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Gus Murphy thought he had the world all figured out. A retired Suffolk County cop, he had everything a man could want: a great marriage, two kids, a nice house, and the rest of his life ahead of him. But when tragedy strikes, his life is thrown into complete disarray. In the course of a single deadly moment, his family is blown apart, and Gus is transformed from a man who believes he understands everything into a man who understands nothing.

Detectives never found the knife used to murder Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. They thought it was in a small backpack dumped at LAX the night of the murders. They assumed it disappeared in an LA County landfill. OJ's Knife tells a different tale. Two airport workers found the backpack in the trash. Unaware the murder weapon was inside, they planned to return the “lost” backpack to OJ. When OJ was arrested the next day, LAX workers Gordon Grove and his friend Luther Malcolm realized they had the murder weapon. So what now?

Duncan Stone is one of the country's most eligible bachelors, and he wants to take me, Callie Parker, on a date. At first I am surprised and flattered, the envy of my friends. Then when our whirlwind romance escalates and he asks me to move in with him, it's like a dream come true. But as I get to really know my new boyfriend, my fairytale turns into a nightmare. Duncan is no Prince Charming. He is the Devil.

Early one morning Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Police confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid canal. All the clues point to a violent mugging, but for Brunetti the motive of robbery seems altogether too convenient.

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of the most gifted authors of her generation” (The New York Times Book Review), comes a new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France—a propulsive thriller of glittering insights and dark humor.

This second volume of a must-listen collection contains 15 bibliomysteries by best-selling and award-winning authors.

Un vecino de Comillas encuentra un coche abandonado y con el reproductor de música encendido frente a un acantilado. El vehículo pertenece a la joven Emma Berger, y esta es la única pista sobre su paradero. El teniente Bruno Marciel, junto a su equipo, tratará de reconstruir las últimas horas de la joven antes de desaparecer. Olivia Llanos, una joven periodista afincada en Madrid, regresa a su pueblo natal, Comillas. Es la hermana melliza del sargento Max Llanos, miembro del equipo de Bruno, y conocía a Emma desde el instituto.

Since our divorce, my ex-husband has become one of the most powerful crime bosses on the eastern seaboard. He's not someone you want to cross, and I did a good job of avoiding him for five long years. But then I lied to him. When he caught me in that lie, I admitted it. Finally told him the truth. And he immediately made me his prisoner.

Sorenson, Wisconsin's deputy coroner, Mattie Winston, is back on the job...in a nursing home examining the body of Bernie Chase - the now former president of the Twilight Home's board of directors - who is covered in a powder used to turn liquids to solids. The home's residents are certain Bernie was offing the patients who cost him too much...and the patient who found him can't remember a thing.

In una notte flagellata da un forte temporale, quattro uomini si ritrovano per caso seduti allo stesso tavolo di una sperduta taverna sui monti dell’Appennino pistoiese. Spesso, però, il caso non è altro che una delle vesti di cui il destino si serve per celarsi agli uomini. A pochi passi dai quattro, infatti, sdraiato sopra una panca, c’è un mitico e sanguinario brigante, Frate Capestro. Su di lui circolano molte leggende, storie diverse che concordano tutte sulla sua astuzia e sulla sua ferocia.

Cash and Sheriff Wheaton make for a strange partnership. He pulled her from her mother's wrecked car when she was three. He's kept an eye out for her ever since. It's a tough place to live - northern Minnesota along the Red River. Cash navigated through foster homes, and at 13 was working farms. She's tough as nails, five feet two inches, blue jeans, blue jean jacket, smokes Marlboros, drinks Bud Longnecks. Makes her living driving truck. Playing pool on the side.

Syndrome E's Lucie Henebelle and Inspector Sharko have reunited to take on the case of the brutal murder of Eva Louts, a promising graduate student who was killed while working at a primate research center outside Paris. But what at first appears to be a vicious animal attack soon proves to be something more sinister. What was Eva secretly researching? Was she tracking three fanatical scientists who control a 30,000-year-old virus with plans to unleash it on the world?

Two days before Christmas, a young woman is found dead beneath the cliffs of the deserted village of Kalfshamarvik. Did she jump, or did something more sinister take place beneath the lighthouse and the abandoned old house on the remote rocky outcrop? With winter closing in and the snow falling relentlessly, Ari Thor Arason discovers that the victim's mother and young sister also lost their lives in this same spot, 25 years earlier....

Detective Madison Knight is about to get married when detectives from a neighboring city storm the wedding and arrest her fiancé, Troy Matthews. He's being charged for the murder of his childhood friend Dylan Graham, recently shot to death in his home. But the motive dates back to a fateful night from twenty-four years ago when seventeen-year-old Emily Kane was raped and strangled at a beach party.

When a landslip on Pembrokeshire’s stunning coastal path reveals the harrowing remains of two bodies, ex-DCI Evan Warlow’s quiet retirement is shattered.

Al 149° piano di un grattacielo nel cuore della City, Victor Allen, un anziano lord inglese, regola lo schienale della poltrona, inforca gli occhiali color tartaruga e si immerge nelle bellezze del Salento. La trasparenza del mare che si fonde con la macchia mediterranea, la terra rossa punteggiata di ulivi, un panorama mozzafiato: non appena vede il video mostratogli dall'agente immobiliare decide che la tenuta nell'antico borgo di Castelforte sarà sua. Lì infatti fonderà una residenza per scrittori, selezionati in tutto il mondo per lavorare a un progetto letterario.

Traumatized by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend, and struggling to assimilate into French culture, the Sympathizer finds Paris both seductive and disturbing. As he falls in with a group of left-wing intellectuals he meets at dinner parties given by his French Vietnamese “aunt”, he finds stimulation for his mind but also customers for his narcotic merchandise. But the new life he is making has perils, whether the self-torture of addiction, the authoritarianism of a state locked in a colonial mindset, or the paradox of how to reunite his two closest friends.

When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty--even if that meant taking on an entire town. Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain. From the author of The Maltese Falcon.

Artemus Black doesn't believe in fate...but even a hardened Hollywood PI can question destiny when cases turn ugly. With an assistant who mocks him relentlessly, an obese cat that loathes him, a romantic life that's deader than Elvis, money problems, booze, nicotine, and anger management issues, how much worse can it get? The answer is plenty, and Black finds himself in a web of deceit, betrayal, and murder - and bad hair days.

Detective Ben Wade has returned to his hometown of Rancho Santa Elena in search of a quieter life and to try to save his marriage. Suddenly the community, with its peaceful streets and excellent public schools, finds itself at the mercy of a serial killer who slips through windows and screen doors at night, shattering illusions of safety. As Ben and forensic specialist Natasha Betencourt struggle to stay one step ahead of the killer - and deal with painful episodes in the past - Ben's own world is rocked again by violence.