Noir Mystery Thriller

Un nuovo capitolo del grande Romanzo di Rocco Schiavone, un uomo duro, ruvido, cinico ma con una umanità insospettabile, «l'amico di cui non si può più fare a meno» Bruno Ventavoli (TuttoLibri).

George Stroud is a hard-drinking, tough-talking, none-too-scrupulous writer for a New York media conglomerate in the heyday of Henry Luce. One day, before heading home to his wife in the suburbs, Stroud has a drink with Pauline, the beautiful girlfriend of his boss, Earl Janoth. Things happen. The next day Stroud escorts Pauline home, leaving her off at the corner just as Janoth returns from a trip. The day after that, Pauline is found murdered in her apartment.

Pittsburgh has recently (and more than once) been called the most livable city in America; yet the old image of smoky skies and steel mills spewing forth grit has never quite disappeared. Its history as a dirty industrial center is a part of its residents, a part of their toughness. The people of the steel city fight.

Une semaine à skier et à faire la fête : c'est le programme d'Olivia et de sa meilleure amie, Fanny, lorsqu'elles montent à bord du train de nuit pour Åre avec quatre camarades de fac. Mais au lendemain de leur arrivée, après une soirée très arrosée, le corps sans vie de Fanny est retrouvé dans la neige, devant leur chalet. L'inspectrice Hanna Ahlander et son collègue Daniel Lindskog tentent de rassembler les témoignages. Plus d'un garçon de la bande semble avoir quelque chose à cacher, et les éléments matériels sont minces.

Commissario Guido Brunetti comes to the aid of a young nursing sister who has had five patients unexpectedly die and decides to leave her convent. In the course of his inquiries, Brunetti encounters an unusual cast of characters but discovers nothing that seems criminal. Is the nun simply creating a smoke screen to justify abandoning her vocation? Or has she stumbled onto something very real and very sinister - something that places her own life in imminent danger?

A macabre grave is found at the foot of the Italian Dolomites. The body is found to be Roberto Lorenzoni's, only son and heir of one Venice's oldest, most aristocratic families. Commissario Guido Brunetti must move in the highest circles of power and corruption to unravel the mystery behind the young man's disappearance and murder.

On Easter weekend, a guest at a luxury ski lodge in Åre is stabbed to death in her plush suite. She’s Charlotte Wretlind, a property developer who planned to restore a nearby mountain hotel to its long-gone glory days. It was not a random attack. It was an act of pure aggression leveled against a woman with plenty of enemies. As the murder spreads panic among tourists and Åre residents alike, Detective Inspectors Hanna Ahlander and Daniel Lindskog face a shady staff, a dogged press, and multiple suspects.

An electrifying work of suspense from internationally bestselling author Katrine Engberg—heralded as a “stunning debut” by #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs—follows two Copenhagen police detectives struggling to solve a shocking murder and stop a killer hell-bent on...

Oslo, 2018. Former long-distance runner Sonja Nordstrøm never shows at the launch of her controversial autobiography, Always Number One. When celebrity blogger Emma Ramm visits Nordstrøm’s home later that day, she finds the door unlocked and signs of a struggle inside. A bib with the number one has been pinned to the TV. Police officer Alexander Blix is appointed to head up the missing-persons investigation, but he still bears the emotional scars of a hostage situation 19 years earlier, when he killed the father of a five-year-old girl.

Dans le secret du confessionnal, on confie au père Gabriel une mission. Récupérer à l'asile voisin, sous la jupe d'une femme dont il doit bénir le corps, de mystérieux cahiers. C'est ainsi que sortent de l'ombre les carnets de la jeune Rose, ceux dans lesquels elle a conté son histoire, cherchant à briser le secret dont on voulait couvrir son destin.

All that’s left of her is a depression in the dirt and a pool of blood. Robert Maxim is ruthless, powerful, and determined to find her. April Madden is a preacher’s wife, and Sydney’s mother. She’s willing to risk everything...her sobriety, her marriage, even her faith, to hunt for her daughter. But they can’t find Sydney Rye if she doesn’t want to be found. ISIS has a new enemy, a ghost haunting their territory, infecting their flock with radical ideals. They will do anything to capture her. Their reign depends on this new prophet’s destruction.

Nairobi Noir is an act of excavation, rediscovering the city's ossified past and infusing life to preserve it for future generations. It is also an act of celebration, reminding listeners of the brilliance of the best-known writers to emerge from this part of the world, and heralding the birth of new writers whose gifts, we can safely predict, will shine brightly in the years ahead.

Voulez-vous vraiment connaître la vérité ? Le dernier message pourrait vous plonger dans des abysses d'angoisse et de folie... Île d'Iona, à l'ouest de l'écosse. Des plaines d'herbes brunes parsemées de roches noires. Et au bout du "Chemin des morts", la silhouette grise du monastère. Derrière ces murs suppliciés par le vent, un pensionnaire vient d'être retrouvé assassiné. Son corps mutilé de la plus étrange des façons. C'est l'inspectrice écossaise Grace Campbell qui est chargée de l'enquête. Après un an de mise à l'écart, elle joue sa carrière, elle le sait.

Pierre Lemaitre tisse avec délice une toile inextricable dans laquelle un cinquantenaire au chômage est prêt à tout pour retrouver un travail, et sa dignité. Jusqu’où est-il prêt à aller ?

Repairman Jack is back! Jack can fix any problem, natural or supernatural, for a price. Now, in his next gripping adventure, he takes on two cases at once. The first involves a nun being blackmailed. What’s in those photos, she won’t say, but with her meager savings just about exhausted, she hires Jack to help her. The second: an elderly woman needs Jack to find her missing son. Jack must infiltrate the inner reaches of the Dormentalist Church, a secretive, globe-spanning cult whose members include some of the biggest and most powerful names in entertainment, sports, and politics.

From "Trench Town" to "Half Way Tree" to "Norbrook" to "Portmore" and beyond, the stories of Kingston Noir shine light into the darkest corners of this fabled city. Joining award-winning Jamaican authors such as Marlon James, Leone Ross, and Thomas Glave are two "special guest" writers with no Jamaican lineage: Nigerian-born Chris Abani and British writer Ian Thomson.

Justice with a vengeance. Who controls Sydney Rye? Because that person controls a dangerous weapon - a killer and a symbol - proof of a prophet's divinity and the catalyst for an international vigilante network. Sydney Rye is just one woman, but to millions she is much more. Whoever controls Sydney controls the masses, can incite violence, turn wife against husband, daughter against father...release the wolf in us all. Who controls her, and what do they want?

After a messy divorce, attractive young mother Sonia is struggling to provide for herself and keep custody of her son. With her back to the wall, she resorts to smuggling cocaine into Iceland and finds herself caught up in a ruthless criminal world. As she desperately looks for a way out of trouble, she must pit her wits against her nemesis, Bragi, a customs officer whose years of experience frustrate her new and evermore daring strategies.

Journaliste pour une dépêche locale, David Harwood pensait avoir eu une bonne idée pour le week-end : quoi de mieux, en effet, qu'une journée dans un parc d'attractions avec leur fils de quatre ans, Ethan, pour changer les idées dépressives de son épouse Jan ? Or, à peine sont-ils arrivés que Jan se volatilise. David fait bientôt figure de suspect numéro 1 aux yeux de la police car rien ne semble confirmer l'état dépressif de Jan, que lui seul semble connaître, ni même que la jeune femme était bien avec lui au parc d'attractions.

William Wisting, en vacances depuis deux semaines et las de tondre la pelouse, suit avec attention l’intérêt grandissant de la presse nationale pour une disparition locale : depuis maintenant trois jours, personne n’a vu Agnete Roll, ni eu la moindre nouvelle d’elle. Et la police n’a recueilli aucun indice. C’est alors que Wisting trouve dans sa boîte aux lettres une enveloppe anonyme ; à l’intérieur, une série de chiffres. Ils désignent le numéro d’archive d’une vieille affaire, le dossier 1569. Un soir de l’été 1999, Tone Vaterland, 17 ans, avait été tuée sur la route en rentrant du travail.