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In this exhilarating New York noir, Assistant District Attorney Sam Monroe, a Korean War veteran, quickly becomes the prime suspect in the murder of socialite Laura Neilson and is forced to risk his career and reputation to find the killer before the world comes crashing down around him. As Sam uncovers information about the men in Laura’s life, he suffers a series of attacks from rogue cops and is targeted for elimination by members of a well-known Mafia crime family.

תיק החקירה נוחת על שולחנה של ליאורה דגני, בלשית משטרה שמכורה לעבודה ולסיגריות, חובבת מגפיים שחורים ומתגעגעת קשות לסבתא שלה. ליאורה כבר פיצחה בחייה כמה תיקים מסובכים. שיטות החקירה שלה - שילוב של אינטואיציות מעולות וחיבה עיקשת לפרטים - ניצחו לא פעם. עכשיו יש לה שורה של חשודים לחקור; סודות של מתבגרים לפענח; ארוחת ערב אצל הוריה שאין דרך להבריז ממנה; וקצין חקירות ששרירי הגב הבולטים שלו עושים לה דברים. ובתוך כל אלה היום הגורלי של אַיָּה משתלט עליה ושואב אותה למערבולת שהאישי והמקצועי מסתחררים בה בלי יכולת לעצור.

Two detectives. Two identical women. One dead body—rapidly becoming two, then three, then four. All knotted up in Japan’s underground BDSM scene and kinbaku, a form of rope bondage which bears a complex cultural history of spirituality, torture, cleansing, and sacrifice. As Togashi, a junior member of the police force, investigates the murder of a kinbaku instructor, he finds himself unable to resist his own private transgressive desires. In contrast, Togashi’s colleague Hayama is morally upright to a fault, with a stalwart commitment to the truth.

Journalist Anna Tate is assigned as a ghost-writer to Dr. Nate Reid, a neuroscientist renowned for his work at The Pain Laboratory. Damaged by her own past, Anna finds herself becoming obsessed with Nate's late wife Eva Reid, a former patient of Nate's who was unable to experience pain. As she strips away the secrets of their relationship, she makes a shocking discovery, and the raw truth of each is revealed.

Mi chiamo Rachel Klein e fino a pochi minuti fa ero una madre qualunque, una donna qualunque. Ma adesso sono una vittima. Una criminale. Una rapitrice. È bastato un attimo: una telefonata, un numero occultato, poche parole. Abbiamo rapito tua figlia Kylie. Segui le istruzioni. E non spezzare la Catena, oppure tua figlia morirà. La voce di questa donna che non conosco mi dice che Kylie è sulla sua macchina, legata e imbavagliata, e per riaverla non sarà sufficiente pagare un riscatto. Non è così che funziona la Catena. Devo anche trovare un altro bambino da rapire.

20 years ago, Imani’s best friend Kaitlin vanished. Now, Kaitlin’s crumbling childhood home is up for auction. Buying this house is Imani’s chance to finally resolve her grief. It might even ease her guilty conscience surrounding Kaitlin’s disappearance. But fixer-uppers always come with nasty surprises. And as Imani throws herself into the renovations, she discovers secrets that make her question all her memories of Kaitlin, and of the night she never came home.

ডিটেক্টিভ ইন্সপেক্টর মি. মরিস-এর দেখা সেই নিস্তব্ধ অন্ধকারের রাত যেন এক দুঃস্বপ্নের মতো. জানলায় সবুজ আলোর সাংকেতিক বার্তা, প্রকান্ত কালো মোটরের আবির্ভাব, তার উপরে, এক অদ্ভুত খেচর প্রাণীর উপস্তিতি. এই রহস্যের সমাধান কি করে হবে?

She needed a boxman; she chose me. The best. She was a torch singer with a voice like an angel and a face like the girl next door. But a dark secret haunts her past, threatening her life. She hired me to fix that secret. To kill it. But killing a secret can sometimes become lethal. And that simple in and out job…nothing but catastrophe. Smoke Gets in My Eyes, a vintage noir mystery

DALL’AUTORE AL PRIMO POSTO NELLE CLASSIFICHE MONDIALI, UNA NUOVA MISSIONE PER GABRIEL ALLON. UN OMICIDIO BRUTALE. UN CAPOLAVORO SCOMPARSO. UN CASO CHE SOLO GABRIEL ALLON PUÒ RISOLVERE. Provetto restauratore e spia leggendaria, Gabriel Allon è a Londra per partecipare a un ricevimento alla Courtauld Gallery in onore del ritrovamento di un autoritratto rubato di Vincent van Gogh. Ma quando un amico del Devon e la polizia della Cornovaglia chiedono il suo aiuto per risolvere uno sconcertante caso di omicidio, si ritrova suo malgrado a dare la caccia a un nuovo avversario, potente e pericolosissimo.

Der neue Roman des dreifachen Deutschen-Krimipreis-Trägers. Der Dienst im Außenbezirk sollte Ruhe in das Leben der Kriminalpolizistin Romina Winter bringen. Doch georgische Einbrecher nehmen sich in täglichen Touren die Stadtvillen in Dahlem und Lichterfelde vor. Die Bewohner sind verängstigt. Und dann verschwindet Rominas kleine Schwester. Sie muss in eigener Sache ermitteln. Jacques Lippold wird aus dem Tegeler Gefängnis entlassen. Zwei Jahre hat er wegen Betrugs gesessen. Jetzt will er sich als Finanzberater in der Kunstszene etablieren.

Il ritrovamento di un cadavere e la scomparsa di due pescatori sconvolgono Catania. Qual è il mistero che collega i due casi? La notte stessa in cui Luigi e Giovanni Cannizzo svaniscono nel mare, i coniugi Mariolina e Manfredi ritrovano un corpo tumefatto sul bagnasciuga della spiaggia. Questo è solo l'inizio di una serratissima indagine... Un mistero inspiegabile, che terrà le esistenze di tanti appese a un esile filo.

Parvati, a few years after her mother’s death, gets dragged into prostitution by her stepmother and stepmother’s brother. She accepts it as fate and starts living as a prostitute. Soon after, her life takes a turn when the son of a merchant who exploited her for the first time, falls in love with her.

The island city-state of Singapore harbors unique customs and traditions largely unknown to the West. A booming economy and embrace of conformity overshadow its gambling dens, red-light districts, and a collective passion for ghostly and gory tales. Now, in Singapore Noir, some of its best contemporary authors delve into its seedy side.

Charles Marlow is a steamboat captain on the River Thames near Gravesend, England. He and his crew work for an ivory trading company. One day he recounts to his fellow crew the story of his life and how he became a captain for the steamboat company. The focus of his story involves the journey Marlow undertook to the outer reaches of the company's operations. Here he tells of his wild encounters with Mr. Kurtz, a man with a great reputation for bringing in the most ivory for the company.

Cuando Elizabeth Caspersen encuentra un DVD en la caja fuerte de su difunto padre, se pone en contacto con el detective privado Michael Sander. El disco contiene la grabación de una cacería humana brutal, sin escrúpulos y muy bien organizada en un paisaje ártico, con su padre como uno de los participantes, que termina con la muerte de un hombre joven. Elisabeth teme que la grabación pueda destrozar a su familia y la reputación de su padre y quiere que Michael Sander, ex policía y ex soldado, investigue el asunto.

Onizuka Kumako is a fierce woman: tall, beautiful, and not afraid to speak her mind. In Tokyo bars, she seduces customers and commits petty crime, using her connections to the local yakuza to get by. When she meets Shirakawa Fukutaro, a rich widower desperate for companionship and unaware of her shady past, the two hit it off and are soon married. But their newlywed bliss is suddenly cut short: one rainy July evening, their car veers off course, plunges into the harbour and Fukutaro is pulled beneath the waves.

It's 1987, and Soho is in the grip of another hot summer. While working part-time in The Red Lion, Joe finds himself agreeing to help a notorious gangster search for her missing girlfriend. Antonia The Gecko Lagorio is daughter to the ruthless but ageing gang boss, Tony The Lizard Lagorio. When her girlfriend, Charlotte Fenwick, goes missing, Antonia turns to Joe for help, believing her to have been kidnapped by a rival gang.

It's 1988. A mild summer after a turbulent political year for LGBT rights. While working as an assistant to a successful Theatre Director, Joe Stone finds himself unwittingly embroiled in another murder investigation. Lexi Goode, a young, up and coming actress has her bright future cut short when she is found murdered in her exclusive top floor apartment in the posh end of Soho. Knowing that the police are as racist as they are homophobic, Joe and Russell inevitably take it on themselves to investigate what happened to the young woman.

It's 1985, and Joe Stone is excited to be joining his old school friend, and lifelong crush, Chris, for a long weekend in London's Soho—home to a vibrant, developing gay scene, and a million miles from the small town where Joe and Chris grew up. When Chris is found brutally murdered, the police write his death off as just another rent boy fallen foul of a bad hook up. But Joe knows his friend was killed deliberately, and joins forces with former police detective, Russell Dixon—Chris's flatmate—to find out why.

It's 1986, and Adam Cave, lead singer of the pop sensation Loose Lips, is struggling to stay in the closet, especially as his group is going through a messy split, and media speculation about the reasons behind the break up are high. Joe Stone has been assigned to Adam as a runner for the behind-the-scenes, warts and all expose of the recording of the band's last album, and an unlikely friendship begins to form.