Humour Suspense

Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, where corruption and terror reign under the dictatorship of Papa Doc and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Disillusioned and noncommittal, they are the “comedians” of Greene’s title. Brown is a disenchanted English hotel owner; the...

Neal Carey has to keep the mob, the FBI, and a major television personality from killing his newest client, but he's tempted to do the job himself. Sometime student and ever-reluctant detective Neal Carey would rather be finishing a dull doctoral thesis than staring down the nose of a loaded gun...

Horace Rumpole, the comic, courageous, and corpulent “great defender of muddled and sinful humanity,” is joined by a winning cast of villains and victims in this collection of six tales in which wry humor and sparkling wit deftly send up the British legal system. In Rumpole and the Angel of...

Shamus Award winner and Edgar Award nominee Don Winslow combines breathless suspense, zany wit, and whiplash action in his latest novel featuring grad student/private eye Neal Carey. Now Neal is assigned to escort monkeyish octogenarian Natty Silver home from Las Vegas to Palm Springs. Natty...

A woman’s scream. A mysterious fire. And an entire town of suspects. Fourth of July is a day twins Chelsea and Michelle look forward to every year. In Maple Springs, it means a day of community, celebration, and family fun. When chaos erupts in the heart of the town picnic, Michelle cannot...

Sue, her husband, Luke, and their children, Caroline and Wheatley, present as a picture-perfect family living the American dream of ascendancy and affluence in their Brooklyn neighborhood. They purchase a brownstone at auction on a coveted tree-lined street with the intention of renovating it and moving in.

When psychotherapist and recovering alcoholic Letty Whittaker responds to a middle-of-the-night crisis call, she knows helping Trinnie face her demons won't be easy. However, instead of finding her friend dead drunk, Letty finds her just...dead. And Paul, another close friend, is the primary suspect.

Following the sudden death of a co-worker, psychotherapist Letty Whittaker learns she has "inherited" her colleague's case load. As professional executor, Letty assumes responsibility for Regina's clients, including those from Devlin House, the local domestic abuse shelter where Regina had worked - and died.

As the line between truth and danger disappears, Herman is forced into a fight he can't reason his way out of… and may not survive. Set in the same world as the Herman Ingram thrillers, The Devil's Backyard delivers a darker, more visceral listening experience—blending investigative suspense with raw, escalating horror.

Die knorke Parodie des neuesten Psychothrillers von Dem-der-aus-rechtlichen-Gründen-nicht-genannt-werden-darf. Merlan Tal steht brennend neben einer Ampel aus Knochen, als ein Minivan neben ihm hält. Ein völlig verängstigter Hundewelpe sitzt auf dem Rücksitz. Wimmernd presst er einen Zettel gegen die Scheibe. Ein Hilfeschrei?

Even when murderous gangsters are shoving his head into a toilet, Mickey Fine can’t stop making jokes. He wants a career in comedy so badly that he takes a job as a Tummler, a comedian and host for a hotel in the Catskills, a hotel where he knows the very gangsters who abused him are staying. An already dangerous situation escalates when Mickey falls for Mutzie, the “number one girl” of Pep who is arguably the most violent thug in the hotel. Betrayals and politics within the mob play out behind the scenes while Mutzie joins Mickey on stage.

La recette du crime parfait. Naël est mort. Un an après, Charlie et Zoé, deux adolescentes aussi brillantes qu’attachantes, découvrent de troublants indices. Malgré les cours de p âtisserie et les premiers sentiments amoureux, elles se lancent dans une enquête risquée pleine de rebondissements. Messages menaçants, incidents étranges... Quelqu'un veut les faire taire. Mais qui, et pourquoi ? Les secrets s'accumulent, les pistes s'entremêlent, et le danger se rapproche .