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A year has passed since Pete Fernandez’s latest, closest brush with death. After months of recovery, the newly sober Pete has managed to rebuild his life, contentedly running a small Miami bookstore and steering clear of the dangers of private eye work. So when an aging Cuban mobster asks Pete to find out who killed his drug-addicted jazz-pianist son and to locate his missing daughter-in-law, Pete balks. Until another victim suggests that the murder of the gangster’s son may be connected to the people who nearly ended Pete’s life.

Un'imperitura notte macabra che sfila fra le mentali traiettorie impervie d'un investigatore privato forse immaginario o soltanto immaginifico di nome Sam, cioè un granitico, spettrale man e un indomito, coriaceo samurai senza padrone, lui stesso detentore e redentore delle sue personali indagini marmoreamente scolpite nei dedalici anfratti perfino delle sue cinematografiche memorie.

Following the success of Paris Noir, the Akashic Noir Series has expanded to include the famously diverse and sometimes controversial suburbs of this legendary city.

"Storia nera di un naso rosso" è un noir corale: le vite di cinque persone si incrociano scatenando una serie di eventi nefasti. Un uomo, attorno al quale tutto gira, e quattro donne, ognuna con un ruolo ben preciso nella storia. L'uomo, Angelo, è un medico, ma è anche Willy il clown per i bambini ricoverati nel suo reparto. E come tutti i clown nasconde un aspetto inquietante. Quanto inquietante? Lo scoprirete ascoltando la storia, attraverso le parole e i punti di vista delle donne che, per motivi diversi, hanno a che fare con lui.

Milano, 1969. Anni di piombo. Betty è una ragazza ambiziosa ma profondamente tormentata dal suo passato e sposata con un uomo, Ettore, che vuole solo vederla piegarsi al suo volere. Ma Betty non ci sta, non vuole vivere una vita a metà sacrificando le sue aspirazioni per la famiglia. Il suo animo è fragile, ma i suoi sogni sono solidi e il desiderio di riscatto si rivelerà più forte di qualsiasi costrizione.

No remuevas el pasado, hay verdades que es mejor ignorar. El tercer caso del policía islandés Ari Thór. 1955: Dos hermanas y sus parejas se trasladan a un fiordo aislado y deshabitado. Su estancia termina abruptamente cuando una de las mujeres fallece en circunstancias misteriosas. Sin testigos, pistas ni sospechosos, el caso nunca se resuelve. Cincuenta años más tarde, en Siglufjörður, aislado por un extraño virus, sale a la luz una vieja fotografía de la época que parece indicar que no eran los únicos habitantes del fiordo.

Pete Fernandez has settled into an easy, if somewhat boring life as a PI. The days of chasing murderous killers are behind him. Or are they? When his sometimes partner Kathy Bentley approaches him with a potential new client, Pete balks. Not because he doesn’t need the money, but because the case involves Gaspar Varela, a former Miami police officer serving a life sentence for the murder of his wife—one of the most infamous crimes in Miami history. The client? None other than Varela’s daughter, Maya, who’s doggedly supported her father’s claims of innocence.

Pete Fernandez is a mess. He’s on the brink of being fired from his middle-management newspaper job. His fiancée has up and left him. Now, after the sudden death of his father, he’s back in his hometown of Miami, slowly drinking himself into oblivion. But when a coworker he barely knows asks Pete to locate a missing daughter, Pete finds himself dragged into a tale of murder, drugs, double-crosses, and memories bursting from the black heart of the Miami underworld - and, shockingly, his father’s past.

Santana Sokolov might be the one person who ties together all the mysteries of Atlantica. Which will probably get her killed. The woman has a penchant for the ancient. When Santana is approached by two enemy factions looking for the same legendary item, she partners with old friend Dick Chambers to enter the wilderness and unlock the mystery.

Sorenson, Wisconsin's deputy coroner, Mattie Winston, is back on the job...in a nursing home examining the body of Bernie Chase - the now former president of the Twilight Home's board of directors - who is covered in a powder used to turn liquids to solids. The home's residents are certain Bernie was offing the patients who cost him too much...and the patient who found him can't remember a thing.

Being reinstated to the AJS and being safe again are two very different outcomes. They are looking for Terra. Everywhere she turns, an enemy force is after her, looking to extract the AI in her head to destroy the one weak link in their chain. The APRIL software has been deployed AJS-wide, and now whoever is at the top of the chain has their eyes on the entire city. Those above are controlling where the AJS go, monitoring and manipulating law and order.

Angelo e Silvia sono sposati da molti anni, vittime di un matrimonio infelice e schiavi dello stabilimento balneare che si ostinano a tenere aperto anche in inverno, benché ci siano pochi avventori. Un pomeriggio, quando tutto sembra come sospeso nell'attesa dell'imbrunire, un signore distinto entra nel locale: dice di essere in pericolo e, scolandosi mezza bottiglia di cognac, chiede ospitalità per la notte. I due proprietari, presi alla sprovvista, decidono di fidarsi e lo accolgono: Bobo, questo il suo nome, è gentile e inoffensivo.

Wo steckt Crystal Kingsley? Ist sie wirklich mit ihrem Liebhaber nach Mexiko durchgebrannt? Um seinen Ruf zu schützen, beauftragt ihr Ehemann Detektiv Marlowe mit der Suche nach ihr. Fern von seinem Stammgebiet Los Angeles findet Marlowe sich an einem Bergsee wieder. Fast schon Urlaub. Doch da bekommt er es mit mehreren, nur scheinbar blauäugigen Blondinen zu tun. Der Ferienort wird zur Gänsehautidylle. Der Showdown mit einer korrupten Welt lässt nicht auf sich warten.

Hezekiel Kant, Privatdetektiv (mit dem schönsten Vornamen, den je ein Detektiv hatte) und charmanter Antiheld, wird beauftragt, die Großhandelskette SPUMEX unter die Lupe zu nehmen - wird dort mit Drogen, gepantschten Weinen oder doch nur mit Gemüse Geld gemacht? -, und da er den Vorschuss bereits vor seiner Zusage verzockt hat und die Tochter des Auftraggebers scheinbar entführt wurde, lässt er sich auf das gefährliche Spiel ein.

Été 1944 : Sadorski a passé huit mois en prison. L'administration le libère en échange d'un rapport sur le transfert de l'ex-ministre Georges Mandel, otage des nazis, qui va être tué sous ses yeux. Crime ordonné par la SS ou par la Milice ? Peu après, un inconnu blessé est enlevé par des flics allemands en civil. L'inspecteur met ses adjoints sur l'affaire et l'un d'eux est abattu à son tour. Dans un bar tenu par des truands, Sadorski rencontre un jeune milicien qui semble être un pervers sexuel.

Henning Mankell mit einem Roman voll politischer Sprengkraft, eindringlicher Aktualität und psychologischer Tiefe. Schweden nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Bertil Kras beschließt, Stockholm zu verlassen und in eine kleine Stadt in Norrland zu ziehen. Dort nimmt er einen Job im Sägewerk an und wird bald zum Gegenstand böswilliger Gerüchte: der Städter, der Neue, das Mitglied der Kommunistischen Partei. Als in einer Winternacht das Sägewerk unter ungeklärten Umständen niederbrennt, wird Bertil zum perfekten Sündenbock.

Tres años después de los acontecimientos que vivieron en "Mentiras consentidas", Vanja, Torkel, Ursula, Billy y el resto del equipo de la Unidad de Homicidios de Estocolmo deberán encargarse de un asesino en serie que ha dejado un rastro de cadáveres en la pequeña ciudad costera de Karlshamn. Pero no hay pistas, testigos ni conexiones claras entre las víctimas.

A senior administrator is stabbed to death in his office at the Montreal General Hospital. In the east end of the city, a dead man is found in the trunk of a stolen BMW. A young woman is hospitalized after an apparent hit and run, but despite her doctor’s objections, she refuses treatment and sets off on a desperate search for the man who helped her.

Con la prosa aserrada y violenta con la que nos tiene acostumbrados, Marcelo Luján nos presenta una historia de tránsito, un viaje que abandona la infancia y se zambulle en la edad adulta, una transición en espiral alrededor de un cadáver que cambiará la vida de unos chicos a lo largo de dos veranos, con todas sus mezquindades, sospechas y secretos tan imparables como un ejército de hormigas.

The pressures of fame and an obsessive stalker have driven pop star Olivia Smith to take shelter at Halcyon Hall, an exclusive spa on a remote island off the coast of Maine. Yet from the moment she arrives, there are rumors about women disappearing and stories about the resort’s grisly past. Then a note arrives from her stalker, proving that nowhere is truly safe....