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Aimée is drop-dead gorgeous, razor-sharp, and lethally efficient. A killer with a cool head and a taste for chaos, she arrives in the backwater town of Bléville – a festering stew of grudges, corruption, and small-town rot – ready to make a killing. She's played this game before: stir up trouble, pit the locals against one another, then disappear with blood on her hands and money in her pocket. But this time, something breaks. Aimée lets someone in – and the game turns personal.

Eine Prügelei auf dem Schulhof führt Jack und Cliff auf die Spur eines neuen Falls. Was geht in der Fabrik von Mr. Hart vor, das er hinter verschlossenen Türen verbergen muss? Jack und Cliff entdecken eine geheime Tür und geraten in tödliche Gefahr: Ein Terrarium zerbricht und sie sind gefangen mit einer giftigen Spinne.

Confinato in un letto d'ospedale, Morse si lascia travolgere dal piacere della lettura. Tra le pagine di un volumetto scopre un enigma degno delle sue capacità investigative, un mistero venuto dal passato. Tra flebo e flirt inconcludenti con le affascinanti infermiere, Morse insegue la verità su un caso chiuso da più di un secolo.

It’s Midsummer’s Eve, the celebration of the longest day of the year, and on Sandhamn it’s the longest party of the year. But the fun comes to a dead halt when a young reveler is murdered, a teenage girl is found drugged and dazed on the beach, and other young women vanish. So far, what links the victims is a mystery. For Nora Linde and her new boyfriend, Jonas Sköld, the crimes are personal: one of the missing girls is Wilma, Jonas’s daughter. And her disappearance could test Nora and Jonas’s relationship in ways they never expected.

Nine long years have passed since the killer last struck - nine years since eight helpless young women were brutally slaughtered by an icepick-wielding maniac. The trail grew cold and the book was unofficially closed on a serial killer who stopped killing. But now "The Icepick Prowler" has confessed - but only to seven of the killings. Not only does he deny the eighth, he has an airtight alibi. Barbara Ettinger's family had almost come to accept that the young woman was the victim of a random killing.

In the aftermath of Algeria's war of independence, Paris was a city rife with suspicion and barely suppressed violence. Amid this tension, Jean, a young writer adrift, met and fell for Dannie, an enigmatic woman fleeing a troubled past. Half a century later, with his old black notebook as a guide, Jean retraces this fateful period in his life, recounting how, through Dannie, he became mixed up with a group of unsavory characters connected by a shadowy crime.

In the stillness of his Paris apartment, Jean Daragane has built a life of total solitude. Then a surprising phone call shatters the silence of an unusually hot September, and the threatening voice on the other end of the line leaves Daragane wary, but irresistibly curious. Almost at once, he finds himself entangled with a shady gambler and a beautiful, fragile young woman, who draw Daragane into the mystery of a decades-old murder. The investigation will force him to confront the memory of a trauma he had all but buried.

Bacci Pagano indaga sulle minacce ricevute da un suo amico di lunga data, ma il riemergere di un vecchio omicidio irrisolto renderà tutto più complicato... Cesare Almansi, avvocato e vecchio amico di Bacci, riceve minacciose telefonate anonime dopo la sua candidatura al Senato. Queste intimidazioni lo spingono a chiedere aiuto a Bacci, il quale inizia a scandagliare i carrugi di Genova, popolati da vecchi compagni di lotta politica e nuovi nemici in agguato.

Les affaires de Glen Garber allant mal, il a pour seul réconfort sa femme Sheila et leur fillette Kelly. Un soir, Sheila meurt dans un accident de voiture, ivre. Pourtant, elle ne buvait jamais. Quand une voisine est à son tour retrouvée morte dans des circonstances troubles, le doute n'est plus possible : leur paisible banlieue cache une réalité bien plus sombre. Glen réalise alors que la mort de Sheila était tout sauf un accident et qu'il devient urgent de mettre Kelly à l'abri.

"Huele" es un homenaje, en formato género negro, a las mujeres y a los hombres que tienen el arrojo de luchar por la igualdad. Una ficción sonora que incorpora diálogos naturales e insospechados cruces de trama, con un cuidado diseño sonoro que marca la diferencia de espacios y transiciones.

Quando il cadavere di un uomo viene ripescato nel fiume, Nico è certo di sapere di chi si tratta. Per una ragione molto semplice: è stato lui a ucciderlo. O almeno cosí crede. Nel tentativo di ricostruire i fatti, per assolversi o condannarsi, si ritrova a scavare nelle bugie della sua famiglia e a cercare l'origine della loro infelicità, che come una malattia si è propagata e ha infettato ogni cosa. Persino i desideri.

Tra le torbide acque del Tevere, ai piedi della basilica di San Paolo, viene ritrovato il cadavere di una donna, in posa come se fosse vittima di un misterioso rito. Quando posa lo sguardo sulla scena del crimine, Nemo Sperati sprofonda nella Stanza delle Ombre, il teatro mentale dove è in grado di vedere l'invisibile, riconoscere la firma dell'autore e attribuire l'opera. Per scagarsi, Nemo dovrà scendere negli abissi del proprio passato, separare il vero dal falso e far luce sul mistero che ammanta la vita e la morte di Rufo Speranza.

Мелкий бизнесмен Юрий Колокольцев, попавший в криминальную историю, соглашается обменяться документами с приятелем-милиционером, и под его именем пойти работать клерком в МВД. Самого же приятеля не прельщает подобного рода стезя, он разочаровался в профессии и мечтает уехать в Америку, хотя протекцию в аппарат министерства ему составил дядя – вице-премьер правительства. Юрию же некуда деваться: он разбил чужую машину, ранил человека, и теперь ему грозит тюремный срок.

A thirty-four-year-old American woman—a secret agent—is sent to do dirty work in France. “Sadie Smith” is how the narrator introduces herself to her lover, to the rural commune of French subversives on whom she is keeping tabs, and to the reader. Sadie has met her love, Lucien, a young and well-born Parisian, by “cold bump”—making him believe the encounter was accidental. Like everyone Sadie targets, Lucien is useful to her and used by her. Sadie operates by strategy and dissimulation, based on what her “contacts”—shadowy figures in business and government—instruct.

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.

Während Barcelona von einem ungewöhnlich kalten Winter heimgesucht wird, entdeckt die Kripobeamtin Nuria Badal die Leiche eines Bankiers, der auf sadistische Weise ermordet wurde. Doch es ist nur der erste Fall in einer Reihe von ebenso abscheulichen wie unerklärlichen Verbrechen, die die ganze Stadt in einer unkontrollierbaren Spirale der Gewalt an den Rand des Chaos stürzen.

It's 1941 in the quaint Village of Worthington, Ohio. Life is changing at the end of the Great Depression. Elizabeth Russo, 23, teaches elementary school but feels uncertain about her future. Her Sicilian immigrant father ran The Red and White, a popular village general store.

Nach einem emotionalen Streit mit ihren Eltern sucht die junge Eva ihr Glück in der ihr unbekannten Ferne. Dort lernt sie den charismatischen O'Malley kennen. Der gemeinsam mit seinem Cousin Alan und seinen Freunden Cody und Nate Eva Qualvolles auferlegt. Jahre später rächt sich dann plötzlich jemand Unbekanntes stellvertretend für Eva an ihren einstigen Peinigern.

In William's confession we learn about the terrible accident that caused his wife to have her leg amputated, the prosthetic leg she then had to wear, how this leg slowly drives William to murder, and then the descent into madness as we walk through William's nightmares, visions, and thoughts. In the file, the bank manager sifts through some papers - local newspaper cuttings, a pathologist report, a statement from the town's dentist William Sterrill, and a death notice for his wife, Mrs. Doreen Sterrill.

Tauro Pigro, ridente località termale punteggiata di palme. Un hotel dall'eleganza sfiorita - tappeti polverosi, mobilio di mogano tarlato - accoglie dieci ospiti che arrivano alla spicciolata, ognuno col proprio carico di solitudine e aspettative. C'è la socialite d'altri tempi ossessionata dall'età, la bibliotecaria con la testa fra le nuvole, lo storico dell'arte che si ostina a non andare in pensione, la coppia sposata da decenni, lo scrittore incompreso. E poi l'architetto seduttore seriale, il parrucchiere rapato a zero, la capa che tiranneggia la sottoposta senza pietà.