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The stakes are high, and time is running out... When a charred body is discovered on a burning boat at Horsea Marina, Detective Inspector Andy Horton is called to investigate. The victim is identified as Tom Brundall, a wealthy financier from Guernsey, who was terminally ill. Puzzled, Horton wonders why a dying man would return to his hometown of Portsmouth and who would want to kill him. As Horton digs deeper, another body surfaces, forcing him to grapple with not just the victims' pasts but also the unresolved mystery of his own mother's disappearance three decades earlier.

The man is found on the icy streets of Boston, vomit in his beard, alcohol in his system, and ice in his veins. The police assume he is just another in the dozens of derelicts whom the urban winter claims each year, but Brady Coyne knows better. Attorney to New England's upper crust, he was the dead man's lawyer, and he knows that Stuart Carver was no bum: He was a senator's nephew.

Detective Inspector Stanley Low is having a really bad day. His bipolar condition is already ruining another session with his psychiatrist when a sadistic sex murder-suicide at Singapore’s most prestigious hotel plunges him back into a sordid underworld he was desperate to leave behind. Marina Bay Sands represents Singapore’s attempt to become the Monaco of Asia, a sparkling, physical embodiment of the island’s devotion to economic growth at any cost. A murdered prostitute and a dead expatriate ask questions of a society no-one is particularly keen to answer.

Rebecca and Brian Unsworth appear to have it all. A nice house in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Two well-behaved, healthy teenage children. Important government jobs - Rebecca working in counterterrorism for the FBI, Brian serving as a coder for the NSA. Seeking to revive their strained relationship, they decide for their 20th wedding anniversary to take their two kids, Kira and Tony, on a European getaway. They have a blast…until one night in Barcelona when Kira doesn’t come home from a dance club. She’s gone. Abducted.

Meet Inspector George Bartlett and Constable Archibald Boase in their first investigation together. In the closing months of 1921, Bartlett and Boase have a missing girl on their Falmouth patch. Before long they find themselves drawn into a murder investigation when another girl is found dead on a local beach. We meet the Pengelly family, unwittingly drawn in through their daughter's involvement with the prime murder suspect, and find ourselves involved in mysterious goings-on at Penvale Manor.

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...

Marco Duarte está en el punto de mira del asesino en serie más despiadado al que se ha enfrentado jamás. El secuestro de una policía es solo el comienzo de una feroz cacería en la que la sed de venganza amenaza las vidas inocentes que se cruzan en su camino.

Un intenso thriller que tiene lugar en las calles y los juzgados de la isla de Ibiza y que atrapará al oyente desde las primeras frases. Eduardo Ribas es juzgado y condenado por el homicidio de una enfermera (Ana López Demichellis). Raúl Ballesteros, un prestigioso abogado políticamente incorrecto, y la hermana de la víctima, Raquel, están convencidos de la inocencia del hombre que acaba de ser condenado. Ambos deciden contratar a un extravagante detective, pero dotado de grandes facultades deducción, para intentar esclarecer los hechos.

Una Milano come non ve l'hanno mai raccontata. Pietro Mai, coriaceo ex pugile con burrascosi trascorsi, e l'ispettore Liana Sestini sono più che un istruttore e un'allieva. Uniti da vincoli d'onore e di passioni inconfessate, sono al centro di una guerra. La mala vecchia contro quella nuova. L'Antico, il Truce, il Riccio, il Serpente, Roxy, Milky Sex, mafiosi ucraini, russi e turchi: un girone infernale che schiera tutti contro tutti per il potere, la vendetta e un favoloso malloppo che riemerge dopo anni. Milano è lo scenario vibrante di un "nero criminale".

Un cadavere. Un ragazzino di quattordici anni giace morto, con il cranio spappolato, nella conduttura di scolo delle fogne. Spetterà a Riccio, rude poliziotto di una Milano fine anni '70, indagare sul delitto. Tra biciclette, tunnel misteriosi, palline clic clac, figurine e fumetti si snoda il piano di un mostro. Un terribile assassino che colpisce senza pietà chiunque provi a ostacolarlo. Per nascondere un segreto che lui stesso non riesce ad accettare.

Sie beobachtet ihre Opfer. Sie plant ihre Morde. Nichts will sie dem Zufall überlassen. Der Weg der Gewalt ist nicht grundlos. Ihr Leben lang bemühte sie sich um ein normales Leben. Doch die Hülle umschloss eine tiefe Verzweiflung, die sie zu verbergen wusste. Bis zu einem nebligen Donnerstag im November. Der Tag, an dem sie eine Mörderin wird. Sie will die Dämonen vernichten. Sie will Rache. Sie empfindet kein Mitleid. Sie sollen leiden. Genau wie sie.

When teenage best friends, Callie and Avery are kidnapped from a tent in their front yard in a sleepy Midwestern town, the entire population of Newell is rocked to its core. But when one of the girls returns 24 hours later, her body covered in injuries and zero recollection of what happened, the search is on for the girl who didn’t get away. Callie is still missing. As Avery attempts to piece together an impossible puzzle, she stumbles upon the terrifying realization that her best friend was harboring a dark secret, and she may have paid the ultimate price for it.

Azul marino, última novela de la serie policiaca de Rosa Ribas y Sabine Hofmann, cierra magistralmente la trilogía protagonizada por la joven periodista Ana Martí. Barcelona, 1959. Mientras la Sexta Flota norteamericana permanece fondeada en el puerto, alterando la rutina de una ciudad en plena dictadura, un marinero estadounidense es asesinado en un antro del Barrio Chino en lo que a primera vista no parece más que una simple reyerta arrabalera.

Raven Ledger is running from people who blame her for her brother’s crime. The city is grappling with the murders of twenty-one people at Allegheny High School. The news of the shooting is on every television station. The nation is talking about what happened . . . They’re also talking about the shooter’s twin sister who has disappeared. Raven is being hunted by a gang that lost members in the massacre. Her nemesis, Blanco, the girl Raven saved at school that day, leads the chase. Blanco and the other gang members are out for blood and won’t give up until they get revenge.

Amazing Grant has kept her distance from her mobster family, while entombing her own less-than-savory past. Until now. With her fugitive grandfather on the lam, the clan's attention focuses on Amazing (Maze) and the ancient journal her great-grandfather secretly passed down to her. Maze's relatives are convinced she's hiding the precious book, and now that they're no longer under the watchful eye of their patriarch, they summon her to Paris for an interrogation.

Sur de Francia. Un hombre está encerrado en un cobertizo aislado. Tras seducirlo, su secuestradora, Émilie, le disparó a quemarropa. Él puede gritar todo lo que quiera porque nadie va a oírle: están en una perrera, en medio de la nada. Ella le dice que hace cinco años, cuando era una joven enfermera, fue víctima de un conductor.

Step into Indian Country. Enter the dark welter of troubled history throughout the Americas, where the heritage of violence meets the ferocity of intent. Features brand-new stories by: Mistina Bates, Jean Rae Baxter, Lawrence Block, Joseph Bruchac, David Cole, Reed Farrel Coleman, O'Neil De Noux, A.A. Hedge Coke, Gerard Houarner, Liz Martnez, R. Narvaez, Kimberly Roppolo, Leonard Schonberg, and Melissa Yi.

Tony Bruno is like any other seven-year-old boy...He wants to have fun and be accepted by his peers. But the boys in Tony’s school bully him unmercifully, until one day, they almost kill him. His father is embarrassed by Tony’s inability to defend himself and tries to beat and berate the mean into his son. One day Tony’s tormentors push him too far. Possessed by blind rage Tony fights back with a vengeance, tipping the balance of power. Years later Tony notices the new kid, Salvatore being tormented by the class bully.

After thirty years, fourteen books, and countless thrills, award-winning author Gerry Boyle writes the exciting and bittersweet final chapter for his signature character Jack McMorrow in the gritty novel, Hard Line. In the dynamic, whipsaw finale, Boyle takes listeners on a wild ride with everyone’s favorite investigative reporter—a ride that leaves no one unscathed. Filled with action ripped from current events and nods to old characters and past stories, Hard Line builds with breathtaking pace to a dramatic stand-off between the forces of violent chaos and law and order.

Raven Ledger was born two minutes before her twin brother Matthew. The newborns shared the same blood, the same womb, and the same parents. But everything about the siblings was different . . . one was darkness and one was light. Raven was born into poverty to a mother who couldn’t care for her, and a father who would do anything to see his twins thrive. Eventually, Raven becomes a pawn between her parents.