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In Bangkok, Thailand, an American travel journalist and his Thai family find themselves inadvertently entangled in a web of dirty cops and far-reaching corruption when their daughter’s ill-gotten cell phone displays photographs of some very crooked cops, all of them thoroughly dead.

A classic novel by John D. MacDonald with an exclusive introduction written and read by Dean Koontz. A college graduate and amateur fisherman, Andy McClintock is stuck toiling in the office of a construction company. But when Andy tries to quit, his boss offers him a promotion and a raise - and then promptly kills himself with a harpoon gun. At least, that's what it looks like, until the police rule it homicide - with the murder weapon belonging to Andy.

Trial lawyer Jimmy “Royal” Payne was his own worst enemy - until now. Haunted by personal tragedy and wanted by the cops, Payne needs to skip town. What he doesn’t need is Tino Perez, a gutsy twelve-year-old Mexican boy in search of his missing - and undocumented - mother. But Payne’s ex-wife, an L.A.P.D. detective he still loves, makes him a deal: help the boy or go to jail. Soon Payne is following Tino into the darker side of the American dream.

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.

Pace's voyage is outward, among strangers, and inward into the fifth direction that is the up-down, in a sweeping, voracious human tale that takes no prisoners, witnesses extreme brutalities and expresses a childlike amazement. Here the route goes from New Orleans, to Chicago to Wyoming to Bay St. Clement, North Carolina, but the geography he is charting is always first and foremost unchartable.

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.

A smart and entertaining crime series debut set in the underbelly of Los Angeles, with a cast of characters that runs the gamut from saints to sinners. In the City of Angels, not everyone plays by the rules. When people need a problem fixed fast, and discreetly, they call Dick Henry. Henry is known as a “shortcut man,” someone who believes that the shortest answer to many problems may not always be legal. As he cuts through the red tape for his clients, Henry always gets the job done, no matter what the cost.

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.

Outside the apartment where a wake is going on, the manager of the A&P across the street is robbed. Reverend Short, a storefront preacher addicted to opium and brandy, is watching from a bedroom window in the flat. He leans out too far and falls, but a huge bread basket, sitting outside the bakery below, saves him. Back inside, he says he sees a vision of a dead man. Outside, in the very basket Short landed in, lies the body of Valentine Haines. Who murdered Val? It is up to Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson to find out.

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】。

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.