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Ladies & gentlemen, signore e signori, ecco servitavi un’altra vivida immersione avventurosa, torbida e chiaroscurale, ambientata nei foschi dedali stradali, specialmente neuronali, d’una contorta, introspettiva anima solitaria e profondamente riflessiva che eternamente esplorerà ardimentosamente il cuore pulsante e al contempo rabbrividente d’una fantasmatica, tetra città spettrale e assai cupa che cela neri scheletri nell’armadio dei più insospettabili, terribili e orrifici.

Briar County is in Southern Ohio—the gateway to Appalachia. People there move at their own pace. They hunt, they fish, they farm—but their secrets run deeper than the fishing holes that dot the countryside. And Dalton Edwards, DEA agent, is about to uncover a few after his boss sends him to Briar County on a low-priority assignment as punishment. His boss says it's a pot-growing operation, but Dalton thinks it's much bigger. Before his assignment ends, eight family members will be murdered under circumstances that Dalton knows have nothing to do with a hydroponic weed operation.

Shelton Williams' book, The Covey Jencks Mysteries: Love and Murder Deep in the Heart of Texas, is more than a collection of mysterious tales of murder and investigation. By bringing to life these characters, the author has highlighted global issues such as racism, political extremism, and human trafficking. In the midst of it all is our interracial protagonists, hell-bent on discovering the secrets lurking in the dark shadows of Odessa, Texas.

En el archipiélago de Estocolmo aparece una embarcación privada. Dentro, se halla el cuerpo sin vida de una mujer. Su pelo, su piel, sus ropas están secos. Y, no obstante, la autopsia revela que los pulmones están llenos de agua. La víctima murió ahogada. Al día siguiente, otro cadáver aparece en la ciudad, y también este encierra un misterio.

Judith, jeune lycéenne de banlieue à l'enfance atypique, rencontre un chef de bande et plonge dans un univers cruel et brutal. Elle évoque son histoire le temps d'un voyage en bus, fil rouge qui nous entraîne dans une histoire d'amour fou, d'amitié et de violence. Un portrait sans concessions de la banlieue et de ses pièges, et des conséquences de nos actes. Oserez-vous monter avec elle dans ce bus ? Un roman sombre et hypnotique qui vous hantera longtemps. Auvergnate d'adoption, Céline Saint-Charle vit au milieu des volcans.

When a stranger gives Black a book and tells him the book holds the key to the mystery surrounding his wife’s murder, Black dismisses the event as nothing more than the ramblings of a mad man. Then Black is called to a meeting with a Hollywood movie star, Victor Cromwell, who is shooting a new film in Glasgow. At the meeting Victor, makes a very strange request that will throw Black’s life into turmoil. Meanwhile a killer who was dormant for 20 years has returned and is murdering young women in the most gruesome way.

One of hundreds of simple homicides each year, indistinguishable from any other in 1938, was the death of a spinster nurse killed in her apartment. A suspect is caught and convicted. Private Investigator Fintan Dunne is lured into the case and coerced by conscience into unraveling the setup that has put an innocent man on death row. Following the trail leads him into a murder conspiracy of a scope that defies imagination.

Don't miss the latest installment in Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author L.T. Ryan's Mitch Tanner suspense thriller series! When Tanner’s search for his son leads him to Denver, Colorado, an old friend is ready to help out. But things go sideways when Bridget Dinapoli is assigned a similar case. Nothing is as it seems as Tanner and Bridget race to stop a suspect. But when the trail goes cold, they find themselves being pulled into something much more sinister. It will take everything they have to save Tanner’s son, and themselves.

Detective Chief Inspector James Hardy’s caseload is bursting at the seams. A serial murderer dubbed The Angel Killer is stalking young women in and around London, and an assassin is picking off high-profile political figures one by one, with his ultimate target being the prime minister herself. Both cases land squarely on Hardy’s desk even as he struggles to rebuild a stable home for himself and his two young daughters after the senseless murder of their mother.

Siamo nel 1950. In una Genova uscita a fatica dalle miserie della Seconda Guerra Mondiale, fa ritorno il commissario Damiano Flexi Gerardi, dopo un lungo periodo di confino sardo a causa dei precedenti conflitti con l’ormai defunto regime fascista. Ospite a casa del fratello Vincenzo e della cognata, il commissario si ritrova fin da subito a indagare su uno strano caso. Ermete Cicala, modesto sarto di abiti ecclesiastici, viene trovato morto nel suo laboratorio.

Seconda indagine per il commissario capo Damiano Flexi Gerardi, soprannominato il Becchino, già protagonista dell’acclamato "Il mandante" (2019). Nella Genova degli anni Cinquanta, Damiano è stato convinto dal questore a ritirare le proprie dimissioni. Afflitto da rupofobia e afefobia, il commissario è un’anima tormentata, ma il nuovo caso affidatogli lo costringerà a un duro bagno di realtà. Le vittime innocenti dell’omicidio, questa volta, sono due piccole ospiti di un orfanotrofio. Chi mai potrebbe aver ucciso quelle due bambine innocenti?

Steve Regan is back and this time he’s alone and undercover in a seedy area of Thailand on the trail of a Texan expatriate, Les Watkins, the biggest drug smuggler in South East Asia. As he finds himself embroiled deeper into the operation, Regan suspects Watkins may be connected to Regan's nemesis, ruthless mafia boss Carlo Vitale, who has fled the United States following a triple bombing and assassination of three crime family heads. Besides staying alive, Regan has other problems when he suddenly finds himself facing the worst dilemma an undercover cop can face.

Within this compilation, you will hear that Mac continues to bring cases to conclusions—while he continues to jump to conclusions. Mac Danger—the up-front, in-your-face gumshoe—confronts the electronic clutter of a modern world—filled with its video conference call users—mocha lattes at their side, with his common sense two-tin-cans-tied-together-with-a-string methods. And all of it is accomplished with the help of the never-empty-glass of his liquid forebear, Old Grand Dad.

NY Times and USA Today best-selling author Lorhainne Eckhart brings you a new crossover series! The social worker and the cop, an unlikely couple drawn together on a small, secluded Pacific Northwest island where nothing is as it seems. Protecting the innocent comes at a cost, and what seems to be a sleepy, quiet town is anything but. Includes The Children, The Last Stand, and The Charity.

Police Chief Mark Friessen along with his wife, social worker Billy Jo McCabe, keep a watchful eye on their small island town in the Pacific Northwest. As the couple come to grips with the hub of crime by the political elite that had turned what they’d believed to be a quiet sleepy island into a playground for the rich and powerful, a young executive of a major international charity moves to Roche Harbor. Mark and Billy Jo once again find themselves digging deep into the secrets and lies that seem to trail this man.

Second day back at work. Detective Chief Inspector Janine Lewis drops off her seven-year-old son at school. As she drives off, a car breaks fiercely with a squealing sound. Janine sees the child flung to one side, the small body flying limp like a puppet, then landing hard. With a sickening feeling, Janine recognizes her as Tom’s classmate—Ann-Marie Chinley. Janine gives chase, but the hit-and-run driver gets away. When she finally gets to work she hears a body has been fished out of the river. The victim is in her early twenties, newly pregnant, malnourished as a child.

During an unprecedented heatwave, the body of a young girl is found in a submerged suitcase in Loch Acorrymore on Achill Island. DS Lucy Golden is tasked with identifying her and returning her to her family. With the help of her team, they discover that the girl was a runaway, who had spent some time in a homeless shelter. She has been murdered and an investigation is launched. Despite some promising leads, Lucy's enquiries seem to be going nowhere until another the body with connections to the homeless shelter is discovered in what initially appears to be a suicide.

Nobody ever walked across the bridge at night. But on the foggy night that Hammer took that chance, his encounter with a gun-toting thug and a girl on the lam ended with both strangers dead. Soon Hammer is caught in a web of sinister gangsters and beautiful women the likes of which he's never seen -- and his only way out is to kill and kill again...even with his bare hands.

He called her Red. She called him in from the cold. For one short moment in the big, hard city they were friends--and then the girl turned up dead. Mike Hammer will walk through walls to find out who she was and why she died, even if he doesn't like the answers he gets. Even if they are all about a seamy network of call-girls, blackmail, and hoods. Hammer owes something to Red, and he plans to make good-because in this town a friend is hard to find.

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.