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Privatdetektiv John Evans wird in die südkalifornischen San-Bernardino-Berge gerufen. Dort stören einige Geheimagenten aus Nazi-Deutschland das trügerische Idyll des Hochgebirges mit Sabotageakten und Propagandatätigkeiten, mit denen sie in den USA Fuß fassen wollen. John Evans soll ihrem Treiben ein Ende setzen.

November 1963: Amerika befindet sich in Schockstarre. Präsident Kennedy ist gerade in Dallas erschossen worden. Auch den sonst nie um ein Wort verlegenen Frank Guidry macht die Nachricht sprachlos. Einige Tage zuvor hat er seinem Boss, der Mafiagröße Carlos Marcello, einen Gefallen getan und unweit des Tatorts ein Auto abgestellt. Ein Fluchtwagen, wie es nun scheint. Da Frank weder verhaftet, noch als Mitwisser zum Schweigen gebracht werden will, muss er die Stadt schnellstmöglich verlassen.

Irish newsreader Isolde Malone has a face many would recognise; in fact, she can’t walk through the streets of Dublin without bumping into a hoard of fans, all of whom want their picture taken with the darling of broadcast journalism. She’s living a dream life and has never been happier. Until the night everything changes.

On Midsummer's Eve, three role-playing teens dressed in 18th-century garb are shot in a secluded Swedish meadow. When one of Inspector Kurt Wallander's most trusted colleagues, someone whose help he hoped to rely on to solve the crime, also turns up dead, Wallander knows the murders are related. But with his only clue a picture of a woman no one in Sweden seems to know, he can't begin to imagine how.

When the body of a man is found dead in his remote, isolated home, DI Tom Janssen and his team struggle to understand what motive there could be to murder such an inoffensive, seemingly placid local character. The man lived alone and was well known in the community, but kept his distance from others, leading a haphazard way of life almost entirely off the grid. What secrets did he hide in his private life that might be worth killing for? As the team are about to understand, even the most nondescript of people can exist in a world darker than most of us will ever see....

Verity and Linden Lockwood vowed to spend the rest of their lives together, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, till death do they part. Five years later they've kept their promise to never let their love die, to never slip into becoming one of those couples....But a year after Linden is brutally and inexplicably murdered in their picture-perfect home, Verity's world shatters again. They're not the golden couple she thought they were. Linden betrayed her: he had been having an affair.

Quirke finds himself at the center of a deadly intergenerational feud in the latest novel from Booker Prize-winning "literary polymath" (The New York Times) John Banville Two men go sailing off the coast of Ireland. Only one comes back, claiming the other shot himself. But Detective Inspector...

London, June 1965. Karl Braun arrives as a lodger in Pimlico: hatless, with a bow-tie, greying hair, slight in build. His new neighbours are intrigued by this cultured German gentleman who works as a piano tuner; many are fellow émigrés, who assume that he, like them, came to England to flee Hitler. That summer, Braun courts a woman, attends classical concerts, dances the twist. But as the newspapers fill with reports of the hunt for Nazi war criminals, his nightmares become increasingly worse.

Verheiratet mit einer Fremden. Ein Mann steht vor den Trümmern seiner Existenz. Hôtel Gardénia in der Nähe der Champs-Élyséess: In Zimmer 44 liegt eine Frau tot im Bett, sie trägt ein weißes Seidenkleid, in den Händen hält sie einen Strauß verwelkter Rosen, auf einem kleinen Tisch steht eine leere Champagnerflasche. Jeanne hat sich mit Schlaftabletten das Leben genommen. Und ihr Mann Bernard versteht die Welt nicht mehr. Was hat seine Frau in diesem Hotel gemacht, woher hatte sie das teuere Kleid?

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.

When a homeless man jumps to his death in Old Montreal, the police discover two wallets in his possession: one belonging to a retired psychiatrist who was murdered in a bizarre ritual, the other to a powerful corporate lawyer who has vanished. As Montreal police detective Victor Lessard and his partner, Jacinthe Taillon, work to solve the separate mysteries, a dark conspiracy begins to emerge.

Brought to you by Penguin. Nobody knows yet that she is a murderer... Abandoned at the gates of a London park one winter's night in 1850, baby Lily Mortimer is saved by a young police constable and taken to the London Foundling Hospital. Lily is fostered by an affectionate farming family in...

Nairobi Noir is an act of excavation, rediscovering the city's ossified past and infusing life to preserve it for future generations. It is also an act of celebration, reminding listeners of the brilliance of the best-known writers to emerge from this part of the world, and heralding the birth of new writers whose gifts, we can safely predict, will shine brightly in the years ahead.

In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her 60s, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people; she’s unconventional, believing in the stars; and she is fond of the poetry of William Blake, from whose work the title of the book is taken. When members of a local hunting club are found murdered, Duszejko becomes involved in the investigation.

A collection of chilling stories from the leading writers in horror and suspense, exploring elusive urban legends. Join Michael Monelo, one of the creators of the Blair Witch Project, and TV writer/director veteran, Nick Braccia, on a journey through urban horror and suspense. Explore the world...

“While a single sentence can turn a novel, a single word can turn a short story,” writes guest editor Don Winslow. The pieces featured in this collection hinge on those small, exacting moments that shock, spook, delight, and change a story entirely. A disgraced ex-cop approaches a crossroads...

The body of a homeless woman is found in the river, viciously beaten and with all her teeth removed. A young immigrant, the prime suspect in a recent spate of robberies in Umeå, was seen running in the vicinity around the time the body was dumped. Trouble is, he hasn’t been seen since. When he does appear, in the town square, he’s wearing an explosive vest and holding a detonator.

Set in the shadowy underbelly of 1950s Hollywood, Black Madonna follows Lana Vesper, an iconic horror hostess bound to an ancient and malevolent deity, and Evan Cross, a rebellious actor drawn into the occult secrets of Tinseltown. As their bond deepens, Lana's curse threatens to destroy them both, while Evan's search for answers leads him into forbidden rituals and dark conspiracies.

Brought to you by Penguin. When the body of an Australian backpacker is found in Spain, an online group of amateur true crime sleuths springs up around the world, attempting to solve the mystery of her death. Foremost on the message boards is Astria, a young Norwegian woman whose feverish...

Brought to you by Penguin. Daring, surprising and superbly plotted, this is a fresh, thrilling page-turner from a dynamic new duo in genre fiction Your happiest memory is their deadliest weapon. THIS IS PROPHET. It knows when you were happiest. It gives life to your fondest memories and uses...