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Einen fremden kleinen Jungen im Arm, hockt Martin Pavel im Glasgower Regen auf der Bordsteinkante. Beide stehen unter Schock und hören kaum die Sirenen – doch im Gegensatz zum Großvater des Jungen leben sie noch. Es ist das Ende eines brutalen Raubüberfalls. Detective Sergeant Alex Morrow und ihrem Partner DC Harris stellen sich etliche Fragen: Wer ist der maskierte Mann, der die Kunden der Postfiliale mit einer AK 47 bedroht hat? Warum ist der Großvater des Jungen plötzlich aufgestanden und hat dem Täter assistiert – nur um anschließend von ihm erschossen zu werden? Wer vertraut einem völlig Fremden seinen Enkel an und stürzt sich dann in ein Selbstmordkommando? Morrow und Harris suchen die Drahtzieher in einem harten Fall, der sich durch ganz Glasgow zieht.

Denise Mina reimagines Raymond Chandler's famed and troubled detective Philip Marlowe in this gritty thriller set in 1950s Los Angeles This is Marlowe. Mr. Philip Marlowe? She asked. I glanced at the clock. It was exactly eleven am, as if she had been waiting by the phone for an appointed hour, following someone else's orders to the letter. What, d'you think we're a troupe of brothers? There is only me. It's mid-September, a heatwave has descended on the parched hills of LA and Private Detective Philip Marlowe is called to the Montgomery estate, an almost mythic place sitting high on top of Beverly Hills. Wealthy twenty-two-year-old Chrissie Montgomery, set to inherit an enormous fortune, is missing. She's a walking target, ripe for someone to get their claws into. Her dying father, along with his sultry bottle blonde girlfriend, wants her found before that happens. They've hired Anna Riorden, Marlowe's nemesis, too. The search takes them to the roughest neighbourhoods of LA through dive bars and Skid Row. And that's before he finds the body at The Brody Hotel. Who will get to her first, Marlowe, Anne, or the men chasing her fortune? And does she want to be found? Discover the rest of the inimitable Philip Marlowe series - nine classic Chandler adventures, from The Big Sleep to The Long Goodbye, available now in paperback and eBook from Penguin Books.

Girolamo Savonarola was a Dominican friar, whose helfire and damnation sermons pushed the city of Florence to its breaking point. In Three Fires, Denise Mina brings a modern take to this fascinating historical story - drawing parallels between the febrile atmosphere of medieval Florence and the culture wars of the present day.

It's mid-September, a heatwave has descended on the parched hills of LA and Private Detective Philip Marlowe is called to the Montgomery estate, an almost mythic place sitting high on top of Beverly Hills. Wealthy twenty-two-year-old Chrissie Montgomery, set to inherit an enormous fortune, is missing. She's a walking target, ripe for someone to get their claws into. Her dying father, along with his sultry bottle blonde girlfriend, wants her found before that happens. They've hired Anna Riorden, Marlowe's nemesis, too. The search takes them to the roughest neighbourhoods of LA through dive bars and Skid Row. And that's before he finds the body at The Brody Hotel. Who will get to her first, Marlowe, Anne, or the men chasing her fortune? And does she want to be found?[Bokinfo].

Viele von uns laufen vor irgendetwas weg. Anna McDonald kann ein Lied davon singen. Auch jetzt flüchtet sie Hals über Kopf aus dem Familienurlaub, den sie selbst angezettelt hat. Und macht sich auf die Suche nach einer verschollenen YouTuberin, Lisa Lee. Die scheint beim Stöbern in einem Château über ein religiöses Artefakt gestolpert zu sein, das mit einer bösen Vorgeschichte daherkommt. Wie böse, das wird sich bald zeigen … Ein furioser neuer Roman der schottischen Noir-Meisterin, ein rasanter Roadtrip mit den tollen Figuren aus »Klare Sache« (Deutscher Krimipreis international).

Auf höchst kluge Weise schildert Denise Mina die Dynamik des Begehrens und der Politik der Macht - zwischen Männern und Frauen, Monarch und Untertanen, Herr und Dienern. Nur skizzenhaft angedeutet, aber historisch genau recherchiert, ist diese Schilderung auf den Punkt, scharfsinnig und absolut überzeugend. Edinburgh, am Abend des 9. März 1566. Maria Stuart, Königin von Schottland, ist im sechsten Monat schwanger und gibt in ihren privaten Gemächern ein Abendessen. Doch in der Stadt brodelt es. Sie ahnt nicht, dass ihr Palast umstellt ist, dass in diesem Moment ein Trupp von Männern die Treppen hinaufschleicht. Ihr Ziel: die Ermordung von David Rizzio, Marias attraktivem Privatsekretär und Freund, der ihr lächelnd gegenübersitzt. Marias Ehemann Lord Darnley will, dass die grausame Tat vor ihren Augen stattfindet ...

"The first book of "a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas in this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, in one woman's determined quest to seize a final chance at glory--and write her own legend ... Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean's most notorious pirates, she's survived backstabbing rogues, vengeful merchant princes, several husbands, and one actual demon to retire peacefully with her family to a life of piety, motherhood, and absolutely nothing that hints of the supernatural. But when she's tracked down by the obscenely wealthy mother of a former crewman, she's offered a job no bandit could refuse: retrieve her comrade's kidnapped daughter for a kingly sum. The chance to have one last adventure with her crew, do right by an old friend, and win a fortune that will secure her family's future forever? It seems like such an obvious choice that it must be God's will. Yet the deeper Amina dives, the more it becomes alarmingly clear there's more to this job, and the girl's disappearance, than she was led to believe. For there's always risk in wanting to become a legend, to seize one last chance at glory, to savor just a bit more power ... and the price might be your very soul"-- Provided by publisher

*FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR* 'Such a delight- playful, fast-paced, and entirely compulsive' Ann Cleeves 'Denise Mina is crime writing royalty' Val McDermid 'Denise Mina is the cream of the crop, an author who pushes the crime novel in new and exciting directions' Ian Rankin ____________________________ When filmmaker, Lisa Lee, goes missing alongside a priceless Roman silver casket, there is no doubt the two are linked together. The day after her vanishing, the casket is listed for auction in Paris with a reserve price of fifty million euros. On a thrilling chase across Europe to discover what happened to Lisa, journalists Anna and Fin are caught up in a world of international art smuggling, billionaire con artists and religious zealotry. Deception. Theft. Murder. All you need is confidence.

From the multi-award-winning Denise Mina comes a radical new take on one of the darkest episodes in Scottish history - the bloody assassination of David Rizzio in Mary, Queen of Scots' chambers in Holyrood Palace.

When Margo goes in search of her birth mother for the first time, she meets her aunt, Nikki, instead. Margo learns that her mother, Susan, was a sex worker murdered soon after Margo's adoption. To this day, Susan's killer has never been found. Nikki asks Margo for help. She has received threatening and haunting letters from the murderer, for decades. She is determined to find him, but she can't do it alone...