Following No Mercy, former Army sniper Mercy Gunderson returns in the second book in Shamus Award-winning author Lori Armstrong's gripping new mystery series. It's late April in South Dakota and 8 months have passed since Mercy Gunderson returned home to the family ranch. After spending the better part of two decades in the Army, she's had difficulty adjusting to the laidback rhythm of civilian life. So when her best buddy asks her to fill in a couple nights a week as a bartender at Clementine's, Mercy jumps at the chance. In recent months, a controversial underground oil pipeline proposed to run from Canada straight across Gunderson has led to numerous bar fights. After an employee of the oil company is found dead in the parking lot one night, Mercy starts investigating and will stop at nothing to find out the truth. Lori Armstrong is the winner of the 2009 Shamus Award for Best Paperback Original by The Private Eye Writers of America for her novel Snow Blind from her previous Julie Collins series.

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Brand-new stories by: James W. Hall, Barbara Parker, John Dufresne, Paul Levine, Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, Tom Corcoran, Christine Kling, George Tucker, Kevin Allen, Anthony Dale Gagliano, David Beaty, Vicki Hendricks, John Bond, Preston Allen, Lynne Barrett, and Jeffrey Wehr.

The long-awaited sequel to 2006’s best-selling Miami Noir highlights an outstanding tradition of legendary writers exploring the dark side of paradise.

Maggie MacGowen, who first appeared in Telling Lies, searches for the murderer of a fourteen-year-old girl named Pisces, and her investigation takes her from the streets of Los Angeles to a posh suburb.

'An investigation consists of a mass of voices, the sort you can hear, and the sort you can't. You have to listen to the soundless voices, Malin. That's where the truth is hidden.'

The snow covered all the tracks, as the killer knew it would. But it couldn't hide the victim, the man who now hung naked from a lonely tree on a frozen plain.

Malin Fors is first on the scene. A thirty-one-year-old single mother, Malin is the most talented and ambitious detective on the Linkoping police force, but also the most unpredictable. She must lead the investigation while keeping her fractured life on the rails.

No one knows the identity of the dead man. Or perhaps no one ever wanted to know. When all the voices of the investigation have fallen silent, Malin can rely only on herself and her own instincts. And as she follows in the frigid wake of the killer, Malin begins to discover just how far the people in this small town are willing to go to keep their secrets buried.

La existencia del comisario Guido Brunetti se ve alterada por la irrupción en su vida de ciertos elementos religiosos inquietantes. Durante un almuerzo familiar descubre que las clases de religión que recibe su hija, la adolescente Chiara, son impartidas por un sacerdote que da signos de un comportamiento poco menos que inadecuado. Al mismo tiempo, una monja que Brunetti conoce (Vestido para la muerte) llega a la questura de Venecia para exponer sus sospechas sobre las circunstancias de la muerte de unos ancianos en una residencia. En una aventura, la sexta que protagoniza el comisario, impregnada del pesimismo que envuelve a Venecia, Brunetti se enfrenta a poderes que se creen por encima de la ley de los hombres, por el hecho de asentarse sobre un entramado de intereses económicos e ideológicos. La acerada mirada de Donna Leon denuncia en esta ocasión las perversas prácticas sexuales que llevan a cabo algunos miembros de la Iglesia Católica, así como la corrupción que afecta a las esferas más influyentes de la institución ante el Papa.

«Y ése es precisamente el espíritu de este comisario (…) una encomiable capacidad de raciocinio junto al salvajismo de las decisiones tomadas sin calibrar convenientemente las consecuencias. Una combinación explosiva.» José Antonio Gurpegui, El Cultural.

«Esta dama del crimen (…) hace una intriga exquisita, que apasiona e inicia a lectores profanos… Seguiré las próximas entregas de Guido Brunetti. Espero acompañarlo hasta su ancianidad.» Lilian Neuman, La Vanguardia.