Adio Bucuresti
Translated title: Goodbye Bucharest
Series: Vol 1
Author: Olteanu, Mirela Vladimira
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2025 | Pages: 652 | Origin: ROM | ISBN: 9786303124476
In her final year of college, Laura is preparing for a difficult but promising career path. But has she matured enough to rebuild her love life, finding a partner worthy of her? Or is she still dreaming of Paul, the lover who disappeared four years ago? We are before the political changes of 1989.
News travels slowly and with great delay across Romania's borders. But Laura's adventurous nature urges her more and more to see the truth beyond with her own eyes
Cheia ascunsa
Translated title: The Hidden Key
Author: Ahndoril, Alex
Genre: Crime / Thriller
Year: 2025 | Pages: 256 | Origin: ROM | ISBN: 9786306542802
The first volume of the Julia Stark series.
A shocking photo. A night without memories. A question: 'Did I kill this man?'.
A novel by international bestselling author Alex Ahndoril.
Julia Stark is a private detective. PG Mott, the owner of one of Sweden's most successful family businesses, shows up at her agency. The day after attending the firm's board meeting, she makes a macabre discovery: a photo of a man covered in blood with a bag over his head appears on her phone.
Due to alcohol-induced amnesia, PG doesn't know where the picture came from and wants to hire Julia to find out the truth before involving the police. The woman asks Sidney, her ex-husband, who works for the Stockholm Metropolitan Police, to help her with the investigation. In this way, she still has a shred of hope that she can win him back.
Welcomed with open arms to the opulent estate, Julia and Sidney begin to search for the truth while socializing with family members, who could theoretically all be involved in the murder
Anotimpul Persefonei
Translated title: The Season of Persephone
Author: Popa, Patricia
Genre: Crime / Mystery
Year: 2025 | Pages: 194 | Origin: ROM | ISBN: 9786306610426
Eleni and Evander haven't always been cat and mouse, but when their legendary boss announces his retirement, the two enter a fierce rivalry to determine who will inherit his legacy. Things take an unexpected turn when Eleni receives a grim warning from a mysterious old woman.
Believing it to be a prank orchestrated by Evander, Eleni chooses to ignore it and, when she is appointed as Mr. Angelopoulos' successor, she proudly assumes her new position.
But the old woman's words continue to haunt her, like a curse, until, finally, the prophecy comes true.
When she wakes up in the Underworld, Eleni has a shocking revelation and, consumed by guilt, decides to set out in search of Hades to right her wrong.
Will she be able to overcome the obstacles the capricious gods throw in her way and find Hades before it's too late?
Pe urmele tale
Translated title: In Your Footsteps
Author: Filip, Gabriela
Genre: Crime
Year: 2025 | Pages: 236 | Origin: ROM | ISBN: 9786303125091
'In Your Footsteps' tells the story of Taylor, the daughter of a detective who is investigating a series of murders in London, and who gradually comes to the conclusion that she is dealing with a serial killer.
Taylor begins investigating the case on her own, trying to make a good impression when she joins the National Detective Program in the fall. But what she discovers will change her life
Asistenta
Translated title: Assistance
Author: Pistol, Cristian
Genre: Crime / Social Novel
Year: 2025 | Pages: 0 | Origin: ROM | ISBN: 9786306610457
How much does the environment you're born into matter? When a seemingly ordinary nurse is found dead, a massive investigation is launched.
Suddenly, the entire case abandons individual boundaries and becomes a mirror of society. It is no longer about a person who lived and died, but about what it means to exist in a parallel world to the one in which everyone seems to be living their lives.
The dedication 'For every cry left unheard in the tumult of a world dominated by continuous tragedies' refers to the struggle to also matter to the people on the other side of the barricade.
It is about the effort to extract compassion and involvement not only in moments of calamity, but also in the face of other types of catastrophes, which are not always visible, but which are felt deep within us.
The nurse emphasizes that, despite the chaos and constant noise of tragedies that surround us, there are many forms of suffering that remain hidden, but which do not deserve to be forgotten
Nume de cod: Hiram
Translated title: Codename: Hiram
Author: Papadie, Bogdan
Genre: Thriller
Year: 2025 | Pages: 280 | Origin: ROM | ISBN: 9786303070834
Conceived as a series, Brotherhood of Spies introduces us to the world full of dangers and suspense of the secret services, and the volume that opens it, bearing the enigmatic title Code Name: Hiram, will be a total surprise. The foiling of a diabolical plan, hatched by foreign occult forces, who want to take control of Romania and decide the path it will follow from now on. How would they have achieved their goal? Simply, by attacking through the presidential elections in the country, annulled, by the way, when it was discovered that the votes had been rigged by the intervention of the secret services of another country.
Bogdan Papadie - a journalist with vast experience and, by the nature of his profession, an expert in the backstage games of politics and beyond - draws the reader into a game of cat and mouse and exposes him to a world of secrets and classified information, of alliances that are made and broken depending on the interests of the poles of power.
Placing the purely fictional action in a setting as realistic as possible, the novel will keep its readers on edge as it races across Europe alongside the characters who face off in a frenetic battle in which the ultimate stake is survival itself - both of the characters and of the systems they protect
Toata violenta oamenilor
Translated title: All the Violence of People
Author: Colize, Paul
Genre: Crime
Year: 2025 | Pages: 304 | Origin: ROM | ISBN: 9786306542826
Michel Lebrun Polar Prize 2020.
A young woman is found stabbed to death in her Brussels apartment. All clues point to Nikola Stancovici, an artist who was the last person the victim called before she died. He appears on surveillance footage immediately after the murder, police find his bloodstained clothes, and discover sketches of the crime scene in his studio.
Beneath his lost child appearance, Niko is a genius graffiti artist, nicknamed 'The Tightrope Walk' by the press after a series of anonymous and ultraviolent murals appeared on the streets of the capital. From behind the walls of silence with which he surrounded himself and under psychiatric supervision, the young man denies everything. His only form of defense is to repeat a phrase: 'It wasn't me.'
But Niko's story is intertwined with the story of war-torn Yugoslavia. All the violence of that time finds echoes in the present
Micii asasini din viata lui Tom
Translated title: The Little Assassins in Tom's Life
Author: Lavin, Cristi
Genre: Crime / Thriller
Year: 2025 | Pages: 320 | Origin: ROM | ISBN: 9786303070629
London is the financial center of the world, but at certain fateful moments it also happens to become the center of crime. Tom is a charming but old-fashioned Londoner who practices a profession so shameful that it would make even prostitutes blush.
One day, while surfing the Internet, looking for a social media specialist, he discovered the following ad: 'I'm not on Facebook, contact me by phone! No matter who gets in your way, I'll solve your problems: with a gun, a knife, or a nylon stocking. In case you want something more spectacular, I'll tie them to the tracks and make sure they don't miss the train! If someone gives you a headache, don't try aspirin - try a hired assassin!'
The truth is that the best PR is an assassin, so the irony of fate made Tom meet the right person. However, this type of professionals, like the hired assassins, cannot be found on all roads, but you have to dig deep into the Dark Web until you find one. But sometimes they do appear in the light, and Tom is lucky and hits the crime headquarters on the first try. And so he can make the difference between the wolf into whose den he has ventured and the other people he knows. And the differences are not as great as he imagined, because inside each of us lies a criminal.
So, besides the elite assassins, there are also the small assassins, those who sneak discreetly into our lives and who slowly poison us. There is a Dark Web in everyone's entourage. The whole point is not to neglect the warning signs around you. Tom slaloms among the criminals, managing to escape safe and sound. But he will not escape depression either, because it is not at all pleasant to surprise every person with criminal intentions as often as you see buses on the street
Petitorul
Translated title: Suitor
Author: Vidich, Paul
Genre: Thriller
Year: 2025 | Pages: 288 | Origin: ROM | ISBN: 9786069102121
The Suitor was inspired by Markus Wolf, who headed the foreign intelligence service of the Ministry of State Security of the German Democratic Republic for thirty-four years, and who even his fiercest enemies acknowledge as one of the most effective communist spies in Europe during the Cold War. He did not associate romantic relationships with espionage, but Wolf's conception of the Romeo characters advanced the methods of intelligence gatherin
Aventurile detectivului Rafistol si a doctorului Baipas
Translated title: The Adventures of Detective Rafistol and Doctor Baipas
Series: Volume 2
Author: Surubaru, Mihai
Genre: Crime / Humorous Fiction
Year: 2025 | Pages: 144 | Origin: ROM | ISBN: 9786303331508
In volume II of the series 'The Adventures of Detective Rafistol and Doctor Baibas', Mihai Surubaru orchestrates with a sure hand a spectacle of ironic absurdity, functional grotesque and a world in which logic is reversed: authority becomes farce, and the tragic is dissected with the scalpel of sarcasm. What transforms this volume into a valuable literary object is not only the author's narrative ability or the ingenious composition of the detective episodes, but the way in which the author manipulates humor. Mihai Surubaru does not offer solutions or judge, but only points the finger at the deep wounds of a world deformed by stupidity, ignorance and fear. The laughter he provokes is not gratuitous, but profound - a laughter in which, in the end, he forces us to ask ourselves: who are we in this tragic comedy called life?
Ascunsa in umbra
Translated title: Hidden in the Shadows
Author: Sten, Viveca
Genre: Crime / Thriller
Year: 2025 | Pages: 448 | Origin: ROM | ISBN: 9786306542734
The second volume of the Are Murders series
The series was adapted by NETFLIX into an exceptional series
Secrets, revenge and a violent crime disturb the idyllic town of Are
The body of Johan Andersson, a former Olympic skier, is found in the Swedish ski resort of Are. The man appears to have been beaten to death in the woods. According to his wife, he had no enemies in the world. In the eyes of inspectors Hanna Ahlander and Daniel Lindskog, the murder proves otherwise. But what could have caused such anger? And to whom?
While the police search for answers, Rebecka Ekvall, the vulnerable wife of a pastor, is caught in an abusive marriage. Isolated from her congregation, Rebecka fears for her life. Because she carries a terrible secret with her. But she's not the only person in Are hiding things.
As they unravel the dark threads of a growing list of suspects, Hanna and Daniel realize that Johan's murder is just the beginning of a case about survival and revenge at all costs
Gudrun - O crima anuntata
Translated title: Gudrun - A Crime Announced
Author: Tuculescu, Radu
Genre: Crime
Year: 2025 | Pages: 208 | Origin: ROM | ISBN: 9786303441306
First there was The Marzipan Woman, which, in addition to the detective story, introduced a couple meant to remain in the memory, but, above all, introduced the miraculous throughout the entire continent.
In The Murder on the Garibaldi Bridge, the already memorable couple is in action at home, in Cluj, and the detective story is of an overflowing ingenuity. If I add the fact that Radu Tuculescu is one of the best stylists in prose today, I realize why his stories captivated me completely.
And now Gudrun has arrived, who simply hit me in the soft spot on the head! With what exactly? Even with Gudrun, the character, one of the strongest female characters in all of our literature, I have written all of it, that is, from yesterday and today, maybe even tomorrow. If the term were not compromised by some current political connotations, I would say that it is about a ravishing woman, but I will prefer to write rousing
Ziua 1
Translated title: Day 1
Author: Dean, Abigail
Genre: Crime / Thriller
Year: 2025 | Pages: 384 | Origin: ROM | ISBN: 9786306542772
Translated
The survivor is caught in a lie. The press turns misfortune into spectacle. Those outside the community claim that the event never even took place. What really happened on Day 1?
A gunman attacks a school in a small English seaside town, setting off a chain of events that throws the entire community into chaos. The wounds never heal, as the residents are hounded by both the press and conspiracy theorists.
But even between them there is no longer that understanding that made Stonesmere an almost idyllic space.
Everyone has their own version of the events of Day 1, secrets are buried too deep, suspicions are rooted too strongly. Clues to the truth are hidden behind shaky facades that could bring down the entire city.
A psychological novel that smolders, playing with the mind of the reader and the characters, and that describes the conflict between truth and personal interpretation, between direct experience and conspiracy theories, between the pursuit of sensation and the attempt to overcome a tragedy
Doamna din lac
Translated title: The Lady of the Lake
Author: Lippman, Laura
Genre: Crime
Year: 2025 | Pages: 320 | Origin: ROM | ISBN: 9786306542994
Translated
In 1966, Baltimore is a city of secrets that everyone seems to know - everyone except Madeline 'Maddie' Schwartz.
A year ago she was a happy, even spoiled wife - now, she has left her husband, after twenty years of marriage, determined to fulfill her youthful dream, to find the purpose and passion of her life, to leave her mark on a world in constant change.
When he helps the police find the lifeless body of a murdered girl, he manages to get a job at the city's afternoon newspaper, the Star .
Here, she has the opportunity to build a reputation and it seems she has found exactly the story to propel her: a missing woman whose body is discovered in a park fountain.
But the woman is black, and everyone's prejudice means that Maddie becomes the only person who cares about why she was killed.
In her search, Maddie comes into contact with all kinds of people who, until then, were far outside her circles.
But, often, ambition and tenacity blind her, and her inability to see beyond her own needs will spell disaster, both for her and for those around her
Toate cartile. Testamentul lui Abraham
Translated title: All Books. Testament of Abraham
Author: Igor Bergler
Genre: Thriller / Mystery
Year: 2025 | Pages: 496 | Origin: ROM | ISBN: 9786303555065
An extermination camp, a bullet-riddled diary and a historical wound that still bleeds. A personal story tangled among the threads of a global warp of unimaginable proportions. A detective who digs up coffins and files, brings from the underground of history a disturbing truth and stirs the ghosts of a Europe whose silence is far from an answer.
Thousands of tons of gold, hundreds of thousands of art objects and millions of evaporated lives. A colossal loot converted into currency in the financial sanctuaries of the neutral paradise. A novel that opens up forbidden archives, secret libraries and your mind
