Titres dans Roman noir

Life's never simple for private inspector, Cybil Lewis. Her investigation for her latest client runs into a snag: dead bodies all over The District with his DNA. Is it a malfunction in the system or something far more sinister?

He will find the truth. Even if it kills him. Five months ago, DCI Robert Kett’s wife Billie was snatched from a London street. Five months of no leads, no evidence, and no suspects. Until now. When a routine police search uncovers a chamber of horrors beneath one of the city’s most expensive houses, detectives find a clue that points to Billie’s fate, and to the identity of her kidnapper - an enigmatic killer known as the Pig Man.

Colección de relatos de Juan Ramón Biedma en la que el autor vuelve a hacer gala de su prosa descarnada y sin tapujos, su gusto por la truculencia y lo macabro y su afilada disección de los rincones más oscuros de nuestra sociedad actual. Los cuentos aquí recogidos son tan turbios como el crimen, tan negros como la literatura más peligrosa y tan afilados como unas fauces ensangrentadas.

Elmer y Rose han creado una familia perfecta entre los enormes cactus de un remoto paisaje desértico, un hogar lleno de amor para sus cinco hijas, todas con nombres de flor: Edelweiss, Iris, Melissa, Dahlia y Daisy.

In this concluding saga, Detective Nadine McAfee has now partnered with Sam Rockland in two investigations: the kidnapping of a US senator’s daughter by a right-wing militia group, and the tragic results that unfold when both a minor league baseball player and a city official are connected with a strip club.

Among the rich of Paris, there are opportunities for thieves and forgers such as Vadim Bergeron, a predator who delights in destroying the reputations of true artists and the women who love them. However, one private detective has spent years recruiting waiters and chefs to build a reliable, although eclectic network of informants. Within days of an art theft, he can count on clues arriving during dinner.

Eine Kriminalnovelle (Hard-boiled) mit viel schwarzem Humor, in der ein ehemaliger Killer und eine Ex-Prostituierte gegen einen übermächtigen Gegner ums nackte Überleben kämpfen. Die Zeiten könnten gut sein für John und Rosemarie. Der Auftragsmörder im Ruhestand und die Ex-Prostituierte haben dem König der Unterwelt, Dick Tossek, einen Haufen Geld gestohlen und sich in sonnige Gefilde abgesetzt. Doch nachdem Tossek plötzlich vor ihnen steht, wird ihr Leben zur Hölle - und der Teufel lädt zum Golfspielen ein.

The novel centers on Dickie Cornish, a Black streetwise survivor living in a homeless camp near DC's Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Framed for the murder of two of his closest friends and facing life in prison, Dickie crosses paths with wealthy ex-Homeland Security Secretary, Jamie Bracht. Bracht offers him a chance at a new life if Dickie can navigate an underground world to uncover a prize Bracht will stop at nothing to acquire.

Gabriel Keller, un viudo jubilado de Montevideo, vende su casa y se traslada a un pequeño y anónimo apartamento en otra parte de la ciudad. Pronto se obsesionará con Beatriz, su vecina, y su amor imposible lo llevará hasta extremos criminales. Hugo Burel se adentra en los tropos de la novela negra más clásica en un escenario incomparable: el Urugay de los años 60.

La segunda publicación de Hugo Burel se dio en forma de libro de cuentos. En ellos, el autor siembra los que serán los rasgos sempiternos de su literatura venidera: su gusto por la prosa escueta, certera y afilada; sus tramas que se mueven entre los mimbres de la intriga y la novela negra, sus personajes de profundo perfil psicológico y sus alegorías sobre el Uruguay contemporáneo al que tanto ama aunque sea capaz de ver sus defectos diarios y sus contradicciones.

Novell i nordisk noir! Han hade ingen relation till sitt ansikte, hans ögon såg in i en främlings blick och han undrade varför näsan var krökt. Sitt hår tyckte han om. Han såg själv som gisslan i en situation han själv hade skapat, som tvingade honom att döda. Eller erkänna att han inte klarade av det. Han dödade. Sitt hår tyckte han om är kuslig och krypande spänning av Cilla och Rolf Börjlind i novellform. Novellen har tidigare publicerats i antologin "Svart Advent" (2014).

Asfissiamo all'interno di dubbi infernali, crocifissi nel cuore, sperando forse in maniera utopistica di riconciliarci lestamente con la nostra natura umana più bella e paradisiaca, augurandoci di fare di nuovo all'amore con una donna pura... Mentre, nel capoluogo felsineo e nel mondo intero, a briglia sciolta si propaga infermabile una tenebrosa malattia oscura di pandemica natura sulfurea, nei dintorni dell'asfittica e nera, delittuosa e omertosa Bologna insanguinata nella sua più innocente e profonda anima oramai infranta e corrotta.

When Alice’s father dies after a tragic hit-and-run, his death stirs up unanswered questions about her childhood. Who was her mother, why did her father never speak of the past, and why can’t she remember anything before the age of seven? But when she receives an anonymous letter containing a photograph of a refurbished gothic guesthouse surrounded by water, and an invitation to stay, old memories fight to resurface. Alice has visited before. She is certain of it.

After the devastating events that took place in Stark, Tanner pursues Soulless while seeking revenge and to finally end the madman’s reign of terror.

Sam Straight wants to be a good lawyer. Instead, he finds himself disillusioned in 1990s LA, daydreaming in court of the gentle savior he wants to be, and drinking away his frustrations at night in his office. But he is violently shaken from the despairing emptiness of his life one evening when an intruder at the law firm brutally stabs him and his partner.

A wisecracking former LAPD Detective has his life shattered, his wife murdered, narrowing escaping the wrath of a ruthless gangster. What started off as mistaken identity becomes personal, when Colin Graves sets a plan into motion; a quest for vengeance. Fueled by booze, painkillers, acerbic wit, Colin teams up with his brother to take down the man that took away everything. It’s like John Wick meets Beaches with a twist of Taken 3 and a splash of Deadpool.

Harry Starke is at it again.... So are his enemies. Backlash is an action-packed, high-intensity crime fiction thriller that will keep you resisting the pause button. Kidnapping. Murder. Revenge... The world around him is full of misdeeds and misfortune. It’s an all-or-nothing battle that Harry must win...or die.

Bacardi and Coke. Neat. Not the usual drink of choice for a mountain dwarf. Then again, Detective Sirgrus Blackmane is no ordinary dwarf - at least not since the Great War. Being a gumshoe during Prohibition might appear glamorous, with secret speakeasies, all-night cocktail parties, and scantily clad women displaying their knees, but crime and conspiracy lurk beneath the city’s shining illusion.

Quint earns his private investigator's license and heads off to Los Angeles to celebrate. Within a day of arriving, an old friend, now a Hollywood producer, tells Quint that he fears for his life. He's dead by the next morning. While Cara sees the seedy Hollywood underbelly for what it truly is, Quint ignores her warnings and sets off to catch the killer.

With an FBI sting on his misfit secessionist group closing in, Nat Cinder blasts from Flagstaff to Phoenix on his Triumph Rocket motorcycle. Soon he stumbles onto a packet of photos showing Governor Virginia Rentier lustily paired with three high-ranking women in state government. Though Cinder and the governor clashed 16 years before when his wife died in a car accident, Cinder prefers to keep his dislike of Rentier focused on her politics. But when the bullets fly, Nat asks questions, and learns his sudden war with the governor traces back 16 years.