi necessarie per il trapianto degli organi di Massimo Ghini, entrato in coma per un colpo di arma da fuoco. Le forze dell'ordine hanno stabilito che si è trattato di suicidio. Ma è davvero così? Sia l'ex moglie dell'uomo, scarcerato da poco dopo aver scontato una pena per appartenenza a bande armate, che il suo datore di lavoro e amico, non sembrano convinti di questa tesi. Anche Maria Viani, compilando un rapporto per il Ministero della Sanità, si imbatte in una strana coincidenza che la fa dubitare di questa presunta verità.

Che cosa può avere in comune la morte di una studentessa del liceo classico di Savona con quella della quarta prostituta assassinata a Genova? Tocca a una Maria Viani liceale scoprirlo. Siamo alla fine degli anni Sessanta, un attimo prima che scoppi la contestazione studentesca e l’autunno caldo degli scioperi operai, nella quiete solo apparente di una provincia addormentata. Il commissario Marongiu, alle soglie della pensione, aiutato dal giovane ispettore Cantini, si trova a dover districare una matassa di enigmi.

‘This is a cracking page turner with twists galore. When I wasn't reading it I was thinking of this book trying to work out what was going on.’ NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fans of Vera, Val McDermid and Elly Griffiths will love Last Seen Alive! When Anna Matheson fails to collect her...

Bloomsbury presents Best Friends Forever by Dawn Goodwin, read by Matt Lowe. Have you ever wanted to kill your best friend? Anna was the perfect wife. Perfect mother. Perfect woman. And now she's dead. Leaving behind her husband, David, and two young children their lives will never be the same...

Because murderers are never who you expect… She was the quiet one… but is she guilty? For twin sisters Rose and Bel, enrolling at the prestigious new boarding school should have been a fresh start. But with its sinister rituals and traditions, Odell soon brings out a deadly rivalry between...

It’s Always the Husband… unless it’s the best friend. The Top 10 Sunday Times bestseller ‘A page-turning whodunnit that will speak to anyone who's ever had a frenemy’ Ruth Ware ‘A gripping, tangled web of a novel — it pulls you in and doesn’t let you go. I loved it!’ Shari...