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A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel - the story of a detective investigating the murder of a Titan, one of society's most powerful, medically-enhanced elites. 'A highly entertaining, satisfying blend of classic detective noir and inventive speculative...

Brought to you by Penguin. One winter evening bestselling crime author, Elín S. Jónsdóttir goes missing. There are no clues to her disappearance and it is up to young detective, Helgi, to crack the case before it's leaked to the press. As he interviews the people closest to her – a...

Introducing Punk Rock Private Eye, Nick Paras. He has to work on Christmas. He's got a new client, but taking care of the case isn't what he expected it to be, and it turns out he isn't who he expected to be.

It gets lean between cases, so when Punk Rock Private Eye, Nick Paras gets handed a soft side-quest escorting a VIP on a spooky season tour of the LA punk scene, the last thing he expected is a tour down the dark side of the soul.

When a corpse turns up at his favorite tavern, Crispin Guest-disgraced knight turned detective - begins an inquiry, but the dead man turns out to be a Templar knight, an order thought to be extinct for 75 years, charged with protecting a certain religious relic which is now missing. Before he can begin to investigate, Crispin is abducted by shadowy men who are said to be minions of the French anti-pope.

Brought to you by Penguin. "This is Marlowe." "Mr. Philip Marlowe?" She asked. I glanced at the clock. It was exactly eleven am, as if she had been waiting by the phone for an appointed hour, following someone else's orders to the letter. "What, d'you think we're a troupe of brothers? There is...

Aubrey had initially dreaded the move to the coast with the Goodmans, but now he loves it. All those rock pools to muck about in, caves to explore, and endless food opportunities from the beach huts means life is good. And he's especially pleased that his best friend, Vincent, has joined the household. But the sun slips behind a cloud when a body is found near Lilac Tree Lodge, the home for the elderly in which Molly Goodman works.

Junior is murdering prostitutes, and Mama is making him do it. Private Investigator Sam Sharpe is hired to find one of the missing girls, another of whom works for local crime boss Judah Hammer. The stakes are raised when the Towson mayoral election turns bizarre and violent, and Dante’s Inferno, a rival crime organization, lays claim to Judah’s turf. Mama’s Boy is book 3 in the Hammer & Sharpe Noir Mystery Thriller Series, all of which feature Judah Hammer, a Jewish crime boss with a heart of gold, and Sam Sharpe, a private investigator who struggles with heroin and opioid addiction.

When wealthy heiress Victoria Glass vanishes without a trace, seasoned detective Miles Harper expects another ordinary missing-person case. But the deeper he digs, the more the city itself seems to watch him.

Jeremy Goodman has been taking a class in local history taught by Margaret, a retired journalist. She's just dug up some intriguing new information in a forty-year-old unsolved triple homicide known as the Golf Course Murders—and now she's been attacked and left for dead. Jeremy is teaming up with an ex-cop classmate to look into Margaret's assault—and their fellow students, as well. Could one of them have a connection to the cold case?

Some murders are meant to be seen. FBI Agent Sebastian Price has worked homicides for years, but the body in the warehouse changes everything. Crucified on the wall. Throat torn out. And when Sebastian starts digging into who the victim really was, he realizes this isn't just murder. It's a message.

Besucher stehen Schlange vor dem Ausstellungsraum, um die Skulpturen der Künstlerin Theresa Tinderdate zu sehen. Die begehrten Exponate haben eine enorme Anziehungskraft. Sie wirken beinahe lebendig.

It’s a slow, steamy summer in New Orleans’ French Quarter, but Franki Amato is busy planning her bridal shower—that is, until a hit-and-run outside a coffee shop gets her PI senses percolating. The victim is linked to crimes at a fancy society wedding in a haunted hotel where Franki’s fiancé’s family is staying. As for the java joint, it’s straight out of a hardboiled detective movie, and there’s something hinky about its walnut liqueur coffee.

In una Bari sonnolenta e distratta, dove i tanti scandali scuotono il perbenismo della città, un bambino scompare, e qualche giorno dopo viene ritrovato senza vita nel giardino della villa di famiglia. Le indagini di polizia si rivelano subito piuttosto complesse. Tra i sospettati c'è la mamma del bimbo, una donna molto bella e inquieta, meglio conosciuta con il soprannome di Uva 'gnura, Uva nera. Separata dal marito, un farmacista assai noto e rispettato, la donna risulta essere invischiata in affari loschi e frequentazioni malavitose.

It's 1988. A mild summer after a turbulent political year for LGBT rights. While working as an assistant to a successful Theatre Director, Joe Stone finds himself unwittingly embroiled in another murder investigation. Lexi Goode, a young, up and coming actress has her bright future cut short...

Boise remembered the Caribbean home of his childhood—in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands—as a paradise. But when his best friend is murdered and the case quickly buried by local police, Boise realizes how far paradise has fallen. With the aid of Dana Goode, a local reporter investigating the kidnapping of a real estate mogul’s daughter, Boise goes on the hunt for his friend’s killer. But he’ll find more than he bargained for—much more.

LOOSE LIPS COST LIVES. It's 1986, and Adam Cave, lead singer of the pop sensation Loose Lips, is struggling to stay in the closet, especially as his group is going through a messy split, and media speculation about the reasons behind the break up are high. Joe Stone has been assigned to Adam as...

Das Ehepaar Bennet ist glücklich verheiratet. Jedoch ist die Idylle trügerisch. Mit Schrecken muss Roger miterleben, wie seine Frau sich zunehmend radikalisiert. Als dann sein Chef ermordet aufgefunden wird, hegt Bennet einen schrecklichen Verdacht.

This rock ‘n roll noir novel follows music exec James Dual as he battles ghosts of his past in watering holes from Hollywood to Nashville to Mexico. James finds himself quickly drawn into a web of blackmail, violence, and murder after he receives a cassette tape from a neo-noir femme fatale implicating him in a tragedy from 20 years ago. The story pulses with mythic songs and stories from when music defined reality and meant everything to those who gave their lives over to it.

Holmes erwacht in der Drachenhöhle von Chiu Chung. Im Wahn taumelt er umher. Er weiß nicht, wie er hierhergekommen ist. Als Lestrade mit seinen Leuten zur Tür hereinstürmt, sieht er den Meisterdetektiv mit einer Waffe in der Hand neben einer Leiche stehen. Noch ahnt keiner der beiden Ermittler, dass sie Teil eines perfiden Spiels sind.