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Denise Mina

    21 agosto 1966

    Denise Mina è un'autrice che si addentra negli aspetti più oscuri della natura umana e nelle problematiche sociali. Le sue opere sono note per i loro acuti studi dei personaggi e le trame avvincenti. Mina fonde magistralmente il commento sociale con una narrazione avvincente, offrendo ai lettori un'esperienza coinvolgente e stimolante. Il suo stile è spesso descritto come grezzo, realistico e schietto.

    Denise Mina
    Resolution
    Slip of the Knife
    The Second Murderer
    The dead hour
    The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
    La regina dei castelli di carta
    • La giovane hacker Lisbeth Salander è di nuovo immobilizzata in un letto d’ospedale, anche se questa volta non sono le cinghie di cuoio a trattenerla, ma una pallottola in testa. È una minaccia: se qualcuno scava nella sua vita e ascolta quello che ha da dire, potenti organismi segreti crolleranno come castelli di carta. Deve sparire per sempre, meglio se rinchiusa in un manicomio. La cospirazione di cui si trova suo malgrado al centro, iniziata quando aveva solo dodici anni, continua. Intanto, il giornalista Mikael Blomkvist è riuscito ad avvicinarsi alla verità sul terribile passato di Lisbeth ed è deciso a pubblicare su Millennium un articolo di denuncia che farà tremare i servizi di sicurezza, il governo e l’intero paese. Non ci saranno compromessi. L’ultimo capitolo della trilogia di Stieg Larsson – uno dei più clamorosi casi editoriali internazionali degli ultimi anni – è ancora una volta una magnifica descrizione della società di oggi in forma di thriller. Un romanzo emozionante di trame occulte e servizi segreti deviati, che cattura il ritmo del nostro tempo e svela a cosa possono condurre le perversioni di un sistema malato. Una storia che, fedele all’anima del suo autore, narra di violenza contro le donne, e di uomini che la rendono possibile.

      La regina dei castelli di carta
    • 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.

      The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
    • The dead hour

      • 459pagine
      • 17 ore di lettura

      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.

      The dead hour
    • 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].

      The Second Murderer
    • Paddy Meehan is home alone when there's a knock at the door. It's the police and they have bad news. Former boyfriend Terry Patterson's naked body has been found in a ditch. He's been tortured, hooded, then shot through the head: all hallmarks of an IRA assassination. Paddy is devastated: Terry was her first lover; the sort of journalist she's always aspired to be. But why have the police come to her? Although she and Terry have had an on/off affair since they first worked together, she hasn't seen him for over a year. She is therefore horrified to find that not only has Terry named her next of kin, but he has left her a huge Georgian house in Ayrshire and several suitcases full of notes. What was Terry trying to tell her? As Paddy begins her investigation into his death, she realizes that if the secret he was about to expose was worth killing for, she is next in line. From the Hardcover edition.

      Slip of the Knife
    • Maureen O'Donnell is facing the darkest episode in her life. She owes more than she makes in a year in back taxes; Angus Farrell, the psychologist who murdered her boyfriend, is up for trial, with Maureen as the reluctant star witness; and her abuser has arrived back in Glasgow in time for the birth of her sister's baby. On top of it all, Maureen - who identifies all too readily with the underdogs of this world - has become embroiled in someone else's family feud. When an elderly stallholder at the flea market where Maureen and Leslie are selling illegally imported cigarettes dies in hospital after a brutal beating, Maureen questions why anyone might want to kill the woman popularly known as 'Home Gran'. She suspects Ella's son, but Si McGee is an upstanding member of the Scottish business community, runs a chain of estate agents and has a health club in Glasgow's West End. But she soon discovers that the 'health club' fronts a much less respectable establishment. As Angus' trial approaches, Maureen is under threat once again, and this time she has very few protectors.

      Resolution
    • Sono passati molti anni da quando Harriet, nipote prediletta del potente industriale Henrik Vanger, è scomparsa senza lasciare traccia. Da allora, ogni anno l'invio di un dono anonimo riapre la vicenda, un rito che si ripete puntuale e risveglia l'inquietudine di un enigma mai risolto. Ormai molto vecchio, Henrik Vanger decide di tentare per l'ultima volta di fare luce sul mistero che ha segnato tutta la sua vita. L'incarico di cercare la verità è affidato a Mikael Blomkvist: quarantenne di gran fascino, Blomkvist è il giornalista di successo che guida la rivista Millennium, specializzata in reportage di denuncia sulla corruzione e gli affari loschi del mondo imprenditoriale. Sulle coste del Mar Baltico, con l'aiuto di Lisbeth Salander, giovane e abilissima hacker, indimenticabile protagonista femminile al suo fianco ribelle e inquieta, Blomkvist indaga a fondo la storia della famiglia Vanger. E più scava, più le scoperte sono spaventose.

      Uomini che odiano le donne
    • 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.

      Three Fires
    • Exile

      • 448pagine
      • 16 ore di lettura

      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.

      Exile
    • Alex Morrow faces her toughest opponents yet in this brilliant new thriller about criminals, consequences, and convictions.Police detective Alex Morrow has met plenty of unsavory characters in her line of work, but arms dealer Michael Brown ranks among the most brutal and damaged of the criminals she's known. Morrow is serving as a witness in Brown's trial, where the case hinges on his fingerprints found on the guns he sells.When the investigation leads to a privileged Scottish lawyer who's expecting to be assassinated after a money laundering scheme goes bad, and a woman who's spying on the people who put her in jail, Morrow has her hands full. And that's before she even gets to her family issues.THE RED ROAD is a thrilling new novel from a masterful writer, proving once again that "If you don't love Denise Mina, you don't love crime fiction." (Val McDermid)

      The Red Road. Das Vergessen, englische Ausgabe