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In this epic standalone from David Swinson "one of the best dialogue hounds in the business" (NYTBR), Homicide Detective Alex Blum must answer a terrible question: 'how far would you go to love the wrong woman?' In a red brick house on a tree-lined street, DC homicide detective Alex Blum stares...

In this thrilling sequel to Caught Stealing, Henry “Hank” Thompson must outwit the Russian mafia to save his family—and himself. “Six Bad Things rocks and rolls from the first page. This is one mean, cold, slit-eyed mother of a book.”—Peter Straub Henry “call me Hank” Thompson is...

Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon--Private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre that is at once exciting and accessible, provides a classic...

Dos mujeres aguardan su destino en su particular sala de espera. Cuando el reloj marque las once, sus vidas cambiarán para siempre. Mariona, una joven médica de fuertes convicciones, espera angustiada el fallo de un mediático proceso judicial que enfrenta ciencia y religión con ella como principal acusada. Lucía, emprendedora de mediana edad, desengañada y de vuelta de casi todo, alberga la esperanza de convertir una misteriosa entrevista de trabajo en su última oportunidad para no perder todo lo que tiene.

The absurdly outrageous, sarcastically satiric, and always entertaining New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore returns in finest madcap form with this zany noir set on the mean streets of post-World War II San Francisco, and featuring a diverse cast of characters, including a...

Verity and Linden Lockwood vowed to spend the rest of their lives together, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, till death do they part. Five years later they've kept their promise to never let their love die, to never slip into becoming one of those couples....But a year after Linden is brutally and inexplicably murdered in their picture-perfect home, Verity's world shatters again. They're not the golden couple she thought they were. Linden betrayed her: he had been having an affair.

Sechs neue Kriminalnovellen vom Meister amerikanischer Kriminalliteratur Der millionenschwere Kasinoraub ist schlicht nicht machbar. Und genau das macht ihn unwiderstehlich für einen Räuber, der für seinen Final Score den Rest seines Lebens im Gefängnis verbringen muss. Ein ehrgeiziger Collegejunge hat einen Nebenjob, bei dem er illegalen Schnaps an The Sunday List liefert, bis ein korrupter Cop, ein verführerischer Kunde und ein falscher Guru seine Träume zu beenden drohen. Zwei Klugscheißer erzählen sich beim Frühstück in einem Diner eine True Story .

Nordic Noir aus Dänemark: Die Stimme aus der Erde ist ein nervenaufreibender Nordic-Noir-Thriller rund um die Entführung eines Mädchens. Das Hörbuch schickt den amerikanischen Expat Detective Mason Teilmann, der die dänische Polizei unterstützt, in einen Wettlauf gegen die Zeit. Sprache und Plot des vertrackten Psychokrimis greifen das Tempo geschickt auf - und lassen das Ticken der Zeit förmlich spüren.

Tough, cynical PI Sam Spade is hired by the story's irresistible femme fatale, Brigid O'Shaughnessy, to locate the client's sister by tailing her companion. Spade's partner, Miles Archer, takes on the assignment, and quickly both he and the man he was shadowing are murdered. As Spade pursues the mystery of his partner's death, he is drawn into a circle of colorful characters - all of them after a legendary statuette of a falcon fashioned long ago for King Charles of Spain.

In November 2014 Arla Macleod bludgeoned her mother, father and sister to death with a hammer. Now incarcerated at a medium-security mental-health institution, Arla will speak to no one but Scott King, an investigative journalist, whose Six Stories podcasts have become an internet sensation. King finds himself immersed in an increasingly complex case, interviewing five witnesses and Arla herself as he questions whether Arla's responsibility for the massacre was a diminished as her legal team made out.

A haunting debut literary noir about a former pastor’s search to find a missing woman in the toxic, contradictory underbelly of southern California. “He was finished with church, with God, with all of it. But to find the girl, he has to go back.” In Mark Haines’s former life, he was an...

Pochi romanzi hanno inciso nell'immaginario collettivo come questo. Nel crime, c'è un prima e un dopo American Tabloid . Una rottura che è una sorta di perdita dell'innocenza: con le sue frasi cadenzate come raffiche di mitra, la vastità dell'impianto e la durezza dello sguardo, James Ellroy ha portato il noir nell'età adulta e costretto i suoi lettori a fare i conti con il passato. American Tabloid mette in scena gli uomini e le donne che hanno contribuito all'ascesa e alla caduta di John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

La strana morte di un usuraio conduce Bacci Pagano nei misteriosi sobborghi di Genova. Il settantenne Giacomino Terenzi – noto strozzino – viene ucciso in un parco da uno sconosciuto sicario, ma Bacci Pagano sospetta il coinvolgimento della vedova, che da anni intrattiene un rapporto extraconiugale.

È una Genova invasa dall'acqua, quella che fa da sfondo alla fuga di Olmo Vivera, un vecchio rapinatore che si trova improvvisamente e ingiustamente accusato di aver rubato una valigetta misteriosa, fregando il suo capo banda e la mafia russa. Il povero Olmo si trova così ad affrontare una caccia all'uomo spietata, aiutato solo da Mara, una cantante jazz di poca fortuna, e dall'amico d'infanzia Carlo, suo complice d'un tempo. E proprio insieme a Carlo, Olmo cercherà di organizzare un colpo molto ambizioso provando a chiudere la questione una volta per tutte...

È giugno, le figlie del commissario Mariani e sua madre Emma sono in vacanza, mentre lui è a Genova al lavoro come la moglie Francesca. Forse l'essere soltanto in due migliorerà l'umore della sua Fran che da febbraio sente nervosa e spesso assente. Ma un caso di omicidio in un B&B vicino al Ponte Monumentale lo costringe ad affrontare momenti difficili e inaspettati, non solo dal punto di vista professionale, ma perché la vittima aveva avuto ripetuti scambi di messaggi e telefonate con Francesca.

Saint-Étienne, mai 1944. Dans une ville qui étouffe sous la botte allemande, Lucien Bornier, dit « l'Embaumé », mène la belle vie. Alors que le bombardement allié du 26 mai réduit le quartier de Tardy en cendres, Lucien commet l'irréparable. Des décennies plus tard, l'ombre du passé ressurgit dans le quotidien d'Ernest Cafuron. Ernest est un habitué du Café de la Paix. Ce Stéphanois pur jus va se retrouver mêlé à une histoire qui le dépasse.

Milano, Cimitero Maggiore, all’improvviso tra le tombe iniziano a passeggiare personaggi che dovrebbero risiedere nei loculi. Zombie? Niente affatto, e ci vuole poco ad Anita Valli per capire che gatta ci cova. Forse l’agenzia di pompe funebri Legno di Pero ne sa qualcosa? Come è possibile che persone morte e sepolte vadano a zonzo così? E chi c’è nella tomba al posto loro? Insieme all'inseparabile amica Mirella, Anita avvia una nuova indagine strampalata che porta le due squinzie di via Gallarate ad occuparsi di clochard invisibili, sepolture sospette e baristi troppo gentili.

Murder is not a one-size-fits-all crime. People kill for many reasons. Revenge. Jealously. Hate. Even love. Officer Georgia Morgan with the Nashville Police Department Forensics Unit didn’t generally care about motivation behind a killing. That was big picture. She cared about the micro picture: hair fibers, fingerprints, DNA, and all the other minute details that proved guilt or innocence. Homicide Detective Jake Bishop was her opposite.

Red Harvest is a hardboiled classic that set the standard for gritty, no-nonsense crime fiction. Written by Dashiell Hammett, this explosive novel follows an unnamed detective—referred to only as “The Continental Op”—as he arrives in a corrupt industrial town known as “Poisonville.” Hired to clean up the city, he quickly finds himself in the middle of a brutal gang war. Betrayals, double-crosses, and brutal power plays spiral into chaos as the Op’s relentless quest for justice leads to a blood-soaked reckoning.

After convicting a superior for corruption and shooting off a gangster's crown jewels, the career of Hamburg's most hard-bitten state prosecutor, Chastity Riley, has taken a nosedive: she has been transferred to the tedium of witness protection to prevent her making any more trouble. However, when she is assigned to the case of an anonymous man lying under police guard in hospital - almost every bone in his body broken, a finger cut off, and refusing to speak in anything other than riddles - Chastity's instinct for the big, exciting case kicks in.