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Kellston, East London When crime boss Terry Street is buried, his empire is buried with him. With his heir dead and his son unwilling, the borough is up for grabs. Gangs circle. Old loyalties crack. Violence is inevitable. Marianne Day knows this world well. She's lived on its edges for years...

In a crowded Tokyo suburb, four teenage girls indifferently wade their way through a hot, smoggy summer. When one of them, Toshi, discovers that her next-door neighbor has been brutally murdered, the girls suspect the killer is the neighbor’s son. But when he flees, taking Toshi’s bike and...

Follow military veterans Ryan Lock and Ty Johnson as they confront a dark conspiracy in a remote college town (The Innocent), hunt down a cult group snatching young women from the streets of Los Angeles (Fire Point), broker a kidnap exchange in Budapest (Budapest/48), and help a desperate father...

Tout juste de retour de leur mission d'infiltration dans la prison de Pelican Bay Supermax, au nord de la Californie, l'agent de protection rapprochée Ryan Lock et son associé Ty Johnson se retrouvent à Los Angeles pour assurer la sécurité d'une actrice d'Hollywood. La jeune femme craint en...

The classic novel from "America's best crime novelist" (Time) George V. Higgins's seminal crime novel is a down-and-dirty tale of thieves, mobsters, and cops on the mean streets of Boston. When small-time gunrunner Eddie Coyle is convicted on a felony, he's looking at three years in the...

The definitive masterpiece of the hard-boiled detective genre, The Maltese Falcon first appeared in the pages of Black Mask magazine in 1929 and was almost immediately acknowledged as not only a great crime novel but an enduring masterpiece of American fiction. Tough, cynical PI Sam Spade—a...

“One of America’s greatest storytellers.” —Stephen King Neal Carey is not your usual private eye. A graduate student at Columbia University, he grew up on the streets of New York, usually on the wrong side of the law. Then he met a PI who introduced him to the Bank, an exclusive...

'Baldacci is the master of American detective stories' – Jeffrey Archer, author of Nothing Ventured Private Investigator and WWII veteran, Aloysius Archer, returns to solve a new case in Hollywood in Dream Town, a riveting thriller from international number 1 bestselling author, David Baldacci...

हालातों के शिकार हुए उस मास्टर माइंड युवक की दिल दहला देने वाली सनसनीखेज कहानी जो अपने आप को हिटलर समझता था. जो...

Das Fass Amontillado, englisch The Cask of Amontillado, ist eine der berühmten späten Kurzgeschichten von Edgar Allan Poe. Der Ich-Erzähler Montrésor lockt den verhassten Fortunato, der sich irrtümlich noch für Montrésors Freund hält, während des Karnevals in die Gewölbe unter seinem Palazzo und mauert ihn dort als Rache für erlittene „tausendfältige Unbill“ lebend ein.

A USA TODAY BESTSELLERBOOK 10 IN THE JACK REACHER CASES"Ames is a sensation among readers who love fast-paced thrillers." -MysteryTribuneRead the series that's been featured in USA Today twice."A nonstop thrill ride...

Creía que el asesino estaba entre rejas. ¿Logrará recordar lo que ocurrió antes de que vuelva a matar? Durante quince años, Laura Watson ha vivido convencida de que el hombre que asesinó a su familia había sido capturado y esperaba su ejecución en el corredor de la muerte. Aunque ha intentado seguir adelante junto a su familia adoptiva, vive atormentada por el miedo de que algún día regresen los recuerdos y descubrir lo que realmente ocurrió aquella noche.

Ascolta il primo volume della serie hard boiled “Le indagini di via Gluck”, firmata da una delle penne più amate del noir contemporaneo. Otto mesi ad ascoltare Milano che si infila tra le sbarre di San Vittore. Clacson, sirene, la vita che va avanti senza di lui. Lorenzo Visconti, per tutti...

Agnes Lovise Matre har etableret sig som en markant stemme inden for norsk krimi. Med Tavs jord leverer hun endnu en temningsmættet nordic noir, hvor den barske natur, små lokalsamfund og dybt begravede hemmeligheder smelter sammen i en intens læseoplevelse. Der gemmer sig langt mere end...

A deadly and mysterious case pushes a Swedish detective squad to its limit in this novel from "a very exciting new voice from the north" (Ragnar Jónasson). Dawn, Stockholm's Hammarby neighborhood. A naked young woman is spotted by the side of the road. Later, she shows up outside piano...

New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance has penned a twisty, fast-paced mystery in which young girls are going missing and private investigator J. P. Beaumont is the only one who can find them. Despite her name, Twinkle Winkleman is as tough as nails. A skilled mechanic and certified...

The Maltese Falcon is the definitive masterpiece of the hard-boiled detective genre. It introduces legendary PI Sam Spade, a loner who follows his own code and the rules of the street as he zeros in on his partner’s killer and the famous jewel-encrusted bird. Humphrey Bogart immortalized the...

Jon Hamm returns as intrepid private eye Jack Bergin in this thrilling, hard-boiled Audible Original series. Set against the backdrop of the real-life battle to bring the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles, Bergin investigates a brutal murder at the request of an old flame (Ana de la Reguera), and uncovers a deadly conspiracy to forcefully evict a Mexican-American community.

Brought to you by Penguin. A sharp twist on the noir genre from one of England’s finest fiction writers 'I worked one hundred murders,' says Detective Mike Hoolihan, an American policewoman. 'In my time I have come in on the aftermath of maybe a thousand suspicious deaths, most of which turned...

The first gripping mystery in the Kathryn Dance series from master of suspense, and author of the Lincoln Rhyme novels, Jeffery Deaver. California Bureau of Investigation Special agent Kathryn Dance is an expert in kinesics: the science of interpreting behaviour. It makes her a brilliant...