Titres dans Roman noir

The concluding Hammer novel begins with a 21st-century funeral before flashing back to summer, 1973. Nine years after the events of Dig Two Graves, Hammer takes another unlikely vacation—this time on Long Island to help look after his partner Velda Sterling’s seventeen-year-old sibling, Mikki. When Mikki gets hooked on heroin, Hammer—filled with contempt for dope dealers—goes on a rampage. He will find those behind the drug racket and teach them what shooting up is all about.

A body underground. An ancient ritual. A killer in the shadows. The real game is just beginning... When a body is found in the depths of Mary King’s Close, DCI 'Mac' McNeill is thrust into a case involving the burden of sins and an old ritual tied to absolution. With each clue, he is drawn...

Joseph Wright, a young, alcoholic, mixed-race man, lives alone in a Peckham council flat earning a living by solving problems for people in his community. A chance phone call leads him on a tense trail from the poverty of London housing estates to gold mines in Ghana, and from the sinister underbelly of London’s global service sector to the gaudy riches of Mayfair. As Joseph struggles to make sense of his own story, he takes the listener on a dangerous journey of discovery towards a truth that should be as unpalatable as it is unacceptable for those who still want to believe in democracy.

Brought to you by Penguin. Winner of the 1948 Edgar Award for Best First Novel, this gripping murder mystery is a much-loved classic. In 1940s Chicago, a man is killed in the midst of a night-long bender, caught between barrooms in what appears to be a mugging gone awry. The police aren’t...

SOMETHING UGLY’S WAITIN’ FOR YOU - Honey’s working weekends down at the Six Mile, trying to figure her life out. Her boyfriend’s about to leave the country, her college advisor hates her guts, her momma ain’t listening, and she’s got this cop breathing down her neck just about all the time. She finds a friend in her new colleague Lisa, but when one of their regular customers turns up dead, everything goes sideways faster than a greased hog at the county fair . . .

La noche nunca es tan oscura como los secretos que guarda. Juan es un curtido portero en la noche madrileña que navega por una realidad cruda y sin filtros. Cada madrugada debe enfrentarse a personajes de diferente calaña, situaciones límite y la decadencia de una sociedad que solo revela su...

Monsters aren’t born. They’re refined. The Rose Killer has perfected her work. Thirteen victims. Thirteen flawless scenes. Each one precise. Controlled. Beautiful. A white paper rose left behind like a signature no one else can read. She does not kill in chaos. She waits. She plans. She folds herself into normality and lets the world forget she exists. Until someone touches the pattern.

In the fog-choked alleys of Victorian London, fear has a new face. When a string of brutal murders strikes the heart of Whitechapel, Inspector John Maywills—a detective haunted by his own past—descends into the city’s darkest corners to uncover the truth.

Jack Bardlow was once a legend—until a failed hit left him scarred, hunted, and marked for death. Now he’s a ghost in Las Vegas, surviving on instinct while a secret gambling syndicate closes in to erase him for good. Solitaire doesn’t deal cards for luck. Every suit commands power, every draw seals a fate, and every debt is paid in blood. As enforcers, rivals, and federal agents collide, Jack discovers the cards he inherited hide more than money—they point to a conspiracy born in war and fed by greed.

Robin Greaves is having a very bad day. When compromising photographs surface, revenge is on his mind, but the robbery meant to fix everything goes catastrophically wrong. Now he’s on the run. The police are closing in. Two private detectives are circling for their own grubby reasons. And somewhere in the chaos, a ruthless killer has decided Robin needs to die.

Cualquiera puede ver que el lado derecho del cuerpo de Xan Borrasca está paralizado; lo que muy pocos saben es que el accidente que lo dejó hemipléjico le otorgó poderes que terminaron por arruinarle la vida. A la famosa actriz Marta Castro le han arrancado el corazón y han introducido en su lugar un pajarillo vivo. Lo que Borrasca no sospecha es que el macabro rastro de los asesinatos lo conducirá a un laberinto de secretos en cuyo centro está Juana Dientes, su abuela, una meiga legendaria que desapareció en extrañas circunstancias más de medio siglo atrás.

Nueva Orleans, 1897. Es la popular noche de Mardi Gras, y Alexander Le Bois, heredero de una de las familias más importantes de la ciudad, empieza a manifestar unos extraños síntomas durante el gran baile celebrado en Ópera Francesa. Isabella, su joven esposa nacida en Cuba y criada en Oviedo, busca desesperadamente ayuda y solo encuentra a Markus, un médico negro sin mucho crédito ni acceso a la medicina reservada a los blancos.

Jack Malone knows how criminals think—because he used to be one of the best. Once a legendary criminal mastermind, Malone vanished from the underworld after a spectacular fall. Now, years later, he’s resurfaced on the other side of the law as a private detective, using the same instincts that once helped him break the rules to solve the crimes others can’t. But the past doesn’t stay buried.

Quando Victor viene arrestato per un omicidio che, una volta tanto, non ha commesso, l'unica via d'uscita per un killer del suo calibro è la fuga. Ma qualcuno lo vuole dietro le sbarre, sorvegliato da agenti della polizia che non hanno idea del mostro con cui hanno a che fare. Ben presto, però, i suoi compagni di prigionia si rendono conto che non è lui a essere intrappolato lì dentro con loro, ma sono loro a essere rinchiusi in una gabbia con il più pericoloso dei criminali. E Victor ha una missione: scovare il traditore.

Sechs neue Kriminalnovellen vom Meister amerikanischer Kriminalliteratur Der millionenschwere Kasinoraub ist schlicht nicht machbar. Und genau das macht ihn unwiderstehlich für einen Räuber, der für seinen Final Score den Rest seines Lebens im Gefängnis verbringen muss. Ein ehrgeiziger Collegejunge hat einen Nebenjob, bei dem er illegalen Schnaps an The Sunday List liefert, bis ein korrupter Cop, ein verführerischer Kunde und ein falscher Guru seine Träume zu beenden drohen. Zwei Klugscheißer erzählen sich beim Frühstück in einem Diner eine True Story .

Scompare, letteralmente nel nulla, un furgone portavalori. Era carico di quasi tre milioni, le entrate del casinò di Saint-Vincent. Le dichiarazioni di una delle guardie, lasciata stordita sul terreno, mettono in moto delle indagini abbastanza rutinarie per rapina. Ma nell’intuizione del vicequestore Rocco Schiavone c’è qualcosa – lui la chiama «odore» – che non si incastra, qualcosa che a sorpresa collega tutto a un caso precedente che continua a rodergli dentro.

Brought to you by Penguin. A biting psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Tokyo Express, now available in English for the first time Onizuka Kumako is a fierce woman: tall, beautiful, and not afraid to speak her mind. In Tokyo bars, she seduces customers and commits petty crime...

A missing tenant, an irate mother–in–law, and a killer hiding in a Toronto rooming house—out–of–work PI Patrick Bird is back in business. Patrick Bird thought he was helping his mother–in–law collect back rent from a deadbeat tenant at her Ossington Avenue rooming house, not...

È una Genova invasa dall'acqua, quella che fa da sfondo alla fuga di Olmo Vivera, un vecchio rapinatore che si trova improvvisamente e ingiustamente accusato di aver rubato una valigetta misteriosa, fregando il suo capo banda e la mafia russa. Il povero Olmo si trova così ad affrontare una caccia all'uomo spietata, aiutato solo da Mara, una cantante jazz di poca fortuna, e dall'amico d'infanzia Carlo, suo complice d'un tempo. E proprio insieme a Carlo, Olmo cercherà di organizzare un colpo molto ambizioso provando a chiudere la questione una volta per tutte...

È giugno, le figlie del commissario Mariani e sua madre Emma sono in vacanza, mentre lui è a Genova al lavoro come la moglie Francesca. Forse l'essere soltanto in due migliorerà l'umore della sua Fran che da febbraio sente nervosa e spesso assente. Ma un caso di omicidio in un B&B vicino al Ponte Monumentale lo costringe ad affrontare momenti difficili e inaspettati, non solo dal punto di vista professionale, ma perché la vittima aveva avuto ripetuti scambi di messaggi e telefonate con Francesca.