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Il vicequestore Giulia Ferro torna a Milano, attratta dalla città che sa di odiare, ma che al contempo non può fare a meno di amare. Dovrà indagare sull’enigmatico omicidio di un’anziana vedova, suocera di un assessore regionale celebre per il suo cinico trasformismo politico. In occasione di questo suo ritorno nel capoluogo lombardo, Giulia farà i conti col passato: in particolare, col ricordo di una vecchia amica e compagna di università, uccisa in modo altrettanto misterioso...

Estamos en Santa Rita, un antiguo balneario, que luego fue sanatorio y ahora es la casa de una escritora anciana, Sofía, (que escribe novelas de misterio con un pseudónimo y novela rosa con otro), donde viven unas cuarenta personas de todas las edades apoyándose unos a otros y trabajando juntos, en un concepto de "comunidad cordial" transgeneracional. La protagonista, Greta, sobrina y traductora de Sofía, llega para quedarse una temporada y, a través de ella, vamos conociendo a los personajes de la historia.

Ist der Ort verflucht? Oder sind es die, die hier leben? Ein schweres Unwetter legt die Überreste eines Toten frei. Handelt es sich bei der Leiche um die Knochen des Hirscher-Buben, der vor fast hundert Jahren spurlos aus dem Ort verschwand? Oder handelt es sich um das Opfer eines Mörders, der heute noch in Talberg lebt? Die Ermittlungen führen den ausgebrannten Dorfpolizisten Josef Wegbauer tief in die eigene Familiengeschichte.

Una familia ha sido brutalmente asesinada en el gélido Estocolmo. No hay rastro del culpable. Solamente un niño, el hijo, único superviviente de la masacre, puede dar testimonio de quién ha cometido tal atrocidad. Pero el sufrimiento que lleva consigo el chico es como el de cien puñales clavados en el pecho, y el detective Joona Linna no logra liberarlo del estado de shock en el que está sumido.

Dopo aver abbandonato il liceo, Giorgio, un giovane triestino indolente e scapestrato, lavora come facchino e divide una piccola camera con un suo coetaneo. I soldi scarseggiano e così, in un momento di follia, il giovane deruba e uccide un uomo. Cominciano i rocamboleschi tentativi di sfuggire alla polizia. Più che dalle autorità però, ciò da cui Giorgio vorrebbe fuggire è sé stesso e l'orrore che ha commesso.

Teresa Maritano si è finalmente decisa a lasciare la polizia. Abbandonato il suo ruolo di ispettrice, ha aperto un bar e trovato la tranquillità che tanto desiderava. Tutto però cambia quando riappare il commissario Marco Ardini, suo ex capo. Una bambina di nome Carlotta è scomparsa da giorni, una bambina che Teresa conosceva abbastanza bene. Deciderà quindi di aiutare Ardini nelle indagini. Queste porteranno i due a scavare in un caso torbido, che li condurrà dapprima a cercare informazioni su un'altra bambina amica di Carlotta, Paola, e in seguito sulla strana madre di quest'ultima.

Milano, 1958. Leonardo Bruni dirige l'omonima e fortunata casa editrice con sede in Porta Venezia. Tra i suoi collaboratori spicca Alberto Masserini, correttore di bozze poi promosso a redattore capo dopo aver scovato e fatto pubblicare un romanzo di successo. La sua fortuna però si esaurisce presto, perché viene trovato con la gola squarciata nel suo appartamento in via Settala. L'assassinio del giovane e brillante redattore capo porta Arrigoni a indagare in un ambiente per lui del tutto nuovo, quello dell'editoria.

Mathilde Perrin ha sessantatré anni, è vedova e abita con il suo dalmata in una villetta a Melun, non lontano da Parigi. Nessuno mai sospetterebbe che dietro quella donna elegante, curata e un po' sovrappeso si nasconda un sicario. Implacabile, precisa, addestrata fin dalla prima giovinezza, Mathilde non sbaglia un colpo e porta a termine a sangue freddo tutti i compiti che il comandante – suo superiore ai tempi della Resistenza - le affida. "Mathilde non ha mai sprecato una pallottola, solo lavori puliti e senza sbavature. Stasera è stata un'eccezione. Un capriccio.

The Goldenacre—a masterpiece by the painter and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh—has been given to the people of Scotland. The beautiful canvas, the last work by the artistic genius, enthrals the art world, but behind it lies a dark and violent mystery. Thomas Tallis, an art expert with a trouble past, is trying to uncover the truth about the painting's complex history, while dogged newspaper reporter Shona Sandison is investigating a series of shocking murders in Edinburgh.

The name's John Taylor. I'm a PI, though what I really do is find things that are lost. I work the Nightside, the city within the city of London, where the sun never rises and where the human and inhuman go to get their kicks, provided they're willing to pay the price in whatever currency the seller demands. In the wake of the war that almost brought the Nightside to total ruin, there's a power vacuum—and some think I should take charge. I don't agree. Neither does the immortal known as the Griffin. Still, when his granddaughter is kidnapped, he calls on me to find her.

Frank again is fired as a Charleston Detective and returns to Sullivan’s Island. There he becomes a Private Investigator and studies law. He becomes an attorney. Yet to local politics, Frank’s chance to shine as an attorney is delayed. So he turns to what he knows best, Private Investigating. He is hired by the famous bisexual author Elizabeth Frazier.

DCP Rita Ferreira is called into the investigation after a third corpse is discovered in Mumbai, which confirms it is the work of the same killer who paints his victims’s lips with dark red lipstick. The Lipstick Killer, like all serial killers, is fast decompensating—the time interval between the murders shortening, the victims shifting from street-side hookers to high-heeled wives … and he watches everything and everyone—the news of his exploits, Rita, the investigation—and talks.

Handsome teacher Ashley Dean is brutally murdered at Hope Academy. It’s known as a rough place, but gossip blames the violence on a deranged intruder. DI Markham’s instincts say otherwise. Could this brutality have been the work of a student? Could there even be a connection with the staff? It seems unthinkable. After all, DI Gilbert Markham’s girlfriend Olivia teaches English at the school. Markham’s team probes deeper, and the local community begins to turn against Markham. Somebody in a position of power is hiding appalling information.

In case his blue eyes aren't enough, Lucius Anoraq carries a gun. He wouldn't be caught dead in a pure breed show, but one wrong move and he'll be a blue ribbon corpse. Follow Lucius as he sniffs around Hollywood in the last three volumes of the series: The Wee Sibling, The Lengthy Farewell, and Recap.

Lucius Anoraq is getting paid to follow the mysterious and lovely canary, Sheila De Havilland. And wherever the canary goes, trouble seems to follow. Anoraq’s happy to do as he’s told, all in the name of chivalry. But one dead body later, and what started out as a lazy afternoon’s snooping soon becomes a deadly cocktail of blackmail, lies, mistaken identity, and murder.

Ex-police officer Sebastian Clifford is quickly finding that life as a private investigator is never quiet. His doors have only been open a few weeks when DCI Whitney Walker approaches him to investigate the brutal attack that left her older brother, Rob, with irreversible brain damage. For nearly twenty-five years, Rob had no memory of that night, but lately things are coming back to him. Whitney's worried that her brother might–once again–be in danger.

Six months ago, Kate’s twelve-year-old daughter Melanie disappeared. It’s been six long months since Kate identified her battered, lifeless body. Kate is only just beginning to come to terms with her daughter's murder when a sinister message appears on her computer screen: WHY DID YOU LET HIM HURT ME, MUMMY? More horrifying messages follow. Only one person could be doing this to Kate—Melanie’s murderer.

A new entry in the Deception series, Defection, details the kidnapping of Rita Daveed, a.k.a. Harriet. The MSS needs to retrieve an audio SD card that will reveal the identity of Dragonfly, a Chinese sleeper agent embedded high up in Vauxhall Cross. Before Rita is taken on orders from Yang Bo, the director of the UFWD, she manages to leave behind a clue, a postcard from the Bowley Gallery in London, with a cryptic message scrawled on the back, “Find Harry!"

A man wakes to find himself below ground in the abandoned subway stations of New York City. He has no idea how he got there, no idea who he is. In his pocket he finds only a wad of blood-stained cash and a deck of playing cards. Once above ground, he rents out a cheap apartment, previously occupied by an enigmatic artist named Max Leider who’d left most everything behind—books, clothes, personal letters. But most peculiar are a series of paintings, each one of a mysterious woman hidden behind a curtain.

Lucius Anoraq befriends a Labrador who is a down-on-his-luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Robert Herriot has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife whom he divorced and remarried and who ends up dead. Now Herriot is on the lam, and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Anoraq.