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Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever. Joyland is a brand-new novel and has never previously been published.

It's not every afternoon that an enigmatic, comely blonde named Stilton (like the cheese) walks into the scruffy gin joint where Sammy "Two Toes" Tiffin tends bar. It's love at first sight, but before Sammy can make his move, an air force general named Remy arrives with some urgent business. 'Cause when you need something done, Sammy is the guy to go to; he's got the connections on the street.

This story follows an enigmatic private investigator drawn into a tangled web of deception and murder. A chance meeting with a mysterious man who has an uncanny affection for dogs leads the protagonist into a case filled with unexpected twists and hidden motives. As the layers of the mystery unravel, Chandler's signature blend of tension, wit, and vivid characterization keeps readers on edge until the final page. Set against the shadowy backdrop of 1930s Los Angeles, The Man Who Liked Dogs paints a vivid picture of a city teeming with secrets and danger.

Rudolf Sebestyen is missing, and Marianne Smalls is involved in an illicit affair with the shady Jonas Schmitt. Both cases converge when Dora Urban, Rudolf's beautiful and mysterious half-sister, and Lamont Smalls, Marianne's suspicious husband, hire Jack Mitchell, a hard-drinking, chain-smoking private investigator. Dora wants Jack to uncover what happened to her brother, while Lamont seeks proof of his wife's infidelity. But Dora is a vampire, in a city teeming with creatures of the night. As Jack dives deeper, he discovers that both cases are linked to vepratoga.

Prison buddies Billy Good and Jackie Walker made time pulling small jobs here and there. Not a bad living if you liked scraping by. The thing to worry about was the next fix. Nothing else mattered. When Billy and Jackie fell in with Kenyatta, a ghetto lord ready to take back the streets, they thought they'd hit the big time. Dealing with drug pushers and crooked cops in the name of justice sure felt good, but in a world where "kindness was the sweetest con of all", every bullet fired echoed with the sound of payback.

There’s no police training stronger than a cop’s instinct. Faith Mitchell’s mother isn’t answering her phone. Her front door is open. There’s a bloodstain above the knob. Her infant daughter is hidden in a shed behind the house. All that the Georgia Bureau of Investigations taught Faith Mitchell goes out the window when she charges into her mother’s house, gun drawn. She sees a man dead in the laundry room. She sees a hostage situation in the bedroom. What she doesn’t see is her mother....

En medio de la Gran Depresión un circo estadounidense se traslada a México con sus personajes deformes, fantásticos, característicos del circo norteamericano. Huyendo de la miseria y de historias personales insoportables, el señor Carothers y sus artistas comienzan de nuevo, acompañados de sus contrapartes mexicanos. Durante años recorren el país, envejecen y ven cómo su espectáculo pasa de moda. Con la intención de atraer más gente y salvar el circo, el mago recurre a la hipnosis colectiva y al espectáculo-horror. Para ello acude a Cecilia, una acróbata cuya ...

Dalen Reese, Detroit’s greatest Private Eye, is back, and this time he’s working without his partners, Ian Parker or Robert Stonewall. During the height of the Covid pandemic, a young barista from The Coffee Cabin fails to report to work and Dalen jumps into action to find out where she is. He enlists the assistance of his friend Picasso, one of the most feared men in the Motor City, Nomar, a new friend with more questions than answers, and his eager friend Morrison, to help find Pasha. Along the way, Dalen meets a young boy named Rico whose mother is involved with a crime family and is...

Lady Frances es asesinada el día de su aniversario en su mansión a las afueras de Londres. Todos y cada uno de los invitados tienen un motivo para asesinarla. A mitad de la noche aparece un antiguo pretendiente de la anciana dama. El antiguo inspector jefe Tom Randall vuelve a ver a su antiguo amor lady Frances y allí se encuentra sumido en medio de la tragedia El caso se vuelve tan difícil que solo un hombre con la mente tan sagaz como Randall podrá descubrirlo.

He’s baaack! Robert Samuel Johnson, aka The Trench Coat Rapist, returns to the Motor City to terrorize Dalen Reese, his daughter Olivia, his partner and friend Ian Parker, as well as the hobbled retired detective Robert Stonewall. After Johnson’s release from Jackson State Penitentiary last year, Robert Stonewall believed he had rid Detroit of the man that had terrorized the city once and for all. But Johnson’s return has the partners of The Parker and Reese Private Investigative Agency once again trying to stop the madman before he strikes again. Along the way, Dalen and Ian are ...

Jules Morgan un detective sin suerte al que ha abandonado su mujer, es contratado un día para un asunto de adulterio. El caso que parecía fácil se complica al morir su cliente asesinado y eso le llevará a tener que investigar a su antiguo socio y meterse en el Luma el lupanar más sucio y vigilado por la policía de los bajos fondos.

Raw and loony, filthy and funny gutbucket belches from Kirk Alex, author of the acclaimed and controversial LUSTMORD: Anatomy of a Serial Butcher. This collection includes tales such as the sexually graphic and outlandishly violent, “Ziggy Popper at Large,” featuring a recently released ex-con sitting in a dive bar in seedy East Hollywood nursing a beer and minding his own business, when a scrawny a-hole walks in and parks his butt on the stool next to his and offers him cash money to shag his wife. Hardboiled and packing a punch of LA attitude in its gritty realism and black humor, “...

Lucas Fernández llega a España desde Venezuela en busca de un sueño. Pronto se dará cuenta que nadie regala nada y es entonces cuando se mete en el negocio de la coca. Pero ese no es su problema, cuando empiezas no puedes volverte atrás. El día que conoce a la hermosa Blondie su destino parece sellado, pero alguien le reserva una sorpresa.

A devastating explosion in Manhattan. A bomber with an ultimatum. An ex-cop with 24 hours to save the city... When former NYPD detective, Thomas Blume, narrowly escapes a deadly blast that rips apart downtown New York, he thinks he’s gotten lucky, but things are about to get far worse. The bomber issues him a terrifying ultimatum; find and kill the man he seeks, or more people will die. Now, in a race against the clock, Blume must battle motorcycle gangs, a private army, government cover-ups, and the demons of his past to find the man and save the city. Who can he trust and who will ...

An ex-cop haunted by his past. A body with a message. 72 hours to find the truth... Ex-cop, Thomas Blume returns to New York hot on the trail of the man that killed his family... But when the body of a former girlfriend unexpectedly shows up at police HQ Blume is suddenly thrust into an investigation to find the murderer and stop them killing again. Now, in a race against time Blume must solve a riddle from his past and battle through a world of cops, criminals and organized crime… before it’s too late. Who can be trusted and who will survive? Find out in the thrilling fifth book of the...

La strana morte di un usuraio conduce Bacci Pagano nei misteriosi sobborghi di Genova. Il settantenne Giacomino Terenzi – noto strozzino – viene ucciso in un parco da uno sconosciuto sicario, ma Bacci Pagano sospetta il coinvolgimento della vedova, che da anni intrattiene un rapporto extraconiugale.

The past has a way of catching up to you... Following the explosive events of End Game, American private investigator Thomas Blume is battling to come to terms with a changed British city he helped to create. But when a young woman is brutally murdered, he finds himself dragged into a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a serial killer targeting victims that are all too familiar. Taken across the dark, treacherous streets of modern London, Blume searches through a decades-old conspiracy, digging up secrets that make him question if even the police can be trusted. But with time running out ...

Some people will do anything for family … even kill. After a frantic missing persons case goes wrong, private investigator Thomas Blume is facing a wrecked car and a disastrous winter when a mysterious invitation arrives, promising a big payday with only one catch … he must solve the case of a murdered billionaire. But when Blume realizes something far more valuable than money has been taken from the victim, he finds himself battling across country mansions, dark alleyways, and through layers of intrigue, family feuds, and corporate conspiracy, to enter a dangerous world of ...

Katie Savage is a girl with a gun, a woman not to be taken lightly. Julian Marks is a smart, sophisticated stockbroker. He’s also an adrenalin junkie. There really is nothing he won’t do to get his juices flowing, including armed robbery. He seeks out small businesses just before closing time, when their cash registers are full and they are at their most vulnerable. He doesn’t do it for the cash; no he makes more in an hour at his day job than any of the petty robberies yield. He does it for the thrill! Everything in Julian Marks’ life is coming up roses, until one fateful day he ...

The journey of Detroit’s two friendliest Private Eye’s continues with SINFUL BODIES: THE DARK SIDE OF McCATTY DRIVE. Dalen Reese and Ian Parker are back, protecting the streets of metro Detroit on another wild adventure. The P.I.’s are hired to look into the infidelities of a neighbor’s spouse. It seems like a pretty open and shut case until it takes a dark and twisted turn that has the partners of the Parker and Reese Private Investigation Agency trying to stop a menacing pimp from killing the women under his command. With the help of their new partner Robert Stonewall, as well as ...