Want to try it yourself? Call the phone number shown on book’s cover: 212-629-1951 and listen to the voicemail message for main character Zach Taylor.

Personal Effects follows the extensive notes of therapist Zach Taylor’s investigation into the life and madness of Martin Grace, an accused serial killer who claims to have foreseen, but not caused, his victims’ deaths. Zach’s investigations start with interviews and art sessions, but then take him far from the hospital grounds—and often very far from the reality that we know.

The items among Grace’s personal effects are the keys to understanding his haunted past, and finding the terrifying truth Grace hoped to keep buried:

• Call the phone numbers: you’ll get a character’s voicemail.

• Google the characters and institutions in the text: you’ll find real websites

• Examine the art and other printed artifacts included inside the cover: if you pay attention, you’ll find more information than the characters themselves discover Personal Effects, the ultimate in voyeuristic storytelling, represents a revolutionary step forward in changing the way people interact with novels.

Año 1944. Daniel, combatiente del frente oriental, muere asesinado en las trincheras de Leningrado. En un hospital de Viena, un soldado herido dice ser Daniel. Entre él y la enfermera Helena surge un romance.Año 1999. El investigador Harry Hole dispara por accidente a un agente de los servicios secretos durante la visita a Noruega del presidente norteamericano Clinton. Harry Hole es trasladado a la policía de seguridad ciudadana, donde se le asigna la misión de comprobar la información sobre una red de tráfico de armas relacionada con círculos de viejos y nuevos nazis.Año 2000. Mientras la nieve se funde en las calles de Oslo, entra en escena un asesino con un objetivo muy especial.

Lee Child, Diana Gabaldon, James Sallis, and others reveal how, in Phoenix, sunshine is the new noir.

New Orleans scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand is hosting a late-night "Crop Till You Drop" session-when a neighboring antique-shop owner winds up murdered in the alley. Now, the scrapbooking expert must rearrange the jumble of clues and pick out the killer.

Out of school, out of work, and out of motivation, Abby Rose is contemplating her life and wondering what to do next. It's the kind of situation that would get some girls down, but luckily Abby's got a heart the size of Texas-and a bank account to match. But when she discovers the gardener dead in her greenhouse, Abby realizes what she needs to do with herself: she needs to solve a murder...

As volunteers clean up after a huge outdoor rock concert in Yorkshire in 1969, they discover the body of a young woman wrapped in a sleeping bag. She has been brutally murdered. The detective assigned to the case, Stanley Chadwick, is a hard-headed, strait-laced veteran of the Second World War. He could not have less in common with – or less regard for – young, disrespectful, long-haired hippies, smoking marijuana and listening to the pulsing sounds of rock and roll. But he has a murder to solve, and it looks as if the victim was somehow associated with the up-and-coming psychedelic pastoral band the Mad Hatters. In the present, Inspector Alan Banks is investigating the murder of a freelance music journalist, who was working on a feature about the Mad Hatters for “MOJO” magazine. This is not the first time that the Mad Hatters, now aging rock superstars, have been brushed by tragedy. Banks finds he has to delve into the past to find out exactly what hornet’s nest the journalist inadvertently stirred up.

Una fría noche, poco antes de Navidad, un vendedor ambulante africano es asesinado mientras intenta vender imitaciones de bolsos de diseño a unos turistas. ¿Por qué querría alguien matar a un inmigrante ilegal? La respuesta más obvia es la primera aceptada: un ajuste de cuentas entre ellos. Pero cuando Brunetti y sus fieles aliados, Vianello y la signorina Elettra, investigan en los bajos fondos venecianos descubren que entre la sociedad inmigrante hay en juego asuntos de mucho mayor calado. El descubrimiento de pruebas críticas y las oportunas advertencias de su superior para abandonar el caso no hacen sino aumentar la determinación de Brunetti para esclarecer este misterioso asesinato.Con catorce casos resueltos y un clamoroso éxito internacional, Donna Leon está considerada una de las más importantes damas de la novela negra actual.

Pittsburgh Noir roars forth, exploring the hidden underworld of what has often been called “the most livable city in America.”

Dave Delano conoce la libertad después de cinco años alojado a costa del estado. Un alojamiento que ha merecido por encubrir a un apreciado mafioso de Florida, Tony Nudelli, al cual, desde luego, no le hace ninguna ilusión la liberación de Delano: después de cinco años a la sombra, uno puede volverse un tanto vengativo…Pero el ex preso viene con las mejores intenciones. De hecho, propone a Nudelli un plan para hacerse en alta mar con un fabuloso envío de dinero -negro, por supuesto- que va a remitirse a Rusia. Una cantidad que arreglaría la vida de los más exigentes. La que también quiere cambiar su vida es Kate Furey, agente del FBI destinada en Miami, que ha detectado un cargamento de cocaína que va a ser enviado a Europa. Interceptarlo significa para Kate no sólo un éxito profesional sino, sobre todo, escapar de la rutina de un trabajo burocrático.

Fire – It consumes futures and pasts in a terrified heartbeat, devouring damning secrets while leaving even greater mysteries in the ashes. The night sky is ablaze as flames engulf two barges moored side by side on an otherwise empty canal. On board are the blackened remains of two human beings. To the seasoned eye, this horror was no accident, the method so cruel and calculated that only the worst sort of fiend could have committed it. There are shocking secrets to be uncovered in the charred wreckage, grim evidence of lethal greed and twisted hunger, and of nightmare occurrences within the private confines of family. A terrible feeling is driving police inspector Alan Banks in his desperate hunt for answers – an unshakable fear that this killer’s work will not be done until Banks’s own world is burned to the ground.

It was the most distinguished group ever to gather in Nero Wolfe’s study: two of America’s foremost novelists, a world-famous playwright, and the heads of three great publishing houses.Somebody, or maybe a league of somebodies, was accusing America’s most celebrated living writers of plagiarism — and getting away with it.Nero had never encountered a case like this before — until the first body was found. And no other investigator could have cracked it, for the solution rested on determining who had written what manuscript, and this required an uncanny eye for literary style.With Nero tracking down nuances while Archie encounters more than his usual quota of cool-looking girls and much cooler corpses, with both of them up to their raised eyebrows in the world of best sellers, smash hits, and the people columnists stay up to quote, Plot It Yourself is one of the freshest, liveliest, wittiest Rex Stout novel ever to challenge a reader.

Dan, an Irishman who's ended up in New Jersey, finds himself embroiled in a world of murder, kidnapping and corrupt cops.Danworks as a bouncer in a seedy club, half in love with hostess Connie. When Connie is murdered on the premises, a vengeful Dan finds himself embroiled in an increasingly deadly sequence of events in which his doctor friend Zeb goes mysteriously missing, a cop-killing female cop becomes his only ally, and he makes an enemy of ruthless drug-dealer Mike Madden. Written with the warmth and wit that make the Artemis Fowl novels so irresistible, though with additional torture and violence, PLUGGED is a brilliant crime debut from a naturally gifted writer with a huge fanbase.

NYPD homicide detective John Corey has moved to Long Island, restlessly recuperating from wounds received in the line of duty when he's hired to consult on the murder of Tom and Judy Gordon, biologists who worked on Plum Island, the site of animal disease research for the Department of Agriculture. Were the Gordons murdered because they'd stolen some valuable new vaccine, or even a dreaded virus? They'd obviously outspent their income. Had they been running drugs? Corey doesn't think so, although an ice-chest missing from their home points to something forbidden. He teams up with Beth Penrose, detective, working her first homicide and their visit to Plum Island reveals only that the FBI & CIA have sanitised the place. Then Corey falls in with Emma Whitehouse, an expert on Captain Kidd's lost treasure which is thought to be buried nearby… PLUM ISLAND is a thrilling novel from an author of consummate page-turning skill. This is the title that knocked John Grisham off the top of the US bestseller lists and held the No.1 spot for five weeks.

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The suicide of a young couple on a secluded and historically famous Japanese beach uncovers a nation-wide crime network.

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