Résultats pour "James" dans Fiction criminelle

Un roman choral et viscéral qui mêle brutalité et grâce, par la lauréate du Grand Prix de littérature policière 2025 Un jour d’hiver, dans une cité de Rennes, un nouveau-né est découvert au fond d’un container à ordures. Vivant. Quelques étages plus haut, une jeune fille se vide...

En janvier 1942, Los Angeles est encore sous le choc de l'attaque de Pearl Harbor. Les Américains d'origine japonaise sont massivement arrêtés tandis que des pluies torrentielles s'abattent sur la ville. Un corps est découvert dans Griffith Park à la faveur d'un glissement de terrain.

Seven BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of P. D. James' acclaimed mysteries, plus P. D. James in Her Own Words. This collection includes: Cover Her Face, A Taste for Death, Devices and Desires, A Certain Justice, The Private Patient, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman and The Skull Beneath the Skin.

Writer Mark Endicott moves to a Dorset village, where he buys the small, almost derelict Corpse Path Cottage. It occurs to him that it would make the ideal setting for a murder. Before long, one of the village’s residents is mysteriously shot dead nearby. Mark’s life begins to unravel even as he helps the police solve the mystery. In the process he uncovers a tale of intrigue, bigamy, and blackmail.

Ein Schwert, das seit 1945 verschollen ist. Ein Auftraggeber, der alles dafür zahlt. Und eine Spur, die schon vor Jahrhunderten mit Blut gelegt wurde. Das PROJECT steht nicht länger unter dem Schutz des Präsidenten. Elizabeth Harker und ihr Team arbeiten heute als exklusiver Beratungsdienst...

La sixième enquête d'Adam Dalgliesh Un village des Fens, au sud-est de l'Angleterre. Des marécages, de la pluie, la découverte du cadavre d'une femme... Le lendemain, le Pr Lorrimer, responsable du service de biologie d'un laboratoire de médecine légale, est trouvé assassiné dans son bureau, toutes portes fermées. Au fil d'une enquête extrêmement minutieuse parmi le personnel médical, le commandant Dalgliesh va démêler l'écheveau des passions et des rancœurs et percer à jour des mystères où sexe et superstition se mêlent, bien loin de la rationalité scientifique.

Adam Mulvaney lives a double life. By day, he’s the spoiled youngest son of an eccentric billionaire. By night, he’s an unrepentant killer, one of seven psychopaths raised to right the wrongs of a justice system that keeps failing. Noah Holt has spent years dreaming of vengeance for the death of his father, but when faced with his killer, he learns a daunting truth he can’t escape. His father was a monster.

Le Chiffre. Dr No. Goldfinger. James Bond has faced them all. But now the world is changing, and even 007 has no idea what’s coming for him… It starts with a murdered agent in the Saudi desert. Only a traitor could have known enough to bring him down. But even James Bond can’t guess at the...

We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination - in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, DC....

Much later, as he sat with his back against an inside wall of a Motel 6 just north of Phoenix, watching the pool of blood lap toward him, Driver would wonder whether he had made a terrible mistake. Later still, of course, there’d be no doubt. But for now Driver is, as they say, in the moment...

Le décor: l'hôpital John Carpendar, imposant établissement d'époque victorienne abritant plusieurs services, dont une école d'infirmières. La première victime: une des élèves, tuée d'une manière particulièrement atroce. Les suspects: les infirmières, et, au premier chef, la directrice, la formidable Mary Taylor, et ses trois "secondes", mais aussi le grand patron, le docteur Courtney-Briggs, dont on découvre bientôt qu'il a eu une liaison avec l'une des victimes.

Rumors have swirled around Jake Cashen his whole life. Is he crazy like his father? Is it true they booted him out of the F.B.I. right after he cracked a career-making RICO case? Was he dirty? Only Jake knows, and he’s not telling. He came back to his tiny hometown at the foot of Ohio’s Blackhand Hills to serve as a deputy sheriff. He hopes to punch a clock and keep his head down until retirement. It was a solid plan—until someone put a bullet in the head of a revered county judge.

Seven Symanski doesn’t need anyone, least of all Enzo Conti. As one of Jericho’s Boys, a vigilante crew that protects their neighborhood, Seven has a found family, a mission, and enough baggage to keep any relationship at arm’s length. When a favor introduces him to Enzo, a charming criminal defense attorney and the son of Francesca Conti—the neighborhood’s own Robin Hood—sparks fly. But Seven’s never been good at sticking around, and a one-night stand seems like all they’re destined for.

Deux suspects. Deux témoignages identiques. Un seul coupable. Une petite ville perdue en Australie. Un officier de police habitué à régler des petits problèmes de vie domestique et querelles de voisinage. Un jour de canicule débarque un homme, couvert de sang. Gabriel déclare avoir été séquestré dans une cabane par un serial killer. Le dénommé Heath a déjà tué 54 personnes. Gabriel est sa prochaine victime. Quand la chasse à l'homme commence, ce même jour de canicule, débarque un deuxième homme. Heath est couvert de sang.

Three bombs. Three targets. One explosive secret.When the homes of three prominent Black members of Congress are bombed in Washington, D.C., FBI agent Lisa Owens is thrown into a high-profile case with national implications. Still adjusting to life in the Bureau, Lisa can't shake the feeling...

'One of the best British crime writers' – Lee Child A shocking reveal threatens to unravel Detective Superintendent Roy Grace’s happy new life . . . Grace is newly married, having moved to a country cottage with Cleo and their baby son. But his first, long-missing wife, now found, has left...

In „Stirb schön" des preisgekrönten Krimiautors Peter James steht Detective Superintendent Roy Grace vor einem seiner dunkelsten Fälle: Er muss einen grausamen Mord aufklären – und gleichzeitig einen unschuldigen Augenzeugen vor einem tödlichen Feind schützen. In Brighton wird die entsetzlich zugerichtete Leiche einer jungen Frau gefunden. Zur selben Zeit macht Tom Bryce einen folgenschweren Fehler: Als er in einem Zug eine liegengelassene CD entdeckt, will er nur helfen.

Dez Limerick, a man of many skills and a murky past, faces the impossible-a skilled, deadly opponent who anticipates his every move in James Byrne's Chain Reaction. Desmond Aloysius Limerick ("Dez" to his friends and close personal enemies) is a man with a shadowy past, certain useful hard-won...

A novel in The L.A. Quartet. Murder, mayhem and dirty cops on the make against the backdrop of anti-communist hysteria in L.A. in 1950. It’s Los Angeles in the new year of 1950. The Communist Scare is heating up. Gangsters vie for control of the town. The Hollywood studios are feuding with the...

Film star Sylvia Shoreham is wowing the dusty gambling town and is hell-bent on divorcing her conniving user of a husband, a foreigner with a slick tongue and a heavy accent. But the husband has other ideas, threatening to marry Miss Shoreham's neurotic sister if she divorces him. Hollywood bigwigs want to keep the movie star making the pictures that make them millions. And then there's a gun in the room and a dead husband. Did Sylvia do it? Or was it an elaborate suicide?