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Somehow the missing brother is linked to a gangster who has stolen thousands from the mafia, but that link isn’t clear. Carson’s search doesn’t turn up the brother, but it does turn up a body - the body of a gangster who was on a mission of murder. It seems that the Memphis Mafia and the Memphis Police are also searching for his client’s brother. Finding him first becomes a real priority.

North Yorkshire, England. Detective Chief Inspector Harry Grimm is reluctantly easing into life in the dales. As he gradually acclimatizes to the slower pace of the countryside while he awaits a return to the city, he’s called out to inspect a farmer’s crushed body. And despite the doctor on site declaring it a tragic mishap, the seasoned police officer rolls up his sleeves when evidence points to foul play. With a mysterious clue the only connection and the not-so-quiet village in self-imposed lockdown, the city-bred cop hunts for a link lethal enough to lead to murder.

An opportunist act throws a disturbed teenager into conflict with local drug dealers, and headlong into a covert drugs operation. Something happened to trigger her self-destructive descent, but what? Was she abused? Is she amoral? Why would the child of politician choose to live on the streets rather than have a Maserati for her 18th birthday? DI Redwall is determined to find out, and save this lost child, but Jessie's chances of survival seem slim.

You may think being a superhero is all about dodging bullets, fancy armor, secret identities, and thwarting supervillains - but not in Spire City. Here, you have to deal with crazy shamanic visions, and Nazi butchers brought to USA after World War II. Need we mention the malevolent thought forms and gangs of freakish mutants? Modern city life is tough enough, but in Spire City even the superheroes are stretched to the breaking point when the villains have better lawyers.

Granada, 2016, calle Salamanca n.º 9, 3ª planta. Un sorprendente secreto aguarda a Claudia Vargas entre los documentos de su difunto padre. Sonia Eleudas, una despiadada asesina, encontrará el amor de manera inesperada mientras planea la ejecución de sus últimas víctimas.

On a hot August night, a troubled 15-year-old boy with a tragic past wakes to find his tyrannical foster parents murdered by a trio of nocturnal, blood-drinking heathens. The killers give him the opportunity for a new life, one where he can be relieved of traditional hardships, vanquish his enemies, and attain a sense of true belonging...at the cost of what little remains of his humanity. The life he is offered is one of eternal darkness, but the promise of undying acceptance, freedom, and power gives it an appeal that his current dreaded existence is lacking.

Aux États-Unis, de nos jours. Zack Walker a une obsession : la sécurité. Marié et père de deux enfants, cet auteur de science-fiction a préféré quitter un environnement urbain qu'il estime trop dangereux, pour une vie de banlieue bien paisible. Paisible ? A voir. Car Zack, en bon parano, continue de voir le danger partout : ses ados s'obstinent à laisser la porte d'entrée ouverte aux cambrioleurs potentiels et surtout, sa femme Sara laisse son sac à main à disposition de tous.

Südkorea, 1993: In der Hafenstadt Busan ist das Verbrechen allgegenwärtig. Um in dem heruntergekommenen Stadtteil Guam zu überleben, ist den Gangstern jedes Mittel recht. Auch Huisu ist mit allen Wassern gewaschen. Als rechte Hand von Old Son, dem Kopf von Guams Unterwelt, erledigt er seit zwanzig Jahren routiniert die Drecksarbeit. Egal ob Bestechung, Schmuggelei oder Auftragsmord - es gibt nichts, wovor Huisu zurückschreckt. Doch seine Loyalität zahlt sich nicht aus, und so fristet er ein trostloses Dasein im Schatten des übermächtigen Old Son.

Innocent people are dying. Mark Solier is a devoutly religious man, and he is arrested for killing them with just his mind. Mary Morgan is a young, ambitious, soon-to-be lawyer who makes a case for him to be tried for murder. An equally ambitious secret group, born at Yale and solidified through the Skull and Bones, conclude the facts to be true.

Nairobi Noir is an act of excavation, rediscovering the city's ossified past and infusing life to preserve it for future generations. It is also an act of celebration, reminding listeners of the brilliance of the best-known writers to emerge from this part of the world, and heralding the birth of new writers whose gifts, we can safely predict, will shine brightly in the years ahead.

A mafia henchman (Sonny Bolgero) from Cleveland, Ohio, is released from the Ohio State Penitentiary in early July of 1930 as a result of the prison running low on funds, due to the Great Depression. When Sonny arrives back in his old neighborhood (Little Italy) five years earlier than anticipated, he is shocked to discover that his girlfriend (Francesca Strindberg) has already moved on and is married to the boss of The Cleveland Crime Family (Frank Milano).

A woman with a hidden past. A new love on the horizon. Will the truth set her free or cost her everything? In Parallel Lies Madeleine Ross has meticulously organized her world to leave no trace of her criminal past. But when she starts falling for her handsome boss, Dan, she’s worried letting him in will expose secrets best kept locked away...As the story continues in Loving Vengeance, Madeleine’s world is a mess. Suffering the fallout from the mistakes she made with Tag, she has no idea where she stands with Daniel.

Mi son di nuovo perso e la strada è lunga. Lunga quasi quanto gli intrecci stradali dei decumani dedalici d'una Bologna a quel tempo e purtroppo, a tutt'oggi, soventemente sconsacrata... Bologna, mia città natia. Città macchiatasi di reati e delitti morbosi, lordatasi e inceneritasi nella folle sconcezza dei più turpi atti criminosi. Qui rivisti dagli occhi d'un uomo smarritosi negli anfratti onirici della sua rinascenza maestosa. Un excursus esistenziale travolgente, goliardico, granguignolesco, sì, grottesco e boccaccesco. Al contempo ironico e malinconico.

McHugh's back, drunk, and locked deep in a Mexican jail while the clock ticks down to doomsday! Someone is planning an international incident that would set off a revolution in one of the US's closest South of the border allies, plus provoke a shooting war between the US and Mexico - and it's up to McHugh, the two-fisted secret agent who always travels with a briefcase containing a fifth of Scotch and a .45, to stop it.

Oak Valley, USA, is a quiet town until the day a series of murders start happening. All of them appear unrelated and even coincidental. However, the one thing they all have in common is Ira Wakely, a reporter for the local newspaper. He apparently has no friends or family, and no one knows much about him.

Your personal space is a sanctuary in this beguiling hotel we know only as The Grand, where we are swept away on a course that pulsates like jazz music or paint on canvas. Writing poetry on the wallpaper in his room as a form of therapy, taking long walks, and even sleeping naked in the garden, we journey with this poet in metaphor and subconscious rhythms in a mysterious residence of beauty, while something dangerous and unstable lurks in the world outside.

The unblinking story of two lost and self-destructive drifters - a failed painter working as a counterman in a cheap diner and a woman in flight from domestic violence - trying to find a place for themselves in the back streets of San Francisco, Pick-Up is hardboiled writing at its nihilistic best.

Two grim stories of dark noir, designed to keep you up late at night. A hit man named Smitty goes about his business in the dead of night silently and efficiently. No one hears him. No one sees him. Until it's too late. Swift and efficient, he does his work and fades into the darkness with an almost inhuman ease.

A work of purest fiction and the world’s first arctic gothic horror, The Reeking Hegs is a bristling adventure story of the dramatic kind with a high-thrill quota with every listen. The action takes place among the crashing ice packs, tidal waves ,and frozen desolation of old Ugzcyk, a remote city somewhere north of latitude 66 ruled by the despotic solid King Solid Fume, III, and menaced by the threatening horror of The Hegs.

Ich verstecke mich seit vier Jahren. Bin auf der Flucht vor dem Mann, mit dem ich einst das Bett teilte. ? Ich sah etwas, das ich nicht hätte sehen sollen. Ich nahm etwas, das ich nicht hätte nehmen sollen. Und er hat mich gerade gefunden. Aber es ist nicht nur meine Sicherheit, um die ich mir Sorgen machen muss. Ich habe einen kleinen Jungen. Seinen Jungen. Das geheime Baby eines russischen Gangsters.