Noir

When a prominent Manhattan lawyer is murdered, two estranged sisters - one the dead man’s widow, the other his ex - must set aside mistrust and old resentments...but can they escape their past? From Alafair Burke comes another twisty tale of domestic noir....

Duchess Day Radley is a 13-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. Rules are for other people. She is the fierce protector of her five-year-old brother, Robin, and the parent to her mother, Star, a single mom incapable of taking care of herself, let alone her two kids....

Scarlett Clark is an exceptional English professor. But she’s even better at getting away with murder. Every year, Dr. Clark searches for the worst man at Gorman University - professor, student, or otherwise - and plots his well-deserved demise....

A stunning domestic thriller which a woman must make the impossible choice between defending her husband and saving herself....

Early one morning on the shore of the Thames, DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene of a gruesome discovery. When Owusu sends the evidence for examination, he learns the bones are connected to a cold case that left three people dead on the kitchen floor in a Chelsea mansion thirty years ago....

When a landslip on Pembrokeshire’s stunning coastal path reveals the harrowing remains of two bodies, ex-DCI Evan Warlow’s quiet retirement is shattered....

Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder....

From Booker Prize finalist and two-time National Book Award finalist Rachel Kushner comes a dazzling novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France.

Was the biggest case of his career the worst mistake he ever made? Ten years ago, DCI Jack Logan stopped the serial child-killer dubbed "Mister Whisper", earning himself a commendation, a drinking problem, and a broken marriage in the process....

The first three crime thrillers in the Detective Sebastian Clifford series together in a single collection for the first time. This collection includes Web of Lies, Speak No Evil, and Never Too Late....

A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, and Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in....

When a brutal attack on two mountain bikers in the vast solitude of the Brechfa forest leaves one dead and the other badly injured, the hunt is on for the killer. And though the evidence points firmly in one direction, an open and shut case soon becomes murky and unclear....

From the author of The Ruin comes a compulsive new crime thriller set in the fiercely competitive, cutthroat world of research and academia, where the brightest minds will stop at nothing to succeed....

Artemus Black doesn't believe in fate...but even a hardened Hollywood PI can question destiny when cases turn ugly.

Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant....

It's not every afternoon that an enigmatic, comely blonde named Stilton (like the cheese) walks into the scruffy gin joint where Sammy "Two Toes" Tiffin tends bar....

From the modern master of Nordic suspense comes an explosive novel about a community in crisis and two brothers on the verge of losing everything they’ve worked so hard to achieve.

He's a beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He only works when his cash runs out, and his rule is simple: he'll help you find whatever was taken from you, as long as he can keep half....

After 20 years on the force, Detective Chief Inspector Jack Logan thinks he has seen it all. He is wrong....

A young hospital security guard with a disturbingly unique taste in women. A maternity doctor with a horrifically unusual appetite. When the two of them meet, they embark on a journey of self-discovery while shattering societal norms....

Las Vegas: a city built on obscene wealth and corrupt deals, cunning entrepreneurs, and the ruthless mob. The Cartel's plan to open a casino will rake in cash, but it comes with great sacrifice....

Nina - a career girl living alone in Manhattan - offers Travis McGee companionship and the first loose thread in the elaborate fabric of a gigantic swindle.....

Tough, cynical PI Sam Spade is hired by the story's irresistible femme fatale, Brigid O'Shaughnessy, to locate the client's sister by tailing her companion. Spade's partner, Miles Archer, takes on the assignment, and quickly both he and the man he was shadowing are murdered....

When a farmer and his son go missing whilst chasing rustlers, DCI Evan Warlow and his team are called in to investigate. Everything points to a botched raid by heartless thieves, but with no bodies, and little or no clues, the team quickly start chasing their tails....

Toya Gardner, a young Black artist from Atlanta, has returned to her ancestral home in the North Carolina mountains to trace her family history and complete her graduate thesis....

England, 1914. Die Welt ist von Konflikten gezeichnet. Der verletzte Captain Hastings wird ins Anwesen Styles Court eingeladen, um sich von seinen körperlichen und seelischen Wunden zu erholen. Styles ist ein prachtvolles Landhaus und Heimat seines Kindheitsfreundes. Für Hastings ein Ort der Ruhe … glaubt er. Doch an den heißen Sommertagen braut sich etwas Finsteres zusammen.

Sam Monroe thought his steamy love affair with Manhattan socialite Laura Nielson was dead and buried, but when she didn’t show up after unexpectedly calling him late at night and asking to meet, he decides to investigate. He finds her naked on her penthouse balcony, strangled, his dog tags wrapped around her neck. With a bull’s-eye on his back as the prime suspect, Sam begins a search for the killer that reveals Laura’s involvement with several men, some with ties to a well-known crime family.

Pour arrondir ses fins de mois, Keisha Ceylon a eu LA bonne idée : troquer ses balais de femme de ménage contre une boule de cristal. Entre thème astral et marc de café, elle s'est fait une spécialité : faits divers et disparitions. Cinq mille dollars contre l'espoir de retrouver un être cher : certaines familles sont prêtes à tout. Wendell Garfield est sans nouvelles de sa femme Ellie, volatilisée à la sortie du supermarché une semaine plus tôt. Aucunindice, la police piétine. La presse est en émoi.

Unfolding during the moody Pacific Northwest winter of 1951, we follow Bernadette Baston, scholar of child development and language acquisition, as she travels to a penitentiary on the remote island Elita in the Puget Sound to consult on a curious case: two guards have discovered an animal-like adolescent girl living alone in the cold woods beyond the prison's walls.

Eleanor convive con la prosopagnosia, l'incapacità di riconoscere i volti delle persone. Un disturbo che causa stress, ansia acuta, e può farti dubitare di ciò che pensi di sapere. Una sera la ragazza si reca a casa della nonna Vivianne per la consueta cena domenicale. Ad accoglierla sull'uscio non trova però la nonna, ma una persona cui non riesce a dare un nome, che scappa via per le scale. Dentro casa, la nonna è distesa sul tappeto accanto a un paio di forbici con le lame spalancate. Nella stanza, odore di ferro e carne.

La découverte d'une vieille photo bouleverse à jamais l'existence tranquille d'une mère de famille. Et si votre vie n'était qu'une vaste imposture ? Si l'homme que vous avez épousé dix ans auparavant n'était pas celui que vous croyiez ? Si tout votre univers s'effondrait brutalement ? Pour Grace Lawson, il aura suffi d'un seul regard sur une vieille photo prise vingt ans plus tôt pour que tout s'écroule. Ses souvenirs, son mariage, ses amis : tout n'était qu'un tissu de mensonges.

Il libro cult di James Ellroy. Nessuno più di lui ha saputo raccontare il lato oscuro di Los Angeles. Quel lato oscuro che ha ucciso Elizabeth Short. 15 gennaio 1947, il cadavere martoriato di una bellissima giovane donna viene ritrovato in un terreno abbandonato tra i palazzi di Los Angeles. Sui giornali si parla di lei come della «Dalia Nera». E così inizia la più grande caccia all'uomo della storia della California.

Cuatro cadáveres. Un sospechoso. Ninguna pista … Primera novela de la serie de misterio del detective Roy Grace, un hombre atormentado por el recuerdo de su mujer muerta. A Michael Harrison pretenden gastarle una broma inolvidable en su despedida de soltero; algo que jamás pueda olvidar: enterrarlo vivo durante unas horas. Todo se complicará cuando sus amigos, que son los únicos que conocen el verdadero paradero de Michael, mueran esa misma noche en un accidente de tráfico.

Un caso personal. Una ciudad corrupta. Un detective al límite. Silvia no murió por error. Y Javier Maldonado no se irá de Miami sin saber por qué. Tras la sospechosa muerte de su hermana, el detective madrileño viaja a Florida buscando respuestas. Pero lo que encuentra no es duelo, es un nido de corrupción, lavado de dinero y silencios comprados. En un Miami tan soleado como letal, cada pista es una amenaza y cada aliado, un posible traidor. Con un maletín vacío, un teléfono al borde del colapso y enemigos por todas partes, Maldonado se enfrenta a su caso más íntimo, más ...

Un concejal de San Sebastián se lanza a las vías del tren en Intxaurrondo. Todo apunta a un suicidio, y la inspectora de la Ertzaintza Maialen Guevara toma el control del caso. Sin embargo, lo que comienza como una investigación rutinaria pronto se entrelaza con otro misterio: la muerte inexplicada de un profesor de primaria meses atrás. Desde Madrid llega Lorena Fernández, una detective privada contratada por la familia del fallecido. Lo que ni Maialen ni Lorena imaginan es que sus caminos convergerán en una red mucho más oscura de lo que esperaban.

Patrick Bird, police academy burnout turned PI, works divorce cases, using his camera to catch the unfaithful and the lonely looking for love in rented rooms. But his easy routine is shattered by a new case involving a missing girl.

Sono mesi che Romeo Calandri è stato ucciso - o meglio, giustiziato, considerata la brutalità dell'omicidio. A valle di una rapida indagine, dietro le sbarre è finito Carmelo Musci, killer professionista al soldo della 'ndrangheta, incriminato anche per il probabile assassinio di Luciano Orsi, socio di Calandri e scomparso lo stesso giorno dell'esecuzione. E invece, per una curiosa, grottesca e vagamente macabra coincidenza, proprio mentre si sta celebrando una messa in suffragio per la sua presunta morte, Orsi ricompare su una barca al largo di Cesenatico. Dove è stato per tutto questo tempo?

When a child vanishes, a city's darkest secrets rise to the surface – and in the shadows of Catalonia, justice comes at a price. Detective Elisenda Domènech is no stranger to grief. Haunted by personal loss and worn down by infighting within the force, she's already on the edge. Then a young boy disappears – the son of a powerful local politician, just days before an election. As pressure mounts to find the child, a wave of violent break-ins is terrorising the city, and Elisenda's key informant has disappeared.

Detective Inspector Tom Brand has moved from London to his childhood home in the sleepy village of Relby to look after his elderly father and take a job as lead detective in the village's new police station. Before he has a chance to settle into his new life, tragedy strikes. Two twelve-year-old boys pretending to be detectives in a mysterious game disappear. Tom is thrown into the most important case of his career. Families are torn apart by the disappearance of the boys, and the only clues are frustratingly indecipherable.

When a grisly double homicide takes place in an old apartment building, no one doubts the guilt of the victims' next-door neighbor. Not only does the man have a history of mental illness, he confessed to the murder within hours. True, he had no apparent motive, but who needs motive when the supposed murderer is crazy? The NYPD's lead detective would be happy to close the case, but he's facing his own demons, and letting the investigation drag on allows him to protect his own dark secret. Imagine his surprise when he begins uncovering facts that cast the murder in an all-new light.

Seamus Caron is a hard-edged private eye with a troubled past, navigating Toronto’s icy streets and solving mundane cases. When his best friend and homicide chief Sandra Blair’s latest case involves a new drug that’s poisoning users, Seamus races against time to prevent it from spreading and causing more deaths.

Milano, fine anni '20. Il Dirigibile Italia del generale Umberto Nobile è decollato da pochi giorni alla conquista del Polo Nord. Milano è avvolta dalla scighera, ma il commissario Carlo De Vincenzi ha bisogno di vederci chiaro. Un ragazzo è finito giù nel Naviglio in sella alla bici che aveva rubato, morendo affogato. Per molti si tratta di un incidente, il poeta del crimine, però, non è convinto. In una Gran Milan che mai come adesso appare completamente circondata dall'acqua, De Vincenzi dovrà tuffarsi a capofitto e pescare nel marcio alla ricerca della giustizia.

Il colonnello Annibale Canessa, protagonista di questo crudo romanzo noir, dovrà fare i conti con un passato che non può dimenticare. L'anziano colonnello Canessa, uomo di punta nella lotta al terrorismo negli Anni Settanta, è costretto a tornare in pista per risolvere l'omicidio di suo fratello, ucciso a colpi di kalashnikov insieme a un ex terrorista che lui stesso aveva arrestato durante gli Anni di Piombo. Un thriller dal ritmo incalzante, degno delle atmosfere milanesi del miglior Scerbanenco. Roberto Perrone nasce a Rapallo nel 1957.

La Santa: Verità e Ombre è un'avvincente storia di segreti e inganni ambientata a Caserta. Un commissario di polizia, il cui destino è segnato dall'abbandono del padre quando era un bambino, indaga sulla morte prematura di una bambina, soprannominata "La Santa". John, che di anglosassone ha solo il nome, ma è nato e cresciuto nel sud Italia, combatte la sua lotta contro il crimine organizzato. Il suo nome è oggetto di scherno e derisione, e non aiuta il suo carattere solitario e malinconico.

Angst. Schuld. Schweigen. Karla lebt gefangen – in ihrer Wohnung, in ihrem Körper, in sich selbst. Ihr Leben besteht aus gescheiterten Diäten, einsamen Nächten vor dem Fernseher und der ständigen Frage, warum sie nichts ändert. Sie will abnehmen, wirklich, doch ihr Wille bricht immer wieder an der Macht der Gewohnheit. Draußen fühlt sie sich beobachtet, fehl am Platz. Nur zum Einkaufen zwingt sie sich noch vor die Tür – schwer gestützt auf den Griff ihres Einkaufswagens.