Novedades

In 1939, Dr. Lotty Herschel, V. I. Warshawki’s closest friend in Chicago, escaped the Holocaust in Vienna with her childhood playmate, Kitty Saginor Binder. Though the two drifted and animosities grew between them over the years, when Kitty’s daughter finds her life in danger, she turns to Lotty for help. In turn, Lotty summons V. I. to take the case.

No one would accuse V. I. Warshawski of backing down from a fight, but she’d happily avoid tangling with Chicago political bosses. Yet that’s what she ends up doing when she responds to a plea for help from an old high school flame, Frank Guzzo. Frank’s mother Stella was convicted of killing his kid sister, but now that she’s out of prison, she’s looking for exoneration. Even though the Warshawskis and Stella never got along, V. I. agrees to make a few inquiries after she sees how hard life has been on Frank and her other childhood friends.

As a favor to her most important client, V. I. agrees to check up on an empty mansion. But instead of a mysterious intruder she discovers a dead man in the ornamental pond—a reporter for an African-American publication whom the suburban cops are quick to dismiss as a suicide. When the man’s shattered family hires V. I. to investigate, she is sucked into a Gothic tale of sex, money, and power, leading her back to McCarthy-era blacklists and forward to some of the darker aspects of the Patriot Act.

A conscience can weigh a PI down more than the heaviest firearm—and get her into more trouble too. It’s that nagging conscience that makes V. I. Warshawski agree to fill in as coach for the girls’ basketball team at her South Chicago alma mater—which in turn leads her to the headquarters of By-Smart, the global retail empire where V. I. hopes to get some desperately needed funds for the struggling squad. But conscience seems to be in short supply at By-Smart... with the exception of Billy Bysen, the earnest teenage grandson of the chain’s gruff, tightfisted founder.

When a group of Chicago tweens holds a ritual in an abandoned cemetery, they stumble on an actual corpse—stabbed through the heart in a vampire-style slaying. V.I. Warshawski arrives on the scene to escort the girls home—but protecting them places her at the tangled center of the investigation. And the girls include daughters of some of Chicago’s most powerful families: the grandfather of one, Chaim Salanter, is among the world’s wealthiest men; the mother of another, Sophy Durango, is running for the United States Senate.

Chicago’s Club Gouge attracts an eclectic audience, from bohemian types to Ukranian mobsters to young men just back from the war. And tonight, V.I. Warshawski is in the crowd too. The edgy stage show stars The Body Artist, who invites audience members to draw on her naked flesh. But things get a lot edgier when a woman sketches a picture on the Body Artist—and one of the veterans flies into a drunken rage. Next thing V.I. knows, she’s cradling the woman’s dying body in an alley, and a PTSD-stricken soldier is presumed guilty.

Tracking down missing persons is part of V.I. Warshawski’s job. But Lamont Gadsden has been missing for more than forty years—last seen heading out into the 1967 blizzard, in the midst of Chicago’s racial unrest. V.I. figured the search would be futile. She didn’t realize it would be lethal... or lead to troubling discoveries about her own family.

Jesse King is an assistant district attorney in Detroit who takes comfort in taking dangerous criminals off the streets. When Detroit's mayor, Harris Yancy, is murdered, authorities implicate his mistress, Ramona Blake. Ramona had been with Yancy before he died and, worse, fled the scene with Yancy's locked briefcase. Enter Jesse King, who becomes convinced that Ramona is innocent and, when he launches his own investigation, is accused of Yancy's murder. While hunting the real killer, Jesse goes on the run, searching for the truth in Detroit's violence-ridden streets.

Amidst the enchanting, perpetual twilight of Saint Petersburg's White Nights festival, a darker reality unfolds for Inspectors Dmitri Petrov and Manislov Illich. Their seemingly straightforward assignment--revisiting two long unsolved cold cases, soon uncovers a disturbing sequence of interconnected crimes. What began as routine soon takes a sinister turn, hinting that the truths they seek are far more perilous than they could imagine. An intricate and captivating mystery, it plunges readers into the heart of Saint Petersburg's hidden darkness. "With atmospheric prose and a sinister plot, ...

Dopo una carriera in polizia interrotta contro la sua volontà, Mariano Greco si è reinventato investigatore privato nella Milano sempre più proiettata nel futuro. Il politico e armatore Ranieri Averardi, latitante a Dubai dopo una condanna per collusione mafiosa, è sospettato dal fratello di aver ucciso la madre per impossessarsi dell'eredità familiare. Tra Milano, Dubai e Roma, Greco e Arminia dovranno addentrarsi in un intreccio di relazioni ambigue, giochi di potere e fiumi di denaro sporco dal quale sarà difficile uscire puliti.

A spaceman's head is blown off as he repairs the outer hull of the spaceship. A beautiful dame suspects foul play, and hires a detective. Can our hero track down the murderer before getting his lights punched out? 11 full color illustrations. Old school pulp fiction meets hard science fiction. A review from Royal Road: Overall 5 stars Space noir! Reviewed at: In the dens of dragonsby Tim Craire11/18/2024, 10:25 PM Very nice so far, after just two installments. A film-noir-style private eye tries to solve a murder on a spaceship, surrounded by dames and wiseguys, etc. etc. The prose style is...

In the summer of 2004, while Chicago slept, a dark cloud crept over the city. A dark and dangerous mist slept under the locked doors and through the windows of single black women on the south side of Chicago. When it left, it took the hearts and souls of innocent families with it: by taking the lives of single black women who lived alone. The doors and windows were locked from the inside: yet a murderer got inside and killed two single black women while they sept peacefully in their beds. Their throats were cut. Like a mist, death was unseen. The media sensationalized the murders and panic ...