Dieci secondi
Translated title: Ben Harper #3 - Ten Seconds
Series: Book 3
Author: Gold, Robert
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2024 | Pages: 384 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87886
Translated
After a tense birthday celebration in Haddley, journalist Ben Harper watches his boss, Madeline, get into the car that has come to collect her. He walks home, never imagining that by the next morning, Madeline will be missing.
To find Madeline, Ben will have to return to the now infamous murder case that made her journalism career over a decade ago. A case which, Ben quickly discovers, was never as simple as it seemed.
But time is of the essence, and soon it's not just Madeline's life on the line
La peste
Translated title: The Plague
Author: Tincani, Persio
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2023 | Pages: 208 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87865
Plague opens the Iliad, the first work of Western literature, and from then on it has been a ubiquitous theme. The reasons are many, but they all boil down to the fact that plague is frightening, and fear fascinates. It generates terror because it is a disease against which for millennia there was no defense, arriving suddenly and each time claiming many victims in a short time; but plague is also frightening because it brings with it famine, poverty, and overwhelms institutions, so that the fear of death by plague is compounded by the fear of death by starvation and a violent death. The reactions of governments and populations to epidemics have always been the same: isolation, panic, disbelief, institutional distrust. Observing these reactions reveals to us that societies always stand on a precarious balance and are much more fragile than we might imagine
Camera con balcone
Translated title: Room with Balcony
Author: Exbrayat, Charles
Genre: Mystery / Crime
Year: 2024 | Pages: 194 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87882
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The moors around Callander have turned bronze as autumn arrives, and with it, Imogene McCarthy. Stepping off the train in her red tartan scarf and long wool coat, she breathes a sigh of relief - she's finally home, far from the chaos of London. It's been three years since she last set foot in Callander, earning a heroine's reputation for stopping a dangerous spy. Now, she just wants to relax and savor the scent of Scotland, a mix of musk and whisky.
But her peace is shattered when she spots a lifeless man from her balcony, and the resentful police quickly accuse her of murder. The very woman who might kill someone only by challenging them to a scotch-drinking contest must now don her detective hat once more, this time to clear her own name
La domestica a ore
Translated title: The Hourly Maid
Author: Modignani, Sveva Casati
Genre: Social Novel / Romance
Year: 2025 | Pages: 320 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 91763
An intense and gripping novel that tells the story of the silent strength of women and the possibility of starting over, always.
Isabella Boccadoro d'Este has chosen to live without flaunting her noble origins, working as a housekeeper in Milan. With her discretion and innate sensitivity, she brings order and serenity where solitude and disharmony reign. Until one morning, upon entering the Tizzonis' elegant apartment, she finds Laura, the young landlady, seriously injured.
Behind the respectable facade of a perfect family lies a history of violence that threatens to overwhelm the couple's two children. As justice struggles to take its course amid lies and silence, Isabella finds herself increasingly personally involved in the affair, discovering the strength of female solidarity and the fragility of those who seem invincible.
At her side is Duccio Soldanieri, a charming and determined Carabinieri captain, also a nobleman, who brings a new and unexpected feeling into her life. Through secrets, passions, and difficult choices, Isabella must confront her fears and learn that, sometimes, being brave means letting yourself be loved
Un'altra ragazza scomparsa
Translated title: Please See Us
Author: Mullen, Caitlin
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2024 | Pages: 400 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87875
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Two young women become unlikely friends during one fateful summer in Atlantic City as mysterious disappearances hit dangerously close to home.
Summer has come to Atlantic City but the boardwalk is empty of tourists, the casino lights have dimmed, and two Jane Does are laid out in the marshland behind the Sunset Motel, just west of town. Only one person even knows they're there.
Meanwhile, Clara, a young boardwalk psychic, struggles to attract clients for the tarot readings that pay her rent. When she begins to experience very real and disturbing visions, she suspects they could be related to the recent cases of women gone missing in town. When Clara meets Lily, an ex-Soho art gallery girl who is working at a desolate casino spa and reeling from a personal tragedy, she thinks Lily may be able to help her. But Lily has her own demons to face. If they can put the pieces together in time, they may save another lost girl - so long as their efforts don't attract perilous attention first. Can they break the ill-fated cycle, or will they join the other victims?
Jane e il mistero della principessa. Le indagini di Jane Austen
Translated title: Jane and the Princess Mystery: Jane Austen's Investigations
Author: Barron, Stephanie
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
Year: 2026 | Pages: 272 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 91768
Translated
A Russian noblewoman, precious jewels, a conspiracy to uncover.
London, 1811. Fresh from writing Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen joins her brother Henry, a brilliant banker, and his charming wife Eliza in their elegant home on Sloane Street. Immersed in a world of witty conversations, glittering gowns, and receptions, Jane observes with discretion and irony this microcosm of ambition, secrets, and vanity. But not even her keen eye is prepared for the scandal that erupts when the private correspondence between a Russian princess and an influential Tory minister is suddenly made public, much less for the tragedy that follows: the beautiful Evgenia Cholikova is found with her throat slit right outside the residence of the minister, Lord Castlereagh.
While public opinion whispers of a romantic suicide and gossip tarnishes the princess's reputation, Jane does not believe the official version. Her doubts, however, become unsettling when a web of coincidences places her and Eliza at the center of the investigation as prime suspects. Why would someone want to frame them? And who, behind the scenes of high society, had an interest in eliminating the princess? With only seven days to prove her innocence, Jane is forced to delve into the halls of power and the boudoirs of the most influential courtesans, on the trail of a murderer capable of threatening not only her life, but also the fate of England
Il mio sogno nel cass (on) etto - salvare il mondo
Translated title: My Dream in the Drawer: Saving the World
Author: Petracca, Francesco
Genre: Short Stories
Year: 2023 | Pages: 424 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87858
This book is a small collection of aphorisms by various authors, with no claim to being exhaustive. The author rejects the title 'author' as he is simply a collector of aphorisms
Questo giorno che incombe
Translated title: This Looming Day
Author: Lattanzi, Antonella
Genre: Thriller
Year: 2021 | Pages: 455 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 79859
Mystery
Ti odio, ma ti amo di più
Translated title: I Hate You, but I Love You More
Author: Premoli, Anna
Genre: Romance
Year: 2024 | Pages: 160 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87897
Jenny and Ian have been married for ten years. They have two children, demanding jobs, and completely opposite views on life - Jenny shuns privilege, while Ian comes from English aristocracy. Despite this, their love remains as strong as ever.
For their tenth anniversary, Ian plans a surprise weekend getaway for Jenny to escape their daily routine. Though Jenny hates surprises, her love for Ian might inspire a spirit of adventure she didn't know she had. However, their holiday is fraught with obstacles from the start. Will Jenny embrace the unexpected for Ian's sake?
Treno infernale per l'Angelo rosso
Translated title: Hell Train for the Red Angel
Author: Thilliez, Franck
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2026 | Pages: 396 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 91766
Translated
Franck Thilliez's dazzling debut novel returns to bookstores in a new translation and with an unpublished letter from the author to Italian readers: a thriller with a dark atmosphere and a fast pace, in which the killer and the policeman chase each other in a macabre spiral of death and violence.
Inspector Franck Sharko is dealing with the most difficult case of his career: his wife, Suzanne, has disappeared. One evening she didn't return home, and he hasn't heard from her since. Six months have passed. No sign of life, no ransom demand. Every attempt to find her has been fruitless.
After a long leave of absence, it's time for Sharko to return to work, and his first assignment concerns a murder that took place in a small village not far from Paris. In an isolated house, the body of a woman was found suspended in mid-air by a system of ropes and hooks, mutilated and recomposed in an unnatural pose.
The crime scene is strangely clean, and the only microscopic clues lead to Brittany, where the inspector will uncover a sordid underworld of depravity. With the help of the charismatic psychocriminologist Williams, the computer genius Serpetti, and his neighbor Dudù Camelia, an elderly Guyanese woman with the mysterious gift of visions, Sharko will try to track down the Machiavellian killer, a vengeful spirit who seems intent on rebuilding hell on Earth.
And as the investigation becomes increasingly intricate and dangerous, a nagging doubt torments the commissioner: will he ever be able to find Suzanne?
