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En una suntuosa mansión colgada de un acantilado, sobre el mar Mediterráneo, aparecen dos cadáveres. Son marido y mujer. Están sentados ante una mesa espléndida, con mantel y servilletas de un blanco impecable, sin que...

"Je ne pensais pas à mon crime, ou plutôt je crois que je n'y pensais pas. L'image du bureau de Sarrebry, à l'instant du coup de marteau, se présentait de temps en temps à mon esprit. Je n'en souffrais pas et je ne m'imaginais pas qu'un jour cette...

After a messy divorce, Peter Ord decides to turn his life around and become a private investigator. But with his constant drinking and questionable decision-making skills, his new career quickly turns into a dark farce filled with tragicomedy.As he takes...

Der selbstständige Binnenschiffer Knut Achternbusch könnte eigentlich zufrieden sein. Er ist gesund, hat eine Frau und zwei Töchter und ist Besitzer eines modernen Frachtschiffs. So weit, so gut - wäre da nicht eine Sucht.In einer verhängnisvollen Nacht...

Der Brandsachverständige und ehemalige Legionär Jean Sarre wird zu einer Unfallstelle gerufen und entdeckt bei der Untersuchung des Autowracks, dass es sich keinesfalls um einen Unfall, sondern um einen Brandanschlag gehandelt hat. Dies ist der Anfang zu...

Heiligabend, 24.12., Herr Bierkant will nur noch kurz ins Büro und das war's dann.Das war's dann?Drei Kinder verschwinden aus Herrn Bierkants Haus.Welche Rolle spielt dabei der Weihnachtsmann und welche die Polizei?Was hat das alles mit den Ereignissen...

The Bonham family, while rich, were relatively humble. They kept to themselves and mostly out of each other's way - until the siblings each received a strange invitation from the Matriarch, their Grandmother Ellie Bonham. Called together in a remote area...

"Star" et "Le feu au royaume" sont deux polars parus en 2007 et 2012 chez L'écailler. Un diptyque très noir mettant en scène un grand flic "à l'ancienne", Bourdeau, face à des figures classiques du roman noir, autrement dit des putes, des macs, des...

A person with a split personality has a good and evil side; should the person with a good personality be executed for the crimes committed by the person with a wicked personality? One must ask if it is genuinely possible to rehabilitate a split...

Little PiecesIt's so very hard to die in little pieces,Not by cancer ravaged over time,Or by bullet suffered grievous wound, But by hateful act or cruel word, Tiny bits of tissue rot from human bone.It's so very hard to die in little pieces,Not from...

A curmudgeon. An iconoclast. A loner. That's how people describe Garrison Gage, and that's when they're being charitable.After his wife's brutal murder in New York, and Gage himself is beaten nearly to death, the hobbled private investigator retreats...

Ukrainian Nights is one of those gritty, unforgettable noir novels that takes its main protagonist to the nadir of love and obsession and then spits him out, almost broken. Hunter, a young New York Times journalist, assigned to investigate sex slavery...

A bullied young man, Cauley Christian, develops a relationship with a very intelligent crow named Sawtok. Together they plot vengeful actions to be carried out against the boy's enemies. With the crow's help and some assistance from his seemingly stupid...

Luke E. Mia, Private Eye, has lost it all, including her partner and best friend, Lyle. When a local psychic approaches Luke to find her missing cat, Luke expects more of the same old, same old, but what she uncovers working for Suzie Q. might get her...

The One Who Searched is a spellbinding story of Detective Bill Drozd, a veteran police officer searching for a methodical serial killer who has been leaving a trail of bodies for twenty-five years. What Detective Drozd does not realize, however, is this...

An American climber in the Himalayas stumbles on a shipment of backpack nuclear weapons headed into Tibet for use against China. Pursued by spy agencies and other killers across Asia, North Africa, Europe and the United States, he is captured then...

Avoid the mutants. Save the girl. Get revenge...Dave Pulaski is hurting. His wife is dead, and he knows who to blame. Walt Freeman - the man who unleashed a medical experiment that turned a quiet town into a bioscience nightmare. Blame isn't enough,...

A dead defendant. A court in lockdown. And a murderer in the room.Coroner Fenway Stevenson is distraught. Not only is her father on trial for murder, but a huge conspiracy is wrecking the coastal town she calls home.And with two gunshots in a crowded...

Two contentious elections. One dead philanderer. A monumental conspiracy.In the midst of Acting Coroner Fenway Stevenson's reelection campaign, the body of a successful business owner is found in a pedestrian underpass-and she discovers that her young,...

A drifter lands in a corrupt city run by a political machine and a masked blood cult seeking to release a demon. A Ray Irish Occult Suspense Mystery! In the months following World War II, Ray Irish travels from town to town trying to drown the...

TALL, DARK AND DEADTina Van Lube is being blackmailed by a disreputable ex-lover, so she hires detective Lou Lait to get her incriminating love letters back. All in a day’s work for Lait. Except for one small detail—the disreputable ex-lover,...

First appearing on newsstands in late 1952, Manhunt was the acknowledged successor to Black Mask, which had ceased publication the year before, as the venue for high-quality crime fiction. By April of 1956 it was being billed as the...

A storm is coming ...One year has passed since the unpopular second Diamond Purge began. When the trains in Bridges mysteriously stop running, tensions among the populace rise to the point that the other three Families decide something must be done...

Roger Grimes was once a thief. Wanting out of that life, he is struggling to run his own investigation business in Daytona Beach, Florida. A local successful lawyer, named Willis Sanford, hires Grimes to help an old friend locate his missing daughter, a...

A gripping example of vigilante justice that won't be forgotten. In the vein of anti-heroes like Mikey Spillane's Mike Hammer and Paul Kersey of Death Wish, comes a new PI Roger Grimes novel.When Roger Grimes wakes up one sunny morning in a soft sandy...

Es 1961, y Fidel Castro está fortaleciendo su control de poder en Cuba. A 300 kilómetros de distancia, un misterioso hombre llamado Hiraldo recluta a cinco Norteamericanos para una misión desesperada. Cada uno tiene su propia...

When speedway superstar Bert Webber asks his old friend Reg Calloway for help, Reg is reluctant to get involved. Webber's brother-in-law is dead, seemingly the victim of a simple road traffic accident, but if the dead man was in a crash just north of...

The triple murder and failed suicide that took place at 37 Fantoccini Street in 2001, raised little media interest at the time. In a week heavy with global news, a 'domestic tragedy' warranted few column inches. The case was open and shut, the inquest...

Professor Hendricks and a select few students of the University of Dartford assumed their scheduled research trip to the heart of the Amazon was going to be just like any other. Arriving at ground zero, the small village of Humaita, the university...

In a corrupt city dominated by two rival gangs there is a growing market for a drug that will change your perceptions of reality. Rita is out for revenge for the death of her husband. Will her sanity survive the experience? Will she complete her...

If Looks Could Kill, She Would Have Been An Uzi......Or more likely a shotgun. I mean, Lawd knows what those two ever saw in each other in the first place, and that's a fact. Don't believe me? Well, let me tell you about the time when....But that's how...

Une maison recluse et totalement vide. Le corps d'un homme à l'intérieur. Un nouveau lien avec une vieille affaire de disparitions de jeunes filles refait surface.Après le corps d'Amos Price, c'est celui d'Ely Dorsey qui est retrouvé dans un lieu reculé...

Déjà 1 000 000 de lecteurs dans le monde pour cette série à suspense par l'autrice best-seller primée par USA Today. Jenna Alton est shérif de la paisible petite ville de Black Rock Falls et tout le monde n'apprécie pas le fait que ce poste soit...

Family ties can be deadly...In the shadow of the Pentland Hills, a man has been callously struck down in front of his home. Tyre marks suggest it was no accidental hit-and-run. Somebody wanted him dead and as the man fights for every breath, they might...

The dog was standing by the tree, four paws firmly planted, his hackles up. His owner, who had run after him through the woods, stopped and gasped aloud in shock. In front of them, hanging from the ancient yew tree, was a body. Blood dripped down the...

Coming back home to work in the local hospital suits Dr. Cameron Wingford. Buying land from an old woman who'd needed the money cements his plans. Then the old woman's granddaughter returns home, and all the rumors begin-rumors that connect her to some...

Jewel wakes up in the hospital, with no memory of what happened to her or no reason why she was found on the highway-dead. As reawakening goes, this one is brutal, but even more confusing is her instinctive grasping for a missing necklace around her neck...

Simon Says... Ride, book 3 in a brand new thriller series by USA Today bestseller author Dale Mayer. Detective Kate Morgan is hot on a new confusing case. A cyclist is killed at the main intersection to the University of British Columbia. At first glance...

Tasmin's business isn't for everyone. Yet she recognizes the value she offers for grieving families. Still, the subject isn't something most people are willing to talk about. However, over time, her business has grown through word of mouth-much to the...

No one challenged Joe Foster in life, not if they valued theirs. And then, the gangster is slain, his criminal empire up for grabs.A power vacuum; the Foster family is fighting for control, the other gangs in the area aiming to poach the trade in illegal...

Two young lovers out for a night of romance. A short cut through a cemetery. They witness a murder, but there has been no struggle, only a knife to the heart.It has all the hallmarks of an assassination, but who is the woman?And why was she alongside a...

John was a young man firing on all cylinders into a life of drugs, booze, sex, and gambling, and fully intent on thriving in all of it. With every passing month the drinks got stronger, the sex got wilder, the bets got bigger. Some might say that boogie,...

When a vigilante organization headed by a mysterious figure known only as Jude begins delivering its own strange brand of justice, those involved are left questioning how far must people be willing to go to exact retribution. As the vigilantes cross the...

Page One is a seriocomic tale about journalists engaged in a newspaper war long before the current 24/7 news cycle but not before a willingness to forego personal integrity was creeping into "the media," and the line between genuine...

In this classic country noir, featuring a new introduction by Daniel Woodrell, a small town farmer takes a job at a roadhouse, where unbridled greed leads to a brutal murder Jack McDonald is barely a farmer. Boll weevils have devoured his cotton crop,...

“Hip, violent and funny vignettes of the mean streets of southeast London tie together this rowdy set of short novels” from the Irish crime writer (Publishers Weekly).At sixty-two, Chief Inspector Roberts is nearly too old to be a cop, but he...

Private detective Benjamin Thomas is hired to find Beatrice Chasingly, a woman with a troubled past. A smarmy ex-husband, a cunning insurance salesman, a landlord with knuckledusters, and a psychiatrist with links to MKUltra all seemed to have played a...