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En fin d'après-midi, Gaston Boudouran, un riche négociant en bois, disparaît, à vélo, sur la route qui mène de Pierrelatte à Saint-Andéol. Le mystère s'épaissit quand la bicyclette de l'homme volatilisé est retrouvée près du cadavre d'une femme inconnue. Le Commissaire Rosic, chargé de l'enquête, penche très rapidement pour un rapt crapuleux, notamment, après avoir appris que Boudouran venait de retirer cent mille francs au guichet de sa banque et que ce dernier n'a pas été aperçu par le cantonnier travaillant toute la journée sur la fameuse route.

Le tout premier crime résolu par le célèbre policier.

Monsieur Magloire, personnage énigmatique, vit depuis quelques années à Montélimar dans une belle propriété qu'il a héritée de son cousin et immédiatement vendue, en viager, pour vivre tranquillement de ses rentes. Un beau matin, il est retrouvé, par sa bonne, pendu dans son salon. Le commissaire de police mandé sur place découvre dans la poche du mort un bout de papier sur lequel est inscrit en rouge le chiffre 131.313. Monsieur Rosic, célèbre détective et ami du procureur de la République, est appelé sur les lieux pour démêler l'affaire du "Chiffre qui tue !"

Stavolta l'investigatore Giorgio Martinengo - frutto della straordinaria fantasia di Borgio - non fa i conti con una storia qualsiasi: la vittima in questione, infatti, è Vittoria Squassino, suo antico amore di gioventù. Ingaggiato poco tempo prima dalla banca tedesca per cui Vittoria lavorava, Martinengo non ha mai creduto fino in fondo alle insinuazioni sul suo conto. Anche se la relazione che la donna intratteneva con Valerio Cortese (magnetico imprenditore in campo enologico, nonché, a sua volta, vecchia conoscenza del detective) sembrerebbe aprire un paio di piste interessanti.

Raoul Sforza, nato dalla fantasia di Ferrario e già protagonista del precedente "Il banchiere di Milano" (2021), è un uomo senza scrupoli, impegnato ad architettare intrighi finanziari e a ricattare i vertici dello Stato per mantenere una vita di lussi e di svaghi. Dividendosi fra la villa di Brera e l’amenità del comune ligure di Bonassola, Sforza si ritrova suo malgrado a dover far luce su una serie di misteriosi omicidi, che dal lontano 1945 macchiano la Val Bisagno.

It’s already been a rough year for first-rate journalistic sleuth, Deuce Mora. After two agonizing investigations—one of which won her a Pulitzer, the other of which forced her to kill a man—she claims she’s sworn off action-packed chases that cause nightmares. Still … from the moment she hears the earliest details of the first fire, her detective-instincts say the pieces don’t fit, and every other instinct tells her she can’t walk away from the story—even though she knows she’ll regret it.

Deuce Mora—a pulls-no-punches columnist and meticulous detective—keeps turning up information, bit by bit, only to find some Fed in her face, at her door, emerging from the shadows, always guarding the edges of the story, insisting it will not be told. Yes, the Feds are aware of the trafficking ring. Yes, they have a plan to move on it. No, Deuce can’t be told about the plan, and under no circumstances can she write about its existence.

Deuce Mora’s one tough cookie: a female sleuth with a conscience and an attitude; fiery, tough, athletic, a dirty fighter when she has to be. In Jean Heller’s first mystery featuring the scrappy newspaper columnist, Deuce finds out in short order that if you mess with organized crime, you have to be tough—and you’d better be as much detective as reporter. When she walks into a seedy neighborhood bar in a suburb of Chicago—all six feet of her, topped with auburn curls—she’s searching for a human-interest story.

It's 1991, and Rita is looking forward to her return to Manchester after a few years in Greece with her husband Yansis. But once back she finds a cuckoo in the family nest – a dope-smoking 'businessman' called Leroy. Worse, he is her sister Jenny's boyfriend, and father of her unborn child. Rita and Yansis retreat to stay with friends Julie and Vinny, now living in a comfortable suburb of the city. But Rita is anxious to find out just what hold Leroy has over her family, and she'll stop at nothing to find out.

The body of a teenage girl is found two days after being reported missing. A discussion with the pathologist reveals that another girl was found in similar circumstances only her murder never made it into the press. When DS Kevin Coupland looks into the earlier case he finds out-dated views and social stereotyping have thwarted the investigation from the beginning.

Rick and Frank are recovering addicts and accomplished house thieves. They do not steal randomly—they steal according to order, hired by a mysterious handler. The jobs run routinely until they're tasked with taking a seemingly worthless trophy: an object that generates interest and obsession out of proportion to its apparent value. Just as the robbery is completed, the two are involved in a freak car accident that sets off a chain of events and Frank disappears with the trophy.

Five years after the traumatic events witnessed by Rita and Yansis in Manchester, the couple finally agree to return with their young son, Daniel, to attend her brother John's wedding to the beautiful Paula. But memories are long on the Riverhill Estate, and when Daniel goes missing, Rita realises she has many enemies with a motive for taking her child. Once more she faces a race against the clock to unmask the perpetrators, but this time she has help in the shape of her Special Task Force brother, John.

When Julie Quinley wakes up after a night out with friends to find herself accused of murder, it proves to be only the beginning of her worst nightmare. Released by the police due to lack of evidence, Julie nevertheless faces the taunts and hostility of colleagues, as more and more people – including members of her own family – seem convinced she is a cold-hearted killer. Just when it seems as if all hope has gone, and Julie's mental state reaches rock bottom, her friend Vinny announces a breakthrough; something he has witnessed that could prove Julie's innocence once and for all.

Seit dem Tod ihres Vaters hat die korsische Mafiosa Zoë endgültig alle Brücken zu ihrer Zwillingsschwester Zara abgebrochen – denn die Europol-Profilerin ist für diesen Tod verantwortlich. Als Zoë vom Oberhaupt der korsischen Mafia auf einen schwer bewachten Goldtransport angesetzt wird, scheint das ein äußerst lukrativer Job zu sein. Was die Killerin nicht weiß: Ihr Boss wird vom arabischen Clanchef Shokran Al-Hamsi erpresst, dessen Bruder dank Zoë im Koma liegt. Jetzt ist Al-Hamsi mindestens so sehr auf das Leben der Mafiosa aus wie auf das Gold.

„Puppenmorde“, titelt die Abendzeitung–und das nächste Opfer wartet schon. Lena Freyenberg und Henning Gerlach bekommen es in ihrem ersten gemeinsamen Fall mit einem albtraumhaften Spiel um Leben und Tod zu tun. Ein Serienkiller ermordet seine Opfer auf eine seltsam vertraute Art und Weise und lässt an jedem Tatort eine verunstaltete Puppe zurück.

Tommy, Andy und Steve leben in gut situierten Verhältnissen. Sie sind verheiratet, haben Kinder, sind beliebte Mitglieder im Golfclub und trinken hier und da ein Bierchen miteinander: Wer würde sie nicht für fürsorgliche Familienväter halten? Niemand ahnt etwas von ihrem lukrativen Nebengeschäft; einem Geschäft, das einst von Männern betrieben wurde, die ebenso wie sie als anständig galten. Alles könnte so reibungslos weiterlaufen wie bisher, denn ihre Ware ist begehrt.

Durante il capodanno del 1964, al commissariato di Siracusa, l'agente Camurro riceve una telefonata inquietante: è la signorina Russo che dichiara di aver visto tre uomini uccidere Antonio Passanisi, proprietario del ristorante "La spada blu". Arrivato sul posto, il commissario Paolo Portanova si trova al cospetto di una scena del crimine del tutto inedita. Il cadavere di Passanisi è scomparso e con lui anche la più piccola traccia del colpevole. Una porta chiusa a chiave, nel retrobottega, farà da perno alla vicenda e sarà causa di guai neri.

"Nel cuore del centro storico" è la prima avventura del giornalista Matteo De Foresta, nato dalla fantasia di Menini nel 2015. In una Genova ombrosa, perfetta scenografia per un romanzo noir dai contorni nostalgici, De Foresta conduce un'esistenza tutto sommato ordinaria, fra i contraccolpi emotivi di un matrimonio naufragato e le partitelle a calcetto con gli amici.

Il commissario Enzo Fellini, già protagonista di "Giallo veneziano" (2019), è incaricato dal questore Badalamenti di un nuovo, delicatissimo caso. In una gondola, infatti, è stato ritrovato il cadavere di Gudrun Kessler, una soprano tedesca stabilitasi da tempo nella città lagunare. Scontrandosi con l'ossessione del questore per l'opinione pubblica, oltre che con un imprevisto flirt, Fellini si immerge in un'indagine che ben presto assume toni decisamente allarmanti: chi è il Superuomo (come l'assassino stesso ama firmarsi)?

A city united in grief. A journalist ready to kill to keep his secrets. A copper capable of darker deeds than murderers. An unworldly detective fighting to save an innocent man. Newly appointed DS McAvoy is an outsider to his new force and must confront his darkest fears, while hunting a killer that nobody else believes in. In a landscape at once tender and brutal, McAvoy must tread the path between the darkness and the light, before facing an enemy who will brand him for life.