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THE FIRST AUDIOBOOK IN THE BRIDGE SERIES San Francisco in the nearish future. Ex-cop Berry Rydell's lost one job he didn't much like and landed another he likes even less. Some sunglasses - actually high-end kit infused with super-sensitive data - were stolen from a courier, and a man named...

Il corpo massacrato di un poliziotto è ritrovato alle porte della capitale norvegese, sulla scena di un crimine rimasto irrisolto e su cui lui stesso aveva indagato. Qualche tempo dopo viene scoperto il cadavere di un suo collega: stesse modalità di esecuzione, stesse coincidenze. A questo punto non può essere un caso, ed è chiaro a tutti che l'assassino ha appena cominciato. Fermarlo è un lavoro per Harry Hole. Ma di Harry Hole non c'è traccia. Nesbø utilizza tutti gli ingredienti chiave di un thriller mozzafiato con saggezza e vivacità. Smettete di diffidare, immergetevi e godetevi la corsa.

When the past comes for blood, you either draw first or die trying. Tom Callahan was once the government's deadliest secret—a lethal gun-for-hire leading a team of assassins no one knew existed. Now those days are long gone. Or so he thought. Now an aging cowboy trying to keep his ranch alive, Callahan wants nothing more than peace… and a sliver of forgiveness. But when word reaches him that his wife and son—long believed dead—may still be alive, that peace turns to dust.

A man asks for help. A fire ends a life. A twisting mystery unfolds in a small Devon town… 'Crime fiction at its very best, a knotty mystery' Elly Griffiths 'Terrific … Perhaps his best yet' Ann Cleeves A SCORCHING SUMMER Down in the seaside town of Teignmouth, ex-Met detective Eden Driscoll...

Henry, a brilliant but reclusive engineer, has achieved the crowning discovery of his career: he's created an artificially intelligent consciousness. He names the half-formed robot William. But there's something strange about William. It's not that his skin feels like balloon rubber and is the colour of curdled milk, nor is it his thick gurgling laugh or the way his tongue curls towards his crooked top teeth. It is the way he looks at Henry's wife, Lily. Henry created William but he is starting to lose control of him. 

Aurora is a small town nestled in the ancient forest alongside the shores of Minnesota’s Iron Lake. In the summer of 1963, it is the whole world to 12-year-old Cork O’Connor, its rhythms as familiar as his own heartbeat. But when Cork stumbles upon the body of a man he revered hanging from a tree in an abandoned logging camp, it is the first in a series of events that will cause him to question everything he took for granted about his hometown, his family, and himself. 

Le prime vittime sono due donne. Ritrovate con ventiquattro ferite identiche in bocca. Morte soffocate nel loro sangue, dopo una agonia atroce. Omicidi studiati, efferati, che seguono un rituale. La polizia criminale di Oslo sa di avere un solo uomo che può risolvere il caso. Harry Hole, alcolista, uomo rude e solitario, inviso a molti. Ma Hole si è rintanato a Hong Kong, tra le fumerie d'oppio, per lavare via i ricordi.Sa fin troppo bene che, per risolvere l'ultimo caso, ha messo in pericolo di vita l'unica donna che ha mai davvero amato.

Una notte, dopo la prima neve dell'anno, il piccolo Jonas si sveglia e scopre che sua madre è sparita. La sciarpa rosa che lui le aveva regalato per Natale è avvolta al collo del pupazzo di neve che, inspiegabilmente, quel giorno è apparso nel loro giardino. Ma quando anche una seconda donna scompare nei dintorni di Oslo, i peggiori presentimenti dell'ispettore Harry Hole sembrano prendere davvero corpo. È evidente che si trova a fronteggiare un serial killer per la prima volta in Norvegia.

Sono passati tre anni da quando Harry Hole è andato via. Via da Oslo, via dalla polizia, via dalla donna che amava. Ma ora ha un valido motivo per tornare: Oleg, il ragazzo che ha cresciuto come un figlio, è in carcere, con l'accusa di aver ucciso il suo migliore amico. Secondo gli investigatori è un regolamento di conti nel mondo della droga, ma Hole non ci crede. E per dimostrare l'innocenza del ragazzo deve lottare contro il tempo, in cerca di una verità diversa da quella già decretata.

A French diplomat is walking alone down a darkened Paris side street when a killer emerges from the shadows. He stuns the Frenchman, cuts his body into quarters, and leaves a note that reads: "This is for Brazil!" It is the ninth murder in this fashion in the last two months—a string of round-the-world killings that strikes fear into the hearts of all those connected with the bloody Brazilian wars of the past decade.

Gory, sticky, creepy, with a dry humor, Maniac is an invitation into the 80's New York madness, which follows a disreputable man, Frank Zito... that we challenge you to meet!

Intrepid hero Cork O'Connor faces the most harrowing mission of his life when a charter plane carrying his wife, Jo, goes missing in a snowstorm over the Wyoming Rockies. Months after the tragedy, two women show up on Cork's doorstep with evidence that the pilot of Jo's plane was not the man he claimed to be. It may not be definitive proof, but it's a ray of light in the darkness.  

Edward Royle is the head of a well-known chemical manufacturer in England, which he has inherited. He is engaged to the daughter of his father’s former partner, Phrida Shand, who lives with her mother. One night he is asked by his friend, Sir Digby Kemsley - a very famous railroad engineer, to come to his flat to discuss something although Kemsley is quite mysterious on the telephone. Royle visits, then returns home only to be summoned again by Kemsley, this time imploring him to return at once. Royle finds a gentleman in Kemsley’s place who is clearly not Kemsley, or is he?

Vicestatsadvokaten, den velansete Andy Barber, som bor i Newton, Massachusetts, med sin kone, Laurie og deres 14-årige søn Jacob, bliver stillet over for sit livs mareridt, da den 14-årige Ben Rifken findes brutalt myrdet i byens park. Andy er overbevist om, at en lokal børnemishandler er den skyldige, men da internetanklager og uomstødelige beviser peger i retning af Andys egen søn, Jacob, tager sagen en uventet drejning.

An ominous gunslinger teams up with two contemptible criminals to try and achieve financial freedom. The three go all over the US to fight and run against gangs, the law, the military, even crazed bounty hunters. The US is recovering from the wars with the South American and other European powers. While the Union are preoccupied with storing wealth to all parts of the country, Glenn, Jane and Beck will have their sights on the Government’s resources. In the Southwest, the rules and standards tend to vary wildly depending on the small towns the three land on.

Cold War Marseille is a city of shadowy alliances and loose morals, where a good man can lose sight of which side he is really on and evil men profit from the misery and confusion of others. It is therefore the perfect town for Ernst Ludwig, an East German terrorist who is sadistic beyond measure. But when Ludwig kidnaps and murders the wife of Alex Moran, the US intelligence agent hot on his trail, he sets off a blood feud whose violent shock waves will span decades and reach all the way across the globe.

Dragged from the dank, rat-infested prison cell where he has spent the past few months, Buonaparte Sartene is given a choice: join the French Resistance or rot in jail for the next seven years. The adopted son of a Corsican Mafia family, Sartene is a thief with a capacity for violence and a knack for subterfuge - valuable tools in the fight against the Nazis.

Nothing covers up a big secret faster than a fresh grave. Someone with a scalpel and embalming table is planting bodies under other people’s names. Pete Talbott, a harried Boston computer wonk, is still grieving over the death of his wife, when he finds himself at the wrong end of Gino Parini’s .45 reading his own obituary torn from the morning newspaper. Talbott figures it’s all a big mistake, until Parini shows him his wife’s obituary too; and that’s a mystery that Pete Talbott can’t leave well-enough alone.

A lifetime ago, brutally efficient fixer Phil Kubiak coldly cleaned up the messes of shady clients from Miami to Las Vegas by any means necessary - short of murder. Now he's one eye and one working leg short of the man he used to be, scarred beyond recognition, and with the feds and criminal organizations in hot pursuit. Throwing back sour beer in a dingy bar, Phil recounts the long story of his bitter life to the only person left to listen.

J.D. Scrbacek has just won the biggest trial of his career, but even as he crows to the press, his entire life blows sky-high. Was the bomb meant for him, or for his mobster client? In this seaside casino town where the tables run hot and the tensions run high, the odds say the attorney is a marked man. Alone and on the run, Scrbacek flees into the city's forgotten underbelly, a ruined corridor called Crapstown, where he is forced to confront the ghosts of his past, his present, and his future.