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Traveling the stripper circuit of small town America, Finn is a female impersonator with a golden voice who never made the big time. His latest stop is Port Sorrow, a rough-and-tumble coastal town on the northern edge of the Olympic Peninsula. In the audience tonight, rookie deputy sheriff Julia Rusk has drawn the short straw and is scanning the rowdy audience for signs of a suspected serial rapist.

A classic novel by John D. MacDonald with an exclusive introduction written and read by Dean Koontz. Ex-cop Cliff Bartells might be the last honest man in Florence City, Florida. After quitting the force over a crisis of conscience, he takes a job at an insurance company buying back stolen jewelry. Cliff is focused on keeping the bottom line down and staying out of the spotlight.But when an affluent tourist from Boston is murdered over a hefty collection of jewelry, Cliff finds himself wrapped up in a case that’s making national headlines.

Con man Deak O'Hara is out of the state penitentiary and back on the street working the scam of a lifetime. The $87,000 he has schemed to get has been hijacked and hidden in a bale of cotton. Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones are on everyone's trail in one of their most entertaining thrillers.

Many people had reasons for killing Galen, a big Greek with too much money and too great a liking for young black girls. But there are complications - like a drug addict, a disappearing suspect, and the fact that Coffin Ed's daughter is up to her neck in the whole explosive business.

Stretching along the shelf, standing upright, were 12 wooden coffins. Nine were closed and three open...with little dolls standing inside them. It was supposed to be the most special day of her life - until the unthinkable happened. Leslie Petersen is shot dead on her wedding day. With the bride's killer vanished without a trace, the investigation into the murder grinds to a halt before it's even begun. But then, the decomposing body of an unidentified homeless man is found in an old Cold War bunker, and DCI Mark Lapslie makes a bizarre discovery.

The Edgar-nominated author of Gun Monkeys is back with a thrill-a-minute suspense novel that mixes crime and academia - with hilarious results. Here Victor Gischler draws us into a wild and wicked world, where tenured professors are busy burying bodies, cash-up-front P.I.’s hunt for missing coeds and one desperate street-tough has to decide which he’d rather be: a live poet or a dead criminal.

Perché l'indagine che lì si era aperta non si è ancora conclusa. C'è poi il fatto più grave, l'assassinio di Adele, una cara amica del vicequestore, uccisa da un killer mentre dormiva nel letto di Rocco. Costretto a scavare nel proprio passato il vicequestore cercherà di chiudere il cerchio una volta per tutte.

Quando viene chiamato su una strada di montagna, al vicequestore Rocco Schiavone basta uno sguardo per capire di trovarsi di fronte a una rottura del decimo livello della sua personalissima classifica. Un ciclista, infatti, è stato vittima di un incidente. Il morto si chiama Paolo Sanna, un cinquantenne che da un po' di tempo abita in zona ma che apparentemente nessuno conosce. Dai primi accertamenti risultano subito delle stranezze.

誰かが死ななきゃ分かんないの？〈あらすじ〉　首相暗殺テロが相次いだあの頃、インターネット上にももう一つの爆弾が落とされていた。ブログに突如書き込まれた【宣戦布告】。

This drive through the dark streets of the Motor City “is one of the best in Akashic Books’ noir series. You cannot go wrong with this anthology.”—Reviewing the Evidence From cri….

En exil volontaire à Paris, Zagan ne s'intéresse plus aux affaires infernales. Mais quand il apprend que ses amis sont en danger, il se décide à intervenir. L'ennemi a mis la main sur l'arme ultime ? Zagan va la voler. Ce roman contient également : des démons, des anges, une secrétaire un peu trop à l'aise avec les poisons, quelques divinités égyptiennes et un train pas comme les autres.

Eine abgelegene Kleinstadt in den Bergen Colorados: Spätabends erhält der Ex-Detective John Farlow einen aufgelösten Anruf aus dem Black Mountain Inn. Etwas Schreckliches sei geschehen, mit dem Eintreffen der Polizei allerdings nicht vor dem nächsten Morgen zu rechnen – ein Erdrutsch schneidet die Stadt vollständig von der Außenwelt ab. Farlow beschließt, dem Hilfeersuchen nachzugeben. Was er in dem Hotel entdeckt, übersteigt jedoch seine schlimmsten Befürchtungen.

In una sera di inizio aprile, il giovane avvocato Davide Bruno riceve la visita inaspettata del cavalier Galvani, l'uomo più potente della città, che lo coinvolgerà nell'inchiesta sulla morte della giornalista Virginia De Falco. Davide accetta l'incarico con qualche perplessità, e cerca di scagionare il suo cliente con una serie di brillanti intuizioni.

"Die Menschen glauben, sie würden in ihrem Alltag viele schwere Entscheidungen treffen, aber das ist ein Trugschluss. Nichts lässt sich mit einer Situation vergleichen, in der es um Leben und Tod geht und die Entscheidung innerhalb weniger Sekunden getroffen werden muss." Kuno Seiler, Pfarrer einer religiösen Gemeinschaft, wird tot im Pool einer Münchner Villa aufgefunden. Verhaftet wird Riccarda Meiner, die direkt neben der Leiche kniet.

Ein angesehener Arzt verschwindet über Nacht. Sein Sportwagen wird verlassen am Ufer eines Sees bei Berlin gefunden. Die Mordkommission ermittelt und stößt hinter der sorgsam gepflegten Fassade des ehrenwerten Doktors auf die Spuren eines kriminellen Doppellebens, das von Berlin nach Barcelona führt. Oliver Hilmes hat die Akten dieses aufsehenerregenden Kriminalfalls aus der Spätzeit der Weimarer Republik im Berliner Landesarchiv entdeckt. Auf der Basis dieser Dokumente und angereichert mit fiktionalen Elementen, setzt er das mysteriöse Puzzle zusammen.

Why would a happily married Florida housewife pick up her husband's .22 caliber Colt Woodsman semi-automatic pistol and use it to kill her two young children and herself? Cynical newspaper reporter Richard Hudson is assigned to find out - and the assignment will send him down a road of self-discovery in this incisive, no-holds-barred portrait of American marriage in the Mad Men era.

Max Quercher soll diskret den Suizid eines interna tional anerkannten Neurobiologen untersuchen. Seine Nachforschungen ergeben, dass der Wissenschaftler nicht nur erhebliche Schulden bei einem ominösen Start-up hatte, sondern auch kurz davorstand, die Wirksamkeit eines natürlichen Substrats gegen Alzheimer nachzuweisen. Die neu entdeckte Substanz birgt allerdings unkalkulierbare Risiken, sobald sie in den Wasserkreislauf gelangt. Das versuchen sich Unbekannte zunutze zu machen - für einen Anschlag auf die Wasserversorgung der Millionenmetropole München.

Nicknamed Dewey Decimal for his obsessive attempts to bring order to the New York Public Library in the wake of disastrous events in the city, the hero of this series earns his keep as a bagman and enforcer for unscrupulous politicians and underworld figures. Now, he’s stumbled upon information concerning the gruesome murder of a prostitute that involves a prominent US senator - and finds himself chasing ghosts and fighting for his life, pursued by private military contractors and the ever-present specter of his own past....

Dubbed “Dewey Decimal” for his desire to reorganize the library’s stock, he gets by as bagman and muscle for New York City’s unscrupulous district attorney. He takes no pleasure in this kind of civic dirty work. He’d be perfectly content alone among his books. But this is not in the cards, as the DA calls on Dewey for a seemingly straightforward union-busting job.

The man known as Dewey Decimal works in a near-future Manhattan decimated by terrorism and plague, running dirty operations for the crooked Senator Howard - though he’d prefer to spend his time among the stacks at his beloved New York Public Library. When Dewey is tasked with disrupting unrest from a growing group of outcast civilians, and simultaneously given the assignment of protecting a pair of Saudi royals, he is forced to look within and make some impossible choices - and it will put him at odds with his benefactor and the powers that be....