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Alessandro Gordiani è caduto in una crisi profonda dopo la tragica conclusione dell'ultima causa di cui si è occupato. Si è ritirato nella sua casa al mare e ha deciso di abbandonare la professione. Dopo varie insistenze, la figlia Ilaria, diventata avvocato come lui, lo convince a tornare sui suoi passi per assumere la difesa di Ernesto Boni, il nuovo compagno di sua madre, accusato di omicidio colposo per violazione della normativa sulla sicurezza sul lavoro per una morte bianca avvenuta nel suo cantiere.

Un corpo decapitato viene ritrovato nel cuore di Madrid. La scena del crimine è ispirata all'Inferno di Dante. L'ispettrice Minerva Cadalso, insieme a Claudio Addante, un giovane seminarista esperto di simboli religiosi, si addentra in una rete di crimini dal profondo significato spirituale. Mentre la città trattiene il fiato e la Chiesa resta in silenzio, Minerva e Claudio affrontano una corsa contro il tempo in cui l'obiettivo non è solo uccidere. È punire. È giudicare. È dimostrare che l'inferno si trova già tra di noi.

Michele Marconi erwacht ohne Gedächtnis im Krankenhaus. Er weiß nicht, wie er dorthin gekommen ist und was vor seinem Erwachen geschehen ist. Als der undurchsichtige Gianfranco D'Amato in sein Leben tritt, beginnen sich die Nebel zu lichten. D'Amato behauptet, dass Michele für ihn als Auftragsmörder gearbeitet haben soll, seinen Auftrag allerdings nicht zu Ende gebracht und das Opfer, seine Schwester Claudia, stattdessen irgendwo versteckt haben soll, um mehr Geld für den Mord erpressen zu können.

When the body of a young girl washes up on the shores of the French Broad River, Cord McRae, newly elected sheriff of Acre County, Tennessee, suspects her death might be connected to the Glad Earth Farm, a commune just outside the small town of Falston.

It's 1985, and Joe Stone is excited to be joining his old school friend, and lifelong crush, Chris, for a long weekend in London's Soho—home to a vibrant, developing gay scene, and a million miles from the small town where Joe and Chris grew up. When Chris is found brutally murdered, the...

When Elena disappears, months pass without explanation. Then her sister calls: Elena was in Bogotá. She left again. No one knows why. Thomas travels to the city on his last night there, chasing an address he doesn’t fully understand. As the streets narrow and detour without warning, memory intrudes—particularly one phone call he let ring a little too long. A private investigator by trade, Thomas has spent his life arriving after the fact, close to the truth but never inside it. In Bogotá, he is forced to confront the pattern that cost him more than he admitted.

Il vicecommissario Rudi Carrera ha perso tutto: la compagna, il suo più caro amico e tante anime fragili che lui non ha saputo proteggere. L'ultima, in ordine di tempo, è un'informatrice di nome Teresa, una ragazza madre con un passato di droga e il sogno di diventare musicista, stroncata da un'overdose proprio la notte in cui Carrera era troppo distratto per rispondere alla sua richiesta di aiuto. Distrutto dal senso di colpa, Rudi si getta anima e corpo nel mondo ambiguo della scena trapper, che Teresa stava spiando per lui, ma presto le indagini si trasformano in qualcos'altro.

Sechzehn Jahre saß Markus S. unschuldig im Gefängnis. Als er endlich entlassen wird, erwartet ihn keine Freiheit, sondern Leere: sein Haus verkauft, sein Vermögen verschwunden, von seiner Frau fehlt jede Spur.

Ein spannender Roman über Verrat, Schuld und die Frage, wie viel Wahrheit ein Mensch ertragen kann. Und darüber, was bleibt, wenn einem alles genommen wurde – außer dem Willen, Antworten zu finden.

Pearce is an Edinburgh hard man who wants exactly one thing: to be left alone. He’s done with favours, done with families, done with trouble. Naturally, trouble comes looking for him anyway. The Baxter family is a mess of bad blood and worse decisions. When sixteen-year-old May Baxter crosses her sadistic husband Wallace, Pearce is asked to step in and protect her. He says no. Then it gets personal. And once Pearce is involved, restraint is off the table.

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. As Spade pursues the mystery of his partner's death, he is drawn into a circle of colorful characters - all of them after a legendary statuette of a falcon fashioned long ago for King Charles of Spain.

Cold Storage, Alaska, is a remote fishing outpost where salmonberries sparkle in the morning frost and where you just might catch a King Salmon if you're Zen enough to wait for it. Settled in 1935 by Norse fishermen who liked to skinny dip in its natural hot springs, the town enjoyed prosperity in the mid-20th century, at the height of the frozen fish boom. But now the cold storage plant is all but abandoned and the population is shrinking every day.

Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. In Hong Kong Noir, 14 of the city’s finest authors explore the dark heart of the Pearl of the Orient in haunting stories of depravity and despair.

A 2026 Audie Awards Finalist! Featuring a note read by the author. In this thrilling mystery from "master of craft and narrative" Walter Mosley (National Book Foundation), Detective Easy Rawlins has settled into the happy rhythm of his new life when a dark siren from his past returns and...

Quando il professor Azhar torna a casa e scopre che la figlia di nove anni è scomparsa insieme a quasi tutte le sue cose, non può che bussare disperato alla porta accanto e chiedere aiuto alla sua vicina e amica, il sergente Barbara Havers. Presto si scopre che a portar via la bambina è stata la madre, trasferitasi in Italia, a Lucca, per seguire il suo nuovo amore. In bilico tra i sentimenti e la ragione, Barbara si impegna a indagare ufficiosamente sul caso, ritrovandosi presto nei guai con i superiori a causa delle ingiustificate assenze dal lavoro.

Thomas Jerome Newton is an extraterrestrial from the planet Anthea, which has been devastated by a series of nuclear wars and whose inhabitants are twice as intelligent as human beings. When he lands on Earth—in Kentucky, disguised as a human—it's with the intention of saving his own people from extinction. Newton patents some very advanced Anthean technology, which he uses to amass a fortune. He begins to build a spaceship to help the last 300 Antheans migrate to Earth.

September 1977. Mette Misvãr, a three-year-old girl, disappears without trace from the sandpit outside her home. Her tiny, close middle-class community in the tranquil suburb of Nordas is devastated, but their enquiries and the police produce nothing. Curtains twitch, suspicions are raised, but Mette is never found.

Sandrone accetta una vacanza di lavoro sul lago Maggiore, come sorvegliante di un piccolo luna park, perché è stanco di avere sempre a che fare con la violenza. Ma per il Gorilla-Sandrone le cose non vanno esattamente come si aspettava: qualcuno cerca di fare una strage durante un matrimonio in costume, e lui si trova a dover proteggere una giovane soprano, Lidia, prima dalle fiamme, poi dalle violente attenzioni di un maniaco.

"My boyfriend's been stealing my Jimmy Choos." Genevieve Bower has hired Private Investigator Sam Kelson to recover her stolen shoes from her soon-to-be-ex-boyfriend. The problem is that no one's seen Genevieve's boyfriend for the past two weeks. Events take a disturbing twist when, in his search for the shoes, Kelson comes across a body, shot in the head. A clear-cut case of suicide - or is it? Has Kelson's client been wholly honest with him? What is this case really about? At the same time, an explosion rips through one of the city's public libraries....

The mage Frank "Half Dead" Johnson is a marked man. Literally. A drunken decision fueled by tragedy has left him with half a soul, sorcerous powers, and two centuries to work off his debt to Scratch (a.k.a. the Devil) himself.

Well past retirement age and feeling his years - but still staying sober one day at a time - Matthew Scudder learns that alcoholics aren't the only ones who count the days since their last slip. Matt's longtime partner, Elaine, tells him of a group of former sex workers who do something similar, helping each other stay out of the life. But when one young woman describes an abusive client who's refusing to let her quit, Elaine encourages her to get help of a different sort. The sort only Scudder can deliver.