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Dorothy Graham is dead, which is inconvenient, not least for her. Luckily, she has planned for this eventuality. Now, if any of the truly dreadful people she is related to want to get their hands on her money, they’re going to have to do so via a fiendish difficult and frankly bizarre competition of Dorothy’s devising. After all, just because you’re dead, it doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy a last laugh at the expense of people who made your life miserable.

Nicholas Carr disappeared on his 18th birthday and the world has moved on. His girlfriend has gone to university, his friends have got jobs, the police have other things to look into. But his father, Richard, is still stuck on the three fingers the police dug up from a sodden Manchester wood. What happened to Nicholas on the night he disappeared, and why did he never come home? Private investigator Andrew Hunter is Nicholas's last hope.

There are few people Nero Wolfe respects, and Lon Cohen of the New York Gazette is one of them. So when Cohen asks for a favor, the famously brilliant - and notoriously lazy - detective is inclined to listen. According to Cohen, someone wants to kill the Gazette’s gossip columnist, Cameron Clay. Death threats are a regular hazard for Clay, who’s hurled insults and accusations at every boldfaced name in the five boroughs. But the latest threats have carried a more sinister tone.

Gritty, complex and effortlessly chilling, Brolly’s Dead Eyed is a grisly crime thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat. DCI Michael Lambert thought he’d closed his last case… Yet when he’s passed a file detailing a particularly gruesome murder, Michael knows that this is no...

Sir Roger Parkes is a man of some influence in the West Country. When he loses touch with his youngest daughter, he has a word with the Assistant Chief Constable of the local force. It's not a police matter, he is told, but if Sir Roger wants to pursue it privately, there is a lady who might be able to help-two of them, actually.

A deadly enemy will rise again.... Ella Praeger has always felt like an outsider. So when she is called to join the ranks of The Group, a force for good operating in the shadows, her world shifts. She is gifted a purpose - and a dangerous legacy. Years ago, The Group rid the world of one of its most powerful criminal masterminds. Yet when a child washes up on a beach in Greece, a mysterious symbol tattooed on its heel, it is a clear warning: impossibly, Athena Petridis has returned to reclaim her empire.

Brought to you by Penguin. FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RICHARD & JUDY THRILLER PICK NO ONE HOME He got on the train. He didn't get off. So where did he go? On a normal London morning, Sam Wren gets onto a tube train - and then never gets off again. No eyewitnesses. No trace of him on security...

In a city of shadows, one man walks the line between crime and justice… San Francisco, 1948. The war is over, but for James Wolf, the battle’s just begun. Once a star inspector with the San Francisco PD, now a gumshoe scraping by on whiskey and regrets, Wolf prowls the alleys and avenues of a city that forgot how to sleep. When a routine case blows open like a shotgun blast—Corpses pile up, bullets fly, and everyone’s got something to hide—especially the client. Double-crosses, dirty money, and a city choking on its own secrets— the only thing sharper than Wolf’s wit is the blade at his back.

Hyun Carlos González Kang disfruta de una existencia ordenada y silenciosa en su piso de Madrid. Ingeniero informático, solitario por naturaleza, su rutina transcurre entre líneas de código y una vida cuidadosamente controlada. Todo cambia el día en que una nueva vecina se instala en el apartamento de enfrente. Meli Martín es detective privada y especialista en meterse en problemas. Cuando Hyun, impulsado por una curiosidad que ni él mismo comprende, decide ayudarla en la investigación más peligrosa de su carrera, su mundo ordenado comienza a desmoronarse.

In a small town, the truth can't always set you free . . . When a second woman from a group of friends known as "the posse" is murdered in the woods near the New England enclave of Kendalton, FBI agent and profiler Gus Wheeler and his partner are called in to determine if this is a serial...

Former detective Harper Adams knows three things for certain: Her mother's death was no accident. The evidence she's uncovered could destroy one of Arkansas's most powerful crime families. And the dangerously attractive man she's hiding with is the only person she can trust. On the run with...

When the local constabulary on the Isle of Wight fails to find any sign of foul play in the disappearance of Nigel Carter, his aunt, Kate Kinsella, owner of the Medical and Nursing Investigation Agency becomes involved, only to find herself the lead suspect in the murder of a new acquaintance.

Meet Kate. Nurse turned detective. Used to dealing with death. But not murder. Lorraine Farnforth just witnessed a murder — and now her own life is in danger. She saw a man shoot a woman in a local carpark, pick up the woman's limp body, and put her in the boot of his car. But Lorraine also made a mistake that night. She locked eyes with the killer, and now he knows what she looks like. Could the witness become the victim . . . ? Lorraine can't go to the police, not if there's a chance they could find out what she was doing that night, so she hires Kate Kinsella to protect her.

Jolanda è un'investigatrice sui generis: ha un'agenzia low cost ed è abituata a indagare su fedifraghi, figli ribelli, inquilini inquietanti. Quando viene chiamata per la scomparsa di un rappresentante di biancheria intima in un paese della Bassa capisce che si trova di fronte a qualcosa di inedito. L'intuizione è confermata dal fatto che nei paraggi è stata uccisa una dottoressa. Questo omicidio sembra collegato a quello di uno psichiatra bolognese, sul quale sta indagando lo sgradevole commissario Tommaso Pedroni.

In einer kalten Nacht verschwindet im irischen Dorf Ardnakelty eine junge Frau: Rachel Holohan stand kurz vor der Hochzeit mit dem Sohn des lokalen Großgrundbesitzers, nun treibt sie leblos im Fluss. Alles weist auf einen Selbstmord hin. Ex-Cop Cal Hooper hat hier Freunde, denen er Loyalität schuldet. Seine Verlobte Lena und seine Ziehtochter Trey wollten nie etwas mit Ardnakelty zu tun haben – doch als uralte Fehden aufflammen, geraten sie selbst in die Schusslinie.

Ein Verbrechen folgt dem nächsten – doch der jüdische Privatdetektiv Jakob Rubinstein deckt sie alle auf. An seiner Seite seine Schwester Rachel, seine junge Assistentin Lisa, der homosexuelle Kolumnist Nicolas Gazetti und der faule Kater Mister Watson – ein Team, das ungewöhnlicher nicht sein könnte, doch mit dem Wiener Bürgermeister Doktor Gödel ein starkes Ass im Ärmel hat.

Ruby Johnson arbeitet als Kindermädchen und Hausangestellte bei wohlhabenden Familien in der 74th Street in Manhattan. Als Ruby eines Nachts auf dem Heimweg Zeugin eines Mordes an einer Nachbarin wird, erkennt sie das Opfer sofort. Der New Yorker Anwalt Eddie Flynn übernimmt die Verteidigung, obwohl alle von Jacksons Schuld überzeugt sind. Niemand ahnt, dass Ruby einen perfiden Plan verfolgt, für den sie über Leichen geht.

Una Serie De Thrillers Criminales Adictiva, Llena De Giros, Tensión Y Jóvenes Detectives Privados Que No Se Detienen Ante Nada. Tras un colapso muy público sobre el escenario, la diva del pop Emefa desapareció del foco mediático. Internet se inundó de teorías conspirativas. Pero el interés se desvaneció en cuanto los tabloides comenzaron a perseguir el siguiente escándalo de celebridades… Nada que investigar, ¿verdad? Eso parecía. Hasta que Emefa publica su primera canción desde el escándalo.

Cuando la leyenda de los Chicago Black Hawks, Boom Boom Warshawski, resbala desde un muelle y se ahoga en el lago Michigan, la policía lo califica de accidente. Su prima, la detective privada Victoria Warshawski, no está tan segura. Armada con una botella de Black Label y su Smith & Wesson, Victoria sigue un rastro sangriento hasta el corazón de la poderosa industria naviera de Chicago, donde la corrupción es profunda y los testigos no suelen vivir mucho tiempo.

Aimée Leduc is having a bad day. First, she comes home from work at her Paris detective agency to learn that her boyfriend is leaving her. She goes out for a drink with her friend Laure, a police officer, but Laure’s patrol partner, Jacques, interrupts, saying he needs to talk to Laure...