Ergebnis für "James" in Noir

Someone is committing random murders across Chicago—and making sure detectives Billy Harney (Aaron Paul) and Patti Harney (Krysten Ritter) are first on the crime scene. What connects the victims, and why is the killer leaving clues behind with each body? Billy and Patti are scrambling to stop the next killing when their father, Chief of Detectives Dan Harney (Beau Bridges), is kidnapped. But in their race to track him down, they uncover pieces of his past that simply can’t be true. Could their own flesh and blood be covering up a dark secret?

Der Höllenhund ist zurück: In drei neuen Kurzromanen und zahlreichen Stories und Artikeln richtet Ellroy sein Mega-Spotlight vor allem auf L.A. und erzählt bissig und schonungslos über dunkelste Obsessionen, korrupte Bullen, ungelöste Mordfälle und seinen eigenen Werdegang. Er berichtet über seinen Vater, die Todesstrafe, die Justiz und die Opfer von vierzig Jahre zurückliegenden Verbrechen. Wir begegnen einem verrückten Detective, der von einer Schauspielerin aus Hollywood besessen ist, und auch Danny Getchell läuft uns über den Weg.

Estate 1968. Sui cadaveri ancora caldi di Martin Luther King e Robert Kennedy iniziano a circolare teorie cospiratorie. Le Pantere Nere sono sul piede di guerra a South Los Angeles. Mentre i federali si apprestano a prendere contromisure draconiane. E di nuovo ci sono tre uomini che si ritrovano al centro della tempesta perfetta. Dwight Holly, lo sgherro del capo dell'FBI, ossessionato dall'oscura figura di una militante di sinistra. Wayne Tedrow Jr, ex poliziotto corrotto, impegnato a costruire un paradiso mafioso nella Repubblica Dominicana.

Vermont 1950. Idlewild Hall ist ein Ort für Mädchen, die keinen anderen Platz in der Gesellschaft haben. Abends erzählen sich die Schülerinnen Schauergeschichten von der "schwarzen Mary". Doch als eines Nachts eine von ihnen unter mysteriösen Umständen ums Leben kommt, wird der Schrecken real. 2014 ist das Internat eine Ruine, aber die Journalistin Fiona Sheridan kann nicht von Idlewild Hall lassen: Hier wurde vor 20 Jahren ihre Schwester ermordet.

A novel in The L.A. Quartet. Murder, mayhem and dirty cops on the make against the backdrop of anti-communist hysteria in L.A. in 1950. It’s Los Angeles in the new year of 1950. The Communist Scare is heating up. Gangsters vie for control of the town. The Hollywood studios are feuding with the...

James Ellroy's deep dive into the psyche of a serial killer who recounts his life in the shadows, a tale of American madness and obsession. "The scariest book I've ever read." —Jason Kellerman Even as a child, Martin Michael Plunkett was no ordinary boy. Extreme parental indifference marked...

Frank Chambers ist ein Rumtreiber. Und er ist abgebrannt. Eines Tages landet er vor einem Diner irgendwo im kalifornischen Nichts, betrieben vom Griechen Papadakis und seiner schönen jungen Frau Cora. Ihren Ehemann kann Cora nicht leiden, den Rumtreiber Frank dafür umso mehr. Ein Problem, das nur eine Lösung kennt, eine Lösung, die viele Probleme nach sich zieht. Solche, für die es keine Lösung gibt. Schwärzer als bei Cain war die Welt selten. In ihr regieren Skrupellosigkeit und Gier nach Sex und Geld. Jeder ist sich selbst am nächsten.

Pochi romanzi hanno inciso nell'immaginario collettivo come questo. Nel crime, c'è un prima e un dopo American Tabloid . Una rottura che è una sorta di perdita dell'innocenza: con le sue frasi cadenzate come raffiche di mitra, la vastità dell'impianto e la durezza dello sguardo, James Ellroy ha portato il noir nell'età adulta e costretto i suoi lettori a fare i conti con il passato. American Tabloid mette in scena gli uomini e le donne che hanno contribuito all'ascesa e alla caduta di John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness and determination. She used those attributes to survive a divorce in 1940s America with two children and to claw her way out of poverty, becoming a successful businesswoman. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men and an unreasoning devotion to her monstrous daughter.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Olivier Award winner Rory Kinnear, star of Penny Dreadful. Kinnear is also known for his portrayal of Bill Tanner in Spectre and for his role in The Imitation Game. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Robert...

Brought to you by Penguin. A classic espionage thriller from master storyteller Graham Greene. Carleton Myatt meets Coral Musker, a naïve English chorus girl, aboard the Orient Express as it heads across Europe to Constantinople. As their relationship develops, they find themselves caught up in...

New Orleans: Lew Griffin hat seine Vergangenheit als Privatdetektiv hinter sich gelassen. Er ist jetzt Schriftsteller und verbringt seine Tage in einem alten Haus im respektablen Garden District - immer darum bemüht, den heiklen Verführungen der Straße zu entfliehen. Doch als seine ehemalige Freundin LaVerne stirbt und ihre Tochter Alouette verschwindet, sieht er sich gezwungen, der Sache auf den Grund zu gehen. Lew Griffin taucht hinab in die schwülen Nächte der pulsierenden Stadt.

An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one, grisly solution -- a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve. First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism...

Bonus feature includes an original afterword by James Ellroy, titled "Hillikers," read by Stephen Hoye. On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia–and so begins the greatest manhunt in...

Sixteen-year-old Emily had everything to live for, a bright, beautiful teenager with a promising future ahead of her. But in one night her life is cut short. The police say it’s an accident, but her parents think she was murdered. When Detective Rachel Prince is called in to investigate the shocking death at the height of the Edinburgh Festival, her instincts tell her that things are not as they first appear. Something is very wrong. Rachel discovers a chilling link with the suspicious death of another international student, who stayed in the same house as Emily two years earlier.

Il nuovo scrittore residente presso l'Athena College è il drammaturgo Connor Lawton, noto per la penna mordace e la lingua biforcuta. Prima che riesca a portare a termine la stesura dell'opera a cui sta lavorando, il drammaturgo viene trovato morto, assassinato, e Laura diventa la sospettata numero uno. Credendo ciecamente nella sua innocenza, Charlie e il suo braccio destro felino, Diesel, seguono la scia di indizi lasciata da Connor, costellata di amanti arrabbiati, acerrimi nemici e bizzarre ricerche in biblioteca.

Ed Exley, Bud White e Jack Vincennes sono tre anime in pena in quella bolgia che è il Dipartimento di polizia di L.A. all'inizio degli anni '50. Il caso di un pestaggio a sangue in cella, opera di agenti ubriachi, svelerà gli sporchi segreti su cui si fondano le loro carriere di detective, trascinandoci in una spirale di morte, potere e corruzione. Un gorgo da incubo in cui nessuno, vittime e aguzzini, può dirsi pulito e dal quale nessuno è sicuro di poter uscire vivo.

AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR James Ellroy—Demon Dog of American Letters—goes straight to the tragic heart of 1962 Hollywood with a wild riff on the Marilyn Monroe death myth in an astonishing, behind-the-headlines crime epic. Los Angeles, August 4, 1962. The city broils through a...

One of the most acclaimed works of crime fiction ever written, The Big Sleep is the first novel featuring Raymond Chandler’s iconic creation Philip Marlowe, hailed as the “quintessential urban private eye” (Los Angeles Times). One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100...

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.