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...

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...

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.

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

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 ...

Una scia di sangue attraversa Milano e il tempo, unendo epoche lontane in un unico enigma irrisolto. Gaia Virgili, profiler di talento all’Europol, torna a Milano, dove si è formata professionalmente, per indagare su un caso di pluriomicidio. Nel silenzio irreale del lockdown emergono i...

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...

Intrigo, mistero e fantasia in due universi paralleli: In quante realtà possiamo (non) esistere? La fine è un salto in un'altra linea temporale o un confine che si spezza davanti ai nostri occhi? Oturia, 1 novembre 2024. Due sentieri si biforcano nel bosco. Così inizia la storia di Paula che, come ogni anno da sette a questa parte, alloggia in una casa rurale con il marito e gli amici per omaggiare Valeria, scomparsa a Cadaqués in una notte d'estate del 2014. Ma per Paula quegli incontri diventano ogni volta più noiosi e decide di uscire a fare una passeggiata da sola, con la sfortuna ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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, ...

A kidnapped child and the burglary of a high-class apartment: Two crimes that seem to have no connection at all until Inspector Lojacono, known as “The Chinaman”, starts to investigate.

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 ...

Sul Lago di Como, la bellezza nasconde l’orrore. E i segreti di famiglia costano sangue. Edward Blake, ex detective di Scotland Yard, pensava di aver chiuso con il passato. Dopo il caso degli Uffizi e la morte di Laura, tutto ciò che desidera era la pace tra le colline toscane. Ma quando suo fratello Robert - che non vede da dieci anni, finito in galera per una rapina di gioielli - lo chiama dal Lago di Como, Edward non può dire di no. Un ultimo favore. Un’ultima possibilità di riconciliazione. Errore fatale. Robert è coinvolto in una rete di criminali, gioielli rubati e tradimenti ...

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 ...

Alba, Langhe. Matteo Serra, podcaster milanese, compra per caso delle vecchie audiocassette a un mercatino. Su una di esse scopre la voce di Isabella Masconi, ragazza che nel 1977 si dichiara prigioniera nella villa di famiglia, testimone di crimini mai denunciati. Ma Isabella Masconi risulta morta da anni. Quello che doveva essere un semplice episodio diventa un'ossessione. Esistono altre cassette, nascoste tra le colline.

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 ...