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There’s nothing surprising about the body. The wounds are precise, their meaning clear. The Washington, DC, cops have seen enough like them to know that they mean a mob hit. And when mobsters kill their own, there’s not much the police can do about it. They’re prepared to dismiss the case when someone looks at the dead man’s ID. He was Russian - and a diplomat. William Cowley, the head of the FBI’s Russian office, takes on the case.

It’s been nearly a year since Janet’s husband, Hank, died of a terrible illness. Though she thought she would never love again, John Sheridan proved her wrong. Like Janet, he works in government, analyzing files for the State Department. They fall in love shortly after meeting at a party, and it isn’t long before Janet, finally ready to leave Hank in the past, agrees to marriage.

Charlie Muffin shouldn’t be condemned for mourning the end of the Cold War. For decades the KGB provided him with endless professional success and now that it’s gone, Charlie is nearly out of a job. Removed from active duty, he is now training new recruits on operations in a post-Soviet era. It’s dull work that leaves Charlie yearning for the adventures of old and this time, he’ll get more than he bargained for.

The CIA sends Hartman because he knows the target’s face. Hartman spent two years in Bergen-Belsen and knows camp commandant Fritz Lang’s face better than anyone. The Nazi has taken up residence in a Panamanian port, supplementing his realtor’s salary with monthly infusions from a numbered Swiss account. Despite Lang’s extensive plastic surgery, Hartman recognizes him. It’s a face he could never forget, and it’s time to make him pay.

London 1859-62. A time of great exhibitions, foreign conquests and underground trains. But the era of Victorian marvels is also the time of the Great Stink. With cholera and depravity never far from the headlines, it's not only the sewers that smell bad. Novice detective Campbell Lawless stumbles onto the trail of Berwick Skelton, an elusive revolutionary determined to bring London to its knees through devilish acts of terrorism.

It could be the most sensational defection of all time. The head of the Russian KGB’s cipher section comes with every code, every plot, every secret. But his most startling disclosure of all is that the Russians are planning a shocking assassination. But the defector doesn’t know who. Or where. Or how. Or when. All Charlie knows is that he must stop the murder from happening - without being marked for death himself.

Richard Deaken has lost his nerve. Once a globally renowned trial lawyer, he has suffered a string of bad results that have sapped his confidence and dulled the edge necessary for success in the high-stakes world of international law. Resigned to life in obscurity, he has retreated to an unimpressive office in Geneva, where the trickle of low-paying clients doesn’t come close to supporting the lifestyle that he - and his wife - are used to. But a big case is right around the corner. Deaken’s new employers are soldiers in a vicious African civil war on the brink of erupting into unprecedented bloodshed.

Adrian Dodds is a man without hobbies, friends, or family, who works a very peculiar job. Though he looks like a pencil pusher, he is a British counter-intelligence agent. In his own quiet, bureaucratic way, Dodds is vital to the security of the United Kingdom. His latest assignment is debriefing Viktor Pavel, a Soviet aeronautics genius who escapes his handlers to become the Cold War’s most high-profile defector.

Walter Farr has done well for himself. One of the top investment counselors in New York, he has earned a fortune and amassed everything he could ever want, except a close relationship with his son, Howard. When the boy’s mother died, Walter did what he could for their child, but each year Howard pulled further and further away. Even so, Walter never expected something like this. Howard has been arrested for importing cocaine. The charge is not trivial - Howard’s crime could put him away for life - and to get him out of it Walter will do the unthinkable.

Peterson is bewildered by the satellite photos in front of him. As head of the CIA, he is never supposed to be surprised, but what could be happening in Chad alarms him. The pictures show a small research installation, nestled in the African jungle, where a West German company claims to be building a base to launch communications satellites for use by developing African nations. But Peterson’s analysts tell him that the ordinary, innocent-looking silo is just the size necessary to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile into outer space.

The people in the car don’t recognize Mary as anything special. They see the skinny ten-year-old as just another young girl on the streets of Brussels, not as the daughter of a US ambassador. The black car stops and Mary, used to having a chauffeur, climbs aboard. Before she knows what’s happening, she is on her way to a mansion in Antwerp with a specially designed, child-sized cell. She has been abducted. Now, a team of FBI agents, along with Europe’s foremost psychological profiler, are on the hunt for the girl’s captors.

More than a decade after the dawn of Iran’s Islamic Republic, Darius Bakhtiar still chafes under the harsh yoke of Sharia law. He is an alcoholic in a country where intoxication is punishable by whipping, and a homicide detective in a society that sees death as an opportunity for martyrdom. In Teheran, a young woman is found murdered, but her makeup and scanty clothing mark her as a prostitute, and Bakhtiar’s superiors tell him to make only a cursory inquiry. But what he uncovers suggests that this brutal killing was not random, and points to a sickening hypocrisy at the heart of the fundamentalist government.

Dos cuerpos son encontrados brutalmente asesinados. Sus cuerpos están marcados con algunos de los pecados que el asesino parecía conocer. Tan solo una pista es encontrada en ambas escenas del crimen: una foto de clase del año 1982, con dos caras marcadas.

Tres personas y tres destinos entrelazados con maestría en este maravilloso thriller acerca del tráfico sexual en Suecia, España y Europa. Con esta novela, Sara Larsson se confirma como una de las grandes voces del género en Escandinavia, a la altura de autoras como Camilla Läckberg o Anne Holt.

Una bomba che esplode in un centro commerciale, un disastro aereo dai retroscena inquietanti, una Milano di intrighi e corruzione, multietnica e oscura. Questo lo scenario in cui si muove Sauro Badalamenti, di professione investigatore assicurativo che, suo malgrado, si trova fra le mani una doppia indagine che lo costringerà a scavare nel cuore nero della città. Un piano diabolico, segreti e perversioni lo condurranno nell'oblio di una Milano mai così spietata.

Quel maledetto martedì 29 maggio 2012, Victoria Neri, fotografa spagnola, proprietaria, insieme al suo amico Mirco Galanti, del fotostudio Galanti&Neri, non potrà mai dimenticarlo. E il giorno del terremoto a Milano e lei, incinta di appena tre mesi, sta per andare a pranzo con Bibiana Clos, la sua migliore amica dai tempi dell'infanzia. Al pranzo però non ci arriverà mai perché poco prima dell'incontro, il commissario Giovanni Carrara arriva nel suo studio e chiede di vederla. La notizia che deve darle è sconvolgente e le cambierà la vita per sempre.

"Veridica relazione degli strani eventi accaduti nella nostra città l'inverno 1888, così come da me registrati..." Con queste parole, cariche di mistero e aspettativa, inizia il documento che il narratore dice di aver trovato nel cassetto segreto di un mobile di famiglia. E ben più che strani sono gli eventi che si svolgono in una ricca e tranquilla città di mare affacciata sul Baltico negli anni in cui la navigazione a vapore ha ormai sostituito i grandi velieri.

Un killer "per bisogno" disadattato e nostalgico, la vita da clandestino nella Parigi degli anni Ottanta, un semplice omicidio su commissione che si trasforma in una trama complessa e carica di reminescenze del passato, un'amicizia che è complicità, una fuga in Messico: la storia di Andrea Durante. Un racconto un po' nero, un po' giallo, che non si prende troppo sul serio mentre sciorina un sfilza di morti ammazzati, in un mondo popolato di personaggi squinternati, moderni, vinti e nuovi emarginati che si improvvisano assassini perché non hanno altro da fare.

Transilvania, XXI secolo. Il caustico e ironico professor Charles Baker dell'Università di Princeton si trova nella città natale del principe delle tenebre, Vlad III l'Impalatore, meglio noto come il conte Dracula, e sta prendendo parte a una conferenza insieme ai più importanti storici del mondo, quando il suo discorso è bruscamente interrotto dall'improvviso, quanto sgradevolissimo, arrivo delle autorità locali. Tre omicidi raccapriccianti richiedono la sua immediata presenza sul luogo del delitto. Tre corpi messi in posa a formare una croce giacciono sulla scalinata degli Scolari.

Isola di Capri, agosto 1939. L'Italia è nella morsa del fascismo, la Seconda guerra mondiale è alle porte. Durante uno scintillante party sotto le stelle, zeppo di aristocratici, ufficiali nazisti e miliardari americani, il celebre scrittore Curzio Malaparte, gran rubacuori ed enfant terrible del fascismo, viene accostato dalla polizia segreta di Mussolini: qualcuno lo accusa dell'omicidio di una giovane poetessa inglese, misteriosamente precipitata da un dirupo quattro anni prima.