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A completely revised edition of the first Henry Rios mystery, The Little Death, Lay Your Sleeping Head introduces Michael Nava’s singular protagonist, gay Latino criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios. Rios, beset by personal and professional problems, begins a passionate affair with the black sheep heir to a great California fortune who tells Rios an improbable tale of murder and sexual predation in his wealthy family. When the young man is found dead of an apparent drug overdose, Rios begins an investigation that ultimately reveals much more than murder.

Nicknamed Dewey Decimal for his obsessive attempts to bring order to the New York Public Library in the wake of disastrous events in the city, the hero of this series earns his keep as a bagman and enforcer for unscrupulous politicians and underworld figures. Now, he’s stumbled upon information concerning the gruesome murder of a prostitute that involves a prominent US senator - and finds himself chasing ghosts and fighting for his life, pursued by private military contractors and the ever-present specter of his own past....

Los Angeles, 1986. A group of right-wing Christians has put an initiative on the November ballot to allow health officials to force people with HIV into quarantine camps - and it looks like it’s going to pass. Rios, now living in LA, agrees to be counsel for a group of young activists who call themselves QUEER. QUEER claims to be committed to peaceful civil disobedience. But when one of its members is implicated in the bombing of an evangelical church that kills its pastor, Rios finds himself with a client suddenly facing the death penalty.

While recovering from a heart attack, gay Mexican-American attorney Henry Rios comes to the aid of his long-lost niece, the illegitimate daughter of his estranged sister, who has confessed to the murder of her abusive husband, but during his investigation, Rios discovers that things are more complicated than he had thought.

Sir Lawrence Linwood is dead. More accurately, he was murdered—savagely beaten to death in his own study with a mediaeval mace. The murder calls home his three adopted children: Alan, an archeologist; Roger, an engineer; and Caroline, a journalist. But his heirs soon find that his last testament contains a strange proviso—that his estate shall go to the heir who solves his murder.

A man with dark thoughts on his mind is racing along the remote snowy roads of Hurmevaara in Finland when there is flash in the sky and something crashes into the car. That something turns about to be a highly valuable meteorite. With euro signs lighting up the eyes of the locals, the unexpected treasure is temporarily placed in a neighbourhood museum, under the watchful eye of a priest named Joel.

On the shores of a tranquil fjord in Northern Iceland, a man is brutally beaten to death on a bright summer's night. As the 24-hour light of the arctic summer is transformed into darkness by an ash cloud from a recent volcanic eruption, a young reporter leaves Reykjavik to investigate on her own, unaware that an innocent person's life hangs in the balance. Dark, terrifying and complex, Blackout is an exceptional atmospheric thriller from one of Iceland's finest crime writers.

When Hedda Hellberg fails to return from a retreat in Italy where she has recently been grieving for her dead father, her husband discovers that her life is tangled in mystery. Hedda never left Oslo, the retreat has no record of her and, what's more, she appears to be connected to the murder of an old man gunned down on the first day of the hunting season in the depths of the Swedish forests....

La sera del 3 settembre 1992, sul battello che solca le placide acque del lago d'Iseo, Pietro Rota rivede il profilo imponente di Montisola dopo dodici anni di assenza. Fuggito a Milano con l'ambizione di diventare un grande giornalista, le cose non sono andate come sperava e lui si ritrova a collaborare con una scalcinata rivista scandalistica specializzata in cronaca nera. Quello non è il trionfale ritorno a casa che aveva sempre sognato, ma la richiesta d'aiuto del padre non gli ha lasciato scelta.

Cuando faltan pocos días para Halloween, dos niños que pasan sus vacaciones de otoño en Gotland desaparecen sin dejar rastro. Su pista se pierde en Holmhällar, un enclave turístico famoso por los raukar, unos imponentes monolitos de piedra.Cuando el inspector Anders Knutas inicia una intensa búsqueda por toda la isla, el cadáver de un anticuario aparece en una playa al norte de Visby. Junto con su compañera, Karin Jacobsson, Anders se ve envuelto en un oscuro misterio relacionado con el pasado de Gotland: historias de tesoros ocultos, ruinas embrujadas y castillos inaccesibles.

La segretaria di un broker viene trovata agonizzante in ufficio dal suo capo. La testa fracassata. Morirà pochi minuti dopo. Quella mattina era andata al lavoro più presto del solito. Il commissario della polizia di Genova ha appena dato le dimissioni dopo la fine amara dell'indagine sul mondo del calcio, ed è travolto dalle tristi vicende della sua vita privata. L'indagine tocca dunque al suo vice. I possibili sospetti sono molti, a cominciare dal broker, che nasconde sicuramente affari loschi e vanta importanti protezioni, ma il movente è poco chiaro, e l'arma del delitto non si trova.

Irish newsreader Isolde Malone has a face many would recognise; in fact, she can’t walk through the streets of Dublin without bumping into a hoard of fans, all of whom want their picture taken with the darling of broadcast journalism. She’s living a dream life and has never been happier. Until the night everything changes.

Enrico Ferrari é o subchefe da Cosa Nostra. Um homem que traçou o seu destino optando pela vida solitária com mulheres em sua cama sem precisar assumir um compromisso. Pietra Vacchiano, a princesinha da máfia, filha do chefe da Cosa Nostra, sempre nutriu um amor platônico, que ela escondia de todos, pelo subchefe.

A ruthless serial killer stalks the streets of Mumbai, leaving behind a gruesome trail of tortured victims. As the city reels in terror, the authorities grapple with a vital question: what links these seemingly random targets?

In un piccolo paese dell'isola la gente comincia a morire, lanciandosi da balconi e scarpate: nessuno ha un motivo apparente, ma tutti un vago sorriso. I casi ormai non si contano più e la stampa internazionale si riversa nella cittadina per documentare gli eventi. Quando, nel timore di un'epidemia planetaria, si spegnerà il faro dell'attenzione, gli abitanti resteranno soli e prigionieri a sprofondare nel regno delle ombre. Non soli del tutto, però. È rimasto in paese uno scrittore di gialli per affrontare il mistero di quei suicidi felici.

Ein spannendes literarisches Städteporträt und eine tiefschwarze Liebeserklärung an eine Stadt, die vor allem eines ist: keine Sekunde langweilig. 13 Kurzgeschichten, 13 Blickwinkel, 13 Stadtviertel–und 13 faszinierende Teile eines größeren Puzzles. Das Verbrechen zieht seine blutige Spur vom noblen Grunewald bis in den tiefsten Wedding, vom beschaulichen Altglienicke über das bunte Kreuzberg bis ins lebendige Friedrichshain, spürt den tödlichen Geheimnissen der Geschichte nach und setzt die Gegenwart als dunkel schimmerndes Kaleidoskop neu zusammen.

When Rudd, a troubled teenager, embarks on a school research project, he runs across the secret Mormon ritual of blood sacrifice and its role in a 1902 murder committed by the grandson of Brigham Young. Along with his newly discovered half brother, Rudd becomes swept up in the psychological and atavistic effects of this violent, antique ritual. As the past and the present become an increasingly tangled knot, Rudd is found—with minor injuries and few memories—at the scene of a multiple murder on a remote campsite.

Imagine having recurring nightmares of a woman who has one normal leg and one baby leg, and then waking up to wonder if today will be the day when they—whoever “they” are—find you and kill you. Unless you’re missing the point. Maybe “they” already have “you” and the world is a great deal more grotesque than you could ever imagine. Film noir collides with virtual worlds in this dark and strange novella that only Brian Evenson could have written.

L'architetto Fabbretto non ha mai progettato né costruito nulla, ma si è creato una carriera nella politica locale come amministratore del comune di Pordenone. Proprio nella veste di assessore alle politiche sociali viene avvicinato da due volontari dell'associazione Vitaviva per avviare un progetto all'avanguardia per il riciclo dei rifiuti, affidato all'ex detenuto Achille Orante, detto Lama per la sua pericolosità.

Il tempo è giunto a termine nella Città Vecchia. Mentre a Portland il ritmo della gentrificazione raggiunge il suo limite massimo, in Oregon, lo squallido negozio di tatuaggi di Darby Holland, Lucky Supreme, viene distrutto da una bomba che ha sventrato un intero isolato. Solo una chiamata di avvertimento dalla sua prostituta preferita gli ha salvato la vita. Ora Darby non ha più niente da perdere e decide di scoprire chi c'è dietro la misteriosa esplosione che ha devastato il quartiere.