Résultats pour "John" dans Roman noir

The Bucket List starts when undercover FBI Agent John Adderley wakes up in a hospital bed in Baltimore with extensive gunshot wounds. He knows he’s lucky to be alive. And just a few beds away is the man who 24 hours ago pointed a gun to his head. Soon, a high-profile cold-case file is sent to Agent Adderley, now living in Sweden (where he’s not lived since he was a boy) in witness protection, hiding until he can testify against the drug cartel he infiltrated back in the States. Adderley is determined to solve the case, even with a price on his head....

Tana French meets Ann Cleeves in this gritty, atmospheric crime novel about Levi, a slumlord’s son who becomes the prime suspect when a tenant disappears, leaving behind a dead body—and his tool bag. Levi learned the rules early. His father made sure of that—sending him door to door to...

John Milton has started to hope that he might have a future. He has a job driving a taxi around the streets of San Francisco. He has his anonymity and his solitude. Being invisible has become a comfortable habit. He doesn’t want to be found. But when a girl he drives to a party goes missing...

Philippa Watson, a good-natured yet troubled 17-year-old, has just moved to Washington, DC. She’s lonely until she meets Judy Peabody, a brilliant and tempestuous classmate. The girls become unlikely friends and fashion themselves as intellectuals, drawing the notice of Christine Martins, their dazzling English teacher, who enthralls them with her passion for literature and her love of noirish detective fiction. When Philippa returns a novel Miss Martins has lent her, she interrupts a man grappling with her in the shadows.

In a city of sunshine and secrets, the shadows belong to the animals. In a solar-powered future, humans live in luxury, served by unseen Little Helpers – artificially enhanced animals who maintain their masters’ perfect green cities. The animals’ number one rule: ‘do not bother the...

Struggling actress Jane Innes is seduced by a handsome new arrival in her acting class. He makes a proposition. He admits he's a con man and needs Jane to pose as a rich, carefree heiress to fulfill her part in his intricate scam. Would you agree? Or run the other way? All goes as planned until Jane's true identity threatens to surface and their scheme begins to crack at the seams. It all leads to a tangled maze of deception, depravity and murder.

In the second book of John Banville’s masterful Quirke series, a faked suicide ensnares the pathologist in a deadly web of cons and deceit It has been two years since the events of Christine Falls, the bestselling novel that introduced the world to irascible Dublin pathologist Quirke. Quirke's...

Nel mondo dei sicari, Louis è un fantasma rispettato e temuto. Ma nessuno può sfuggire per sempre al proprio passato, specialmente se quel passato ha il volto dei "Mietitori", una cerchia d'élite di assassini che non tollera defezioni. Ora, la setta ha deciso di reclamare il debito di Louis.

One of Stephen King's Best Books of the 21st Century "It was not the dead that seemed to Quirke uncanny but the living." Quirke is a haunted, hard-drinking pathologist stumbling through the brooding gloom of 1950s Dublin. It is a society of secrets and meanness, dominated by a rigid...

When John Glass's billionaire father-in-law hires him to write his biography, he feels he can't refuse. Then his research assistant on the book discovers some very sensitive information about John's in-laws, and is murdered before he can tell anyone what he knows. John is on his own to find out...

He's a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He's also a knight errant who's wary of credit cards, retirement benefits, political parties, mortgages, and television. He only works when his cash runs out, and his rule is simple: he'll help you find whatever was taken from you, as long as he can keep half.

In the fog-choked alleys of Victorian London, fear has a new face. When a string of brutal murders strikes the heart of Whitechapel, Inspector John Maywills—a detective haunted by his own past—descends into the city’s darkest corners to uncover the truth.

In 1950s Ireland the Catholic Church controls the lives of nearly everyone. But when Quirke’s daughter, Phoebe, loses her close friend Jimmy Minor to murder, Quirke can no longer play by the Church’s rules. Along with Inspector Hackett, his sometime partner, Quirke investigates Jimmy’s death and learns just how far the Church and its supporters will go to protect their own interests.

John Tyler has gone rogue, pursuing an international vendetta against those responsible for killing his brother. But he's lured back by the CIA for one final mission. Simple, for a man like Tyler: journey to an old Soviet-era hotel in the frozen wastes of Siberia to obtain information from a Russian scientist about a double agent within NATO. But strange things are afoot, events related to the hotel's grisly past and the KGB's Cold war experiments into psychic phenomena.

Dublino, metà anni Cinquanta. Non è un bel periodo per l’anatomopatologo Quirke: una sua ex fiamma muore, un uomo che in passato stimava è in fin di vita e il rapporto con la figlia non è certo dei migliori. E quando Billy Hunt, una vecchia conoscenza del college, gli chiede un favore personale legato all'apparente suicidio della moglie Deirdre, Quirke non sa tirarsi indietro, nonostante senta che l'incontro gli porterà solo guai. Guai che non tardano ad arrivare: l'anatomopatologo si trova lentamente risucchiato in un mondo tenebroso.

January 16, 1999: It was a magical night for a group of high school seniors in Panama City, Florida. They listened to Maya Angelou read poetry. They danced. They celebrated life. By the time they noticed their friend Angel Diaz was missing, it was too late - she was never seen again. Her boyfriend, convicted of her murder, has been in prison for 18 years. Their friends have never looked at each other the same way again.

A young woman hundreds of miles from where she's supposed to be, surrounded by several witnesses, vanishes from the face of the earth in just seven minutes. Can John Jordan find her or the person responsible for her disappearance? Or has he finally met his match?

A missing young man. A sadistic serial killer. John Jordan is once again carrying a gun and a badge - and he’s going to need them. Balancing family life with being a cop and a prison chaplain takes grit and grace - and John has plenty of both. Working two cases that may or may not be connected, John is investigating the disappearance of a young army ranger home on leave and one of the most sadistic serial killers he’s ever encountered.

Una sera, dopo aver partecipato a una festa d'addio ai piani alti dell'ospedale, l'anatomopatologo Quirke scende a cercare un po' di quiete nel proprio studio, dove scopre suo cognato, un famoso neonatologo, intento a compilare una cartella clinica. E nota, con altrettanta sorpresa, la presenza di un cadavere di cui non sapeva niente: si tratta di una giovane donna, il suo nome è Christine Falls. Quirke ancora non lo sa, ma da quel momento niente sarà più come prima. Siamo nella Dublino cattolica e perbenista degli anni Cinquanta, piena di pub dove annegare profonde solitudini.

In the swamps of North Florida, Remington James' camera captured the best of nature and the worst of humanity, and it cost him his life. Three years later, his widow turns to the one man who can answer her questions and solve the mystery of his murder—John Jordan.