Nouveautés

In the thirty-third installment of Donna Leon’s magnificent series, Commissario Guido Brunetti confronts a present-day Venetian menace and the ghosts of a heroism that never was....

【原作　宮沢賢治】岩手県花巻生まれ。詩人、童話作家。代表作に「銀河鉄道の夜」「よだかの星」「セロ弾きのゴーシュ」「注文の多い料理店」などがある。

Genova, 1968. Maria Viani, universitaria fuori sede, scopre che Elisabetta, la sua bellissima coinquilina, è scomparsa. L’aiuteranno nel difficile compito di ritrovarla l’ispettore Sergio Cantini, vecchia conoscenza di Maria, e il fratello della ragazza. L’impresa, però, si rivelerà più difficile di quanto possano immaginare. Maria Teresa Valle, nata a Varazze (SV), risiede attualmente a Genova. Giallista di successo, ha pubblicato con Fratelli Frilli Editori numerosi romanzi, tra cui le due serie di successo con protagonisti Maria Viani e Damiano Flexi Gerardi, soprannominato il Becchino.

A gracefully aging chorus boy who packs a pistol and carries a P.I. license, a down-on-his luck football stud who might not be as shocked as one might expect upon learning that some boys do more than bathe in a bathhouse, and a vivacious vixen with a taste for rough trade and roomful of kinky secrets. Along the way we meet handsome thugs, catty drag queens, sleazy businessmen, corrupt cops, tainted politicians.

Policewoman Peggy Ellen has secret - by night, she's a caped vigilante, known as The Queen of Spades. Her city is crippled with crime, thanks to the notorious gang, The House of Games. When police Lieutenant Jack Malone, who's also Peggy's lover, gets too close to uncovering the truth behind this band of criminals, it's up to The Queen of Spades to rescue him. Can she save him in time, or will her rescue plans fold like a house of cards?

In Berlin treibt ein Serienmörder sein Unwesen. Professor Johannes Hornoff unterstützt auch in diesem Fall den mürrischen Oberkommissar Karl Breuer, doch den beiden läuft die Zeit davon. Hornoff und Breuer müssen schnell handeln und rasch zu Ergebnissen gelangen, denn der Gejagte schreckt vor nichts zurück. Er quält seine Opfer mit immer brutaleren Methoden, später stellt er sie öffentlich zur Schau. Was den Ermittlern bleibt, ist die Gewissheit, dass der Mörder, der sich selbst 'das Opferkind' nennt, auf Rache aus ist und nur von ihnen gestoppt werden kann.

Ein brisanter Mordfall, eine Verschwörung und eine gefährliche Geheimorganisation. Nick Stein ermittelt wieder – im fulminanten Abschluss der spannenden Krimi-Reihe! Der Profiler Nick Stein wird gradewegs von der Trainingsakademie des FBI in eine internationale Morduntersuchung verwickelt. Das Opfer ist kein Unbekannter für ihn, und die Spur des Täters führt direkt zu einem mysteriösen Geheimbund.

TV reporter Booker Johnson doesn't know when to back down. Fresh off his fourth Emmy win and back in the classroom, he teaches the primacy of truth in journalism. But there is danger in pursuing the truth at all costs. And despite being told by his superiors to move on from the scene of a suspicious accident, Booker just can't leave well enough alone. Booker's investigation soon plunges him into the gritty world of crime boss Parson Manor, where corruption reigns supreme and where Gibby Manor is being trained to follow in his father's criminal footsteps.