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When Miami homicide detective Hoke Moseley receives an unexplained order to let his beard grow, he doesn't think much about it. He hastoo much going on at home, especially with a man he helped convict ten years before moving in across the street. Hoke immediately assumes the worst, andc onsidering he has his former partner, her newborn, and his two teenage daughters living with him, he doesn't like the situation one bit.

In A Suspension of Mercy, a masterpiece of noir fantasy, Highsmith revels in eliciting the unsettling psychological forces that lurk beneath the surface of everyday contemporary life.

Warszawski licealista Maks Hajder w trakcie rodzinnej kłótni wpada w szał i atakuje nożem domowników. Jego rodzice giną na miejscu, a młodszy brat w stanie krytycznym trafia do szpitala. Przybyłe na miejsce służby zastają Maksa siedzącego spokojnie na podłodze i otoczonego zakrwawionymi ciałami. Sprawia on wrażenie, jakby nie zdawał sobie sprawy z tego, co zrobił. Tydzień po zatrzymaniu Maks targa się na własne życie i zapada w śpiączkę. Gdy odzyskuje przytomność, początkowo nie potrafi przypomnieć sobie szczegółów tamtego tragicznego dnia.

Eine kostbare Erinnerung in eine chemische Formel umzusetzen? Der 24-jährige Aromaspezialist Hélias ist fasziniert von dieser Idee und bewirbt sich bei der geheimnisumwobenen Firma Fragrancia, die wegen umstrittener Ingredienzen ihres begehrten Duftkonzepts im Verborgenen agiert. Dank seines außergewöhnlichen Geruchssinns steigt Hélias dort zur "Nase" auf und wird unentbehrlich. Doch schon bald hat er das Gefühl, dass die Firma dunkle Geheimnisse hütet. Als ein skandalumwittertes Ereignis die Polizei auf den Plan ruft, erkennt Hélias, dass auch das Verbrechen einen Geruch hat.

When a farmer and his son go missing whilst chasing rustlers, DCI Evan Warlow and his team are called in to investigate. Everything points to a botched raid by heartless thieves, but with no bodies, and little or no clues, the team quickly start chasing their tails. The close-knit community reels from the shock, but not everyone the team comes across is being entirely honest, and it quickly transpires that, under their prim and proper facades, some have secrets they are desperate to keep.

In 1938, English spy Harry Taverner and Jewish photographer Anna Cantrell spend the night dancing at Berlin's most elegant hotel. Anna is married to another man, the Nazi shadow is rising over Europe and neither expects to ever meet again. But once peace is declared, they reunite in the ruins of Berlin, where Anna is searching for her missing children. With the blockade tightening and the Soviets set on conquest, Harry and Anna walk a treacherous line between love and duty, integrity and survival, loyalty and betrayal.

Le mystère entoure un attentat, des meurtres sanglants et un personnage surnommé Le Vénitien. Un attentat sans commanditaire, des meurtres sans mobile apparent, l'auteur est à son affaire, il est procureur du Canton de Neuchâtel. Dans ce polar essouflant, il fait endosser à son personnage principal la robe d'un magistrat.

She thought they had a perfect marriage.... When a plane crashes, Iris Griffiths watches the news unfold with horror...and then relief. Her beloved husband, Will, had just flown out from the same airport, but he was on a different flight. So why is his name on the list of victims? Surely there's some mistake - her husband would never lie to her. Would he? But wading deeper into the truth of her husband's deception, Iris begins to think the unthinkable. Maybe she's glad that he's dead....

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!

Brought to you by Penguin. Melanie Lange has disappeared. Her father, Sir Peter Lange, says she is a danger to herself and has been admitted to a private mental health clinic. Her ex-husband, Finn, and best friend, Nell, say she has been kidnapped. The media will say whichever gets them the most...

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...

“The greatest writer to have appeared in Latin America since the so-called ‘boom’ . . . I’m tempted to call Bolaño the love child of David Lynch and Jorge Luis Borges—he’s that visceral and erudite—but this wouldn’t do justice to his ambition.” —John Powers, NPR’s Fresh...

Als die zwei verirrten Wandersleute Hermine und Wilhelm endlich in einer Sturmnacht ein Obdach in einer abgelegenen Hütte im Hexenmoos finden, bekommen sie dort vom alten Wolfs-Martin einen unglaublichen Bericht über längst vergangene Geschehnisse zu hören, die ihre Schatten bis in die Gegenwart zu werfen scheinen... Welche Bewandtnis hat es mit dem Auftauchen des tiefschwarzen Hirschs im Moos? Und was geschah tatsächlich bei dem verfallenen Gedenkkreuz am Wegesrand, an dem die Wanderer noch kurz zuvor vorübergekommen waren?

**National Bestseller **New York Times Notable Book “Nobody tells you that reading Hunter S. Thompson novels as a young adult male while serving in the military is a potentially very bad idea. Some things you simply must absorb and learn on your own.” —Sturgill Simpson Made into a major...

Cuando recién llegado de sus vacaciones recibe la noticia de la muerte de su amigo Estanis, Daniel no se lo puede creer. Pero mucho menos se cree las circunstancias de esa muerte. Enviado a Cuba por el periódico para el que ambos trabajan para escribir un reportaje sobre las jineteras y los españoles que viajan por el sexo, poco antes de morir Estanis le contó a su mujer que había descubierto algo que podía convertirse en el reportaje de la década.

There is not much left of the irascible Albert Evan Jasper, "dean of American forensic anthropologists," after his demise in a fiery car crash. But in accord with his wishes, his remains are installed in an Oregon museum to create a fascinating if macabre exhibit. All agree that it is a fitting end for a great forensic scientist - until what is left of him disappears in the midst of the biannual meeting of the august WAFA - the Western Association of Forensic Anthropologists - in nearby Bend, Oregon. Like his fellow attendees, Gideon Oliver - the Skeleton Detective - is baffled. 

The Sternwood family, immortalized in Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, is in trouble again. Lovely Vivian's psychotic sister, Carmen, has disappeared from the sanitarium, and Vivian herself has once again fallen into the clutches of the shady underworld character Eddie Mars. Enter Philip Marlowe, the original tough-but-tender private eye. He saved the Sternwoods once before. The question is: Can he do it again?

Plouguerneau, Finistère Nord, 17 avril 2010. Malgré leurs conflits larvés, les Delaroche et les Chavez tentent de faire bonne figure autour du cercueil d'Alessandro Chavez, le fils unique d'Albertina, mort des suites d'une chute lors d'un footing matinal. Albertina est dévastée, d'autant qu'elle ne croit pas à la thèse de l'accident. De là à nourrir des soupçons à l'égard de sa belle-fille, Cloé Delaroche, égérie du cinéma français dont Alessandro était en train de divorcer, il n'y a qu'un pas...

In this dark, southern noir, a writer drifting through life escapes his failed marriage and back to his family home in the Ozarks where he finds himself in the middle of a blood feud between his own family and the brutal Dolly clan. “My imagination is always skulking about in a wrong place.”...

Five valuable lessons you can learn by listening to Bust: When you hire someone to kill your wife, don't hire a psychopath. Don't use Drano to get rid of a dead body. Those locks on hotel room doors? They're not very secure. A curly blond wig isn't much of a disguise. Secrets can kill.