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Während Barcelona von einem ungewöhnlich kalten Winter heimgesucht wird, entdeckt die Kripobeamtin Nuria Badal die Leiche eines Bankiers, der auf sadistische Weise ermordet wurde. Doch es ist nur der erste Fall in einer Reihe von ebenso abscheulichen wie unerklärlichen Verbrechen, die die ganze Stadt in einer unkontrollierbaren Spirale der Gewalt an den Rand des Chaos stürzen.

It's 1941 in the quaint Village of Worthington, Ohio. Life is changing at the end of the Great Depression. Elizabeth Russo, 23, teaches elementary school but feels uncertain about her future. Her Sicilian immigrant father ran The Red and White, a popular village general store.

Nach einem emotionalen Streit mit ihren Eltern sucht die junge Eva ihr Glück in der ihr unbekannten Ferne. Dort lernt sie den charismatischen O'Malley kennen. Der gemeinsam mit seinem Cousin Alan und seinen Freunden Cody und Nate Eva Qualvolles auferlegt. Jahre später rächt sich dann plötzlich jemand Unbekanntes stellvertretend für Eva an ihren einstigen Peinigern.

Tauro Pigro, ridente località termale punteggiata di palme. Un hotel dall'eleganza sfiorita - tappeti polverosi, mobilio di mogano tarlato - accoglie dieci ospiti che arrivano alla spicciolata, ognuno col proprio carico di solitudine e aspettative. C'è la socialite d'altri tempi ossessionata dall'età, la bibliotecaria con la testa fra le nuvole, lo storico dell'arte che si ostina a non andare in pensione, la coppia sposata da decenni, lo scrittore incompreso. E poi l'architetto seduttore seriale, il parrucchiere rapato a zero, la capa che tiranneggia la sottoposta senza pietà.

Il nuovo romanzo di Antonio Manzini, l'Italia più nera e cattiva, il male come unica possibilità di riscatto. Colle San Martino è una frazione arroccata sull'Appennino a due passi da Rieti soggiogata dalla Chiesa di Don Graziano e dal Castello di Cicci Bellè che possiede tutto, case e terreni, soldi da prestare e su tutti domina. Attorno a questo microcosmo si muovono i personaggi, che appaiono tra le quinte di quello che è un vero e proprio teatro, di volta in volta chiamati sulla scena a sostenere la loro parte.

Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: private investigator Philip Marlowe. He is willing to help a man down on his luck, but later Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty. Marlowe is drawn into a sordid crowd of adulterers and alcoholics in LA's Idle Valley, where the rich are suffering one big suntanned hangover. Marlowe is sure Lennox didn't kill his wife, but how many more stiffs will turn up before he gets to the truth?

A bitter divorce is only the beginning. First the father hires thugs to kidnap his son. Then the mother hires Spenser to get the boy back. But as soon as Spenser senses the lay of the land, he decides to do some kidnapping of his own.

Duchess Day Radley is a 13-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. Rules are for other people. She is the fierce protector of her five-year-old brother, Robin, and the parent to her mother, Star, a single mom incapable of taking care of herself, let alone her two kids. Walk has never left the coastal California town where he and Star grew up. He may have become the chief of police, but he’s still trying to heal the old wound of having given the testimony that sent his best friend, Vincent King, to prison decades before. And he's in overdrive protecting Duchess and her brother.

A completely revised edition of the first Henry Rios mystery, The Little Death, Lay Your Sleeping Head introduces Michael Nava’s singular protagonist, gay Latino criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios. Rios, beset by personal and professional problems, begins a passionate affair with the black sheep heir to a great California fortune who tells Rios an improbable tale of murder and sexual predation in his wealthy family. When the young man is found dead of an apparent drug overdose, Rios begins an investigation that ultimately reveals much more than murder.

Someone is committing random murders across Chicago—and making sure detectives Billy Harney (Aaron Paul) and Patti Harney (Krysten Ritter) are first on the crime scene. What connects the victims, and why is the killer leaving clues behind with each body? Billy and Patti are scrambling to stop the next killing when their father, Chief of Detectives Dan Harney (Beau Bridges), is kidnapped. But in their race to track him down, they uncover pieces of his past that simply can’t be true. Could their own flesh and blood be covering up a dark secret?

El legendario restaurador de arte y espía Gabriel Allon ha llegado sigilosamente a Londres para asistir a una recepción en la Galería Courtauld, que celebra la devolución de un autorretrato robado de Vincent van Gogh. Pero cuando un viejo amigo de la Policía de Devon y Cornualles le pide ayuda en la investigación de un misterioso asesinato, Gabriel se ve involucrado en la persecución de un nuevo adversario poderoso y peligroso.

In Patricia Highsmith's debut novel, we encounter Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno, passengers on the same train. But while Guy is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno turns out to be a sadistic psychopath who manipulates Guy into swapping murders with him. As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy is trapped in Highsmith's perilous world - where, under the right circumstances, anybody is capable of murder.

When Toru Narazaki's girlfriend, Ryoko, disappears, he tries to track her down, despite the warnings of a private detective he's hired to find her. Ryoko's past is shrouded in mystery, but the one concrete clue leads him to a compound in the heart of Tokyo, with a group that seems to be a cult led by a charismatic guru. Narazaki plunges into the secretive world of the cult, ready to expose himself to any of the guru's brainwashing tactics if it means he can learn the truth about Ryoko. But the cult isn't what he expected, and he has no idea of the bubbling violence beneath its surface.

Two days before Christmas, a young woman is found dead beneath the cliffs of the deserted village of Kalfshamarvik. Did she jump, or did something more sinister take place beneath the lighthouse and the abandoned old house on the remote rocky outcrop? With winter closing in and the snow falling relentlessly, Ari Thor Arason discovers that the victim's mother and young sister also lost their lives in this same spot, 25 years earlier....

Philip Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard.

When a prominent Manhattan lawyer is murdered, two estranged sisters - one the dead man’s widow, the other his ex - must set aside mistrust and old resentments...but can they escape their past?

Grieving widow or black widow? The day Joan Medford buried her husband was a fateful one - because before the day was out she'd meet the two men who would change her life forever. Forced to take a job waitressing to support herself and her child, Joan finds herself caught between the handsome young schemer whose touch she comes to crave and the wealthy older man whose touch repels her…but who otherwise would make a tempting husband number two. It's a classic Cain triangle - brutal and sexual and stark - that can only end in death. But for whom, the guilty…or the innocent?

Renée Ballard is working the night beat again and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours only to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard kicks him out but then checks into the case herself, and it brings a deep tug of empathy and anger. Bosch is investigating the death of 15-year-old Daisy Clayton, a runaway on the streets of Hollywood who was brutally murdered and her body left in a dumpster like so much trash. Now, Ballard joins forces with Bosch.

In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, whom he divorced and remarried and who ends up dead. And now Lennox is on the lam, and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.

In the aftermath of Algeria's war of independence, Paris was a city rife with suspicion and barely suppressed violence. Amid this tension, Jean, a young writer adrift, met and fell for Dannie, an enigmatic woman fleeing a troubled past. Half a century later, with his old black notebook as a guide, Jean retraces this fateful period in his life, recounting how, through Dannie, he became mixed up with a group of unsavory characters connected by a shadowy crime.