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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.

The second novel in the Piccadilly Noir series, this dark historical thriller sees Cockney private eye George Harley return to the streets of London's Soho, populated by gangsters, wide boys and lowlifes, to investigate a missing cabaret dancer and a child believed stole by his nemesis, the...

Dark deeds in the Peak District refuse to stay buried... When a skeleton is unearthed at a building site in the village of Meresham, the police immediately link the case to a notorious missing persons investigation. Jayne Arnold was sixteen when she disappeared in the long, hot summer of 1976...

Saïgon, début des années 1950. Thomas Fowler, journaliste britannique usé par les conflits et les illusions perdues, observe le monde à distance, persuadé que la lucidité peut tenir lieu de morale. L’arrivée d’Alden Pyle, Américain sincère et idéaliste, va fissurer cet équilibre...

'Christian Kracht is the great German-language writer of his generation' Joshua Cohen 'Ever since his era-defining debut, Christian Kracht has enjoyed a reputation as both a cult and a canonical author ... Air is as enigmatic as its title' TLS Two men venture through strange landscapes towards...

The gripping new thriller featuring DI Diana Walker: a gruesome murder leads Diana into the heart of Sheffield's seedy underbelly *Praise for Nina Bhadreshwar* 'One of the most original and exciting new voices in crime fiction’ – David Peace ‘Everything I love in a crime novel – passion...

Once the hammer comes down, there’s no getting out… 20 years ago, Imani’s best friend Kaitlin vanished. Now, Kaitlin’s crumbling childhood home is up for auction. Buying this house is Imani’s chance to finally resolve her grief. It might even ease her guilty conscience surrounding...

In the fifth installment of the Ashe Cayne series the smooth Chicago private eye stumbles into the city's internecine (and deadly) world of politics. The death of immigrant Juaquin Escobar has been ruled an accidental drowning in Lake Michigan. The only problem is he never drinks and never swims...

“While a single sentence can turn a novel, a single word can turn a short story,” writes guest editor Don Winslow. The pieces featured in this collection hinge on those small, exacting moments that shock, spook, delight, and change a story entirely. A disgraced ex-cop approaches a crossroads...

“This is the best of a magnificent writer's magnificent books.”—Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried The first major release in nearly a decade from the late, best-selling Elmore Leonard—""the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever!” (New York Times Book Review)...

A clever, engaging new novel from bestselling Italian author, Antonio Manzini, following the dashing deputy police chief, Rocco Schiavone, who confronts his most riveting case ever. It’s the bitterly cold spring season in alpine Aosta, and a girl has been kidnapped. Chiara Berguet, daughter of...

A big-shouldered, big-trouble thriller set in mobbed-up 1920s Chicago—a city where some people knew too much, and where everyone should have known better—by the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of The Untouchables and Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright of Glengarry Glen Ross. Mike...

The first in a BRAND NEW action thriller series from the Wilbur Smith Prize-Shortlisted author Alex Shaw.Perfect for fans of Tom Wood, Vince Flynn and Mark Greaney, this is an explosive action thriller you won’t be able to put down 💥📚 ‘Another excellent stripped-back, razor-edge...

Lungariva, Liguria, un nuvoloso pomeriggio di novembre. A bordo di una barca a vela viene trovato il cadavere di Sebastian Scettro, detto il Marinero: tre proiettili gli hanno spaccato il cuore. Appartenente a una facoltosa famiglia, il Marinero se n’era andato per mare nove anni prima su un piccolo sloop nordico, facendo perdere le sue tracce. Chi, o che cosa, l’ha riportato a casa, concedendogli solo poche ore prima dell’incontro con la morte?

When Kalu drops Aima at Lagos Airport, it marks the end of their four-year relationship. Shattered and broken open, he thinks that's the last he will see of his girlfriend. But Aima is drawn back into the city - to the scandalous, decadent nightlife of her best friend. As Kalu grieves, his friend offers him an exclusive invitation to one of his sordid, global parties - a way for Kalu to escape, if only for a night. Kalu knows it will offer every possible indulgence and something even more precious: time with the man he loves, but whose actions will plunge them all into a whirling descent.

Fresh from maternity leave, Detective Elma finds herself confronted with a complex case, when a man is found murdered in a holiday cottage in the depths of the Icelandic countryside - the victim of a frenzied knife attack, with a shocking message scrawled on the wall above him.