Ergebnis für "Noir" in Historische Thriller

Vampire und Werwölfe, die Ermittler der Unterwelt! Nr.1 Horrorthriller von Simone Homberg (Simone H.) In einer kleinen Hafenstadt verschwinden immer wieder Menschen. Eine Spezialeinheit der Polizei wird darauf angesetzt. Zu ihr gehören auch Annabell und David. Sie sind keine gewöhnlichen...

Paris, 1942. Servane a dix-sept ans. La faim, le rationnement et la peur des arrestations règlent ses journées. Pour elle, endurer, c'est rester du bon côté. Paul, ancien militaire désabusé, trafique avec tous. Pour lui, profiter, c'est se maintenir.

1313. En Terre Sainte, une compagnie de brigands attaque une cité isolée. Leur chef, Roncelin de Fos, parvient à s'emparer de la ville, sans se douter qu'elle intéresse fortement deux personnages clés : le Grand maître des Templiers et le légat du Pape. Roncelin prend la fuite avant d'être récupéré par le Temple. Pour payer sa dette, il devra retrouver le seul rabbin capable de décrypter le message que les Templiers ont découvert dans les souterrains du Temple de Salomon.

Dallas, November 2, 1963. Wayne Tedrow, Jr., has arrived to kill a man. The fee is $6,000. He finds himself instead in the middle of a cover-up following JFK’s assassination. There follows a hellish five-year ride through the sordid underbelly of public policy via Las Vegas, Howard Hughes, Vietnam, CIA dope dealing, Cuba, sleazy showbiz, racism and the Klan. This is the 1960s under Ellroy’s blistering lens, the icons of the era mingled with cops, killers, hoods and provocateurs.

Le commissaire impérial Antoine de Barjac et l'illusionniste Louis Comte sont envoyés dans les Combrailles pour enquêter sur la mystérieuse disparition de nombreux conscrits, sur fond de légendes locales terrifiantes. Au cœur de cette région reculée, ils devront affronter des forces maléfiques et une menace invisible susceptible d'ébranler les fondements de l'Empire.

'This book is so spectacularly good' Goodreads review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Mexico in the 1970s is a dangerous country, even for Maite, a secretary who spends her life seeking the romance found in cheap comic books and ignoring the activists protesting around the city. When her next-door neighbor, the...

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...

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...

'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...

À l'aube du 4 novembre 1922, l'égyptologue britannique Howard Carter découvre dans la vallée des Rois la porte scellée d'une tombe inconnue. Très vite, il réalise qu'il s'agit de l'hypogée de Toutânkhamon, mystérieux pharaon, mort 1 327 années avant notre ère. Dans les semaines et les mois qui suivent, plusieurs savants et proches de Carter vont mourir dans des conditions obscures et parfois sinistres. Les journaux s'emparent de l'affaire et avancent l'hypothèse d'une malédiction visant tous ceux qui ont violé le tombeau du roi.

En creusant pour faire une piscine en Dordogne, un entrepreneur découvre une grotte aux parois couvertes d'empreintes de mains de femmes, beaucoup amputées de deux ou trois doigts, et deux squelettes dont la position fait penser à une scène de crime... Une paléontologue brillante et...

La seconda indagine del maggiore Morosini nell'Africa coloniale italiana. Un viaggio nel tempo suggestivo e avvincente.1935: l'Italia e il regime fascista cercano d'imporsi fra le grandi potenze internazionali per trovare «un posto al sole». La guerra con l'Abissinia è ormai imminente. Ma in Somalia, dove il generale Rodolfo Graziani sta per lanciare l'offensiva dal fronte sud, alcune morti misteriose fanno serpeggiare l'inquietudine nella popolazione e mettono a rischio l'avanzata delle truppe italiane.

Il primo capitolo delle indagini del maggiore Morosini nell'Africa coloniale italiana. Un viaggio nel tempo suggestivo e avvincente. Eritrea, 1935. L'Italia mussoliniana prepara la guerra d'Abissinia. Massaua - perla del Mar Rosso e fiore all'occhiello della prima colonia italiana - è scossa da due brutali omicidi: un noto imprenditore cittadino e un impiegato di banca vengono trovati decapitati. I sospetti si concentrano sugli agenti del Negus etiopico Hailé Selassié, coinvolti nelle settimane precedenti in sanguinosi scontri di frontiera con le truppe italiane.

Nelle proprietà di Francesco Cenci, ucciso dalla figlia Beatrice, un antiquario rinviene un teschio deforme. L'uomo lo sottopone subito a Leonia e Grifo, emissari di Rodolfo II, il folle imperatore noto per la sua passione per gli oggetti bizzarri. Ma davanti a quei resti così inquietanti, Leonia non ha alcun dubbio: è il cranio del famoso e temibile Maestro del Monogramma, il pittore romano condannato dall'Inquisizione, autore dell'"Alfabeto di Erode", il libro che conteneva incisioni raccapriccianti e sacrileghe.

Una ragazza viene ritrovata uccisa a Treptower Park. A essere incaricato del caso è il maggiore Martin Krause del controspionaggio. Figlio di italiani fuggiti in Germania nella zona di competenza sovietica dopo la fine della guerra, è entrato a far parte dei servizi segreti della Stasi. Le indagini prendono subito una piega imprevista legata alla simbologia politica dell'omicidio. Si complicano ulteriormente quando la pista seguita conduce dritta a Berlino Ovest.

Bushwick in the 1970s is a cesspool of drugs, violence, and depravity. Every aspect of life in the blighted neighborhood has been contaminated by the Mafia. Butchie Bucciogrosso is an Italian cop who detests the Mob. A survivor of the streets, he returns from Vietnam only to find Bushwick in ruins. His partner, Fast Eddie Curran, had to kill his way out of Belfast. The only cops with the courage to take on the Mob, they become a deadly nuisance trying to win back their streets. Only the Mafia, their own dirty police department, and a corrupt federal government stand in their way.

The action swings from London to Sweden, and then back into the past, to Franco’s Spain, as Roy and Castells hunt a monstrous killer...in the latest instalment of Johana Gustawsson’s award-winning series. Spain, 1938: the country is wracked by civil war, and as Valencia falls to Franco’s brutal dictatorship, Republican Therese witnesses the murders of her family. Captured and sent to the notorious Las Ventas women’s prison, Therese gives birth to a daughter who is forcibly taken from her.

In 1942, Jewish courier Ester is betrayed, narrowly avoiding arrest by the Gestapo. In a great haste, she escapes to Sweden, saving herself. Her family in Oslo, however, is deported to Auschwitz. In Stockholm, Ester meets the resistance hero Gerhard Falkum, who has left his little daughter and fled both the Germans and allegations that he murdered his wife, Åse, who helped Ester get to Sweden. Their burgeoning relationship ends abruptly when Falkum dies in a fire. And yet, 25 years later, Falkum shows up in Oslo. He wants to reconnect with his daughter.

Quarry, star of 13 previous novels, a comic book, and the acclaimed Cinemax TV series, returns in an all-new assignment that takes the hitman's hitman into uncharted territory, when he finds out that for the first time someone has taken out a hit on him. And is the mysterious killer assigned to hit the hitman someone from Quarry's past? Maybe even a past lover?

McHugh, the world's toughest spy, is on an assignment that spells triple trouble! Trouble #1 begins at the bar he owns to cover his espionage activities, called The Door. And it’s the door to death for the stranger he finds dying just outside with a shiv in his guts. McHugh doesn't like corpses on his doorstep, so he starts to back-track on the stranger, which leads him to a round, ripe, terrified girl, wearing narrow chino pants. There is puzzlement in her eyes, then recognition, then panic. Then the whole house falls in on McHugh!