Crime Noir

The absurdly outrageous, sarcastically satiric, and always entertaining New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore returns in finest madcap form with this zany noir set on the mean streets of post-World War II San Francisco, and featuring a diverse cast of characters, including a...

Jason is a werewolf. He's one of my best friends and sometimes a lover. And right now he needs me, Anita Blake – not to be a vampire hunter, or a Federal Marshall, or a necromancer, but because his father is dying. Because this is the weekend that Marmee Noir, ancient mother of all vampires, picks to make her move.

As the flames rise, so do the secrets. When the charred remains of a body are found in the quaint Surrey Hills, the trauma of DI Stephanie Broadbent’s past is reignited. The victim has been burned alive. No clues. No witnesses. Soon every lead turns to ash. When another body appears, Stephanie uncovers a connection that threatens to set the world — and more bodies — alight. If she is to catch the killer, she must step into the flames and face her fears.

The serial murders of elders in Åre hide a blood-chilling motive in a riveting novel of suspense by the #1 internationally bestselling author of Hidden in Lies.

Esther was born in the shadows of Rio de Janeiro's underbelly a place where innocence dies young and survival is the only virtue. Trapped in a life of prostitution to feed her sick parents and herself, she learned early how to wear a smile that hid hunger, and how to lie without blinking. Then...

In Depression-era Chicago, private eye Nathan Heller is caught between the Mob and City Hall in a battle for control of the 1933 World’s Fair while he attempts to find a lovely actress’ missing brother. Along the way, Heller meets an array of famed heroes and villains from Eliot Ness to Al Capone, climaxing with the detective dangling off a beam of the Fair’s sky tower.

Rachel Morgan must take up the mantle of a high-powered CEO—all the while navigating dangerous power plays between the vampires and the elven elite—in the next exhilarating Hollows novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. For witch-born demon Rachel Morgan, life has become good in...

È un nevoso giorno di San Valentino quando Silje Thomsen, quarantun anni, separata, scompare nel nulla. Un'indagine a prima vista ordinaria per l'investigatrice Naia Thulin, che dopo lo sconvolgente caso dell'Uomo delle castagne ha scelto per sé un ruolo più tranquillo, ai Crimini informatici della polizia di Copenaghen. L'analisi dei dati del telefono della donna non fa però presagire nulla di buono: pare che uno stalker abbia inscenato con lei, via messaggio, una specie di gioco a nascondino, progressivamente più sinistro e pericoloso.

Joe Dylan ventures into the Bangkok City bars. The detective follows a trail leading to Demon Dreams, a Bangkok S&M joint run by a beautiful transsexual and her mentally deranged brother. Joe discovers a world of bizarre nocturnal acts and black magic rituals. It's a seedy Bangkok underworld that picks-up fallen women from the streets and throws them into an evil world of torture and murder.

When Father Tom Morgan hears the confession of a murderer, he is faced with an impossible dilemma: whether to violate the sacred seal of confession and betray his vows, remain silent while the killing continues and risk innocent lives ... or take justice into his own hands at the cost of his...

"Outback noir has a new star" The Times Burnt-out from policework, Detective Sergeant George Manolis flies from Australia to Greece for a holiday. Recently divorced and mourning the death of his father, who emigrated from the turbulent Prespes region which straddles the borders of Greece...

When Marlon Newberry is gunned down outside a the apartment house where he has attended a party, the case reeks of something more sinister than a street hit. Detectives Abe Gold and Barbara Cortez follow the trail, but it’s private investigator Sam Sharpe who’s hired to uncover the truth. What Sharpe finds is a shadow world of cons and corruption—fake antiques sold for fortunes, fortune-tellers bleeding the wealthy dry, and real estate scams designed to ruin lives.

Strap in for the thriller of the summer from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Snap. In a hangar at Los Angeles International airport, a cargo plane tears itself apart. In South Africa, a passenger jet crashes into a popular tourist attraction. The two tragedies seem unconnected, but...

Film noir: the name comes from the French for “black” or “dark film.” It points to the central feature of the genre: mood. There is a darkness about film noir, a somberness accompanied by a thrill of dread and ever-present danger. This aura envelops wealthy heiresses, English aristocrats, tough-guy drifters, jazz musicians, drug dealers, and respected schoolteachers—all of whom have secrets to hide and much to lose if those secrets are unveiled.

By turns terrifying, taut, humane and tender it tells the origin story of Ireland’s organised-crime epidemic with a skill and grace which belies a debut novel, and is the calling-card of a ringing new voice in Irish fiction. When the Guards knock on the door the Boy already knows his mother is...

Quattro delitti sotto il sole cocente di una Milano soffocante e deserta.

It was almost midday on the second day of our trip by the time I started feeling truly murderous towards Mother. Sixty-year-old crime writer Pat is at her wits’ end. Her mother has ruined her life with her unceasing cruelty and self-obsession, and it looks like she is never going to stop. At...

Vous n'en ferez qu'une bouchée ! San Francisco, 1971. L'inspecteur Garrett Erickson enquête sur une série de meurtres : des jeunes femmes décapitées dont plusieurs organes ont été prélevés. Obsédé par ces victimes dont on ne retrouve même pas l'identité, il est aidé par l'agent Will Slater du FBI, qui l'incite à penser de manière irrationnelle, à penser comme le meurtrier. Peut-il s'agir d'un cannibale ?

I sommeren 1981 forsvinder 23-årige Else Marie fra den lille jyske by Ry. To måneder senere bliver hendes skelet fundet i et krat. Drabet på Else Marie er blot et af mange på unge kvinder og piger i slutningen af 1970’erne og begyndelsen af 80’erne, der stadig er uopklarede. Og noget...

Lorenzo Ligas è, o meglio era, uno degli avvocati penalisti più quotati di Milano. Ma l'alcol in eccesso e qualche errore professionale di troppo hanno macchiato la sua reputazione. Il suo ultimo Tinder date è stato trovato accoltellato a pochi minuti dalla fine del loro appuntamento e, come c'era da aspettarsi, gli inquirenti la considerano la colpevole perfetta. La credibilità di Vanessa, però, è sempre più compromessa, perché a distanza di poco tempo si trova coinvolta anche in un secondo assassinio.