Italian Crime

Gianni Russo was a handsome 25-year-old mobster with no acting experience when he walked onto the set of The Godfather and entered Hollywood history. He played Carlo Rizzi, and he didn't have to act - he knew the mob inside and out: from his childhood in Little Italy, where Mafia legend Frank Costello took him under his wing, to having to go on the lam after shooting and killing a member of the Colombian drug cartel in his Vegas club. Along the way, Russo befriended Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando. Russo had passionate affairs with Marilyn Monroe and Liza Minelli....

Early one morning, Silvio Lupanello, a big shot in the village of Vigata, is found dead in his car with his pants around his knees. The car happens to be parked in a rough part of town frequented by prostitutes and drug dealers, and as the news of his death spreads, the rumors begin. Enter Inspector Salvo Montalbano, Vigata's most respected detective, who has his doubts about the way Silvio died.

They were the DeMeo gang - the most deadly hit men in organized crime. Their Mafia higher-ups came to know, use, and ultimately fear them as the Murder Machine. They killed for profit and for pleasure, following cold-blooded plans and wild whims, from the mean streets of New York to the Florida Gold Coast, and from coast to coast. Now complete with personal revelations of one of the key players, this is the savage story that leaves no corpse unturned in its terrifying telling.

When private investigator, Dan Armstrong, and his girlfriend, Anna, are invited to the gorgeous island of Elba for a much-needed break, he jumps at the chance. The thought of sun-drenched shores makes Dan promise Anna he won't “play detective” for a whole week… Their luxurious hotel, with its wonderful food and picturesque seaside views, seems the perfect escape, especially with Dan's best friend Virgilio and his wife joining them. But the calm shatters with a sinister encounter and a sudden, suspicious death..

Audible Studios presenta una produzione Audible Originals: Poirot a Styles Court, con Claudio Santamaria nel ruolo del leggendario Hercule Poirot. Un’audio serie corale che riunisce un cast d’eccezione, nell’adattamento del romanzo d’esordio di Agatha Christie. Inghilterra, 1914. Il mondo è precipitato in un conflitto senza precedenti. Ferito nel corpo e nell’animo, il capitano Hastings accetta l’invito a trascorrere la convalescenza a Styles Court, l’imponente dimora di campagna di un vecchio amico.

"Siamo carne da cannone, aveva detto René. Era vero. Carne da cannone. Gente che muore senza un senso, senza un'utilità. Che ha vissuto senza sapere, e senza sapere se ne va". Quattro malavitosi della più squallida periferia romana fanno una rapina che finisce nei disegni complessi della criminalità che conta. Parallelamente un'organizzazione di altissimi funzionari dello Stato ordisce un folle piano "Anno Zero" per eliminare il problema, delle pensioni.

"Johnny Boy" Gotti burst onto the national scene after a double murder catapulted him to the top of the Gambino family, the largest and most feared Mafia family in the USA. Gene Mustain and Jerry Capeci reveal the man behind the headlines.

Nestled high in the Tuscan hills lies Villa Volpone, home to renowned crime writer Jonah Moore and his creative writing course. It’s also the last place retired DCI Dan Armstrong expected to spend his retirement! Dan’s no writer, but maybe this break will help him to think about the next chapter in his own life story? But only days into the course, Jonah Moore is found stabbed to death with his award-winning silver dagger! And Dan finds himself pulled out of retirement with a killer to catch.

When Dan Armstrong is asked to provide security at a private villa on the outskirts of Pisa, he’s pretty sure it will be an easy job. Villa Gregory is remote; the gathered guests are rich – what could possibly go wrong? Inside the high walls of the palatial villa, Dan discovers the gathered guests are some of the most powerful tycoons in the media world, with plans for world domination. With so much at stake, Dan redoubles his efforts to keep everyone safe. But when one of the group is found murdered, Dan’s heart sinks – especially considering Anna’s own daughter is in the frame.

Ritornano i vecchietti del BarLume. “Ora, Ampelio, secondo lei io mi metto a parlare del caso qui, al bar, di fronte a tutto il paese?”. “Come, tutto il paese? Ci siamo solo noi quattro”. “Appunto” confermò la commissaria. Ma in realtà tra la giovane commissaria Alice Martelli e i quattro vecchietti del BarLume s’è creato un feeling operativo. Il pettegolezzo come sistema investigativo trova una riconosciuta efficacia.

Quando i quattro partner di un importante studio legale rimangono uccisi in un misterioso incidente aereo, le loro vedove devono unirsi per scoprire la verità in questo romanzo esplosivo che vi terrà con il fiato sospeso.

Count Falier urges his Venetian son-in-law Guido Brunetti to investigate, and preferably intervene in, the seemingly innocent plan of the Count's best friend, the elderly Gonzalo Rodriguez de Tejada, to adopt a much younger man as his son. Under arcane Italian inheritance laws this man would then be heir to Gonzalo's entire fortune, a prospect Gonzalo's friends find appalling. Then Gonzalo unexpectedly, and literally, drops dead on the street, and his good friend Berta Dodson, just arrived in Venice for the memorial service, is strangled in her hotel room.

Morris Duckworth teaches English to the pampered rich of Verona, and Morris is not pleased. Living a meager existence in a squalid apartment, he regards his privileged students with envy and disdain, first wreaking revenge by petty theft and then, like all good criminals, graduating to grander larceny. When one of those students, a beautiful but vapid heiress named Massimina, falls in love with him, Morris can almost smell upward mobility.

Morris Duckworth can't get over Massimina, or Mimi, as he likes to refer to her. But then, he should have thought of that before he kidnapped and killed her. Only now, living in Verona and married to Mimi's sister, does he appreciate how much he misses her and how blindly he has stumbled into a trap of fate. Struggling to adjust to his good fortune, with a lavish house and cushy job, our unsavory hero finds that his new success is rife with tribulation: not least his pushy bride's staggering sexual appetite.

L'Hotel Haworth di Oxford offre pacchetti turistici allettanti, e poiché è un albergo discreto e frequentato da una clientela mista, non lo disdegnano anche coppie clandestine. Così non è un fatto straordinario che per il Capodanno in maschera (tre giorni di divertimenti, a prezzo scontato per chi accetti la sistemazione nella dépendance) capitino in stanze contigue i misteriosi Ballard, gli sfuggenti Smith e l'eccitante signora Palmer con quel marito tanto più anziano di lei - per tacere della quarta camera di quel padiglione staccato, disdetta all'ultimo da una signora.

It's truffle season, and in the hills around Bologna the hunt is on for the legendary Boscuri White, worth more than its weight in gold. But when an American truffle 'supertaster' goes missing, English Detective Daniel Leicester discovers not all truffles are created equal. Did the missing supertaster bite off more than he could chew?

On December 5, 2009, Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were found guilty of the murder of Meredith Kercher. In December of the following year, the appeal trial began. Despite the initial verdict, the Italian and international public opinion is widely divided: many are those who think that Amanda and Raffaele are the victims of a miscarriage of justice. Images of the couple have been seen around the world, on the web and on TV screens, creating a true media sensation.But what really took place?

Tutto quello che desidera Taylor, una giovane insegnante annoiata da giornate sempre uguali e senza sorprese, è trascorrere una vacanza esclusiva nella soleggiata Cape Cod insieme al fratello Jude, con in testa un unico pensiero: l'abbronzatura. Certo, non può immaginare che a pochi minuti dal suo arrivo nella villa da sogno che ha affittato (e che, nota bene, le è costata anni di faticosi risparmi) incapperà in un cadavere con un proiettile conficcato in fronte. Dopotutto, forse, la vacanza di Taylor non è rovinata come sembra. Anzi, chissà?

In una città senza nome, l'omicidio efferato di una giovane studentessa getta la polizia nel caos: a colpirla è stata un'adolescente di appena tredici anni. E non è l'unico caso. Una scia di delitti, compiuti da ragazzini dal volto angelico e lo sguardo imperscrutabile, mette in ginocchio chi dovrebbe garantire giustizia. L'unico capace di risolvere l'enigma è Vito Strega, commissario geniale e tormentato, sospeso dal servizio per aver sparato a un collega in circostanze misteriose.

L'arrivo a Carsely della psicologa Jill Davent non ha di certo suscitato l'entusiasmo di Agatha Raisin. Non solo la donna si è messa a gironzolare attorno a James, il suo ex marito, ma le ha pure fatto capire di essere a conoscenza di certi dettagli poco lusinghieri sul suo passato e non si è trattenuta dal parlarne in giro. Inoltre, tra i suoi pazienti c'è Gwen Simple, che Agatha sospetta fortemente di essere stata complice in un omicidio.