Noir

Duchess Day Radley is a 13-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. Rules are for other people. She is the fierce protector of her five-year-old brother, Robin, and the parent to her mother, Star, a single mom incapable of taking care of herself, let alone her two kids....

From Booker Prize finalist and two-time National Book Award finalist Rachel Kushner comes a dazzling novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France.

When a landslip on Pembrokeshire’s stunning coastal path reveals the harrowing remains of two bodies, ex-DCI Evan Warlow’s quiet retirement is shattered....

Was the biggest case of his career the worst mistake he ever made? Ten years ago, DCI Jack Logan stopped the serial child-killer dubbed "Mister Whisper", earning himself a commendation, a drinking problem, and a broken marriage in the process....

Early one morning on the shore of the Thames, DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene of a gruesome discovery. When Owusu sends the evidence for examination, he learns the bones are connected to a cold case that left three people dead on the kitchen floor in a Chelsea mansion thirty years ago....

On the outside they were the golden family with the perfect life. On the inside they built the perfect lie.

The first three crime thrillers in the Detective Sebastian Clifford series together in a single collection for the first time. This collection includes Web of Lies, Speak No Evil, and Never Too Late....

After 20 years on the force, Detective Chief Inspector Jack Logan thinks he has seen it all. He is wrong....

When a brutal attack on two mountain bikers in the vast solitude of the Brechfa forest leaves one dead and the other badly injured, the hunt is on for the killer. And though the evidence points firmly in one direction, an open and shut case soon becomes murky and unclear....

Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder....

When a farmer and his son go missing whilst chasing rustlers, DCI Evan Warlow and his team are called in to investigate. Everything points to a botched raid by heartless thieves, but with no bodies, and little or no clues, the team quickly start chasing their tails....

A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, and Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in....

Written years before Jordan Harper’s breakout success, Everybody Knows, this stirring and brutal bildungsroman tells the story of young Luke Crosswhite, who after years apart from his criminal family returns to their flock deep in the California desert.

Las Vegas: a city built on obscene wealth and corrupt deals, cunning entrepreneurs, and the ruthless mob. The Cartel's plan to open a casino will rake in cash, but it comes with great sacrifice....

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Neal Stephenson is continually rocking the literary world with his brazen and brilliant fictional creations....

Scarlett Clark is an exceptional English professor. But she’s even better at getting away with murder. Every year, Dr. Clark searches for the worst man at Gorman University - professor, student, or otherwise - and plots his well-deserved demise....

Ex-Army criminal investigator Rachel Hatch is a drifter. No home. No commitments. Until her sister's drowning drags her back to the town she left 15 years ago. Convinced her sister's death was no accident, Hatch partners with the local sheriff, Dalton Savage, to uncover the truth....

Philip Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption....

All that the Georgia Bureau of Investigations taught Faith Mitchell goes out the window when she charges into her mother’s house, gun drawn. She sees a man dead in the laundry room. She sees a hostage situation in the bedroom. What she doesn’t see is her mother....

In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, whom he divorced and remarried and who ends up dead....

Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant....

Begun in 1959 by a 22-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliant love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s....

Nina - a career girl living alone in Manhattan - offers Travis McGee companionship and the first loose thread in the elaborate fabric of a gigantic swindle.....

A young hospital security guard with a disturbingly unique taste in women. A maternity doctor with a horrifically unusual appetite. When the two of them meet, they embark on a journey of self-discovery while shattering societal norms....

After the tragic and bloody end to The Cartel's reign, Carter is forced into isolation to evade the law....

El legendario restaurador de arte y espía Gabriel Allon une sus fuerzas con las de una bella danesa, hacker y ladrona profesional, para localizar el cuadro más valioso del mundo, que ha desaparecido. Pero pronto se ve inmerso en una carrera desesperada para evitar un conflicto inimaginable entre Rusia y Occidente.

When Victoria escapes her broken home for university in London, she is determined to reinvent herself and make a fresh start. She falls in love with Nick, who welcomes her into his privileged circle of friends, opening her eyes to a world she only ever dreamt of. But things don’t go to plan and life takes a darker turn. Twenty-five years later, the circle is reunited alongside a host of glittering guests to celebrate the wedding of Hollywood darling Ingrid Olsson to well-connected Julian Draper. Victoria has spent years trying to forget Nick and put the horror of what happened behind her.

Written years before Jordan Harper’s breakout success, Everybody Knows, this stirring and brutal bildungsroman tells the story of young Luke Crosswhite, who after years apart from his criminal family returns to their flock deep in the California desert. Luke’s father is serving time for a brutal murder that Luke himself witnessed; now, his uncle vies for power and rival biker gangs encroach on the family’s various criminal enterprises.

Bartleby is one of the final works of fiction published by Herman Melville before he slipped into despair over the continuing critical dismissal of his work after Moby Dick. Set in the mid-19th century on New York City's Wall Street, Bartleby is often thought of as Melville's most prescient story: what if a young man caught up in the rat race of commerce decides they have had enough, and chooses to live a different kind of life?

In Reconstruction-era Baltimore, members of the city’s elite keep turning up dead. Below the polished surface of high society, there are illicit affairs, jilted lovers, financial hardships, and countless motives for murder. When Jane Gray Wharton’s husband, Ned, dies unexpectedly while overnighting at his brother’s home, Jane has no reason to question the circumstances of his death. But on a visit to the same house a few weeks later, both Jane and her daughter fall gravely ill, and Jane begins to suspect foul play.

La sera del 3 settembre 1992, sul battello che solca le placide acque del lago d'Iseo, Pietro Rota rivede il profilo imponente di Montisola dopo dodici anni di assenza. Fuggito a Milano con l'ambizione di diventare un grande giornalista, le cose non sono andate come sperava e lui si ritrova a collaborare con una scalcinata rivista scandalistica specializzata in cronaca nera. Quello non è il trionfale ritorno a casa che aveva sempre sognato, ma la richiesta d'aiuto del padre non gli ha lasciato scelta.

Mara sa che la sua unica possibilità è la fuga: da chi vorrà incolparla di omicidio e da chi lo ha commesso per incastrarla. Mara ha scontato tredici anni in una struttura psichiatrico-giudiziaria per il tentato omicidio del marito e dei due figli. Adesso si è creata una quotidianità che la tiene lontano dal mondo, che le impedisce di nuocere ancora. Fino al giorno in cui – nella sua torre d’avorio – si apre una breccia. Il misterioso omicidio di un vicino riporta a galla antiche paure. E, insieme a quelle, anche una donna che per Mara non doveva esistere più.

Regna la pace al confine tra il basso Piemonte e la Liguria di Ponente, tra un cielo pallido di fine inverno e il tenero verde delle colline. Ma è solo apparenza. Ci può scommettere l'ex commissario Bartolomeo Rebaudengo. A richiamarlo all'azione dal suo ritiro a vita privata provvede Ardelia Spinola, il medico legale che non ha mai imparato a mettere la giusta distanza tra sé e i cadaveri distesi sul tavolo autoptico. Adesso il poliziotto deve vedersela con una scia di sangue che parte da Alassio e si perde in Alta Langa, con una serie di delitti dietro cui sembra celarsi la mano di un serial killer.

Un uomo di mezz’età si presenta nell’ufficio di Bacci Pagano. Si esprime in un italiano ricco, con marcato accento genovese. È timido e cortese, ma un fatto sconcerta il navigato detective: Mario Canepa è un uomo di colore…Figlio adottivo dei Canepa, Mario è ora titolare della ditta di famiglia, che importa caffè dal Corno d’Africa. "Ritrovi mio figlio dottor Pagano. Si chiama Giovanni, ha vent'anni e non vuole parlare con me!”. Inizia così per Bacci un'inchiesta velata di malinconia, nella quale il suo senso di giustizia, lo spinge ad andare con determinazione oltre il proprio mandato.

Del autor revelación de la novela negra vasca, una trepidante y peligrosa investigación. "Altamente inquietante." Carmen Mola. Un lugar perdido en las montañas del País Vasco. Una misteriosa desaparición en plena borrasca. Una investigación al límite.El cadáver de una montañera aparece en el santuario de San Miguel, en la sierra de Aralar (Navarra). Todo indica que la destructiva borrasca Cordelia ha sido la culpable de su muerte. Pero cuando el forense Aitor Intxaurraga acude al lugar de los hechos, descubre algo extraño en el cuerpo de la mujer. Su muerte pudo no haber sido accidental.