Italian Thriller

Early one morning, Silvio Lupanello, a big shot in the village of Vigata, is found dead in his car with his pants around his knees. The car happens to be parked in a rough part of town frequented by prostitutes and drug dealers, and as the news of his death spreads, the rumors begin. Enter Inspector Salvo Montalbano, Vigata's most respected detective, who has his doubts about the way Silvio died.

A differenza del glicine, Blythe ha le spine. E ha tutta l'intenzione di usarle con Aris Dryden. Blythe Hawthorne non ha permesso mai a nessuno di dirle cosa fare, né alle convenzioni, né a suo padre iperprotettivo. E di certo non potrà farlo l'uomo scortese e insopportabile a cui è legata. Anzi, Blythe è determinata a essere una spina nel suo fianco, dato che anche lui sta facendo di tutto per renderle la vita tutt'altro che una favola.

Though she still misses her late husband, Carlo, Bria couldn't be happier that their dream bed and breakfast, Bella Bella, is humming along nicely. Of course, even on the stunning Amalfi Coast, things seldom run smoothly. Like Bria's mother and mother-in-law dueling over a suitable communion site for Bria's eight-year-old son Marco. Bria's also juggling the demands of the famous Chef Lugo, his producer, Massimo, and Pippa, a member of the production crew who is staying at Bella Bella for a nice, long-term stay . . .

Sloan farebbe qualsiasi cosa per chi ama. Per garantire un futuro a suo fratello malato ha sacrificato tutto: la libertà, la dignità e l'amore. Legata ad Asa, narcotrafficante tanto affascinante quanto manipolatore, vive in una gabbia dorata fatta di paura e dipendenza. Lui le ha offerto sicurezza, ma il prezzo da pagare è stato altissimo: Asa non l'ha salvata, l'ha reclamata. E ora ogni gesto, ogni parola, ogni sguardo sono una catena che stringe sempre più forte. Sloan sa che scappare da Asa significa rischiare la vita.

Nestled high in the Tuscan hills lies Villa Volpone, home to renowned crime writer Jonah Moore and his creative writing course. It’s also the last place retired DCI Dan Armstrong expected to spend his retirement! Dan’s no writer, but maybe this break will help him to think about the next chapter in his own life story? But only days into the course, Jonah Moore is found stabbed to death with his award-winning silver dagger! And Dan finds himself pulled out of retirement with a killer to catch.

Morris Duckworth can't get over Massimina, or Mimi, as he likes to refer to her. But then, he should have thought of that before he kidnapped and killed her. Only now, living in Verona and married to Mimi's sister, does he appreciate how much he misses her and how blindly he has stumbled into a trap of fate. Struggling to adjust to his good fortune, with a lavish house and cushy job, our unsavory hero finds that his new success is rife with tribulation: not least his pushy bride's staggering sexual appetite.

Quando i quattro partner di un importante studio legale rimangono uccisi in un misterioso incidente aereo, le loro vedove devono unirsi per scoprire la verità in questo romanzo esplosivo che vi terrà con il fiato sospeso.

Nel 2027 il mondo è sull'orlo di una guerra: la Cina stringe d'assedio Taiwan e gli Stati Uniti preparano una risposta. Nel cuore di questo scontro planetario, un'azienda italiana diventa una preda ambitissima: NaviTech, leader nella produzione di microchip avanzati, possiede segreti industriali che potrebbero cambiare i destini del mondo. E tutti li vogliono. Ma quella tra Cina e Stati Uniti non è l'unica guerra che l'azienda dovrà affrontare. Ottavio De Luca, il visionario fondatore, non ha mai designato un erede. Si prepara quindi una violenta lotta per la successione.

Audible Studios presenta una produzione Audible Originals: Poirot a Styles Court, con Claudio Santamaria nel ruolo del leggendario Hercule Poirot. Un’audio serie corale che riunisce un cast d’eccezione, nell’adattamento del romanzo d’esordio di Agatha Christie. Inghilterra, 1914. Il mondo è precipitato in un conflitto senza precedenti. Ferito nel corpo e nell’animo, il capitano Hastings accetta l’invito a trascorrere la convalescenza a Styles Court, l’imponente dimora di campagna di un vecchio amico.

A Parigi due donne sono state uccise a colpi di forbice. La polizia è convinta di essere a un passo dal colpevole, un serial killer pronto a colpire ancora. Ma le cose non hanno mai una faccia sola... Soprattutto se, a lanciarsi sulle tracce dell'assassino, ci pensano un ex poliziotto deluso dalla vita e tre storici improvvisati detective.

Private investigator Dan Armstrong is no stranger to working with criminals, but when he’s approached for help by Bianca Moretti, he’s on high alert. Bianca is intelligent and beautiful, and Dan likes her, but he also once sent her to prison…Bianca explains that a guest has been found dead at her father’s luxurious and private retreat on the beautiful Italian Riviera. The police are sure the death is accidental, but Bianca is convinced the man’s been murdered. Dan’s sure he can get to the bottom of things…as long as Bianca is telling him the whole truth.

Jutting from sparkling turquoise waters off the Italian coast, Isle Isola is an idyllic setting for a wedding. In the majestic cliff-top villa owned by the wealthy Compton family, up-and-coming artist Claire Hunter will marry handsome, charming Jack Compton, surrounded by close family, intimate friends…and a host of dark secrets.

Count Falier urges his Venetian son-in-law Guido Brunetti to investigate, and preferably intervene in, the seemingly innocent plan of the Count's best friend, the elderly Gonzalo Rodriguez de Tejada, to adopt a much younger man as his son. Under arcane Italian inheritance laws this man would then be heir to Gonzalo's entire fortune, a prospect Gonzalo's friends find appalling. Then Gonzalo unexpectedly, and literally, drops dead on the street, and his good friend Berta Dodson, just arrived in Venice for the memorial service, is strangled in her hotel room.

When Dan Armstrong is asked to provide security at a private villa on the outskirts of Pisa, he’s pretty sure it will be an easy job. Villa Gregory is remote; the gathered guests are rich – what could possibly go wrong? Inside the high walls of the palatial villa, Dan discovers the gathered guests are some of the most powerful tycoons in the media world, with plans for world domination. With so much at stake, Dan redoubles his efforts to keep everyone safe. But when one of the group is found murdered, Dan’s heart sinks – especially considering Anna’s own daughter is in the frame.

Morris Duckworth teaches English to the pampered rich of Verona, and Morris is not pleased. Living a meager existence in a squalid apartment, he regards his privileged students with envy and disdain, first wreaking revenge by petty theft and then, like all good criminals, graduating to grander larceny. When one of those students, a beautiful but vapid heiress named Massimina, falls in love with him, Morris can almost smell upward mobility.

It's truffle season, and in the hills around Bologna the hunt is on for the legendary Boscuri White, worth more than its weight in gold. But when an American truffle 'supertaster' goes missing, English Detective Daniel Leicester discovers not all truffles are created equal. Did the missing supertaster bite off more than he could chew?

The best-selling author of the Alienist series returns with a chilling elaboration on the Sherlock Holmes canon, as the famed detective investigates a pair of gruesome murders, which cast an otherworldly shadow as far as Queen Victoria herself.

When an Italian assassin's body is found floating in a barrel in Victorian London's East End, enquiry agent Cyrus Barker and his assistant Thomas Llewelyn are called in to investigate. Soon corpses begin to appear all over London, each accompanied by a Mafia Black Hand note. As Barker and Llewelyn dig deeper, they become entangled in the vendettas of rival Italian syndicates - and it is no longer clear who is a friend or foe.

When the body of a radical protestor is found floating in one of Bologna's underground canals, it seems that most of the city is ready to blame the usual suspects: the police. But when private investigator Daniel Leicester, son-in-law to the former chief of police, receives a call from the dead man's lover, he follows a trail that begins in the 1970s and leads all the way to the rotten heart of the present-day political establishment.

"Tra i boschi e le pareti rocciose a strapiombo, giù nell'orrido che conduce al torrente, tra le pozze d'acqua smeraldo che profuma di ghiaccio, qualcosa si nasconde. Me lo dicono le tracce di sangue, me lo dice l'esperienza: è successo, ma potrebbe risuccedere. Questo è solo l'inizio. Qualcosa di sconvolgente è accaduto, tra queste montagne. Qualcosa che richiede tutta la mia abilità investigativa. Sono un commissario di polizia specializzato in profiling e ogni giorno cammino sopra l'inferno."