Résultats pour "Lang Lang" dans Roman policier

Pendergast parviendra-t-il à regagner indemne le XXIe siècle ? Dans le New York des années 1880, Constance Greene n'a pu déjouer les plans du Dr Leng, le premier serial killer de l'histoire de Manhattan. Pas plus que l'inspecteur Aloysius Pendergast n'a su empêcher le savant diabolique de commettre un nouveau forfait. Leng croit avoir gagné la partie, mais il ignore que Diogène, le frère psychopathe de l'inspecteur, a suivi son aîné et qu'il rôde désormais dans les rues du quartier de Five Points.

Un souffle sombre traverse ce récit où l’obsession de la pureté rencontre la part la plus trouble de l’âme. L’ange purificateur: figure réelle ou fantasme collectif? On devine sa trace dans les silences, les non-dits, les gestes qu’on voudrait effacer. À mesure que la vérité se dérobe, la frontière entre faute et rédemption s’effrite, et chacun doit confronter ce qu’il est prêt à sacrifier pour se croire innocent. Sans jamais tout livrer, Pierre Cusson installe une tension feutrée et implacable, jusqu’au point de non-retour où juger revient à se juger soi-même.

Shelby Cox never intended to become a bookseller, so when the former editor returns to her hometown of Alexandria Bay, nestled in upstate New York’s breathtaking Thousand Islands region, to take over her aunt’s bookstore, she has no idea what to expect. To her amazement, she discovers that she now owns a 50 percent share in Bayside Books and will also run the store’s second location in the majestic castle on nearby Blye Island.

Charles Raynaud has found the perfect cover for his smuggling operation running out of Mexico, because how many customs agents are going to want to inspect a carton of venomous snakes? When Raynaud runs into his old Yale buddy Richard Pierce, a chance to play bodyguard feels like even easier money.

Playboy Roger Carr is handsome, wealthy, and connected. As an occasional lawyer, he’s the right man to send to the French Riviera to secure a villa for an important client. It’s the perfect assignment, complete with fast cars and fast women, until strange things begin to happen and Roger realizes that someone is trying to kill him.

For American radiologist Peter Ross, it sounded like the perfect vacation: deliver one study in Spain and then spend the rest of his time on a Mediterranean beach. But he wasn't planning on meeting Angela Locke, a dark-haired beauty with a big problem—she's on the run from two warring gangs, each dead set on finding a mysterious artifact, and they'll kill anyone who stands in their way. It's a desperate fight for survival across the European continent as Peter and Angela race to uncover a centuries-old secret before they become its next victim.

Steven Jencks has planned the perfect crime. Working with two skilled associates, he will hit the Reina, a super-luxury hotel off the coast of Spain, and then walk away with the haul of a lifetime. As the ultimate pro, Jencks has even run his plan through a complex computer simulation to account for every possible variable … Except three. Their names are Annette, Cynthia, and Jenny. And no computer could ever simulate what these three femmes fatales have up their sleeves.

Two immortal brothers crisscross the American Southwest to elude a murderous biker gang and protect a young woman in this “utter triumph and delight” from award-winning author Richard Lange (Jonathan Ames, author of A Man Named Doll). Summer, 1976. Jesse and his brother, Edgar, are on the...

Jane Roland and her painter friends are looking forward to a busy, fun-filled holiday season at the town's art center—watercolor exhibits, concerts, and a festive gala. But, when the screams of a child pierce the gaiety at the Halloween reception, Jane discovers a skeleton in the art closet. There's a dark history lurking below the center's charming exterior, and the deeper Jane digs into the secrets of the past, the more she realizes that art can be a deadly obsession.

On a winter's night, a homeless man seeking to get out of the cold enters an office building in Pittsburgh and camps out in the basement. He searches through boxes that he finds there and discovers one containing the office memorabilia of an attorney. He feels a strange affinity for the attorney, who he doesn't know, but who is sitting at his desk four floors up. The lawyer is about to be retained on a medical malpractice case representing the estate of a young mother who died tragically and unexpectedly. One of the deceased mother's children is a teenager, and a good writer.

Lorsque le TGV Milan-Rome arrive à quai, la police fait une macabre découverte : tous les passagers de la classe affaires sont retrouvés morts. Si les premiers indices orientent l'enquête vers un attentat, la commissaire adjointe Colomba Caselli, muscles d'acier et âme fragile, est persuadée du contraire. Pour elle, seul Dante Torre, l' "Homme du silo", est capable d'y voir clair dans ce brouillard de mensonges et de fausses pistes.

A finales de 1931, poco después de la gran fiesta republicana, se descubre el cadáver de una mujer enterrado bajo las baldosas de una pequeña edificación del barrio de Llefià, en Badalona. La historia de este crimen real, que llenó durante meses las páginas de los periódicos de toda España, es recreada en esta novela, recorrida por una trama absorbente que recoge no solo el crimen de la alemana Emmy Langer, sino los primeros años de un tiempo de esperanza y de rupturas revolucionarias que pronto fueron enterradas en fosas anónimas, como lo fue el cadáver de la propia Emmy.

There are a thousand stories in New York's scenic Thousand Islands, and Bayside Books co-owner Shelby Cox stocks them all. True-crime writer Savannah Page caps off two successful signings at Bayside Books with a night in Blye Castle. She's there to research Joe Cabana, a colorful Prohibition-era mobster who owned the castle - until he was found dead in the island Grotto. But crime becomes all too true for Savannah. Her body turns up the next morning in a secret passage at the bottom of the stairs.

Two patients in comas, not expected to live: when they both recover, sharing the same bizarre symptom of blue urine, it’s a medical miracle that Dr. Roger Clark cannot explain. One of the patients happens to be Sharon Wilder, a beautiful Hollywood starlet. When she offers Dr. Clark the chance to accompany her to the private Caribbean island called Eden, he has to accept—if only to learn more about the bioengineering company Advance, Inc., and their promise to make your wildest dreams come true.

No one has benefited more from AI and Machine learning than the con artist.

An ambitious reporter haunted by memories of the war in Afghanistan follows an FBI tip to investigate the mysterious disappearance -- and likely murder -- of a former Marine. Dawson Scott is a haunted man. A well-respected journalist recently returned from an assignment in Afghanistan, he's...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seeing Red comes a suspense novel about a woman trapped in a remote cabin with a man who may be a serial killer. Five women are missing from the sleepy mountain town of Cleary, North Carolina, and a blue ribbon has been left near where each woman...

When a tabloid exposes her personal life, a bestselling author reconnects with a man from her past to unearth the secrets behind her sister's murder. Bellamy Lyston was only twelve years old when her older sister Susan was killed on a stormy Memorial Day. Bellamy's fear of storms is a legacy of...

An Antarctic whaler stumbles across an aged wreck—her frozen crew guarding a priceless treasure. A team of anthropologists is buried under a mountain by a deliberate explosion. A ship that should have died fifty-six years ago reappears, and almost sinks a National Underwater and Marine...

Kriminalkommissær Van der Valk har - efter at være blevet forsøgt myrdet - trukket sig tilbage fra sit virke som opklarer. Men et helt livs politiarbejde har sat sig sine spor i kommissæren, der, da han snubler over en mystisk sag fra en antikvitetsforretning, ikke kan nære sig for at dykke ned den. På egen hånd graver han dybere og dybere ned i sagen, der snart udvikler sig til en regulær tragedie Nicolas Freeling, engelsk kriminalforfatter; født under navnet Nicolas Davidson (1927-2003).