Résultats pour "man" dans Roman noir

In una Blackpool stancamente turistica, teatro di scorribande criminali, i detective Declan Miller e Sara Xiu, costretti a lavorare insieme, imparano a conoscersi mentre si trovano a risolvere un caso bizzarro. Due ladri sono entrati in rotta di collisione con il temibile Wayne Cutler, ritrovandosi in possesso di una valigetta che contiene le mani mozzate di un rivale troppo intraprendente. Cutler ha commissionato l’omicidio a un killer che adesso è sulle tracce di uno dei due ladri, il quale pensa bene di consegnare la valigetta a Miller.

The remarkable novel upon which the stunning cult film was based. 'Beautiful ... The story of an extraterrestrial visitor from another planet is designed mainly to say something about life on this one' NEW YORK TIMES Thomas Jerome Newton is an extraterrestrial from the planet Anthea, which has...

The Thin Man introduces Nick and Nora Charles, New York’s coolest crime-solving couple. Nick retired from detecting after his wife inherited a tidy sum, but six years later, a pretty blonde spies him at a speakeasy and asks for his help finding her father, an eccentric inventor who was once...

Shot through with darkly comic flourishes. Motel, money, murder, madness: it has all you need to keep you happy’ THE TIMES, THRILLER OF THE MONTH Meet Happy Doll Hap to his friends. He's a LA private detective living a quiet life along with his beloved half-Chihuahua half-Terrier, George. He's...

Something is preying on the denizens of Skid Row, but when the victims are from the lost side of town, only one of the lost can stop the Seven O’Clock Man. The Seven O’Clock Man is a legend, preying on the homeless since the first hobos hit the rails in the aftermath of the Civil War. Solve the mystery of who is the Seven O’Clock Man.

A successful entrepreneur in the mushroom industry, Jaakko Kaunismaa is a man in his prime. At just 37 years of age, he is shocked when his doctor tells him that he's dying. What is more, the cause is discovered to be prolonged exposure to toxins; in other words, someone has slowly but surely been poisoning him. Determined to find out who wants him dead, Jaakko embarks on a suspenseful roller-coaster journey full of unusual characters, bizarre situations and unexpected twists.

"It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated, civilized man." And Hugh Denismore, a young doctor driving his mother's Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix, is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged, would seem to have the world at his feet...

From bestselling and Emmy-nominated writer George Pelecanos comes the tale of an ex-offender who must choose between helping the man who got him out of prison and embracing a life with the woman who showed him another path. Michael Hudson spends the long days in prison devouring books given to...

Just when he thought he was out.... Burdened by guilt over the trauma recently inflicted on his friends and colleagues, former-Detective Chief Inspector Jack Logan has spent the past nine months living in self-imposed exile. When a mother and her young daughter are the victims of a double murder staged to look like suicide, Logan is dragged back to help hunt down and catch a brutal, calculating killer. But the world has moved on without him.

From the acclaimed author of Sirens, damaged Detective Aidan Waits returns in a mind-bending new thriller that will have everyone asking “Who is the Smiling Man?” Aidan Waits is back on the night shift, the Manchester PD dumping ground for those too screwed-up for more glamorous work. But...

This is the biggest and darkest Case detective Jack Manson has ever faced. The mob is trying to kill him, the police want to arrest him, but why? is someone setting him up? Has Jack went Rogue and began killing Lips Malone men? Has he had enough and is now a vigilante. Travel back to the 1950s. and spend some time in the grittiest parts of Detroit as mobsters run almost every facet of society. See the simpler and yet sometimes deadlier way of life.

Pearce is an Edinburgh hard man who wants exactly one thing: to be left alone. He’s done with favours, done with families, done with trouble. Naturally, trouble comes looking for him anyway. The Baxter family is a mess of bad blood and worse decisions. When sixteen-year-old May Baxter crosses her sadistic husband Wallace, Pearce is asked to step in and protect her. He says no. Then it gets personal. And once Pearce is involved, restraint is off the table.

A new PI. A dead rockstar. A tangled web of secrets. When Ethan Adler set up his new PI agency in central Manchester, he wasn’t expecting his first case to be so high profile – investigating the mysterious death of rock star Dylan Vy. Ethan has been avoiding the spotlight ever since his...

As the flames rise, so do the secrets. When the charred remains of a body are found in the quaint Surrey Hills, the trauma of DI Stephanie Broadbent’s past is reignited. The victim has been burned alive. No clues. No witnesses. Soon every lead turns to ash. When another body appears, Stephanie uncovers a connection that threatens to set the world — and more bodies — alight. If she is to catch the killer, she must step into the flames and face her fears.

Newly indebted to the Russian mafia, Henry “Hank” Thompson travels back to New York, where long-buried secrets threaten to come to light—the fast-paced sequel to Six Bad Things and Caught Stealing “Huston writes dialogue so combustible it could fuel a bus and characters crazy enough to...

When Jem writes to her ex, Ben, it’s to explain everything. All the secrets she kept from him - from the little lies she’d sometimes tell about how new those shoes really were, or how many glasses of wine she’d had that evening...right up to The Big Thing that happened on the night that changed everything. But she never expects he will actually see what she’s written. She is just writing because she thinks it will help to get the words out. Later, she resolves, she’ll burn the letter, and then the past will be in the past for good. Because Jem is doing fine now.

L'Ispettore Capo Giovanni Di Falco, in servizio presso il Commissariato di pubblica sicurezza di una cittadina marinara della Sicilia occidentale, possiede un suo personale archivio. Si tratta di un armadio di metallo, dove all'interno il poliziotto conserva gli incartamenti ufficiali, in copia, dei casi di cui si è occupato. Ogni caso ha una sua cartella. Per identificare l'indagine, nella copertina di ognuna, di Falco di solito scrive una frase tratta del dialetto siciliano.

The Cambridgeshire hamlet of Jude’s Ferry is a lonely, forgotten spot. Requisitioned decades earlier by the Ministry of Defence for military training, one of its few claims to fame is that in its entire thousand-year history, it never recorded a single crime. But when a Territorial Army...

An addictive debut psychological thriller for fans of "The Girl on the Train", Liane Moriarty and Lucy Foley. This is the story of Lucy and Paul. They met. They fell deeply in love. They got married. Lucy thought that she had everything she wanted. Until she found the photograph, the text messages. Until she uncovered Paul's secrets. Now Lucy realises she doesn't really know her husband. She doesn't know if she can trust her own mind. She doesn't know the lengths Paul would go to keep his perfect life. And worst of all, she doesn't know that she’s in danger.

1950. The Cold War simmers, and ex-GI Jack Waters is called in to investigate a fatal accident at a research lab in California. When Waters recognizes the victim, he realizes he must revisit his hidden past in World War II to solve a murder and prevent Nazi scientists from creating a terrible, new weapon in America. Blending noir detective fiction with post-WWII history, The Man from Mittelwerk builds from the facts of Operation Paperclip, the US government’s secret recruitment of 1,600 top Nazi scientists, to pose a dark what-if scenario.