Ergebnis für "Jazz" in 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...

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...

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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...

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Caveau des Trésors, where the famous and the infamous mingle freely, has been Louie Bertrand’s favorite hideaway for 30 years. So, when the famous sleuth’s table remains empty for too many nights in a row, the club’s owner suspects foul play and contacts Louie’s partner Mrs. Duchesney to begin a private investigation. When Mrs. Duchesney’s cousin Rudy also goes missing, she must enlist the help of Chief Homicide Detective Monsieur Bruno Lacosta, recruit a reporter by the name of Simon Pennington, and lastly, make peace with the one woman in Paris she does not trust.

In the sultry heart of New Orleans, a city haunted by the legacy of Jack the Ripper’s reign of terror in London, a new menace emerges. The year is 1918, and the Axman of New Orleans prowls the cobblestone streets, targeting the city’s large population of Sicilian immigrants. Retired detective Giancarlo Rabito is reluctantly drawn into the shadows, entangled in the pursuit of the Axman, challenging the wide-spread belief that the Mafia is responsible.

Jeff Davis Swaine digs up evidence for a Raleigh, North Carolina, trial law firm. When a client comes home to find his McMansion burglarized - and his new wife's dog dead in the kitchen - the man suspects his ex-wife. But this is someone far more dangerous. From a stolen minivan, washed-up jazz bassist Leonard Noblac is performing his "perfect jazz album of felonies" to punish the zeros in the soulless suburb of Rocky Falls.

In the glittering world of 1920s New York, the seven Ridley heirs seem to have it all: wealth, status, and protection as the city’s most powerful family. But when notorious gossip columnist Dale Caimen is found dead during their family’s renowned summer soiree, their carefully constructed world begins to crack. Behind the champagne and jazz, each adopted Ridley sibling harbors secrets that could destroy them.

Socially awkward Will, grieving her mother’s death, is fascinated by Dolly, a beautiful, charming rebel with an insatiable taste for adrenaline. Both musicians come alive at Harlem jazz clubs and Prohibition-era speakeasies. Dazzled by the world they are discovering together, their romance ignites. But while Will is obsessed with Dolly, Dolly is obsessed with crime. The power dynamics keep shifting as Will agrees to commit petty crimes with Dolly in exchange for sexual favors. When the University and their rich families unite to split them up, passions escalate. 

Jean LaChance, running from his criminal past, finds solace in the isolation of the bleak California desert. There, in search of the money he and his unscrupulous partner have stolen, LaChance instead finds Lilly Parsons and her children. Over four days they forge a sense of belonging for the first time in their lives, and loneliness and despair begin to melt away. This bond of trust is seemingly broken when Lilly flees with the children, unaware that the money is in the trunk of her car.