Crime Noir

'Disturbing, eerie, and immensely captivatingwill send shivers down your spine.' Reader Review The imposing gates of Ramsay Hall yawned open. As Serena and 4-year-old Lana walked up the long driveway, little did they know the dark secrets that lay within. When Serena Green accepted the role of...

Hoke Moseley has had enough. Tired of struggling against alimony payments, two teenage daughters, a very pregnant and very single partner, and a low-paying job as a Miami homicide detective, Hoke moves to Singer Island and vows never to set foot on the mainland again. But on the street, career criminal Troy Louden is hatching plans of his own with a gang that includes a disfigured hooker, a talentless artist, and a clueless retiree.

Set in and around the Mexican city of Veracruz, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories—spiraling from real events—that bleed together reportage and the author’s rich and rigorous imagination.

It begins when Harry Starke and his team, including an aging Vietnam vet with a taste for violence, are recruited by the FBI to track down an elite Iranian military unit armed with a tactical nuclear weapon.

Le mystère entoure un attentat, des meurtres sanglants et un personnage surnommé Le Vénitien. Un attentat sans commanditaire, des meurtres sans mobile apparent, l'auteur est à son affaire, il est procureur du Canton de Neuchâtel. Dans ce polar essouflant, il fait endosser à son personnage principal la robe d'un magistrat.

When Deputy Sara Cross arrives at the late-night scene of a shooting by the side of a deserted highway, she learns that her former partner---also her former lover---fatally shot a 24-year-old man, claiming that the man pulled a gun during what should have been a routine traffic stop. But the details soon point to another scenario, and in order to protect herself and her son, she must follow the truth no matter where it leads.

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.

Stavolta Carlo Monterossi, il detective per caso della nuova Milano nera vividamente dipinta da Alessandro Robecchi, è un detective per rabbia. Lo tormenta un senso di responsabilità, benché involontaria, nel delitto; ma soprattutto, con Anna – così si chiamava la bella di via Borgonuovo – aveva vissuto un momento di sincerità totale, di quelli che chiariscono l'anima al pari di un'amicizia duratura. Il suo debito di verità e giustizia, per una volta, si incontra con un paio di poliziotti che condividono la stessa tenerezza verso una vittima che sporge sulla coscienza come fantasma gentile.

The pressures of fame and an obsessive stalker have driven pop star Olivia Smith to take shelter at Halcyon Hall, an exclusive spa on a remote island off the coast of Maine. Yet from the moment she arrives, there are rumors about women disappearing and stories about the resort’s grisly past. Then a note arrives from her stalker, proving that nowhere is truly safe....

Jean Garnier lives on the fringes - a lonely nobody who has lost everything dear to him. His girlfriend was killed in an unexplained accident, his mother has just been sent to prison - he has even lost his job after the sudden death of his boss. In one last, desperate cry for help, Jean sets up seven lethal bombs, hidden all over Paris and timed so that one will explode every 24 hours. After the first detonation, Jean gives himself up to the police. He has one simple demand: his mother must be released, or the daily explosions will continue.

Louise Bridges has the perfect life. A loving husband, Patrick. Two adorable children. A comfortable home. So when PC Becca Holt arrives to break the news that Patrick has been killed in an accident, she thinks Louise’s perfect world is about to collapse around her. But Louise doesn’t react in the way Becca would expect her to on hearing of her husband’s death. And there are only three plates set out for dinner, as if Louise already knew Patrick wouldn’t be home that night.

'OMG, OMG this book is heart-poundingThis one was a page turner for sure.' ***** Reader Review Her dream wedding might become a nightmare Tara Moore feels like the luckiest girl in the world. She's finally found the man of her dreams, and after the fairytale wedding, she's leaving Dublin to...

When old bones are discovered buried beside an A road, it becomes clear that Leon Martin—dubbed "The Ken Doll Killer" by the tabloid press—may not have taken his life 21 years ago. As Boyd investigates the old case file, it becomes clear that there may be new bodies buried at lay-bys around the country—more than that, something incredible was overlooked by the original investigating team.

A glamorous woman suddenly turns up dead in the middle of nowhere in a tragic, mysterious puzzle that only Georges Simenon’s legendary detective can solve. It’s just another slow, rainy day on a French canal, until the discovery of a woman’s body disrupts the placid scene. Inspector...

A crew’s captain turns up dead, but it’s the evil eye that haunts them—Inspector Maigret must navigate stone-faced sailors to solve the fishy sequence of events. A fishing boat docks at a port in Normandy—and hours later its captain is floating in the harbor, strangled to death. When...

Bacci Pagano indaga sulle minacce ricevute da un suo amico di lunga data, ma il riemergere di un vecchio omicidio irrisolto renderà tutto più complicato... Cesare Almansi, avvocato e vecchio amico di Bacci, riceve minacciose telefonate anonime dopo la sua candidatura al Senato. Queste intimidazioni lo spingono a chiedere aiuto a Bacci, il quale inizia a scandagliare i carrugi di Genova, popolati da vecchi compagni di lotta politica e nuovi nemici in agguato.

Dicembre 2018. La testa di un uomo a cui sono stati asportati gli occhi viene ritrovata in un sacco di plastica ai piedi di un cassonetto. Nel frattempo Nina, undici anni, viene obbligata dai genitori a tornare in psicoterapia, per superare un trauma che sei mesi prima le è quasi costato la vita e a cui tutti imputano la sua attuale insonnia. In realtà, da quando è diventata sorda, Nina è afflitta da terrificanti visioni sonore, che altro non sono che presagi di morte; le sue notti sono tormentate da incubi ambientati proprio all’interno di un pozzetto dell’acqua piovana.

Alvin is a party photographer. His controversial, taste-making site has brought fortune and fame to hundreds, including the wild girls of the hit reality series All F's. With a fiery, freshly broken heart, Al attempts to enact his vendetta against a former online teen heartthrob while struggling to gain the affection of disaffected socialite Sky Monroe.

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...

Black and Miri just want some alone time. Instead, they get thrown into a high-profile murder case when one of Miri's patients shows up dead. When the body is found, beheaded and tied to a pier, Los Angeles detectives descend on San Francisco, convinced it's the serial killer they've been hunting, known only by his media name of "the Templar". When the Templar continues to cut a swath through San Francisco, his victims begin to show a new pattern, however - a pattern that appears to have Miri at its center.