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81) Titan song
Author
Series
Carter archives volume 3
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
With the return of spring, new life floods into Titanshade. The sun climbs higher and stays longer, the economy is ascendant, and ever more newcomers arrive to be part of the city's rebirth. Even pop culture has taken notice, with a high-profile concert only days away. When a band member's murder threatens to delay the show, the diva star performer demands that the famous Detective Carter work the case. But Carter has secrets of his own, and his investigation...
83) Worse angels
Author
Series
Isaiah Coleridge novels volume 3
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Ex-majordomo and bodyguard to an industrial tycoon-cum-U.S. senator, Badja Adeyemi is in hiding and shortly on his way to either a jail cell or a grave, depending on who finds him first. In his final days as a free man, he hires Isaiah Coleridge to tie up a loose end: the suspicious death of his nephew four years earlier. At the time police declared it an accident, and Adeyemi isn't sure it wasn't, but one final look may bring his sister peace. So...
84) The tenant
Author
Series
Korner and Werner mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When a young woman is discovered brutally murdered in her own apartment, with an intricate pattern of lines carved into her face, Copenhagen police detectives Jeppe Korner and Anette Werner are assigned to the case. In short order, they establish a link between the victim, Julie Stender, and her landlady, Esther de Laurenti, who's a bit too fond of drink and the host of raucous dinner parties with her artist friends. Esther also turns out to be a...
Series
Publisher
Vintage Crime / Black Lizard : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Edgar Award-winning editor Penzler's new anthology rolls out the red carpet for the stories that Hollywood hits are made of. He delivers the director's cut of classic short stories that inspired some of Tinsletown's most memorable films. ... Including... works by:Authors include: Edgar Allan Poe, Cornell Woolrich, Aldous Huxley, Ian Fleming, Robert Louis Stevenson, Budd Schulberg, O. Henry, W. Somerset Maugham, and many more.--
Author
Publisher
Polis Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In these stories and more, some never before published, Rob Hart explores the enticing and dangerous intersection where food and hospitality cross paths with crime and noir. Some stories are funny. Some of are dark. But each one will leaving you wanting another bite."-- provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Happy Doll volume 2
Publisher
Mulholland Books / Little, Brown Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Although badly scarred and down to his last kidney after the previous caper, Happy Doll is back in business. When a beguiling young woman turns up at his door, it's Doll's past that comes knocking. Mary DeAngelo is searching for her estranged mother, Ines Candle -- a singular and troubled woman Doll once loved. The last he'd seen her she'd been near-death: arms slit like envelopes. Although she survived the episode, she vanished shortly thereafter....
Author
Series
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Es el momento de que Olimpia Wimberly conozca la verdad sobre su pasado. Es el momento de que tú conozcas a Olimpia. Vuelve María Frisa con una novela repleta de giros, tensión y secretos enterrados en un lujoso pasado. Intentar detener a Olimpia Wimberly es tan absurdo como intentar frenar un tren de mercancías con la cabeza. Lleva años al mando de un equipo clandestino encargado de solucionar crisis que ni la policía ni el FBI pueden resolver....
90) Devil's garden
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
In this noir crime classic about one of the most notorious trials in American history--the 1921 manslaughter case against silent-screen comedy star Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle--Dashiell Hammett investigates what really happened at Arbuckle's San Francisco party and discovers a truth that will change American legal history--and his own life forever.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Former St. Paul police detective Rushmore McKenzie was shot in the back by an unknown assailant and lies in a coma. His childhood friend, Lt. Bobby Dunston of the St. Paul Police Department, assigns his best detective to the case while others -- on both sides of the law -- pursue the truth. What was McKenzie investigating, what did he learn that so threatened someone that they tried to kill him? What do a sketchy bar, a tech millionaire's family,...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A Commissario Ricciardi Neapolitan mystery that packs a real punch. Years ago, Vinnie Sannino left Naples on a ship bound for America, where he found fame and wealth as a boxer. But his gilded life in the new world came to an abrupt end when, during a fight, with a heavy punch to the head of his opponent, Vinnie killed a man in the ring. Now, Vinnie's back in Italy, pining for the woman he left behind. Cettina, however, is now a married woman. She...
93) Starr sign
Author
Series
Candace Starr volume 2
Publisher
Dundurn
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Candace Starr goes searching for her mother in the Detroit mob - but infiltrating her own crime family may be her deadliest assignment ever. Candace Starr has fallen on hard times since she helped her friend, Detective Malone, with a murder case last year. These days, she trades on her dark celebrity as a former contract killer to keep the wolf from the door and her glass full of scotch whisky. When her teenage half-sister, Janet, shows up, Candace...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A vivid new cast of characters collide in gritty 1990s Brooklyn, in this latest from acclaimed neo-noir author William Boyle. In City of Margins, the lives of several lost souls intersect in Southern Brooklyn in the early 1990s. There's Donnie Parascandolo, a disgraced ex-cop with blood on his hands; Ava Bifulco, a widow whose daily work grind is her whole life; Nick, Ava's son, a grubby high school teacher who dreams of a shortcut to success; Mikey...
95) Seed on the wind
Author
Series
Publisher
Hard Case Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The lawyer, the jeweler, the art critic, and the oil-company man...self-possessed, independent Lora Winter has had a child with each of them. But when one of these men drives up to her house with a fifth man in the car, Lora runs to hide. That's how this extraordinary novel opens - and by the time it ends, you'll have pieced together a masterful psychological jigsaw puzzle that is miles from a traditional crime novel, but whose desperate characters...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Two kinds of cops find their way to Portland's North Precinct: those who are sent there for punishment, and those who come for the action. Officer Hanson is the second kind, a veteran who survived the war in Vietnam only to decide he wanted to keep fighting at home. Hanson knows war, and in this battle for the Portland streets, he fights not for the law but for his own code of justice.Yet Hanson can't outrun his memories of another, warmer battleground....
Author
Series
Candace Starr volume 1
Publisher
Dundurn
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A hard-drinking former hitwoman agrees to help catch a killer, even though the murderer might just be her. Candace Starr likes to think of herself as retired since she got out of prison. That's until society maven Kristina Corrigan tries to hire her to permanently remove her daughter's barnacle of a boyfriend, Tyler Brent, from their lives. The only catch? Tyler is seventeen years old. Even Candace usually draws the line at taking out a target who...
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles in the late 1940s is a city of promise and prosperity, but not for former fighter pilot Dix Steele. To his mind nothing has come close to matching 'that feeling of power and exhilaration and freedom that came with loneness in the sky.' He prowls the foggy city night -- Ưbus stops and stretches of darkened beaches and movie houses just emptying out -- seeking solitary young women. His funds are running out and his frustrations are growing....
99) Quarry's blood
Author
Series
Publisher
Hard Case Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When a true crime novelist announces he's the subject of her next book, Quarry, a professional hitman, must journey into his bloody past to settle old scores as killers come out of the woodwork bent on revenge.
Author
Publisher
Legend Press
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
Description
Summer, 1962. A scorching heat wave is suffocating L.A. PI John Keegan is offered a small fortune to find a beautiful woman from a set of photographs. He refuses: the job seems suspicious. But the next day the same woman, Eve, turns up, unbidden, on his doorstep. Eve fears for her safety. She is being watched. Before Keegan knows it, someone has been killed with Keegan's own gun, and he gets sucked into a world of suspicion and betrayal where he's...
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