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Strane lettere anonime con istruzioni per una caccia al tesoro stuzzicano la curiosità di Montalbano. Il gioco però si fa tenebroso e «sprofonda in abissi cupi e sordidi». Una storia inquietante, cruenta, con un commissario più incline alla riflessione e che questa volta rischia davvero grosso.

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...

“Legendary . . . Bolaño has proven [that literature] can do anything.” —Jonathan Lethem, The New York Times Book Review “A supernova of creativity whose light is still arriving at our shores.” —Giles Harvey, The New Yorker Often called the “big bang” of Roberto Bolaño’s...

FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING NUMBER ONE AUTHOR OF THE DRY 'Addictive storytelling' ANN CLEEVES 'An avalanche of suspense' DAVID BALDACCI 'A fantastic crime writer' BELLA MACKIE ******** An outstanding novel, a brilliant mystery and a heart-pounding read from the author of The Dry, Force of...

Assistant District Attorney Kaj Cordozo's life is thrown upside down when two masked men attempt to kidnap his son, Elijah. Given the high-profile case Kaj is working on, he's not about to take any more risks. When Val Sorensen of Burke Broussard Private Investigation Agency is assigned as Elijah's bodyguard, she realises she also has a very personal connection to the gang thought to be behind the attempted kidnap - a run in with Sixth Day cost her brother his life.

Payatas, a 50-acre dump northeast of Manila's Quezon City, is home to thousands of people who live off of what they can scavenge there. It is one of the poorest neighborhoods in a city whose law enforcement is already stretched thin, devoid of forensic resources, and rife with corruption. So when the eviscerated bodies of preteen boys begin to appear in the dump heaps, there is no one to seek justice on their behalf. In the rainy summer of 1997, two Jesuit priests take the matter of protecting their flock into their own hands.

Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world of Berlin in the 1930s.

Scarborough, 2010. Un adolescente obeso, Alvin Malory, es víctima de una agresión terrible que lo deja postrado en coma vegetativo. Un caso sin resolver en la carrera de Caleb Hale. Casi diez años después, Anna Carter ve cómo un desconocido detiene el vehículo que conduce una mujer y se monta en él. A Anna la escena le parece extraña e intenta, sin éxito, llamar la atención de la conductora. Anna está cansada y hace frío, así que finalmente decide marcharse.

Ein atmosphärischer, wendungsreicher und preisgekrönter Australien-Thriller: Im Sommer 1999 verschwand Mina McCreerys Zwillingsschwester spurlos in den Weiten Australiens. Der Fall ging durch alle Medien und machte Mina zur unfreiwilligen Berühmtheit, für einige sogar zur Hauptverdächtigen. Heute lebt sie allein auf der abgelegenen Farm ihrer Familie. Als der junge Privatdetektiv Lane Holland ihr anbietet, den Cold Case neu aufzurollen, lehnt sie zunächst ab. Erst nachdem Lanes unkonventionelle Methoden rasch zu einer neuen Spur führen, beginnt sie, ihm zu vertrauen. Doch Lane hat seine eigenen, dunkleren Gründe, den Fall lösen zu wollen.

Noir contains three classic thrillers by Richard Matheson, the grand master of suspense. Originally published in the 1950s, at the very beginning of Matheson’s distinguished career, these page-turning classics are finally on audio for your listening pleasure. Now listeners everywhere can savor three unforgettable tales of crime, corruption, and cold-blooded murder.

Marzo de 1937. Mientras la Guerra Civil sigue su trágico curso, una nueva misión lleva a Lorenzo Falcó hasta Tánger, turbulenta encrucijada de espías, tráficos ilícitos y conspiraciones, con el encargo de conseguir que el capitán de un barco cargado con oro del Banco de España cambie de bandera. Espías nacionales, republicanos y soviéticos, hombres y mujeres, se enfrentan en una guerra oscura y sucia en la que acabarán regresando peligrosos fantasmas del pasado.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Macbeth by Jo Nesbo, read by Derek Riddell. He’s the best cop they’ve got. When a drug bust turns into a bloodbath it’s up to Inspector Macbeth and his team to clean up the mess. He’s also an ex-drug addict with a troubled past. He’s...

Tragiquement connue pour son histoire violente et chaotique ainsi que pour la catastrophe qui l’a frappé en 2010, Haïti est le pays le plus pauvre des Amériques - et l’un des plus riches sur le plan littéraire. Cette anthologie de dix-huit nouvelles, projet lancé avant le tremblement de terre, réaffirme le talent des auteurs contemporains haïtiens, aussi bien francophones qu’anglophones, qu’ils vivent sur place ou qu’ils soient issus de la diaspora, sur un terrain où ils ne sont pas forcément attendus : le genre noir.

Jana fährt an den Ort ihrer Kindheit, um ihren Zwillingsbruder Bror zu besuchen, und beschließt zu bleiben. Denn in Smalånger ist alles wie immer: Ihr Bruder trauert einer Liebe nach, die es nicht hätte geben dürfen, und trinkt zu viel, ihre Mutter lebt nach einem Schlaganfall im Pflegeheim, und ihre ehemaligen Freunde sinnen auf Rache. Und dann ist da noch John, mit Augen wie schwarze Löcher, der ihr mit leidenschaftlicher Liebe, aber auch unkontrollierter Aggression begegnet und Erinnerungen an ihre Kindheit im Schatten des bedrohlichen Vaters wachruft.

Detective Superintendent Biddick steht kurz vor seinem wohlverdienten Ruhestand. 30 Jahre Scotland Yard sind genug. Da wird der Routinier Zeuge eines spektakulären Selbstmordes ein lebensmüder Professor stürzt sich von der Tower Bridge.

Brought to you by Penguin. ‘It is dangerous to want someone this much. He has always known it, from the very first night.’ It is September 1974. Two men meet by chance in Venice. One is a young English artist, in panicked flight from London. The other is Danilo Donati, the magician of...

Master of new noir Dennis Lehane magnificently evokes the dignity and savagery of working-class Boston in Darkness, Take My Hand, a terrifying tale of redemption. Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro’s latest client is a prominent Boston psychiatrist, running scared from a vengeful Irish mob. The...

Aufgestachelt durch eine Geheimratswitwe jagen Tom Shark und sein Kamerad eine Bande von Panzerschrankknackern. Diese Halunken werden angeführt von Buster Malcolm, einem Gauner aus Amerika, den Shark seinerzeit dort einbunkern lies. Und irgendwie haben ein verschollener Student und die verlassene Villa in der Jagowstraße etwas damit zu tun. Genug Geheimnisse, um den König der Detektive von seinen Ägyptischen wegzulocken, direkt hinein in ein weiteres aufregendes Unterfangen!

Bret Easton Ellis’s debut, Less Than Zero, is one of the signal novels of the last thirty years, and he now follows those infamous teenagers into an even more desperate middle age. Clay, a successful screenwriter, has returned from New York to Los Angeles to help cast his new movie, and he’s...

Thomas Jerome Newton is an extraterrestrial from the planet Anthea, which has been devastated by a series of nuclear wars and whose inhabitants are twice as intelligent as human beings. When he lands on Earth—in Kentucky, disguised as a human—it's with the intention of saving his own people from extinction. Newton patents some very advanced Anthean technology, which he uses to amass a fortune. He begins to build a spaceship to help the last 300 Antheans migrate to Earth.