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Once a rising VP at a topflight ad agency, Bill Moss now works as a cold caller at a telemarketing firm in the Times Square area. He's got a bad case of the urban blues, and when a pink slip rather than a promotion comes through, Bill snaps.... Now he's got a dead supervisor on his hands and problems no career counselor can help him with.

Winner: Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original. From the acclaimed noir novelist Jason Starr comes this savage portrait of a misanthropic man stuck in a New York nightmare. Written in caustic, streamlined prose, Twisted City is a chilling depiction of how quickly one's life can take a turn for the worst. Times are tough for David Miller, a journalist for a second-rate financial magazine who hates his boss, is tired of supporting his girlfriend's partying lifestyle, and recently lost his sister to cancer.

Dr. Adam Bloom has the perfect life. He's financially secure and lives in a luxurious house with his wife, Dana, and their 22-year-old daughter, Marissa, a recent college graduate. Late one night, his daughter wakes him up and says, "Somebody's downstairs." Adam uses his gun to kill one of the unarmed intruders, but the other escapes. From that moment on, everyone's life in the Bloom household will never be the same.

With each meaningless date and disappointing new boyfriend, Katie Porter is becoming more and more disillusioned. No matter how wide a net she casts, she cant seem to find a guy who really understands her. But someone thinks shes special - very special. And hes watching her. Peter sees Katie at the gym. He sees her at the coffee bar she stops at on the way to work. In fact, he sees her almost everywhere, as he quietly trails her. But most of all, he sees her in his plans for the future.

Winner: Barry Award for Best Paperback Original. Finalist: Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original. Mickey Prada's a nice kid. He works hard at a neighbourhood seafood market in Brooklyn, putting fish on ice. He's got a nice girlfriend. He even delayed college a year to help his sick dad. But Mickey's got a problem. A customer at the fish store, Angelo Santoro, keeps asking Mickey to place bets for him, and Angelo keeps losing.

Ruined and on the lam, former drug kingpin Max Fisher stumbles upon the biggest discovery of his crooked life: a designer drug called PIMP that could put him back on top. Meanwhile, a certain femme fatale from his past is pursuing a comeback dream of her own, setting herself up in Hollywood as producer of a series based on her and Max's life story. But even in La-La Land, happy endings are hard to come by, especially with both the cops and your enemies in the drug trade coming after you.

Scott Lang, also known as Ant-Man, is just getting settled into his new home when his daughter is targeted by a villain and he must go back to crime-fighting to save her. 

Max and Angela are going down. When we last saw Max Fisher and Angela Petrakos, Max was being arrested by the NYPD for drug trafficking, and Angela was fleeing the country in the wake of a brutal murder. Now both are headed for eye-opening encounters with the law - Max in the cell blocks of Attica, Angela in a quaint little prison on the Greek island of Lesbos.

ONE NIGHT. ONE DATE. WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE? Jack and Maria Harper live in a claustrophobic Manhattan apartment with their eight-year-old son, Jonah. Jack has quit booze, but his music career has stalled, and his real estate career isn’t going much better. Maria’s thriving at her corporate job, but her frequent travel strains their already fragile marriage. They love their son, but beyond that, they’re barely holding on. When a former bandmate tells Jack about a new extramarital dating app, he downloads it on a whim…and quickly connects with the mysterious, seductive Sophia.

Once a rising vice president at a prestigious New York ad agency, Bill Moss has fallen hard. Now he spends his days cold-calling strangers from a cramped telemarketing office near Times Square, selling products no one wants and trying not to think about everything he's lost. When a pink slip...

A paranoid thriller in the mind-bending tradition of Philip K. Dick and The Twilight Zone, The Next Time I Die will draw you into its claustrophobic web of suspense and leave you questioning everything you think you know. DYING WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING. Steven Blitz didn't think about his own...

From the internationally bestselling author of The Next Time I Die and Cold Caller comes a classic New York noir thriller. Times are tough. They're about to get worse. David Miller is a journalist stuck at a second-rate financial magazine. He hates his boss, resents supporting his girlfriend's...

Richie knows he’s a good salesman, but he just can’t seem to land an account. And he’s starting to drink again. And there are those unwelcome memories of the neighborhood bully, Rudnick, and what he did to Richie when he was 13. Just when Richie’s feeling about as low as he can get, he runs into Rudnick on the street and knows exactly what to do. And suddenly things seem to be going much better. That is, until they get much, much worse. Hard Feelings is a novel that lets us into the mind of an ordinary guy capable of things even he couldn’t have imagined. 

Simon Burns is unemployed and on the verge of divorce. And he’s never felt better. His strained marriage gets pushed to the limit when he’s unceremoniously fired from his job and reluctantly takes on the role of stay-at-home dad for his three-year-old son. Then, Simon meets a tight-knit trio of other dads: Michael, Charlie, and Ramon. Their strength, confidence, and ease with the darker side of life lure Simon into their mix. In fact, Simon starts to suspect that when Michael welcomed him to “the pack", he was talking about much more than male bonding.... 

Max Fisher used to run a computer company; Angela Petrakos was his assistant and mistress. But that was last year. Now Max is reinventing himself as a hip-hop crack dealer, and Angela is back in Ireland hooking up with a would-be record setter - in the field of serial killing. Will their paths cross again?

Five valuable lessons you can learn by listening to Bust: When you hire someone to kill your wife, don't hire a psychopath. Don't use Drano to get rid of a dead body. Those locks on hotel room doors? They're not very secure. A curly blond wig isn't much of a disguise. Secrets can kill.

Every town has its secrets. Karen Daily, recently divorced, lives with her two kids in a quaint suburb of New York City. She’s teaching at a nearby elementary school, starting to date again, and for the first time in years found joy in her life. Mark Berman, Karen’s friend and neighbor, wants out of his unhappy marriage, and so does his wife, Deb, but they have been staying together for their kids. Unbeknownst to Karen, Mark has a rich fantasy life about her which has grown into a full-blown obsession.

Karen Daily, recently divorced, lives with her two kids in a quaint suburb of New York City. She's teaching at a nearby elementary school, starting to date again, and for the first time in years has found joy in her life. Mark Berman, Karen's friend and neighbor, wants out of his unhappy marriage, and so does his wife, Deb, but they have been staying together for their kids. Unbeknownst to Karen, Mark has a rich fantasy life about her, which has grown into a full-blown obsession.

Die Savage Lane ist eine hübsche Straße in einem wohlhabenden Vorort von New York. Hinter den gepflegten Fassaden aber gärt und kocht es. Mark Berman, seit zwanzig Jahren mit Deb verheiratet, träumt von seiner sexy Nachbarin Karen. Deb ist rasend eifersüchtig. Obwohl sie selbst ein schmutziges Geheimnis hat. Eine bitterböse Komödie der erotischen Verwirrung und Verblendung - mit tödlichem Ausgang.

HER FIANCÉ VANISHED. NOW HER HUSBAND IS GONE. From the Anthony Award-winning author praised by Lee Child as "hypnotically good" comes a gripping psychological thriller about marriage, secrets, and the past that refuses to stay buried. Nineteen years ago, Vanessa Rizzo's fiancé vanished without warning—no goodbye, no explanation, no trace. She built a new life around that mystery: a marriage, two teenage sons, a polished Upper East Side world that finally feels safe.