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      • Trusted Partner
        Fiction
        October 2017

        Lovers of Justice

        by Yurii Andrukhovych

        "Lovers of Justice" is a paranormal novel in which several biographies are combined into an artistic whole using the author's signature compositional and stylistic skills. They cry out to become an eight-and-a-half-episode TV saga. Family and political murders, rapes and robberies, depravity of minors and the mysterious separation of the head, ideological betrayals and betrayals for the sake of an idea, are assigned to various devils of the soul and are not always fair, but often terrible punishments. What else is needed for the reader to feel good and realize with pleasure his moral superiority over the unfortunate lovers of capricious Justice?

      • Trusted Partner
        Fiction
        October 2018

        Chio-Chio-San, Your Gaze

        by Andrii Liubka

        A drunk judge kills a young woman in a car accident and escapes punishment without much effort. But the woman's husband is not one of those who can be bribed to stay silent or intimidated into oblivion. He would rather lose everything but find out the name of the culprit. A psychological thriller about Ukraine before the war, where bribes measured the value of human life, and murderers stood in the front rows at church services. But why is Puccini able to burn the souls of both antagonists with the look of Madame Butterfly? And is the division between good and evil so clear-cut in this novel? The reader will not find the answer to the last question until the end.

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        Thriller / suspense
        2022

        Porcelain Doll

        by Natalia Chajkovska

        Martha's husband was found dead. Friends express their condolencess to her, but Martha finally feels free. It all started 5 years ago. Martha was going through a difficult period after her mother's death. So, when she met the man who proposed to her, she did not hesitate, believing that a new start will help to overcome her loss. But soon something strange began to happen. Martha's life turned into hell. And, it seemed, there was only one way out of this hell ...

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        Crime & mystery
        2021

        The principle of intervention

        by Horikha Zernia

        The "principle of intervention" is a detective story, a drama, a comedy, and a funny, touching story. It tells us about Stanislava, whose only support is work. The pure cold reason, logic, and mathematics. It is her safe space, the world where she sets her own game rules and feels safe. Suddenly she gets an offer she can't reject, but she can't accept it because it is strange, illogical, and dangerous. And yet, the associate professor of the department of higher and applied mathematics becomes a cook. She spent seven days in the city of her childhood, from which she once flew out in a traffic jam and vowed never to return. At least this week's task is to infiltrate the wedding and ensure that the bride is alive, to find and punish the murderer.

      • Trusted Partner
        Fiction

        La hermandad de la Casa Grande (The brotherhood of the Big House)

        Una novela negra sobre el juicio del Estado a los brujos de Chiloé (A detective novel about the state's trial of the witches of Chiloé)

        by Eduardo Pérez Arroyo

        It's 1879. To the north, Chile defends foreign investment in the Pacific War. To the south, beyond the already invaded Araucania, from a large, almost unexplored island, rumors of violence, superstition and a state incapable of enforcing its law spread. The elite would be at ease if some “elements” that are not occupied at the border with Peru penetrated Chiloé. They need evidence to condemn those criminals who terrorize the population with old indigenous beliefs. They call themselves witches. They are organized as La Recta Provincia or La Hermandad de la Casa Grande. They lie to scare and change the names of the cities on the island –Achao, Dalcahue or Quicaví–, confusing them with others: Buenos Aires, Villarrica, Salamanca. If they were only myths, it would be enough for the government to forget that secret place. But the one who calls himself the Greatest Liar in the World claims to have escaped the sorcerers and travels the north glimpsing the aliens: he talks to them of malice, monsters and murders; of the bloody clans' struggles to become a decaying reign. For these lies, or to secure an unstable national pride, coronels and tenants decide to put an end to things that a mortal has no power to finish.

      • Thriller / suspense

        Nobody's baby

        by Penny Kline

      • Fiction
        January 2009

        Sherlock Holmes and the Morphine Gambit

        by Jason Cooke

        It is February, 1912 and Sherlock Holmes is called out of retirement by brother Mycroft, acting on behalf of the British Government, to investigate a break-in at the Norfolk home of a wealthy German financier. Holmes is soon at work dismantling a German spy ring, but the investigation becomes clouded by his suspicions concerning Mycroft’s pivotal role in events.   What agenda is Mycroft pursuing? What is the truth behind the loss of the fishing vessels the Misty Jane and the Yarmouth Adventuress in the North Sea? And why is the Royal Navy seemingly operating incognito along the Norfolk coast? Before long a number of disparate events crystallise to reveal a dangerous conspiracy.   As the story unfolds against the background of an International Opium Conference, Holmes and Watson find themselves embroiled in espionage and arms smuggling in the tense period leading up to the First World War.

      • Fiction
        October 2013

        Dixon Grace

        1.9.7 Hamburg

        by Alexa Camouro

        Dixon's European sojourn goes awry when she's arrested for corporate espionage. She's just an innocent Australian teacher working abroad. Or is she? For Dixon, it's a matter of wrong place, wrong time. The investigating officers are convinced she's stolen the navigation and guidance technology from the plane manufacturer Flussair, and that she's behind the murder of a top-ranking executive. All the evidence points to her, but she insists it's all a misunderstanding. She breaks out of custody in order to prove her innocence. But there are sinister elements at every turn, including a rising Indian corporation called Nayakall, a people-smuggling prostitution ring in Hamburg, a language school up to no good and a boyfriend with a dark secret. Who can Dixon trust? Will she get out of Hamburg alive?

      • Fiction
        March 2020

        Perdition's Child

        by Anne Coates

        Dulwich library is the scene of a baffling murder, followed swiftly by another in Manchester, the victims linked by nothing other than their Australian nationality. Police dismiss the idea of a serial killer, but journalist Hannah Weybridge isn't convinced. She is drawn into an investigation in which more Australian men are killed as they try to trace their British families. Her research reveals past horrors and present sadness, and loss linked to children who went missing after the Second World War. Have those children returned now? Once again Hannah finds herself embroiled in a deadly mystery, a mystery complicated by the murder of Harry Peters; the brother of Lucy, one of the residents of Cardboard City she had become friendly with. It soon becomes clear Lucy is protecting secrets of her own. What is Lucy's link to the murders and can Hannah discover the truth before the killer strikes again? Anne Coates gripping thriller is the perfect read for fans of Emma Tallon, K.L.Slater and Laura Marshall.

      • Fiction
        July 2019

        The Painter

        by Deirdre Quiery

        In a desire to impress the people who visit his workshop, renowned artist The Painter, employs a gardener to create an inspirational landscape which includes a labyrinth, an orange grove and Moorish-inspired fountains. They develop an intimate relationship and the Painter, whose life and talent had become increasingly dissipated, finds himself slowly recovering his original innocence and talent. However, the relationship is tainted by the Painter's jealousy when visitors express more interest in the magical garden and mysterious labyrinth than in the Painter's art. That jealously blossoms into deadly rage when The Painter catches the gardener changing one of his paintings.... Deirdre Quiery's compelling new thriller explores themes of love, life and deceit, and examines the lengths we will go to pursue and protect our passions.

      • Fiction
        July 2019

        From the Outside

        by Clare Johnston

        When internet millionaire and philanthropist Harry Melville dies in a car crash at the age of forty four, the lives of his wife, Sarah, and twin brother, Ben, are thrown into turmoil.   Harry seemed to have it all; a close-knit family and a happy marriage - along with all the trappings of wealth. Yet as he recalls his past from the afterlife, a story emerges of the unspoken and bitter jealousies between brothers and of an unhappy wife burdened by loneliness and guilt. When Ben takes over the running of Harry's charity foundation he begins to find purpose for the first time in years. But the arrival of a talented young artist brings a series of revelations that expose Harry's complex and dual personality in full. As he learns his part in the suffering of those he left behind, is it too late for Harry to make amends? A tale of regret and redemption in this world and the next. From the Outside looks at the futile rivalries that can destroy sibling relationships and the lost opportunity for happiness when ego is allowed to reign over emotion.

      • Fiction

        Nel corridoio della notte

        by Salvatore Napoli

        Ancestral fears belong to the essence of mankind. Never as in these five horror stories, the human soul is helplessly subjected to that touch of evil that lives in every person. Five stories, some as short as they are instantaneous in reaching the reader's emotions, others more structured and articulated, able to keep the reader’s pathos and pressure always high. Salvatore Napoli’s second book marks the pace of everyday life, the ordinary one, enriching it with the unknown “around the corner”, which can transform a person's life into a fatal destiny. Preface by horror movies director Ivan Zuccon. ---  Le paure ancestrali appartengono all'essenza dell'individuo.Mai come in questi cinque racconti horror, l'animo umano subisce inerme quel tocco del malvagio insito in ogni persona.Ma la via della redenzione è sempre dietro l'angolo, così come quella della dannazione eterna.Cinque racconti, alcuni brevissimi quanto istantanei nel raggiungere l'emotività del lettore, altri più strutturati e articolati, in grado di mantenere il pathos e l'attenzione sempre vigili.Salvatore Napoli, alla sua seconda pubblicazione, scandisce i tempi della quotidianità, quella ordinaria, arricchendola con l'incognita dietro l'angolo, che può trasformare la vita di una persona in modo “fatale".Ma al contempo, sa indirizzare le sue storie nella direzione del cyber horror, accarezzando la psiche con gli artigli dell'ignoto, come note letali suonate magistralmente sulla tastiera di un pianoforte, ultimo atto delconcerto più bello, prima di sferrare il colpo di grazia.Echi dal passato rimbombano Nel corridoio della notte, dove tutto può succedere, e l'Autore lo fa “con la medesima crudezza, e con l’ambizione di evocare la poesia della morte" (cit. Ivan Zuccon).Edito Horti di Giano (giugno 2019).Prefazione del regista horror Ivan ZucconIllustrazioni ArsFIGULINA di Chiara ColaiacomoContiene i racconti:- Di sopra non abita nessuno- Marcellone- Pianobar-bot- Braccata- Regionale 9053

      • Fiction
        October 2019

        Sealed With A Death

        by James Silvester

        The vaunted Red Mako, the new symbol of Brexit Britain, is about to launch to a fanfare of political grandeur, but not all are convinced it was worth the price. Barely escaping a botched mission with her life, Lucie Musilova is assigned a low profile case to regain her superior's trust. All across the country, women have been disappearing who each have something in common: all are European nationals, and all have been ignored by a disinterested media and a politically restrained police force cut to the bones. When a body is discovered and the case grows ever more personal, Lucie finds herself entwined in the seedy worlds of international defence contracts and government sanctioned prostitution as she fights corruption and far right violence to uncover the truth. But with her mentor injured and assassins on her tail, Lucie must use all her wits to avoid becoming the final seal in a deal for the country s very soul.

      • Fiction

        The Guard

        by Peyman Esmaili

        A thrilling novel; a modern narrative of a Persian myth   Siamak has lost his parents in a car accident many years ago. This incident and the harm it has inflicted on him change his whole future. Years later, he is an engineer working in southern Iran and is in love with Roshanak. She’s fallen for him too. However, his past always casts a shadow over him making him unable to cope with his destiny. He’s always on the run; from the accident and its perpetual wound, and the weird occurrence he faces in the south leading to a mysterious crime. Siamak moves to Kordestan to get away from it all forever, but instead, he gets stuck in a frozen desert full of abandoned houses and horrifying sounds. As he is passing through the desert, he realizes that he is not alone and is surrounded by shadows closing in on him: Sard-Khabs who are neither human nor animal, but something in between and even more terrifying; ghosts following him from the south to the frozen desert in Kordestan to take revenge. They govern this hell-like nature. There’s also a bizarre father and son with an even more bizarre history. In this most remote part of the world, Siamak remembers his past. He recalls the happenings and people from his past, which complete the puzzle of his adventurous life. It is concerning other inhabitants of this haunted world that he is to make a risky decision; a decision that carries the trace of his last memory of his father and that incident.

      • Fiction
        February 2018

        Eye of the Moon

        by Ivan Obolensky

        Built upon the fabric of the author’s background as a member of the 1%, yet woven from whole cloth, Eye of the Moon is an enchanting web of multigenerational intrigue, secret love affairs, sumptuous black- and white-tie dinner parties, potential murders, Egyptian occultism, vicious curses, unexpected magic, and secrets that break, or reshape, lives. It is peopled by characters like Russian dolls, with shocking elements revealed in layers over the five-day house party in Rhinebeck. Though the opening chapters are perhaps benign, readers and reviewers alike rave that they become ensnared in the story and can’t put the novel down, even if it means they burn their dinner or stay up to 4 am. Percy, the narrator, begins as someone raised on the fringes of the elite, quasi-abandoned by his traveling parents. He is abruptly reunited with his pseudo-brother and pulled into his hijinks. They stumble upon the dark story of Johnny's Aunt Alice, the legendary socialite who had died mysteriously twenty years earlier. Her letters and journals bring a more sinister world to the light and the two men dive headlong into the shadows. This inadvertently involves everyone at the estate, including the butler, Stanley, who was the only confidante of Alice with hidden knowledge of what happened behind closed doors before her death. She still lives in the places lit with magic, her narrative woven tightly with Percy’s. What will be the cost of revealing the truth? Where does Percy ultimately belong?

      • Fiction

        2 A.M.

        by Chandra Bientang

        Three homeless youths are found dead, hanged on the edge of a flyover in Jatinegara, East Jakarta. Then another body is discovered – this time with a utility pole wire tied around his neck. The police starts an investigation, albeit reluctantly.  They have the same thought: They’re just homeless kids. Good riddance! It’s as if someone is determined to clean up the streets of Jakarta in order to reduce the city’s many complicated problems. But do those kids really deserve to die? Even if they did, is this the right way to get rid of them? And who’s the psychopath behind this madness?

      • Fiction
        March 2021

        The Takers and Keepers

        by Ivan Pope

        Where do the disappeared go? The girls and women who vanish, sometimes never to resurface. Allen Kimbo, a freelance journalist, thinks there is a circle of keepers – men who guard their taken. An email invites Allen to Belgrade, to a meeting of the Takers and Keepers. Allen’s girlfriend Emily pleads with him not to go, but he believes he can uncover more about this network. In Belgrade, Allen sees more than he had thought possible. However, back at home Emily is missing. 60,000 words

      • Fiction
        September 2020

        Into the Unbounded Night

        by Mitchell James Kaplan

        "Truly a major novel" -- Stephanie Cowell, American Book Award recipient, author of Claude And Camille: A Novel Of Monet INTO THE UNBOUNDED NIGHT, the epic-yet-intimate literary historical thriller from award-winning author Mitchell James Kaplan, follows the lives of five troubled individuals as they struggle for survival and purpose in the first century Roman empire: Aislin, a refugee in Rome, seeks revenge for the destruction of her village in Britannia. Other important characters, who affect her destiny, include the ambitious general Vespasian, Saul of Tarsus (St. Paul), the rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai, and Azazel, a doomed angel.  Throughout INTO THE UNBOUNDED NIGHT, these characters' lives intertwine in unexpected ways that shed light on colonization and its discontents, the relative values of dominant and tyrannized cultures, the sense of imminent apocalypse, and the holiness of life.If you love "Circe" and "All the Light We Cannot See," don't miss INTO THE UNBOUNDED NIGHT.youtube.com/watch?v=46vAsihWK60

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