検索キーワード： ノワール

Quando la sua amante moldava viene rapita, l'incarico di consegnare il riscatto è affidato a Marco Buratti, investigatore senza licenza, e ai suoi soci Max la Memoria e Beniamino Rossini. Ma qualcosa va storto e la donna, nonostante il pagamento di un milione di euro, non viene liberata. L'Alligatore inizia cosí un'indagine non autorizzata per impedire che una vittima rimanga senza giustizia, a dispetto di chi vorrebbe mettere tutto a tacere.

A thirty-four-year-old American woman—a secret agent—is sent to do dirty work in France. “Sadie Smith” is how the narrator introduces herself to her lover, to the rural commune of French subversives on whom she is keeping tabs, and to the reader. Sadie has met her love, Lucien, a young and well-born Parisian, by “cold bump”—making him believe the encounter was accidental. Like everyone Sadie targets, Lucien is useful to her and used by her. Sadie operates by strategy and dissimulation, based on what her “contacts”—shadowy figures in business and government—instruct.

It’s Midsummer’s Eve, the celebration of the longest day of the year, and on Sandhamn it’s the longest party of the year. But the fun comes to a dead halt when a young reveler is murdered, a teenage girl is found drugged and dazed on the beach, and other young women vanish. So far, what links the victims is a mystery. For Nora Linde and her new boyfriend, Jonas Sköld, the crimes are personal: one of the missing girls is Wilma, Jonas’s daughter. And her disappearance could test Nora and Jonas’s relationship in ways they never expected.

Nine long years have passed since the killer last struck - nine years since eight helpless young women were brutally slaughtered by an icepick-wielding maniac. The trail grew cold and the book was unofficially closed on a serial killer who stopped killing. But now "The Icepick Prowler" has confessed - but only to seven of the killings. Not only does he deny the eighth, he has an airtight alibi. Barbara Ettinger's family had almost come to accept that the young woman was the victim of a random killing.

In the aftermath of Algeria's war of independence, Paris was a city rife with suspicion and barely suppressed violence. Amid this tension, Jean, a young writer adrift, met and fell for Dannie, an enigmatic woman fleeing a troubled past. Half a century later, with his old black notebook as a guide, Jean retraces this fateful period in his life, recounting how, through Dannie, he became mixed up with a group of unsavory characters connected by a shadowy crime.

In the stillness of his Paris apartment, Jean Daragane has built a life of total solitude. Then a surprising phone call shatters the silence of an unusually hot September, and the threatening voice on the other end of the line leaves Daragane wary, but irresistibly curious. Almost at once, he finds himself entangled with a shady gambler and a beautiful, fragile young woman, who draw Daragane into the mystery of a decades-old murder. The investigation will force him to confront the memory of a trauma he had all but buried.

Gordon Shanes nevø og svigerinde er blevet myrdet. I sin jagt på den eller de skyldige kommer han på tværs af et folk, der lever i skjul i en lille by i Vermont, og som vil gøre alt for, at det bliver ved at forholde sig sådan. Christian Mørk (f. 1966) er forfatter og journalist. Allerede som 14-årig rejste han alene til USA for at gå på kostskole, og han har senere bosat sig permanent i landet, hvor han blandt andet har arbejdet på avisen The New York Times og som filmproducent i Los Angeles.

Agosto de 2016: tres miembros de una familia mueren brutalmente apuñalados en su casa de Hontoria. Once meses después, una llamada telefónica lleva el caso a la vida del periodista segoviano Jean Ezequiel. A base de horas de trabajo, alguna fuente anónima y la ayuda de su círculo íntimo, Ezequiel irá acercándose a la resolución del triple crimen y desenredando una tupida maraña de silencios e intereses creados entre las altas esferas de la sociedad segoviana.

In eisigem Rätsel am Hafen von Kopenhagen. Eine junge Frau, seit zwei Jahren spurlos verschwunden, wird gefunden — tot, tiefgefroren, kunstvoll inszeniert an einem verlassenen Ort. Wer versteckt seine Opfer jahrelang in der Kälte, bevor er sie zur Schau stellt? Bald wird klar: Sie ist nicht das einzige Opfer dieses Phantoms. Ein methodischer Täter geht um, intelligent, geduldig und mit einem beunruhigenden Wissen über industrielle Kältetechnik.

Tenerife, 2019. Mario y Laura Ardoz, hermanos mellizos, visitan las islas Canarias: él acaba de recibir su última sesión de quimioterapia; ella cree que ese viaje es la mejor manera de volver a empezar tras el cáncer. Pero Mario sufre una recaída que lo mantiene ingresado en el hospital un par de días. A su salida descubre que su hermana ha desaparecido y su móvil la ubica en un paraje desolado por la lava. Se inicia así una búsqueda contrarreloj y una lucha con el fuego que parece abrirse bajo sus pies.

Dylan Shepherd—operative turned pariah—confronts the shadows born from the missions he never wanted to survive. Jill Cunningham—once his closest ally, now his fiercest adversary—hunts the truth buried in his past and her own bloodline. And Thread, the prototype daughter raised from regret and war, must decide whether to continue their legacy… or end it.

When private investigator Thomas Kaine takes on what should’ve been a routine case, he finds himself drawn into something far stranger—a tangle of secrets, shadows, whispers that stretch back farther than he imagined, and danger lurking in every shadow. With Lana Drexler at his side and danger rising from every direction, Kaine begins to suspect the truth isn’t just hidden… it was designed to stay that way.

Un pueblo aislado en las montañas; un joven de fuerza sobrehumana con un don para sanar a los animales; una niña que aparece de la nada y que desata todos los rumores en un valle en el que todavía resuenan antiguas leyendas y misterios. Pocos elementos le bastan a Violaine Bérot para trenzar esta inolvidable historia a medio camino entre la novela negra y la fábula.

Tony Ward is back in Dublin. After five years in England, where he fled after murdering a rival gang member, he returns to find that his mentor is dead and his best friend has gone straight. Keen to reestablish himself, he jumps at the chance to work for the enforcer of a local crime boss. But Flute Walsh is a far cry from the boy Tony once knew. Drawn to Flute in ways he never expected, Tony finds that the boundaries he thought he understood are beginning to break down. Is there room for connection in a world where nothing stays buried and where retribution is just a bullet away?

Aloysius Archer er en ærlig mand, han er krigsveteran fra Anden Verdenskrig, og så er han netop blevet prøveløsladt efter at have været fængslet for en forbrydelse, han ikke havde begået. Udstyret med en lang liste med regler for prøveløsladte begynder han sit nye liv i Poca City. Han får et job som gældsinddriver for byens største forretningsmand. Men jobbet viser sig ikke at være så ligetil, som det ser ud.

In a city of sunshine and secrets, the shadows belong to the animals. One genetically-engineered raccoon races to expose a deadly conspiracy – before it tears his whole world apart. In a solar-powered future, humans live in luxury, served by unseen Little Helpers – artificially enhanced...

Matteo cresceu entre as sombras de uma promessa de vingança. Mas ao encarar o passado, descobre que a besta nunca esteve do lado de fora. Quando a verdade é enterrada junto com a honra, só resta à alma uivar.

It’s the festive season in the Windmark Ranges and Sergeant Jesse Redpath’s day is going from bad to worse. It begins with her having to arrest the usual drunks and troublemakers and ends with the death of a colleague out on the Redline road. A death which may or may not have been an accident. Jesse learns there have been other deaths and disappearances in the ranges, and that the local rumour mill suggests the perp is an elusive, semi-mythical character who goes by the name of ‘Anarchy.’ Beneath the charm of a close-knit community, a darker truth festers, and Jesse’s driven to expose it.

Engagé pour écrire les mémoires d'Adam Lang, ex-premier ministre britannique à la carrière aussi longue que controversée, un prête-plume se retrouve rapidement confronté à une tâche bien plus périlleuse qu'il ne s'en doutait. Au manoir isolé et ultra-sécurisé d'Adam Lang et sa femme Ruth, il s'aperçoit que son prédécesseur, McAra, décédé quelques jours plus tôt, accusait Lang de crimes de guerre en tout genre.

Вот и трое жителей сонного американского городка, затерянного среди холмов Пенсильвании, независимо друг от друга принимают судьбоносные решения, которые разделят их жизнь на «до» и «после». Пересекаясь, сплетаясь и снова расходясь, линии трех героев — пожарного Нейтана, нашедшего мешок с деньгами, самоотверженной медсестры Келли, страдающей от внешнего уродства, и бывшего наркомана Энди, потерявшего всех, кого он любил, — двигаются к неизбежному финалу, где всем воздастся по грехам их.