Résultats pour "Angelique" dans Roman noir

Retired LAPD detective Mike Travis has put thousands of miles between himself and his former life by sailing to Kona, Hawaii, where he runs a private yacht charter business and co-owns a coffee farm. But once a cop, always a cop—especially when someone he cares about needs his help. When a local girl goes missing, her fundamentalist parents don't even file a report. She is eighteen, after all, and seems to be rebelling against her strict upbringing. But Travis knows the dangers that lurk for young women.

Private investigator Jack Fox will sweet-talk the Devil on a Sunday and kiss the Pope on a Monday - whatever it takes to get to the truth. Between his newest case involving the brutal murder of a Russian mail order bride, his 17-year-old daughter who is the poster child for anger non-management issues, and his ex-girlfriend-from-hell who is giving him an ultimatum that threatens to end in murder, Jack is pushed past his limits as he tries to keep his sanity - and catch a killer!

Milano, 2009. La profanazione di una tomba seicentesca fa subito pensare a un vile atto di vandalismo. Ma l'assassinio di tre persone dai cognomi un po' altisonanti obbliga gli inquirenti a una cupa constatazione: tutte le vittime erano discendenti di famiglie che nel Seicento erano state nemiche del marchese Ludovico Acerbi, inquilino della tomba profanata. Diversi come il giorno e la notte, ma uniti dalla stessa sete di verità, l'algido commissario Ardigò e il solare giornalista Malerba, collaborano su una serie di misteriosi omicidi a sfondo esoterico.

Every angel deserves their wings… When flight attendant Angelica Whitaker is reported missing after a night out at one of the most popular nightclubs in Southend, the case is handed to DS Tomek Bowen for the first time in his career. As soon as the investigation begins, the finger is pointed at the man she danced with at the club, but when her body is later found in a church, posed like an angel, the same fingers begin to point towards a calculated, composed, and sadistic killer.

Diversi come il giorno e la notte, ma uniti dalla stessa sete di verità, l'algido commissario Ardigò e il solare giornalista Malerba, collaborano su una serie di misteriosi omicidi a sfondo esoterico. Milano, 2009. La profanazione di una tomba seicentesca fa subito pensare a un vile atto di vandalismo. Ma l’assassinio di tre persone dai cognomi un po’ altisonanti obbliga gli inquirenti a una cupa constatazione: tutte le vittime erano discendenti di famiglie che nel Seicento erano state nemiche del marchese Ludovico Acerbi, inquilino della tomba profanata.

Tutti conoscono il caso degli Angeli di Alperton, ma nessuno conosce la verità. È per questo che Amanda, giornalista di cronaca nera, vuole scriverne in un libro. Per riuscirci, dovrà risolvere il mistero prima di chiunque altro e aggiudicarsi lo scoop dell'anno. La giornalista Amanda Bailey sta lavorando a un libro sugli Angeli di Alperton, una setta religiosa i cui seguaci, manipolati da un carismatico guru, tentarono di uccidere il figlio di una di loro, convinti di trovarsi di fronte al «male».

Summer, 1962. A scorching heat wave is suffocating LA. PI Jim Keegan is offered a small fortune to find a beautiful woman from a set of photographs. He refuses; the job seems suspicious. But the next day the same woman, Eve, turns up, unbidden, on his doorstep. Eve fears for her safety. She is being watched. Before Keegan knows it, someone has been killed with Keegan’s own gun, and he gets sucked into a world of suspicion and betrayal where he’s never quite sure where the truth lies....

Hoch Racheengel is a former star pilot who has made mistakes and is now paying for them. He gets a chance to repay an act of kindness by finding the people responsible for the rape and murder of the young woman who helped him when he needed help the most. But was her murder just a random act of piracy, or is it the tip of the iceberg of something far more sinister? He finds that he has a talent for balancing the scales of justice with his own hands, but his thirst for vengeance sometimes makes him straddle the line between right and wrong.

Alvin is a party photographer. His controversial, taste-making site has brought fortune and fame to hundreds, including the wild girls of the hit reality series All F's. With a fiery, freshly broken heart, Al attempts to enact his vendetta against a former online teen heartthrob while struggling to gain the affection of disaffected socialite Sky Monroe.

Il commissario De Vincenzi lascia Milano per andare a Roma. Nella capitale, si troverà a indagare su una serie di misteriosi omicidi avvenuti nell'ambiente cinematografico, negli studi di Cinecittà di inizio anni Quaranta. Tra attori e registi di tutto il mondo, il commissario avrà di fronte un caso di omicidi seriali, molto probabilmente operati da una sola mano. Caratterizzato dalla solita atmosfera noir tipica dei romanzi di De Angelis, "Il Mistero di Cinecittà" coinvolgerà il lettore grazie a colpi di scena mozzafiato e a un protagonista estremamente umano e malinconico.

Four years ago, a young heiress survived an attack that claimed the lives of both her parents. The crime made headlines all over Los Angeles, both for the vicious nature of the killings and the seemingly random nature of the attack: nothing was stolen, and the van Aust family had no obvious enemies. Melia van Aust fled the city soon after the murders—which were never solved—but her brother Jasper has not been seen since. When Melia returns to LA and moves back into her family home, someone begins sending her increasingly violent messages that allude to her parents' murders.