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Memphis brucia sotto il peso di segreti, soldi sporchi e sparizioni impossibili: una donna cerca verità, un detective insegue il suo ultimo caso, e il diavolo sembra avere le chiavi di casa. Addison pensava di sapere cosa significasse avere tutto: una villa da sogno, figli perfetti, un marito stimato in città. Ma quando Dean, il marito, scompare nel nulla, si ritrova sola con domande a cui nessuno risponde e con i conti bloccati. Persino l’azienda di Dean sembra non essere mai esistita. A Memphis, però, la verità è una moneta rubata: più la cerchi, più rischi di perderti tra bugie, bourbon e sguardi che ti seguono nell’ombra. Porter Hayes, detective privato dagli occhi stanchi ma dalla mente troppo acuta, annusa le tracce lasciate dal passato militare di Dean e le seguirà fino alla fine. Non ballare con il diavolo non è solo mistero, ma atmosfera sudista, minaccia e disincanto. Qui il male ha sempre una seconda pelle e il confine fra debito e peccato si fa sottile come la nebbia sul Mississippi.

Roman policier (énigme)

After a New Orleans college professor goes missingwhile searching for the rumored lost recordings of bluesman RobertJohnson--who, as legend has it, sold his soul to the devil at a Mississippicrossroads--Nick Travers is sent to find him. Clues point to everyone froman eccentric albino named Cracker to a hitman who believes he is the secondcoming of Elvis Presley. From the PulitzerPrize-nominated journalist turned New York Times Bestselling author, ACEATKINS, and artist MARCO FINNEGAN, comes a thrilling tale of crime and mysterythat brings the history of the Blues and the Mississippi Delta to life on everypage. 6 x 9 trade paperback trimsize.

It is the summer before fourth grade and life is going great for Elliot, right up until her parents decide to sell the house and take the family to travel the country in an RV for a year. Elliot (and Zane) chronicles the attempted sale of the house and her brother, Zane''s, wacky plans to save it. Will they sell the house or will Zane''s plan work and keep the family in their beloved home? What about school? How can you do homeschool without a home or a school? Where will the family end up at the start of the school year? Follow along as the Flynn family attempt to start a new chapter of their lives.

The follow-up to the Edgar Award-nominated original "geezer noir" crime anthology Damn Near Dead.

Cette histoire décrit la guerre des caïds du rap à travers les personnages de Nick Travers, Teddy Paris, Alias et Cash. C''est la fin de l''époque du blues à La Nouvelle-Orléans et l''avènement d''une nouvelle culture, provenant des cités et banlieues pauvres de la ville.

Henry Cimoli and Spenser have been friends for years, yet the old boxing trainer has never asked the private eye for a favour. Until now. A heavy-handed developer is trying to buy up Henry''s condo on Revere Beach and sends thugs to move the process along. Soon Spenser and his apprentice, Zebulon Sixkill, find a trail leading to a mysterious and beautiful woman, a megalomaniacal Las Vegas kingpin, and plans to turn a chunk of land north of Boston into a sprawling casino. Bitter rivals emerge, alliances turn, and the uglier pieces of the Boston political machine look to put an end to Spenser''s investigation. Aspiration, greed, and twisted dreams all focus on the old Wonderland dog track where the famous amusement park once fronted the ocean. For Spenser and Z, this simple favour to Henry will become the fight of their lives.

1955, Tampa en Floride. Charlie Wall est brutalement assassiné chez lui. Qui a pu vouloir tuer cet homme qui régnait sur la bolita, une loterie clandestine particulièrement rentable ? Le personnage de Lucrezia devient central : après la mort de son père, réfugiée à Tampa, elle a volé le livre de comptes de Johnny Rivera, l''ancien chauffeur de Charlie.

Quinn Colson, ranger vétéran d’Irak et d’Afghanistan, est le nouveau shérif du comté de Tibbehah, dans le nord du Mississippi. Il est chargé d’enquêter sur un cas de maltraitance d’enfant. Quand il arrive sur la propriété de Janet et Ramón Torres, les tuteurs, il découvre une scène qui dépasse l’entendement : une horde de chiens galeux attachés dans des cages souillées, treize couffins vides, des tas de détritus qui jonchent le sol de la maison décrépie, et surtout une boîte en carton pleine de dollars. Il est sûr que les Torres vont revenir pour récupérer leur trésor. Pendant ce temps-là, la sœur de Colson est rentrée au bercail, sobre et clean – d’après elle. Quant à son meilleur ami, Boom, le vétéran qui a laissé un bras à Fallujah, il s’abîme dans l’alcool et les bagarres pour oublier la guerre. Mais Quinn a d’autres chats à fouetter. Son second, Lillie Virgil, et lui-même subodorent que le couple Torres a un goût particulier pour les trafics en tout genre : armes, drogues, enfants. Il semble qu’il y ait un lien entre eux et un cartel de la drogue qui contrôle le plus gros de la frontière texane. Traduit de l''anglais (Etats-Unis) par Jean Esch

Nick travers, blanc, a été élevé par Loretta et jojo, tenanciers noirs du mythique blues bar à la Nouvelle-Orléans. Il leur doit tout, et notamment sa passion pour le blues. Or Loretta reçoit des menaces à cause de son frère Clyde, grand chanteur de soul disparu quinze ans auparavant. Nick, parti à sa recherche, remonte sa piste à travers un vieux sud peuplé de séductrices et de truands, de caïds mafieux, de politicards et de forcenés fachos. Baignée de musique noire, son équipée nostalgique entre Memphis et le delta dépeint un monde qui, au fur et à mesure que les fast-foods remplacent les bars à blues, perd peu à peu son âme. Ace Atkins, ex-sportif et journaliste originaire de l''Alabama, grand amateur de Faulkner, a été finaliste du prix Pulitzer pour ses enquêtes criminelles dans le Tampa tribune. La mélodie mélancolique de blues bar charmera les fans de James Lee Burke et de Charles Willeford

Carolina Garcia-Ramirez is a rising star in national politics, taking on the establishment with her progressive agenda. Tough, outspoken, and driven, the young congresswoman has ignited a new conversation in Boston about race, poverty, health care, and the environment. Now facing her second campaign, she finds herself not only fighting a tight primary with an old guard challenger but also contending with numerous death threats coming from hundreds of suspects. When her chief of staff reaches out to Spenser for security, he crosses paths with an extremist group, The Minutemen, with an agenda of white supremacy and toxic masculinity.

"Spenser takes up a seemingly open and closed cold case at the behest of a street-wise 16 year old girl, who believes her mother''s murderers went free. As Spenser digs deeper into the mystery, he finds a much more dangerous and complex mystery than he bargained for"--

What started out as a joke landed seventeen-year-old Dillon Yates in a lockdown juvenile facility in Boston Harbor. When he set up a prank Twitter account for his vice principal, he never dreamed he could be brought up on criminal charges, but that''s exactly what happened. This is Blackburn, Massachusetts, where zero tolerance for minors is a way of life. Leading the movement is tough-as-nails Judge Joe Scali, who gives speeches about getting tough on today''s wild youth. But Dillon''s mother, who knows other Blackburn kids who are doing hard time for minor infractions, isn''t buying Scali''s line. She hires Spenser to find the truth behind the draconian sentencing. From the Harbor Islands to a gated Florida community, Spenser and trusted ally Hawk follow a trail through the Boston underworld with links to a shadowy corporation that runs New England''s private prisons. They eventually uncover a culture of corruption and cover-ups in the old mill town, where hundreds of kids are sent off to for-profit juvie jails.

Henry Cimoli and Spenser have been friends for years, yet the old boxing trainer has never asked the private eye for a favor. Until now. A heavy-handed developer is trying to buy up Henry''s condo on Revere Beach and sends thugs to move the process along. Soon Spenser and his apprentice, Zebulon Sixkill, find a trail leading to a mysterious and beautiful woman, a megalomaniacal Las Vegas kingpin, and plans to turn to a chunk of land north of Boston into a sprawling casino. Bitter rivals emerge, alliances turn, and the uglier pieces of the Boston political machine look to put an end to Spenser''s investigation. Aspiration, greed, and twisted dreams all focus on the old Wonderland dog track where the famous amusement park once fronted the ocean. For Spenser and Z, this simple favor to Henry will become the fight of their lives.

Boston PI Spenser is approached by firefighter Jack McGee, who''s convinced that the apartment blaze that took the lives of five residents and three firefighters was arson.