Ergebnis für "James" in Für Hartgesottene

USA, Anfang des 21. Jahrhunderts: Im Städtchen Money in den Südstaaten werden mehrere Männer ermordet: meist dick, doof und weiß. Neben jeder Leiche taucht ein Körper auf, der die Züge von Emmett Till trägt, eines 1955 gelynchten schwarzen Jungen. Zwei afroamerikanische Detektive ermitteln, doch der Sheriff sowie eine Gruppe hartnäckiger Rednecks setzen ihnen erbitterten Widerstand entgegen. Als sich die Morde auf ganz Amerika ausweiten, suchen die Detektive des Rätsels Lösung in den Archiven von Mama Z, die seit Jahrzehnten Buch führt über die Opfer der Lynchjustiz in Money.

Die Warnung kommt aus der Todeszelle. "Passen Sie auf", sagt kurz vor seiner Exekution ein Mafia-Killer dem Polizisten Dave Robicheaux von der Mordkommission in New Orleans, "die Kolumbianer wollen Ihren Kopf." Und prompt muss Robicheaux wieder an das tote schwarze Mädchen denken, das er jüngst aus einem Tümpel gezogen hat.

Los Angeles 1947: Auf einem verlassenen Grundstück wird die Leiche einer jungen Frau entdeckt – nackt und bestialisch zugerichtet. Der Mord der Schwarzen Dahlie macht Schlagzeilen und löst die größte Verbrecherjagd in der Geschichte Kaliforniens aus. Für Bucky Bleichert und Lee Blanchard vom Los Angeles Police Department wird die Suche nach dem Mörder zur Obsession.

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.

A neo-noir crime novel from the legendary crime novelist James Ellroy. Los Angeles, 15th January 1947: a beautiful young woman walked into the night and met her horrific destiny. Five days later, her tortured body was found drained of blood and cut in half. The newspapers called her 'The Black Dahlia'. Two cops are caught up in the investigation and embark on a hellish journey that takes them to the core of the dead girl's twisted life....

From two-time Edgar Award–winner and New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke comes a thrilling novel—now available in ebook—that pits Dave Robicheaux against the worst opponent he’s encountered yet. It’s out there, under the salt of the Gulf of Mexico, off the Louisiana...

Detective Dave Robicheaux returns to center stage in an incendiary new novel by James Lee Burke. A gripping tale of racial violence, class warfare, and the sometimes cruel legacy of Southern history, Sunset Limited is a stunning achievement, confirming Burke's place as one of America's premier...

When a cloaked, disfigured man leaves a dead woman in a garbage bag on Dave Robicheaux's property, he knows his world and family are about to change. With Valerie Benoit, a detective new to the Iberia Parish Sheriff's Department who is grappling with sexist and racist harassment from their colleagues, and the volatile but fiercely loyal Clete Purcel, Dave embarks on an investigation that brings him into the most dangerous moments of his career and threatens the lives of Valerie and his daughter Alafair.

Dave Robicheaux has been warned that he's on somebody's hit list, and now the homicide detective is trying to discover just who that is before he ends up dead. Meanwhile he has taken on the murder investigation of a young black girl found dead in the Bayou swamp. Robicheaux uncovers a web of corruption that leads him to a terrifying confrontation with the one horror he fears most of all.

Forty years ago, on a sweltering summer evening in southern Ohio, seven-year-old Michael Adkins vanished into thin air. Two years later, in the dead of winter, his case long gone cold, Michael's remains were found in a well-searched area, just one hundred yards from where he disappeared. The discovery provided no answers, only more questions. Last week, Michael's now elderly mother walked into Detective Jake Cashen's office with a tantalizing clue that just arrived on her doorstep. A handwritten letter filled with chilling details only someone close to the decades-old crime could know.

A routine assignment transporting two death-row prisoners to their executions goes fatally wrong, leaving Dave Robicheaux brutally wounded and his partner dead. Obsessed with revenge, Dave is persuaded by the DEA to go undercover into the torrid sleepy depths of New Orleans, a volatile world of Mafia drug-running and Cajun voodoo magic. He becomes irrevocably snarled in the nightmarish web surrounding Mafia don Tony Cardo and must put himself against his own worst fears in order to survive.

“LeeAnne James’s latest kidnapping thriller is a tragic exploration of evil borne of ignorance.” –Cam Torrens, award-winning author of the Tyler Zahn series When Sergeant Steve “Mac” MacIntosh interviews a young victim of kidnap and rape, he’s appalled. She came forward to say she’d been kidnapped by an older man wearing glasses. He held her captive in a damp and dark underground bunker for over a year and raped her daily. Even more disturbing, he appeared to think he was treating her well!

Personal tragedy has left Dave Robicheaux close to the edge. Battling against his old addiction to alcohol and haunted nightly by vivid dreams and visitations, Dave finds his only tranquillity at home with his young ward Alafair. But even this fragile peace is shattered by the arrival of Dixie Lee Pugh who brings with him a brutal trail of murder and violence.

Nach seinem Abschied von der Mordkommission in New Orleans hat sich Dave Robicheaux ins Delta des Mississippi zurückgezogen und einen Bootsverleih aufgemacht. Als er beim Krabbenfischen Augenzeuge eines Flugzeugabsturzes wird, holt das Verbrechen ihn wieder ein. Der Expolizist, der selbst ein kleines Mädchen aus dem Wrack rettet, wird stutzig, als die Behörden bei der Zahl der Opfer mogeln. Als er auf eigene Faust Nachforschungen anstellt, hagelt es Drohungen, und die Welt des Bayou versinkt in einen blutigen Alptraum.

Dave Robicheaux is trying to put a life of violence and crime behind him, leaving homicide to run a boat-rental business in Louisiana's bayou country. One day while fishing in the Gulf with his wife Annie, he witnesses an event that will change his life forever. A two-engine plane suddenly crashes into the sea and Robicheaux dives down to the wreckage to find four bodies and one survivor; a little girl miraculously trapped in a pocket of air. When the authorities insist only three bodies were recovered from the plane, Robicheaux decides to investigate the mystery of the missing man.

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...

A unique a thriller from James Patterson. Frannie O'Neill is a young and talented veterinarian living in Colorado. Plagued by the mysterious murder of her husband, David, a local doctor, Frannie throws herself into her work. It is not long before another bizarre murder occurs and Kit Harrison, a troubled and unconventional FBI agent, arrives on her doorstep.

From Bestselling, award-winning author James Ellroy ("The neo-noir eminence of L.A. crime fiction." –The New Yorker) a gritty, fast-paced historical crime thriller set in 1962 Los Angeles during the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis. "The Freddy Otash novels will be mentioned ... as some...

We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination - in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, DC....

Eight BBC Radio crime dramas featuring Golden Age detective Gideon Fell, starring Donald Sinden With his cape, canes and shovel hat, portly amateur sleuth Dr Gideon Fell cuts an eccentric figure - but his odd appearance belies his sharp intellect and astonishing faculty for deduction. Created by...