Ergebnis für "Benjamin" in Noir

La noche nunca es tan oscura como los secretos que guarda. Juan es un curtido portero en la noche madrileña que navega por una realidad cruda y sin filtros. Cada madrugada debe enfrentarse a personajes de diferente calaña, situaciones límite y la decadencia de una sociedad que solo revela su...

A suspicious death, a pregnant woman suddenly gone missing: Quirke's latest case leads him inexorably toward the dark machinations of an old foe Perhaps Quirke has been down among the dead too long. Lately the Irish pathologist has suffered hallucinations and blackouts, and he fears the cause is...

When the body of his daughter’s friend is brought to his autopsy table, Quirke is plunged into a world of corruption that takes him to the darkest corners of the Catholic Church, in one of The Wall Street Journal’s “Ten Best Mysteries of the Year.” 1950s Dublin. A battered body...

Quirke finds himself at the center of a deadly intergenerational feud in the latest novel from Booker Prize-winning "literary polymath" (The New York Times) John Banville Two men go sailing off the coast of Ireland. Only one comes back, claiming the other shot himself. But Detective Inspector...

When John Glass's billionaire father-in-law hires him to write his biography, he feels he can't refuse. Then his research assistant on the book discovers some very sensitive information about John's in-laws, and is murdered before he can tell anyone what he knows. John is on his own to find out...

Gardez votre sang-froid, la nuit sera longue. Il y a quinze ans, la vie de Nap Dumas a basculé : dernière année de lycée, son frère jumeau et la petite amie de celui-ci ont été retrouvés morts sur la voie ferrée. Double suicide d'amoureux ? Nap n'y a jamais cru. Désormais flic, Nap voit ressurgir le passé : Rex, leur ami d'enfance, vient d'être sauvagement assassiné. Sur les lieux du crime, les empreintes d'une femme que Nap pensait disparue : Maura, son amour de jeunesse, dont il était sans nouvelles depuis quinze ans. Le choc est total pour le policier. Celle qu'il aimait serait-elle une dangereuse psychopathe ?

Dublín, años cincuenta. En un depósito de cadáveres, una turbia trama de secretos familiares y organizaciones clandestinas comienza a desvelarse tras el hallazgo de un cuerpo que nunca tendría que haber estado allí. Una oscura conspiración que abarca ambos lados del Atlántico y que acaba envolviendo en un siniestro abrazo, inesperadamente, la vida misma de todos los protagonistas.

When Sherlock Holmes defeats Professor James Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls, he believes the “Napoleon of Crime” is finished. Then, in the pocket of a discarded coat, he finds the Professor’s private journal—and everything he thought he knew begins to unravel. Holmes opens not a memoir but a manifesto. In its pages lies the answer to the question: why would a calculating mind like Moriarty’s, knowing Holmes is a formidable fighter, choose close-quarters combat above a chasm?

The unblinking story of two lost and self-destructive drifters - a failed painter working as a counterman in a cheap diner and a woman in flight from domestic violence - trying to find a place for themselves in the back streets of San Francisco, Pick-Up is hardboiled writing at its nihilistic best.

Hoch Racheengel is a former star pilot who has made mistakes and is now paying for them. He gets a chance to repay an act of kindness by finding the people responsible for the rape and murder of the young woman who helped him when he needed help the most. But was her murder just a random act of piracy, or is it the tip of the iceberg of something far more sinister? He finds that he has a talent for balancing the scales of justice with his own hands, but his thirst for vengeance sometimes makes him straddle the line between right and wrong.

Colección de relatos de Juan Ramón Biedma en la que el autor vuelve a hacer gala de su prosa descarnada y sin tapujos, su gusto por la truculencia y lo macabro y su afilada disección de los rincones más oscuros de nuestra sociedad actual. Los cuentos aquí recogidos son tan turbios como el crimen, tan negros como la literatura más peligrosa y tan afilados como unas fauces ensangrentadas.

The mean streets are awash with violence, with robberies and murders taking place in every dark corner of Dodge City. While the police know who is to blame, they find themselves up against something never encountered before and catching the madman will be no easy task. Go It Alone is an explosive tale of revenge and bloodshed unlike anything else.