Titres dans Roman noir

The action swings from London to Sweden, and then back into the past, to Franco’s Spain, as Roy and Castells hunt a monstrous killer...in the latest instalment of Johana Gustawsson’s award-winning series. Spain, 1938: the country is wracked by civil war, and as Valencia falls to Franco’s brutal dictatorship, Republican Therese witnesses the murders of her family. Captured and sent to the notorious Las Ventas women’s prison, Therese gives birth to a daughter who is forcibly taken from her.

Dieter Webber, a former Jump Armor pilot, lost his war. Years later as a broken ex-pat, half a galaxy away, the former combat pilot is haunted by the ghosts of the war and looming debts to organized crime. An encounter with an Android, Reis, serves as an invitation from his former commander to a reluctant escape: Mercenary work in her company, Valkyrie LLC.

I romanzi "La vita è uno schifo", "Il sole non è per noi" e "Nodo alle budella", qui raccolti in un unico volume, formano la straordinaria "Trilogia Nera" di Léo Malet, un classico intramontabile della letteratura noir. Tre giovani disperati, accomunati da una vita fuorilegge, un amore impossibile e un grande malessere esistenziale, sono i protagonisti dei tre amari, magistrali romanzi che hanno riscritto il noir francese.

The captivating sequel to Foul Lady Fortune, by the New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights. Winter is drawing thick in 1932 Shanghai, as is the ever-nearing threat of invasion. Rosalind Lang has encountered the worst possible fate for a national spy: she's been exposed. With...

Los Angeles has many faces: the real LA where regular people live and work, the degenerate underbelly of any big city, and the rarified world of wealth, power, and celebrity. LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan’s latest case plunges her into this insular realm of privilege and gives her a glimpse of the darkness behind the glitter. The body of beloved actor Evan Hobbes is found in the rubble of a Malibu rockslide a day after a fake video ruins his career. It’s not clear to Nolan if it’s an accident, a suicide, or a murder, and things get murkier as the investigation expands.

The small community of Akranes is devastated after a young man dies in a mysterious house fire. When Detective Elma and her colleagues from West Iceland CID discover the fire was arson, they become embroiled in an increasingly perplexing case. For the dead man's final online search raises fears that they could be investigating not one murder, but two.

Brought to you by Penguin. Melanie Lange has disappeared. Her father, Sir Peter Lange, says she is a danger to herself and has been admitted to a private mental health clinic. Her ex-husband, Finn, and best friend, Nell, say she has been kidnapped. The media will say whichever gets them the most...

Deux disparitions inquiétantes… Le même soir, deux jeunes femmes disparaissent à Bénodet ; l'une est la fille de Jillian Marlowe, célèbre avocate américaine, amie de Dominique Vasseur. Une semaine auparavant une autre vacancière s'était déjà évanouie dans la nature. Paul et Sarah...

"Quando c’è un delitto finiscono per soffrire anche tanti che non hanno colpe, per le colpe degli altri. Solo perché sono lì, in zona pericolo, parenti o amici della vittima o dell’assassino." In questo secondo romanzo che vede il commissario Antonio Mariani, protagonista che oscilla fra le precise fasi dell’indagine su alcuni delitti avvenuti in città e la confusa ricerca della verità sulla moglie, Francesca.

Un cuerpo decapitado aparece en el centro de Madrid. La escena del crimen se inspira en el Infierno de Dante. En su piel, una inscripción en clave. Una inspectora con cicatrices. Una serie de asesinatos rituales. Y una cuenta atrás escrita en sangre. La inspectora Minerva Cadalso, acompañada por Claudio Addante, un joven seminarista experto en símbolos religiosos, se adentra en una red de crímenes de trasfondo religioso.

Un cadavere viene trovato nella valle della Meuse, nel cuore delle Ardenne. Incidente, suicidio o omicidio? La capitana Katel Marelle è esterrefatta quando scopre l’identità della vittima. Renaud Duval aveva... tre vite a settimana? Tre donne aspettano il suo ritorno. Ognuna sostiene di essere il suo unico amore. Insieme cercheranno di svelare l’enigma di un’impossibile triplice vita... Ma, come in un teatro d’illusioni, si aggirano ombre pronte a vendicarsi. Chi sa la verità? Chi dirige il gioco? Chi tira le corde? Diffidate dei fili invisibili.

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In Patricia Highsmith's debut novel, we encounter Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno, passengers on the same train. But while Guy is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno turns out to be a sadistic psychopath who manipulates Guy into swapping murders with him. As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy is trapped in Highsmith's perilous world - where, under the right circumstances, anybody is capable of murder.

My little boy is missing — and they think I did it. My husband is always at work, he’s basically checked out of our marriage at this point. So I’m stuck at home with three kids under the age of eight for the summer holidays. The boys are my world, I just wish we had the money for...

Winsconsin, automne 1907. Ralph Truitt, magnat local craint et respecté, attend, fébrile, sur un quai de gare enneigé. Ce train en retard renferme son dernier espoir. Après vingt ans de veuvage, l'homme a enfin décidé de se remarier et a placé plusieurs mois auparavant une petite annonce dans un journal de Chicago. Catherine Land a répondu. Se décrivant comme "une femme simple et honnête", elle est celle qu'il appelait de tous ces vœux. Mais les apparences peuvent être très trompeuses. Et l'épouse modèle cacher bien des secrets.

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.

Le indagini del tenente Roversi. Agosto 1962. Il corpo della giovane Luisella Chessa viene ritrovato sugli scogli, ai piedi della rocca di Castelsardo. Augusto Oggiano, il nonno della vittima, è convinto che la nipote sia stata uccisa, ma i carabinieri non trovano riscontri alle sue accuse e archiviano il caso come suicidio. Due mesi dopo, anche Oggiano muore, apparentemente per un malore. Ma il tenente Roversi ha delle perplessità.

Le guitariste à succès d'un groupe de punk rock décide de partir en virée à New York. Il doit y retrouver un vieux pote qui réussit dans la finance et vit à cent à l'heure. Il doit surtout y abandonner son double monstrueux. En sera-t-il capable ? Méfiez-vous des monstres qui dorment. Ce sont souvent les plus dangereux.

Dublín, años cincuenta. En un depósito de cadáveres, una turbia trama de secretos familiares y organizaciones clandestinas comienza a desvelarse tras el hallazgo de un cuerpo que nunca tendría que haber estado allí. Una oscura conspiración que abarca ambos lados del Atlántico y que acaba envolviendo en un siniestro abrazo, inesperadamente, la vida misma de todos los protagonistas.

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