Résultats pour "Georges" dans Fiction criminelle

La collection audio "Crème de Crime" rassemble des polars emblématiques de la littérature policière. "Un crime" est l'unique roman policier de Georges Bernanos. Peu connu, il mérite d'être (re)découvert. Un cadavre découvert par une nuit glacée dans le parc d'un manoir de montagne entraine l'auditeur dans une intrigue haletante dont, hébété de tant de chausse-trappes, il ne saisit la clef qu'à la toute fin.

Die zehnjährige Charlotte ist spurlos verschwunden. Sofort hat ihre Mutter, die konservative Politikerin Eve Bowen, einen Verdacht. Nur Dennis Luxford kommt für sie als Täter infrage, der Chef eines berüchtigten Skandalblattes und Vater ihrer unehelichen Tochter. In Eves Augen ist die ganze Angelegenheit ein abgekartetes Spiel, um ihre Karriere zu ruinieren und gleichzeitig Luxfords Zeitung zu riesigen Auflagen zu verhelfen. Inspector Lynley ermittelt – und sticht in ein Wespennest aus Affären, Lügen und schmutzigen Geheimnissen.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Inspector Thomas Lynley travels to Scotland to solve the untimely demise of a renowned playwright in the second novel of the #1 New York Times bestselling Inspector Lynley series. Don’t miss the upcoming BritBox streaming series Lynley! “George writes like Agatha...

Maigret dismantles an intricate network of lies stretching from Paris to Nice. Mechanically, he had put his pince-nez down on the blotter and looked at it there with his large, short-sighted eyes. It is at that moment that the strange thing happens. One of the lenses, acting as a mirror, reflected the criss-cross, hatched ink marks which had dried on the blotter, and he could just make out a couple of words.

It is barely three months since the murder of his wife and Thomas Lynley takes to the South-West Coast Path in Cornwall, determined to walk its length in an attempt to distract himself from his loss. On the forty-third day of this walk, he sees a cliff climber fall to his death, apparently...

The suicide of William Goldacre is devastating to those left behind. But what was the cause of his tragedy and how far might the consequences reach? Is there a link between the young man's leap from a Dorset cliff and a horrific poisoning in Cambridge? Following various career-threatening...

Teo, una donna di origine nigeriana che lavorava per la polizia di Londra, ha cessato da poco di respirare. Una morte apparentemente inspiegabile, finché l'autopsia non rivela il trauma letale causato da un gesto omicida, oltre a un'ombra cupa che risale al suo passato. È stato questo passato a tenderle una trappola fatale, o la sua tragica fine è legata al difficile caso al quale era impegnata sotto copertura? E se le due cose fossero collegate?

When country milkman Martin Snell makes his usual delivery to Celandine Cottage one spring morning in Kent, he expects to be greeted by the cottage's sensual and seductive tenant, Gabriella Patten, not by the charred remains of fire pointing to murder.

After a grisly death ruins a couple’s vacation, Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley must determine whether this small-town tragedy was an accident or the beginning of a sinister plot—a “totally satisfying mystery” (Denver Post) in the #1 New York Times bestselling Inspector Lynley series...

Convicted felon Alvin Cooper was eventually granted work furlough from prison. While at a local bank, he sees a picture of the manager's family. He becomes obsessed with the manager's teenage daughter and kidnaps her.  

Madame Maigret takes the lead in a disturbing investigation in this new translation, book 34 of the Maigret series. Inspector Maigret's wife turns sleuth after a strange encounter in a Paris square leads her on the trail of a woman in a white hat and towards a grisly tale of deception and greed.

The investigation of a young schoolboy’s murder leads Inspector Thomas Lynley into the sinister underbelly of an elite public school—a “spectacular” (Los Angeles Times) installment of the #1 New York Times bestselling Inspector Lynley series Don’t miss the upcoming BritBox streaming...

The Devil's Chair is a place of dark legend, a brooding rock formation in a bleak and forbidding landscape. For Marianne Leonard, it is also the home she built on a lie, offering a hard-won peace she has fiercely protected. But a brutal murder at her bunkhouse pulls her back into a world to which she swore she would never return.

Quando il professor Azhar torna a casa e scopre che la figlia di nove anni è scomparsa insieme a quasi tutte le sue cose, non può che bussare disperato alla porta accanto e chiedere aiuto alla sua vicina e amica, il sergente Barbara Havers. Presto si scopre che a portar via la bambina è stata la madre, trasferitasi in Italia, a Lucca, per seguire il suo nuovo amore. In bilico tra i sentimenti e la ragione, Barbara si impegna a indagare ufficiosamente sul caso, ritrovandosi presto nei guai con i superiori a causa delle ingiustificate assenze dal lavoro.

Bridget is suffocating. Trapped by the monotony of her everyday life and the relentless bills landing on her doormat. So when an old friend invites her for a week on his superyacht, she jumps at the chance to escape. Champagne at sunset. Turquoise waters. A reunion with friends who were once inseparable, before fame, heartbreak, and failure tore them apart. But the dream shatters fast.

Der kleinkriminelle Fahrradkurier Nico hat nur ein Ziel: Endlich sein eigener Chef sein. Doch als er seinen besten Freund Dave tot auffindet, gerät sein Leben außer Kontrolle. Nico hat nur 48 Stunden, um herauszufinden, wer Dave getötet hat, bevor er selbst untergehen wird.

After the Carusos family home is destroyed by police with a no-knock warrant, the family struggle to return to normal. Two former inmates reunite on a TV set. They're both back on the straight and narrow...until one sees the potential for an easy grift. A teenage boy must step into the man he'd like to be as a hostage crisis grips his hometown. A woman adrift meets a man tied to her grandmother's past, and awakens to the bloody history of the place she grew up. Pelecanos' portraits are characterized by shades of grey, resisting the mold victims and perpetrators, good and evil.

El Inspector Lynley, Deborah y sus amigos Helen y Simon pasan unos días en la casa familiar del primero, en Cornualles. Su visita coincide con un hecho que perturba la placidez de la vida pueblerina: el asesinato y castración de Mick Cambrey, un conocido donjuán local. Su muerte, y la posterior de Justin Brooke, biólogo y novio de la hermana de Simon, parecen deberse a las drogas. Pero la investigación de Lynley y Simon desvelará un universo de ambiciones más oscuras, más implacables.

Det usædvanlig bestialske drab på en journalist i Cornwall er blot ouverturen til den række uhyggelige begivenheder, som kriminalassistent Thomas Lynley stilles overfor i "En passende hævn". Den adelige opdager fra Scotland Yard må undvære sin sædvanlige makker, Barbara Havers, og optrevlingen af sagen kompliceres yderligere, da en gammel familietragedie på Howenstow-godset, Lynleys fædrene hjem, kommer for dagen.

Tony Wolf, a troubled man and the FBI’s most esteemed undercover agent, is back after mysteriously vanishing without a trace. A specialist at infiltrating criminal organizations and taking them down from the inside, he lives his life in the shadows. But when he’s forced into the open during the rescue of two kidnapped children, Wolf becomes caught up in a massive federal manhunt. Faced with a traitorous agent and a ruthless, renegade biker gang he has crossed paths with before, Wolf finds himself in danger.