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Paul Becker (le héros de "Monster") est au fond du gouffre. Obèse, divorcé, dépressif, ruiné... Il échappe miraculeusement à une tentative de meurtre alors qu'il s'est réfugié dans le parc de Yellowstone pour tenter de se refaire une santé. Mais il laisse croire à sa mort et se lance dans une enquête méticuleuse qui l'oblige à exhumer ses souvenirs d'enfances et les énigmes de son passé en Floride dans les années 70 pour découvrir qui a commandité son meurtre et pourquoi.

Zwei Vermisstenfälle erregen Aufsehen: Berit, eine junge Frau, verschwindet spurlos aus ihrem Ferienhaus am Fehmarnsund. Zwei Tage später taucht sie wieder auf: verstört und offensichtlich misshandelt. Die Kriminalpsychologin Hannah Jakob versucht vergeblich, Berit zu befragen, doch sie wird noch mit einem zweiten Fall konfrontiert: Eine Radiomoderatorin ist während ihres Urlaubs in Dänemark verschwunden. Hannah Jakob ahnt, dass beide Fälle zusammengehören.

Alessandria d'Egitto, I secolo d. C. Per il senatore Publio Aurelio Stazio la metropoli più importante dopo Roma, strategica terra di confine tra Oriente e Occidente, non è solo la città più bella del mondo ma lo scenario della missione segreta che deve compiere per conto dell'imperatore Claudio. Per assicurare un lungo periodo di pace all'Impero, Publio Aurelio deve giocare d'azzardo sul tavolo della diplomazia e negoziare con i Parti, imbattibili guerrieri da sempre nemici dei romani.

Cave canem , "Attenti al cane". Nelle ville patrizie dell'antica Roma era uso scriverlo all'ingresso dell'abitazione, e non sfugge all'abitudine anche la ricca dimora di Gneo Plauzio, mercante di origini plebee che, dopo aver fatto fortuna con il commercio del pesce, si è trasferito sulle rive del lago Averno. Ma in questo caso, forse, c'è davvero qualcosa a cui stare attenti. Lo scopre il senatore Publio Aurelio Stazio che, di ritorno a Roma dopo avere trascorso un periodo di vacanza a Baia, si ferma ospite di Plauzio.

It seemed like a simple job. Ex-cop Frank Harper is back in Cooper's Mill to spend time with his daughter and grandson, but a bone-chilling winter has settled over the small Ohio town. When a local woman asks him to make a simple delivery, it seems easy enough - until Frank uncovers a possible murder. Now he's searching for a local couple gone missing. But do the snow and ice conceal a deadly crime, one that may cost Frank everything he holds dear?

Si può essere assassini e innocenti? Danio fa lo psicologo, è separato e ha un figlio, inquieto come tutti i ventenni. Ha anche una giovane fidanzata, e le pazienti che affollano il suo studio lo adorano. Fin troppo. Ma soprattutto Danio ha un segreto: è un assassino. Un assassino per caso. Nessuno lo sa tranne la sua ex moglie, l'enigmatica, magica Eliana. Il ritrovamento di un diario, abbandonato in un parco da una ragazzina, rompe il delicatissimo equilibrio che governa le sue giornate.

L'ex agente della CIA Lemuel Gunn, dopo aver lasciato l'Afghanistan, sceglie di vivere nel New Mexico, a bordo della sua casa mobile, e di lavorare come investigatore privato. È come se volesse alleggerire il mondo della sua presenza. Finché un giorno piomba nella sua vita una giovane donna, elegante e a piedi nudi, come la contessa scalza: il suo nome è Ornella Neppi, e deve trovare al più presto un certo Emilio Gava, rilasciato dal carcere su cauzione e sparito nel nulla.

Quando Rob Hale, un giovane tecnico del riscaldamento, si risveglia in ospedale dopo un incidente in moto, il suo primo pensiero va a chi era in sella dietro di lui, un'affascinante bionda conosciuta il giorno prima durante un intervento di riparazione in una casa tra i boschi.

Si racconta che in un bosco del Maine vaghi il fantasma di una bambina; è vestita di nero e ha gli occhi incavati. Durante una battuta di caccia in quei luoghi, due uomini incappano nei rottami di un piccolo velivolo, e forse non si tratta di un semplice caso. Tra le lamiere non trovano cadaveri, solo un borsone pieno di denaro, dei fogli che recano una lunga lista di nomi e un paio di manette spezzate legate al bracciolo di un sedile.

Private Investigator Edwina "Eddie Shoes" Schultz's most recent job has her parked outside a seedy Bellingham hotel, photographing her quarry as he kisses his mistress goodbye. This is the last anyone will see of the woman...alive. Her body is later found dumped in an abandoned building. Eddie's client, Kendra Hallings, disappears soon after. Eddie hates to be stiffed for her fee, but she has to wonder if Kendra could be in trouble too. Or is she the killer?

For Lennox Cooper, helping out a friend means gambling with her life. In the rainy city of Portland, Matilda Bauer has been blackmailing her parole officer, Fulin Chen. Just when Fulin's ready to come clean, Matilda disappears. Bad news for Fulin, because once Matilda is arrested for breaking parole she'll show the photos she has on him and end his career. Fulin turns to his longtime friend and poker buddy, Lennox Cooper, P.I., to help him find the beautiful blonde con-woman.

When conservative millionaire A. C. King hosts his annual house party at his spacious mountain lodge, he has no idea it will be the last family reunion. Yet the mellow autumn air is tension-filled with the presence of A. C.'s beautiful second wife, the constrained animosities of his two older sons, and the tippling of his flower-child daughter-in-law. But it is the unwelcome arrival of youngest son Lucas, with a ravishing black fiancée in tow, that is the true kiss of death.

Who would fall for an assassin...except another assassin? After a security breach is written in the sky - literally - the Bod Squad jumps back into action. An important member of the team has been assassinated by the mob, and the squad's public enemy number one, Baba Samka, is getting too close. Could his deadly work be an inside job? Only trained assassins Tyka and Mahmoud have the very particular set of skills the Bod Squad needs to solve this case.

A year after the devastating events of Not Even Past, Jackson Donne has gone into hiding in the forest of Vermont. Under the guise of Joe Tennant, Donne has been recovering - and even enjoying his life up north. Until one of the few friends he's made goes missing. Meanwhile, back in New Jersey, someone is killing ex-cops - the ones who Donne used to work with.

A plus-size New York City private investigator dives up to his chins into a sticky mess of drugs, murder, government paranoia, and cheese Danish. Tipping the scales at 240 pounds, Alphonse Joseph Bressio is a big man in New York's legal investigation biz, though he'd rather be doing almost anything else.

"Stop the wedding!" No bride wants to hear those words, least of all Susannah "Legs" Carter, one of the Bod Squad's best agents. But when her colleague Jackson bursts in with news that her presumed-dead father may still be alive - and possibly a double agent - the vows are on hold, and the Bod Squad hits the road.

Once Billy Fox starts looking for trouble, he discovers that in Chicago, trouble's under every footstep. Home from the war, Billy Fox leaves Michigan for Chicago, hoping to find his ex-girlfriend, Rita - now another man's wife. Chicago isn't a town that takes kindly to strangers, and Billy finds himself barely scraping by, working odd jobs and living in squalor among convicts. A chance encounter lands him a job with Harry Strummer, the streetwise owner of the Peerless Detective Agency.

The celebrated author Ravin Gould, his equally celebrated actress wife, the media, the locals, and as many tourists as can cram themselves into Conan Flagg's bookstore are all on hand for that electric moment when Cady MacGill, the sheriff's son-in-law, threatens to cut off a vital portion of Gould's anatomy with a chain saw. Less than 24 hours later, Ravin Gould is dead, and Cady MacGill has been charged with his murder. But bookstore owner and private investigator Conan Flagg doesn't read the situation that way.

Ashley McKenna is a blunt instrument. Find someone, scare someone, carry something; point him at the job, he gets it done. He generally accepts money upon completion, though a bottle of whiskey works, too - he's comfortable working on a barter system. It's not the career he dreamed about (archeologist) but it keeps him comfortable in his ever-changing East Village neighborhood.

Part caper, part romantic comedy, this hilariously entertaining book in the Bod Squad series features a sassy and sexy undercover operative, Susannah “Legs” Carter, and her Ocean’s Eleven-style team of private investigators. From Washington, DC, to Paris, Legs is tailing Charles Oakley Palmer III, a white-collar criminal she’s determined to bring to justice. But will romance or betrayal blossom along the way?