Ergebnis für "Jazz" in Krimis & Thriller

Kir Vasilek führt das mächtigste Verbrechersyndikat in New Orleans mit eiserner Hand, denn nicht weniger als das Leben seiner Brüder hängt davon ab. Cassie McClintock ist Journalistin und hat schon einmal über die russische Mafia in Louisiana berichtet. Als er sie nun bittet, einen grausamen Mord zu untersuchen, kann sie nicht widerstehen. Kir zu zähmen war nie die Story, die Cassie schreiben wollte. Teil seiner „Familie" zu werden, nie ihr Plan. Aber je tiefer sie in seine Welt eintaucht, desto mehr muss sie sich fragen: Gibt es überhaupt noch einen anderen Weg für sie?

Obwohl seine Methoden hart sind, beschützt Sergei Petrovyh das, was ihm gehört. Als Evette Labadie ihn um einen Job bittet, weiß er, dass er seine Finger von ihr lassen sollte. Aber etwas an ihr zieht ihn an. Und so spielt Evette bald Aschenputtel für einen Mann, der trotz allem, was die Leute glauben, definitiv mehr Prinz als Verbrecher ist. Und sie kann gar nicht anders, als sich jeden Tag immer mehr in ihn zu verlieben.

Some call him friend or boss. Some call him husband or dad. Some call him son, even a favorite son. But the only title that matters to him is the one the media has given him: the Poet. A name he earned from the written words he leaves behind after he kills that are as dark and mysterious as the reason he chooses his victims. One word, two, three, a story in a poem, a secret that only Detective Samantha Jazz can solve. Because, he’s writing this story for her.

New Orleans, 1919. As a dark serial killer - The Axeman - stalks the city, three individuals set out to unmask him. As Michael, Luca and Ida each draw closer to discovering the killer's identity, the Axeman himself will issue a challenge to the people of New Orleans: play jazz or risk becoming...

A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently — from the bestselling author of Golden Hill. In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a snowy night at the end of winter, two detectives find a body on the roof of a skyscraper...

1920. Poppy Denby, an aspiring journalist, arrives in London to look after her ailing Aunt. She encourages Poppy to apply for a job at The Daily Globe, but on her first day, a senior reporter is killed and Poppy is tasked with finishing his story. It involves the mysterious death of a...

Im Raum Stuttgart werden zwei kleine Mädchen vermisst. Als bei einem vorbestraften Sexualverbrecher eine entsprechende DVD auftaucht, wird klar: Hier handelt es sich um eine neue Dimension der organisierten Bandenkriminalität-Snuff! Sowohl Eleonora als auch Pia wurden missbraucht und getötet, um das Tatgeschehen minutiös mit der Kamera zu dokumentieren und die Snuff-Filme in einschlägigen Kreisen zu verbreiten. An die Täter ist schwer heranzukommen. Die mit fünfzig Beamten bestückte Soko Eleonora/ Pia tritt auf der Stelle. Die Abteilung Operative Fallanalyse des baden-württembergischen Landeskriminalamts wird hinzugezogen. Die Profiler sollen schnell reagieren, denn die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass es einen weiteren Fall geben wird, ist hoch. Tatsächlich verschwindet kurz darauf die achtjährige Lea. Und dann taucht die nächste DVD auf. Sie zeigt Lea in einem Kellerstudio. Lebend.

Los Angeles, 1958: a city on the make. A boomtown at the edge of a new era ripe for plunder. Lieutenant Dave Klein: in turn a lawyer, bagman, slum landlord, mob killer. Klein stands at the centre of a complex web of plots where violence and death will intersect, a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire. Klein's been hung out as bait, 'a bad cop to draw the heat', and the heat's coming from all sides.

London, 1926. After a short leave of absence, Private Detective Posie Parker is back—and with a bang! Her first assignment? Interview the dazzling Eglantine DuBarry and Jack Smeaton of ‘The Banana Splits’, the most talked-about jazz band in town, who seem to have troubles aplenty. But before the ink is dry, Posie lands an even more notorious client: Lady Hilda Kilcoyne, a scandalous sportswoman convinced her war-hero husband wants her dead.

Brought to you by Penguin. A dark and witty work of hardboiled detective fiction set in the mean streets of New York, Chester Himes's A Rage in Harlem includes an introduction by Luc Sante in Penguin Modern Classics. Jackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for...

Includes an introduction written and read by Jesmyn Ward, a foreword written and read by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan, and an afterword written and read by Professor James L. W. West III The only edition of the beloved classic that is authorized by Fitzgerald’s family...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Frozen River, this “genuinely surprising whodunit” (USA Today) reimagines the tantalizing suspense surrounding a scandalous murder mystery that rocked the nation. “This book is more meticulously choreographed than a chorus line. It all pays...

* Winner of the Sidewise Award for Alternate History * Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction * Named a Best Book of the Year by the New Yorker, The New York Times, Fresh Air (top 10 pick), NPR, the Los Angeles Times (top 15 pick),The Washington Post, and more! The...

Chicago. Una stazione della metropolitana. Un uomo immobile sulla banchina. Adam lo vede per la prima volta quasi per caso. È lì, fermo, apparentemente fuori posto. Potrebbe essere soltanto uno sconosciuto in attesa di un treno, una presenza come tante in una città che non smette mai di...

A party at the city’s hottest venue turns deadly when an aristocrat is murdered. London 1924. A birthday celebration at Gennaro’s, London’s swankiest jazz club, is just the ticket for Kitty Worthington. What could be more fun than dancing the Charleston with her fiancé, Chief Inspector Robert Crawford Sinclair? But as the singer’s mesmerizing voice commands everyone’s attention, an argument erupts between the songbird’s brother and a marquis.

Flappers meet gangsters in the hottest jazz club in Soho. Step back into the roaring twenties with a captivating mystery set in 1920s London. When a night of jazz and dancing with the American ambassador’s niece ends in tragedy, apprentice detective Marjorie Swallow is thrust into a world of shady cocaine deals and opium dens. To discover the truth, she goes undercover as a dance hostess at the notorious Harlequin club and confronts the menacing Armstrong brothers. The quest for answers takes unexpected turns, with secrets lurking in the shadows of Soho and closer to home.

A novel in The L.A. Quartet. Internationally acclaimed author James Ellroy presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia. Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns—it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an...

From T. J. English, the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne, comes the epic, scintillating narrative of the interconnected worlds of jazz and organized crime in 20th century America. ""[A] brilliant and courageous book."" —Dr. Cornel West Dangerous Rhythms tells the symbiotic...

The third book in the Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes series from celebrated author Laurie K. King, A Letter of Mary. It is 1923. Mary Russell Holmes and her husband, the retired Sherlock Holmes, are enjoying the summer together on their Sussex estate when they are visited by an old friend, Miss...

From the million-copy bestselling author of The Frozen River and ‘a genius of historical fiction’ (Daily Telegraph), Ariel Lawhon reimagines the tantalising suspense surrounding a scandalous murder mystery that rocked America. One summer night in 1930, Judge Joseph Crater steps into a New...