Ergebnis für "Noir" in Für Hartgesottene

Wien nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, der Schwarzmarkt blüht. Der Autor Rollo Martins kommt in die Stadt, um seinen Jugendfreund Harry Lime zu besuchen, der sich mittlerweile als Schieber verdingt. Als Martins eintrifft, ist sein Freund tot. Angeblich wurde er Opfer eines Autounfalls. Eine Erklärung, die Martins skeptisch macht. Er beginnt nachzuforschen, und immer wieder kreuzt dabei ein ominöser dritter Mann seine Wege.

Ein Toter auf einem alten Viehmarkt. Eine Zahl, die dort nicht liegen dürfte. Und ein Ermittler, der sofort weiß, dass sie etwas bedeutet. Als der Projektentwickler Tobias Henkel in Hohenborn in der hessischen Rhön ermordet aufgefunden wird, liegt neben seiner Hand nur ein schmaler...

1795: In Stockholm öffnen sich die Tore zur Hölle Nach einer Feuerbrunst liegt der beißende Geruch von Verzweiflung in der Luft. Wie ein hungriges Tier schleicht das Böse in Gestalt des zwielichtigen Tycho Ceton durch Stockholms verwinkelte Gassen. Er plant ein widerliches Komplott, das die...

Pierre Lemaitre tisse avec délice une toile inextricable dans laquelle un cinquantenaire au chômage est prêt à tout pour retrouver un travail, et sa dignité. Jusqu’où est-il prêt à aller ?

Much later, as he sat with his back against an inside wall of a Motel 6 just north of Phoenix, watching the pool of blood lap toward him, Driver would wonder whether he had made a terrible mistake. Later still, of course, there’d be no doubt. But for now Driver is, as they say, in the moment...

After a messy divorce, attractive young mother Sonia is struggling to provide for herself and keep custody of her son. With her back to the wall, she resorts to smuggling cocaine into Iceland and finds herself caught up in a ruthless criminal world. As she desperately looks for a way out of trouble, she must pit her wits against her nemesis, Bragi, a customs officer whose years of experience frustrate her new and evermore daring strategies.

Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men and an unreasoning devotion to a...

Evoking the golden age of crime, and for fans of Raymond Chandler and Agatha Christie, comes A Gambling Man, from one of the world’s bestselling thriller writers, David Baldacci. A lucky roll of the dice California, 1949. Aloysius Archer is on his way to start a new job with a renowned Private...

On the 12th floor of the Acme Building, on a cold February day in St. Paul, Guy Noir looks down the barrel of a loaded revolver in the hands of geezer gangster Joey Roast Beef, who is demanding to hear what lucrative scheme Guy is cooking up with stripper-turned-women's-studies-professor Naomi Fallopian. Everyone wants to know, and Guy faces them one by one, as he and Naomi pursue a dream of earning gazillions by selling a surefire method of dramatic weight loss.

Murder and family secrets, a touch of romance and deeply-felt revenge – with the twist of all twists – make up the perfect audiobook, One Good Deed, from one of the world's bestselling thriller writers, David Baldacci. 'One of his finest books. Great character, great story, great portrait of...

'Baldacci is the master of American detective stories' – Jeffrey Archer, author of Nothing Ventured Private Investigator and WWII veteran, Aloysius Archer, returns to solve a new case in Hollywood in Dream Town, a riveting thriller from international number 1 bestselling author, David Baldacci...

In Depression-era Chicago, private eye Nathan Heller is caught between the Mob and City Hall in a battle for control of the 1933 World’s Fair while he attempts to find a lovely actress’ missing brother. Along the way, Heller meets an array of famed heroes and villains from Eliot Ness to Al Capone, climaxing with the detective dangling off a beam of the Fair’s sky tower.

Er quält. Er mordet. Wer wird sein nächstes Opfer sein? – Der zweite Fall für die Profiler Grall und Wyler Im Ruhrgebiet sorgt ein bizarrer Mord für Schlagzeilen: In einem stillgelegten Märchenpark wurde ein totes Mädchen ohne Hände gefunden. Erdrosselt mit ihren eigenen langen blonden...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Cabin written by Jørn Lier Horst, read by Tim McInnerny. ** Jørn Lier Horst is the winner of the 2018 Nordic Noir Thriller of the Year award ** You loved Wallander, now meet Wisting . . . ___________ Pre-order the second instalment in the Cold Case...

This drive through the dark streets of the Motor City “is one of the best in Akashic Books’ noir series. You cannot go wrong with this anthology.”—Reviewing the Evidence From cri….

He's a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He's also a knight errant who's wary of credit cards, retirement benefits, political parties, mortgages, and television. He only works when his cash runs out, and his rule is simple: he'll help you find whatever was taken from you, as long as he can keep half.

The small community of Akranes is devastated after a young man dies in a mysterious house fire. When Detective Elma and her colleagues from West Iceland CID discover the fire was arson, they become embroiled in an increasingly perplexing case. For the dead man's final online search raises fears that they could be investigating not one murder, but two.

1956. Bernie Gunther er på flugt fra sit franske skjul, hvor Erich Mielke og hans gorillaer i det østtyske sikkerhedspoliti, Stasi, har fundet ham. Manden, som Mielke har sat til at jage Bernie, og som stille og roligt skubber ham tættere på Tyskland, er en gammel kollega fra tiden hos...

Året er 1941, og Bernie Gunther vender tilbage fra Østfronten til et krigsplaget Berlin. Men hurtigt kaldes han til Prag af sin tidligere chef, general Reinhard Heydrich, som har brug for en livvagt til at sikre sig imod den ulmende folkelige vrede i Böhmen-Mächen. På Heydrichs slot uden...

Dieter Webber, a former Jump Armor pilot, lost his war. Years later as a broken ex-pat, half a galaxy away, the former combat pilot is haunted by the ghosts of the war and looming debts to organized crime. An encounter with an Android, Reis, serves as an invitation from his former commander to a reluctant escape: Mercenary work in her company, Valkyrie LLC.