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"I have two proposals to make, sir, and either is fair. Take your choice. I will give you twenty-five thousand when you deliver the falcon, and another twenty-five thousand as soon as I get to New York; or I will give you one quarter—twenty-five percent—of what I realize on the falcon. There you are, sir: an almost immediate fifty thousand dollars or a vastly greater sum within, say, a couple of months."

Camilleri inventa poco delle vicende che trasforma sulla pagina in vorticosi caroselli di persone e fatti - qui il fatto vero, conosciuto dalla celebre Inchiesta sulle condizioni della Sicilia del 1875-76, è il susseguirsi di intrighi, delitti e tumulti seguiti alla incomprensibile determinazione del prefetto di Caltanissetta, il toscano Bortuzzi, di inaugurare il teatro di Caltanissetta con una sconosciuta opera lirica, Il birraio di Preston. E anche in questo attenersi al fondo di verità storica c'è probabilmente un senso preciso: in Sicilia non serve attendere che la storia si ripeta per avere la farsa.

An utterly heart-pounding thriller from NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING author of The Wives, Valerie Keogh 💥 Must-read for fans of Freida McFadden and Lisa Jewell! Fiona Carlton has never needed a man to make her life complete. Until she meets charming, handsome and sophisticated Richard. She is...

IT'S A CRIME THAT HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF. 'Sensationally good - new, fresh, real, authentic, twisty, with characters and dilemmas that will break your heart. ' LEE CHILD 'Every once in a while a writer comes along with an incredible voice. Think Elmore Leonard, or Chester Himes...add S. A. Cosby...

His Scandal Her Secret From New York Times bestselling author Alafair Burke, a stunning domestic thriller in the vein of Behind Closed Doors and The Woman in Cabin 10—in which a woman must make the impossible choice between defending her husband and saving herself. When Angela met Jason Powell...

For twenty years, former NYPD cop Jack Stang has lived with the memory of his girlfriend’s death in an attempted abduction. But what if she weren’t actually dead? What if she somehow secretly survived—but lost her sight, and her memory, and everything else she had except her enemies? Now...

Früher Morgen. Privatdetektiv Briggs erhält überraschenden Besuch. Sein Freund Otis teilt ihm mit, dass er in einen Raub verwickelt sei und jetzt in großen Schwierigkeiten stecke. Briggs ist wenig begeistert, sagt aber dennoch seine Hilfe zu. Er begibt sich auf die Straße und kümmert sich um den Wagen seines Freundes. Als er in seine Wohnung zurückkehrt, ist Otis tot – erschossen.

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...

Sam Spade, a street-wise private detective working the streets of San Francisco, takes a job from a gorgeous but desperate woman and soon finds himself wrapped up in a shady conspiracy to acquire a one-of-a-kind, priceless purloined artifact—The Maltese Falcon. Full of twists and turns, questions and answers that create more questions, rabbit trails and red herrings, The Maltese Falcon is the quintessential hardboiled detective story.

It's the winter of 1975, and Duane Minor, back home in Portland, Oregon, after a tour in Vietnam, is struggling to quell his anger, keep his drinking in check and keep his young marriage intact. Then Minor crosses the wrong man – John Varley, a vampire and criminal with a bloody history who sleeps during the day beneath loose drifts of earth and grows teeth in the light of the moon. In an act of brutal retaliation, Varley kills Heidi, leaving Minor broken with guilt and Julia shot through with rage.

It’s hard to be good when living is expensive. And times are tough on the streets these days. Luckily for Rilke at Bowery Auctions the demand for no-questions-asked cash is at an all-time high, and business is booming. When Rilke hears his old acquaintance Les is fresh out of prison, his...

Twins Aaron and Clive have been estranged for 40 years. Aaron still lives in the empty, crumbling tower block on the riverside in Deptford where they grew up. Clive is a successful property developer, determined to turn the tower into luxury flats. But Aaron is blocking the plan, and their petty squabble becomes something much greater when two ghosts from the past - twins Annette and Christine - appear in the tower. At once, the desolate estate becomes a stage on which the events of one scorching summer are relived - a summer that shattered their lives and changed everything forever.

An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one, grisly solution -- a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve. First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism...

Bill O'Mallow ist ein heruntergekommener Privatdetektiv, der sich gerade so mit „leichten Fällen" wie Ehebruch und Versicherungsbetrug über Wasser hält. Seine dunkle Familienvergangenheit macht ihn nicht gerade zum Liebling der Chicagoer Polizei. Scheinbar zufällig gerät Bill bei der Beschattung eines heimlichen Liebespaars in eine brisante politische Affäre, als es plötzlich zu einem blutigen Doppelmord kommt.

Privatdetektiv Paul Tyler erholt sich noch von seinem letzten Besuch in der Kitty-Bar, als die völlig aufgelöste Alison Blackwell in sein Büro stürmt. Die junge Frau ist verzweifelt, da die Polizei ihren Bruder Nathaniel festgenommen hat. Nathaniel Blackwell wird vorgeworfen, versucht zu haben, seine frisch angetraute Frau Pearl Blackwell zu töten. Alison Blackwell ist sich jedoch sicher, dass ihr Bruder nicht der Täter ist.

Über seinen Mitbewohner Harry Delaney erfährt Duke Anson von einer merkwürdigen Sache. Eines Abends findet Duke seinen Kollegen sterbend in der gemeinsamen Wohnung. Er hat nicht viel Zeit, um zu reagieren, denn die Killer sind noch immer in der Nähe. Nachdem Duke es gelungen ist, sich den Männern zu entziehen, entdeckt er in seiner Tasche einen rätselhaften Datenstick. Duke wird plötzlich Teil eines Spiels, dessen Regeln er nicht einmal kennt. Als es keinen Ausweg mehr zu geben scheint, taucht plötzlich die rätselhafte Samantha auf.

London, Christmas 1999. The world is on edge. With the new millennium just days away, fears of the Millennium Bug are spiralling – warnings of computer failures, market crashes, even global catastrophe. But 50 miles east, on the frozen Blackwater Island, a different kind of mystery unfolds. A child's body is discovered on the bracken, untouched by footprints, with no sign of how he died. And no one has come forward to claim him. At the International Tribune, reporter Jonny Murphy senses something is off. Police are appealing for relatives, not suspects.

La scena si apre su una danza quasi macabra da condominio, anzi da pianerottolo. Scrittori, di successo e no, juventini e poliziotti si incrociano per le scale dove vive Bernardo Barigazzi, vedovo di Francesca e padre di Daguntaj. Arriva una denuncia. Per quale delitto? Per quale castigo?

On ne choisit pas la famille dans laquelle on naît. Mais certains héritages refusent de rester enterrés. Charlie Murphy pensait connaître son histoire. Jusqu’au jour où sa grand-mère lui révèle le secret qu’elle a gardé pendant des décennies : son propre père a été condamné...

The brand new, utterly gripping gangland thriller from bestseller Heather Atkinson. You’ll never forget The Bloody MacGregors. The Bloody MacGregors are caught in the crossfire and the streets of Glasgow are about to burn. Virgil MacGregor and his fiercely loyal brothers thought working as...