検索キーワード： ノワール

While all Iraqis will readily agree that their life has always been noir, the majority of the stories in Baghdad Noir are set in the years following the American invasion of 2003, though one story is set in 1950 and three are set in the 1970s and 1980s. Yet it is this recent history of Iraq—over the last few decades—that serves to inform its present....

Detective Smith thought his golden years would be easy now that he had retired from killing dames of the night. But the life he left behind isn’t through with him…yet. The black-veiled witch Anya and her army of ghouls make different plans when Smith’s hotshot replacement fails to appease Anya and botches her century-old tradition of cleansing the streets of its deviants and filth. Anya sets her sights on a new protégé—Smith’s teenage granddaughter, Melissa.

Vivere senza dolore, era questa la speranza di Isa Lodi, una giovane donna che era stata staffetta partigiana sull'Appennino Tosco-Emiliano durante la Resistenza. Ma un giorno di novembre del 1948 viene uccisa nel suo appartamento sui Navigli, strangolata con un giubbotto celeste ricavato dalla stoffa di un paracadute. A trovarla senza vita è il suo convivente, Ludovico Colzi, il tenente che sui monti si faceva chiamare Mosca. Qual è il mistero che si cela dietro questo crimine che sembra venire dagli anni della guerra?

Frank, a frustrated singer-turned-music professor finds himself entangled in a love affair with Shelley, a highly-educated, unhappily married woman. Jonesing to quit his teaching gig, Frank jumps at the chance to implement his new girlfriend's scheme to steal the skimmed-cash treasure from her marijuana business tycoon husband. Feeling they need a third, she introduces him to Ramon, her go-to bartender, armed with a nomadic upbringing and a gun from behind the register, who likewise is all in.

El nombre es Daniels, Jack Daniels, como el whisky que conoces. Soy Detective Privado. Y no puedo evitar meter la nariz en los asuntos de otras personas. Es lo que hago. Te acostumbras. Se convierte casi en una forma de vida. Después de un tiempo te resulta natural, automático, como respirar o comer, aunque no tan placentero. Es un hábito que simplemente no puedo romper. Simplemente no puedo evitarlo. Pero a veces puede llevarte a problemas...

Corrupción, escándalos, blanqueo de capitales, espionaje, violencia, sexo... son algunos de los ingredientes de esta novela negra en la que Andreu Martín retrata de un modo extraordinariamente crítico los tiempos que estamos viviendo. Una obra actual y oportuna, con diálogos vivos y mordaces. La historia comienza con el asesinato de dos socios de una asesoría financiera. Todo apunta a Germán Rojo, magnate que trata a todo el mundo como meros insectos. Sin embargo, Germán pronto descubrirá que hasta los insectos tienen la capacidad de vengarse.

When a dying millionaire hires Lucius Anoraq to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, Anoraq finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.

Two skeletons are discovered in the grounds of St Mary's Choir School. This was not a centuries-old Christian burial. They are wearing modern-day clothes, and there is evidence of foul play. Consecrated land has been sadistically violated.

Detective Inspector Gilbert Markham is a rising talent of the Bromgrove police force. He is on the trail of the murderer when another life is brutally claimed. Who is the savage killer lurking in this innocent place?

Dionysos Mavroulis is a man without a future: a man who embraces destiny and risks everything for love. A refugee from Asia Minor, he escapes Smyrna in 1922 disguised as an old woman. Alienated and plagued by feelings of remorse, he spirals into poverty and seeks solace in the hashish dens around Piraeus. Hitting rock bottom, he meets Aleko, an accomplished bouzouki player. Recognizing in the impoverished refugee a rare musical talent, Aleko offers to teach him the bouzouki.

Back in the 1950's and 60's, Orrie Hitt was a prolific writer of romance novels. The "hanky panky" in his novels is tamer and less explicit than in many of today's romance novels, but the storylines were incredibly engaging. His characters are so fully developed that you either love them, hate them or pity them. In this novel, overworked and underpaid Danny O'Conner decides to take a little vacation at a resort, then decides to stay and work there. He soon becomes involved with three women, a lot of intrigue, and a great deal of danger.

La Milano degli anni Sessanta è un organismo in attesa di qualcosa. Gli studenti si riuniscono, chiacchierano nei bar all'ora dell'aperitivo, sognano ribellioni. È estate, e i Beatles hanno cantato da poco in città. Il commissario Caronte si trova ad indagare sulla sparizione di una studentessa, Ersilia, parente del prefetto, di cui non si hanno più notizie da diversi giorni. Caronte si getterà a capofitto in questa nuova indagine, portando alla luce verità insabbiate e segreti destinati a rimanere tali.

Curzio Malanotte, aspirante suicida fuori dal comune, decide di compiere l'estremo gesto in modo, diciamo così, "sociale" per farla pagare alla sua famiglia, colpevole di essere indifferente al suo malessere esistenziale. Ma proprio all'Isola, quartiere di Milano dove progetta di mettere in scena la sua pantomima suicida, imperversa un maniaco che uccide le prostitute seguendo uno strano rituale. Per il commissario Musante, le tracce del killer incrociano spesso, troppo spesso, il cammino di Malanotte, che diventa il sospettato numero uno.

Last night two children knocked at his door. Someone is looking for them...Nicholas Hooper wanted to be left alone. Looking to escape his past and his unfortunate present, the best-selling author rented a luxury house in the Poconos to finish what very well could be his very last book. But his plans change when one night he opens his front door to find two frightened children. A young girl and boy all alone. They refuse to speak. Looking for help. Hooper takes them into town to see if the local police can help uncover the mystery of what has happened to these children.

Xavier "Scarecrow" Wallace, a mixed-race MMA fighter on the wrong side of thirty, is facing the fight of his life. Xavier can no longer deny he is losing his battle with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), or pugilistic dementia. Through the fog of memory loss, migraines, and paranoia, Xavier does his best to stay in shape by training at the Philadelphia gym owned by his cousin-cum-manager, Shot, a retired champion boxer to whom Xavier owes an unpayable debt. With his memory in shreds and his life crumbling around him, can Xavier hold on to the focus he needs to survive?

Southern Brooklyn, July 1996. Fire hydrants are open and spraying water on the sizzling blacktop. Punk kids have to make their own fun. Bobby Santovasco and his pal Zeke like to throw rocks at cars getting off the Belt Parkway. They think it's dumb and harmless until it's too late to think otherwise. Then there's Jack Cornacchia, a widower who lives with his high school age daughter Amelia and reads meters for Con Ed but also has a secret life as a vigilante, righting neighbourhood wrongs through acts of violence.

Sucia Oscuridad son 10 historias de la corriente de los asuntos humanos, para los que nos sentimos magnéticamente atraídos por lo apasionado, lo extraño y lo espantoso. Prepárese para conocer a la pareja de luna de miel que se encuentra con desolación en México; a Zack, el asesino colegial enamorado de una belleza del circo; a Miguel, que resulta ser inesperadamente peligroso; a la Rata Gigante de Sumatra, el asesino a sueldo más cruel del negocio, y a Phoebe, quizá la mujer más extraña, y seguramente la más inteligente, de la ficción.

Ira Wakely has not been heard from by anyone in Oak Valley since the previous fall. Without any clue as to where he went, his new friends begin to think they'll never see him again. All that changes when Susan Jushaway finds herself pursued by a killer. Then Ira reappears and takes her back to Oak Valley. There they find themselves entangled in another murder. Who killed a killer's man and why? Join Ira, Susan and Sargent Goodrich as they solve the mystery, Ira Wakely, Murder at the Roach Plantation.

È l'inverno del 1964 quando in una Milano ghiacciata viene trovato il cadavere di un uomo senza documenti. Il commissario Caronte viene chiamato ad indagare e si getta a capofitto in quello che si rivela subito un caso difficile, tumultuoso, sintomo di una società alle prese con cambiamenti rinviati troppo a lungo. Quella evocata in questo giallo, è una Milano d'altri tempi, fatta di taverne sul Naviglio, bicchieri di vino rosso e infinite discussioni sul Milan capitanato da Cesare Maldini.

La sucesiva aparición de los cadáveres brutalmente apaleados de una joven estudiante y una anciana en la costa inglesa de Scarborough constituyen un auténtico quebradero de cabeza para la inspectora Valerie Almond. El misterio al que se enfrenta la obligará a adentrarse en los recovecos de lo que ella considera una turbia trama familiar de amores y rencillas.

Mortimer è un padre che ha portato la sua famiglia a vivere in un vecchio maniero scozzese. Un giorno, nelle vecchie rovine abbandonate di fianco alla casa, suo figlio inizia a sentire delle voci misteriose e subito dopo si ammala gravemente. Eppure il bambino non ha paura: piuttosto prova un enorme dolore per quell'apparizione, e disperato chiede al padre di risolvere il mistero e aiutare l'anima perduta a ritrovare la via.