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Brought to you by Penguin. * 2022's most original and darkly funny murder mystery from award-winning comedian Benjamin Stevenson * I was dreading the Cunningham family reunion even before the first murder. Before the storm stranded us at the mountain resort. The thing is, us Cunninghams don't...

In A Conspiracy of Paper, Weaver investigates a crime of the most personal sort: the mysterious death of his estranged father, a notorious stockjobber. To find the answers, Weaver must contend with a desperate prostitute who knows too much about his past, relatives who remind him of his alienation from the Jewish faith, and a cabal of powerful men in the world of British finance who have hidden their business dealings behind an intricate web of deception and violence. Relying on brains and brawn, Weaver uncovers the beginnings of a strange new economic order.

L’ancien journaliste d’investigation Jake Adelstein s’est reconverti en détective privé, traquant les yakuzas devenus hommes d’affaires. L’explosion de la centrale nucléaire de Fukushima rendra visible la corruption et la mainmise des yakuzas dans les affaires publiques du Japon. La violence et les menaces reviendront dans les enquêtes d’Adelstein, qui cherchera la vérité à tout prix.

In the quiet town of Maynard, North Carolina, Police Chief Clay Finley is used to handling small crimes and familiar faces. But when a local robbery turns personal, that order begins to collapse. One of the masked suspects is his estranged brother, Tyson. Before Clay can gather evidence, the case escalates. A wife disappears. A bank is robbed. What first looks like a string of unrelated crimes begins to feel deliberate—and deeply personal.

Das Sterben hat erst begonnen. Jakob Krogh und Mila Weiss stehen mit ihrer Sonderermittlungsgruppe 4 schon ein halbes Jahr nach ihrem traumatischen Fall der Krähenmorde wieder vor einem Rätsel: Sie erhalten eine kryptische Nachricht, versehen mit einer unheilvollen Botschaft: Das erste Sterben hat begonnen. Was Teile des Teams zunächst für einen schlechten Scherz halten, erweist sich als sehr ernstzunehmende Spur. In der brütenden Sommerhitze – die seit einiger Zeit über der Stadt liegt – stößt die Gruppe 4 auf einem verlassenen Bauernhof auf zwei Leichen.

Brought to you by Penguin. My name is Ernest Cunningham. I’m not a detective. I just happen to have a knack for what makes mysteries – and murderers – tick. I’d hoped, this Christmas, that any killers out there might be willing to take a break for the holidays. I was wrong. So here I am...

Brought to you by Penguin. THE DEVIOUS NEW MYSTERY FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ERNEST CUNNINGHAM SERIES TEN HEISTS. TEN SUSPECTS. A PUZZLE ONLY ERNEST CUNNINGHAM CAN SOLVE... My name is Ernest Cunningham. I’ve spent the last few years solving murders. But a bank heist is...

This lush and haunting novel tells of a city steeped in decadent pleasures and of a man, proud and defiant, caught in a web of murder and betrayal. It is 1833. In the midst of Mardi Gras, Benjamin January, a Creole physician and music teacher, is playing piano at the Salle d'Orleans when the evening's festivities are interrupted - by murder. The ravishing Angelique Crozat, a notorious octoroon who travels in the city's finest company, has been strangled to death. 

Dem jungen, aufstrebenden Personenschützer Nicolas Guerlain passiert ein unverzeihlicher Fehler. Versehentlich streckt er seinen Schützling, einen namhaften Minister, direkt auf dem roten Teppich bei den Filmfestspielen in Cannes nieder. Zur Strafe wird er in seinen Heimatort, den normannischen Badeort Deauville, versetzt, wo er die Polizei bei der Ausrichtung eines Politik-Gipfels beraten soll. Doch die neuen Kollegen lehnen Nicolas' Unterstützung ab.

Imitation is the most terrifying form of flattery... After six months away from The Met, Detective Inspector Benjamin Kidd is back. Haunted by the stress of the job and his turbulent personal life, he vanished without a word, leaving colleagues, friends and even family completely in the dark. But now, a chillingly familiar murder has occurred on his patch, dragging him back to the life he thought he'd left behind.

Raymond Chandler's incomparable private eye is back, pulled by a seductive young heiress into the most difficult and dangerous case of his career. "It was one of those summer Tuesday afternoons when you begin to wonder if the earth has stopped revolving. The telephone on my desk had the look of something that knows it's being watched. Traffic trickled by in the street below, and there were a few pedestrians, too, men in hats going nowhere."

With the same razor-sharp wit and self-aware charm that captivated readers in Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone and Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect, Ernest Cunningham returns as your delightfully unreliable narrator in Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief. Bringing this story to life...

My name's Ernest Cunningham. I used to be a fan of reading Golden Age murder mysteries, until I found myself with a haphazard career getting stuck in the middle of real-life ones. I'd hoped, this Christmas, that any self-respecting murderer would kick their feet up and take it easy over the holidays. I was wrong.

Ten suspects. Ten heists. A puzzle only Ernest Cunningham can solve. I've spent the last few years solving murders. But a bank heist is a new one, even for me. I've never been a hostage before. The doors are chained shut. No one in or out. Which means that when someone in the bank is murdered...

After a young woman and a bull are found dead in a dark pasture, Blanco County game warden John Marlin is asked to assist with the investigation. Was it a case of rustling gone wrong? Or maybe a prank turned deadly? Marlin hopes the woman's boyfriend can shed some light on the situation, but he's nowhere to be found. Is he on the run or did the woman's violent brother take matters into his own hands?

After a high-school football star dies in a late-night motorcycle collision with a wild pig, the boy's wealthy father comes up with a creative scheme to rid Blanco County of the feral pests: He tattoos the ear of one particular pig, then offers a $50,000 reward for anyone who shoots it. Game warden John Marlin is not pleased-chiefly because the bounty is likely to bring a wave of poachers and trespassers to the area. The tension rises even higher when the death of the local boy turns out to be more complicated than it originally appeared.

Masked balls, duels, and murder: musician, sleuth, and free man of color Benjamin January is caught up in a shocking crime in this gripping nineteenth-century mystery set in New Orleans. February, 1841. It's Carnival season in New Orleans. Free man of color Benjamin January—a surgeon turned...

No one can talk to the dead...can they? Free man of color Benjamin January gets caught up in a strange, spiritual world that might lead to his own demise, as he hunts for a missing teenager in this gripping, atmospheric historical mystery. New Orleans, 1840. Freshly home from a dangerous journey, the last thing Benjamin January wants to do is leave his wife and young sons again. But when old friends Henri and Chloë Viellard ask for his help tracking down a missing girl in distant New York, he can’t say no.

Mexico City in the autumn of 1835 is a lawless place, teeming with bandits and beggars. But an urgent letter from a desperate friend draws Benjamin January and his new bride, Rose, from New Orleans to this newly free province. Here they pray they’ll find Hannibal Sefton alive - and not hanging from the end of a rope. 

It is St. John’s Eve in the summer of 1834 when Benjamin January - Creole physician and music teacher - is shattered by the news that his sister has been arrested for murder. The Guards have only a shadow of a case against her. But Olympe - mystical and rebellious - is a woman of color, whose chance for justice is slim. As Benjamin probes the allegation, he is targeted by a new threat: graveyard dust sprinkled at his door, whispering of a voodoo death curse. Now, to save Olympe’s life - and his own - Benjamin knows he must glean information wherever he can find it.