Nominated for the 2017 Anthony Award for Best NovellaFantine Park is not the woman her mother was—she’s certainly not the safecracker her mother was either. Hell, she’s not much of anything useful these days. Fresh off parole after a stint in the joint for a poorly thought out casino robbery, Fantine finds herself confronted by an old partner of her mother’s and right back in the thick of it.Unfortunately, the man dragging her back to the life she left behind, one Aleksei Uryvich, is a complete bully and an idiot—content to believe he can get anything he wants with his brutish nature and the threat of a bullet for Fan’s elderly father, Jae.The score: semen. Yes, semen. Gallons of it. Particularly, the genetic man-batter from supposed Ivy Leaguers and other elite. The material nets top dollar from Asia and Aleksei is foaming at the mouth at the profit potential.The plan: there is no real plan. Fantine has to get it out of Evensight Storage; a sperm bank situated right by the Battery Park Tunnel in Manhattan. A place barely anyone but a sad sack with an empty sack sees the inside of on a day to day basis.There’s no guarantee anyone involved in this mess is getting out alive, especially when Fantine finds herself face to face with the psychopath known as O Leiteiro—The Milkman.

Two gambling kingpins go to war — and Manville Moon is caught in the middleWhen an upstart gangster named Byron Wade threatens Louis Bagnell’s gambling empire, Bagnell attempts to hire Manville Moon, a detective whose loss of a leg has not diminished his reputation as a tough guy. Preferring to remain neutral, Moon turns down Bagnell’s offer and refuses Wade’s as well. But Wade does not want another gunman. He wants a sleuth — to investigate his own murder, should the coming war leave him dead. They are negotiating over a platter of chop suey when Louis Bagnell turns up murdered.Was Wade using Moon as an alibi, or did Bagnell’s killer come from within his own gang? Double-crosses come faster than bullets in this twisting novella, but even on one leg, Manville Moon will have no trouble keeping up.

Marc Seidman ha tutto ciò che si può desiderare dalla vita: chirurgo plastico di successo, vive con la bella moglie e la figlioletta Tara di pochi mesi in una bella casa nei sobborgi di New York. Ma quando riprende conoscenza in una camera d’ospedale dove è stato ricoverato in fin di vita, Marc scopre con orrore d’aver subito un’aggressione durante la quale la moglie è stata uccisa e sua figlia è scomparsa senza lasciare traccia. Come se non bastasse Marc si ritrova ad essere il primo sospetto…

When Jimmie John Hall and Betty Dienhardt found each other, they filled all the lonely corners of their young lives with love and hope. It would result in the brutal murders of fourteen innocent people.

Who murdered Lucille Balu, a rising young film star, found strangled to death in a hotel elevator?

Set against the background of the fabulous Cote d’Azur and the Cannes Film Festival, James Hadley Chase’s new thriller tells the story of a young degenerate with an inner compulsion to kill.

Written with the speed, force and economy of style we have come to expect from the man who has been described as “the most remarkable among British and American thriller writers” this tense new novel throws a noose round the reader which will not be snakes off until long after the last page has been turned.

Casey Morrow, un giovane intento ad annegare nel whisky i suoi dispiaceri, viene abbordato nel bar da una bella sconosciuta che gli chiede di sposarla offrendogli in compenso una cospicua somma.L’indomani Casey si sveglia con la sensazione di aver sognato, ma i cinquemila dollari che si trova in tasca gli dicono che il ricordo è reale. E su un quotidiano trova una notizia sensazionale: “Finanziere ucciso! Ereditiera scomparsa!”, con una foto dell’ereditiera in prima pagina: è proprio la ragazza del bar!

A varied collection of stories by Shamus Award-winner Bill Pronzini.

Rich in character, incident, and exceptional storytelling, this collection of Oddments is the best evidence of why the Private Eye Writers of America honored Bill Pronzini with their Lifetime Achievement Award. The fourteen selections include “The Highbinders,” where 1890’s detectives Quincannon and Carpenter venture deep into Chinatown’s opium dens to solve the murder of a client. And a man gets involved in the “Wishful Thinking” of his neighbor, who has a habit of confessing to killing his wife.

Trailing suspense from the depths of the ocean to the planet Venus and on to Death Row. Pronzini rounds out the collection with a trio of twisty tales: A penchant for a harmless bar game called “Liar’s Dice” leads to danger for the narrator: an incorrigible prankster plays the ultimate joke in “The Dispatching of George Ferris,” only to find the joke is on him: and the Nameless Detective manages to turn the tables on a blackmailer in “The Big Bite.”

Michael O’Shea is a member of Ireland’s police force, known as the Guards. He’s also a sociopath who walks a knife-edge between sanity and all-out mayhem. When an exchange program is initiated and twenty Guards come to America and twenty cops from the States go to Ireland, Shea, as he’s known, has his lifelong dream come true — he becomes a member of the NYPD. But Shea’s dream is about to become New York’s nightmare.

Paired with an unstable cop nicknamed Kebar for his liberal use of a short, lethal metal stick called a K-bar, the two unlikely partners become a devastatingly effective force in the war against crime.

Kebar, however, harbors a dangerous secret: He’s sold out to the mob to help his sister. Her rape and beating have left her in a coma and the attack is pushing an already unstable Kebar over the edge just as Shea’s dark secrets threaten to boil over and into the streets of New York.

Once Were Cops melds the street poetry of Brooklyn and Dublin into a fast-paced, incomparable hard-boiled novel. This is Ken Bruen at his best.

Victor Dermott, a successful playwright, rent an isolated ranch house in the Nevada Desert where he plans to write another play. With his wife, baby, a Vietnamese servant and a dog, he settles down in the ranch house to work. For the first two months all is ideal, then one bright summer morning, Dermott wakes to find his servant, his dog, and his shot guns have vanished. He also discovers that the telephone is dead and that someone has removed the sparking plugs from his car.

This is the terrifying opening sequence of the masterly new James Hadley Chase novel, a worthy success to a long line of best-sellers.