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Brand-new stories by: Fouad Laroui, Allal Bourqia, Abdelkader Benali, Mohamed Zouhair, Mohamed Achaari, Hanane Derkaoui, Fatiha Morchid, Mahi Binebine, Mohamed Nedali, Halima Zine El Abidine, My Seddik Rabbaj, Yassin Adnan, Karima Nadir, Taha Adnan, and Lahcen Bakour. From the introduction by Yassin Adnan: 'Despite their variety, these stories remain rooted on Moroccan soil—allowing the contributing authors to bring readers closer to the linguistic, cultural, religious, and ethnic reality of Marrakech, whether Arab, Amazigh, African, or Muslim, as well as its historic Mellah—the Jewish Quarter. 'Here is the capital of tourism, the city of joy and sadness, the city of simple living, the city linked to international capitals through daily flights, the city of the new European community, a winter resort for French retirees, and a refuge for immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa. Marrakech is also known for its sex tourism and a new generation of crimes. All of these aspects of the city are reflected in these stories, no matter how sordid. The authors haven’t written only stories, they have tried to write Marrakech as well. Together their stories present a comprehensive portrait of the city, its sadness, violence, tension, and darkness, without neglecting its joyful spirit.'

Yassin Adnan (Author), Elias Khalil (Narrator)

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Todo lo mejor

Una ciudad separada por un muro y unida por un sanguinario asesino. Dos investigadores que descubrirán que la crueldad no tiene límites. Una historia negra para iniciarse en el género Gellida. Viktor Lavrov es un joven talento perteneciente al KGB destinado en Berlín durante el periodo más crudo de la Guerra Fría. Pronto recibirá un delicado encargo que pondrá a prueba sus conocimientos en psicología criminalista y sus virtudes como agente de inteligencia. El caprichoso destino hará que su camino se cruce con el del inspector jefe de la Kriminalpolizei, Otto Bauer, empecinado en resolver las terribles muertes de cinco menores que parecen estar relacionadas entre sí, unos asesinatos que se niegan a reconocer desde las más altas instancias de la RDA. Con ocho novelas publicadas, César Pérez Gellida es ya un referente en la actualidad literaria de nuestro país. El vallisoletano regresa ahora con su relato más negro, una historia repleta de intriga, una explosión narrativa que mantiene los ingredientes que han atrapado a miles de lectores y que significa un paso adelante a nivel estilístico con respecto al resto de su obra. 'CÉSAR PÉREZ GELLIDA ES, SIN NINGUNA DUDA, EL MEJOR AUTOR DE NOVELA NEGRA DE ESPAÑA'. JUAN GÓMEZ-JURADO

César Pérez Gellida (Author), Patxi Freytez (Narrator)

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Skim Deep: A Nolan Novel

The first new Nolan novel in thirty-three years from one of the masters of the genre, Max Allan Collins, award-winning author of Road to Perdition. The onetime world-class thief Nolan-now happily gone straight with his own restaurant/nightclub-whisks his longtime lover Sherry off to Vegas for a trip to a wedding chapel and a honeymoon stay. But an eye-in-the-sky security cam at a casino spots Nolan, whose past catches up with him when he's thought to be casing the joint. An old "friend" sees Nolan as the perfect patsy for a scheme to heist the weekly skim haul, and when the former thief's young frequent accomplice, Jon-a musician in the casino's house band-finds the couple mysteriously, suspiciously missing, it's up to Nolan's Best Man to keep wedding bells from tolling a funeral march.

Max Allan Collins (Author), Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator)

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The Bastards of Pizzofalcone: A Bastards of Pizzofalcone Book

The “engrossing” sequel to The Crocodile kicks off an Italian crime fiction series by the author of the bestselling Commissario Ricciardi novels.—Publishers Weekly They’ve made a fresh start at the Pizzofalcone precinct of Naples. They fired every member of the investigative branch after they were found guilty of corruption. Now, there’s a group of detectives, a new commissario, and a new superintendent. The new cops immediately find themselves investigating a high-profile murder that has the whole town on edge. Heading the investigation is Inspector Lojacono, known as “the Chinaman,” a cop with a checkered past who is currently riding a reputation as a crack investigator after having captured a serial killer known as “The Crocodile.” Lojacono’s partner is Aragona, who wants to be known as “Serpico,” but the name doesn’t stick. Luigi Palma, a.k.a. “Gigi,” is the commissario, Francesco Romano, known as “Hulk,” is the slightly self-deluded lieutenant. Lojacono, Aragona, Palma, and Romano are joined by a cast of cops portrayed by bestselling author Maurizio de Giovanni with depth and intimate knowledge of the close-knit world of police investigators.De Giovanni’s award-winning and bestselling novels, all set in Naples, offer a brilliant vision of the criminal underworld and the lives of the cops in Europe’s most fabled, atmospheric, dangerous, and lustful city. “Colorful, fully drawn characters and several intriguing subplots help propel the plot to a satisfying resolution.”—Publishers Weekly “De Giovanni provides satisfyingly logical answers to every riddle . . . Despite the Neapolitan setting, the crew of mismatched cops may remind you of similar teams in Sweden, New York, or Hollywood. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.”—Kirkus Reviews

Maurizio De Giovanni (Author), Chris Kayser (Narrator)

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The Wake: an absolutely gripping psychological suspense

When Richard Asquith dies in a car crash, it sets in motion a series of events that threaten to destroy his family and those around him.Richard has left behind children who dislike him, women who are bitter, and a question lingering over the disappearance of his daughter many years ago. As the family gathers at his wake, secrets from the past come to light, and the tension starts to boil over. This gripping and suspenseful psychological thriller will appeal to fans of domestic noir and authors like C. L. Taylor, Claire McGowan, and B. A. Paris.

Vikki Patis (Author), Rosie Akerman (Narrator)

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Consummatum est (Versos, canciones y trocitos de carne 3)

Augusto sabe que todo tiene su final... Él mejor que nadie. El esperado desenlace de la trilogía «Versos, canciones y trocitos de carne». La pequeña localidad islandesa de Grindavik amanece con todos los miembros de una familia brutalmente asesinados. En uno de los países del mundo con menor tasa de homicidios por habitante, el comisario de la Brigada de Homicidios de Reikiavik, Ólafur Olafsson, se enfrenta al caso más escabroso que ha visto justo en el ocaso de su carrera profesional. Pero muy pronto todas las pistas empiezan a apuntar hacia un sofisticado asesino en serie, Augusto Ledesma, que durante varios años ha ido componiendo una siniestra poética de versos regados de sangre a lo largo y ancho de Europa. Ante tales evidencias, la INTERPOL decide poner al frente del caso al jefe de la Unidad de Búsqueda Internacional de Prófugos, Robert J. Michelson, que se rodeará de un grupo especial integrado por algunos «viejos conocidos» del asesino. En Consummatum est el lector asistirá al ansiado desenlace de una trilogía que ha robado el sueño a quienes leyeron Memento mori y continuaron recorriendo los laberintos de la mente criminal con Dies irae. El singular y novedoso estilo narrativo de Pérez Gellida promete no dejar indiferente a nadie en este magistral e imprevisible acto final. Reseñas: «Hay dos formas de hacer suspense: acometerlo a la perfección o ser distinto. Gellida es lo segundo, pero sin dejar en ningún momento de ser lo primero.» Ángeles López, La Razón «Novela negra cargada de muerte cuya breve vida ha sido luminosa. Publicada apenas hace unos días [...]. El suceso literario ya es inocultable.» El Mundo «La novela policiaca de moda.» ABC «Consummatum est, el cierre de lo que ya es, hoy por hoy, la más poderosa trilogía criminal de nuestras letras. [...] Todo el talento que ya percibimos y admiramos en las dos primeras entregas, aquí estalla de una forma apoteósica, rotunda, absoluta Ramón Palomar, Las Provincias «El autor nos sitúa al borde del precipicio literario, introduciendo un sinfín de giros inesperados que consiguen sorprender al lector y cerrar la trama a lo grande.» Revista Krítica «La historia que tiene en vilo a miles de lectores [...]. El fenómeno editorial más destacado en España en los últimos meses.» El Norte de Castilla «César Pérez Gellida demuestra que su ciudad también puede ser el escenario de una novela negra al estilo de los mejores títulos del género procedentes del norte de Europa. Su debut literario cuenta, además, con atractivos más allá de la historia que narra, como la banda sonora.» Culturatic.es «Pérez Gellida posee esa cualidad innata de todo buen estratega de saber cuándo hay que jugársela, y ahora saborea desde la trinchera editorial el éxito del que se sabe tenido en cuenta.» Diario Sur

César Pérez Gellida (Author), Pau Ferrer (Narrator)

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Until We Are Lost: A Novel

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl at the Border comes a haunting thriller about one woman’s journey into the painful truths threatening to destroy her. When Tara Peary’s twin sister Sophie goes missing, Tara dives into New York’s underbelly to find her. Sophie is the one person who’s ever truly understood her, and Tara knows her sister isn’t the only one who needs help. Tara is also on the run emotionally from her complicated childhood. Her memories are threatening to overwhelm her emotions and derail the hunt for Sophie. A psychotherapist keeps her afloat, but when Tara begins dating her therapist’s young tech-millionaire neighbor, she risks losing the only lifelines she has left. The more Tara uncovers about her sister’s disappearance and the dark side of the rich elite, the less certain of the truth she becomes. As Tara reaches the center of the mystery, spanning from her childhood home in Georgia to a Southern California beach, she has to decide whether the truth is a price she’s willing to pay.

Leslie Archer (Author), Sarah Naughton (Narrator)

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Pickard County Atlas: A Novel

'An atmospheric, slow-burning beauty of a book, rich with raw-edged lyricism and achingly real characters.' —Tana French, author of The Searcher Small-town secrets loom large in this spellbinding debut about the aftershocks of crime and trauma that shake a Nebraskan town. In a dusty town in Nebraska’s rugged sandhills, weary sheriff’s deputy Harley Jensen patrols the streets at night, on the lookout for something—anything—out of the ordinary. It’s July 1978, and the heat is making people ornery, restless. That and the Reddick family patriarch has decided, decades after authorities ended the search for his murdered boy’s body, to lay a headstone. Instead of bringing closure, this decision is the spark that threatens to set Pickard County ablaze. On a fateful night after the memorial service, Harley tails the youngest Reddick and town miscreant, Paul, through the abandoned farms and homes outside their run-down town. The pursuit puts Harley in the path of Pam Reddick, a restless young woman looking for escape, bent on cutting the ties of motherhood and marriage. Filled with desperate frustration, Pam is drawn to Harley’s dark history, not unlike that of her husband, Rick—a man raised in the wreckage of a brother’s violent death and a mother’s hardened fury. Unfolding over six tense days, Pickard County Atlas sets Harley and the Reddicks on a collision course—propelling them toward an incendiary moment that will either redeem or end them. Engrossing, darkly funny, and real, Chris Harding Thornton’s debut rings with authenticity and a nuanced sense of place even as it hums with menace, introducing an astonishing new voice in suspense. A Macmillan Audio production from MCD

Chris Harding Thornton (Author), James Fouhey (Narrator)

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Dies irae (Versos, canciones y trocitos de carne 2)

Después de Memento mori... ha llegado el día de la ira. Segunda entrega de la trepidante trilogía «Versos, canciones y trocitos de carne». La acción de este thriller implacable arranca en la peculiar ciudad italiana de Trieste, frontera entre dos mundos. Augusto Ledesma elige el que fuera hogar de James Joyce como primer escenario para continuar su siniestra obra, que alimenta del aliento de sus víctimas y de la humillación de sus perseguidores. Hasta allí se trasladará el inspector Ramiro Sancho en su frenética y obsesiva persecución de un asesino en serie que parece haber acentuado su voracidad. Entretanto, al otro lado de la frontera, el psicólogo criminalista y exagente del KGB Armando Lopategui, «Carapocha», recorrerá las calles de Belgrado junto a su hija y ahora discípula con el propósito de zanjar cuentas con un pasado despiadado del que no logra despojarse. En otra vuelta de tuerca, a través de fugaces viajes en el tiempo, descubriremos cómo se fraguó la relación entre Pílades y Orestes y asistiremos a su sorprendente desenlace. Tras el rotundo éxito de Memento mori, primera parte de la trilogía «Versos, canciones y trocitos de carne», César Pérez Gellida nos conduce de nuevo por los complejos laberintos que conforman la mente criminal desde los ojos de sus protagonistas, ya sean víctimas, asesinos en serie, genocidas o quienes les persiguen. El inesperado desarrollo de los acontecimientos obligará al lector a pasar páginas en una ineludible búsqueda de respuestas. Haciendo gala de un particular estilo cinematográfico aclamado por la crítica literaria, el autor nos envuelve en una trama adictiva, tejida a partir de un argumento sólido y pespunteado de poemas y canciones que componen una singular banda sonora del crimen. Reseñas: «Ahora surge una nueva generación de escritores donde destaca César Pérez Gellida. Él contribuye a esta deconstrucción de la novela negra que revitaliza el género huyendo de la ortodoxia.» Las Provincias «Una de las nuevas voces de la novela negra en España.» Levante «[Se sitúa] en un estimulante tête è tête con otros grandes de la novela negra.» Sur

César Pérez Gellida (Author), Pau Ferrer (Narrator)

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Beirut Noir

Featuring brand-new stories by: Rawi Hage, Muhammad Abi Samra, Leila Eid, Hala Kawtharani, Marie Tawk, Bana Baydoun, Hyam Yared, Najwa Barakat, Alawiyeh Sobh, Mazen Zahreddine, Abbas Beydoun, Bachir Hilal, Zena El Khalil, Mazen Maarouf, and Tarek Abi Samra. From the introduction by Iman Humaydan (translated by Michelle Hartman): “Beirut is a city of contradiction and paradox. It is an urban and rural city, one of violence and forgiveness, memory and forgetfulness. Beirut is a city of war and peace. This short story collection is a part of a vibrant, living recovery of Beirut. Beirut Noir recovers the city once again through writing, through the literary visions of its authors . . . “From within this collection of stories, a general attitude toward Beirut emerges: the city is viewed from a position of critique, doubt, disappointment, and despair. The stories here show the vast maze of the city that can’t be found in tourist brochures or nostalgic depictions of Beirut that are completely out of touch with reality. Perhaps this goes without saying in a collection of stories titled Beirut Noir. But the ‘noir’ label here should be viewed from multiple angles, and it takes on many different forms in the stories. No doubt this is because it is imbricated in the distinct moments that Beirut has lived through and how they are depicted in the stories.”

Imam Humaydan (Author), Elias Khalil (Narrator)

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Captain Clive's Dreamworld

After becoming the suspect in the murder of a young prostitute, Deputy Sam Hardy is "vanished" to a temporary post as the sole police officer in Angels and Hope, an idyllic town located in the middle of the desert, miles from any other sign of life. Hardy soon learns that Angels and Hope was constructed as a company town to support a magnificent amusement park-one to rival Disneyland-known as Captain Clive's Dreamworld. When he arrives, however, Hardy notices some strange happenings. The park is essentially empty of customers. None of the townsfolk ever seem to sleep. And girls seem to be going missing with no plausible explanation. As Hardy begins investigating, his own past is drawn into question by the people in town, and he finds himself becoming more and more isolated. Soon his phone line mysteriously goes dead. His car's tires get slashed. And he is being watched constantly by neighbors. The truth-about the town and himself-will lead him to understand that there's no such thing as a clean escape. Straddling the line between genre fiction and something more bizarre, Captain Clive's Dreamworld is a terrifying vision of the collapse of the American mythos.

Jon Bassoff (Author), Richard Smalls (Narrator)

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Accra Noir

Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Brand-new stories by: Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond, Kwame Dawes, Adjoa Twum, Kofi Blankson Ocansey, Billie McTernan, Ernest Kwame Nkrumah Addo, Patrick Smith, Anne Sackey, Gbontwi Anyetei, Nana-Ama Danquah, Ayesha Harruna Attah, Eibhlín Ní Chléirigh, and Anna Bossman. From the introduction by Nana-Ama Danquah: Accra is one of the most well-known cities on the African continent. It's the capital of Ghana, which in 1957 became the first sub-Saharan (read: black) nation to gain its independence from colonialism. But the city, in all its globalism, predates the nation. Prior to becoming a sovereign land, the area now known as Ghana was the Gold Coast colony. In 1877, when the British took possession of the colony, Accra was installed as its capital. For nearly a century, in addition to being a political and financial center, the city was a major trade hub. People came from Europe and other African nations to trade everything from gold and salt to guns and slaves... One thing that people, too easily seduced by the city's charm and history and beauty, forget about Accra is that it is a major metropolis. Accra is New York; it is Los Angeles; it is Shanghai, Mexico City, Santiago, Caracas, and Cape Town. It is an urban area, with poverty, desperation, and the inevitable result of a marriage between the two: crime... The stories that you will read in this collection highlight all things Accra, everything that the city was and is--the remaining vestiges of colonialism, the pride of independence, the nexus of indigenous tribes and other groups from all over the world, the tension between modernity and traditionalism, the symbolism and storytelling both obvious and coded, the moral high ground, the duplicity and deceit, the most basic human failings laid bare alongside fear and love and pain and the corrupting desire to have the very things you are not meant to have

Nana-Ama Danquah (Author), Anniwaa Buachie, Kofi Boakye, Kofi Boayki, Nana-Ama Danquah (Narrator)

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