Títulos en Misterios y delitos internacionales

L'investigatore Serino l'abbiamo conosciuto ed apprezzato nel precedente romanzo di Spada, "Rum, lime e zucchero". Personaggio dal ragionamento sottile, non si lascia distrarre dalle emozioni. Questa volta si trova ad indagare su un crimine efferato, che avviene alla vigilia di Natale. Un poliziesco, quindi, nel clima del panettone e della buona cucina natalizia. Criminali crudeli non badano all'atmosfera idilliaca che regna nelle case. Intrighi di vasta portata stanno dietro al delitto.

Vera Spark è una giovane investigatrice privata in carriera. Essendo italo - americana, è la più adatta dello studio investigativo per essere spedita dal suo capo negli Stati Uniti. Parte dunque come inviata speciale da Milano a Bryce Canyon, nei parchi californiani.

Sandro Serino è un giovane in cerca di un futuro migliore. La sua vita non lo soddisfa. Ritiene che le sue doti di obiettivo osservatore, capace di freddi ragionamenti, non siano valorizzate. È appassionato di indagini poliziesche ed ha frequentato la nota scuola per corrispondenza "Phil Marlowe". Quando finalmente si troverà ad interessarsi della scomparsa dell'amico Giovanni, si sentirà nel suo ambiente. Ma la matassa non si dipanerà facilmente.

A volte, la vita vera è molto peggiore degli incubi. E proprio di vivere in un incubo ha l'impressione Marco: il volto martoriato da lividi e ferite, la bocca frantumata, le ossa degli arti barbaramente spezzate. Ma il dolore più acuto non è certo dovuto alle ferite. Quando intravede, ancora semicosciente, il corpo di Anna, la sua compagna, abbandonato accanto a lui sul letto, lo sguardo vitreo e inespressivo che solo la morte sa creare, capisce che nulla potrà più essere come prima.

Nicotrain, noto scrittore di gialli milanese, continua nella sua personalissima indagine sulle tracce dei responsabili della Strage di Piazza Fontana...

Following the tradition of crime thrillers from Joseph Uhnak and Joseph Wambaugh, New York Times best-selling author and former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik uses his unique insider knowledge of crime and politics to weave a story of suspense, murder, and international intrigue that's truly been ripped from today's headlines.

It is 1992 in Warsaw, Poland, and the communist era has just ended. A series of grisly murders suddenly becomes an international case when it's feared that the victims may have been couriers smuggling nuclear material out of the defunct Soviet Union. The FBI sends an agent to help with the investigation. When he learns that a Russian physicist who designed a portable atomic bomb has disappeared, the race is on to find him - and the bomb - before it ends up in the wrong hands.

From the author of the acclaimed North of Boston comes a riveting new thriller about an American doctor who travels to Russia to find her estranged grandmother, only to uncover dark family secrets and a dangerous international plot.

When a gruesome murder occurs in a sleepy 14th-century English town, Thomas Lester dives into an investigation that unearths witchcraft and long-kept secrets.

Judah Cannon is the middle son of the notorious Cannon clan led by Sherwood, its unflinching and uncompromising patriarch. When Judah returns to his rural hometown of Silas, Florida, after a stint in prison, he is determined to move forward and live it clean with his childhood best friend and newly discovered love, Ramey Barrow. Everything soon spirals out of control, though, when a phone call from Sherwood ensnares Judah and Ramey in a complicated web of thievery, brutality, and betrayal.

This is collection of 18 crime stories with a diverse range of characters and scenarios, from guilt-ridden fraudsters to lovesick murderers.

Reminiscent of Humphrey Bogart's character Rick Blaine from the classic movie Casablanca, Rocky Jordan relocated to Cairo after being ousted from St. Louis by his enemies. Now living in North Africa, Rocky Jordan owns and operates a gin joint, the Café Tambourine, and finds himself involved in an assortment of mystery and intrigue endeavors while unwillingly moonlighting as a crime fighter.

When the big man in Washington assigned Matt Helm to ride shotgun on a top-secret mission in Norway, Helm wanted to know why. But this was a need-to-know deal, at least until his partner - a woman posing as his mistress - was killed. Now Helm is mad - mad enough to blow the operation sky high.

Natasha Doroshenko, a Ukrainian woman who has been arrested for murdering her Danish fiancé, escapes police custody on her way to an interrogation in Copenhagen's police headquarters. It isn't the first time Natasha has lost a partner to violent ends: her first husband was also murdered three years earlier, in Kiev, and in the same manner, his hands broken. At the same time, someone tries to abduct Natasha's eight-year-old daughter from the Red Cross center that has been caring for her while her mother, an illegal immigrant, was in jail.

Naples, 1932. A week before Easter, springtime offers fragrant temptations to the men and women of Naples - but evil also lurks in the sweet-smelling spring air. At the high-class brothel in the center of town known as Paradiso, Viper, the most famous prostitute of all, is found dead after being suffocated with a pillow. Her last client swears that he left her alive and well. But when her next client arrived, he found her dead. Who killed her and why?

It's the early 1980s in Belfast. Sean Duffy, a conflicted Catholic cop in the Protestant RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary), is recruited by MI5 to hunt down Dermot McCann, an IRA master bomber who has made a daring escape from the notorious Maze prison. In the course of his investigations Sean discovers a woman who may hold the key to Dermot's whereabouts; she herself wants justice for her daughter who died in mysterious circumstances in a pub locked from the inside.

When an unidentified corpse washes ashore at Slapton Sandson England's southern coast, US army captain Billy Boyle and his partner, Lieutenant Piotr "Kaz" Kazimierz, are assigned to investigate. The Devonshirebeach is the home to Operation Tiger, the top-secret rehearsal for theapproaching D-day invasion of Normandy, and the area is restricted; no one seems to know where the corpse could have come from.

Despite their investigative prowess, Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Michael Sinclair, Lord Acton, and rookie detective Kathleen Doyle stir more than a few feathers at CID Headquarters when their relationship comes to light. But office politics quickly become trivial when a rash of underworld murders shatters London's normally austere façade. With a growing list of successfully solved cases to her name, the ever-dauntless Doyle shakes off the gossip and sets out to investigate the escalating turf war.

Ellery had a simple case. A few days of discreet snooping, some choice advice, and the inimitable sleuth would blithely restore domestic harmony to the millionaire couple Dirk and Martha Lawrence. Then came the scarlet letters. And finally the cryptic clue, scrawled in a murdered man’s blood. A simple case? Unless Ellery did some super-fast sleuthing, he’d have nothing to show but a very scarlet face. The case will drag him all over New York as he hunts for the truth.

Raisa "Rae" Jordan, an agent for the United States Diplomatic Security Service, isn't in Israel for more than a day before her predecessor is gunned down in a Tel Aviv square by a sniper. Assigned to investigate the assassination of one of her own, she must also protect Judge Ben Taylor and his teenage daughter. They may be the sniper's next target and are most certainly being threatened by a desperate cadre of terrorists with their sights set on the secretary of state's upcoming visit.