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In the sleepy village of Fickleton, there is but one obsession, a young Venus named Evelyn Sands, adored, loved, cherished. But then, one day...

Tra le torbide acque del Tevere, ai piedi della basilica di San Paolo, viene ritrovato il cadavere di una donna, in posa come se fosse vittima di un misterioso rito. Quando posa lo sguardo sulla scena del crimine, Nemo Sperati sprofonda nella Stanza delle Ombre, il teatro mentale dove è in grado di vedere l'invisibile, riconoscere la firma dell'autore e attribuire l'opera. Per scagarsi, Nemo dovrà scendere negli abissi del proprio passato, separare il vero dal falso e far luce sul mistero che ammanta la vita e la morte di Rufo Speranza.

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.

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, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever. Joyland is a brand-new novel and has never previously been published.

When Mattie Winston catches her husband, Dr. David Winston, receiving some very special loving care from RN Karen Owenby, she quits her job and moves out. Mattie's best friend, Izzy, offers her a place to stay and suggests she'd be a natural as deputy coroner. Now, instead of taking patients' pulses, Mattie's weighing their hearts and livers. But Mattie's first homicide call turns out to be for none other than Nurse Karen, and even though she saw her ex in a heated argument with the newly deceased the night before, she refuses to believe David could be a killer.

Debauched, divorced, and courting death, Billy Ray Schafer is a comedian who has forgotten how to laugh. Over the course of seven spun-out days across the American Southwest, he travels from from hell gig to hell gig in search of a reason to keep living in this bleak and violent glimpse into the psyche of a thoroughly ruined man. Ex-inmate, ex-husband, ex-father - comedian is the only title Schafer has left. Trapped in the wreckage of his wasted career, Billy Ray knows the answer to the question: What happens when the opportunity doesn't come - or worse - it comes and goes?

A lifetime ago, brutally efficient fixer Phil Kubiak coldly cleaned up the messes of shady clients from Miami to Las Vegas by any means necessary - short of murder. Now he's one eye and one working leg short of the man he used to be, scarred beyond recognition, and with the feds and criminal organizations in hot pursuit. Throwing back sour beer in a dingy bar, Phil recounts the long story of his bitter life to the only person left to listen.

On a remote island off the coast of Maine lies a secluded estate. There, behind wrought iron gates and rock walls, sits Halcyon Hall. Today, it is an exclusive spa catering to wealthy elites and pampered celebrities. But once, it had another name - and a terrifying reputation.... Rosemary Tulle has come to Halcyon Hall desperate to find her younger sister. Seventeen-year-old Genevieve left a brief, troubling message on Rosemary's phone, begging to be picked up. But Rosemary is not on the visitor list, and no one will let her in....

On Midsummer's Eve, three role-playing teens dressed in 18th-century garb are shot in a secluded Swedish meadow. When one of Inspector Kurt Wallander's most trusted colleagues, someone whose help he hoped to rely on to solve the crime, also turns up dead, Wallander knows the murders are related. But with his only clue a picture of a woman no one in Sweden seems to know, he can't begin to imagine how.

A macabre grave is found at the foot of the Italian Dolomites. The body is found to be Roberto Lorenzoni's, only son and heir of one Venice's oldest, most aristocratic families. Commissario Guido Brunetti must move in the highest circles of power and corruption to unravel the mystery behind the young man's disappearance and murder.

From the imaginative radio mind of writer/producer Jim French comes the tough-but-thoughtful private eye who roams the rain-swept streets of the Pacific Coast in search of crime, adventure, and enough dough to keep the office lights on for another month - Harry Nile! It's modern radio drama produced in the classic style, with stories set in the golden age of private-eye drama. Phil Harper stars as Harry in high-powered, hard-luck radio adventures! The 21 episodes featured here include the last show of the character's 1970s run, and the first 20 episodes of his glorious return in 1990.

Laurence Shames’ funny, elegantly written, and hip thrillers have topped best-seller lists across the country, and earned him a leading role as a writer of “Florida noir” with Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen. When Island Frigate advertising rep Suki Sperakis decides to write an exposé on the Key West black market, she is strangled and left for dead in the trunk of a car sinking slowly into the Gulf of Mexico.

Hero of a best-selling mystery series ... and his author wants him dead. Frank Miller, hero of the best-selling mystery novels written by The Man Upstairs, works the weird streets of Chapeltown as a private detective. During the legendary case of the Black Widow everything changed, Frank becoming aware of his fictional existence. Proclaimed at the time as a work of genius, Frank believes it was the first sign The Man Upstairs was sick. This latest case, involving the death of a care worker, and coinciding with the appointment of Chapeltown’s first elected mayor, has Frank baffled. The Man...

He escaped the city of nightmares once. And now he must return. William Twist is on the brink of collapse. But even with his detective agency failing, he’s wary when Beth Hilary, an attractive and wealthy widow walks into his office. Yet Twist is in no position to refuse when she makes him a generous offer to look into the suspicious suicide of her son, a philosophy student at Twist's old university. Following the case back to a city holding dark and disturbing secrets he’s spent twenty years trying to escape, he soon regrets his decision. But people are depending on him, and Twist is ...

Serial murders, riots, and gang warfare: howling with pleasure, the manhunter Daniel Acosta Berg has chased his prey deep into the rotten core of the projects in the outskirts of the ever-expanding Oslo-arcology, only to have his hunt thwarted at the very last minute. Nothing lasts forever.Now, the Crows in KRIPOS and the Ravens in the PST are starting to circle like vultures around Taskforce Charlie's biggest murder case ever. Personal ambitions and careers are at stake as secret agendas come into play way above their paygrade. Daniel wants to howl his displeasure at the careless heavens ...

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.

Everyone who lives at 23 Beulah Grove has a secret. If they didn't, they wouldn't be renting rooms in a dodgy old building for cash - no credit check, no lease. It's the kind of place you end up when you you've run out of other options.The six residents mostly keep to themselves, but one unbearably hot summer night, a terrible accident pushes them into an uneasy alliance. What they don't know is that one of them is a killer. He's already chosen his next victim, and he'll do anything to protect his secret.

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.

With zombie hordes swallowing the earth, mankind had no choice except to launch every nuke on the planet to stop them. Now, 150 years later, we live in over-crowded polluted cities, surrounded by vast radioactive wastelands. And no, we did not get all the zombies. They live among us, sometimes hiding in plain sight. Although the tattoos and piercings help them blend in, and the drugs help to contain their rage, they can never fully control their hunger. It’s endless.

When Angela met Jason Powell while catering a dinner party in East Hampton, she assumed their romance would be a short-lived fling, like so many relationships between locals and summer visitors. To her surprise, Jason, a brilliant economics professor at NYU, had other plans, and they married the following summer. For Angela, the marriage turned out to be a chance to reboot her life. She and her son were finally able to move out of her mother's home to Manhattan, where no one knew about her tragic past.