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1955: Tampa, Florida, is a city pulsing with Sicilian and Cuban gangsters, cigar factories, sweet rum, and violence. The death of retired kingpin Charlie Wall—the White Shadow—has shocked the city, sending cops, reporters, and associates scrambling to find those responsible. As the trail winds through neighborhoods rich and poor, enmeshing the innocent and corrupt alike all the way down to the streets and casinos of Havana, an extraordinary story of revenge, honor, and greed emerges.

San Francisco, September 1921: Silent-screen comedy star Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle is throwing a wild party in his suite at the St. Francis Hotel-girls, jazz, bootleg hooch...and a dead actress named Virginia Rappe. The D.A. says it was Arbuckle who killed her—crushed her under his weight—and brings him up on manslaughter charges. William Randolph Hearst's newspapers stir up the public and demand a guilty verdict.

Joyce Carol Oates assembles an outstanding cast of authors—including Margaret Atwood, Tananarive Due, and Megan Abbott—to explore, subvert, and reinvent one of the most vital subgenres of horror.

When crime-fighting attorney Albert Patterson is gunned down in a Phenix City, Alabama, alley in the spring of 1954, the entire town seems to pause for just a moment—and when it starts up again, there is something different about it. A small group of men meet and decide they have had enough, but what that means and where it will take them is something they could not have foreseen.

In July 1933, a gangster staged the kidnapping-for-ransom of an Oklahoma oilman. He would live to regret it. What started clean soon turns messy as two of “Machine Gun” Kelly’s partners cut themselves into the action, a determined former Texas Ranger makes tracking Kelly his mission, and his wife, ever alert to her own self-interest, starts playing both sides. Set in the first days of the modern FBI, Infamous is a blend of historical novel and crime story featuring an unexpected hero, some of the most colorful supporting characters in recent crime fiction, and femme fatale Kathryn Kelly.

When city detective Kate Monroe endures a bitter break up, her only option is to relocate back up north to the town of her birth, Barnsworth. She soon finds that her detecting skills are in demand, as a mysterious serial killer stalks Barnsworth's streets seemingly picking victims at random.

En esta novela transitaremos por los caminos de la política y el tráfico de influencias, de los mercados financieros y las venas criminales que los alimentan. Entenderemos aquí que los hombres públicos arrastran y esconden pasados tortuosos, que los personeros del Estado y su aparato represivo obran en la sombra más en beneficio del lucro personal que de idearios nacionales. Y confirmaremos que buena parte de esos procesos se desarrollan más allá del escrutinio–tan relativo–que los medios y el ciudadano común realizan sobre la agitación de la vida pública.

Hundido por el abandono de la mujer a la que ha amado, y necesitado de psicoanalista, al agente Edgar «el Zurdo» Mendieta se le acumula el trabajo en cuanto se hace cargo del asesinato de Bruno Canizales, un prestigioso abogado con doble vida, hijo del ex ministro de Agricultura, al que encuentran con la cabeza perforada por una bala de plata.

Pocos saben que, antes del asesinato del candidato a la presidencia en el norte de México hace algunos años, se efectuó otro atentado en su contra en una ciudad distinta del Pacífico. Este hecho significativo no habría sido olvidado si no es porque en ese periodo el país observó el levantamiento de la guerrilla y sufrió otra debacle económica.

Desde que David Valenzuela, un joven ingenuo y poco lumbrera, mató en defensa propia a uno de los hermanos Castro, conocidos narcotraficantes del Triángulo Dorado en la región de Sinaloa, su vida se convierte en una huida llena de oportunos golpes de suerte y en la que se cruzará con los más variopintos personajes que, sin él pretenderlo, le involucrarán en situaciones tanto trágicas como cómicas.

When a young man is murdered in a fire at a holiday park, it seems that his complicated love-life might provide the clues to his killer. However, when DI Ruth Hunter and her CID team discover that there is also drug dealing at the park, the focus of their investigation switches. When their prime suspect disappears and with time running out, Ruth must track down the killer before it’s too late.

Prix Landerneau Polar 2023, ce roman noir implacable, ancré dans les terres du Nord de la France, nous tient en haleine jusqu’à la dernière page ! La disparition de la fille du notable du coin révèle les pires jeux de pouvoirs, entre violences de classe et violences de genre.

Scarborough, 2010. Un adolescente obeso, Alvin Malory, es víctima de una agresión terrible que lo deja postrado en coma vegetativo. Un caso sin resolver en la carrera de Caleb Hale. Casi diez años después, Anna Carter ve cómo un desconocido detiene el vehículo que conduce una mujer y se monta en él. A Anna la escena le parece extraña e intenta, sin éxito, llamar la atención de la conductora. Anna está cansada y hace frío, así que finalmente decide marcharse.

A failed actress turned grifting psychic searches for her missing doppelgänger and is plunged into a web of murder and corruption among Hollywood A-listers. "Weird and wonderfully addictive—reads like Agatha Christie on acid, or maybe Raymond Chandler adapted by the Coen Brothers." —Ernest...

Vier tote Priester in einer Kirche: ritueller Selbstmord – oder etwas viel Grausameres? In FEUER – Mord auf den Färöern, dem 2. Teil der düsteren dänischen Thriller-Reihe um die Sonderermittler der Task Force 14, wartet auf Rechtsmedizinerin Sidsel Jensen ein Alptraum, aus dem es kein Erwachen gibt. Fluchtartig hat Rechtsmedizinerin Sidsel Jensen einst ihr Heimatdorf auf den Färöer Inseln verlassen – jetzt wird sie mit ihrem exzentrischen Kollegen Lucas Stage von der Task Force 14 genau in jene 100-Seelen-Gemeinde gerufen: In der Kirche des Dörfchens hat sich eine bizarre Bluttat ereignet.

Luglio. Al commissario Antonio Mariani è stato proposto un nuovo lavoro. Vorrebbe consultarsi con la moglie, ma Francesca è attualmente in Corsica, con le figlie, ospite di un cliente. E non è discorso da affrontare per telefono… Mariani dovrebbe raggiungerle, ma un omicidio lo trattiene a Genova. È stato trovato il corpo di un uomo, senza identità, non lontano da Ponte dei Mille. Pochi giorni dopo c'è un secondo omicidio: una donna è stata uccisa nella sua casa in Val Bisagno, nei dintorni di Genova. I due delitti si intrecciano e spingono Mariani a porsi molte domande su di sé.

X passa le sue giornate fumando marijuana e vendendo on-line sneakers rare prima di diventare un detective privato pagato per risolvere un caso. Vent’anni fa era un rapper famoso, quando ancora la musica hip hop non era in classifica, e il suo unico disco gli ha permesso di ottenere lo status di “artista di culto”, rispettato e ascoltato anche dalle nuove generazioni. Sulla copertina di quel famoso album c’era lui con una felpa col cappuccio e una “X” tatuata sul collo. Oggi quel tatuaggio appare sul collo di Aelle, il ragazzo ucciso di cui parlano tutti i giornali.

La seconda indagine del maggiore Morosini nell'Africa coloniale italiana. Un viaggio nel tempo suggestivo e avvincente.1935: l'Italia e il regime fascista cercano d'imporsi fra le grandi potenze internazionali per trovare «un posto al sole». La guerra con l'Abissinia è ormai imminente. Ma in Somalia, dove il generale Rodolfo Graziani sta per lanciare l'offensiva dal fronte sud, alcune morti misteriose fanno serpeggiare l'inquietudine nella popolazione e mettono a rischio l'avanzata delle truppe italiane.

Harvard dropout and ex-Special Forces operative Joe Brody is climbing the ranks in the criminal underworld. After successfully executing multiple missions for the various crime syndicates that run New York City, he has come to earn the trust and respect of the city's most dangerous denizens. Which is why his newest task—retrieving a pet pigeon snatched from a rooftop coop in Brooklyn—has Joe puzzled ... until he learns that the bird is valued at close to a million dollars.

They left him for dead. They made a mistake. On sabbatical from the force after a personal loss, DCI Harry McNeil spends his days renovating an old cottage he bought, and his nights down at the local bar. He's living in a small town where nothing much happens. Until it does. Harry meets a young woman who is searching for her brother who went missing in the area two years ago. He is special needs and she's convinced he wouldn't just run off.