Résultats pour "Sins" dans Roman noir

Nadie espera nada del cínico sargento Abel Claramunt, desterrado al callejón sin salida de los casos sin resolver. Sabe que tiene los días contados como policía cuando Elena Izbasa es encontrada muerta en el cementerio de Lleida, con un impacto de bala de un arma antigua. Días después, su...

The New York Mafia has been around for decades, and the Giuliani’s have ruled their criminal empire with an iron first. But wait. There’s an upstart waiting in the wings, and the Lombardi’s are about to claw their way in, thanks to the decline of the city’s ruling family. The prize to be had in the upcoming battle is New York Harbor. The warriors? Francesco Giuliani, the bad-boy son and enforcer of the family, and Jessica Lombardi, her family’s lawyer who has learned the business from her father and brother.

When a nightclub stripper is brutally murdered, her boyfriend is quickly arrested and charged with the crime. Carson is hired by the accused man’s 12-year-old daughter to prove him innocent. Things quickly get out of hand. Bodies pile up, and it appears that a serial killer might be at work, and perhaps his client’s father could actually be guilty. The Memphis underworld of the 1960s is somehow involved and complicating the investigation.

Senator Gerald Albers is at the top of his game politically when mob-like characters blackmail him to the tune of more than a million dollars in order to keep the politician’s secret sex life out of the media. Albers, dreading the worst outcome, and unwilling to involve the police, hires private eye and former Chicago cop, Cleve Hawkins, to track down the threatening miscreants.

Alles sieht zunächst nach einem Routinefall aus, als Privatdetektiv Clyde Briggs den Auftrag erhält, die verschwundene Ausreißerin Shawna Donovan zu finden und sie zu ihrer Schwester nach Hause zu bringen. Briggs findet schon bald Spuren, die auf einen gestohlenen Wagen hinweisen. Allem Anschein nach ist Shawna nicht allein unterwegs. In den Bergen außerhalb von Los Angeles stößt der Detektiv auf ein einsames Haus, das sich jedoch als tödliche Falle entpuppt. Briggs wird gezwungen, in einen dunklen Abgrund zu blicken, in dem Täter zu Opfern werden - und umgekehrt.