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Brought to you by Penguin. A dark and witty work of hardboiled detective fiction set in the mean streets of New York, Chester Himes's A Rage in Harlem includes an introduction by Luc Sante in Penguin Modern Classics. Jackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for...

When a medical procedure goes horribly wrong and famous actor Ralph Meier winds up dead, Dr. Marc Schlosser needs to come up with some answers. After all, reputation is everything in this business. Personally, he's not exactly upset that Ralph is gone, but as a high profile doctor to the stars, Marc can't hide from the truth forever.

Even the dead like to keep their secrets.... When William Gove, a dying millionaire and patriarch of a vast estate in Essex, asks Daniel Connell to execute his will, Daniel has no idea what he's getting himself into. Rather than leave his fortune to his three children, Gove has chosen 10 names at random from the phone book. When he dies, Daniel sets out to track down the recipients.

After three years deep under cover, US agent Harry Latham has penetrated the fortress-like mountain hideaway of the Brotherhood of the Watch, a neo-Nazi organisation born after the fall of the Third Reich. Then, on the eve of his most spectacular success, Harry disappears. Drew Latham is frantic...

Oslo, New Year’s Eve. The annual firework celebration is rocked by an explosion, and the city is put on terrorist alert. Police officer Alexander Blix and blogger Emma Ramm are on the scene, and when a severely injured survivor is pulled from the icy harbour, she is identified as the mother of two-year-old Patricia Smeplass, who was kidnapped on her way home from kindergarten 10 years earlier and never found. Blix and Ramm join forces to investigate the unsolved case.

A twisty new murder story from the bestselling author of the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries. An old man lies dead and it looks like poison, but his wife isn't the only one who had reason to kill him. Brighton, 1965 When theatrical impresario Bert Billington is found dead in his retirement home, no...

Stephen Leather's first hard-hitting, Dan 'Spider' Shepherd thriller, set in one of the most notorious and corrupt of British prisons. Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line. Working for an elite undercover squad he has lied, cheated and conned in order to bring Britain's...

Myron Bolitar, ehemaliger Spitzensportler und Detektiv wider Willen, erinnert sich nur allzu gut an seine eigene Jugend und weiß, dass Heranwachsende manchmal lieber eine Dummheit begehen, als sich an die eigenen Eltern zu wenden. Daher zögert er nicht, als die Tochter einer Bekannten ihn mitten in der Nacht anruft und bittet, sie zu einer Freundin zu fahren.

Containing over 47 stories and two novels, this book is big baby, bigger and more powerful than a freight train - a bullet couldn't pass through it. Here are the best stories and every major writer who ever appeared in celebrated Pulps like Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and more. These are the classic tales that created the genre and gave birth to hard-hitting detectives who smoke criminals like packs of cigarettes.

Lucas Carr went to Glenbury Hall, an old country manor house turned hotel. He signed in at reception, took his key, and went upstairs to his room. But he never got there. Somehow he vanished along the way, with not a single clue to suggest what might have happened to him. Lucas belonged to the same mysterious organization that employs Ishmael and Penny, so they are sent in to solve the mystery. But when they arrive at grim and isolated Glenbury Hall, they discover it has a reputation as one of the most haunted old houses in England.

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded...

Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman’s Tess Monaghan—first introduced in the classic Baltimore Blues—becomes involved in a complicated investigation that will force her to question her loyalties. For Tess Monaghan, the unsolved murder of a young federal...

Llega el autor de novela negra que arrasa en Europa, en la estela de Jo Nesbø y Camilla Läckberg. Son los peores policías, los perdedores, los expulsados, los marginados. Son la Unidad de Casos Perdidos. Y sólo ellos pueden resolver el caso más difícil de la historia de Suecia. La...

Chiara Santiagani est la fille d'un des plus grands mafieux du pays et ferait n'importe quoi pour sa sœur Carmen. À l'origine d'un drame survenu pendant son enfance qui a brisé le cœur de cette dernière, elle est prête à tout pour recouvrer l'amour et la confiance de son aînée. Aussi lorsque Carmen la met au défi de se rendre au Démon's, afin de se mettre un peu en danger, Chiara accepte sans savoir ce qui l'attend. Elle va bientôt se retrouver entre les mains de Vennie Verratti, le tueur à gages officiel du clan Bullare.

From the New York Times–bestselling author of the Dexter novels: "A game of cat and mouse that builds to an utterly terrifying climax on the high seas" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Ex–cop Billy Knight wants to ride out Key West's slow season with the occasional fishing charter and...

Die schockierende Wahrheit über ihre Vergangenheit erschüttert Anna Greenwoods Welt in ihren Grundfesten und stellt alles in Frage, was sie über ihr Leben zu wissen glaubte. Die Informationen, die sie entdeckt, veranlassen sie dazu, einen Mann in einer einflussreichen Position, der durch seinen Status geschützt zu sein scheint, zur Rechenschaft zu ziehen. Annas Bemühungen scheinen jedoch vergeblich zu sein – bis Hilfe von unerwarteter Seite kommt. Annas Reise bringt sie an den Rand einer Tragödie und führt letztendlich beinahe zu ihrem Tod – und dem Tod einer anderen unschuldigen Frau.

D/S Jimmy Suttle is called to a brutal murder in the picturesque Devon village of Lympstone. Harriet Reilly, a local GP, has been found disembowelled in the bedroom of her partner, climate scientist Alois Bentner. Suttle's estranged wife, Lizzie, has abandoned Portsmouth, moved to Exeter and returned to journalism, hearing rumours of a local GP offering mercy killings to patients meeting certain criteria. The name of the GP is Harriet Reilly. So begins two investigations of the same crime.

A story about privacy and its importance for happiness and personal fulfillment.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'He lay crumpled on his back. Very lonely, very dead. The safe door was wide open. A metal drawer was pulled out. It was empty now. There may have been money in it once.' Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe's on a case: his client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to...

El fenómeno literario más brutal y adictivo de los últimos años. Tras el caso que sacudió a la BAC en La novia gitana, la inspectora Elena Blanco sigue marcada por una herida que nunca ha logrado cerrar: la desaparición de su hijo. Cuando una investigación sobre contenidos violentos y de...