Time Noir

'Heart-stopping' ANN CLEEVES 'Genius' STEVE CAVANAGH 'A triumph' IRISH EXAMINER 'Nail-biting' ANDREA MARA 'Exceptional' JOHN CONNOLLY 'Breathlessly exciting' IRISH INDEPENDENT ------------ Katie lives a quiet life. She likes her small Derry neighbourhood. She likes her job as a barmaid at...

To Florence Hackett and her daughters Elinor and Louisa, Richard Baurie, a handsome young bookstore clerk and aspiring poet, seems a little odd but harmless enough. With his amusing conversation and his eager-to-please attitude, Richard works his way into the Hacketts' confidence until he is almost one of the family. When he suggests they rent Wisteria Cottage, a charming seaside residence, it seems to promise a summer of pleasant companionship and fun.

Peter Brandt is a war-scarred news service reporter who has seen more than he can bear to remember. Returning to the States, he discovers his former wife, TV reporter Robin Anderson, brutally murdered and the local cops doing nothing to find her killer. Driven by guilt and regret over his failed marriage, Peter sets out with an old friend, retired cop Matt Banyon, to find Robin's killer.

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.

Roddy Stallone was supposed to be dead—erased by betrayal, rewritten by protocol, and buried beneath a dozen aliases. But legends don’t die. They disappear, reshape, and return when the world forgets the cost of silence. Five years after dismantling a crime empire and fleeing the shadows, Roddy lives as Thomas Vale, a husband, gardener, and ghost. But when paranoia blooms and a stranger named Joe arrives bearing quiet smiles and deadly intent, Roddy is thrust back into a world of hidden agendas and engineered memories.

When a mysterious client asks former Delta Force operator Case Lee to investigate a massive New Guinea gold discovery, the job quickly unravels into an incredible world of spies, terrorists, and tribal headhunters. Case, with a sense he's being played, walks away from the entire mess. Until life-threatening events pull him back in. This time, he's not taking any prisoners.

Grotesk, dunkel und bizarr. Definitiv ein Leckerbissen für Noir-Fans. Stanton Carlisle lernt die schmutzigen Tricks der Jahrmärkte und wird zum skrupellosen Gauner. Er gibt sich als spiritueller Guru aus, um die Reichen und Schwachen auszunehmen. Doch sein Spiel der Täuschungen und Lügen treibt ihn geradewegs in die Albtraumgasse... Mit effektiver Atmosphäre und außergewöhnlicher Prosa geschrieben, ist "Nightmare Alley" mehr als ein großes Drama: Stantons entschlossener Aufstieg und der unvermeidliche Sturz ins Verderben ist die röntgenscharfe Durchleuchtung des "american dream".

When Anna Ramsey learns that a meth-addicted looter has dug up what might be the funerary mask of Montezuma, she books the next flight to Oaxaca. Determined to redeem her father, a discredited art collector, and to one-up her unfaithful fiancé, Anna hurls herself headlong into Mexico's underground art world. But others are chasing the treasure as well. Anna soon realizes that everyone is masked - some literally, others metaphorically.

Rolson McKane thought his crime-solving days ended the night he lost his badge in a drunken accident. But when he discovers the body of a young Black man near his property—and the dead man visits Rolson in his dreams—he realizes this case is personal. As Rolson digs deeper, he collides with a corrupt police force, a ruthless local politician, and a town determined to bury the truth, not just with this case, but with something that happened decades ago. Every step pulls him into a darkness he may not be able to escape.

A comic vignette in which a carnival barker's valuable watch gets stolen during an illegal poker game. The local sheriff seems in no hurry to apprehend the thief, until a reward is offered.

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Deux auteurs, deux pays, mais une seule et même histoire entre Manchester et Lyon. Une intrigue taillée comme un diamant pur ! Ged Mackie, ex-soldat de la Légion étrangère rentre chez lui, à Manchester, pour la première fois en vingt ans. Les retrouvailles avec sa mère, Sheryl, une vraie dure à cuire, et avec sa fille Jada, ne sont pas de tout repos, mais ce n’est rien à côté des soucis qui l’attendent avec le gang le plus violent de la ville.