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In un piccolo paese dell'isola la gente comincia a morire, lanciandosi da balconi e scarpate: nessuno ha un motivo apparente, ma tutti un vago sorriso. I casi ormai non si contano più e la stampa internazionale si riversa nella cittadina per documentare gli eventi. Quando, nel timore di un'epidemia planetaria, si spegnerà il faro dell'attenzione, gli abitanti resteranno soli e prigionieri a sprofondare nel regno delle ombre. Non soli del tutto, però. È rimasto in paese uno scrittore di gialli per affrontare il mistero di quei suicidi felici.

My name is Peter Kargosi, and I write for a newsletter called Sinister Sightings. I always knew my hometown was different from other hometowns, but the stuff happening here lately is crazy! Nobody believes me or my best friend Sweet Tooth that this place is the center of all things paranormal. So if you are in the mood to listen to two bumbling friends getting way over their heads with crazy supernatural stuff, then this book series is for you.

Enzi meets an enigmatic artist at a party. When he drives her home, she gives him a mysterious and damaged painting. Later, when she leaves a message that she has been arrested and is in jail, Enzi makes a mistake that has fatal consequences. 'Paper Targets' is a wild ride of a story about gifted and flawed misfits. Both riveting and heartbreaking, with memorable characters encountered along the way, the novel is based on the true events of one of the world's largest criminal frauds and the far-reaching implications of love and greed.

Detective Sofie Allen believes anarchy is only a scandal away. With crime lurking around every gangway of the elite-ruled space station, closing cases requires a delicate balance of politics and justice. But she sees the local power equilibrium shifting dangerously when the head of a ruling family is brutally murdered. Facing pressure to pin the homicide on a lowlife, Detective Allen desperately tries to contain the stress that could reveal her hidden genetic medical disorder. But as she pushes the investigation forward, she fears the lethal consequences will rain down on an innocent.

Rosario De Luca, detto Sari, non ha conosciuto la sua famiglia. I suoi genitori sono morti in un incidente, ed è stato adottato da una famiglia lombarda che l'ha amato, cresciuto, regalandogli una vita felice, ottimi studi grazie ai quali è diventato un importante manager editoriale. Ma il passato l'ha seguito. Suo nonno era un boss della mafia: i nuovi padroni avevano bisogno dell'aiuto di Sari e contavano di ottenerlo, con il richiamo del sangue o con le minacce. Sari, però, è riuscito a sconfiggere il suo persecutore e lo ha ucciso.

Rocky Hebert walks into his death at quarter to midnight one New Orleans night. His son Gabe cannot accept the official verdict of suicide and enlists the help of the Burke Broussard Private Investigation Agency to discover the real cause of death. PI Molly Sutton knows what it's like to lose a father in tragic circumstances and will go to any lengths to crack the investigation, as she tries to fight off her growing feelings for Gabe.

Toni Nastasi è un poliziotto di poche parole. Divide il proprio tempo fra Garibaldi, un cane pastore ungherese, il lavoro, lunghe soste notturne dinnanzi al mare, e il rimpianto per essere stato estromesso dalla vita della sua giovane amante. Una notte, è testimone di una sparatoria in uno stabile fatiscente. È la prima avvisaglia, il cigolio che preannuncia l'apertura delle porte dell'inferno: sarà coinvolto in un'indagine che lo porterà a conoscere un'atroce realtà fatta di torture e morte.

Ein spannendes literarisches Städteporträt und eine tiefschwarze Liebeserklärung an eine Stadt, die vor allem eines ist: keine Sekunde langweilig. 13 Kurzgeschichten, 13 Blickwinkel, 13 Stadtviertel–und 13 faszinierende Teile eines größeren Puzzles. Das Verbrechen zieht seine blutige Spur vom noblen Grunewald bis in den tiefsten Wedding, vom beschaulichen Altglienicke über das bunte Kreuzberg bis ins lebendige Friedrichshain, spürt den tödlichen Geheimnissen der Geschichte nach und setzt die Gegenwart als dunkel schimmerndes Kaleidoskop neu zusammen.

Tomás Cruz swore he would never be like his father, an abusive cocaine junkie whose gangland exploits are notorious throughout the underbelly of northern Argentina. When Samuel Cruz is sentenced to thirteen years in prison, he leaves a laundry list of unfinished cartel business. Seba, Tomás’s revered older brother, has no choice but to abandon his straight life and take over his father’s underworld debt. Now fifteen years has passed, Seba has been arrested, and the ruthless cartel boss is holding his wife and daughter as collateral—just in time for the holidays.

Mike Lanson was the ace crime reporter for the Gazette, so it was natural that he heard about the kookie wino who had reported eavesdropping on two men plotting a murder. So, it was also natural that he got on the case after one of the two plotters was found dead. Mike, like all reporters, was looking for an answer. But when he filled in the five W's on the next victim, he came up with this: Who: Mike Lanson. What: His own murder. When: As soon as that fire reached the explosives. Where: In a deserted storehouse. Why: Because he knew too much.

Former cop Emma Tapper and her lawyer boss Angela Köhler are defending shipping boss Anita Spendel, charged with murdering her billionaire husband. Anita insists Martin Spendel is still alive, but his car is soaked in his blood. Emma must clear Anita’s name by finding the missing man—dead or alive… Meanwhile, on a luxury yacht off the coast of Ibiza, Bianca Aguilera is relaxing in the sun when a drone delivers an unexpected parcel. The contents: chilling evidence that someone close to her is dead. Horror quickly turns to realisation.

Adam si è lasciato alle spalle la tragedia del conflitto siriano in cui ha strenuamente combattuto. Adesso è solo un migrante che arriva nel campo profughi di Calais, tormentato da un'ossessione: riunirsi alla moglie e alla figlia, fuggite dalla Siria qualche giorno prima di lui. La sua presenza, nella Giungla, si nota subito: non perché sia grande e grosso e con una vistosa cicatrice su un sopracciglio, e nemmeno per la foto di Nora e Maya che mostra senza sosta a chiunque. È per come osserva le cose e le persone che viene subito chiamato military man dal capo dei sudanesi.

It begins quietly on a balmy Southern night in Savannah as some locals gather at Bo Peep's, one of the town's favourite watering holes. Within an hour, a man will be murdered and his companion will have 'disappeared'. An unlikely detective, Morgana Musgrove, doyenne of Savannah society, is called upon to unravel the mystery of these crimes. Morgana is an imperious, demanding, and conniving woman, whose four grown children are weary of her schemes. But one by one she inveigles them into helping with her investigation, and soon the family uncovers some terrifying truths.

In Denton, Arkansas, the fate of the high school football team rests on the shoulders of Billy Lowe, a volatile but talented running back. Billy comes from an extremely troubled home: a trailer park where he is terrorized by his unstable mother's abusive boyfriend. Then Billy's abuser is found murdered in the Lowe family trailer, and all evidence points toward Billy. Now nothing can stop an explosive chain of violence that could tear the whole town apart on the eve of the playoffs.

All Napoleon Davis wants to do after another long week of working multiple jobs for next to nothing is grab a beer at his regular bar with his roommates. Then, while on his walk home through Brooklyn, he finds a man bleeding out in an alley; all signs point to attempted murder. His decision to stop and help leads to him getting swept up in the elite world of the New York aristocracy where conspiracies, corruption, and betrayal run rampant almost as much as open bars, fine dining, and limousines. And what starts off as the act of a "good samaritan" quickly devolves into a fight for life itself.

Mac Danger is a 1930s-style private eye in a modern world. He’s a tough-talking, no-nonsense kind of discount detective—solving mysteries to make rent, and sometimes having to restrain himself from getting physical with his clients who have—let’s call them, issues. Danger Is his middle name—and his last name, too. You can look it up on his birth certificate. Mac Danger Danger. Kids made fun of him in school because of it. During every PTO conference, he wanted to punch his parents in the face.

In deep Louisiana, a serial killer with a taste for medical experimentation is completing his most ambitious project yet. The media call him 'The Butcher'—and, so far, he's proved impossible to catch. With her encyclopedic knowledge of humanity's darkest minds, and years of experience examining their victims, forensic pathologist Dr Wren Muller is the best there is. The longer the Butcher's killing spree continues, the more determined she is to bring him to justice. And yet, he continues to elude her. As body after body pile up on Wren's examination table, her obsession grows.

After a botched debt collection turned double murder, Eddie splits, desperate to avoid his employer, notorious L.A. crime boss Saul Benedict, and his men (and Eddie's ex-partners), Floyd and Sawyer, as well as the police. Soon he becomes entangled with the clever and beautiful Dakota, a Native American woman fresh in the City of Angels to find her missing friend—someone Eddie might know something about. Meanwhile in Texas, ex-assassin Rufus, seeking vengeance for his murdered brother, takes up his beloved daggers one final time and begins the long drive to L.A.

Reporter Deanne Mulhenney and medical examiner Sara Poole risk their lives in a dangerous attempt to bring a brutal murderer to justice in this noir thriller set in 1968 Los Angeles. Politics, mob wars, and a thriving drug trade have unleashed an assassin like no other. Evidence suggests the killer is a female with terrifying skills...and tastes.

Tony held rank in a notorious outlaw motorcycle club that sold machine guns to gangs until he wound up behind bars, later escaping a courtroom, tracking down the people who set him up, and knocking over a few banks...then he assumed a new identity and vanished, winding up in a squalid Brooklyn apartment with a dwindling pile of cash, where he spent most of his days, aside from the occasion excursion to the corner pub. Then a kidnapped girl knocked on his door and everything changed....