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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】。

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.

She was leaning against the door. Her smile was a sickly twisted grimace; the sort a prisoner gives a judge when he's asked if he has anything to say before he's sentenced. Russell Haxby is a ruthless used-car salesman obsessed with manipulating and cavorting with married women. In this classic of hard-boiled fiction, Charles Willeford crafts a wry, sardonic tale of hypocrisy, intrigue, and lust set in San Francisco in the early '50s.

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....

Rex Stout war einer der erfolgreichsten amerikanischen Kriminalautoren des 20. Jahrhunderts. Seine literarische Schöpfung, der Privatdetektiv Nero Wolfe, zählt bis heute zu den berühmtesten Figuren des Genres. Zusammen mit seinem Assistenten Archie Goodwin hat der Ermittler mit einer Passion für Orchideenzucht und Gourmetküche weltweit Millionen Leser in den Bann gezogen. Die Neuübersetzung der Krimireihe bietet nun dem deutschen Leser erstmals die Möglichkeit, die Kriminalromane in ihrer vollständigen literarischen Qualität zu entdecken.

A woman screams in pain. Twenty-seven times, until she dies. The sound file was sent to DCI Mark Lapslie from an anonymous email address. Why is she screaming? Why would someone record that horrifying noise? And why send it to him? He soon learns that the file was sent from the hospital where he is being treated for synaesthesia - a neurological condition that cross-wires his senses so he tastes sound - and where his new girlfriend works.

From the creator of BBC drama Silent Witness comes a gripping and sinister thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat. During the murder investigation of a teenage boy, DCI Mark Lapslie's methods come under fire and, as a result, his prime suspect walks free. Meanwhile another body is discovered, and Lapslie and his team quickly find themselves on the trail of a voracious serial killer. One year earlier, dedicated young Journalist Josie Dallyn stumbles over a chain of very similar cases.

Detective Inspector Paolo Sterling has more headaches than usual. Someone is abducting men and subjecting them to horrific acts of rape and torture, but who? More to the point - why? After three days of cruelty and starvation, they are released. Why will none of them give any information which would help the police to find the perpetrator? The victims refuse even to admit they were held captive.

Brought up believing that sex is the devil's work, a killer only finds release once he has saved his victim's souls. Abiding by his vision, he marks them as his. A gift to guide his chosen ones on the rightful path to redemption. Detective Inspector Paolo Sterling is out to stop him, but Paolo has problems of his own. Hunting down the killer as the death toll rises, the lines soon blur between Paolo's personal and professional lives.