Detective Helen Grace faces her own dark compulsions in the new thriller from the international best-selling author of Pop Goes the Weasel and Eeny Meeny.In a world where disguises and discretion are the norm, and where one admission could unravel a life, a killer has struck, and a man is dead. No one wants to come forward to say what they saw or what they know – including the woman heading the investigation: Detective Helen Grace.Helen knew the victim. And the victim knew her – better than anyone else. And when the murderer strikes again, Helen must decide how many more lines she's willing to cross to bring in a devious and elusive serial killer.

A murder-free spell in Minneapolis is shattered when two elderly men are found murdered in one night – both self-sufficient, utterly innocent, and beloved. As the victim toll mounts, homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth struggle to find a connection between victims in a demographic group rarely targeted by serial killers, and find elusive threads that uncover a series of horrendous secrets, some buried within the heart of the police department itself, blurring the lines between heroes and villains. Grace MacBride's cold-case-solving software may find the missing link – but at a terrible price.

Shot in the head by an unknown assailant, San Francisco private eye Sharon McCone finds herself trapped by locked-in syndrome: almost total paralysis but an alert, conscious mind. Since the late-night attack occurred at her agency's offices, the natural conclusion was that it was connected to one of the firm's cases. As Sharon lies in her hospital bed, furiously trying to break out of her body's prison and discover her attacker's identity, all the members of her agency fan out to find the reason why she was assaulted. Meanwhile, Sharon becomes a locked-in detective, evaluating the clues from her staff's separate investigations and discovering unsettling truths that could put her life in jeopardy again.As the case draws to a surprising and even shocking conclusion, Sharon's husband, Hy, must decide whether or not to surrender to his own violent past and exact fatal vengeance when the person responsible is identified.

Shot in the head by an unknown assailant, San Francisco private eye Sharon McCone finds herself trapped by locked-in syndrome: almost total paralysis but an alert, conscious mind. Since the late-night attack occurred at her agency's offices, the natural conclusion was that it was connected to one of the firm's cases. As Sharon lies in her hospital bed, furiously trying to break out of her body's prison and discover her attacker's identity, all the members of her agency fan out to find the reason why she was assaulted. Meanwhile, Sharon becomes a locked-in detective, evaluating the clues from her staff's separate investigations and discovering unsettling truths that could put her life in jeopardy again.As the case draws to a surprising and even shocking conclusion, Sharon's husband, Hy, must decide whether or not to surrender to his own violent past and exact fatal vengeance when the person responsible is identified.

История расследования преступлений серийного убийцы по прозвищу «LOL». Маньяк убивал знаменитостей, превращая их изуродованные тела в психологические портреты. Фотографии трупов выкладывал на аватар жертвы в соцсети. Девушка с неизвестным именем, рано поседевшими волосами и кличкой «Снег» вместе со следователем-криминалистом, ведущим не своё дело, ищет серийника.

Brand-new stories by: Desmond Barry, Ken Bruen, Stewart Home, Barry Adamson, Michael Ward, Sylvie Simmons, Daniel Bennett, Cathi Unsworth, Max Décharné, Martyn Waites, Joolz Denby, John Williams, Jerry Sykes, Mark Pilkington, Joe McNally, Patrick McCabe, and Ken Hollings.Cathi Unsworth moved to Ladbroke Grove in 1987 and has stayed there ever since. She began a career in rock writing with Sounds and Melody Maker, before co-editing the arts journal Purr and then Bizarre magazine. Her first novel, The Not Knowing, was published by Serpent’s Tail in August 2005.

An anthology of storiesThe city is at the centre of all good crime writing: Los Angeles has Raymond Chandler, Chicago has Sara Paretsky and Mexico City has Paco Taibo. London has the contributors to London Noir who explore the dark underbelly of London and celebrate the triple by-passed heart of England's capital city. They reveal London to be a city of mayhem and depravity not to be recommended to tourists from Miami!

Someone is trying to kill beautiful Rachel Treherne for her fortune. Enlisting the talents of Miss Silver seems the only way she can stay alive.

"Long Gone should come with a warning. It's a compulsively readable, highly addictive story. The ending will leave you breathless." – Karin SlaughterAfter a layoff and months of struggling, Alice Humphrey finally lands her dream job managing a new art gallery in Manhattan's trendy Meatpacking District.According to Drew Campbell, the well-suited corporate representative who hires her, the gallery is a passion project for its anonymous, wealthy, and eccentric owner. Drew assures Alice that the owner will be hands off, allowing her to run the gallery on her own. Her friends think it sounds too good to be true, but Alice sees a perfect opportunity to make a name for herself beyond the shadow of her famous father, an award-winning and controversial film maker.Everything is perfect until the morning Alice arrives at work to find the gallery gone-the space stripped bare as if it had never existed-and Drew Campbell's dead body on the floor. Overnight, Alice's dream job has vanished, and she finds herself at the center of police attention with nothing to prove her innocence. The phone number Drew gave her links back to a disposable phone.The artist whose work she displayed doesn't seem to exist. And the dead man she claims is Drew has been identified as someone else.When police discover ties between the gallery and a missing girl, Alice knows she's been set up. Now she has to prove it-a dangerous search for answers that will entangle her in a dark, high-tech criminal conspiracy and force her to unearth long-hidden secrets involving her own family… secrets that could cost Alice her life.

"Tony Black is my favourite British crime writer." – Irvine WelshGus Dury is back on the drink. While in hospital after a hit-and-run accident, his best friend, Hod, asks him to investigate the ritual, on-campus hanging of an Edinburgh University student. The murder victim's mother is a high-profile actress, who has promised a big-money reward. Gus, desperate for money, goes undercover at the university, taking a janitor's job, and soon uncovers a similar ritualistic hanging which took place in the 70s. Few of the students are prepared to talk about it – until another one of their group turns up dead by the same method. But Gus now moves into very dangerous waters as he begins to discover what and who is really behind it all – and he becomes the next target for the executioner.

She's a single parent. A private eye. And liking it. Until, that is, Mrs Hobbs turns up asking Sal Kilkenny to find her missing son. Sal's search takes her through the Manchester underworld, a world of deprivation and petty theft, of well-heeled organised crime and ultimately, murder. Would she have taken the job on if she had known what she was getting into? Probably, because Sal is fired with the desire to see justice done, to avenge the death of a young lad whose only crime was knowing too much.The first Sal Kilkenny Mystery, short-listed for the Crime Writers' Association best first novel award and serialised on BBC Radio 4, Woman's Hour

En el verano de 1893 una explosión hace arder varios edificios. Thomas Pitt participa en la persecución de varios hombres que se refugian en una casa de Long Spoon Lane. Tras un intercambio de disparos la policía entra en el lugar y se encuentra con que uno de los anarquistas tiene un tiro en la cabeza, sus compañeros culpan a la policía y se trata de un miembro de la aristocracia.Para resolver el caso, Pitt se verá obligado a aliarse con un viejo enemigo y ex miembro del Círculo Interior, Sir Charles Voisey.

Hace poco terminó Navidad. Sumida en plena crisis económica, Barcelona es ahora una ciudad más fría y lluviosa. La desaparición de Ruth, su ex mujer, obsesiona a Héctor Salgado y quizá el caso que le acaban de asignar puede hacerle olvidar por momentos su caída en desgracia.El director financiero de una compañía de cosméticos mata a su esposa y luego se suicida. Lo que paree un caso de violencia doméstica llevado al extremo se revela como algo mucho más complejo al hallarse indicios que lo relacionan con otra muerte. En el mundo de la empresa, las mentiras son sólo la fachada de un mal mayor.Mientras, encerrada en casa por una prematura baja médica, Leire Castro, la pareja de investigación de Héctor, sigue la pista perdida de Ruth y no sospecha que puede destapar peligros que nadie había imaginado.

A finales de los años noventa, la policía encuentra, en una casa de veraneo en el norte de Dinamarca, a dos hermanos adolescentes brutalmente asesinados. Han sido golpeados, torturados y violados sin compasión. La investigación policial apunta a que los culpables pueden hallarse entre un grupo de jóvenes de buena familia, hijos de padres exitosos, ricos, cultos. Sin embargo, el caso se cierra muy pronto por falta de pruebas concluyentes hasta que, pocos años más tarde, uno de los sospechosos se entrega sin razón aparente y confiesa el crimen. Supuestamente, el misterio se ha resuelto. Pero entonces ¿por qué los archivos del caso aparecen veinte años después en el despacho del inspector Carl Mørck, jefe del Departamento Q? Al principio Mørck piensa que el caso está ahí por error, pero pronto se da cuenta de que en la investigación original se cometieron muchas irregularidades…

La noche de fin de año, Peter Wimsey sufre un accidente de coche y se ve obligado a pernoctar en Fenchurch St. Paul, donde el párroco de la aldea le ofrece alojamiento. Muchos de los aldeanos han enfermado a causa de una fuerte gripe, entre ellos el campanero, de modo que Wimsey se ofrece a cubrir su puesto esa noche.Meses después, fallece el marido de una de las víctimas de la epidemia. Durante el entierro, descubren un cadáver sin identificar y Wimsey se verá implicado en la investigación de este desconcertante hallazgo, que oculta mucho más de lo que en principio aparenta.Las historias de lord Wimsey se publicaron entre 1920 y 1940 y relatan las aventuras del hermano menor del duque de Denver, Peter Wimsey. En algún momento previo a las primeras novelas, Wimsey empezó a investigar crímenes como aficionado; ahora, la policía (especialmente el inspector Parker) valora su colaboración y lo considera un competente sabueso. Los nueve sastres es uno de los libros más conocidos de la serie de lord Peter.

En Los nuevos centuriones Joseph Wambaugh nos presenta los cinco años de complejo aprendizaje de tres policías de Los Ángeles durante la década de los sesenta. En este tiempo, investigan robos y persiguen a prostitutas, sofocan guerras entre bandas y apaciguan riñas familiares. Pero también descubren que, a pesar de coincidir en una base autoritaria, sus puntos de vista divergen en la necesidad de cada uno de rozar el mal y el desorden. Con un ritmo vertiginoso, en esta historia de casos urgentes y frustraciones cada semana implica nuevos peligros y nuevas rutinas, largas horas de trabajo de oficina o la violenta y repentina erupción de disturbios raciales. Tanto en el vehículo de patrulla nocturna, como en el escuadrón de suplentes, cada hombre tiene que aprender -y pronto- la esencia de las calles y la esencia de las gentes. Para escribir Los nuevos centuriones, su primera novela, Wambaugh partió de sus propias experiencias como policía de Los Ángeles. Algunos de sus antiguos compañeros se sintieron incómodos con la imagen inquietante de agentes de moral ambigua que reflejaba, pero eso no impidió que el debut literario de Wambaugh causara sensación entre la crítica y se convirtiera en un éxito de ventas. "Me lo zampé de un tirón. Es un tratado implacable del trabajo policial visto como un periplo inquietante y de moral ambigua." – JAMES ELLROY

Una joven prostituta aparece asesinada en un apartamento de Greenwich Village. El principal sospechoso acaba de suicidarse en la cárcel. La policía de Nueva York ha cerrado el caso, pero el padre de la víctima quiere reabrirlo. Y nadie mejor que Matthew Scudder para buscar respuestas en un entorno sórdido de perversión y placeres… Un mundo donde los hijos se ven abocados a morir para expiar los pecados más secretos de sus padres.La novela negra norteamericana tiene tres grandes autores: los clásicos son Dashiell Hammett y Raymond Chandler. El tercero se llama Lawrence Block.

Cuando Harriet Vane regresa a la Universidad de Oxford, encuentra a los profesores y alumnos de su college nerviosos por los extraños mensajes de un lunático. Con la ayuda de lord Peter Wimsey, Harriet empieza una investigación para desenmascarar al autor de las amenazas.Una novela de misterio, e incluso de terror, Los secretos de Oxford es también una obra sobre el papel de las mujeres en la sociedad contemporánea, una reflexión sobre la educación y una historia de amor entre dos mentes privilegiadas.Una de las mejores novelas de misterio del siglo XX y la obra maestra de Sayers, precursora de Patricia Highsmith, Iris Murdoch o A.S. Byatt.

The inventive, exuberant, and totally original literary fun that began with The Eyre Affair continues with Jasper Fforde’s magnificent second adventure starring the resourceful, fearless literary sleuth Thursday Next. When Landen, the love of her life, is eradicated by the corrupt multinational Goliath Corporation, Thursday must moonlight as a Prose Resource Operative of Jurisfiction—the police force inside books. She is apprenticed to the man-hating Miss Havisham from Dickens’s Great Expectations, who grudgingly shows Thursday the ropes. And she gains just enough skill to get herself in a real mess entering the pages of Poe’s "The Raven." What she really wants is to get Landen back. But this latest mission is not without further complications. Along with jumping into the works of Kafka and Austen, and even Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, Thursday finds herself the target of a series of potentially lethal coincidences, the authenticator of a newly discovered play by the Bard himself, and the only one who can prevent an unidentifiable pink sludge from engulfing all life on Earth.

A run-down Victorian to renovate, a past to leave behind--who has time for romance...or murder? Patricia Amble, Tish to her friends, has gotten her life together. She's renovating an old, rambling Victorian house in a small town outside of Detroit, and the fixer-upper should net her a big profit when she resells. Romance is right next door, with two attractive neighbors vying for her affection. But even their persistent attentions can't dispel the sense of unease Tish feels. Voices whisper out of nowhere . . . and something odd is going on in the basement. Soon, Tish begins to question her decision to buy the old house. When a dead body turns up her own dark secrets make her a prime suspect in the current chaos. And is either of her attractive neighbors really who he says he is? What is going on just under the surface of this sleepy small town?