Italian Noir

THE FIRST SIX BOOKS OF THE QUEEN OF SPADES CRIME THRILLER SERIES. From award-winning journalist and USA TODAY Bestselling author Kristi Belcamino. What readers are saying: ★★★★★ “Another edge of your seat read by Kristi Belcamino.”
 ★★★★★“Queen of Spades is an action-driven book with a gripping storyline; I read it in one day as I simply could not put it down.” - MaryAnn Forbes
 ★★★★★WORTHY OF 10+ STARS” - Amazon ⚠️Warning! Be prepared to lose sleep and skip chores while reading this series! Book 1: Queen of Spades When Eva Santella’s father...

Cleveland Noir joins Columbus Noir as the Akashic Noir series continues its tour of Ohio and navigates the dregs of the North Shore.

Noir contains three classic thrillers by Richard Matheson, the grand master of suspense. Originally published in the 1950s, at the very beginning of Matheson’s distinguished career, these page-turning classics are finally on audio for your listening pleasure. Now listeners everywhere can savor three unforgettable tales of crime, corruption, and cold-blooded murder.

People mistake her for an average teenage girl … That’s often their last mistake. After being the youngest and the most dangerous assassin at the secret Italian facility that teaches young women how to kill, Rose abandoned her training to live as a normal teenager. Years later, her dark past and worst enemies catch up with her and destroy everything she holds dear. Now she only has one thing on her mind—a deadly vendetta. She won’t rest until there is blood on her hands one more time. Even if some of the blood ends up being her own. Blood & Roses is the first book in the Vigilante ...

In Death and Judgment, the fourth novel in Donna Leon's bestselling Commissario Guido Brunetti series, a truck crashes and spills its dangerous cargo on a treacherous road in the Italian Dolomite Mountains. Meanwhile, a prominent international lawyer is found dead aboard an intercity train bound...

Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti’s hopes of escaping the sweltering heat of Venice in August for a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are dashed when a gruesome discovery is made in a field in Marghera—a body so badly beaten the face is completely unrecognizable. Brunetti searches...

The absurdly outrageous, sarcastically satiric, and always entertaining New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore returns in finest madcap form with this zany noir set on the mean streets of post-World War II San Francisco, and featuring a diverse cast of characters, including a...

A beautiful but deadly serial killer is on the loose, dishing out gruesome and lethal punishment to men who reject her … When Rose arrives in Florida to meet her new love, she is stood up at the airport, but chalks it up to a misunderstanding. She soon learns there is more to her boyfriend’s disappearance than him going on a wild drinking bender. After a frustrating and ultimately fruitless search, Rose realizes he is being held against his will. Rose must risk everything to unravel the woman’s deadly plot before she once again loses the man she loves to a killer. Blood & Bone is the ...

He wakes up in a Milan hospital. He knows the city's name. Not his own. Broken ribs, scarred knuckles, a door locked from outside — and a man in a white coat who comes at night with a syringe. The patient with no name has only one certainty: somebody put him there, and somebody wants to finish the job. To survive, he must escape into the rain of Milan and follow the only trace he has: a woman from a past he cannot remember. An amnesia thriller written for Italian learners at level B1-B2 (50% B1 / 50% B2, with a gentle introduction of the Italian subjunctive). Inside the book: • 5 ...

Bari, 1938. Mentre l'ombra delle leggi razziali inizia ad allungarsi sull'Italia, un delitto scuote la quiete apparente di un elegante palazzo del centro. In questo scenario di ordine imposto si incrociano i destini di due uomini: Nino Grimaldi, stimato pediatra e figlio di un influente gerarca fascista, e Gianni Ancona, un commerciante che tenta disperatamente di proteggere la propria famiglia dalla persecuzione.

There is only one rule for Eva Santella: Kill or be killed. Former assassin and mafia boss Eva Lucia Santella has lost everything she’s ever cared about, but is still attempting to carve out a new life for herself back in Italy as a modern day Robin Hood, devoted to taking down those who prey on the innocent. Eva Santella is training an army of female assassins to help her do it. When one of her top lieutenants comes under attack, Eva vows revenge. But when her niece Gia Santella—unexpectedly shows up in Italy, Eva finds that she has more to lose than she ever dreamed possible. She’d ...

A killer who stages his victims like works of art. A detective who refuses to look away. When the body of a young woman is found posed with unnerving precision behind an abandoned warehouse on Cleveland’s riverfront, Major Crimes Detective Marisa DiBenedetto is called in. Soon, more victims appear, each arranged with the same grotesque signature. A pattern is emerging, and it’s terrifying. This is no ordinary investigation. The killer is watching. A devoted mother of four, Marisa has built her life on faith, family, and an unshakable sense of justice. But as media pressure intensifies, ...

Turner Classic Movies host and Dark City Dames author Eddie Muller and Criterion Channel host Imogen Sara Smith offer an essential tour of international film noir, highlighting renowned movie classics and obscure noir masterpieces from around the world. Film noir has long been considered...

Una seconda possibilità. Un paradiso tropicale. Un'amicizia che potrebbe costarle tutto. Quando la vita di Samantha va in pezzi, il messaggio inaspettato di una vecchia amica le offre una via d'uscita. E un biglietto per il paradiso. Catapultata in un mondo di spiagge bianche, cocktail e perfezione costruita nei minimi dettagli, Samantha comincia a credere di potersi finalmente lasciare il passato alle spalle. Ma niente è come sembra. Dietro i sorrisi patinati e l'oceano scintillante, i vecchi segreti aspettano il loro momento. E più Samantha si avvicina alla sua nuova vita, più una ...

These are stories of people getting in touch with their sexual selves by embracing adventure throughout Europe. Rebecca had always played by the rules. She was the perfect daughter and the perfect student, but after her heart was broken and humiliated she wondered what the point of it all was. Everyone else was having fun, while she was left behind. She ends up traveling to Italy in the hope of shedding her virtuous image, vowing to do whatever she wanted no matter how naughty it is. That’s when she meets Paolo, who tells her he knows a group of men who would worship her like never before...

Nulla è come sembra, in questa avvincente versione audiolibro di "Se morisse mio marito", uno dei romanzi gialli più riusciti, della celebre Agatha Christie. E pure l'illustrissimo, intelligentissimo e insuperabile Hercule Poirot s'inganna, facendosi ammaliare prima dalle parole della bellissima Jane Wilkinson, e dall'interpretazione migliore della sua carriera, e poi dal candore della giovane Geraldine, e dall'avidità dell'affascinante Carlotta Adams.

Mi ha chiamata «Temporary» il mio primo giorno in casa sua — come se fossi un bagaglio che qualcuno si era dimenticato di venire a riprendere. Dopo la morte dei miei genitori, vengo mandata a Rosewood Drive a vivere con mia zia e mio zio, in un quartiere che sembra costruito apposta per nascondere segreti dietro prati perfetti. Zia Lisa cerca di farmi sentire desiderata. Zio Richard mantiene tutto sul piano della cortesia. Ma Gaten non finge. Si assicura che io capisca le regole: questa è casa sua, la sua vita, la sua famiglia — e io sono solo il problema che stanno gestendo finché ...

The men, mostly virgins, gather in the darkest corners online, drawn together by a common bond: self-hatred. They hate the way they look. They hate their disastrous sex lives. They hate alpha males. There is only one thing they hate more: women. Women are the root of all their problems. Women are inferior and deserve to be punished for rejecting them. Even before they first hear about her, Eva Santella, independent, beautiful, confident, represents everything they despise. So they get together online and feed on each other's rage and disappointment and frustration. And there, in their ...

Local weather reporter Suzanne Maretto craves nothing more than to transcend life at her suburban cable television news station and follow in the footsteps of her idol: Barbara Walters. When she concludes that her unglamorous husband is getting in the way of her dream of stardom, the solution seems obvious: Get rid of him. She seduces a 15-year-old admirer, Jimmy, and persuades him to do her dirty work. Mission accomplished, Suzanne takes to the airwaves in her new role as grieving widow, in search of a TV deal. If that means selling Jimmy down the river, she’s ready.

I was sent to find the leak. I found three men I can’t build a case on… because I’m in bed with all of them. Internal Affairs dropped me into an elite detective squad with one job: find which detective is working for the Moretti family. Get proof. Get out. The squad runs on loyalty, dark humor, and the kind of trust you don’t question. Three detectives run it—and every one of them is dirty: Marcus — the leader. Charm that opens every door. He pulls me in close—too close—and I let him, because closeness is intel… until it isn’t. Ray — the volatile one. Suspicious of me ...