Puerto Rico’s capital city enters the Noir Series arena, meticulously edited by one of San Juan’s best-known authors.

In the comfortable suburbs of Los Angeles an affluent Jewish family disappears. The father's trade is diamonds, a risky international business. Sergeant Pete Decker senses danger – a danger that stems from a network of ruthless international politics that threatens to spill on his own doorstep.

Detective and mystery stories, Australian.

«Для молодого человека существуют тысячи способов, как заработать стартовый капитал. Самые популярные методы известны с давних времен. Если отбросить банальное получение кредита под бизнес-план, список выглядит следующим образом: изобрести что-то стоящее и озолотиться – самый утопический. Держит первое место во всех учебниках по предпринимательству, но, так же как и коммунизм, практически не выходит за рамки теории…»Аналитики ФСБ вычисляют, что разные юридические лица, принадлежащие одному владельцу, скупили протяженный участок земель в Подмосковье. Для предупреждения крупнейшей со времен МММ аферы в головную структуру преступного синдиката внедряется лучший оперативник – майор Заречная.

Bestselling authors Rita Mae

Brown and her feline partner,

Sneaky Pie Brown, are back for

the holidays in a mystery

featuring Mary Minor “Harry”

Haristeen, the sleuthing cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and

corgi Tee Tucker. Can they save

the season from a killjoy who’s

decided to gift the festive little

town…with murder?

As Harry well knows, there’s hardly a place on earth cozier

than Crozet, Virginia, at

Christmastime. The snowflakes

drifting lazily down, the soft

glow of the winter light, the

sound of old carols in the streets…even cats Mrs. Murphy

and Pewter get into the spirit

batting ornaments and climbing

the holiday tree. In fact, it’s this

year’s tree that Harry and her

husband, Fair, have gone to fetch when they find the one

they’ve chosen grimly decorated

with a dead body.

The tree farm is run by The

Brothers of Love, a

semimonastic organization that tends to AIDS patients. The

brothers live in a monastery

atop the scenic Blue Ridge

Mountains. Harry is surprised to

find an old high-school friend

associated with The Brothers of Love. Christopher Hewitt wasn’t

a bad man, but good works

weren’t exactly one of his

priorities. But then, if even

Scrooge could turn over a new

leaf, certainly Chris could. And after the scandal that all but

destroyed his life, there were

probably few in Crozet who

needed the gift of a second

chance more.

Harry knows she shouldn’t take it personally, but it was her tree

that someone left the corpse

under. Now, as the season

grows merrier, a murderer is

growing bolder. One by one,

prominent men of Crozet are being crossed off Christmas

shopping lists and added to the

morgue. And if Harry and her

four-legged helpers aren’t very

good—and very careful—this

Christmas may be her last.

Following in the footsteps of Los Angeles Noir, San Francisco Noir, San Diego Noir, Orange County Noir, and Oakland Noir, this new volume further reveals the seedy underbelly of the Left Coast.

Santa Fe joins Phoenix as a riveting Southwest US installment in the Akashic Noir Series.

A gripping, evocative, and ingenious mystery which pays homage to Agatha Christie, Satellite People is the second Norwegian mystery in Hans Olav Lahlum's series. Oslo, 1969: When a wealthy man collapses and dies during a dinner party, Norwegian Police Inspector Kolbjorn Kristiansen, known as K2, is left shaken. For the victim, Magdalon Schelderup, a multimillionaire businessman and former resistance fighter, had contacted him only the day before, fearing for his life. It soon becomes clear that every one of Schelderup's 10 dinner guests is a suspect in the case. The businessman was disliked, even despised, by many of those close to him; and his recently revised will may have set events in motion. But which of the guests – from his current and former wives and three children to his attractive secretary and old cohorts in the resistance – had the greatest motive for murder? With the inestimable help of Patricia – a brilliant, acerbic young woman who lives an isolated life at home, in her wheelchair – K2 begins to untangle the lies and deceit within each of the guests' testimonies. But as the investigators receive one mysterious letter after another warning of further deaths, K2 realizes he must race to uncover the killer, before they strike again.

Saturday brings Yom Kippur to Barnard's Crossing and Rabbi Small is preparing as usual. But his prayers and fasting are interrupted when a member of his congregation is found dead in his car. The police call it accidental. The insurance company calls it suicide. Only Rabbi Small's pregnant wife, Miriam, thinks it's murder. Now it's up to him to prove her right…***“Harry Kemelman has come through as a winner again… A good tale well told.” – The New York Times“Another Sholem Aleichem… An excellent storyteller… Here is detective work at its best.” – Detroit Press“Detailed with humor and intelligence. Top quality!” – Bestsellers“Wise and witty.” – Saturday Review

"Sister" Jane Arnold hopes to play matchmaker, but winds up playing detective when hunting season kicks off with a murder in a riveting mystery from the bestselling author of Homeward Hound.Every fall, the start of hunting season brings crowds of people to Tattenhall Station. "Sister" Jane Arnold has long served as the proud Master of Foxhounds for the Jefferson Hunt, but this year she's noticed a new phenomenon: the men in their hunting scarlets are having an amorous effect on the women in the club. Delighted, she sets her mind to playing matchmaker, but the joys of hunting season are cut short when a body is discovered.Was the death from illness, as everyone, including Sister Jane, is led to assume? She isn't so sure, and soon, with the help of hunters, horses, foxes, and hounds, she uncovers a nefarious scam involving an inheritance--turning this seemingly innocuous death into a murder.

Ein Roman, der alles bietet, was die Leser an Rita Mae Browns Büchern schätzen - den Charme und das Lokalkolorit der Südstaaten, die unwiderstehlichen exzentrischen Charaktere, die köstlich- scharfzüngige Ironie. »Schade, daß du nicht tot bist« ist überdies von großem Reiz für alle, die Spannung der besonderen Art zu schätzen wissen - ein Thriller, der auf samtweichen Pfötchen daherkommt und unversehens die Krallen zeigt.

Gerard Logan ist Glasbläser und betreibt sein Metier mit Enthusiasmus. Er hat es schon weit gebracht — seine Kreationen sind Sammelstücke, und sein Laden läuft gut. Flexibel in heißem, zerbrechlich in kaltem Zustand, durchsichtig und in allen Farben leuchtend — aus Glas sind seine Träume gemacht.Die aber werden rücksichtslos zerschmettert. Sein Freund, der Jockey Martin Stukely, hatte ihm kurz vor seinem Tod auf der Rennbahn ein Videoband übergeben lassen, das offensichtlich so heiße Informationen enthält, daß alle Welt dahinter her ist. Insbesondere eine Verbrecherbande, der jedes Mittel recht ist, Scherben inklusive. Die Kassette wurde Logan geklaut — doch wer sollte ihm das glauben? Da ihm sein Leben lieb ist, macht sich Logan nun ebenfalls auf die Suche — nach einem Videoband, von dem er keine Ahnung hat, was es enthält.

Auf der Rennbahn von Ovrevoll in Norwegen verschwindet der britische Jockey Bob Sherman mitsamt den Tageseinnahmen.Als er wieder auftauct, ohne das Geld, aber mit einem Betonklotz am Bein und tot, ist David Cleveland, Chefermittler des Jockey Club in London, bereits tief in diesem mysteriösen Fall verstrickt.Die Suche nach dem Täter wird zu einer immer wilderen Jagd,bei der Jäger immer auch der Gejagte ist. Und schon bald erweist sich, daß der Diebstahl des Geldes nur von einer weitaus perfideren Schurkerei ablenken sollte, hinter der eines der ehrenwerten Mitglieder des Rennvereins von Ovrevoll steckt.

Job weg, Freund weg und die Wohnung so gut wie weg. Aber Corinna (31) wäre nicht die Enkelin ihrer patenten westfälischen Oma, wenn sie sich nicht flugs an die Neugestaltung ihres Lebens machen würde, und zwar mit einer genialen Geschäftsidee: Sie gründet die »Schmutzengel« – ein Dienstleistungsunternehmen, das gestressten Managern und unbeholfenen Muttersöhnchen die Organisation des lästigen Haushalts und der anstrengenden Freizeit abnimmt. Der Erfolg lässt nicht lange auf sich warten, die Aufträge purzeln nur so herein, alles läuft bestens. Bis zu dem Tag, an dem im Haus des peniblen Neukunden plötzlich ein Toter liegt. Besorgt um das Image ihrer Firma beschließt Corinna: Der muss weg! Doch wie und wohin?

"Schnappschuß" originaltitel: "Blood Sport".Gene Hawkins, Geheimagent Ihrer Majestät der Königin von England, ist ein ausgesprochener Experte, wenn es gilt, einen >Unfall

Lord Worth, ruthless and fabulously wealthy, has made a lot of enemies in the oil business. His new offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, named Seawitch, is one of the biggest in the world, and will put his competitors out of business. To destroy it and therefore be able to inflate the price of oil at will, the competitors get together and send one man to deal with Lord Worth. The villain has a personal score to settle with Worth and kidnaps him and his daughters. Fortunately for Lord Worth, his two daughters are betrothed to the protagonists, Mitchell and Roomer, two former police detectives/now private investigators. They set trying to save Worth and his daughters from certain death, as the villain intends to leave them on Seawitch when he destroys it with a stolen nuclear weapon.

A Darby McCormick le han propuesto la investigación de un nuevo caso. Se trata de la desaparición y posterior asesinato de dos jóvenes universitarias: Emma Hale, hija de un poderoso magnate y. alumna de primer curso en Harvard, cuvo cuerpo fue hallado a orillas del río, y Judith Chen, una estudiante ejemplar que se costeaba sus estudios con su trabajo en una cafetería. Nada parece relacionar ambos crímenes, salvo la causa de la muerte, un disparo en la nuca… y que las dos llevaban una estatuilla de la Virecn dentro de sus bolsillos.Darby se incorporará a la recién creada CSU, Unidad Especial de Científicos Forenses, donde deberá trabajar codo con codo con el inspector Bryson, un hombre hosco y reservado. En el curso de sus indagaciones toparán con Malcolm Fletcher, un ex agente federal perseguido por la ley que podrfa ser la clave para dar con el paradero del homicida. La doctora McCormick tendrá que actuar contrarreloj, puesto que una nueva joven acaba de desaparecer y quién sabe cuánto tiempo puede pasar antes de que corra la misma suerte que sus predecesoras…

Un asesino en serie acecha a las jóvenes de Shanghai. Sus crímenes han creado gran expectación y alarma en la prensa y entre los ciudadanos, sobre todo porque suele abandonar a los cadáveres enfundados en un vestido muy llamativo, rojo y de estilo mandarín. Cuando el caso comienza a complicarse, el inspector jefe Chen Cao está de permiso: acaba de matricularse en un máster sobre literatura clásica china en la Universidad de Shanghai. Pero en el momento en que el asesino ataca directamente al equipo de investigadores del Departamento, a Chen no le queda más remedio que volver al trabajo y ponerse al frente de la investigación. Mientras intenta dar con el asesino antes de que se cobre nuevas víctimas, irá descubriendo que la raíz de estos asesinatos se remonta al trágico y tumultuoso pasado reciente del país.

Hannah Smith returns in the stunning new adventure in the New York Times best-selling series by the author of the Doc Ford novels.A fishing guide and part-time investigator, Hannah Smith is a tall, strong Florida woman descended from many generations of the same. But the problem before her now is much older even than that.Five hundred years ago, Spanish conquistadors planted the first orange seeds in Florida, but now the whole industry is in trouble. The trees are dying at the root, weakened by infestation and genetic manipulation, and the only solution might be somehow, somewhere, to find samples of the original root stock. No one is better equipped to traverse the swamps and murky backcountry of Florida than Hannah, but once word leaks out of her quest, the trouble begins. "There are people who will kill to find a direct descendant of those first seeds," a biologist warns her – and it looks like his words may be all too prophetic.