Urban Crime

Was haben ein Filmproduzent, Feen und ein Magier gemeinsam? Aillard Blackwood, Berater für das New Scotland Yard und Vollzeitmagier stellt sich genau dieser Frage. Nachdem seine Partnerin, Sergeant Paxton, ihn in Londons bekannteste Filmstudios zitiert, gerät er in ein ebenfalls filmreifes Netz von Lügen, Gewalt und Intrigen. Blackwood muss sich ohne seine Magie durch dieses undurchschaubare Gewirr, das eher einer Telenovela als einem gewöhnlichen Fall gleicht, kämpfen.

Sin duda, no hay en la actualidad ningún escritor que retrate con mayor verosimilitud el mundo de los gánsteres en Estados Unidos durante la primera mitad del siglo XX que Dennis Lehane, y esta electrizante novela —que cierra la trilogía iniciada con Cualquier otro día y Vivir de noche— es la mejor prueba de ello.

At the end of the 1976 football season, more than forty Harvard athletes went to Boston's Combat Zone to celebrate. In the city's adult entertainment district, drugs and prostitution ran rampant, violent crime was commonplace, and corrupt police turned the other way. At the end of the night, Italian American star athlete Andy Puopolo, raised in the city's North End, was murdered in a stabbing. Three African American men were accused of the crime. His murder made national news and led to the eventual demise of the city's red-light district.

Once the top dog, Danny Mckay has walked away from his old gangland life. He’s on the straight and narrow now, looking forward to settling down and living a quiet life. But trouble seems to follow Danny. And when his own family is caught up in a shocking event, Danny is dragged back into the gangland world, hell-bent on revenge. Danny’s determined to make someone pay, but the rules are different this time around—old friends are enemies, and Danny doesn’t know who he can trust.

After the defeat of the rival Gordon and Thompson families, the Blood Brothers' reputations as feared lieutenants of the McVay clan are firmly established. The Gallowburn has become an untouchable stronghold in their capable hands. However, danger rears its head in another form—Jamie’s deadliest foe, Cameron Abernethy. Still fighting to be released from prison, Cameron decides to use the Lawson family, the Blood Brothers’ biggest rivals, to discover his daughter's whereabouts.

You don't know Craig Malton. Hopefully you never will—until you need his help, help that the police can't give you. As well as running a respectable security firm for Manchester's elite clubs and bars, Malton moves in dangerous circles amongst the city's most cutthroat criminals. Nothing happens in his beloved city without his say so.

A routine case of industrial espionage pitches hardboiled PI Alexander Southerland headlong into a maelstrom of shadowy political intrigue and deadly supernatural mayhem - not to mention some malevolent owls and the mysterious "boy who talks backwards"! After his exposure of a white-collar thief has harrowing consequences, a guilt-ridden and disconsolate Southerland roams the mean streets and dark alleys of Yerba City seeking to uncover a secret so stunning - so staggering - that just knowing it could unravel the bonds that keep the social order from dissolving into chaos!

Money, Power, and Respect were the only things that mattered to Trae Keal. He was one of D.C.'s most notorious gangsters and loved the fact that there was nothing anyone could do to stop him from ruling the streets. The FBI knows taking Trae down won't be an easy task so they enlist the help of Carmen, an undercover agent sent to infiltrate Trae's crew by any means necessary. Caught up in the drama with his new love Karina, Trae doesn't see his life unfolding in front of him. Unknowingly, he gives Carmen information about his operation that could send him away for years.

The Detective Story Club's first short story anthology is based around a London detective club and includes three newly discovered tales unpublished for 100 years, plus a story bearing an uncanny resemblance to a Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes story but written some seven years earlier.

Cliff Hardy may still have the moves but he's in trouble. The economy's tanking and he's been conned by an unscrupulous financial advisor and lost everything he's got. Cliff only knows one way, and that's forward, so he's following the money trail. It's a twisted road that leads him down deep into Sydney's underbelly, into the territory of big money, bent deals, big yachts, and bad people. Cliff's in greater danger than ever before, but he's as tenacious as a dog with a bone.

A large party was given to me and Tony for our release from prison. We were also celebrating our promotions to Capo. Our new business venture was to run drugs and counterfeit money in phony taxis. They were perfect replicas of cabs that traveled thru the city. We operated right under the cop's noses --- making the mob millions. Don Mancini was pleased until I had an accident. I actually had two --- one with the taxi and the other with my girlfriend, both were life changers. Don Carmine Mancini was a brilliant and he turned my negatives into positives.

For Kenyatta, the living urban legend, the war is far from over. With new recruits bolstering his army, he's ready to take down the drug pushers destroying his. This time the battle is moving out of the streets and heading west, where he faces off with his arch enemy in a brutal showdown in Vegas, high atop a glittering hotel. One bullet, one hit, one survivor—winner takes all.

Der selbsternannte Berufsmagier Aillard Blackwood arbeitet seit etwa einem Jahr für das New Scotland Yard, das er durch seine besonderen Fähigkeiten bereits im letzten Sommer als Berater unterstützt hat. Nun stößt Blackwood durch seinen Magie-Schwund auf unverhofft menschliche Probleme. Nachdem in der Silvesternacht mehrere Tote am Ufer der Themse gefunden werden, klingelt wieder einmal das Telefon in der kleinen Kellerwohnung in Finsbury. Blackwood ermittelt an der Seite seiner Partnerin, Sergeant Paxton, die sich immer noch weigert, an das Übernatürliche zu glauben.

From the “queen of urban fiction” (Publishers Weekly), Vicki Stringer, comes a scorching crime drama of love, lies, loss, and the indomitable spirit of a woman scorned. Mischievous and manipulative, eighteen-year-old Red is an expert at deception with a provocative femininity. She employs...

The brand-new gangland family saga novel from Linda Calvey, set in London's East End. Hope Wills is a force to be reckoned with. She's one of the top mistresses at Chantal's brothel, she has a good head on her shoulders for business, and nothing happens in London's East End without her family's...

A small-town sheriff has some unfinished business in the big city.... Jack Lamburt doesn’t negotiate with drug dealers. When he learns that his girlfriend Debbie’s sister is keeping company with New Jersey gang leaders, he opts to spring her the only way he knows how. With a hail of bullets and blood.... On his quest to get Debbie’s sister free, Lamburt attracts the attention of an FBI agent eager to take the vigilante down. Things get even hairier when a drug lord goes on the war path to reverse the sheriff’s rescue mission with some deadly revenge.

When Detective Harry Shepherd stops a young teenager from throwing himself from the end of Blackpool pier, he has little idea that the world around him would change forever. As the boy scampers away, he vows to discover why the lad was so willing to die. However, Alex Hayden is no ordinary teenager, but one with an insight into the multiple murders that are occurring within the town. Sensing a loss within the soul of Detective Shepherd, he becomes embroiled in the search to stop the killer at the risk of exposing his own secret.

Un sospechoso de homicidio desaparece tras un accidente ferroviario en el oeste de Buenos Aires y la policía trata de dar con su paradero mientras los medios de comunicación difunden especulaciones y análisis superficiales.

Un ensayo muy bien documentado sobre una realidad oscura de Galicia.

Magic has been franchised. Magical conveniences are sold everywhere like designer coffee. Everyday life is filled with technical and magical wonders. Only, the magic is murdering people. Thoth Corp's hot new spell is turning people into ravening monsters. Their only hope to quietly rectify the situation before the epidemic spreads is the spell architect they framed and sent to prison. El's response to his former partners wasn't polite. Homeless, forbidden to use government-regulated magic, and barely surviving out of dumpsters, Eli struggles to rebuild his life.