Crime Town

Gli investigatori Maurizio Vivaldi e Alessandro Meucci si ritrovano ad indagare su un’inquietante incongruenza, nell'altrimenti placido paesaggio delle colline astigiane: gli addetti di un piccolo comune di provincia si sono insospettiti, dopo aver visto quattro ragazzine nel cortile del misterioso Antonio Fregapane. Quest'ultimo, agricoltore dai modi schivi, in paese ha fama di essere un tipo strano, che si aggira per i dintorni un po' come uno spettro.

In a small town in rural America, murders of little girls have been going on for a long time. Can the FBI stop him before he kills again?

All Tara wants is to forget. Home again after years traveling the world, she’s determined to put her painful past behind her. Surrounded by her big, loving, loud family, and with the distraction of her new restaurant, she feels like she’s finally beginning to heal. Then in walks Jace Travers. With one quirk of his beautiful, full lips, he shoots her carefully constructed life to smithereens. She does her best to avoid him, but that quickly proves hard to do when mysterious things begin to happen.

Over the years, small-town Pike, Wisconsin, has seen its share of shady characters, murderers, and serial killers—and not all of them have landed behind bars. For some folks, solving cold cases from the safety of the virtual world is a harmless diversion—but the stakes can be deadly …

Eric Logan had just turned 16 and was looking forward to an exciting summer. Sitting in his secret spot near Lake Tranquility in the town of Eagle, Wyoming, Eric was making plans of adventure. Until an older boy spoke to Eric. He was tall, and had dirty hair hanging to his shoulders, yellow teeth and knew Eric’s nickname, Runner. He said his name was DeSade and Eric and nine other boys were going to be members of his gang, the Under My Thumb gang. Twenty years later, Logan is a Detective with the Eagle Police Department. He is called out to an unusual homicide.

Evil in My Town is a dark and tension-filled installment to the Serenity's Plain Secrets' mystery/crime thriller series. After a tragic mass shooting in Blood Rock, Sheriff Serenity Adams is shocked to discover ties to the local Amish settlement, and her teenage niece, who barely survived the carnage. The investigation takes her from the terror of a massacre to an equally horrific crime relating to a missing woman in the community.

In the small American town of Hope, teenager Lucas Caldwell dreams of escaping his life. His mother, Liss, is struggling with addiction, and his sickly little brother, Reuben, would never survive her without him. His grandfather, Lucky, is dying in a care facility, his mind fading. But in a final moment of clarity, he lets slip to Lucas that he is in possession of a painting worth millions, stolen from a transport convoy in a daring heist five decades ago. As the disbelief fades, a thin hope begins to grow.

By 1966, Hot Springs, Arkansas wasn’t your typical sleepy little Southern town. Once a favorite destination for mobsters like Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, illegal activities continued to lure out-of-state gamblers, flim-flam men, and high rollers to its racetracks, clubs, and bordellos. Still, the town was shaken to its core after a girl was found dead on a nearby ranch. The ranch owner claimed it was an accident. Then the rancher was found to be the killer of another woman - his fourth wife.

McGee Ridge, earthquake-rattled and clinging to the thousand-foot cliffs of the Northern California coast, is nestled in one of a very few truly wild places left in the Lower 48. It is also home to a band of off-grid outlaws who vanished behind the famed Redwood Curtain in the 1960s and whose time there is swiftly coming to an end.

When the police refuse to investigate the disappearance of Mallory Carver’s niece, Julie, her family turns to private investigator Tucker Randall and thus set off a dangerous chain of events. Julie disappeared while hiking in the beautiful yet treacherous Cherokee National Forest, and Randall, a former FBI agent with a haunted past, can’t understand why the police won’t get involved. But as he delves deeper into the forest’s secrets, he realizes that someone is willing to do whatever it takes to keep the truth buried, and he’s determined to solve the case and bring the missing girl home.

Farbenprächtige Rosenfelder, ein geheimes Archiv der Düfte, mysteriöse Todesfälle... Es ist Mitte Mai in der Provence. Pierre Durand genießt das Zusammenleben mit Charlotte, doch als deren Jugendfreundin Anouk auftaucht, ist es mit der Idylle vorbei. Die Rosenzüchterin steht unter Mordverdacht – ihr Nachbar wurde tot in seinem »Archiv der Düfte« aufgefunden, wertvolle Dokumente fehlen. Charlotte ist von der Unschuld ihrer Freundin überzeugt. Die Beweislage ist alles andere als eindeutig, und so macht Pierre sich auf die Suche nach der Wahrheit.

Following a police shooting, two families - one White and one Black - discuss the event, its aftermath, and what they can do to help.

Keith Chen, the second son of a traditional Taiwanese family of seven, runs away from the oppression of his village to Berlin in the hope of finding acceptance as a young gay man. The novel begins a decade later, when Chen has just been released from prison for killing his boyfriend. He is about to return to his family's village, a poor and desolate place. With his parents gone, his sisters married, mad, or dead, there is nothing left for him there. As the story unfurls, we learn what tore this family apart and, more importantly, the truth behind the murder of Chen's boyfriend.

Beaufort is in North Carolina's 'Inner Banks,' and it's where Stormie Arrington calls home. Stormie is a feisty, stubborn, strong Alabama-born and raised woman who just happened to have had the misfortune of marrying the wrong man. Ben Arrington is a well-known prosecutor who married Stormie for reasons that are all his own. Ben wants to be the next governor of North Carolina, and he'll do anything to make that happen. When FBI Agent Nathan Emerson arrives to investigate the mysterious deaths and disappearances of a few local girls, he stumbles across a conspiracy.

When dead mobsters start turning up in Blood Rock, Sheriff Serenity Adams joins forces with a new recruit, a US marshal, and her ex-partner to solve the cases, but can she trust any of them? Her old partner, Ryan Donavan, is not acting like himself, and Serenity fears he's keeping secrets. For all of his politeness, there's something about Officer Jerome Wilson that doesn't ring true, and Marshall Bryant always has his own agenda. Throw in the Moretti mafia family, a Mexican drug cartel, and a hillbilly moonshine making clan, and Serenity has her hands full.

When Sheriff Elven Hallie answered Carolina McKay’s pleas for help, he thought it would be an easy job. But when the FBI shows up to investigate a murder, he finds himself trapped in a dangerous game. One where he’s the prime suspect. On the run and fighting to clear his name, Elven must uncover the truth and prove his innocence. But as secrets are revealed, he realizes no one can be trusted, not even his closest allies. Will he be able to save himself and those he cares about before it’s too late?

Police Commissioner Caterina Ruggeri is a sharp, smart, and courageous woman. She is the mother of a beautiful little girl named Aurora and loves to spend the evenings in the company of Stefano, her constant companion. But under this façade of an ordinary woman hides an enterprising and adventurous heroine, always ready to take on new investigations. Like the one that sees her involved in a bombing attack during the inauguration party of Villa Brandi, an 19th-century residence in the Marche region purchased by a famous international football coach.

Il tempo è giunto a termine nella Città Vecchia. Mentre a Portland il ritmo della gentrificazione raggiunge il suo limite massimo, in Oregon, lo squallido negozio di tatuaggi di Darby Holland, Lucky Supreme, viene distrutto da una bomba che ha sventrato un intero isolato. Solo una chiamata di avvertimento dalla sua prostituta preferita gli ha salvato la vita. Ora Darby non ha più niente da perdere e decide di scoprire chi c'è dietro la misteriosa esplosione che ha devastato il quartiere.

When Alastair Stewart loses his wife and unborn child and is badly injured in an ambush in Miami, he moves back home to upstate New York to begin his life over. He opens a private investigation agency. Along the way, he rescues a dog thrown from a moving car. Sherlock becomes his faithful sidekick as he investigates an explosion in a local bluestone quarry. Then a dying mother persuades him to take on a cold case, her autistic son who disappeared 10 years ago. His investigation not only leads him to the boy, now a man, but also a drug and money laundering ring.

L'architetto Fabbretto non ha mai progettato né costruito nulla, ma si è creato una carriera nella politica locale come amministratore del comune di Pordenone. Proprio nella veste di assessore alle politiche sociali viene avvicinato da due volontari dell'associazione Vitaviva per avviare un progetto all'avanguardia per il riciclo dei rifiuti, affidato all'ex detenuto Achille Orante, detto Lama per la sua pericolosità.