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Salander is plotting her revenge - against the man who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. But it is not going to be a straightforward campaign. After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in Intensive Care, and is set to face trial for three murders and one attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must not only prove her innocence, but identify and denounce the corrupt politicians that have allowed the vulnerable to become victims of abuse and violence. Once a victim herself, Salander is now ready to fight back.

Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, launches a new trilogy of magic and mayhem with this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artefacts and ancient mysteries, and one woman's quest to seize a final chance at glory... A pirate of infamy and one of the most storied and scandalous captains to sail the seven seas. Amina al-Sirafi has 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 offered a job no bandit could refuse, she jumps at the chance for one final adventure with her old crew that will make her a legend and offers a fortune that will secure her and her family's future forever. Yet the deeper Amina dives the higher the stakes. For there's always risk in wanting to become a legend, to seize one last chance at glory, to savour just a bit more power...and the price might be your very soul.

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].

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year "Resolution can stand alone, battered and proud, as a class-conscious crime novel that dares to tell the ugly truth." -New York Times Book Review Just as Maureen O'Donnell is struggling to give up drinking, she faces her most formidable challenges yet: testifying against her boyfriend's murderer and the return of her abusive father. Irresistibly blending suspense, compassion, raw instinct, and grim wit, Resolution provides a wrenching conclusion to Denise Mina's universally acclaimed Garnethill trilogy. "For anyone who thinks Western civilization too comfortable or crime novels no more than entertainment, Denise Mina's Garnethill trilogy will come as a salutary surprise. It will also make them laugh and keep them reading. It is a great achievement." -Times Literary Supplement "If you want a reason to try the crime genre, get yourself a novel by Denise Mina." -Rocky Mountain News "Mina depicts a Scotland so hard that merely living there can cut you like a shard of glass." -Baltimore Sun

Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family. There was no corpse, no witnesses, no evidence. But her uncle, Henrik, is convinced that she was murdered by someone in her own family the deeply dysfunctional Vanger clan. Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomqvist is hired to investigate, but when he links Harriet s disappearance to a string of gruesome murders from forty years ago, he needs a competent assistant and he gets one: computer hacker Lisbeth Salander a tattoed, truculent, angry girl who rides a motorbike like a Hell s Angel and handles makeshift weapons with the skill born of remorseless rage. This unlikely pair form a fragile bond as they delve into the sinister past of this island-bound, tightly-knit family. But the Vangers are a secretive lot, and Mikael and Lisbeth are about to find out just how far they re prepared to go to protect themselves and each other.

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.

Maureen O'Donnell, the manager of a Glasgow women's shelter, travels to London to investigate the murder of a woman who had come to her for help.

31st August 1997 Rose Wilson is fourteen, but looks sixteen. She has seen more of the darkness in life than someone twice her age. On the night of Princess Diana's death Rose snaps and commits two terrible crimes. Her life seems effectively over. But then a defence lawyer takes pity and sets out to do what he can to save her, regardless of the consequences. Now DI Alex Morrow is a witness in the case of Michael Brown - a vicious arms dealer, more brutal and damaged than most of the criminals she meets. During the trial, while he is held in custody, Brown's fingerprints are found at the scene of a murder in the Red Road flats. It was impossible that he could have been there and it's a mystery that Morrow just can't let go. Meanwhile, a privileged Scottish lawyer sits in a castle on Mull, waiting for an assassin to kill him. He has sold out his own father, something that will bring the wrath of the powerful down upon him.

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.

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.

Alex Morrow traces a wealthy businesswoman who's vanished from her Glasgow home to a little seaside town, where a dead body in the lake is only one of many clues that all is not as peaceful as it seems.

A powerful new stand-alone novel from Scotland’s princess of crime -- author of the acclaimed Garnethill trilogy. Lachlan Harriot is in a state of shock. His wife Susie has been convicted of the murder of serial killer Andrew Gow, a prisoner in her care. Unless Harriot can come up with grounds for an appeal, Susie will be given a life sentence, depriving her of her home, her family and her two-year-old daughter. Harriot is convinced that his wife, a respected forensic psychiatrist, is innocent, and each night he climbs the stairs to her study and goes through her papers, laboriously transcribing into his computer her case notes, her interviews with Gow and the press cuttings from the trial. But his search for the truth soon raises more questions than answers. Why had Susie stolen prison files and then lied about it? What was the nature of her relationship with Gow? And what is it in her study that she doesn’t want her husband to find? As things become ever more complex, he must decide what to do with a discovery that involves violence, sexual obsession, lust and ultimate betrayal. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Sticks and stones will break your bones...A powerfully gripping thriller from 'one of the most exciting writers to have emerged in Britain for years' Ian Rankin. In Glasgow, a child goes missing, taken from the front garden of his home - and the investigation leads the police to the doors of two young boys. Paddy Meehan has just started her new job working for a local newspaper, where she dreams of becoming an investigative journalist. She starts looking into the case of the missing child but, unlike everyone else, does not believe the boys acted on their own. Convinced there is more to it than this, she begins to ask some very awkward questions. But Paddy's investigation has repercussions she never anticipated. Shunned by those closest to her, she finds herself dangerously alone...

Paddy Meehan is no stranger to murder--as a reporter she lives at crime scenes--but nothing has prepared her for this visit from the police. Her former boyfriend and fellow journalist Terry Hewitt has been found hooded and shot through the head. Paddy knows she will be of little help--she had not seen Terry in more than six months. So she is bewildered to learn that in his will he has left her his house and several suitcases full of notes. Drawn into a maze of secrets and lies, Paddy begins making connections to Terry's murder that no one else has seen, and soon finds herself trapped in the most important--and dangerous--story of her career.

A story of mothers and daughters, of a struggle with racial identity and a journey to find a sense of belonging

In the brilliant sequel to "Field of Blood, " reporter Paddy Meehan is riding high on the success of solving the Brian Wilcox case. Then she meets a mysterious blonde who later turns up dead. Paddy Meehan is thrilled with her new job: working the police beat at the newspaper. Responding to a late night call, she arrives at an elegant villa, where a calm blonde woman with blood on her mouth answers the door. The woman has already convinced the police to leave, and soon Paddy realizes how: she slips fifty dollars into Paddy's hand and begs her to keep the incident-whatever it is-out of the press. The next morning, Paddy sees the lead news story: The woman has been murdered. Soon after, the body of a suicide is pulled from the river. Was the blonde more than just a spoiled trophy wife? Are the two deaths related? In pursuit of answers, Paddy is drawn into a web of violence and greed.

With a new introduction by VAL McDERMID When psychiatric patient Maureen O'Donnell finds her boyfriend dead in her living room, she is faced with a difficult situation. Glasgow police view her as both a suspect and an unstable witness - and even her mother is convinced of her involvement. Feeling betrayed by friends and family, Maureen begins to doubt her own version of events. Panic-stricken, she sets out in pursuit of the truth and soon picks up a horrifying trail of deception and suppressed scandal. Then a second body is discovered. Maureen realises that unless she gets to the killer first, her life is in danger... 'The most exciting crime writer to have emerged in Britain for years' Ian Rankin 'Mina...may be Britain's finest living crime novelist' Daily Telegraph 'Mina can chill your blood and break your heart in the same sentence' Mark Billingham 'One of the most original voices in crime fiction' Daily Mail WINNER OF THE CWA JOHN CREASEY DAGGER FOR BEST FIRST CRIME NOVEL

From 'the woman who may be Britain's finest living crime novelist' (Daily Telegraph), Convictionstars a strong female protagonist who is obsessed by true crime podcasts and decides, one day, to investigate one of the unsolved crimes herself. The morning starts as any other for Anna McDonald. But the moment she opens the front door to her best friend, everything changes. Anna turns to see her husband standing at the top of the stairs, suitcase in hand. They're leaving, together. And they're taking Anna's two daughters with them. With her safe, predictable world suddenly shattered, Anna tries to drown out the pain of their deceit by listening to a true crime podcast. There's a sunken yacht, a multiple murder and a hint of power and corruption. But when Anna hears the name of one of the victims, she realises that this is a murder she can't ignore. Her past, so carefully hidden until now, will no longer stay silent. To escape the trauma of her loss, Anna throws herself into investigating the case in the podcast. Little does she know that her past and present lives are about to collide, and throw everything she has worked so hard to achieve into freefall. Conviction is the compelling and unique new thriller from multiple award-winner and author of THE LONG DROP, Denise Mina.

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...

A savage murder with no apparent motive - DS Morrow's most challenging case brings her work and home lives dangerously close... Winner of the prestigious Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. When wealthy Sarah Erroll dies a violent death at her home in a posh part of Glasgow, the local community is stunned by what appears to be a truly gratuitous act. Heavily pregnant with desperately wanted twins, DS Alex Morrow is called in to investigate and soon discovers that there is more to Sarah's murder than it first seems. On the other side of town, Thomas Anderson is called into the headmaster's office at his boarding school to be told that his tyrannical father - a banker responsible for the loss of many livelihoods in the recession - has committed suicide by hanging himself from the old oak tree on the lawn of their home. Thomas returns to the family home to find his mother and sister in a state of numb shock. The head of the household is dead, yet their initial reaction is not that of grief, but relief. As Alex Morrow slowly unravels the connections between the two cases, she faces her greatest challenge yet as her work and home lives collide with potentially disastrous consequences.

*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.

Written by DENISE MINA Art by ANTONIO FUSO Cover by LEE BERMEJO Denise Mina, award-winning crime novelist, brings her psychological style of crime fiction to Vertigo Crime. Meet the Ushers. The parents, Ted and Biddy. Grandma Martha. The three kids, William, Amy and Sam. Just a normal, middle-class family gathered around the table on Christmas Day. Until they start dying. Violent deaths. One by one. Is there a curse on their house, as a recently unearthed history of witchcraft in the area would suggest? Or has one member of the Usher clan declared open season on the rest? As secrets and resentments boil to the surface, it becomes clear that more than one Usher has a motive for killing off the others. But in the end, the truth turns out to be far more shocking than anyone in this ill-fated family could have imagined. On sale OCTOBER 13 - 5.5" x 8", 192 pg, B&W, $19.99 US - MATURE READERS

A "thrilling" (Christian Science Monitor), "thoughtful"(New York Times Book Review), and "piercing" (People) Detective Inspector Alex Morrow novel by the author of Conviction. It's the week before Christmas when a lone robber bursts into a busy Glasgow post office carrying an AK-47. An elderly man suddenly hands his young grandson to a stranger and wordlessly helps the gunman fill bags with cash, then carries them to the door. He opens the door and bows his head; the robber fires off the AK-47, tearing the grandfather in two. DS Alex Morrow arrives on the scene and finds that the alarm system had been disabled before the robbery. Yet upon investigation, none of the employees can be linked to the gunman. And the grandfather-a life-long campaigner for social justice-is above reproach. As Morrow searches for the killer, she discovers a hidden, sinister political network. Soon it is chillingly clear: no corner of the city is safe, and her involvement will go deeper than she could ever have imagined. "Until further notice, just assume you should buy everything Denise Mina publishes." --Entertainment Weekly

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).

De onvergetelijke heldin van De kwetsbare getuige is Maureen O'Donnell: een jonge vrouw die niets cadeau krijgt in het leven maar zich daardoor niet uit het veld laat slaan. Haar vader misbruikte haar in haar jeugd, haar moeder drinkt en haar broer dealt. Met haar uitzichtloze baantje als caissière van het Apollo Theatre verdient Maureen net genoeg om haar whisky te kunnen betalen. De kwetsbare getuige gaat over Maureens moeizame pogingen te ontsnappen aan de vicieuze cirkel van zelfvernietiging. De demonen uit haar verleden blijven haar achtervolgen, maar Maureen O'Donnell weet zeker dat haar een betere toekomst wacht. De trilogie over Maureen O'Donnell verschijnt nu in één uitgave en bestaat uit De kwetsbare getuige , Verstoten en De onwillige getuige .

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 ...

Een goed opgeleide jonge vrouw bevindt zich door omstandigheden aan de zelfkant van het leven in Glasgow waar ze probeert zichzelf en anderen te beschermen tegen geweld van binnen en buiten hun familie. Vervolg op 'Verstoten'.

Het is een doodstille zondagavond in een rustige buitenwijk van Glasgow. De televisie staat aan en het avondeten wordt bereid. Maar de vredige rust wordt wreed verstoord als een gedeukte vrachtwagen voor de deur van een van de huizen stopt. Twee gewapende mannen met bivakmutsen springen eruit en stormen het huis binnen, bedreigen de bewoners met een pistool en eisen geld, veel geld. Verbijsterd zeggen de familieleden dat ze zoveel geld niet bezitten. De overvallers kidnappen de grootvader en verdwijnen in de nacht. De ervaren politievrouw Alex Morrow krijgt opdracht de mysterieuze zaak te onderzoeken. Wie waren deze mannen? En waarom denken ze dat een ogenschijnlijk normaal huishouden zoveel geld heeft te verbergen? De familieleden hebben er in elk geval nooit iets over losgelaten. Als Morrow zich verder in de zaak verdiept, komt ze allerlei diep verborgen geheimen op het spoor.

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.

Bundel met acht heel uiteenlopende detectiveverhalen.

Závěrečný díl komiksové adaptace bestselleru Stiega Larssona Milénium. Lisbeth Salanderová leží v kritickém stavu s prostřelenou hlavou na jednotce intenzivní péče. O život bojuje ve více směrech: pokud se uzdraví, bude před stockholmským soudem vypovídat kvůli obvinění z trojnásobné vraždy. S pomocí novináře Mikaela Blomkvista bude muset nejen dokázat svoji nevinu, ale také odhalit ty, kdo dopustili, aby se bezbranní lidé, jako byla ona sama, stali oběťmi zneužívání a násilí. A k tomu všemu plánuje pomstu muži, který se ji snažil zabít, a zkorumpovaným vládním institucím, jež jí málem zničily život.

Druhý román mezinárodní bestsellerové trilogie Milénium v komiksové podobě Novinář spolupracující s časopisem Milénium a jeho partnerka jsou zavražděni krátce před publikováním materiálu o organizované mezinárodní prostituci. Na zbrani nalezené na místě činu se najdou otisky Lisbeth Salanderové a její poručník je brzy nalezen mrtvý. Policie po Lisbeth zahájí celostátní pátrání, podporované mediální kampaní, ve které se vytahují na světlo skandální informace o její potenciální nebezpečnosti a problematické minulosti. Mikael Blomkvist je však přesvědčen o její nevině… Po dvoudílném komiksovém zpracování prvního románu trilogie Muži, kteří nenávidí ženy přichází adaptace druhého románu, tentokrát v jednom svazku

Bestseller deníku The New York Times! Druhý díl komiksové podoby mezinárodního bestselleru a kasovního trháku. Aby zostuzený novinář Mikael Blomkvist očistil své jméno, nechá se najmout na vyřešení třicet let starého případu zmizelé dívky. Jeho pátrání končí ve slepých uličkách, dokud se k němu nepřipojí mladá hackerka Lisbeth Salanderová, jejíž tajemná, ztrápená osobnost může být tím chybějícím článkem. Společně se noří do tajemství čím dál hlouběji a zjišťují, že jejich pátrání je vede po cestách, kterým ani jeden z nich nerozumí. Mikael a Lisbeth se pokusí vynést pravdu na světlo dřív, než je pohltí temnota rodiny Vangerů. Komiksové zpracování Larssonovy trilogie je rozděleno do šesti dílů, první díl vydal Host na jaře 2013. Adaptace se ujala bestsellerová autorka kriminálních románů Denise Mina, grafickou podobu zpracovali Leonardo Manco, který se podílel například na sérii Hellblazer, a Andrea Mutti, spolupracující s nakladatelstvími jako DC Comics, Marvel nebo IDW.

Závěrečný díl komiksové adaptace bestselleru Stiega Larssona Milénium. Lisbeth Salanderová leží v kritickém stavu s prostřelenou hlavou na jednotce intenzivní péče. O život bojuje ve více směrech: pokud se uzdraví, bude vypovídat před stockholmským soudem kvůli obvinění z trojnásobné vraždy. S pomocí novináře Mikaela Blomkvista bude muset nejen dokázat svou nevinu, ale také odhalit ty, kdo dopustili, aby se bezbranní lidé, jako byla ona sama, stali oběťmi zneužívání a násilí. A k tomu všemu plánuje pomstu muži, který se ji pokusil zabít, a zkorumpovaným vládním institucím, jež jí málem zničily život.