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A quiet summer night...a neat suburban house...and another innocent, happy family is shattered -- the latest victims of a grisly series of hideous sacrificial killings that no one understands, and no one can stop. Nobody lives to tell of the unimaginable carnage. Only the blood-stained walls...

Ein Pfarrer wird mit durchgeschnittener Kehle in einer Gasse aufgefunden. Ex-Polizistin Anne Steinbach und der Priester Paul Wagner ermitteln: Warum musste der allseits beliebte Seelsorger sterben? Die Jagd nach dem Schuldigen führt sie in die Sektenszene – doch je tiefer sie graben, desto verworrener wird der Fall. Und dann wird es plötzlich persönlich – denn der Killer hat Rache geschworen.

Atlantica - the forgotten isle, the glittering gem in the cesspool of humanity's future. Anything you do inside your own home is allowed. It is a dog-eat-dog world of millionaires and billionaires. The rest of society beneath them live in ignorance. Those at the top have money, tools, people, assassins, and murderers. One such assassin was a rumor, a myth, a ghost in the night. The Red Countess, the lady Valentina Winters. A player among the elite has something Valentina wants, and she is willing to do most anything to get it.

An epic Wild West detective story as a group is hired to clean up a corrupt town. A model for many later Westerns & Detective stories.

El fenómeno literario más brutal y adictivo de los últimos años. Tras el caso que sacudió a la BAC en La novia gitana, la inspectora Elena Blanco sigue marcada por una herida que nunca ha logrado cerrar: la desaparición de su hijo. Cuando una investigación sobre contenidos violentos y de...

El fenómeno literario más brutal y adictivo de los últimos años. Cuando el cadáver de Susana Macaya aparece en una zona apartada de Madrid, la ciudad se estremece ante un horror que resulta demasiado familiar. La joven ha sido torturada y asesinada siguiendo un ritual idéntico al que...

Dive into the gritty world of crime and corruption with Dashiell Hammett's "Red Harvest," masterfully narrated by Mike Vendetti. Set in the lawless town of Personville, also known as Poisonville, this classic detective story follows a relentless detective as he navigates a web of deceit, murder, and betrayal. Hammett, the undisputed master of detective fiction in late 1920s America, delivers a hard-hitting tale that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

In "Red Harvest" we follow the Op as he arrives in the corrupt mining town of Personville (nicknamed "Poisonville"). Hired to investigate threats against a newspaper publisher, the Op finds himself in the middle of a war between rival gangs and corrupt officials. He orchestrates a brutal campaign to pit the criminal factions against each other, cleansing the town through violence and manipulation. The Dain Curse involves the Op investigating a diamond theft that spirals into a complex case involving the Dain family's supposed curse.

'[An] absolute corker from Ireland's best mystery writer ... utterly gripping' Express The players call it The Game. There are just two rules: No killing close to home. No Killing outside the game But what happens when those rules get broken? When the drowned body of a troubled teenager is...

Red Harvest is the first full novel by Dashiell Hammett, the author universally regarded as the father of "hard boiled" detective fiction. An enormous hit upon its publication, it has since become a classic of the detective genre. Time Magazine included Red Harvest in its 100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005.

If there’s one thing Hap Collins and Leonard Pine like, it’s trouble - and they especially like getting paid to find it. So when their friend and sometime boss Marvin Harmon asks the boys to look into a cold-case double homicide, they’re happy to oblige. It turns out that both victims were set to inherit some serious money, and one of them ran with an honest-to-goodness vampire cult. The more closely Hap and Leonard look over the crime-scene photos, the more trouble they see.

The Continental Detective Agency's Operative is sent on a case to Personville. The locals call their town "Poisonville," and the Op would soon find out why as the bodies start piling up. Dirty cops, gang wars, floozies, bootleggers, and hit men are all in Dashiell Hammett's first full-length novel featuring the Continental Op, the original hard-boiled private detective.

From bestselling, award-winning author James Ellroy, "the neo-noir eminence of L.A. crime fiction" (The New Yorker)—a gritty, fast-paced historical crime thriller set in 1962 Los Angeles during the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis "The Freddy Otash novels will be mentioned . . . as some...

Dick is a Depression-era drifter bums who lands in Los Angeles in search of his son and runaway wife. When Dick commits one crime and plans another, the police arrest him for a crime he actually did not commit. Dick attempts to reconcile with his family and find his way out of LA’s seedy underworld. You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up was a bestseller when originally published in 1938 and is a noir classic.

A quiet summer night...a neat suburban house...and another innocent, happy family is shattered -- the latest victims of a grisly series of hideous sacrificial killings that no one understands, and no one can stop. Nobody lives to tell of the unimaginable carnage. Only the blood-stained walls...

Cash and Sheriff Wheaton make for a strange partnership. He pulled her from her mother's wrecked car when she was three. He's kept an eye out for her ever since. It's a tough place to live - northern Minnesota along the Red River. Cash navigated through foster homes, and at 13 was working farms. She's tough as nails, five feet two inches, blue jeans, blue jean jacket, smokes Marlboros, drinks Bud Longnecks. Makes her living driving truck. Playing pool on the side. 

It was the standard blackmail scheme. For years, sultry Lysa Dean's name on a movie had meant a bonanza at the box office. Now a set of pictures could mean the end of her career.When first approached for help by lovely Dana Holtzer, Lysa's personal secretary, Travis McGee is thoroughly turned off by the tacky details. But being low on cash, and tenderly attracted by the star's intriguingly remote secretary, McGee sets out to locate his suspects -- only to find that they start turning up dead!

Amid a fierce snowstorm sweeping across rural Minnesota, an isolated cabin goes up in flames, leaving a critically injured high school drug dealer and a missing girl in its wake. The disappearance propels Sheriff Red Hammergren into action to find the troubled young girl, Missy Klein, the daughter of Junior Klein—the victim of an unsolved cold case years prior.

From the New York Times–bestselling author of the Dexter novels: "A game of cat and mouse that builds to an utterly terrifying climax on the high seas" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Ex–cop Billy Knight wants to ride out Key West's slow season with the occasional fishing charter and...

The name's Lomax-Alex Lomax. I'm the one and only private eye working the mean streets of New Klondike, the Martian frontier town that sprang up forty years ago after Simon Weingarten and Denny O'Reilly discovered fossils on the Red Planet. Back on Earth, where anything can be synthesized, the remains of alien life are the most valuable of all collectibles, so shiploads of desperate treasure hunters stampeded here in the Great Martian Fossil Rush.