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From the winner of the MWA Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original Mystery, Alan Parks, comes a new, gripping installment in the gritty Glasgow-based Harry McCoy series.A woman enters a Glasgow police station to report her son missing, but no record can be found of the boy. When Detective Harry McCoy, who is on temporary transfer from a station across town, discovers the family is part of the cultish Church of Christ's Suffering, he suspects there is more to the boy's disappearance than meets the eye.Meanwhile reports arrive of a string of poisonings of down-and-outs across the city. The dead are men who few barely notice, let alone care about--but, as McCoy is painfully aware, among this desperate community is his own father.Even as McCoy searches for the missing boy, he must conceal from his colleagues the real reason for his presence--to investigate corruption in the station. Some people pray for justice, but Detective Harry McCoy hasn't got time to wait for God's divine intervention.

The next installment in Maurizio de Giovanni's bestselling "Bastards of Pizzofalcone" series unfolds during the crisp beginning of April in contemporary Naples as a new evil spreads throughout the city.A baby is left abandoned beside a dumpster. A young Ukranian maid fights the torrents of greed and frustration with the world around her. Small animals begin to disappear off the streets. The task of solving these mysteries is entrusted to a team of policemen in which few believe: the Bastards of Pizzofalcone. Complete with stirrings in the city's criminal underbelly and a fight against a seemingly inhuman evil, this novel is sure to delight fans of de Giovanni's previous works.De Giovanni is one of Europe's most renowned and versatile mystery writers. His award-winning and bestselling novels, all of which take place in Naples, engage readers in gripping tales of Europe's most fabled, atmospheric, dangerous, and lustful city.

Quando una giovane donna in difficoltà arriva alla stazione di polizia sostenendo che la sua amica è stata rapita e che l'uomo tornerà e "rivendicherà la prossima", i detective Carrigan e Miller sono trascinati in un mondo terrificante di cyberstalking, dove intimidazioni e controllo online possono essere mortali. Messi sotto esame loro stessi, con le vecchie inimicizie che riaffiorano, quanto tempo avranno Carrigan e Miller per scoprire la verità dietro quello che è successo a queste donne? Uno sguardo fin troppo plausibile in un mondo in cui un computer può tradire il suo proprietario con la semplice pressione di un pulsante, "The Intrusions" mostra quanto sia facile diventare una vittima riluttante di una nuova generazione di stalker.

In the town of Yport, during a run along Europe's tallest cliff, Jamal notices a red scarf hanging on a fence. Then he sees the woman, her dress torn, her back to the void, her eyes fixed on his own. Jamal holds the scarf out to her like a buoy. A few seconds later, the stranger's lifeless body is found lying on the icy pebbles of the empty beach below. Around her neck, the red scarf. Everyone thinks he pushed her. He only wanted to save her. That's Jamal's version. Do you believe it?

Marco Buratti detto l'Alligatore e i suoi soci Max la Memoria e Beniamino Rossini sono caduti in una trappola ordita dal nemico più pericoloso con cui abbiano dovuto misurarsi: Giorgio Pellegrini. Pellegrini, in fuga dalla Legge e dalle pallottole di Beniamino Rossini, non intende vivere da latitante per il resto della vita e decide di diventare un infiltrato per conto della polizia. Qualcosa va storto e una squadra di killer spietati arriva dall'estero per assassinare sua moglie e la sua amante. L'indagine parallela per identificare i responsabili viene affidata all'Alligatore e ai suoi soci. Loro non vorrebbero avere nulla a che fare con la vicenda ma vengono ricattati dalla dottoressa Angela Marino, alto funzionario del ministero dell'Interno. La missione affidata a Pellegrini ufficialmente non esiste e non sono previsti testimoni. I nostri scoprono ben presto che il loro destino è comunque segnato. Anche se riusciranno nell'impresa rischieranno di essere tolti di mezzo da una falsa accusa che potrebbe mandarli in carcere per molti anni. Buratti, Max e Beniamino reagiscono. Giocano questa partita senza regole per cercare di sopravvivere.

The legacy of World War II persists in this multi-layered tale of vengeance and retribution. 1950s Bordeaux is a city plagued by memories of the war. Le Corre has produced a truly uncompromising masterpiece set in a world driven by and built on vengeance.

"Razor-sharp political thriller set in Berlusconi's Rome."--The New StatesmanThings are changing in Rome. The new Pope, determined to bring radical reform to the Vatican, proclaims an extraordinary Jubilee year, one "of Mercy." A new center-left government replaces its disgraced predecessor. And with crime lynchpin Samurai in jail, his protégé Sebastiano Laurenti attempts to establish himself as the designated successor. But he must reckon not only with a new generation of enterprising gangsters and racketeers--out to carve for themselves a slice of the profits and opportunities offered by the major public works planned for the Jubilee--but also with ambitious newly elected politician, Chiara Visone.Betrayals, ambushes and infighting will inevitably alter the fragile political balance in the Eternal City. As the sharks circle, some tenuous hope endures in the unlikely alliance of an incorruptible politician of the old left and a young bishop who refuses to play the Vatican's power games. But it remains to be seen whether, in the long night of Rome, there is room for redemption.Sharp, dark and taut, The Night of Rome is fiction that sails dangerously close to the wind of current events.

The second thrilling installment in the Harry McCoy series."McCoy is so noir he makes most other Scottish cops seem light grey."-The TimesA man hangs himself in a neighborhood chapel. Bodies of young girls are being found in canals and rivers across the city with high levels of Mandrax in their bloodstream. McCoy is asked to watch over a colleague's niece, who has left home young and is running with a bad crowd in Glasgow. DS Wattie is attempting to become a sergeant. Drugs in Glasgow have got darker and more dangerous.Glasgow, its music and its inhabitants all have rough edges in this hard city fought over by gangs, organized crime, the forces of law and order, and ordinary people trying to get by.

Frankie Crowe is not one of the great criminal masterminds. A small time thug, he thinks-to the extent he can-that kidnapping one of Dublin's newly rich businessmen just may be the low-risk fast track to the status and money he knows he deserves. When the local crime boss refuses him permission to make the snatch, he shoots the boss and commences with his plan-such as it is.After a somewhat haphazard selection, Frankie's crew of casually vicious miscreants kidnaps the wife of a moderately prosperous lawyer rather than the spouse of the wealthy banker Frankie thought he had chosen. From that point forward, no one from Inspector John Grace to that pillar of Dublin gangland Jo-Jo Mackendrick can predict the next twist in a scheme that has gone from wrong to bad to worse. Like Elmore Leonard's, Kerrigan's writing is propelled by character. His novel is alive to the codes and expectations of the varied sections of modern Irish society. His narrative is taut and harrowing, his dialogue spot-on. The resulting story is everything Frankie Crowe is not: smart, assured and confident-forming an exciting combination of entertainment and art available only in superior crime fiction.

Ambientata a Napoli nei nostri giorni, la serie di Pizzofalcone (di cui questo è il terzo episodio) racconta le indagini e le avventure poliziesche ed umane di una squadra di poliziotti alle prese con il crimine a Napoli. Per i lettori di lingua inglese questo romanzo giallo è un¿ottima occasione per conoscere Napoli, i suoi problemi e la sua vitalità, ma anche tutta l¿Italia, appassionandosi alle storie dei numerosi personaggi.

"De Giovanni has created one of the most interesting and well-drawn detectives in fiction."-The Daily BeastChristmas is over and a fog-draped Naples is preparing to celebrate the new year when, on stage, the famous actor Michelangelo Gelmi fires a prop gun at his wife, Fedora Marra. The scene is part of their perfor-mance and happens every night at this hour. But this time something goes wrong. The blanks have been replaced with live bullets.Approaching old age and with a career in decline, Gelmi has become increasingly dependent on his wife-a much younger, beautiful woman at the height of her fame. Rumor has it that she had fallen in love with another man and was going to leave him.Is it a straightforward case of infidelity and marital jealousy? Commissario Ricciardi has his doubts. Winter Swallows is a captivating, historical mystery set in 1930s Naples that will keep readers enthralled until its final, dramatic act.Praise for Maurizio de Giovanni's Commissario Ricciardi series"The romantic, suspenseful and political strains interweave and resolve in superbly artful fashion."-Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal"Love, longing, and loss suffuse de Giovanni's elegiac, autumnal eighth Commissario Ricciardi mystery."-Publishers Weekly"Like stepping into a Vittorio De Sica movie."-The New York Times