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.
Denise Mina Libri
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.







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 first book of "a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas in this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, in one woman's determined quest to seize a final chance at glory--and write her own legend ... Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean's most notorious pirates, she's 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 tracked down by the obscenely wealthy mother of a former crewman, she's offered a job no bandit could refuse: retrieve her comrade's kidnapped daughter for a kingly sum. The chance to have one last adventure with her crew, do right by an old friend, and win a fortune that will secure her family's future forever? It seems like such an obvious choice that it must be God's will. Yet the deeper Amina dives, the more it becomes alarmingly clear there's more to this job, and the girl's disappearance, than she was led to believe. For there's always risk in wanting to become a legend, to seize one last chance at glory, to savor just a bit more power ... and the price might be your very soul"-- Provided by publisher
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.



