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In case his blue eyes aren't enough, Lucius Anoraq carries a gun. He wouldn't be caught dead in a pure breed show, but one wrong move and he'll be a blue ribbon corpse. Follow Lucius as he sniffs around Hollywood in the last three volumes of the series: The Wee Sibling, The Lengthy Farewell, and Recap.

Fenway Stevenson doesn't want to return to the coastal town where her estranged father is practically king. But the death of her mother draws her back home—and the murder of the county coroner draws her into a deepening conspiracy. As the body count rises and all signs seem to point toward her father's oil company, will Fenway uncover the truth before family bonds become deadly?

Ex-police officer Sebastian Clifford is quickly finding that life as a private investigator is never quiet. His doors have only been open a few weeks when DCI Whitney Walker approaches him to investigate the brutal attack that left her older brother, Rob, with irreversible brain damage. For nearly twenty-five years, Rob had no memory of that night, but lately things are coming back to him. Whitney's worried that her brother might–once again–be in danger.

In Hamburg versetzt ein Serienmörder die Bewohner der Hansestadt in Angst und Schrecken. Der Täter folgt einem Ritus, der aus der Zeit der Wikinger stammt und unter der Bezeichnung "Blutadler" bekannt ist. Hauptkommissar Jan Fabel wird mit der Aufklärung der brutalen Verbrechen betraut. Bei seinen Recherchen stößt er auf einen geheimnisvollen Kult, dessen Mitglieder vor keinem Opfer zurückschrecken.

When a missing teenage girl reappears unharmed but pregnant, the case falls to DI Edina Ogborne, the newest recruit of Canterbury Police. But Ed’s already got her hands full with a team who don’t want her, an ex who won’t quit and terrible guilt over a secret from her past. As Ed investigates the case, she discovers Canterbury has seen this crime not once, but several times before. And when Ed and her detectives encounter missing historic police files, falsified school records and Ed’s new lover as a prime suspect, it becomes clear that the system has been corrupted.

Ciudadela, Menorca. Cuando María Médem se reincorpora a su puesto de agente de la comisaría local tras una baja maternal, aparecen en la isla dos sexagenarias asesinadas. En el domicilio donde se descubren los cuerpos se dan tres coincidencias: un fuerte olor a algo parecido a la hierbabuena, una misma canción de Raphael reproduciéndose una y otra vez en el ordenador y un orden estricto en todas las estancias. El pasado de la protagonista como integrante del grupo de Homicidios de Barcelona es razón suficiente para que le encarguen una investigación que se presenta compleja.

Private detective Philip Trent, who first appeared in E.C. Bentley’s Golden Age crime classic The Woman in Black, is called upon to solve a mystery surrounding the will of a wealthy man with a particular appreciation for the work of Lewis Carroll. A string of literary clues leads Trent to suspect there was more to the man’s dying wishes than may have first appeared.

A playwright is murdered, seemingly in connection with the suspected blackmail of his friend—a rising young MP who, without explanation, disappeared from public view before his untimely death. With a number of high-profile suspects to investigate, the key to solving the case rests on a written clue left behind by the killer....

Private detective Nigel Strangeways attends a dinner with an elite group of detective fiction writers, known as The Assassins’ Club. A room full of crime enthusiasts seems like an amusing setting for a murder...until one happens at the dinner table. With no shortage of suspects capable of thinking up a murder plot, Strangeways must quickly deduce who in the room could be responsible for the crime.

Quando torna a casa dopo una giornata di lavoro, Jasmina Nazeri non può immaginare che ad aspettarla ci siano dei poliziotti. Un uomo di colore è stato ucciso, dicono, era nudo e senza documenti, e forse l'unica in grado di identificarlo è proprio lei, che in quel quartiere di periferia conosce tutti. Il corpo martoriato è riverso a terra in un giardino pubblico, e quando viene girato a faccia in su, la sorpresa è scioccante. In quel volto la ragazza riconosce Taiwo, e anche se non lo vedeva dal tempo in cui hanno avuto una relazione, è certa che non fosse tipo da cattive frequentazioni.

On Thanksgiving Day, LAPD homicide detective Kate Delafield and her partner, Ed Taylor, are called to an apartment building on the edge of Beverly Hills to investigate a premeditated and pitiless murder. No one appears particularly grieved by the shocking end to old-time Hollywood director Owen Sinclair. Surely not three other tenants of the Beverly Malibu, who worked in the motion picture industry during the blacklist years and loathed Sinclair.

Detective Madison Knight is called to investigate the murder of a man who was stabbed multiple times and found in his home. Madison arrives on scene, but it isn’t the bloody mess that shakes her—it’s the victim’s identity. His name was Jimmy Bates, and he’s the man who killed her grandfather. When a woman—also connected with the mob—turns up murdered, a picture starts forming for Madison. If she’s right about why Jimmy and the woman were targeted, there’s something very dark and sinister going on in her city, and it puts Madison squarely in a killer’s crosshairs.

A movie starlet with a gangster boyfriend and a pair of Siberian Husky siblings with a shared secret lure private eye Lucius Anoraq into the less than glamorous and more than a little dangerous world of Hollywood fame.

Roman Diego, a thoroughbred assistant trainer, is found dead in his tack room at the Rainier Meadows Racetrack. Is the confused, barely covered young woman who had awakened next to the dead man a killer? As Detective David James investigates the death of Roman Diego, a syringe containing a mystery liquid is discovered. The mystery deepens as the list of suspects gets longer. Who would want to kill Roman Diego, one of the "good guys"? David James searches for a common denominator between the suspects and the victim as the motive becomes harder to ignore.

Two missing wives—one rich and one poor. One of them may have gotten a divorce and married a gigolo, and the other may be dead. Lucius Anoraq’s not sure he cares about either one, but he’s not paid to care.

Mexicantown, Detroit. August Snow kehrt mit zwölf Millionen Dollar Schadenersatz zurück in das Viertel seiner Kindheit. Genug Geld für den Ex-Polizisten, um seinen alten Humor wiederzufinden und ein neues Leben zu beginnen. Doch er hat die Rechnung ohne seine Feinde gemacht: Kurz nach seiner Rückkehr wird eine der mächtigsten Unternehmerinnen der Stadt tot aufgefunden. Snow setzt sich auf die Fährte des Mörders – und gerät in einen gefährlichen Strudel, der ihn in Detroits dunkelste Winkel hinabzieht.

PI Jarvis Mann was captivated by the sultry tones of his female client.... Emily White with girl next door looks and shimmering eyes that begged for help…. She is being stalked but isn’t certain by whom…and this wasn’t the first time.

Il corpo di un pittore viene trovato in un vicolo della Firenze di primo Ottocento. Un'atmosfera crepuscolare avvolge la città, sagome patibolari si aggirano nei bassifondi dei quartieri più malfamati. Il commissario Domenico Arganti, meglio noto come Lucertolo, sarà incaricato di svolgere le indagini. "L'assassinio nel vicolo della luna" è il primo dei quattro romanzi con protagonista il commissario Lucertolo, un poliziotto a prima vista brusco e ligio alle regole ma che, sotto alle apparenze da duro, nasconde un lato estremamente umano e riflessivo.

Kleine Flunkerei, große Wirkung: Weston Kogi kommt nach langen Jahren in England zur Beerdigung seiner Tante nach Alcacia, Westafrika, zurück und macht den Fehler, sich ein bisschen aufzuspielen und die Leute glauben zu lassen, er sei in London ein Police Detective. Ist er aber nicht, nur Wachmann in einem Einkaufszentrum. Er wird von zwei rivalisierenden Rebellengruppen mehr oder weniger gezwungen, den Mord an einem Konsenspolitiker aufzuklären, bzw. den Mord jeweils der anderen Rebellengruppe anzuhängen.

Lucius Anoraq is hired by a wealthy Pasadena widowed emu with a mean streak to find a missing daughter-in-law who stole a gold coin worth a small fortune. Only things don’t quite add up until Anoraq discovers evidence of murder, rape, blackmail, and exploitation.