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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.

This wry collection of Hanukkah noir features eleven stories by critically acclaimed authors that run the gamut from hardboiled to heartfelt, curated by New York Times bestselling author Tod Goldberg. Across eleven stories, award-winning authors spin tales of family, corruption, buried treasure and delightful yet twisted capers that will entertain listeners through all eight nights of the Festival of Lights.

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.

Mard Audran has risen from hustling on the streets of the decadent Budayeen ghetto to being the right-hand man of one of the Maghreb's most feared men. As an enforcer for the powerful Friedlander Bey, Mard is just beginning to enjoy his newfound wealth and privilege, when he and Bey are betrayed by a rival and accused of murder.

Grausame Prostituierten-Morde erschüttern London. Wie Scotland Yard glaubt, wurden die Morde von dem längst tot geglaubten Jack the Ripper verübt. Der Meisterdetektiv Sherlock Holmes ist sich der Sache jedoch nicht so sicher

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.

Harry Bosch searches for the truth in the new thriller from #1 NYT bestselling author Michael Connelly An NPR Best Book of 2017A Times Critics' Top Book of 2017 A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2017A South Florida Sun-Sentinel Best Mystery of 2017 An Amazon Book of the Month Harry Bosch, exiled...

A child makes a horrifying discovery – a serial killer is on the loose. Final Cut is the sixth novel in Lin Anderson's Glasgow-set forensic crime series featuring Rhona MacLeod. 'One of the most satisfying characters in modern crime fiction' – Daily Mail A stranger causes Claire's car to...

A night of passion leads into an occult nightmare – and more lives are at risk. The Special Dead is the thrilling tenth book in Lin Anderson's Glasgow-set forensic crime series featuring Rhona MacLeod. 'One of the most satisfying characters in modern crime fiction' – Daily Mail When Mark is...

The halls are decked, the deck is stacked, and here comes that jolly old elf. Junior Bender, divorced father of one and burglar extraordinaire, finds himself stuck inside the Edgerton Mall, and not just as a last-minute shopper (though he is that too). Edgerton isn't exactly the epicenter of holiday cheer, despite its two Santas, canned Christmas music, chintzy bows, and festive lights. The mall is a fossil of an industry in decline; many of its stores are closed, and to make matters worse, there is a rampant shoplifting problem.

Suspended from duty, Detective Frølich is working as a private investigator when his girlfriend's colleague asks for his help with a female asylum seeker who the authorities are about to deport. She claims to have a sister in Norway and fears that returning to her home country will mean instant death. Frølich quickly discovers the whereabouts of the young woman's sister, but things become increasingly complex when she denies having a sibling, and Frølich is threatened off the case by the police.

When three bodies turn up in a landfill outside of Philadelphia, FBI profiler Violet Darger heads to Pennsylvania to investigate. Right away there's a major complication. The emaciated corpses appear to have been starved to death. Darger arrives in time for the autopsies. As she watches the withered bodies laid out on the stainless steel slabs of the morgue, their faces crusted with sandy soil, skin pulled taut around knobby cheekbones, she thinks: what kind of a person could carry out such harsh acts?

Wie Holmes mit Schrecken von Mrs Hudson erfährt, bekommen sie zu Weihnachten einen Mitbewohner. Dass es sich bei dem Herrn um einen Vampir handelt, ahnen die Hauswirtin und der Meisterdetektiv allerdings nicht. Erst als ein Geisterschiff mit einer toten Besatzung am Bord im Hafen von London einläuft, kommt Holmes der Verdacht, dass an dem Grafen irgendetwas faul ist.

Warszawski licealista Maks Hajder w trakcie rodzinnej kłótni wpada w szał i atakuje nożem domowników. Jego rodzice giną na miejscu, a młodszy brat w stanie krytycznym trafia do szpitala. Przybyłe na miejsce służby zastają Maksa siedzącego spokojnie na podłodze i otoczonego zakrwawionymi ciałami. Sprawia on wrażenie, jakby nie zdawał sobie sprawy z tego, co zrobił. Tydzień po zatrzymaniu Maks targa się na własne życie i zapada w śpiączkę. Gdy odzyskuje przytomność, początkowo nie potrafi przypomnieć sobie szczegółów tamtego tragicznego dnia.

Ein berüchtigter Bankräuber plant den Coup seines Lebens. Bevor er das Ding drehen kann, kommen ihm allerdings drei Rookies in die Quere. Jetzt gilt es den Witzfiguren die Beute abzujagen. Doch ahnt der Zirkusclown nicht, dass Sherlock Holmes ihm auf den Fersen ist.

As women disappear from the city streets, a blood-curdling discovery is made in a Glasgow cemetery. Easy Kill is the fifth novel in Lin Anderson's forensic crime series featuring Rhona MacLeod. 'One of the most satisfying characters in modern crime fiction' – Daily Mail A vulnerable young...

What marks life in Addis Ababa are the starkly different realities coexisting in one place. It's a growing city taking shape beneath the fraught weight of history, myth, and memory. It is a heady mix. It can also be disorienting, and it is in this space that the stories of Addis Ababa Noir reside....

Un ex cronista di nera, una morte sospetta, un figlio in bilico. Dario Corbo torna a indagare, ma stavolta è la sua stessa vita a essere in gioco… Giulia, la sua ex moglie, muore investita in circostanze ambigue. Il figlio Luca è sotto processo. E troppe ombre si allungano sulla campagna toscana. Per Dario Corbo è tempo di indagini scomode e molto personali. Un noir teso e malinconico, dove l'ironia non salva e il passato torna a bussare con violenza.

Quirke—the hard-drinking, insatiably curious Dublin pathologist—is back, and he's determined to find his daughter's best friend, a well-connected young doctor April Latimer has vanished. A junior doctor at a local hospital, she is something of a scandal in the conservative and highly...

She thought she was free of the past. She was wrong. Six years ago Isla was the only victim to walk free from Carl Jeffery's vicious murder spree. Now, Isla vows to live her life to the fullest, and from the outside it appears perfect. Determined to finish her book, Isla plans her final trip to Sweden, but after returning from Canada and meeting a man she never thought she would, her life begins to derail. Suddenly Isla is plagued by memories of the man who tried to murder her....