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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.

Un empresario de Barcelona es asesinado en la población de Canfranc, cerca de la frontera francesa, de un disparo en la cabeza. La policía detiene a un inmigrante de Somalia, al que pillan con el arma en el interior de la casa. El cadáver tiene tatuado en el abdomen una copa de vino con la palabra «Baco». Drago, el abogado del turno de oficio, al que avisan para la defensa del somalí, sospecha que el acusado es inocente y que en realidad le han tendido una trampa para achacarle el crimen.

A rural Welsh community is beset by a series of cruel murders... Putting his wedding plans on hold, Detective Winter Meadows resolves to unmask the serial killer on his patch. The only connection between the victims is the stick dolls left by their bodies. That and the fact they don’t seem to have been particularly popular. People are ruffled. Scared. Meadows must isolate the killer fast but the evidence is brittle. The key to unravelling the mystery is in the stone church, in the creaking homes, and in the slowly thawing fields.

It is September 1974. Two men meet in Venice. One is a young English artist, in panicked flight from London. The other is Danilo Donati, the magician of Italian cinema, the illusionist responsible for realizing the spectacular visions of Fellini and Pasolini. Donati is in Venice to produce sketches for Fellini’s Casanova. A young apprentice is just what he needs.

La prima indagine del famoso detective burbero e misantropo protagonista dei romanzi di Colin Dexter: l’ispettore capo Morse, humour tipicamente inglese, vasta erudizione letteraria, competenze musicali fuori del comune, passione per l’enigmistica e le parole crociate, segue il caso di una ragazza scomparsa e ritrovata ore dopo uccisa in modo brutale.

Un thriller dal ritmo forsennato, sullo sfondo di un’estate soffocante che confonde la mente e anche gli indizi... All’interno del rimorchio di un camion abbandonato nelle campagne dell’hinterland milanese vengono ritrovati dei resti umani. La raccapricciante scoperta è in qualche modo legata al suicidio di un anonimo commercialista avvenuto nei pressi di Lambrate e alla scomparsa di un dirigente nei pressi del Monte Rosa. Toccherà al commissario Lorenzi svelare il mistero che unisce tre casi all'apparenza inconciliabili.

He picks a pocket and discovers a sinister plot. New York, 1937: The thief they call the Smoke encounters an obnoxious bully on the streets of New York. To teach him a lesson, the Smoke picks his pocket. But on opening the brute’s billfold he discovers items that arouse suspicion. A newspaper clipping, an odd blueprint, and a membership card to a secret society seem to point to a plot of unspeakable terror. Curious, the Smoke delves into the mystery and is thrust into a whirlwind of intrigue and danger.

Secrets, suspicions, and suspense rise up thick as the Seattle fog in seventeen post-war noirs set in the Pacific Northwest. Produced and directed by Jim French, these new-time radio episodes bring back the classic radio style.

After losing his knighthood, Crispin Guest has found a new calling as the Tracker, a private investigator who can locate anything—or anyone. Now famed French alchemist Nicholas Flamel needs Crispin to locate his wife, Perenelle, and his apprentice, Thomas Cornhill. But the case takes a sinister turn when Flamel's apprentice is found murdered. The kidnapper promises that Flamel's wife will be next...unless he hands over his precious Philosopher's Stone, a magical object that can turn lead into gold.

4 de agosto de 1962. Los Ángeles está que hierve, en medio de una intensa ola de calor. Una estrella de cine B ha sido secuestrada en extrañas circunstancias. Y acaban de encontrar el cuerpo sin vida de Marilyn Monroe. ¿Sobredosis, suicidio, asesinato? El jefe de policía William H. Parker pone sobre la pista a Freddy Otash, expolicía corrupto y extorsionador, que no tardará en intuir que ambos casos están relacionados. Pero, si quiere salvar su propio pellejo no puede limitarse a descubrir la verdad: deberá encontrar pruebas que alejen a los Kennedy de los rumores de asesinato.

In November 1944, Bologna's bomb-scarred streets are filled with starving refugees fleeing the advancing Allies. The Fascist Black Brigades, S.S. officers, and Italian Resistance partisans compete for control. Comandante De Luca, once Bologna's most brilliant investigative officer, now works for the Political Police in a torture facility. He faces three murders: a professor shot through the eye, an engineer beaten to death, and a German corporal gnawed by rats in a flooded cellar. De Luca must solve these cases to save ten Italian hostages from a Nazi firing squad.

In this riveting pulp noir thriller that will keep you guessing until the very last word, private investigator Bryson Wilde finds himself spiraling into the dangerous world of a beautiful movie star who is being blackmailed for murder.

Todo Personal es una novela negra que toma lugar en El Salvador. Los asesinatos de una mamá y una niña de siete años frente a un colegio en San Salvador, llevará al esposo y padre, Darwin —un ex pandillero convertido en redentor— a formar una alianza poco común con un investigador de la policía y una periodista. ¿Quién está detrás de los asesinatos? ¿Y por qué? ¿Serán las pandillas? ¿Será un triángulo amoroso? ¿O algo personal? Esta novela de suspenso te atrapará entre lo que debería ser, la justicia salvadoreña y la justicia divina.

Când în Pratoni de Vivaro, o localitate din apropiere de Roma, o mamă dispare împreună cu fiul ei, inspectorul-șef adjunct al Unității Mobile din capitala Italiei își cheamă în ajutor asistenta cea mai de încredere, pe Colomba Caselli. Împreună cu neobișnuitul Dante Torre, Colomba Caselli pornește fără voie o anchetă care le pune amândurora viața în primejdie. Ce încredere poate avea cu adevărat în ciudatul ei aliat? Ce legătură există între răpirea unui copil în urmă cu peste treizeci de ani, un atentat cu bombă la Paris și dispariția din Pratoni?

Deputy Billy Lafitte is not unfamiliar with the law—he just prefers to enforce it, rather than abide by it. But his rule-bending and bribe-taking have gotten him kicked off the force in Gulfport, Mississippi, and he’s been given a second chance—in the desolate, Siberian wastelands of rural Minnesota. Now Billy’s only got the local girls and local booze to keep him company. Until one of the local girls—cute little Drew, bassist for a psychobilly band—asks Billy for help with her boyfriend.

The highly-anticipated fourth installment in the Kapamentis Crime series, from bestselling science-fiction author T.W.M. Ashford.

England, 1914. Die Welt ist von Konflikten gezeichnet. Der verletzte Captain Hastings wird ins Anwesen Styles Court eingeladen, um sich von seinen körperlichen und seelischen Wunden zu erholen. Styles ist ein prachtvolles Landhaus und Heimat seines Kindheitsfreundes. Für Hastings ein Ort der Ruhe … glaubt er. Doch an den heißen Sommertagen braut sich etwas Finsteres zusammen.

Un caso único para Bevilacqua y Chamorro. Una de las sagas policiacas en español más exitosas. El subteniente Bevilacqua y la brigada Chamorro tendrán que enfrentarse a no de los mayores retos de su carrera: el esclarecimiento simultáneo de dos muertes en el momento más crítico que ha vivido nuestra sociedad en las últimas décadas. Dos casos que dejan huella en una novela que nos habla sobre cómo con ocasión de la pandemia se hacen sentir las fuerzas adversas a nuestro bien común, a nuestro futuro, a nuestra esperanza; unas fuerzas que vienen de más atrás y van más allá de la acción del virus.

A story about privacy and its importance for happiness and personal fulfillment.

Dublino, metà anni Cinquanta. Non è un bel periodo per l’anatomopatologo Quirke: una sua ex fiamma muore, un uomo che in passato stimava è in fin di vita e il rapporto con la figlia non è certo dei migliori. E quando Billy Hunt, una vecchia conoscenza del college, gli chiede un favore personale legato all'apparente suicidio della moglie Deirdre, Quirke non sa tirarsi indietro, nonostante senta che l'incontro gli porterà solo guai. Guai che non tardano ad arrivare: l'anatomopatologo si trova lentamente risucchiato in un mondo tenebroso.