Novedades

Tauro Pigro, ridente località termale punteggiata di palme. Un hotel dall'eleganza sfiorita - tappeti polverosi, mobilio di mogano tarlato - accoglie dieci ospiti che arrivano alla spicciolata, ognuno col proprio carico di solitudine e aspettative. C'è la socialite d'altri tempi ossessionata dall'età, la bibliotecaria con la testa fra le nuvole, lo storico dell'arte che si ostina a non andare in pensione, la coppia sposata da decenni, lo scrittore incompreso. E poi l'architetto seduttore seriale, il parrucchiere rapato a zero, la capa che tiranneggia la sottoposta senza pietà.

Il nuovo romanzo di Antonio Manzini, l'Italia più nera e cattiva, il male come unica possibilità di riscatto. Colle San Martino è una frazione arroccata sull'Appennino a due passi da Rieti soggiogata dalla Chiesa di Don Graziano e dal Castello di Cicci Bellè che possiede tutto, case e terreni, soldi da prestare e su tutti domina. Attorno a questo microcosmo si muovono i personaggi, che appaiono tra le quinte di quello che è un vero e proprio teatro, di volta in volta chiamati sulla scena a sostenere la loro parte.

It's 1941 in the quaint Village of Worthington, Ohio. Life is changing at the end of the Great Depression. Elizabeth Russo, 23, teaches elementary school but feels uncertain about her future. Her Sicilian immigrant father ran The Red and White, a popular village general store.

The first in an exciting new series of Scandi Noir thrillers featuring Detective Frida Skardet from the author of the Cold Secrets series, Tom Quiller. Pre-book the first in the NORSE KRIMOLOGI strand now. THE MURDER OF INFANTS SEEMS TO BE CHILDSPLAY FOR THIS KILLER When a child dies during its baptism, it is the first move in a deadly game of cat and mouse for Detective Frida Skardet, newly arrived in Trondheim with a limp from an encounter with Russian agents (picked up in the Sam Tilson espionage thriller, Heaven's First Law), her teenage son, and a lot of mental baggage. What people are...

Suicide or murder? The mystery is set in 1948 in a rural village on the eve of the Truman-Dewey election. An aging recluse is found dead in his bedroom from a gunshot wound. Ed Troutman, a high strung and volatile WWII veteran, is charged with murder. Suffering from shell shock, he turns abusive and loses his job in the coal mines. His wife Millie seeks shelter with their son at the home of Aunt Elsie. Meanwhile, a childhood friend, Air Corps Captain Danny Austin, sets out to prove Ed's innocence. Injured during the D-Day landing, he has returned home to manage his father’s farm. His new ...

Pete Murphy’s Salamanders is a modern noirist thriller – a story of despair and redemption, exploring the dark edge of adult violence and its roots in childhood abandonment. They were the Salamander gang, good kids all of them, orphans raised in the 1970s in the El-Yoyo foster home. In the back yard they hunted salamanders when the rains came. Now, in the twenty-first century, when they’re all grown up and have gone their separate ways, the call goes out: they’re starting to die. One by one. After years hustling on the Philly streets, Oliver has outgrown the kids’ stuff. It’s ...

After narrowly escaping with his life at the hands of a murderous Hollywood pimp, detective Happy Doll, bullet-ridden but healing, has landed on a remote Mexican beach. In a humble shack and with his dog for company, Doll settles into a peaceful idyll of Buddhist study. But then trouble, as it always does, comes to paradise. Doll is the witness to a murder for which he is framed, and now, with an expired passport and the Mexican authorities on his tail, he must sneak across the border back to L.A. by any means necessary, with the goal of bringing the true murderer to justice.

Der Broadway-Autor Harvey Parker und das Model Cassandra May sind seit wenigen Tagen ein Paar. Parkers vorherige Freundin Cathrin, mit der er zwei Monate zusammen war, ist vor wenigen Wochen bei einem Autounfall ums Leben gekommen. Parker arbeitet eifrig an einem Off-Broadway-Stück. Als er eines Abends sein Manuskript öffnet, findet er eine Textpassage, die er nicht geschrieben hat. Zumindest denkt er das, schreibt diesen Umstand aber einer durchzechten Nacht zu. Doch auch am nächsten Tag ist das Stück fortgeschrieben, ohne dass er daran einen Anteil gehabt hätte.

Des femmes piégées sur le Net ; un tueur sadique en liberté ; des événements sanglants déterrés du passé. Machiavélique, obsédant, terrifiant, un roman au suspense vertigineux, par le créateur de nos nuits blanches.