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Her name is Bond. Jamie Bond. And her luck may have just run out. P.I. Jamie Bond knows there's corruption in the Los Angeles County D.A.'s office. What she doesn't know is how far it runs and if her on-again, off-again love interest, A.D.A. Aiden Prince, is involved. Is he aware of the danger lurking in his halls of justice? Is he dating his exotic beauty of a co-chair? And why are drug dealers making middle of the night calls to the D.A.? Jamie is determined to find out.

Los Angeles, 1986. A group of right-wing Christians has put an initiative on the November ballot to allow health officials to force people with HIV into quarantine camps - and it looks like it’s going to pass. Rios, now living in LA, agrees to be counsel for a group of young activists who call themselves QUEER. QUEER claims to be committed to peaceful civil disobedience. But when one of its members is implicated in the bombing of an evangelical church that kills its pastor, Rios finds himself with a client suddenly facing the death penalty.

Pineta, estate; sulla spiaggia viene ritrovato il cadavere di una ragazza. Il corpo è stato alcuni giorni in mare e viene riconosciuto da un piccolo malavitoso locale di nome Marino come Olga, la badante ucraina della propria madre. Al BarLume fervono dei lavori di rifacimento e i vecchietti sono costretti a spostarsi nel parco pubblico. Ma anche da lì trovano il modo per aiutare la commissaria nell’indagine.

The first new Henry Rios novel in 20 years from six-time Lambda Literary award winner Michael Nava is a brilliantly plotted mystery that weaves together the gripping story of two gay men against the backdrop of 1980s San Francisco as the tsunami of AIDS bears down upon the city.

Becky Kincaid ventures out in the middle of a snowstorm to buy a car seat for her unborn baby and never makes it home. When a second pregnant woman disappears, Marissa Rooney and the team at the Holt Foundation fear a sinister motive lurks behind the crimes. Lead investigator Seth Crawford desperately searches for the thread that binds the two cases together, knowing that if he fails, another woman will soon be gone. While Seth hunts for clues, a madman has Marissa in his sights and she carries a secret that could tear her whole world apart.

Meet Rook. A middle-aged philosophy professor with a sarcastic sense of humour, an ongoing rivalry with his highly-strung colleague Jeremy, and a rocky relationship with his ex-wife. But he has far more pressing matters to attend to than domestic disputes and academic feuds. He moonlights as a private investigator. Armed with a quick, inquisitive mind, an arsenal of philosophic quotations and an addiction to fear, he is willing to embroil himself in any sticky situation which comes his way.

When a disabled Vietnam veteran, reared in that town, collides in the heart of Manhattan with a teenage girl suffering from multiple personality disorder and memories of being trapped in a locked wooden box as a child, their budding connection slowly unravels memories that neither of them can leave in the past. After two buried crates are unearthed at a remote construction site outside Cartersville with the bones of small boys inside them, and simultaneously, another local child goes missing, Nick Mannino and Paul Tarantino are drawn into the fray.

One woman. A million-dollar card game. A city in darkness. Fearless Florida bounty hunter Lori Anderson travels to Chicago to trap the head of a notorious crime family, in a high-stakes, nail-biting mission that sees her trapped in one of the city’s tallest buildings during a blackout.

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.

Die dänische Gesellschaft Nobel Oil kennt keine Skrupel, sich die gigantischen Rohstoffvorkommen in der grönländischen Diskobucht zu sichern. Die Einwohner sind alarmiert, Umweltaktivisten agieren zunehmend rabiat. Als der Chef-Geologe des Bohrungsgeländes tot aufgefunden wird und ein USB-Stick mit brisanten Informationen verschwindet, werden Kommissarin Lene Jensen und Ermittler Michael Sander angeheuert, den Fall aufzuklären. Alle Spuren verweisen auf einen Täter aus der militanten Umweltaktivisten-Szene.

Elisabeth Caspersen, steinreiche Erbin eines dänischen Industrieimperiums, findet im Tresor ihres verstorbenen Vaters einen Film, der eine grauenvolle Menschenjagd zeigt. Einer der im Film zu sehenden Jäger hat unverkennbare Ähnlichkeit mit Elisabeths Vater. Um der Sache nachzugehen, heuert sie Michael Sander an, einen exklusiven Privatdetektiv, der auf brisante Fälle spezialisiert ist. Als Sander sich auf die Suche nach der Identität der Opfer macht, stößt er auf eine perfide Welt aus Gewalt und Größenwahn, in der er bald selbst zum Gejagten wird.

The Eye of the Beholder is a cult classic that inspired both French and English film adaptations. Joanna Eris has a bad habit of marrying men that wind up dead. An unnamed private detective, known simply as The Eye is hired to investigate the death of her husband. The story charts the development of the detective s dangerous obsession with a femme fatale, as he pursues her across the United States.

Bill, the "Nameless Detective," and his wife Kerry were in the Sierra foothills, just outside of Six Pines, falling in love with a cabin. It was all perfect, until Kerry went missing. They'd seen Balfour at breakfast at the diner and Kerry remembered his name - PR people are like that. Which was unfortunate, because when she ran into him along the trail on that sunny afternoon and called him by name, he panicked. And that's when Bill's nightmare began.

Gavin Crest has always pushed himself to the limit. After 23 years as a marine master sergeant, he built his security agency from the ground up. He also has a predilection for the darker side of sex. He's done it all - except the one woman he can't have, an innocent who deserves more than a man whose soul is tainted with darkness.

When he meets Bob Ghostly, it’s hardly the first time that Fred Carver has been asked to find a missing spouse. But Ghostly’s tale about a beautiful woman who fled for no apparent reason doesn’t quite convince Carver, who presses for more detail. Finally Ghostly admits it: His wife was beautiful, intelligent, and kind, but she was also a heroin addict. She fled their Florida home with half their savings - nearly $10,000 - and he’s afraid she’s going to put it straight into her veins.

Raphael Freersen bekommt einen ungewöhnlichen Auftrag: Hermann Suhrkamp behauptet, dass jemand aus seiner Familie seinen vorzeitigen Tod herbeiführen will. Um den Täter zu entlarven, hat der alte Herr ein Ratespiel à la Agatha Christie ausgetüftelt, bei dem hunderttausend Euro Preisgeld winken. Die Verwandtschaft versucht alles, um sich gegenseitig auszutricksen. Doch dann häufen sich mysteriöse Begebenheiten, und der Tod hält Einzug ins Spiel.

Ritornano i vecchietti del BarLume. “Ora, Ampelio, secondo lei io mi metto a parlare del caso qui, al bar, di fronte a tutto il paese?”. “Come, tutto il paese? Ci siamo solo noi quattro”. “Appunto” confermò la commissaria. Ma in realtà tra la giovane commissaria Alice Martelli e i quattro vecchietti del BarLume s’è creato un feeling operativo. Il pettegolezzo come sistema investigativo trova una riconosciuta efficacia.

"Da war der Wolf. Er kam jede Nacht. Nebelgrau, mit gelben Augen und mächtigen Pfoten. Er konnte seine Krallen durch den Stoff seines Hemdes spüren. Sie drangen in ihn ein. Der ganze Wolf drang in ihn ein..." Nach 30 Jahren Haft kehrt ein entlassener Mörder in seine alte Heimat auf die Insel Møn zurück. Alle wissen, was der "Wolf von Møn" damals getan hat. Als Leichen mit brutal auseinandergerissenen Kiefern auftauchen, beginnt für die Super-Recognizerin Marit Rauch Iversen und ihre Kollegen von der Kopenhagener Mordkommission eine Menschenjagd.

In einem Weinberg wird die Leiche eines bekannten Winzers gefunden – mit einer Rebschere in der Brust. Emilio von Ritzfeld-Hechenstein interessiert das allerdings wenig. Er will sich zu Abwechslung mal gepflegt aus allem raushalten. Schließlich ist der Alltag eines Privatermittlers hektisch genug. Und wenn Emilio eins verabscheut, dann Hektik. Also genießt er die Auszeit auf dem Weingut seiner Freundin Phina, flaniert durch Bozen und kehrt in den einschlägigen Weinbars und Buschenschenken ein. Als jedoch Phinas beste Freundin spurlos verschwindet, fühlt sich Emilio in die Pflicht genommen. Er ahnt nicht, worauf er sich einlässt.

Baron Emilio von Ritzfeld-Hechenstein versteht etwas vom Rebensaft, schließlich wuchs er auf einem Weingut auf. Doch seit dem Bankrott des Vaters ist Emilio chronisch pleite – was er nicht zuletzt seiner Vorliebe für die schönen Dinge des Lebens verdankt: guter Wein und gutes Essen! Zum Glück hat Emilio nicht nur einen feinen Gaumen, sondern auch eine ausgezeichnete Beobachtungsgabe: Sein Geld verdient er als Privatdetektiv. Als ihn eine alte Dame bittet, den vermeintlichen Unfalltod ihres Sohnes aufzuklären, überlegt Emilio nicht lange.