Un colpo al cuore
Translated title: A Heart Attack
Author: Pulixi, Piergiorgio
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Thriller
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You like it darker. Salto nel buio
Translated title: You Like it Darker
Author: King, Stephen
Genre: Horror / Short Stories
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'You like it darker? Fine, so do I', writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life - both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King writes to feel 'the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind', and in You Like it Darker, readers will feel that exhilaration too, again and again.
'Two Talented Bastids' explores the long-hidden secret of how the eponymous gentlemen got their skills. In 'Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream', a brief and unprecedented psychic flash upends dozens of lives, Danny's most catastrophically. In 'Rattlesnakes', a sequel to Cujo, a grieving widower travels to Florida for respite and instead receives an unexpected inheritance - with major strings attached. In 'The Dreamers', a taciturn Vietnam vet answers a job ad and learns that there are some corners of the universe best left unexplored. 'The Answer Man' asks if prescience is good luck or bad and reminds us that a life marked by unbearable tragedy can still be meaningful
'Two Talented Bastids' explores the long-hidden secret of how the eponymous gentlemen got their skills. In 'Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream', a brief and unprecedented psychic flash upends dozens of lives, Danny's most catastrophically. In 'Rattlesnakes', a sequel to Cujo, a grieving widower travels to Florida for respite and instead receives an unexpected inheritance - with major strings attached. In 'The Dreamers', a taciturn Vietnam vet answers a job ad and learns that there are some corners of the universe best left unexplored. 'The Answer Man' asks if prescience is good luck or bad and reminds us that a life marked by unbearable tragedy can still be meaningful
Amore al profumo di girasole
Translated title: Love with the Scent of Sunflowers
Author: Mauro, Gabriele
Genre: Romance
Marisol clutches the pendant around her neck. A golden sunflower, guardian of a past she refuses to remember. In moments when the air seems thin, her fingers search for that small symbol. The relief that gesture brings is a scentless breath. Like the scent of a sunflower: invisible and silent. Because the sunflower, unlike roses or lavender, leaves no traces in the wind. It thrives on light, orienting itself toward the sun with blind faith. It gives itself to those whose hearts are open to recognizing it.
Marisol is like a sunflower. Her life is made of routine and silence. This is how she hides her pain and a secret that never abandons her. Until, on the seafront, she meets Angelo, a photographer capable of seeing beyond appearances. And something begins to change. Thanks to Post-it notes left under a Ferris wheel, handwritten letters, and simple attentions, Marisol discovers a pure, timeless, and unpretentious love.
A love that doesn't flaunt itself, but manifests itself in small gestures. A gaze that waits, a caress that lingers, a presence that doesn't disappear when Angelo's gone. Marisol understands that, for the first time, someone has noticed her. But then the past returns to haunt her with its shadows, and she must learn to trust the light. To recognize that there are bonds that don't need to be explained. Just experienced. Because some loves are like the scent of a sunflower. They can't be grasped. And yet, they're impossible to forget.
Gabriele Mauro's name attracts an ever-growing and passionate community of readers. Those who follow him know that his stories embody authentic emotions and profound values - values that today seem almost lost. It is precisely for these messages that Gabriele Mauro continues to attract, day after day, a loyal readership that continues to grow and eagerly awaits his arrival in bookstores
Marisol is like a sunflower. Her life is made of routine and silence. This is how she hides her pain and a secret that never abandons her. Until, on the seafront, she meets Angelo, a photographer capable of seeing beyond appearances. And something begins to change. Thanks to Post-it notes left under a Ferris wheel, handwritten letters, and simple attentions, Marisol discovers a pure, timeless, and unpretentious love.
A love that doesn't flaunt itself, but manifests itself in small gestures. A gaze that waits, a caress that lingers, a presence that doesn't disappear when Angelo's gone. Marisol understands that, for the first time, someone has noticed her. But then the past returns to haunt her with its shadows, and she must learn to trust the light. To recognize that there are bonds that don't need to be explained. Just experienced. Because some loves are like the scent of a sunflower. They can't be grasped. And yet, they're impossible to forget.
Gabriele Mauro's name attracts an ever-growing and passionate community of readers. Those who follow him know that his stories embody authentic emotions and profound values - values that today seem almost lost. It is precisely for these messages that Gabriele Mauro continues to attract, day after day, a loyal readership that continues to grow and eagerly awaits his arrival in bookstores
Un'altra ragazza scomparsa
Translated title: Please See Us
Author: Mullen, Caitlin
Genre: Thriller / Crime
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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?
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?
La peste
Translated title: The Plague
Author: Tincani, Persio
Genre: Social Novel
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
Il gioco della notte
Translated title: The Game of the Night
Author: Läckberg, Camilla
Genre: Thriller / Crime
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Thriller
Il villaggio perduto
Translated title: The Lost Village
Author: Sten, Camilla
Genre: Horror / Thriller
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Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing residents of the old mining town, dubbed 'The Lost Village,' since she was a little girl. In 1959, her grandmother's entire family disappeared in this mysterious tragedy, and ever since, the unanswered questions surrounding the only two people who were left - a woman stoned to death in the town center and an abandoned newborn - have plagued her. She's gathered a small crew of friends in the remote village to make a film about what really happened.
But there will be no turning back.
Not long after they've set up camp, mysterious things begin to happen. Equipment is destroyed. People go missing. As doubt breeds fear and their very minds begin to crack, one thing becomes startlingly clear to Alice:
They are not alone.
They're looking for the truth...
But what if it finds them first?
But there will be no turning back.
Not long after they've set up camp, mysterious things begin to happen. Equipment is destroyed. People go missing. As doubt breeds fear and their very minds begin to crack, one thing becomes startlingly clear to Alice:
They are not alone.
They're looking for the truth...
But what if it finds them first?
L' uomo del porto
Translated title: The Port Man
Author: Scalia, Cristina Cassar
Genre: Thriller
Thriller
Il Castagno dei cento cavalli
Translated title: The Chestnut Tree of One Hundred Horses
Series: Volume 8
Author: Scalia, Cristina Cassar
Genre: Thriller / Crime
'The Woodcutter' was a shy person, but she didn't bother anyone: one of those people who seem to have neither friends nor enemies. Yet someone killed her. Then they attacked her corpse as if with a specific intent.
A new case for Vanina Guarrasi.
At the foot of the Chestnut Tree of One Hundred Horses, a centuries-old tree that grows on the slopes of Mount Etna, two forest rangers find the body of a brutally murdered woman. The crime scene is disconcerting. For Deputy Commissioner Guarrasi of the Catania Flying Squad, the investigation immediately appears complex, if only because there is virtually no information about the victim, almost as if she had no past.
The experience and memory of retired Commissioner Biagio Patanè - the best when it comes to abandoning technological advances and operating the old-fashioned way - are therefore more useful than ever, even if the elderly officer appears somewhat distracted by a personal problem. Vanina herself struggles to reconcile her personal life with her work: the former always draws her back to Palermo, her hometown; the latter takes her instead to a 'place of the soul' that harks back to her childhood
A new case for Vanina Guarrasi.
At the foot of the Chestnut Tree of One Hundred Horses, a centuries-old tree that grows on the slopes of Mount Etna, two forest rangers find the body of a brutally murdered woman. The crime scene is disconcerting. For Deputy Commissioner Guarrasi of the Catania Flying Squad, the investigation immediately appears complex, if only because there is virtually no information about the victim, almost as if she had no past.
The experience and memory of retired Commissioner Biagio Patanè - the best when it comes to abandoning technological advances and operating the old-fashioned way - are therefore more useful than ever, even if the elderly officer appears somewhat distracted by a personal problem. Vanina herself struggles to reconcile her personal life with her work: the former always draws her back to Palermo, her hometown; the latter takes her instead to a 'place of the soul' that harks back to her childhood
Camera con balcone
Translated title: Room with Balcony
Author: Exbrayat, Charles
Genre: Mystery / Crime
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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
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
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