Criminal Mystery

Barbara Parker is the New York Times best-selling author of Suspicion of Malice. With Criminal Justice, Parker delivers a gripping thriller filled with unexpected twists. Rocker Kelly Dorff is serving as the DEA’s infiltrator in a case against a drug cartel. But the investigation goes wrong when Kelly is found dead in her exboyfriend Dan Galindo’s apartment. Now Dan, a lawyer, must figure out a way to prove his innocence.

A beautiful city with ugly traditions of corruption and racism. A black man set to hang for a murder he didn't commit. A world-famous author - and detective - who isn't about to let it happen. This is the sequel to Heck's acclaimed debut, Death on the Mississippi.

What if everything you thought you knew about aging was wrong? This bold account of the history and present-day realities of ageism by a nationally recognized gerontologist and speaker uncovers ageism's roots, impact, and how each of us can create a new reality of elderhood. Ageism Unmasked...

Kristin Burns is making her way in New York City. Her photos are being considered at a major Manhattan gallery, she works by day with two wonderful children, and the man of her dreams is almost hers for keeps. But just as everything she's ever wanted is finally within reach, her life changes...

Gourmetköchin und Hobby-Detektivin Doro Ritter aus München ist unterwegs zu einem Undercover-Einsatz ins wunderschöne Bardolino am Gardasee und fragt sich bereits jetzt, worauf sie sich da nur eingelassen hat. Enzo, Hausherr des Weinguts Buccelli, leidet darunter, dass sich seine Frau Paola seit geraumer Zeit von ihm distanziert und hinter seinem Rücken regelmäßig große Summen vom Familienkonto abgehoben hat. Er will endlich wissen, was dahintersteckt, und hat Doro engagiert, um ihm zu helfen.

Doro hat das große Los gezogen. Ihr Vater schickt sie nach Valeggio sul Mincio am südlichen Gardasee, um für seine Fernsehreportage passende Orte, Rezepte und Geschichten aufzutun. Ihr Freund Vinc soll sie dabei unterstützen. Italien, bezahlter Urlaub – nichts wie los. Vor Ort sind Vinc und Doro dann die heimlichen Stars, jeder will von der Reportage profitieren. Doch plötzlich herrscht Alarmzustand. Ein Tourist wurde vergiftet, und das kurz vor dem berühmten Tortellinifest auf der Ponte Visconteo. Polizei, Festkomitee und die gesamte Gastronomie sind geschockt und in heller Aufregung.

"Milano. Una piccola città, tutto sommato, con dentro il male. Un male pulsante, crudele, così viscerale che l'ha perfino costretta a mutare colore. Il nero del carbone, il grigio dei palazzi ormai è diventato rosso. Di luci, di fari nella notte, di lampeggianti d'autoambulanze, di bandiere nelle piazze, di sangue sui marciapiedi. Città rossa." Anche Milano ha avuto i suoi eroi criminali. Erano gli anni del boom economico, dell'uomo sulla Luna, delle grandi passioni politiche e loro rapinavano le banche.

Meet disgraced ex-DI Ellie Reckless, a self-proclaimed "cop for criminals", and the person the underworld calls when they can't call the police. When a truck owned by the Italian Luccesi family is hijacked in Kent, Ellie and her team are brought in to locate it, but Ellie knows there's more going on, as nobody fights this hard over extra-virgin olive oil.

A mysterious portal has opened up in town . . . and for once, Francie isn't the one responsible. It's just a run-of-the-mill portal to an alternate dimension, right? Nothing to worry about. Except when a rare book dealer turns up dead and Lizzie is the number one suspect. Despite an ironclad alibi, there's a hundred witnesses who swear they saw Lizzie at the scene of the crime. Just who—or what—is coming out of that portal? And can Francie stop it before it invites more of its friends to cross over?

En estas más de cien historias, el creador de la popular serie de novela negra protagonizada por el subteniente Bevilacqua y su ayudante Chamorro centra su mirada en el mundo de la justicia y el crimen para mostrarnos las paradojas de una realidad más compleja que la que divide a culpables e inocentes, o a absueltos y condenados.

When a disabled Vietnam veteran, reared in that town, collides in the heart of Manhattan with a teenage girl suffering from multiple personality disorder and memories of being trapped in a locked wooden box as a child, their budding connection slowly unravels memories that neither of them can leave in the past. After two buried crates are unearthed at a remote construction site outside Cartersville with the bones of small boys inside them, and simultaneously, another local child goes missing, Nick Mannino and Paul Tarantino are drawn into the fray.

Mick McFarland is stunned when he's arrested for murdering business tycoon Edwin Hanson, brother to David Hanson - one of Mick's former clients. Mick is even more shocked when he's confronted with the incriminating evidence: surveillance footage of him stalking the victim and pulling the trigger. As Mick's legal team fights against windmills trying to beat the prosecution in court, his wife, Piper, journeys across the country, trying to win her husband's freedom by going after the man she is convinced is out to destroy Mick and David both.

Robert Rivers is an honorable thief who has made a living conducting well-planned heists on the various businesses that dot the idyllic environs of Southern California. But during a routine robbery of a local steakhouse, Rivers comes across something that shakes him from his comfortable existence.

Daniel and Jennifer had bought a house together, and their friends assumed they would eventually marry. Then everything had changed. Stephanie stole Daniel from Jennifer. Confused, humiliated, and increasingly angry, Jennifer took to following Stephanie around London. Her obsessive love prompted her toward violent revenge. It would also lead to her coming under suspicion by the police, for a crime she did not commit.

Un lieu : le sanatorium de Waverly Hills, dans le Kentucky, aux États-Unis. Entre ses murs doit se dérouler le show de TV-réalité le plus extrême de l'histoire. Huit tueurs y sont enfermés, prêts à tout, surtout le pire, pour convaincre des millions de spectateurs qu'ils méritent de vivre. Leur destin est suspendu à l'envoi d'un simple SMS... Entres psychopathes un ordre froid s'établit. Jusqu'à ce qu'un corps soit retrouvé sans vie dans la chambre 502, où pourtant personne n'avait le droit d'entrer.

What if Sherlock Holmes had turned to crime instead of detection? The Criminal Mastermind of Baker Street by Rob Nunn investigates this very concept. Holmes famously said that "when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst of all." A sinister influence is at work in Victorian London with Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson running a hidden criminal empire. The Criminal Mastermind of Baker Street explores all of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories through the lens of Holmes as a criminal while adding many new exciting tales of Holmes' daring to delight its listeners.

Mr. Govich returns to take you deeper, darker inside the dreadful places. The ones he said that he would never look back into them again. Forbidden zones you should never enter alone. It's treacherous there. You go inside, and you can’t tell where the grey ends and the black begins. Places where you can drift away and never even know you were gone. They were too unpleasant for him to recant.

In 1918, Anthony Trent, a well-educated young man in his late twenties, lives an unsatisfactory life in a New York boarding house. He writes successful crime fiction stories, but this doesn't pay enough for him to do the things he wants. Things change when he starts to put his knowledge of crime to a practical use... It gets him into serious trouble before long.

California, 1922. Terror grips the growing coastal city of San Diego. A serial murderer has dumped the remains of his latest victim in the lake beneath the Cabrillo Bridge. Police have discovered no suspect or motive to explain the violent deaths nor any link between the victims.

From the outside Carter Tomlin's life looks perfect: a big house, a pretty wife, two kids. But Tomlin has a secret. He's lost his job, the bills are mounting, and that perfect life is hanging by a thread. Desperate, he robs a bank. Then he robs another. As the red flags start to go up, FBI Special Agent Carla Windermere hones in on Tomlin from one direction, while Minnesota state investigator Kirk Stevens picks up the trail from another. Because Carter Tomlin's decided he likes robbing banks.