Crime Noir

2002, Quebec. A former schoolteacher is accused of brutally stabbing her husband—a famous university professor—to death. Detective Maxine Grant, who has recently lost her own husband and is parenting a teenager and a new baby single-handedly, takes on the investigation. Under enormous personal pressure, Maxine makes a series of macabre discoveries that link directly to historical cases involving black magic and murder, secret societies and spiritism...and women at breaking point, who will stop at nothing to protect the ones they love.

Two breathtaking tales from the Amazon all-star, best-selling author Willow Rose: Where the Wild Roses Grew and Waltzing Mathilda.

A mother is killed, her unborn child stolen – a depraved killer is stalking Glasgow's streets. The Reborn is the seventh novel in Lin Anderson's forensic crime series featuring Rhona MacLeod. 'One of the most satisfying characters in modern crime fiction' – Daily Mail The body of a pregnant...

From the introduction by James Thompson: Finland, the myths and truths. Internationally, it has a reputation as perhaps the best place in the world to live. A great economy. A low crime rate. Good and nearly cost-free health care. The needy are provided for by the state and live in reasonable comfort. Finns: peaceful and quiet people, living in the perfect example of a social democracy functioning as it should. A tourist, or even a person who has lived here for a length of time, might well view Finland as such.

Ex-mob enforcer-turned-private investigator Isaiah Coleridge pits himself against a rich and powerful foe when he digs into a possible murder and a sketchy real-estate deal worth billions. Ex-majordomo and bodyguard to an industrial tycoon-cum-U.S. senator, Badja Adeyemi is in hiding and shortly...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A shocking murder in an affluent Helsinki suburb has ties to witchcraft and the occult in this thrilling U.S. debut from Finnish author Max Seeck. A bestselling author’s wife has been found dead in a gorgeous black evening gown, sitting at the head of an...

A psychological profiler who’s lost her memory and a teenage boy with a fiercely guarded secret become unwitting, unlikely partners in this race to stop a killer—a “stellar crime novel [and] scorching thriller” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) from the acclaimed author of The Ice...

Art expert Emma Lindhal is anxious when she's asked to appraise the antiques in the infamous manor house of one of Sweden's wealthiest families, on the island of Storholmen, where a young woman was murdered nine years earlier, her killer never found. As she goes about her painstaking work and one shocking discovery yields clues that lead to another, Emma becomes determined to uncover the secrets of the house and its occupants. When the lifeless body of another young woman is found in the icy waters surrounding the island, Detective Karl Rosén arrives to investigate.

Seconda avventura noir con protagonista il magistrato Ludovica Sperinelli, donna affascinante e volitiva, e del maresciallo dei Carabinieri Francesco Mancini. Sullo sfondo una Savona che si sta preparando all'annuale fiera di Santa Lucia; ma una sera, nel Teatro Chiabrera, una donna viene trovata riversa a terra nel bagno delle signore. Per pura coincidenza, si tratta della vicina di poltrona della Sperinelli, la quale si trova così coinvolta in prima persona in una vicenda dai contorni inquietanti, dove si affollano parenti insopportabili, misteriosi dirigenti e attivisti no-Tav.

Six days before Baer Creighton cut down a cabal of dogfighters, a 16-year-old girl disappeared while walking home from school in Asheville, North Carolina. Witnesses later claimed they saw her in the back of a police car. Twenty-five years before that, an illegal fireworks plant blew up in Benton, Tennessee, killing 11, and raining M100 firecrackers over half a county. A few days later, a 13-year-old boy learned his highest calling was murder.

Adapting what may be the most popular of graphic novels, by the edgy Hard Case Crime author, adding layers and exploring the nature of morality. Faced with overwhelming poverty and a pregnant wife, a tragic, struggling comedian is forced to turn to crime. In his first heist, he is immersed in...

Por la noche, las apacibles montañas que rodean Sainte-Agathe quedan ocultas bajo un manto de niebla que se disipa al amanecer. Sin embargo, hoy la luz del sol ha revelado un macabro suceso. Mientras conduce hacia un pequeño pueblo del País Vasco francés, Zaida no puede dejar de pensar en lo que la espera allí. André, su novio, que se encontraba visitando a la familia, se ha despeñado desde uno de los picos cercanos. Al llegar a su destino, los peores presagios se confirman al tiempo que surgen muchas dudas sobre el accidente y sobre la personalidad de su pareja.

Un professore di fisica del liceo, Aldo Colombo, scompare a Brescia in un sabato d'autunno del 1971. Nessun biglietto, nessuna spiegazione. Il professore sembra svanito nel nulla come se non fosse mai esistito. Teo, un brillante giovane matematico ed ex studente prediletto del professore, non si dà pace: la scomparsa di Colombo non può essere volontaria, qualcuno deve averlo fatto sparire, ma perché? Perché rapire un innocuo professore di fisica di un liceo di provincia? L'unico indizio sembra essere un plico di formule su neutroni e fissione nucleare lasciato da Colombo.

A country town, a brutal murder, a shameful past, a reckoning to come... The injustices of the past and dangers of the present envelop Aboriginal policewoman Renee Taylor, when her unwilling return to the small outback town of her childhood plunges her into the investigation of a brutal murder...

From the No. 1 bestselling author of THE MISSING AND THE DEAD comes the short novel: 22 DEAD LITTLE BODIES, plus two short stories: STRAMASH and DI STEEL'S BAD HEIR DAY, and a novella: THE 45% HANGOVER, all featuring his most popular characters – DS Logan McRae and DCI Roberta Steel. They say...

Award-winning author Edwidge Danticat edits this collection of stories that puts a noir twist on the Haitian experience. From kidnappings gone wrong to deadly sibling rivalries, Haiti Noir features some of the Caribbean nation’s leading voices, including Gary Victor, Evelyne Trouillot, Kettly Mars, and Patrick Sylvain.

Der Mieter erzählt die Geschichte eines schüchternen, friedliebenden Menschen, der eine heruntergekommene Wohnung in Paris bezieht. Nicht allein, dass sich seine Vormieterin aus unerklärlichen Gründen aus dem Fenster gestürzt hat, das Haus und insbesondere seine Nachbarn verhalten sich ihm gegenüber immer merkwürdiger und feindseliger. Der Mieter beginnt nach und nach, den Sinn dieses Spiels zu verstehen und versucht, seine Gegner mit ihren eigenen Waffen zu schlagen.

He will find the truth. Even if it kills him. Five months ago, DCI Robert Kett’s wife Billie was snatched from a London street. Five months of no leads, no evidence, and no suspects. Until now. When a routine police search uncovers a chamber of horrors beneath one of the city’s most expensive houses, detectives find a clue that points to Billie’s fate, and to the identity of her kidnapper - an enigmatic killer known as the Pig Man.

The southwestern-most metropolis in the contiguous United States, resting a mere 40 feet above sea level, tends to garner positive national attention. San Diego is home to the world-famous San Diego Zoo, Balboa Park (with its history reaching back to the 1915-1916 Panama-California Exposition), temperate climes, and a sunny reputation. It is also the home of shooter Brenda Ann "I Don’t Like Mondays" Spencer, disgraced Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham, and San Diego County medical examiner-turned-killer Kristin Rossum.

In the stillness of his Paris apartment, Jean Daragane has built a life of total solitude. Then a surprising phone call shatters the silence of an unusually hot September, and the threatening voice on the other end of the line leaves Daragane wary, but irresistibly curious. Almost at once, he finds himself entangled with a shady gambler and a beautiful, fragile young woman, who draw Daragane into the mystery of a decades-old murder. The investigation will force him to confront the memory of a trauma he had all but buried.