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Raoul Sforza, nato dalla fantasia di Ferrario e già protagonista del precedente "Il banchiere di Milano" (2021), è un uomo senza scrupoli, impegnato ad architettare intrighi finanziari e a ricattare i vertici dello Stato per mantenere una vita di lussi e di svaghi. Dividendosi fra la villa di Brera e l’amenità del comune ligure di Bonassola, Sforza si ritrova suo malgrado a dover far luce su una serie di misteriosi omicidi, che dal lontano 1945 macchiano la Val Bisagno.

Lester Caine, retired as a highly decorated New York City lieutenant detective after 25 years is now in the private eye cop business settling in West Palm Beach, Florida. He thought it was the perfect place for him, his Cadillac convertible, and the tanned socialites of Palm Beach. The PI business drew Lester into the shadowy side of murder.

The body of a teenage girl is found two days after being reported missing. A discussion with the pathologist reveals that another girl was found in similar circumstances only her murder never made it into the press. When DS Kevin Coupland looks into the earlier case he finds out-dated views and social stereotyping have thwarted the investigation from the beginning.

Tommy, Andy und Steve leben in gut situierten Verhältnissen. Sie sind verheiratet, haben Kinder, sind beliebte Mitglieder im Golfclub und trinken hier und da ein Bierchen miteinander: Wer würde sie nicht für fürsorgliche Familienväter halten? Niemand ahnt etwas von ihrem lukrativen Nebengeschäft; einem Geschäft, das einst von Männern betrieben wurde, die ebenso wie sie als anständig galten. Alles könnte so reibungslos weiterlaufen wie bisher, denn ihre Ware ist begehrt.

Seit dem Tod ihres Vaters hat die korsische Mafiosa Zoë endgültig alle Brücken zu ihrer Zwillingsschwester Zara abgebrochen – denn die Europol-Profilerin ist für diesen Tod verantwortlich. Als Zoë vom Oberhaupt der korsischen Mafia auf einen schwer bewachten Goldtransport angesetzt wird, scheint das ein äußerst lukrativer Job zu sein. Was die Killerin nicht weiß: Ihr Boss wird vom arabischen Clanchef Shokran Al-Hamsi erpresst, dessen Bruder dank Zoë im Koma liegt. Jetzt ist Al-Hamsi mindestens so sehr auf das Leben der Mafiosa aus wie auf das Gold.

Durante il capodanno del 1964, al commissariato di Siracusa, l'agente Camurro riceve una telefonata inquietante: è la signorina Russo che dichiara di aver visto tre uomini uccidere Antonio Passanisi, proprietario del ristorante "La spada blu". Arrivato sul posto, il commissario Paolo Portanova si trova al cospetto di una scena del crimine del tutto inedita. Il cadavere di Passanisi è scomparso e con lui anche la più piccola traccia del colpevole. Una porta chiusa a chiave, nel retrobottega, farà da perno alla vicenda e sarà causa di guai neri.

When 22-year-old Candy goes missing on a popular hiking trail, suspicion falls on her recently paroled ex-boyfriend. It was Candy's testimony that got him put away...and now he's after revenge. The ensuing manhunt leads Savage and his team into the unforgiving Colorado mountains, where avoiding the wild animals are the least of their worries. Just when they think they've got their man, a new development spins the case on its head. Who was Candy really running from? And are they still after her?

Trasferito dalla Campania a un paesino dell'entroterra sardo, il maresciallo Dioguardi intuisce subito che Bonela è diversa dagli altri posti dove ha vissuto. C'è un ermetismo quasi mistico che isola la cittadina dal resto del mondo: figure imperscrutabili, uomini e donne vestiti in nero compongono una comunità sospesa nel tempo. Così, leggende e paure serpeggiano tra le case, voci di personaggi oscuri che si nascondono dietro la luminosità delle istituzioni.

Dig. The Demon Dog gets down with a new book of scenes from America’s capital of kink: Los Angeles. Fourteen pieces, some fiction, some nonfiction, all true enough to be admissible as state’s evidence, and half of it in print for the first time. And every one of them bearing the James Ellroy brand of mayhem, machismo, and hollow-nose prose.

As private detective Peter O’Keefe continues to heal from the burns he suffered from the blast of a car bomb, neither he nor the police can prove who his assailants were. The media speculates that “The Outfit”, a Mafia group in the city, is to blame. O’Keefe isn’t so sure, but he means to find out--and fast.

„Puppenmorde“, titelt die Abendzeitung–und das nächste Opfer wartet schon. Lena Freyenberg und Henning Gerlach bekommen es in ihrem ersten gemeinsamen Fall mit einem albtraumhaften Spiel um Leben und Tod zu tun. Ein Serienkiller ermordet seine Opfer auf eine seltsam vertraute Art und Weise und lässt an jedem Tatort eine verunstaltete Puppe zurück.

When a photo she took ends up splashed across a sleazy tabloid, Tootsie launches into an investigation to figure out who leaked it. Pounding the pavement, she follows the leads to a seedy massage parlor. One step inside and she knows something isn’t right.

A city united in grief. A journalist ready to kill to keep his secrets. A copper capable of darker deeds than murderers. An unworldly detective fighting to save an innocent man. Newly appointed DS McAvoy is an outsider to his new force and must confront his darkest fears, while hunting a killer that nobody else believes in. In a landscape at once tender and brutal, McAvoy must tread the path between the darkness and the light, before facing an enemy who will brand him for life.

After the murder of a high-flying executive in one of Tokyo’s wealth management firms, Detective Hiroshi finds himself investigating the financial schemes that secure the money of Tokyo’s elite investors. His forensic accounting gets sidetracked, though, by a second murder and the abduction of two girls from the home of a hotshot wealth manager.

1947. Thomas Armstrong, a young Marine, returns home from the war in the Pacific. He hopes to forget the terrifying experience and pursue his dream of becoming a Hollywood screenwriter. But when a gang of escaped convicts led by sociopath Dimitri Smalls hijacks the bus he's on, Thomas instinctually becomes a machine of war. He thwarts the killers in a bloody melee but finds himself the target of Smalls, now thirsty for revenge.

Erma Johnson lives in a rough part of Baltimore. Gangs are a fact of life. She lost her daughter and grandson to their violence. She's convinced, however, that her grandson wasn't in a gang. Hacker turned private investigator C.T. Ferguson takes her case. The more he looks around, the more he thinks she's right.

1963. Luccicano le luci di Roma al tempo della Dolce Vita. Lampeggiano i flash delle macchine fotografiche tra le mani svelte e nervose dei paparazzi, gli scandali sono l'altro nome della mondanità. Nei caffè si tira tardi, il sogno più bello è quello che si sogna insieme. Sogna anche una ragazza tedesca: ha ventitré anni, si chiama Greta e vuole fare l'attrice. Finché, un giorno di maggio, viene trovata uccisa a coltellate in un palazzo nei dintorni di via Veneto. Sotto la superficie abbagliante della capitale, infatti, si nascondono gli abissi.

Nevada's attorney general is missing. At dusk on a deserted Nevada highway in a thunderstorm, ex-IRS agent and PI-in-training Mortimer Angel comes across a pretty, scantily clad girl—Harper Leland. She's cold and alone, 30 miles from the nearest town.

Sex, money, murder: it ain’t pretty. But it’s my life. My name is Art Zeffer. After being canned by Chicago PD on a cooked-up corruption rap, I hung out my shingle as a PI. Then she walked into my office. And everything changed. You see, I used to spend my days catching love rats and round-heeled dames two-timing their lawfully wedded spouses. It wasn’t a bad life. Barring the occasional half-assed beating from an enraged husband and the full-a--ed kind from a bottle of Wild Turkey, I got along okay.

Lieutenant Peter Bank's Narcotics Unit hit a house looking for dope. What they found was a prototype rifle and a congressman’s son moonlighting as the criminal elite. The paperwork on the arrest isn’t even finished before an army of politicos a come down on Banks and his unit like a thousand-year flood. Everyone wants to make the arrest of a prominent politician’s kid go away, even Bank’s own chief. Normally that wouldn’t be a problem. Most cops follow orders from the chief, most cops have a stake in their career.