検索キーワード： 著者 "Galbraith" すべてのカテゴリー

En arrivant au bureau un matin, Robin Ellacott trouve un colis, qu'elle ouvre sans se douter de la vision d'horreur qui l'attend : à l'intérieur, la jambe tranchée d'une femme. Qui est la victime ? Qui est l'expéditeur de ce courrier macabre ? Et pourquoi l'a-t-il adressé personnellement à Robin ? Bouleversée, la jeune femme s'en remet à son patron, le détective privé Cormoran Strike, lequel voit alors ressurgir des fantômes de son propre passé.

Scharfsinnig, packend, teuflisch klug... Nachdem Robin Ellacott ein mysteriöses Paket in Empfang genommen hat, muss sie zu ihrem Entsetzen feststellen, dass es ein abgetrenntes Frauenbein enthält. Ihr Chef, Privatdetektiv Cormoran Strike, ist nicht überrascht. Ihm fallen vier Menschen ein, denen er eine solche Tat zutrauen würde. Während die Polizei im Dunkeln tappt, wagen sich Strike und Robin vor in eine düstere und verstörende Welt.

Als der Romanautor Owen Quine spurlos verschwindet, bittet seine Frau den privaten Ermittler Cormoran Strike um Hilfe. Es ist nicht das erste Mal, dass Quine für einige Tage abgetaucht ist, und sie möchte, dass Strike ihn findet und nach Hause zurückbringt. Doch schon zu Beginn seiner Ermittlungen wird Strike klar, dass mehr hinter Quines Verschwinden steckt, als seine Frau ahnt.

Als das berühmte Model Lula Landry von ihrem schneebedeckten Balkon im Londoner Stadtteil Mayfair in den Tod stürzt, steht für die ermittelnden Beamten schnell fest, dass es Selbstmord war. Der Fall scheint abgeschlossen. Doch Lulas Bruder hat Zweifel - ein Privatdetektiv soll für ihn die Wahrheit ans Licht bringen.

Quando un misterioso pacco viene consegnato a Robin Ellacott, la ragazza rimane inorridita nello scoprire che contiene la gamba amputata di una donna. L'investigatore privato Cormoran Strike, il suo capo, è meno sorpreso, ma non per questo meno preoccupato. Solo quattro persone che fanno parte del suo passato potrebbero esserne responsabili - e Strike sa che ciascuno di loro sarebbe capace di questa e altre indicibili brutalità. La polizia concentra le indagini su un sospettato, ma Strike è sempre più convinto che lui sia innocente.

Quando il giovane Billy, in preda a una grande agitazione, irrompe nella sua agenzia investigativa per denunciare un crimine a cui crede di aver assistito da piccolo, Cormoran Strike rimane profondamente turbato. Anche se Billy ha problemi mentali e fatica a ricordare i particolari concreti, in lui e nel suo racconto c'è qualcosa di sincero. Ma prima che Strike possa interrogarlo più a fondo, Billy si spaventa e fugge via.

Londra. L'eccentrico scrittore Owen Quine non si fa vedere da giorni. Non è la prima volta che scompare improvvisamente, ma non è mai stato via così tanto tempo e la moglie ha bisogno di ritrovarlo. Decide così di assumere l'investigatore privato Cormoran Strike per riportare a casa il marito. Ma appena Strike comincia a indagare, appare chiaro che dietro la scomparsa di Quine c'è molto di più di quanto sua moglie sospetti.

Il primo eccezionale romanzo della serie noir scritta da Robert Galbraith, pseudonimo di J. K. Rowling, autrice di Harry Potter. È notte fonda quando Lula Landry, leggendaria e capricciosa top model, precipita dal balcone del suo lussuoso attico a Mayfair sul marciapiede innevato. La polizia archivia il caso come suicidio, ma il fratello della modella non può crederci. Decide di affidarsi a un investigatore privato e un caso del destino lo conduce all'ufficio di Cormoran Strike.

Under et besøg hjemme i Cornwall bliver privatdetektiven Cormoran Strike antastet af en kvinde, der beder ham hjælpe med at finde hendes mor, Margot Bamborough - som forsvandt under mystiske omstændigheder i 1974. Det er nyt for Strike at arbejde med en henlagt sag - for slet ikke at tale om en fyrre år gammel, uopklaret én af slagsen. Trods den spinkle chance for succes, bliver han interesseret og påtager sig opgaven, oven i den stribe sager han og hans partner på detektivbureauet, Robin Ellacott, allerede arbejder med.

"Ondskabens høst" er tredje bind i den anmelderroste serie om privatdetektiven Cormoran Strike og hans kvikke assistent Robin Ellacott. En djævelsk velkonstrueret kriminalroman med stadig nye forviklinger og samtidig en medrivende historie om en mand og en kvinde, der står ved en skillevej i deres personlige og professionelle liv.

Eigentlich wollte Strike nur seine schwer erkrankte Tante in Cornwall besuchen, doch dann kommt alles anders: Als er mit einem alten Freund in einem Pub zusammensitzt, wird er von Anna angesprochen, einer schüchtern wirkenden Frau, die sein Gesicht aus Zeitungsberichten kennt und ihn um Hilfe bittet: Vor fast vier Jahrzehnten, als sie noch zu klein war, um sich an irgendetwas zu erinnern, verschwand ihre Mutter spurlos. Die Polizei legte den Fall bald zu den Akten. Bis heute hat Anna das Gefühl, dass man ihr etwas verschweigt.

Le jeune Billy se rend chez Cormoran Strike pour lui parler d'un meurtre dont il aurait été témoin il y a des années : un enfant retrouvé mort près d'un cheval. Mais le jeune homme est de toute évidence instable et se sauve avant que Strike n'ait eu le temps de l'interroger. Le célèbre détective privé et sa partenaire Robin Ellacott commencent néanmoins à enquêter, avec comme seule piste un nom de rue griffonné sur un bout de papier. Leurs investigations vont prendre un chemin sinueux à travers les bas-fonds de Londres.

When the body of a half-clothed woman is discovered in an Edinburgh park, a murder investigation is launched. The victim has not been reported missing and there are few clues to her identity. Soon after, the naked corpse of a prominent clergyman is found, also in a park. DS Alice Rice wonders if the same killer is at work, and if so, what is the connection between the apparently motiveless attacks? The Road to Hell, the fourth in the series, takes the policewoman to new personal depths.

As Heather Brodie kisses her lover goodnight, her disabled husband lies dead, his throat cut from ear to ear. Who wanted Gavin Brodie dead? Many people, including Gavin Brodie himself. Crushed by an incurable illness, he pleaded to be allowed to die. When Alice Rice is brought in to investigate, another terminally-ill man is found murdered. Is it just a coincidence? Or is there a serial killer with a mission to get rid of the sick and infirm?

Midwinter, and it’s a freezing night in Leith, near Edinburgh’s red-light district. A policewoman’s flashlight stabs the darkness in a snow-covered cemetery. The circle of light stops on a colourless, dead face.

So begins the hunt for a serial murderer of prostitutes in Gillian Galbraith’s third Alice Rice mystery, The Dying of the Light. Partly inspired by the real-life killings of prostitutes in Ipswich, this novel explores a hidden world where sex is bartered for money and drugs.

After the death of leading haematologist Professor Anstruther, antiquarian book dealer Anthony Sparrow is tasked with clearing out his mansion of its books and papers. He soon begins to question the real circumstances of the old man's death: was he in fact murdered, and if so, who was responsible? The answer might be found in the personal diaries and letters which Sparrow unearths. But as he closes in on the answer, the perspective suddenly shifts and everything which he was sure about dissolves into darkness and shadows.

A young, disabled girl is lost on a winter's night in Leith, unable to help herself or find her way home. Someone is combing the streets, frantically searching for her. Within hours of her disappearance, a body is washed up on Beamer Rock, a tiny island in the Forth being used as part of the foundations for the new Queensferry Bridge. No sooner has DI Alice Rice managed to discover the identity of that body than another one is washed up on the edge of the estuary, in Belhaven Bay.

When the body of a retired sheriff is discovered in his grand house in the New Town of Edinburgh, Detective Sergeant Alice Rice finds herself hunting his killer. The search leads her to an unfamiliar world where wind-farm developers - with millions of pounds at stake - and protesters face each other with daggers drawn.

The United States invaded Iraq with grand ambitions to bring it democracy and thereby transform the Middle East. Instead, Iraq has disintegrated into three constituent components: a pro-western Kurdistan in the north, an Iran-dominated Shiite entity in the south, and a chaotic Sunni Arab region in the center. The country is plagued by insurgency and is in the opening phases of a potentially catastrophic civil war.

Called by New York Times columnist David Brooks the "smartest and most devastating" critic of President George W. Bush's Iraq policies, Peter W. Galbraith was the earliest expert to describe Iraq's breakup into religious and ethnic entities, a reality that is now commonly accepted.