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By Attica Locke. 2019
One of Entertainment Weekly's Biggest Books of Fall 2019In this "captivating" crime novel (People) by the award-winning author of Bluebird,…
Bluebird, Texas Ranger Darren Mathews is on the hunt for a missing boy -- but it's the boy's family of white supremacists who are his real target9-year-old Levi King knew he should have left for home sooner; now he's alone in the darkness of vast Caddo Lake, in a boat whose motor just died. A sudden noise distracts him - and all goes dark.Darren Mathews is trying to emerge from another kind of darkness; after the events of his previous investigation, his marriage is in a precarious state of re-building, and his career and reputation lie in the hands of his mother, who's never exactly had his best interests at heart. Now she holds the key to his freedom, and she's not above a little maternal blackmail to press her advantage. An unlikely possibility of rescue arrives in the form of a case down Highway 59, in a small lakeside town where the local economy thrives on nostalgia for ante-bellum Texas - and some of the era's racial attitudes still thrive as well. Levi's disappearance has links to Darren's last case, and to a wealthy businesswoman, the boy's grandmother, who seems more concerned about the fate of her business than that of her grandson. Darren has to battle centuries-old suspicions and prejudices, as well as threats that have been reignited in the current political climate, as he races to find the boy, and to save himself.Attica Locke proves that the acclaim and awards for Bluebird, Bluebird were justly deserved, in this thrilling new novel about crimes old and new.This first volume of G. K. Chesterton's mysteries marks the debut of a most unusual detective: Father Paul Brown, a…
short, stumpy priest with an extraordinary and uncanny ability to spot the evil that lies in human hearts. In these twelve stories, Father Brown uses his wisdom, common sense, and experience as a confessor to solve baffling, fascinating crimes--and save lost souls along the way.Updated for the modern reader, The Innocence of Father Brown is primed to draw in new fans.By Don Bruns. 2009
USA Today best-selling authorThe Heat is OnFor rock and roll writer Mick Sever, another story, another deadly island paradise is…
all in a day's work. This time, Mick heads to Nassau, Bahamas, home of the legendary Highland Studio. Known for pumping out hits that burn up the charts, Highland is where the magic happens—or rather, where the magic happened until a devastating fire destroyed the entire studio. No one knows how the fire started, who started it—or whose body was found among the charred ruins. Sent to get the inside story on the opening of the new Highland Studio, Mick finds this is hardly the Phoenix-rising-out-of-the-ashes story he expected. Some say the studio's haunted, some say it's cursed, but one thing is for sure: someone—or something—wants to stop the music. A smashed guitar and erased tracks send a subtle warning, but murder? That's an entirely different tune. If Mick doesn't act fast, Highland Studio, along with everything and everyone in its path, could go up in smoke. It's not always better to burn out than to fade away.By James Lee Burke. 2018
New York Times Bestseller James Lee Burke’s most beloved character, Dave Robicheaux, returns in this gritty, atmospheric mystery set in…
the towns and backwoods of Louisiana. DAVE ROBICHEAUX IS A HAUNTED MAN. Between his recurrent nightmares about Vietnam, his battle with alcoholism, and the sudden loss of his beloved wife, Molly, his thoughts drift from one irreconcilable memory to the next. Images of ghosts at Spanish Lake live on the edge of his vision. During a murder investigation, Dave Robicheaux discovers he may have committed the homicide he’s investigating, one which involved the death of the man who took the life of Dave’s beloved wife. As he works to clear his name and make sense of the murder, Robicheaux encounters a cast of characters and a resurgence of dark social forces that threaten to destroy all of those whom he loves. What emerges is not only a propulsive and thrilling novel, but a harrowing study of America: this nation’s abiding conflict between a sense of past grandeur and a legacy of shame, its easy seduction by demagogues and wealth, and its predilection for violence and revenge. James Lee Burke has returned with one of America’s favorite characters, in his most searing, most prescient novel to date. A New York Times BestsellerQuesto secondo volume è composto da quattro racconti che narrano avventure inedite dell’investigatore più famoso del mondo: Sherlock Holmes. In…
esso il suo compagno John Watson, già in età avanzata, rispolvera il suo taccuino e porta alla luce casi mai rivelati prima. Alcuni tra questi erano semplicemente caduti nell’oblio, mentre altri erano troppo imbarazzanti per essere riportati... fino ad ora.By César Costa. 2019
This first volume is composed of four stories narrating untold adventures of the most famous detective in the world: Sherlock…
Holmes. Here, his partner, John Watson, already very aged, get his notebook back to bring light into new adventures never unveiled to other people. Some cases have simply been forgotten, while some others were just too embarrassing to be shared... Until now. Tales in this volume: •The Strange Disappearance of Lord Widston. •The Case Of Reading's Boxer. •The Mysterious Theft of La Señora. •The Crime of Sherlock Holmes. In “The Strange Disappearance of Lord Widston”, Sherlock Holmes will receive the unexpected visit of a lad, who sought for the detective in hope of finding out what has happened with his father, a rich importer of Indian products, who vanished after his last travel. A mystery that will require even more of the detective wits in discovering what happened with a man, miles away, in a foreign country. For “The Case of Reading’s Boxer”. On an ordinary day, which boredom was dominating the most famous Londoner detective, a snippet in the newspaper and the visit of a young miss could bring the action back to Sherlock Holmes. An important diplomat is found dead inside his house. The Scotland Yard takes his secretary in custody soon after. When all the evidences point to this lad, Sherlock must discover what really happened and seek the facts to either prove his guilty or a huge injustice. Sherlock Holmes was never keen into arts, but in “The Mysterious Theft of La Señora”, he will have to find the whereabouts of a priceless painting that vanished from the walls of London’s museum, where it was for a public exhibition. Holmes don’t believe that there is a perfect crime, although, this time, it seems that the thief will win. However, Sherlock never gives up and won’t rest until he can solve this enigma. Can he, once again, fitBy Howard Shapiro, Erica Chan. 2018
A coming of age tale, this is the first installment of the Thin Thinline Trilogy, the fiercely independent Nina Overstreet…
has an axe to grind. A talented singer-songwriter slogging her way through the burgeoning Greenwich Village folk music scene of 1963, the Queen of Kenosha, Wisconsin, realizes that standing on the cusp of stardom gets her little respect and barely a cup of coffee in New York City. It finally comes, but in a way she could have never imagined. A chance encounter with the mysterious Nick Ladd at a late-night gig spins her life in a different direction―one that becomes a daily balance between life and death, right and wrong. Nick recruits Nina to join him and a team of ex-FBI operatives in a clandestine agency to stop the establishment of the Fourth Reich by undercover Nazis in post-War America. It’s a cause Nina believes in … until she’s forced to compromise the very principles of fairness and patriotism she holds dear. As she and Nick grow closer as partners, she forces him to question his own intentions. But as the body count mounts in pursuit of the Nazi ringleader, the evasive Alex, the stakes grow even higher for Nick and Nina.By Andrea Carter. 2015
Perfect for fans of Louise Penny, P. D. James, and Donna LeonWhen a skeleton is discovered in the hidden crypt…
of a deconsecrated church, everyone is convinced the bones must be those of Conor Devitt, a local man who went missing on his wedding day six years previously. But the postmortem reveals otherwise.Solicitor Benedicta “Ben” O’Keeffe is acting for the owners of the church, and although an unwelcome face from her past makes her reluctant to get involved, when Conor’s brother dies in strange circumstances shortly after coming to see her, she finds herself drawn in to the mystery. Whose is the skeleton in the crypt and how did it get there? Is Conor Devitt still alive, and if so, is there a link? What happened on the morning of his wedding to make him disappear?Negotiating between the official investigation—headed up by the handsome but surly Sergeant Tom Molloy—and obstructive locals with secrets of their own, Ben unravels layers of personal and political history to get to the truth of what happened six years before.Death at Whitewater Church is the first in a series of Ben O’Keeffe mysteries set on the Inishowen Peninsula in County Donegal, Ireland.By Author Masterminds. 2019
Author Masterminds, a refreshing eclectic collection of the musings and insights of a group of superb published authors, gives the reader a…
kaleidoscopic look into the thinking of very bright, insightful, and sometimes whacky writers. Within these covers you'll find deeply perplexing ideas, creative and zany inspirations, arguments, and different ways of viewing the world from what you might think apparent. Author Masterminds' authors think, react, and create; catch a glimpse of what goes on in their dynamic minds. Author Masterminds is a potpourri of everything from Christian horror to impossible crime; forensics to murder mystery; and sled dogs to political thrillers. From The Tale of Grady Dellaneaux to A Feather in Your Heart there is something for every reader's taste. And then there's: Dad Was A Democrat, Do You Think I'm Crazy?, It's Best To Park Your Car Above The High Tide Mark, Mrs. Zucherberg, The Matter of Timber Trickery, The Time Travel App, and much more.By Hank Early. 2018
Private investigator Earl Marcus thought he’d conquered his demons after vanquishing the malevolent spirit of his fundamentalist preacher father—but now,…
he must face something much more terrifying than the devil he knew.Earl Marcus found new hope after confronting the unspeakable evil unleashed by his father’s fundamentalist Church of the Holy Flame. Now plying his trade as a private investigator in the North Georgia mountains, he’s drawn once again into a dark abyss of depravity, and murder. Tasked with what seems like a routine job, Earl stumbles into a mysterious cornfield where an old mountain legend appears to have awakened. Just as he begins to hear rumors of a place in the woods behind a dark cornfield where a killer collects human skulls, his partner Mary Hawkins vanishes. As the litany of terror grows, the poisoned spirits of Earl’s past return to claim their final victims. And on an old train trestle over a swift-running river at the edge of a cornfield Earl will confront his worst fears. Time is running out for Mary—and unless Earl can wrest her from the control of a secretive cabal comprised of some of the area’s most elite—and wealthiest—citizens, she could be lost to him forever in In the Valley of the Devil, the second harrowing installment of the Earl Marcus mysteries by Hank Early.By Hank Early. 2018
2018 Next Generation Indie Book Award Winner!Eerie, intense, and masterfully-crafted, Hank Early’s gripping series debut Heaven’s Crooked Finger transports readers…
to a secretive community in the Georgia mountains.Earl Marcus thought he had left the mountains of Georgia behind forever, and with them, the painful memories of a childhood spent under the fundamentalist rule of his father RJ’s church—a church built on fear, penance, and the twisting, writhing mass of snakes. But then an ominous photo of RJ is delivered to Earl’s home. The photograph is dated long after his father’s burial, and there’s no doubt that the man in the picture is very much alive.As Earl returns to Church of the Holy Flame searching for the truth, faithful followers insist that his father has risen to a holy place high in the mountains. Nobody will talk about the teenage girls who go missing, only to return with strange tattoo-like marks on their skin. Rumors swirl about an old well that sits atop one of the mountains, a place of unimaginable power and secrets. Earl doesn’t know what to believe, but he has long been haunted by his father, forever lurking in the shadows of his life. Desperate to leave his sinful Holy Flame childhood in the past, Earl digs up deeply buried secrets to discover the truth before time runs out and he’s the one put underground in Heaven’s Crooked Finger, Hank Early’s thrilling series debut.By Link Neal, Rhett McLaughlin. 2019
From the authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Rhett & Link's Book of Mythicality and creators of the…
Internet’s most-watched daily show, Good Mythical Morning, a thrilling and darkly funny novel about two best friends fighting the sinister forces at the heart of their Southern town It's 1992 in Bleak Creek, North Carolina, a sleepy little place with all the trappings of an ordinary Southern town: two Baptist churches, friendly smiles coupled with silent judgments, and a seemingly unquenchable appetite for pork products. Beneath the town’s cheerful façade, however, Bleak Creek teens live in constant fear of being sent to The Whitewood School, a local reformatory with a record of putting unruly teens back on the straight and narrow—a record so impeccable that almost everyone is willing to ignore the mysterious deaths that have occurred there over the past decade. At first, high school freshmen Rex McClendon and Leif Nelson believe what they’ve been told—that the students’ strange demises were all tragic accidents. But when the shoot for their low-budget horror masterpiece, PolterDog, goes horribly awry—and their best friend, Alicia Boykins, is sent to Whitewood as punishment—Rex and Leif are forced to question everything they know about their unassuming hometown and its cherished school for delinquents. Eager to rescue their friend, Rex and Leif pair up with recent NYU film school grad Janine Blitstein to begin piecing together the unsettling truth of the school and its mysterious founder, Wayne Whitewood. What they find, with Alicia's life hanging in the balance, will leave them battling an evil beyond their wildest teenage imaginations—one that will shake Bleak Creek to its core. A New York Times BestsellerBy Mark Williams. 2017
Come parte della serie dei Classici per Bambini, l'autore di best seller internazionali Mark Williams vi presenta, con orgoglio, l'addattamento…
della breve storia di Sherlock Holmes, la Banda Maculata. Unitevi a Holmes e a Watson mentre risolvono il mistero della banda maculata in un linguaggio amichevole, semplice da capire per i bambini, senza la parte più dura della vita Vittoriana. Un modo ideale per far conoscere il più famoso investigatore del mondo ai bambini di tutte le eta.By Mark Williams. 2017
Il terzo Sherlock per bambini – Sherlock Holmes: adattamenti di racconti per bambini. Come parte della serie , l’autore di…
best-seller internazionali Mark Williams è orgoglioso di presentare il terzo adattamento di racconti di Sherlock Holmes: la Lega dei Capelli Rossi. Unitevi a Holmes e Watson nel risolvere il mistero della Lega dei Capelli Rossi, in una esposizione moderna ed idonea per i bambini. Adatto a bambini di tutte le età per iniziare a conoscere il più famoso detective del mondo.By Mark Williams. 2017
Come parte della serie "Classici per Bambini", l'autore di best-seller internazionali Mark Williams è orgoglioso di presentare il primo set…
Sherlock Per Bambini, che comprende l'adattamento dei seguenti racconti di Sherlock Holmes: Il Carbonchio Azzurro Silver Blaze La Lega dei Capelli Rossi Unisciti a Holmes e Watson mentre risolvono tre misteri, in un inglese del ventunesimo secolo comprensibile ai bambini e senza il lato più malfamato della vita Vittoriana. Ideale per i bambini di tutte le età per conoscere il detective più famoso del mondo.By Jo Shaffer. 2018
A great depression grips the city of St. Louis in 1934. Stanley, an orphaned newsy, lives in a poor part…
of town hit especially hard by the economic downturn. One night, Stanley runs into Hazel, a restless debutante-in-waiting who has begun to question her posh lifestyle in the midst of the suffering she sees. She's out and about without an escort and against her father's wishes. When they discover the body of a girl with her head bashed in by a baseball bat, the very different and separate realities of the two teens inform their decision. Together they will figure out what happened to her and bring those responsible to justice. But getting involved with each other and digging into the secrets behind this murder earns them some powerful enemies, including a secret group seeking to rid society of all they deem undesirable. They've put into motion "The Winnowing," a plan seeking to take over the city and enforce their will. As Stanley and Hazel's forbidden feelings for one another grow, their investigation turns deadly. Now, it is up to Stanley and his gang of street kids to stop Hazel from becoming the next victim.By Danü Danquigny. 2019
Cuando el lector se zambulle sin vuelta atrás en esta historia, se dice, al término de la obra, que el…
área metropolitana de Rennes se revela decididamente como un marco ideal para el género novelesco. Las persecuciones por pasillos mugrientos del hospital Pontchaillou y por las inmediaciones del parque Thabor no tienen nada que envidiar a la novela negra del asfalto parisino. Al margen de su brevedad, uno se engancha sin remedio a la opacidad de los protagonistas principales: a Corynthe, a Louise e incluso a crápulas como Baloo. Lo que revela, de todos modos, cuando se tiene la suerte de conocer un poco al autor, es que el afamado Desmund Sasse se le parece en muchos sentidos. No es descabellado pensar que Danquigny, al igual que su doble, no haya ido dando tumbos por las calles, por las azoteas de la universidad de esta misma ciudad. Hablando más en serio, entre una cierta trama policiaca rural que imposibilita la crítica social inherente al género y la novela policiaca de la gran urbe, esta obra se hace un hueco en el mundo de las novelas urbanas que nos traen un poco de aire fresco.By Danü Danquigny. 2019
When readers take a deep breath and dive into “A Day in the Life” they think to themselves when they’ve…
finished this short story, that the French city of Rennes must be a good place to write novellas like this. From Pontchaillou Hospital’s grimy halls to road races and hunting down criminals next to Thabor Park, we’ve almost forgotten Paris’s traditionally dark detective novels. Though it has a short format, its main protagonists, Corynthe, Louise, and even the thug, Baloo, all have deeply profound and developed characters.By Lawrence Block. 2018
Una ragazza entra in un bar... ...e quando esce c'è un uomo ad accompagnarla. Va a letto con lui e…
la cosa le piace. Poi lo uccide e la cosa le piace ancora di più. Prima di andarsene, gli ripulisce il portafoglio. Continua a trasferirsi e per ogni indirizzo che cambia sceglie un nuovo nome. Lo fa da un bel po' e le riesce bene. Poi un commento casuale la fa pensare agli uomini che le sono scampati, i fortunati sopravvissuti alla notte trascorsa insieme a lei. Inizia a stilare una lista. E ora la ragazza ha una missione. Seguire le loro tracce. Dar loro la caccia. Eliminarli dalla sua lista... Il sottotitolo di Lawrence Block per Godimento è "Un romanzo di sesso e violenza"; ed è sicuramente così. È anche un ritratto straordinario della crescita e dell'evoluzione di una donna molto speciale. E, meraviglia delle meraviglie, è una storia d'amore.By Karine Vivier. 2019
¿Qué pueden tener en común una niña, un exconvicto y una madre de familia? La Humanidad velada pone en escena…
a tres personajes que, en un momento de su vida, han perdido su humanidad a los ojos de la sociedad. Tres personajes, tres historias paralelas, una misma historia. Una primicia de novela negra.