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"BAAD" : Homme mauvais, violent, cruel avec les femmes. BARBARIE - Des jolies petites filles, vêtues de tenues d'apparat, apprêtées pour des noces de sang. ABOMINATION - Deux femmes, deux mères. À Kaboul, Nahid se bat pour empêcher le mariage de sa fille, dix ans, avec un riche Occidental. À Paris, les enfants de Nicole, ex-agent des services secrets, ont été enlevés.

Easter weekend is approaching, and snow is gently falling in Siglufjörður, the northernmost town in Iceland. Ari Thór Arason is now a police inspector, but he’s separated from his girlfriend, who lives in Sweden with their three-year-old son. A family reunion is planned for the holiday, but a violent blizzard is threatening and there is an unsettling chill in the air. Three days before Easter, a 19-year-old local girl falls to her death from the balcony of a house on the main street. A perplexing entry in her diary suggests that this may not be an accident. 

Horvath works for the Firm. He's been sent to track down Van Dyke, who ran off with their money. The morning after, he meets Lana. She’s also looking for someone, so they team up. He’s not sure if he can trust Lana, but he’s attracted to her. And she’s all he’s got. The city is dirty, violent, and corrupt. Run by the Syndicate, criminals control the police, the mayor and the city council. Horvath's leads don't seem to lead anywhere. He wanders through the city looking for clues, sipping espresso, drinking whiskey and popping aspirin like breath mints.

Dirty secrets. A dirty cop. And a loaded Syringe. A dead paramedic found with a syringe stuck in her chest. A junkie is found with stolen drugs from her ambulance. Too neat? Too easy? But something’s not quite right. Captain Weidman has got his hate up for Flynt more than usual. Blocked and hassled by the entire force every step of the way, are they getting too close to the thin blue line? What is the secret thread running through the case, and what does Flynt know that he’s not telling? Who will step up and peel back the lies and reveal the truth?

Two homicide detectives Turner Hahn and Frank Morales. One looks like a matinee idol out of the 1930s. The other a modern day version of a Neanderthal. Both extremely skilled in their chosen professions. They're the ones who catch the cases no one else want to touch. The hard ones; the ones with few clues. The ones which have no suspects. Or the ones which have a thousand suspects. It doesn't matter. If a killer or killers are out there waiting to be found. Bank on it. Turner and Frank will find them.

As one of the country's most respected podcast journalists, David Lambert didn't have time to drive 300 miles south to the town of Madison, Tennessee. He was neck-deep in post production on a massive case. Dropping everything to nosedive into an active investigation was simply not something David had time to do. Hell, it's not even even something he was qualified to do.

Some cases are just another job. Some change a person. And some cases change many lives forever. When a witch visits Marshall Drummond and then a series of murders falls his way, he knows this is going to be the worst kind of case. Nobody will get out unscathed. Welcome to the Marshall Drummond Case Files. These stories explore the dark mysteries and thrilling adventures of 1940s PI, Marshall Drummond, before he died and became the ghost detective found in the bestselling Max Porter Paranormal Mysteries.

His name is Dex. He's huge, terrifying, and has an edge to him that I shouldn't find intriguing, but I do. He's also the enforcer to a rival family, and my current prison guard. Dex wants me. I can see it in his eyes. Feel it in his innocent touch. He could break me with ease. But he hasn't. Instead, he's threatened to cut off any hand that dares to try. If I didn't know any better, I'd say he cares about me. But blood means everything in this world, and we're on opposite sides of a war. After all, I'm the Romano mafia princess. He's nothing but an Allegretti.

Dubbed “Dewey Decimal” for his desire to reorganize the library’s stock, he gets by as bagman and muscle for New York City’s unscrupulous district attorney. He takes no pleasure in this kind of civic dirty work. He’d be perfectly content alone among his books. But this is not in the cards, as the DA calls on Dewey for a seemingly straightforward union-busting job. 

The man known as Dewey Decimal works in a near-future Manhattan decimated by terrorism and plague, running dirty operations for the crooked Senator Howard - though he’d prefer to spend his time among the stacks at his beloved New York Public Library. When Dewey is tasked with disrupting unrest from a growing group of outcast civilians, and simultaneously given the assignment of protecting a pair of Saudi royals, he is forced to look within and make some impossible choices - and it will put him at odds with his benefactor and the powers that be.... 

Nicknamed Dewey Decimal for his obsessive attempts to bring order to the New York Public Library in the wake of disastrous events in the city, the hero of this series earns his keep as a bagman and enforcer for unscrupulous politicians and underworld figures. Now, he’s stumbled upon information concerning the gruesome murder of a prostitute that involves a prominent US senator - and finds himself chasing ghosts and fighting for his life, pursued by private military contractors and the ever-present specter of his own past.... 

The most difficult killer to catch is the one who doesn’t realize he’s a killer! That was Larry Kent’s dilemma when he signed on to protect beautiful actress Valerie Nash. Whoever he was, the mystery murderer was two distinct personalities in one…and the dark side of him was slowly but surely gaining dominance. 

World War I veteran Thomas Donne is new to San Francisco. Always a stoic man, shell shock and a lost love have nearly turned his heart to stone. No matter - a private eye has no room for softness. Almost broke, he takes on what appears to be a simple case: finding a missing young man. As a magician and medium, Abraham Ferencz cons his audiences into believing he can cheat death and commune with their dearly departed. Although his séances are staged, the spirits are very real, and they’ve brought him almost more pain than he can bear. 

Most everybody is at war with a neighbor. Laszlo just happens to be at war with his whole neighborhood. Or is it that the neighborhood is at war with him? When ballet teacher Laszlo Tamas falls in love with a house and impulsively buys it, he takes on major defects - mechanical and human. We can only watch in horror as Laszlo spirals downward into mayhem and madness.

Grotesk, dunkel und bizarr. Definitiv ein Leckerbissen für Noir-Fans. Stanton Carlisle lernt die schmutzigen Tricks der Jahrmärkte und wird zum skrupellosen Gauner. Er gibt sich als spiritueller Guru aus, um die Reichen und Schwachen auszunehmen. Doch sein Spiel der Täuschungen und Lügen treibt ihn geradewegs in die Albtraumgasse... Mit effektiver Atmosphäre und außergewöhnlicher Prosa geschrieben, ist "Nightmare Alley" mehr als ein großes Drama: Stantons entschlossener Aufstieg und der unvermeidliche Sturz ins Verderben ist die röntgenscharfe Durchleuchtung des "american dream".

Que s'est-il passé cette nuit-là ? Paul Copeland a mis vingt ans pour accepter l'idée que sa sœur, comme trois autres adolescents cette nuit-là, est morte assassinée dans le camp de vacances du lac Charmaine. Même si deux corps seulement ont été retrouvés dans les bois, les chances de revoir Camille vivante se sont évanouies avec le temps.

Caroline du Nord. Darl Moody vit dans un mobile home sur l'ancienne propriété de sa famille. Un soir, alors qu'il braconne, il tue un homme par accident. Le frère du défunt, connu pour sa violence et sa cruauté, a vite fait de remonter la piste jusqu'à lui. Un face à face impitoyable s'engage alors.

Being married to Bart Titus gave Lisa a great deal - money, position, all those things she'd thought were important. But it was also boring. A trap. He was controlling. So, when she went to Mexico for a vacation, she decided to have a little fun. But, sometimes, fun catches up with you, and now, she was being blackmailed. So, one problem had become two.

Books four, five, and six in the Eli Marks mystery series all in one volume. This audiobook includes: The Linking Rings, The Floating Light Bulb, and The Zombie Ball.

COVID-19 is spreading across the country. Peaceful demonstrations for Black Lives Matter after the murder by cop of George Floyd have turned violent. President Trump’s handling of the pandemic seems incompetent and chaotic. Infections and deaths continue to rise. When Attorney General Barr orders riot police and troops to clear peaceful protesters from Lafayette Square for Trump’s photo-op with a Bible, something snaps in Jack Blair. After a psychotic episode he is thrown into prison, and his life is threatened by white nationalist boogaloo bois.