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Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count and rip apart language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable. When Frank is fatally stabbed, Lionel's world is suddenly turned upside down.

Book editor Agnes Nielsen never anticipated the viral celebrity that would come after solving the attempted murder of her best friend. Suddenly swept up in a world of luxury, she finds herself mingling with New York’s movers, shakers, and moneymakers—among them the enigmatic heiress Charlotte Bond, who takes Agnes under her wing. But those wings, it turns out, aren’t enough to save Charlotte from a fatal fall.

Brooklyn Montgomery, daughter of a well-known criminal, just moved into a new apartment. She needed to be closer to downtown because she landed her dream job of becoming an Assistant District Attorney. Little does she know that the reason for her new job is because a killer is raining down on New York City. The killer is taking out anyone who looks like her, including the last A.D.A., and covering their bodies with thousands of forget-me-nots. Mark Stone, Brooklyn’s childhood friend, is the lead detective in the city.

Each contributor presents a brand new story set in a distinct neighborhood. Brooklyn Noir mixes masters of the mystery genre with the best of New York’s literary fiction community - and, of course, leaves room for new blood. These brilliant and chilling stories see crime striking in communities of Russians, Jamaicans, Hasidic Jews, Puerto Ricans, Italians, Irish and many other ethnicities - in the most diverse urban location on the planet.

Erica Donato - Brooklyn girl, urban history grad student, and single mom - is researching the 1930s, when Brownsville was the home of the notorious organized criminals the newspapers called Murder, Inc. She quickly learns that even in rapidly changing Brooklyn, Brownsville remains much as it was. It is still poor, it is still tough, and it still breeds fighters and gangs.

In Brooklyn Bones, a crime of the past comes much too close to home when Erica Donato’s teenage daughter, Chris, finds a skeleton behind a wall in their crumbling Park Slope home. Erica - a young widow, overage history PhD candidate, and product of blue-collar Brooklyn - is drawn into the mystery when she learns that the skeleton is of an unknown teenage girl and that it was hidden there within living memory. Erica and Chris are both touched and disturbed by the mysterious tragedy in their own home.

Año 1977: la familia Brooks, el pequeño Jack y su madre llevan el libro nigromántico a Nueva York para que la tía de Jack lo copie, pues tiene problemas con su pareja que la maltrata y quiere utilizar la magia negra contra él. En el año 2018: el periodista Peter McCain llama a la puerta de la vivienda de un anciano: el escritor James Becket. Peter ve unos folios encuadernados encima de la mesa. Se fija que ese libro se titula El túnel de Brooklyn.

Mean streets, bad intentions, and designer dope describe Betrayal in Brooklyn, which is about a man who has become the hunted. Richie Bucceroni, son of a dead mobster but now a PhD, is trying to rebuild his life after the murder of his wife and child, when a cunning killer targets him. Betrayal in Brooklyn races to a violent conclusion with a Brooklyn trifecta - one fistfight, one shooting, and one bombing.

After closing a case with the Brooklyn Police Department, Mary Handley is determined to become an official detective in her own right. And when Emily Worsham shows up at her new office— convinced her uncle John Worsham was murdered and desperate for answers—Mary’s second assignment begins.

Kotchenko est un bon policier, mais il a une fâcheuse tendance à flirter avec les limites de la loi... et les franchir. S'il peut compter sur son partenaire Reyes, il doit jongler entre un nouveau commissaire tâtillon, sa famille à l'équilibre fragile, et surtout cette affaire qui remonte jusqu'aux plus hautes sphères de la mafia new-yorkaise... Découvrez l'histoire de flics corrompus, de gangsters, tueurs sans scrupule et d'innocents à la recherche de justice dans ce polar audio. Une enquête policière qui frôle les limites du légal, cachant des aspects douteux.

When Fina Fitzgibbons stumbles upon a strangled woman in the heart of Brooklyn Heights, she discovers that the dead woman's four-year-old grandson is also missing. She begins a wild hunt for the killer and his helpless captive. During the chase, she resists falling in love with her boyfriend, Denny, an NYPD patrol officer, steps on the toes of Detective First Grade Jane Templeton, and uncovers secrets about her own past.

It's the summer of 1894, and an infidelity case has brought PI Mary Handley to a far corner of Brooklyn: Coney Island. In the midst of her investigation, Mary is contacted by a convicted man's brother to reopen a murder case. A prostitute was killed by a Jack the Ripper copycat years ago in her New York hotel room, but her true killer was never found. Once again it's up to Mary to make right the city's wrongs. New York City's untouchable head of detectives, Thomas Byrnes, swears he put the right man behind bars, but as Mary digs deeper, she finds corruption.

A top-secret experiment at a restricted virtual-reality compound pulls attorney Tommy Diaz back into the orbit of Irene Adler, an old friend with an eidetic memory, a love of true-crime podcasts, and a knack for solving the unsolvable. But this? At a remote warehouse, a VR trial goes awry when a willing test subject, alone in the observation room, drops dead of anaphylaxis—from the sting of a virtual bee.

Bucceroni is back ! Bada Boom in Brooklyn takes the listener on a roller-coaster of a story, with twists, turns, a red herring or two, and a malicious murderer. The killer is cunning, but Bucceroni’s at the top of his game and dishes out more than he takes. Life at the Urban U has never been more dangerous!

Eight Ballo’s mother was certain he was going to be born a girl, but when he comes out a boy, she writes down simply the number eight, as he has seven older siblings. She meant to change it to a real name at some point, but never got around to it.

Odessa Dean has made a home of Brooklyn. She has a fun job waiting tables at Untapped Books & Café and a new friend, Izzy, to explore the city with. When she's invited on a girls' day out escape room adventure, she jumps at the chance. It's all fun and games until the lights come on and they discover one of the girls bludgeoned to death.... The only possible suspects are Odessa and the four other players that were locked in the escape room with the victim.

Bayou transplant Odessa Dean has a lot to learn about life in Brooklyn. So far she's scored a rent free apartment in one of the nicest neighborhoods around by cat-sitting, and has a new job working at Untapped Books & Café. Hand-selling books and craft beers is easy for Odessa, but making new friends and learning how to ride the subway? Well, that might take her a little extra time. But things turn more sour than an IPA when the death of a fellow waitress goes viral, caught on camera in the background of a couple's flash-mob proposal video.

When 13-year-old Brandy Liam vanishes, her mother hires private investigator Fina Fitzgibbons to find her daughter. But Fina soon learns she's dealing with a hit man who wields a deadly needle. He's killed the innocent before, and he won't hesitate to kill again. Despite mortal peril, Fina plunges into a relentless search for Brandy that includes a harrowing ride in the trunk of the killer's car. Can she stop a deranged assassin before he kills Brandy?

In Brooklyn geht ein Serienmörder um. Siebenmal schlägt er zu, immer auf die gleiche Weise. Die Polizei in Gestalt von Detective Sergeant Caruso ist wie immer ratlos. Nach der Rückkehr von Professor van Dusen und Mr. Hatch aus dem wilden Westen bittet er die beiden um Hilfe. Aus der Arbeitsweise des Täters zieht die Denkmaschine die konkreten Schlüsse, stellt dem Vampir eine Falle und lässt sie zuschnappen.

After being released from a five-year prison sentence for an armed robbery gone sideways, Tarzan Brixton makes a vow to his dying mother to change his ways. With his mother’s medical bills piling up, the temptation of the criminal life becomes too real once again. His solution is to escape the rough streets of New York for the equally ruthless beaches of Kingston, Jamaica. He soon creates a drug-running empire while falling in love with a beautiful Jamaican woman named Maya.