Résultats pour "Requiem" dans Policier

Le front de la Somme, automne 1916. Alors que les soldats succombent par milliers dans les tranchées, la mort frappe de façon plus singulière ailleurs mais avec tout autant de cruauté... C'est d'abord une chanteuse célèbre d'avant guerre, la Dame blanche, soupçonnée d'espionnage et sommairement exécutée par des justiciers improvisés. C'est ensuite Albert Saulx, un as de l'aviation française, retrouvé mystérieusement poignardé par une baïonnette allemande, au retour d'une mission aérienne, des roses rouges répandues dans le cockpit de son appareil.

On ne choisit pas sa famille mais le diable a choisi son clan. Alors que Grégoire et Erwan traquent la vérité jusqu'à Lontano, au cœur des ténèbres africaines, Loïc et Gaëlle affrontent un nouveau tueur à Florence et à Paris. Sans le savoir, ils ont tous rendez-vous avec le même ennemi : l'Homme-Clou n'a pas dit son dernier mot. Chez les Morvan, tous les chemins mènent en enfer.

Au début des années 1900, la France est en proie à d'étranges phénomènes. A Paris, des momies disparaissent des musées, des médiums succombent à des morts mystérieuses, et les rumeurs les plus folles courent les cercles occultes.

C'est dans le Berlin de 1947 que l'on retrouve Bernie Gunther, le détective familier aux connaisseurs des premiers volumes de la trilogie. Un Berlin cauchemardesque, livré au cynisme des "Puissances Alliées" qui se partagent la capitale anéantie. Une ville où tout est bon pour tenter de survivre, alors que la "dénazification" entraîne une valse des identités.

Professional cellist Natalya Tsvetnenko moves seamlessly among the elite where she fills the souls of symphony patrons with beauty even as she takes the lives of the corrupt of Australia's ruthless underworld. The cold, exacting assassin is hired to kill a woman who seems so innocent that Natalya can't understand why anyone would want her dead. As she gets to know her target, she can't work out why she even cares.

Eric Delarue, poco piú di cinquant'anni, origini francesi, bello, istrionico, di successo, sposato con una donna ricca: un po' per sfotterlo, un po' per invidia, gli operai della fabbrica di cui era il responsabile lo chiamavano Julio, come Julio Iglesias di cui aveva l'irresistibile sorriso. Chi poteva odiare uno così al punto da sparargli sulla porta di casa?

At last, Charlie and Helen Louise's wedding is only a month away. They're busy preparing for the big day, and the last thing Charlie needs is a new mystery to solve. Enter Tara Martin, a shy, peculiar woman who has recently started working part-time at Helen Louise's bistro and helping Charlie in the archive.

New Orleans Requiem is written in Donaldson's unique style: A hard-hitting, punchy, action-packed prose that’s dripping with a folksy, decidedly southern, sense of irony. Add in Donaldson's brilliant first-hand knowledge of forensics and the sultry flavor of New Orleans, and the result is first class forensic procedural within an irresistibly delectable mystery.

When the body of troubled teenager Elodie Duncan is pulled from the river in Abbeyford, the case is at first assumed to be a straightforward suicide. Detective Sergeant Kate Redman is shocked to discover that she'd met the victim the night before her death, introduced by Kate's younger brother Jay. As the case develops, it becomes clear that Elodie was murdered.

On a cold February morning, ME Olivia Remington-Thorpe's severely beaten and bleeding husband stumbles onto Sheriff Elizabeth Benoit's retreat. Before slipping into unconsciousness, he begs her to find Olivia. Hours later, Deputy Detective Lila Dayne discovers a mysterious boneyard with dark secrets. The timing is catastrophic. Still reeling from the horrific events of the past autumn, the deputies of Eckardt County are spread thin, and tempers are short. Elizabeth's relationship with her lead investigator is sour. Still worse, her ex-husband moved back to Iowa with a devilish deal.

After the death of his mother, young Alwin of Whittaker leaves the only home he has ever known to seek answers about his unknown father through a pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham. On the journey, Alwin falls in with a band of violent and marauding soldiers and is witness to their terrible crimes. When Alwin later joins up with a group of pilgrims, he must hide his identity...but he is not the only one with secrets to keep. Rosamund, a young woman travelling the same path, has much to conceal too.

Der Comer See: In Villengärten blühen Oleander und Azaleen, auf dem türkisblauen Wasser glitzern die Sonnenstrahlen - ein norditalienischer Sehnsuchtsort. In dem kleinen Dorf Abbadia Lariana allerdings wird die Urlaubsidylle jäh gestört. Angelika Krüger, eine deutsche Ex-Opernsängerin, liegt erschlagen im Pfarrgarten. Dabei war die in die Jahre gekommene Diva doch nur auf der Suche nach der großen Liebe. Commissario Giulia Cesare, Anfang fünfzig und für ihre Hilfsbereitschaft bekannt, ermittelt gemeinsam mit ihrem Freund Brutus, dem örtlichen Briefträger.

Il commissario Enzo Fellini, già protagonista di "Giallo veneziano" (2019), è incaricato dal questore Badalamenti di un nuovo, delicatissimo caso. In una gondola, infatti, è stato ritrovato il cadavere di Gudrun Kessler, una soprano tedesca stabilitasi da tempo nella città lagunare. Scontrandosi con l'ossessione del questore per l'opinione pubblica, oltre che con un imprevisto flirt, Fellini si immerge in un'indagine che ben presto assume toni decisamente allarmanti: chi è il Superuomo (come l'assassino stesso ama firmarsi)?

The rugged hills and dales have finally found their way into DCI Harry Grimm’s heart. Having accepted a permanent position, he’s concentrating on building his team and keeping them focused on solving cases with painstaking police work. But he’s pulled into a classical vocalist’s world of dark secrets when the superstar chorist is brutally killed. With the body discovered gruesomely suspended from a church tower, Grimm and his cops are confronted by walls daubed in satanic symbols.

Sal Puglise ha sessantatré anni. Alle spalle tanti fallimenti e il futuro non si prospetta certo migliore: pensione da fame, due o tre amici fidati, un pappagallo fissato con le telenovelas e una solitudine che gli si allarga davanti agli occhi. Sulla scrivania pochi casi, squallide fotocopie uno dell'altro. D'altronde il mestiere dell'investigatore privato non è più quello di una volta. Infedeltà coniugali, dipendenti assenteisti, qualche persona scomparsa. E poi la gente, che è sempre meno disposta ad accettare la verità, e ancora meno a pagarla.

Was ein unterhaltsamer Theater-Abend bei der Premiere von "Amadeus" werden sollte, endet für Inspector Barnaby mit einem Fall: Jemand muss ein echtes Messer unter die Requisiten geschmuggelt haben, sodass der Darsteller des Salieri seinen Mord praktischerweise gleich selbst erledigt. Und wie Barnaby feststellt, hatte die gesamte Belegschaft, von der untreuen Gattin des Gemeuchelten bis zum größenwahnsinnigen Regisseur, ein Motiv.

Parecia uma manhã como outra qualquer na pequena Palmyra, uma cidade histórica no litoral do Rio de Janeiro. A caminho do trabalho, o delegado Joaquim Dornelas se espanta com um movimento incomum nas ruas. Diante da Igreja de Santa Teresa e da Antiga Cadeia, no Centro Histórico, uma multidão observa o corpo de um homem atolado na lama seca do canal. Ninguém sabe como o corpo foi parar lá. Não há sinais de arrasto, marcas de barco, violência, ferimentos, nada. Apenas um band-aid na dobra interna do braço esquerdo.

"Only in Bologna" reads the headline in the Carlino after a professor of music is apparently murdered leaving the opera. But what looks like an open-and-shut case begins to fall apart when English detective Daniel Leicester is tasked with getting the accused man off, and a trail that begins among Bologna's close-knit classical music community leads him to suspect there may be a serial killer at large in the oldest university in the world. And as Bologna trembles with aftershocks following a recent earthquake, the city begins to give up her secrets.

With a rich cast of characters reminiscent of Raymond Chandler's classic The Long Lost Goodbye, L.A. Requiem is the apotheosis of Crais' writing career ? a gripping novel that envelops its heroes ? two private investigators who have been partners for 12 years - in an ever-tightening web of conspiracies, secrets

Grégoire Morvan, graue Eminenz des französischen Innenministeriums, hütet dunkle Geheimnisse aus seiner Vergangenheit in Zaire. Dort hatte er in den Siebzigerjahren einen bestialischen Killer zu Fall gebracht. Doch jener "Nagelmann", der seine Opfer einem grausamen Ritual folgend mit Nägeln und Spiegelscherben gespickt zurückließ, scheint einen mysteriösen Nachfolger zu haben. Als eine Serie ähnlich gearteter Anschläge Morvans gesamte Familie bedroht, begibt sich Sohn Erwan, Pariser Polizeikommissar, im Alleingang in den Kongo, um die wahre Geschichte seines Vaters zu ergründen.