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James Brickman is a detective in the Pacific Northwest. Kidnapped girls, a vengeful serial killer, and a brother-in-law who may go to prison for murder keep him on the job, but his new romance keeps him on his toes.

Most nights PI Jack Coffey can be found hanging out in smoky Greenwich Village jazz clubs with well-known mobsters, jazzmen, and hoods. So, when an uptown financier calls him in for a job, it seems like he’s headed for tonier climes. But it turns out the view from Louis Garrett’s lavish penthouse overlooks the same vice-ridden Manhattan streets, which explains why he’s so desperate to find his missing teenage daughter, Lucy.

Die unnahbare Livia Lone ist Detective bei der Polizei von Seattle. Und sie ist gut. Richtig gut. Spezialisiert auf Sexualdelikte, mit einem unbestechlichen Blick für die schrecklichen Begierden der Täter. Was niemand von ihren Kollegen weiß: Als Kind wurde sie mit ihrer kleinen Schwester Nason von den Eltern verkauft und strandete in Amerika, missbraucht von den Menschenhändlern, die sie ins Land schmuggelten. Seit die Schwestern getrennt wurden, ist es Livias Mission, Nason zu finden. Nie, nie, nie vergisst sie dieses eine höchste Ziel, während sie als Polizistin Täter hinter Gitter bringt. Oder direkt unter die Erde.

Twenty-nine-year-old Cynthia Galbraith is serving a life sentence for murder, and struggling with the traumatic past that put her behind bars. When the prison counsellor suggests Cynthia write a personal journal exploring the events that drove her to murder, she figures she has all the time in the world and very little, if anything, to lose. So she begins to write, revealing the secrets that haunt her and the truths she’s never dared tell.

In una Genova definita da uno dei protagonisti impalpabile e perennemente distratta, la famiglia Sperlinghi viene sconvolta dallo stupro della figlia minore Michelle. Il padre, l'ingegner Giorgio, erede di una delle dinastie più influenti e facoltose della città, aiutato dal suo uomo di fiducia Gualtiero, scatena la caccia ai colpevoli. Sospetta che i mandanti siano da ricercare tra gli imprenditori rivali nei traffici internazionali, interessati a sottrargli il lucroso commercio delle Terre Rare.

Lavagna, estate 1998. Pietro Farné è un giovane maresciallo dei carabinieri, fresco di nomina, incaricato di una strana missione: sorvegliare un'anziana turista di origine tedesca, Frau Gertrud Stingel, e la sua accompagnatrice, Viviana Prestigiacomo. Un compito apparentemente noioso, ma al quale si interessano addirittura i servizi segreti. Mistral Garlet, invece, è una studentessa universitaria, che si è concessa qualche giorno di vacanza perché sente l'esigenza di riflettere sul proprio futuro.

One frightened blonde, eight chorus girls, a singer and three strippers... Hundreds of rancorous Reenactors itching to fight the Civil War all over again... Harry Horne hot on the trail of a stolen million somewhere on the battlefield.... A dozen big-city mobsters with .45s in Civil War regalia hot on Harry’s trail... It’s a recipe for excitement, sex, and lots of action.

Ten years ago, Seven House was found guilty of a heinous crime, the murder of a fellow police officer. After his surprising release, House attempts to track down who framed him, uncovering a shocking revelation about his old police department.

A friendly poker game leads Henry Swann out to Hollywood where he tries to find the man, Rusty Jacobs, responsible for embezzling $1,000,000 from his client, and then bring back the dough. Swann finds Jacobs, but the mercurial wannabe film producer is involved in a "surefire" movie project aimed at the growing Christian market. And the money? Well, it seems to have vanished into thin air.

Lars Harding travels to Boston to help a man. However, he learns right away that this man is missing, and no one, including the police, want him found.

When a young woman who calls herself Suzie Q. approaches Luke to find her missing cat, Luke takes the job and winds up getting hold of a Magic 8 Ball that correctly predicts the future and answers any question, so long as it has nothing to do with lotto picks or love.

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After three months off, a gruesome murder throws Detective Rachel King back into the thick of it. But can she cope? The body of an elderly woman is carefully posed on the altar. The victim is identified as Mary Dunn, whose turn it was to arrange the church flowers. Everyone loved Mary. Who would want to kill her? Then forensic evidence produces a shocking result: a link to the Slasher, a serial killer who stalked the streets of Manchester fifteen years before. But the Slasher was murdered in prison. Does Detective Rachel King have a serial killer on her patch? One who’s back from the dead.

Faithless Street is a collection of four short stories that set the scene for the novel Old Gold, the first book in the Eoin Miller Trilogy. Each story is set in the Black Country, in the English Midlands, and shows glimpses of people's lives as they try to make ends meet amidst gang life, drugs deals, and Roma camp evictions.

Mød kriminalassistent George Cross, opdageren fra Bristol, outsidernes, de hjemløses, de stemmeløses forsvarer. Endnu en britisk krimi du ikke må gå glip af. Kriminalassistent George Cross kan være uhøflig, vanskelig og akavet over for folk. Men hans aldrig svigtende logik og hans stædige jagt på sandheden gør at han er den i politistyrken der har flest domfældelser bag sig. Så da hans kolleger affejer en mands død som resultatet af et skænderi blandt Bristols hjemløse, er Cross ikke overbevist.

Når man er Jack Reacher, er sandheden altid værd at rejse langt for. Gerrardsville, Colorado. Én tragisk hændelse. To øjenvidner. To modstridende beskrivelser. Det ene vidne ser en kvinde kaste sig ud foran en bus – det er tydeligvis selvmord. Det andet vidne er Jack Reacher. Og han ser, hvad der i virkeligheden sker – en mand i grå hættetrøje og jeans, hurtig og tyst som en skygge, skubber offeret i døden for derefter at tage hendes taske og komme væk.

Der erste Tote wird mit einem brennenden Reifen um den Hals gefunden, es gibt außerdem Anzeichen einer Strangulierung sowie diverse Stichwunden. Zur gleichen Zeit hinterlässt jemand kleine Knochenbündel vor Detective Inspector Logan McRaes Tür, die dieser jedoch ignoriert. Als eine weitere Leiche gefunden wird, zeigt sich eine Verbindung zwischen den Morden und der Handlung eines Bestsellers um Hexen und Hexenjäger, der gerade in Aberdeen verfilmt wird. Und plötzlich erweisen sich auch die Knochenbündel als weit weniger harmlos, als McRae dachte.

Raymond Mackey is a struggling crime writer. His friends call him Mack. But friends are in short supply these days. Mack’s 30 years as a homicide detective came to the kind of abrupt, ignominious end that tends to make friends dry up and blow away. It matters little that Mack was never actually a mole working for a shadowy, seemingly omnipresent mob boss. Somehow, the evidence was there anyway, and the scandal ended everything for him overnight.

If you've ever heard “A Scandal in Bohemia” and wondered what Watson's allusion to “Mr. John Hare” means, aren't sure who was in charge in southeast Asia when Mycroft Holmes mentions “the present state of Siam", or you’re wondering about Watson’s portrait of General Gordon, Holmes’s Vernet relatives, or what Scottish expert on poisons Scotland Yard consulted when the Baker Street duo weren’t available–this is your book.

Mariangelo mastica amaro. Il cadavere di padre Giovanni Rossi, noto alle cronache per i suoi affari con la malavita locale e l'accoglienza dei migranti, viene trovato nella piscina della sua lussuosa villa. Mentre le alte sfere ecclesiastiche chiedono una rapida risoluzione del caso, il maresciallo Mariangelo e il brigadiere Fascia si fanno largo tra prostituzione, mafia, traffico di migranti e un progetto di accoglienza per orfani. Finiranno in una fiaba nera come la notte più buia, un inferno dal quale non vi è uscita e le nefandezze umane sono lame nel costato dei giusti.