Kay Scarpetta, costretta alla libera professione in Florida, viene richiamata con grande urgenza a Richmond, in Virginia, la città che cinque anni prima le aveva voltato le spalle. Chi dirige ora il Dipartimento di Medicina legale è un presuntuoso incompetente e Kay Scarpetta ha la brutta sorpresa di trovare i suoi laboratori in uno stato di completo abbandono. E’ questo il motivo per cui i colleghi di una volta non riescono a venire a capo della morte di una quattordicenne…

Told in the slick underworld idiom, this story of violence, mystery and sudden death crackles with action.

Nick Mason, a reporter, witnesses on execution and gains a clue from the condemned man which precipitates him into a network of crime and murder. He meets and marries Mardi, a beautiful secretary, whom he believes will help him in his dangerous work. He is repeatedly warned against the danger of continuing his investigation, but hangs on against innumerable odds.

Finally, the gang is trapped and sentenced, and Nick and Mardi settle down happily together. Nemesis is around the corner — and, well, read for yourself. The end comes like the crack of a whip.

When journalist Nick Mason got a hot tip to investigate the frame-up of a man being executed for murder, he didn’t know what he was in for. At the gas chamber, it was Vessi’s last words that gave Mason the clue to a peculiar cover up at the respectable Mackenzie Fabric Corporation. But when Mason gets warned off by a cold-eyed gunman and a dangerous hooker called Blondie, he would have abandoned the whole investigation… if it weren’t for the irresistible Mardi, the girl from Mackenzie Fabrics who might be able to lead him to the truth.

La poisse, c'est ce qui caractérise Balthazar, le Demi-sel. Depuis qu'il a eu affaire à un salopard et qu'il lui a réglé son compte. il se sait traqué. Mort de frousse, terré chez lui, il observe de l'autre côté de la rue l'homme qui semble l'attendre dans l'encoignure de la porte cochère, juste en face. Empoignant son Mauser, il tire avant de s'éloigner à pas tranquilles. C'est le commencement de la fuite, d'une cavale sanglante de laquelle Balthazar le Demi-sel ne saura s'extraire.André Héléna (1919–1972) : Reconnu par ses contemporains comme le maître de sa génération, ce forçat du roman noir suivra un parcours chaotique. Sa vie le conduira de la poésie au maquis, de la prison au rôle d'assistant de cinéma, avant d'être happé par l'écriture à un rythme infernal : plus de 200 ouvrages en 20 ans. Son œuvre est marquée par une forte critique de la société et des mécanismes juridico-policiers, bien avant la tendance. De ces romans sombres, poignants, tragiques, il disait : Ici il n'y a pas d'amis, il n'y a que des canailles entre elles.

Ed McBain made his debut in 1956. In 2004, more than a hundred books later, he personally collected twenty-five of his stories written before he was Ed McBain. All but five of them were first published in the detective magazine Manhunt and none of them appeared under the Ed McBain byline. They were written by Evan Hunter (McBain’s legal name as of 1952), Richard Marsten (a pseudonym derived from the names of his three sons), or Hunt Collins (in honor of his alma mater, Hunter College).

Here are kids in trouble and women in jeopardy. Here are private eyes and gangs. Here are loose cannons and innocent bystanders. Here, too, are cops and robbers. These are the stories that prepared Evan Hunter to become Ed McBain, and that prepared Ed McBain to write the beloved 87th Precinct novels. In individual introductions, McBain tells how and why he wrote these stories that were the start of his legendary career.

**Detective Harriet Blue**  is clear about two things. Regan Banks deserves to die. And she’ll be the one to pull the trigger. But Regan – the vicious serial killer responsible for destroying her brother’s life – has gone to ground. Suddenly, her phone rings. It’s him. Regan. ‘Catch me if you can,’ he tells her. Harriet needs to find this killing machine fast, even if the cost is her own life. So she follows him down the Australian south coast with only one thing on her mind. **Revenge is coming – and its name is Harriet Blue …**

When Mitchell is released from prison after serving three years for a vicious attack he doesn’t remember, Billy Norton is there to pick him up. But Norton works for loan shark and general hardman Tommy Logan, a man with his own plans for Mitchell.

Attempting to stay out of Logan’s way, Mitchell finds work at the Holland Park mansion of faded movie actress, Lillian Palmer, and her mysterious East European butler, Jordan. It isn’t long before Mitchell’s violent past catches up with him and people start getting hurt. When his disturbed sister Briony is threatened, Mitchell is forced to act.

To John Kendall, aged thirty-two, it seemed a good idea to throw in his well-paid job in order to write a novel, even though his only published works to date were six guidebooks on how to survive in jungles and deserts.Ten hungry months later, it seems an equally good idea to accept an offer that will at least feed him decently for a while. Despite knowing precious little about the world of racing, he agrees to write the biography of Tremayne Vickers, a highly successful National Hunt racehorse trainer. Beginning his research at Vickers’ famous training grounds in rural Berkshire, the commission appears, at first, congenial — and innocent — enough. But ignorance proves to be harrowing: Kendall’s impulsive decision stretches his survival skills and ingenuity to the limit.John Kendall’s innocence adds another bright, new twist to a tale set in Dick Francis’s familiar territory. Longshot is a brilliant new addition from the master storyteller of crime and intrigue.

Steve Harris, private-eying for a notorious gambler, had to make a play for a wild killer’s loyal sweetheart — to unearth ninety grand in bloody gold.