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It started with a haunting image: a Ford Explorer, iridiscent in the moonlight and alone on a desolate stretch of beach. Its owner, Melissa Gibbons, has gone missing. Her husband says she flew the coop. But Los Angeles Deputy DA Rachel Knight is convinced otherwise: Melissa Gibbons has been murdered. So begins the confounding case that Rachel must present before a disbelieving jury. A dissatisfied heiress and her philandering husband - what really happened?

Sarah Carpenter lives in an isolated farmhouse in North Yorkshire, and for the first time after the death of her husband some years ago and her children, Louis and Kitty, leaving for university, she's living alone. But she doesn't consider herself lonely. She has two dogs, a wide network of friends and the support of her best friend, Sophie. When an old acquaintance, Aiden Beck, needs somewhere to stay for a while, Sarah's cottage seems ideal, and renewing her relationship with Aiden gives her a reason to smile again.

He aquí cuatro narraciones perturbadoras que arrastra al lector a los límites del desasosiego y de lo extraño. En Crímenes triviales, una primera obra que no lo parece, se escuchan los ecos de Kafka, Cortázar o Auster. Nos hallamos ante literatura del mayor nivel. Una prosa bien abastecida, un hábil manejo de la narración y de sus ritmos, la capacidad para envolvernos en una atmósfera de ansiedad y suspense- cuando no de mero terror-, y, a la vez, su hondo calado metafísico, hacen de Crímenes triviales una obra fecunda y de nada trivial en la lectura.

Captain Joe Ledger - former cop, former Army Ranger, and currently the top-kick of Echo Team, an elite squad of first-class shooters who roll out to face down the world's most dangerous terrorists. Not fanatics with explosive vests or political hostage takers. Joe and his team square off against terrorists who have the most advanced and exotic weapons of mass destruction, designer bioweapons, cutting-edge transgenics…real mad-scientist stuff.

Poison-tongued film critic Reginald Wright is known for his creative insults and intolerance for the garbage culture, insufferable rudeness, and thoughtless racism of predictably common people. Now, against his better judgment, and with a marriage in crisis, he’s attempting a getaway in the Poconos that quickly fulfills his every low expectation. In fact, it’s becoming a nightmare. And that’s just what Reginald needs to wake up.

Before I Wake is a thriller fan's dream, a rich, resonant collection that reminds us, once again, of its author's enduring and unmistakable importance. This is popular fiction as it should be written. It doesn't get better than this.

The legal profession itself is put on the stand in this collection of courtroom mysteries by some of today's finest mystery writers. From an unusual lawyer with unusual methods, to a conniving attorney who gets the fate he so richly deserves, the halls of justice ring with these stories of intrigue and suspense.

This collection of short stories displays Ed Gorman's talents as a masterful storyteller across a range of genres.

A mysterious and beautiful girl who teaches arrogant young men about true love, a lonely traveling salesman who learns that his passenger is Death, children who can absorb the psychic pain of their parents, a desperately pursued serial killer who hides his face under gauze in a hospital room, and a woman who loves the alien infant nobody else wants - these stories and 10 others make up this collection by award-winning author Ed Gorman. Here are stories that led him to be called "one of the best" by Dean Koontz and "one of the most original writers in crime fiction today" by Kirkus Reviews. Here, you'll find the extraordinary range of storytelling skill and powerful emotions that won Gorman the prized International Fiction Award.

Included in Different Kinds of Dead, and Other Tales are "Different Kinds of Dead", "Deathman", "A Girl Like You", "Loverboy", "Muse", "Riff", "The Brasher Girl", "Survival", "Masque", "Second Most Popular", and others.

This collection reveals the extraordinary range of storytelling skill and powerful emotions that won Gorman the prized International Fiction Award. His protagonists, gritty and gruff, are strangely likable, and his writing, according to Mystery News, is "powerful, disturbing, [and] often poetic".

Not every crime is committed with intent, but each has one thing in common: The guilty party was asking for trouble. In "Making Ends Meet", Richard can’t stand the idea of supporting his deadbeat in-laws anymore, so he decides to remove them from his life - permanently. Matt is ready to reform his brawling ways, but the group he joins doesn’t turn out to be a typical 12-step program, in "The Taskmasters". "Protecting the Innocent" features Nick, who fails to heed the warnings of his girlfriend’s possessive brother....

"The Big Guys" - Flash fiction, winner of the Derringer Award. "A Fistful of Cozy" - A satire of the mystery cozy genre. "Cleansing" - An ancient crime of biblical proportions. "Lying Eyes" - Solve it yourself, given the clues."Perfect Plan" - Another solve it yourself. Don't you remember One Minute Mysteries and Encyclopedia Brown? "Piece of Cake" - Another solve it yourself, originally featured in Woman's World.

Nach einer außerweltlichen Begegnung in den Wäldern von Maine machen zwei Freunde urplötzlich große Karriere; ihr Geheimnis nehmen sie mit in den Tod. Danny träumt von einer Leiche, die er dann tatsächlich findet; in den Augen der Polizei kann nur er der Mörder sein. Vic macht Ferien in Florida, wo er eine verschrobene alte Frau kennenlernt; eine Bekanntschaft, die in einem Horrorstrudel endet. Das sind nur drei von elf neuen Storys, die Stephen King in Ihr wollt es dunkler versammelt – viele Genres umspannende Geschichten über das gegenwärtige Amerika, über finstere Mächte und existenzielle Fragen.

Swan is a tattoo artist new to a community in the California desert when a mourning desert dweller named Kurt requests a tribute tattoo to his dead wife. Swan agrees, but the locals warn her: don’t indulge Kurt in his tragic memories. No wonder. As Kurt returns for more tattoos, the truth about his wife’s death begins to emerge in the ink. And it isn’t pretty.

I fiori sbocciano, le giornate si fanno sempre più lunghe e tiepide, nell'aria c'è una frizzante eccitazione che già promette l'estate: la primavera è il momento ideale per rilassarsi e immergersi in questi racconti ispirati alla stagione più amata. Ma non mettetevi troppo comodi, il delitto è sempre in agguato... Un'antologia di storie che vedono tra i protagonisti i detective creati da Agatha Christie: oltre agli amatissimi Poirot e Miss Marple, anche Mr Quin, Parker Pyne e l'inossidabile coppia Tommy e Tuppence.

Audiolibro producido con música original y sonido 3D, el mismo está diseñado para ser escuchado con auriculares. La historia presenta a un narrador anónimo obsesionado con el ojo enfermo (que llama "ojo de buitre") de un anciano con el cual convive. Finalmente decide asesinarlo. El crimen es estudiado cuidadosamente y, tras ser perpetrado, el cadáver es despedazado y escondido bajo las tablas del suelo de la casa. La policía acude a la misma y el asesino acaba delatándose a sí mismo, imaginando alucinadamente que el corazón del viejo se ha puesto a latir bajo la tarima.

Ancora una casa misteriosa per l'architetto Pesapasta. Mummie che tornano dal passato con i loro segreti, cantine che nascondono misteri, pittrici di spiriti, una famiglia non proprio normale e un pazzo che riesce a farti dubitare di te stesso. Per l'architetto Pesapasta ogni ristrutturazione si trasforma in un incubo.

Saverio Pesapasta non è un architetto da grandi opere, e ricevere l’incarico di ristrutturare un vecchio appartamento nel centralissimo viale Michelangelo di Napoli è la cosa più improbabile che possa capitargli. Unica condizione posta dal committente è la più assoluta discrezione. Quando scopre che i cadaveri del padre, della madre, della sorella e del cane del suo cliente vennero trovati nella vasca da bagno in un lago di sangue, capisce il perché di quella richiesta.

Torna in una nuova edizione un libro prezioso, indimenticabile, sospeso fra perdita e riconciliazione, fra crudeltà e commozione. Nel 1978, in Corsica, un ragazzo viene ucciso dal colpo di fucile sparato da un principe in esilio. Trent’anni dopo, quella vicenda rivive sulla stessa spiaggia, intrecciandosi alla storia di un regista e del suo gruppo teatrale.

Karel Čapek, zu Recht einer der berühmtesten und beliebtesten tschechischen Autoren, hat die Welt nicht nur mit dem Begriff des "Roboters" bereichert - er hat auch zahlreiche Krimi-Kurzgeschichten geschrieben, die an Witz und Raffinesse ihresgleichen suchen! Mit dabei: Der gestohlene Kaktus, Das Verschwinden des Herrn Hirsch, Tschintamanin und Vogel, Vom Kassenknacker und vom Brandstifter, Der gestohlene Mord, Der Fall mit dem Kind, Die Geschichte vom Heiratsschwindler, Das Gericht des Herrn Havlena, Die Briefmarkensammlung, Der Geschworene.

DES MEURTRES IMPOSSIBLES ! 9 nouvelles ou courts romans célèbres, mettant en scène des meurtres commis dans des lieux hermétiquement fermés. 9 énigmes qui sont autant de défis aux capacités de déduction et d'imagination de l'audiolecteur.

La ragazza venne fatta entrare, scortata dall'ispettore Sciacchitano. Altissima, un filo di trucco a incorniciare gli occhi verdi, lunghi capelli castani, seno tondo e sodo, cosce ben tornite. Sebastiani la fece accomodare su una delle due sedie rigide dell'ufficio. Era quasi mezzogiorno, ma sin dal primo mattino uno stuolo di giornalisti stava accampato davanti al portone, in via Fatebenefratelli, con i taccuini e i flash spianati: un calciatore ammazzato fa audience.