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Kate and her husband are expecting their first child. Even though it was a surprise, Kate is thrilled and so is her mother, Helen. Kate just needs Helen’s anxieties to ease and for Dan to be on board. Dan is struggling – he loves Kate, but he is not ready to be a father. With relations between them feeling hostile, the attractive lead singer in Dan’s band offers him a tantalizing escape.

Adam Zantz is still driving for Lyft, struggling to make ends meet, when his beloved former piano teacher makes a deathbed request: He wants Zantz to prove his son’s innocence in a decades-earlier murder case. There doesn’t seem to be much hope of solving such a cold case—until Zantz stumbles onto a test pressing of a never-released vinyl LP. The recording is of a high school garage band lost to the tides of the Paisley Underground, the acid-fueled early ’80s music scene that spawned the Bangles and the Three O'Clock. Down the psychedelic rabbit hole Adam falls.

A struggling songwriter and Lyft driver, Adam Zantz’s life changes when he accepts a ride request in Malibu and 1970s music icon Annie Linden enters his dented VW Jetta. Bonding during that initial ride, the two quickly go off app— over the next three years, Adam becomes her exclusive driver and Annie listens to his music, encouraging Adam even as he finds himself driving more often than songwriting. Then, Annie disappears, and her body washes up under a pier.

In the unremarkable French town of Saint-Louis, a mysterious stranger stalks the streets; an elderly woman believes her son is planning to do away with her; a prominent manufacturer drops dead. Between visits to the town’s hostelries, Chief Inspector Georges Gorski ponders the connections, if any, between these events, while all the time grappling with his own domestic and existential demons.

For fans of Cottonmouths by Kelly J. Ford comes Negative Girl: an evocative, moody, neo-noir thriller that explores obsession and people dying across America's forgotten spaces.

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.

Maria Viani, biologa in pensione e detective per passione, rispolvera una serie di efferati crimini compiuti 500 anni prima. I colpi di scena si susseguono in quella che si rivelerà la sua indagine più pericolosa. Maria Viani trascorre l'inverno frequentando la biblioteca civica alla ricerca di documenti sulla storia della Repubblica di Genova. In maniera del tutto fortuita le capita tra le mani il verbale di un processo per duplice omicidio, avvenuto nel centro storico nel 1550. Protagonista un ricco artigiano della seta genovese, condannato a morte.

Добро пожаловать в Завораш — город, где плетется паутина заговоров. Жестокие убийства здесь не редкость, а на улицах правит белый тлен — новая чума, от которой гибнут сотни горожан. В этом городе пересекаются судьбы нескольких героев: человека, находящегося в подчинении у загадочных алхимиков крови, священника, наемного убийцы, бездомного наркомана и смертельно опасного маньяка — хирургически модифицированного бывшего солдата, испытывающего непреодолимую тягу к убийствам. В безумном мире, где каждый сам за себя, герои вынуждены бороться со своими внутренними демонами.

Barbara ci ha provato, a ricominciare, a tagliare i ponti con il passato, a fuggire da se stessa. Un nuovo luogo dove vivere, la piccola isola sperduta nel Mediterraneo che la gente del posto chiama “il Faro”. Un nuovo lavoro come maestra elementare. Perfino un nuovo nome, Alice. Ma il destino sembra avere altri piani. Un giorno la direttrice della scuola annuncia che nella sua classe arriverà una nuova alunna, Anna, una bambina complicata, con un serio problema di aggressività e accessi di rabbia.

Genova, 1990. Maria Viani, sta eseguendo le analisi necessarie per il trapianto degli organi di Massimo Ghini, entrato in coma per un colpo di arma da fuoco. Le forze dell'ordine hanno stabilito che si è trattato di suicidio. Ma è davvero così? Sia l'ex moglie dell'uomo, scarcerato da poco dopo aver scontato una pena per appartenenza a bande armate, che il suo datore di lavoro e amico, non sembrano convinti di questa tesi. Anche Maria Viani, compilando un rapporto per il Ministero della Sanità, si imbatte in una strana coincidenza che la fa dubitare di questa presunta verità.

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.

This year's London Marathon is my last chance to win the final place on the Olympic team. The months of rehabilitation after my injury will feel worth it to cross that line. But I wasn't expecting the man who's been making my life a living hell to be there. Last I knew, my stalker was behind bars, but he says he's going to be at the race watching. I have 26 miles to figure out whether it's him, and what he wants, or I could lose more than just the race.

H is a boxer past his prime. Haunted by the memory of the fight that should have made him great, he is chasing his dream through the seedier side of the London boxing circuit, losing fights against his untalented opponents, his wife and, ultimately, himself. When a gunfight at an illegal gambling shebeen drags him down into a multicultural underworld of violence and extortion, H finds himself in debt to the sinister sociopath, White Alan.

"En tiempos de la Guerra Fría existieron solamente como un grupo de operarios clandestinos vinculados a La Cuadrilla una agencia-fantasma del Gobierno norteamericano dedicada a eliminar los grandes saboteadores de la oposición. Con el colapso de la Unión Soviética, Washington decide desbandarla, hasta que se logra demostrar a los "nuevos dioses" del Potomac que mantener operante a una unidad como esta, en tiempos de paz, es un mal necesario cuando se trata de salvaguardar la seguridad nacional..."

It's been a while since Sadie Fuller has lived a normal life. Her obsessive compulsions make even daily life a constant struggle. Living in New Los Angeles doesn't help either. A haven for Descendants, gods and goddesses that suddenly woke up in mortal bodies, the city is ripe with the mysterious and macabre. But now Sadie is witness to a Descendant murder and thrown into an investigation that will test her in ways she could never have imagined. Soon, she herself becomes the hunted. Who is serially killing the Descendants and why do they want to kill her?

Morir al sur, escrita con un lenguaje preciso y eficaz, transporta al lector, de una historia de crimen común, hacia una de crímenes de Estado que nos interna en el universo de la corrupción política y militar, y que debido a la región del país que le sirve de escenario, se inserta en un contexto social de gran impacto para México.

Neapolis, 22 a.C. Dalla vasca delle murene di una lussuosa villa situata nella meravigliosa località di Pausilypon affiora una carcassa umana. È del ricco e spregevole eques romano Lucio Popilio Lepido, ospite del proprietario della villa, il cavaliere Publio Vedio Pollione, più feroce del morto. Pollione e Lepido non sono gli unici equites di Pausilypon: altri cinque loro sodali, con cui hanno sancito un patto segreto, si sono dati appuntamento nella dimora per un simposio. A pochi giorni – non è un caso – dall'arrivo in città dell'imperatore Augusto. Accanto al corpo di Lepido, un messaggio oscuro.

¿Podrán Cara y Carlo hallar al culpable antes de que la oscuridad los devore por completo? ANTES: Hace veinte años, en la ciudad más hermosa a orillas del Danubio, la guerra comenzó a gestarse. Las sombras del pasado resucitaron y dos hermanas dieron a luz a sus hijos solo para que se los arrebataran. Este es el origen del horror, donde todo empezó. AHORA: En un presente desolado, Cara y Carlo deambulan por una Budapest en ruinas, una ciudad donde la luz del sol ya no llega. Los hermanos, hambrientos de venganza y respuestas, buscan al hombre responsable de desatar el mal que destruyó sus vidas y su mundo.

Avec sa voix si singulière, son style ciselé, Michaël Mention signe un roman radical tout en rythme et en émotions pour conter le plus insoutenable des deuils, la plus viscérale des vengeances, et peindre le portrait d'un homme et d'un monde qui vacillent.

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