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A New York Times Bestseller A New York Times, Washington Post, and Associated Press Notable Book Named a Best Book of the Year by The Los Angeles Times, Vulture, TIME, The Guardian, The New Republic, and LitHub The new novel from Thomas Pynchon, author of Gravity's Rainbow, The Crying of...

Art, power, desire, and illusion collide in a hypnotic new novel from Olivia Laing, set in the months leading up to the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975. This program is read by actor Ben Cura, known for his roles in Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, Outlander, and The Head. "Narrator...

IT WAS A TRAGIC ACCIDENT. WASN'T IT? A private investigator returning to the hometown he fled years ago becomes entangled in the disappearance of two teenage girls in this stunning literary crime thriller. Reid left the small town of Manson a decade ago, promising his former Chief of Police boss...

A suspicious death, a pregnant woman suddenly gone missing: Quirke's latest case leads him inexorably toward the dark machinations of an old foe Perhaps Quirke has been down among the dead too long. Lately the Irish pathologist has suffered hallucinations and blackouts, and he fears the cause is...

Made to Kill is the thrilling speculative noir from novelist and comic writer Adam Christopher. It was just another Tuesday morning when she walked into the office--young, as I suspected they all might be, another dark brunette with some assistance and enough eye black to match up to Cleopatra...

Quirke returns in the third volume of John Banville’s celebrated series A junior doctor at a local hospital, April Latimer is a scandalous presence in the conservative and highly patriarchal society of 1950s Dublin: the independently-minded scion of a well-connected family, she has decidedly...

Hailed by Salman Rushdie as a “brilliantly innovative thriller-writer,” Philip Kerr is the creator of taut, gripping, noir-tinged mysteries set in Nazi-era Berlin that are nothing short of spellbinding. The first book of the Berlin Noir trilogy, MARCH VIOLETS introduces listeners to Bernie...

When the body of his daughter’s friend is brought to his autopsy table, Quirke is plunged into a world of corruption that takes him to the darkest corners of the Catholic Church, in one of The Wall Street Journal’s “Ten Best Mysteries of the Year.” 1950s Dublin. A battered body...

From Silvia Moreno-Garcia, the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic, comes Certain Dark Things, a pulse-pounding neo-noir that reimagines vampire lore. Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is just trying to survive...

C'est la saison des randonnées à Black Rock Falls et la petite ville du Montana est inondée par un flot de visiteurs. Mais lorsqu'un randonneur trouve un crâne humain sur un sentier désert dans les bois qui entourent la ville, l'inspecteur Jenna Alton est appelée à enquêter. Aucune personne disparue n'ayant été signalée, Jenna n'a aucune piste. Son équipe fait alors une découverte choquante : le corps d'un autre randonneur, un jeune homme, attaché à un arbre et criblé de balles.

Le cadavre d'une femme anonyme est repêché... Le corps d'une femme est retrouvé dans l'Odet par un enquêteur de police à la retraite, lors d'une partie de pêche. Après trois semaines passées dans l'eau, aucun signe ne permet de préciser l'identité de la victime. Commence une longue...

John ist Auftragsmörder. Das ist ein ganz einfacher Beruf: Man tötet einen Menschen und bekommt Geld dafür. Doch dieses Mal steckt Johns Messer im falschen Mann und der König der Unterwelt ist hinter ihm her. Ist die Prostituierte Rosemarie O'Dowell Johns letzte Rettung – oder nur ein weiteres Problem?

Quattro delitti sotto il sole cocente di una Milano soffocante e deserta.

SOME MURDERS ARE MORE PERSONAL THAN OTHERS When a young woman is found bludgeoned to death in Central Park, police immediately link the crime to a string of unsolved homicides one year prior. But they must tread carefully, for the prime suspect -- then and now -- is the son of a powerful mobster...

Un uomo si risveglia nel ventre di una nave. Con lui il suo ex professore di inglese, vecchio marinaio con mille storie da raccontare.La Vedova Nera non dimentica i suoi figli; il mare non dimentica i suoi uomini. E l’avventura continua, tra vecchi amici e nuovi nemici, tra porti sicuri e...

Cuatro chicas desaparecidas. Cuatro hijas arrebatadas cruelmente a sus padres. Cuatro familias destrozadas, unidas por un mismo clamor: justicia y respuestas. Los Fens, Inglaterra. El maltratado cuerpo sin vida de una joven aparece en una remota y desolada playa del mar del Norte, sumiendo a la comunidad en una espiral de miedo e incertidumbre.

Mentre nonna Sofia lotta tra la vita e la morte, l'ispettore Pantaleo è costretto ad allontanarsi per intervenire sulla scena di un omicidio tanto insolito quanto enigmatico. La vittima è Roberto Orff, ex imprenditore assassinato in circostanze singolari, misteriose e profondamente contraddittorie. A trovare il corpo è stata la moglie, la dottoressa Amalia Ventura, pediatra, rientrata da un'uscita con le amiche. Il suo alibi è di ferro. Eppure, qualcosa non convince Pantaleo.

Un aller-retour criminel... Alors que son attachée parlementaire est retrouvée morte dans sa voiture, pourquoi le sénateur Rosmeur, un notable de Rosporden, avance-t-il pour alibi un prétendu trajet entre Rennes et Quimper qui s'avère être un mensonge ? Qu'espérait-il donc cacher ainsi ?...

Evil lurks in the streets of East London... When retired DCI Frank Buckfield is found with his throat slit in a filthy Hackney flat, Denning and Fisher are under pressure to hunt down a cop killer. The scene is brutal, the motive unclear—and the victim's fall from grace raises more questions than it answers. Then a second body turns up: freelance journalist Magda Kilbride, murdered in a deserted East London car park, her injuries chillingly similar to Buckfield's.

Antes de El hedor de la verdad, hubo una historia. Una historia en la que la lucha entre el bien y el mal comenzó a tomar forma y dejó una cicatriz imposible de borrar. Es ahí donde nació la grieta en el alma de Néstor. La herida que lo empujó, paso a paso, hacia el camino de los asesinos en serie.