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....

Renée Ballard is working the night beat again and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours only to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin....

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 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....

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....

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.

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....

Mexico in the 1970s is a dangerous country, even for Maite, a secretary who spends her life seeking the romance found in cheap comic books and ignoring the activists protesting around the city....

It's been 20 years since Cormac Reilly discovered the body of Hilaria Blake in her crumbling Georgian home. But he's never forgotten the two children she left behind....

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....

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....

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....

All around Albuquerque, New Mexico, young women are going missing, seemingly vanished into thin air. With no link between the victims, Detective Alyssa Wyatt is quickly plunged into a horrifying case with no obvious clues....

In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, whom he divorced and remarried and who ends up dead....

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....

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....

The second novel in The L.A. Quartet. Murder, mayhem, and dirty cops on the make against the backdrop of anti-communist hysteria in L.A. in 1950.

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....

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

Walter Mosley's infamous Detective Easy Rawlins is back, with a new mystery to solve on the sun-soaked streets of Southern California....

All that the Georgia Bureau of Investigations taught Faith Mitchell goes out the window when she charges into her mother’s house, gun drawn. She sees a man dead in the laundry room. She sees a hostage situation in the bedroom. What she doesn’t see is her mother....

Late one winter afternoon in upstate New York, George Clare comes home to find his wife killed and their three-year-old daughter alone—for how many hours?—in her room across the hall....

After the tragic and bloody end to The Cartel's reign, Carter is forced into isolation to evade the law....

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....

When single-mother Devon Connor hires Elvis Cole, it’s because her troubled teenage son Tyson is flashing cash and she’s afraid he’s dealing drugs. But the truth is devastatingly different....

Kayleigh Morris is just trying to survive her first year at St. Kellum’s University. Freshers’ Week is a blur of social anxiety, parties, and the weight of trying to fit in. But when Kayleigh’s panic attack becomes the talk of the campus, she retreats into herself, shutting herself away in her room. Everything changes when she’s selected for a mysterious new module, led by Professor Lady Marian, who introduces her and a group of misfits to a psychedelic drug believed to cure anxiety and promote productivity.

Detective Chief Inspector Ninian Plenderleith finds himself removed from being in charge of a Major Investigation Team dealing with an unexplained death on the Isle of Islay, Scotland. His suspicions about who could be implicated are ignored. Powerful forces above his rank want the case closed with the minimum of fuss. Maintaining his integrity to the end, Plenderleith leaves the force with a vow to seek justice using other methods. An adult crime mystery illustrating how institutional power can corrupt.

PALABRAS ASESINAS Thriller psicológico con enfoque femenino ambientado en una prisión de Barcelona En la cárcel de Wad-Ras, las muertes nunca parecen del todo naturales. Carmen Soto, interna en proceso de recuperación, aparece muerta una madrugada. No hay signos de violencia. Tampoco hay testigos. Solo silencio. Silencio… y palabras. Cuando la psicóloga forense Mercedes Hurtado es llamada para evaluar a Amaia Laredo —una reclusa brillante, carismática y peligrosamente persuasiva—, se encuentra atrapada en un juego mental donde la víctima y el verdugo intercambian roles con una ...

Illustrateur de trente-sept ans, Ray doit abandonner sa vie de célibataire et ses activités professionnelles pour retourner dans la maison familiale suite au décès accidentel de son père. Il y retrouve Thomas, son cadet, et du même coup toutes les difficultés qu'il pensait avoir laissées derrière lui. Thomas, atteint de schizophrénie, vit reclus dans sa chambre et passe ses journées sur son ordinateur, devant un programme de cartes interactives baptisé Whirl360.

Behind Sunset is a comic and noir-tinged tour through Tinseltown that uncovers darkness and lightness, in equal measure, from the most unexpected of sources.

Wenn Liebe tödlich ist – und Wahrheit gefährlich Ein Krimi, der unter die Haut geht: Lavender House entführt in das San Francisco der 1950er-Jahre – eine Welt der Geheimnisse, in der Liebe ein Verbrechen sein kann. Evander Mills, Ex-Cop mit ruiniertem Ruf, erhält eine zweite Chance: Er soll auf einem abgelegenen Anwesen den Tod von Irene Lamontaine aufklären – Matriarchin einer Seifen-Dynastie und Teil einer queeren Wahlfamilie, die hinter dicken Mauern lebt. Doch wer die Wahrheit sucht, muss lernen, sich selbst zu erkennen.

Santino Fiore ha quasi sessant'anni, un cuore che fa le bizze e una moglie che non sa del suo vero lavoro. Ha finto per una vita d'essere un impiegato, ma la realtà è molto più sanguinosa di così. Ha quattro giorni per chiudere la carriera con un'ultima missione. S'incontrano così, Santino e Vittoria, tra Bologna e un paesone della Bassa Emiliana, San Giovanni in Persiceto, che nasconde molto più di quanto mostra.

Il nuovo romanzo di Antonio Manzini, l'Italia più nera e cattiva, il male come unica possibilità di riscatto. Colle San Martino è una frazione arroccata sull'Appennino a due passi da Rieti soggiogata dalla Chiesa di Don Graziano e dal Castello di Cicci Bellè che possiede tutto, case e terreni, soldi da prestare e su tutti domina. Attorno a questo microcosmo si muovono i personaggi, che appaiono tra le quinte di quello che è un vero e proprio teatro, di volta in volta chiamati sulla scena a sostenere la loro parte.

Pietro Valvassori, ex rugbista, è noto a tutti come il difensore dei più deboli. Quando si ritrova a dover difendere Leandro, accusato di aver strangolato la moglie Lorena, trascina da subito l'indagato su un ring senza risparmiargli colpi proibiti pur di fargli confessare l'assassinio. Ma presto si rende conto che la verità è ben diversa da ciò che si aspetta.

Bacci Pagano indaga sulle minacce ricevute da un suo amico di lunga data, ma il riemergere di un vecchio omicidio irrisolto renderà tutto più complicato... Cesare Almansi, avvocato e vecchio amico di Bacci, riceve minacciose telefonate anonime dopo la sua candidatura al Senato. Queste intimidazioni lo spingono a chiedere aiuto a Bacci, il quale inizia a scandagliare i carrugi di Genova, popolati da vecchi compagni di lotta politica e nuovi nemici in agguato.

Quando il cadavere di un uomo viene ripescato nel fiume, Nico è certo di sapere di chi si tratta. Per una ragione molto semplice: è stato lui a ucciderlo. O almeno cosí crede. Nel tentativo di ricostruire i fatti, per assolversi o condannarsi, si ritrova a scavare nelle bugie della sua famiglia e a cercare l'origine della loro infelicità, che come una malattia si è propagata e ha infettato ogni cosa. Persino i desideri.

Мелкий бизнесмен Юрий Колокольцев, попавший в криминальную историю, соглашается обменяться документами с приятелем-милиционером, и под его именем пойти работать клерком в МВД. Самого же приятеля не прельщает подобного рода стезя, он разочаровался в профессии и мечтает уехать в Америку, хотя протекцию в аппарат министерства ему составил дядя – вице-премьер правительства. Юрию же некуда деваться: он разбил чужую машину, ранил человека, и теперь ему грозит тюремный срок.

Tauro Pigro, ridente località termale punteggiata di palme. Un hotel dall'eleganza sfiorita - tappeti polverosi, mobilio di mogano tarlato - accoglie dieci ospiti che arrivano alla spicciolata, ognuno col proprio carico di solitudine e aspettative. C'è la socialite d'altri tempi ossessionata dall'età, la bibliotecaria con la testa fra le nuvole, lo storico dell'arte che si ostina a non andare in pensione, la coppia sposata da decenni, lo scrittore incompreso. E poi l'architetto seduttore seriale, il parrucchiere rapato a zero, la capa che tiranneggia la sottoposta senza pietà.

It's 1941 in the quaint Village of Worthington, Ohio. Life is changing at the end of the Great Depression. Elizabeth Russo, 23, teaches elementary school but feels uncertain about her future. Her Sicilian immigrant father ran The Red and White, a popular village general store.

Dopo una carriera in polizia interrotta contro la sua volontà, Mariano Greco si è reinventato investigatore privato nella Milano sempre più proiettata nel futuro. Il politico e armatore Ranieri Averardi, latitante a Dubai dopo una condanna per collusione mafiosa, è sospettato dal fratello di aver ucciso la madre per impossessarsi dell'eredità familiare. Tra Milano, Dubai e Roma, Greco e Arminia dovranno addentrarsi in un intreccio di relazioni ambigue, giochi di potere e fiumi di denaro sporco dal quale sarà difficile uscire puliti.