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The definitive masterpiece of the hard-boiled detective genre, The Maltese Falcon first appeared in the pages of Black Mask magazine in 1929 and was almost immediately acknowledged as not only a great crime novel but an enduring masterpiece of American fiction. Tough, cynical PI Sam Spade—a...

Kriminalassistent George Cross bliver tilkaldt, da liget af en munk bliver fundet brutalt myrdet i et skovområde nær Bristol. Man ved intet om broder Dominics fortid. Hvordan kan Cross opklare forbrydelsen, når han ikke ved noget om offeret? De finder ud af, at broder Dominic ikke havde nogen fjender – eller i hvert fald ikke nogen, der er åbenlyse. Men hans fortid afslører, at han engang var en velhavende mand, og at han ofrede det hele for sin tro.

From bestselling and Emmy-nominated writer George Pelecanos comes the tale of an ex-offender who must choose between helping the man who got him out of prison and embracing a life with the woman who showed him another path. Michael Hudson spends the long days in prison devouring books given to...

Mark Franklin came from the American West to Edwardian England with two long-barrelled .44s in his baggage and a fortune in silver in the bank. Where he had got it and what he was looking for no one could guess, although they wondered - at Scotland Yard, in city offices, in the glittering theatreland of the West End, in the highest circles of society (even King Edward was puzzled), and in the humble pub at Castle Lancing.

Hvordan kan han bevise at det var mord? Ingen fingeraftryk. Intet våben. Ingen vidner. Kan kriminalassistent Cross bevise at det var mord? Kriminalassistent George Cross stoler ikke på gætterier, og han har ikke tid til falske formodninger. Han er en betjent som arbejder ud fra de beviser der er for næsen af ham, ikke 'intuitioner' eller 'mavefornemmelser'. Han ved ikke hvad de er. Da en ung kvinde bliver fundet død, er Bristols Efterforskningsenhed hurtig til at erklære at der er tale om et selvmord da kvinden havde en fortid med stofmisbrug.

An undercover FBI agent has been exposedwhile a traitor hides within the Bureau in this heart-pounding crime thriller by a knock-em-dead writer (Anthony Neil Smith, author of Slow Bear). Tony Wolf, a troubled man and the FBIs most esteemed undercover agent, is back after mysteriously vanishing...

Der kleinkriminelle Fahrradkurier Nico hat nur ein Ziel: Endlich sein eigener Chef sein. Doch als er seinen besten Freund Dave tot auffindet, gerät sein Leben außer Kontrolle. Nico hat nur 48 Stunden, um herauszufinden, wer Dave getötet hat, bevor er selbst untergehen wird.

In a hardboiled noir mystery by the creator of The Wire, a Washington, D.C. liquor store heist shows a drifter named Constantine what it means to be a shoedog—a tale that throbs with soul and pulsates with menace. "Haunting, gritty ... an exceptional, memorable book." —Booklist Constantine...

Crime fiction writer George Pelecanos introduces Spero Lucas, an anti-hero making his place in the world one battle at a time. Includes a bonus work of short fiction focusing on Spero's early life. Spero Lucas has a new line of work. Since he returned home to Washington, D.C. after serving in...

In this epic showdown from the writer of the award-winning US crime series, The Wire, police officer Derek Strange hunts his brother's killer through a city erupting with rage. Derek Strange is a rookie cop, the job he's dreamed of since he was a boy. His brother, Dennis, has not been as...

Who killed local debutante Delores Fogel in the sleepy central Texas town of Elysium? Benjamin LeFren was exonerated for the crime and released from jail 30 years after the fact, thanks in part to Shane Robeling, former FBI agent and now Elysium's Chief of Police. But now Shane is not so sure of LeFren's innocence. When LeFren shows up in Elysium, Shane must guard LeFren from the townspeople he has sworn to protect.

When an old man covered in dirt walks into the country honky-tonk and says "the falling," right before dropping dead, Bill Travis has to penetrate the gathering dark cloak of secrecy surrounding his death. He has to get the truth before a team of nuclear regulators can rake the entire incident under the carpet.

Who killed Edgar Bristow, millionaire philanthropist and war hero? In a small Texas town where everyone knows everyone else, the list of suspects can be every person you've met. What dark secrets wait for the man who is unafraid to turn over any stone? And will the killer strike again before Bill can get to the truth?

Bill Travis, an unmarried, unattached investment counselor rapidly approaching his fortieth birthday, conceives that he may not live the most exciting of lives, yet Julie Simmons, his first appointment that Monday, is deeply in trouble. She has taken a North Texas quarter horse racer and liquor baron named Archie Carpin - the last of a dynasty of criminals from the 1920's - for a ride and cleaned him out of a neat two million bucks. And thus begins the adventure of Bill's life.

In this thrilling crime novel, homicide detective Gus Ramone is on the case for the potential murder of a local teen in a community garden—but the investigation slowly unearths dark memories of similar decades old cold cases. Gus Ramone is "good police," a former Internal Affairs investigator...

In this hard-boiled noir, former police officer turned private investigator Derek Strange's search for a lost ring leads him down a twisted path of crime and corruption—and on the chase for a dangerous killer. Washington, DC, 1972. Derek Strange has left the police department and set up shop...

Why would someone want to kill the curator of the Texas Rangers Museum? And why is Walt Cannon, a 30-year veteran Ranger, the chief suspect? And what could the murder possibly have to do with a very old arson case and satanic worship both north and south of the Texas-Mexico border? To answer these questions, Bill Travis needs the help of the unlikeliest of all sidekicks, including womanizing insurance agent Perry Reilly and Bill's own adopted daughter, Jessica.

Bloomsbury presents The Lost Boys by Tim Sullivan, read by Finlay Robertson. Don't miss THE BOOKSELLER, the latest George Cross Mystery - available now. A short story from the George Cross Mystery series. DS George Cross's father, Raymond, always takes an annual holiday in a local care home. He...

IRS agent turned PI Mortimer Angel is relaxing in a hole-in-the-wall bar in a Reno casino when an attractive young girl hires him to find out who left her a cryptic message demanding a million dollars. At the girl’s house, Mort finds the body of missing rapper Jonnie Xenon - Jo-X to his legions of fans - hanging from the rafters with two bullet holes in him. Mort is shocked when he learns the identity of the girl’s father - and even more shocked when the father hires him to investigate the murder.

Over dinner in a Brooklyn restaurant, Marshall learns that his former NYPD colleague owes money - a lot of money - to the wrong people. But the conversation is cut short by gunfire, and, suddenly, Ray is lying dead on the restaurant floor. As Marshall investigates the murder, tracking down the drug dealers, bag men, bent cops and mob players within Ray’s orbit, it becomes clear there’s far more to the killing than just a debt. But who is responsible for Vialoux’s death…and why?