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It begins with two deaths: a money-man and a grass. Deaths that offer a unique opportunity to a man like Calum MacLean. A man who has finally had enough of killing. Meanwhile two of Glasgow's biggest criminal organizations are at quiet, deadly war with one another. And as Detective Michael...

Oslo, 2018. Former long-distance runner Sonja Nordstrøm never shows at the launch of her controversial autobiography, Always Number One. When celebrity blogger Emma Ramm visits Nordstrøm’s home later that day, she finds the door unlocked and signs of a struggle inside. A bib with the number one has been pinned to the TV. Police officer Alexander Blix is appointed to head up the missing-persons investigation, but he still bears the emotional scars of a hostage situation 19 years earlier, when he killed the father of a five-year-old girl.

A Purple Place for Dying finds Travis McGee witness to a murder he can't prove and a kidnapping nobody wants to believe. McGee becomes a pawn between a wealthy Southwestern patriarch, the law, and a mysterious gang bent on insurance fraud. Just the kind of thing McGee revels in!

Karen Daily, recently divorced, lives with her two kids in a quaint suburb of New York City. She's teaching at a nearby elementary school, starting to date again, and for the first time in years has found joy in her life. Mark Berman, Karen's friend and neighbor, wants out of his unhappy marriage, and so does his wife, Deb, but they have been staying together for their kids. Unbeknownst to Karen, Mark has a rich fantasy life about her, which has grown into a full-blown obsession.

Brought to you by Penguin. A private eye is catapulted on to a continent-hopping journey that proves difficult to escape – from the bestselling, award-winning author of Gravity’s Rainbow. Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al...

Faccio un respiro profondo mentre mi avvicino al lodge con le pareti di vetro che la mia ex suocera, Angela, ha prenotato per il suo compleanno. Non avevo alcuna voglia di andare in vacanza con il mio ex marito e la sua nuova moglie, ma lei ha insistito perché io e i miei figli facessimo finta di essere una famiglia felice. Poi arriva una telefonata dalla polizia. Qualcuno è stato ucciso. E pensano che noi sappiamo qualcosa. Il cuore mi batte all'impazzata mentre osservo la neve alta accumulata alla finestra. Siamo intrappolati in questa casa. C'è un assassino tra noi.

Winner of six Lambda Literary awards, the Henry Rios mystery series is iconic and Michael Nava has been hailed by the New York Times as "one of our best" crime writers. Upon its original publication, the Los Angeles Times said of Howtown and its author: "Nava's mysteries are faithful to the conventions of the genre, but they are set apart by their insight, compassion, and sense of social justice.... Howtown is Nava's bravest and most ambitious novel to date."

Winner of six Lambda Literary awards, the Henry Rios mystery series is iconic and Michael Nava has been hailed by The New York Times as “one of our best” writers. Here, Rios delves deeply into his Latino identity as he defends a young man charged with assassinating a prominent Los Angeles Latino politician. The San Francisco Chronicle hailed the novel and its author: “A beautifully conceived but gritty novel.... Nava writes the kind of small, clean, powerful novels that build in emotional power almost invisibly, leaving us breathless at the end.”

Gay Mexican American lawyer Henry Rios has fought bigotry and prejudice, battled alcoholism, and watched his lover die from AIDS. In The Burning Plain, he's wrongly accused of murder after a male prostitute he spent an evening with is savagely murdered. Rios proves his innocence, but when two more gay men are brutally murdered, he is drawn unwillingly into the hunt for a serial killer and soon finds himself up against an unsympathetic DA, a gay-bashing cop, reluctant witnesses, and a conspiracy among Hollywood's power elite.

Duncan Stone is one of the country's most eligible bachelors, and he wants to take me, Callie Parker, on a date. At first I am surprised and flattered, the envy of my friends. Then when our whirlwind romance escalates and he asks me to move in with him, it's like a dream come true. But as I get to really know my new boyfriend, my fairytale turns into a nightmare. Duncan is no Prince Charming. He is the Devil.

Un suspense noir intense, parfait pour les fans de B.A. Paris ("Derrière les portes") et de Clare Mckintosh ("Te laisser partir"), sur l'angoisse d'une femme abandonnée, sans explication. Personne ne disparaît jamais complètement. Un jour, vous partez travailler. Un jour comme les autres, jusqu'à ce que vous rentriez.

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.

'This book is so spectacularly good' Goodreads review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Mexico in the 1970s is a dangerous country, even for Maite, a secretary who spends her life seeking the romance found in cheap comic books and ignoring the activists protesting around the city. When her next-door neighbor, the...

«¿De quién te escondes?» Al final Simon tiene que hacer esa pregunta a Nathalie. Dos días atrás se tropezó con esta joven en la playa. Estaba demacrada y asustada, y él se ofreció a ayudarla. Una decisión impulsiva que se ha vuelto en su contra, pues desde entonces se han visto envueltos en una espiral creciente de violencia y muerte, que les ha convertido en blancos..., ¿de quién?

"Tutti fingono, la menzogna è l'unica moneta di scambio che abbia valore. Solo che noi dobbiamo essere più bravi." Il Turista è un serial killer perfetto, diverso da ogni altro. Tanto per cominciare, non "firma" i suoi omicidi e non lancia sfide ai detective, perché farsi catturare è l'ultimo dei suoi desideri. È un mago del camuffamento, non uccide secondo uno schema fisso e mai due volte nella stessa città o nello stesso Paese: per questo lo chiamano "il Turista".

Spenser has gone to London -- and not to see the Queen. He's gone to track down a bunch of bombers who've blown away his client's wife and kids. His job is to catch them. Or kill them. His client isn't choosy. But there are nine killers to one Spenser -- long odds. Hawk helps balance the...

La sucesiva aparición de los cadáveres brutalmente apaleados de una joven estudiante y una anciana en la costa inglesa de Scarborough constituyen un auténtico quebradero de cabeza para la inspectora Valerie Almond. El misterio al que se enfrenta la obligará a adentrarse en los recovecos de lo que ella considera una turbia trama familiar de amores y rencillas.

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.

Un nuovo caso per Marco Pisani, con l'aiuto straordinario di Giacomo Casanova. Sono bionde, sono giovani, sono belle. E sono scomparse senza lasciare traccia. A richiamare l'attenzione di Marco Pisani, affiancato dall'amico Daniele Zen e dal dottor Valentini, è il cadavere della prima ragazza scaraventato da una violenta mareggiata su un terreno emerso della laguna; quello della seconda viene invece rinvenuto in fondo a un pozzo alle Zattere.

On a snowy winter morning, an abandoned shipping container is discovered near Reykjavík. Inside are the bodies of five young women - one of them barely alive. As Icelandic Police detective Daníel struggles to investigate the most brutal crime of his career, Áróra looks into the background of a suspicious man, who turns out to be engaged to Daníel's former wife, and the connections don't stop there.