Ergebnis für "Noir" in Justiz

After convicting a superior for corruption and shooting off a gangster's crown jewels, the career of Hamburg's most hard-bitten state prosecutor, Chastity Riley, has taken a nosedive: she has been transferred to the tedium of witness protection to prevent her making any more trouble. However, when she is assigned to the case of an anonymous man lying under police guard in hospital - almost every bone in his body broken, a finger cut off, and refusing to speak in anything other than riddles - Chastity's instinct for the big, exciting case kicks in.

Winner of six Lambda Literary awards, the Henry Rios mystery series is iconic and Michael Nava has been hailed by The New York Times as “one of our best” writers. Here, Rios delves deeply into his Latino identity as he defends a young man charged with assassinating a prominent Los Angeles Latino politician. The San Francisco Chronicle hailed the novel and its author: “A beautifully conceived but gritty novel.... Nava writes the kind of small, clean, powerful novels that build in emotional power almost invisibly, leaving us breathless at the end.”

When a boy named only by the ledger finds proof that the city’s contracts are built on lies, he turns a private refusal into public revolt. Kicked out at fourteen and raised beneath the hum of surveillance and small-town corruption, he becomes a quiet architect: building a life from refusal, forging rules of his own, and holding a ledger that maps who buys power with secrecy and cash. What begins as youthful rebellion evolves into something sharper — calculated, magnetic, and dangerous.

Det skulle egentlig være en rutineopgravning af et formodet mordoffer, men den forvandler sig hurtigt til en kompliceret sag for privatdetektiv Theodore Tate, der selv kæmper for at få sit liv på ret køl, efter at hans verden sank i grus to år tidligere. Mens han står i regnen og holder opsyn med opgravningen, dukker et lig op fra dybet i kirkegårdens sø nær ved, og så endnu et og et til ...

Kathryn Walters is faced with this dreadful decision when her daughter, Shelley, is found dead in her boyfriend's flat. Despite the best efforts of the Crown Prosecution barrister, Sarah Newby, it seems possible that the boyfriend, David Kidd, may be acquitted. Should her family tolerate this? Or seek their own form of justice through revenge?

Raoul Sforza, nato dalla fantasia di Ferrario e già protagonista del precedente "Il banchiere di Milano" (2021), è un uomo senza scrupoli, impegnato ad architettare intrighi finanziari e a ricattare i vertici dello Stato per mantenere una vita di lussi e di svaghi. Dividendosi fra la villa di Brera e l’amenità del comune ligure di Bonassola, Sforza si ritrova suo malgrado a dover far luce su una serie di misteriosi omicidi, che dal lontano 1945 macchiano la Val Bisagno.

È un torrido luglio quando Gilda Orefice, pensionata scorbutica e solitaria, viene ritrovata senza vita nel suo appartamento in centro a Bari. Sembra morte naturale – la casa è in ordine e il cadavere composto – ma la giovane piemme Elisabetta Ciraci ha la sensazione che la scena sia troppo perfetta, e ordina l'autopsia. Il referto è inequivocabile: strangolamento. L'indagine corre, e i sospetti si concentrano su Giovanni Campanaro, un commercialista molto noto in città, la cui deposizione mostra contraddizioni sospette.

J.D. Scrbacek has just won the biggest trial of his career, but even as he crows to the press, his entire life blows sky-high. Was the bomb meant for him, or for his mobster client? In this seaside casino town where the tables run hot and the tensions run high, the odds say the attorney is a marked man. Alone and on the run, Scrbacek flees into the city's forgotten underbelly, a ruined corridor called Crapstown, where he is forced to confront the ghosts of his past, his present, and his future.

When innocent people begin dying under unexplainable circumstances, devoutly religious Mark Solier is arrested, accused of committing the murders with nothing but the power of his mind. For ambitious law student Mary Morgan, prosecuting Mark seems like the opportunity of a lifetime—until she discovers the case is steeped in something far darker than the law can explain.

A man shoots his young wife to death. He drives to a freeway overpass, gets out, shoots himself, and drops 100 feet to the freeway below, crushing a Toyota Camry. Inside is an elementary school teacher named Jacqueline Dwyer, who dies at the scene. Ty Buchanan is a hotshot lawyer. Jacqueline Dwyer was the woman he was going to marry. Ty goes into a tailspin. And it gets worse when a mysterious man finds him at the funeral and says Jacqueline's death may not have been an accident after all.

Harper must deal with a dark part of her past when she defends her rapist, Michael Reynolds, who is charged with murdering a judge. Harper wants revenge, so she takes the case with the explicit desire to throw it. But as she digs deeper into the case, she understands that if she throws Michael's case, it means that the real culprit will go free. Struggling with her conscience, which is fighting for her desire for vengeance, Harper must access some of the darkest recesses of her brain.

Criminal defense attorney Caron Mooney's life is blown apart when her Hamptons home is destroyed in a gas explosion . . . and the naked bodies of her husband Jason and a woman identified as Emma Shipman are found in the smoking rubble. It's obvious that Jason was having an affair, a revelation that only deepens Caron's heartbreak and confusion. Evidence at the scene soon points to murder and to Emma's spouse Neil as the killer. But Neil proclaims his innocence and Caron, who shares his sense of loss and betrayal, shocks everyone by agreeing to defend him.

When two teenagers - Johannes and Mari - are found murdered inside their school, in the small Norwegian village of Fredheim, the finger is soon is pointed at 18-year-old Even, whose relationship with Mari ended just before she died. Mari was writing a story for the school newspaper about Even and his dad, who died in a car accident 10 years earlier. But was it really an accident? And had Mari uncovered information that someone was willing to commit murder to protect?

On a warm September morning, an unconscious man is found in a cage at the entrance to the offices of one of the biggest German newspapers. Closer inspection shows he is a manager of the company, and he’s been tortured. Three days later, another manager appears in similar circumstances. Chastity Riley and her new colleague Ivo Stepanovic are tasked with uncovering the truth behind the attacks, an investigation that goes far beyond the revenge they first suspect...to the dubious past shared by both victims.

Courting Death finds Melanie Wilkerson (from Cotton, book two of the Clarkeston Chronicles) and Arthur Hughes working uncomfortably together in the chambers of a famous federal judge. While Melanie neglects her duties as a law clerk to investigate the mysterious death of a young woman in the courthouse five years earlier, Arthur wades through the horrific habeas corpus appeals of two prisoners: an infamous serial killer and a pathetic child murderer.

All Lock Gilkenney wants is a family. But he'll have to cross the line to get one. Lock is a dedicated investigator at Child Protective Services. An anonymous report of neglect comes in. He responds and finds the kids in good health. Lock concludes the report was a ruse, possibly part of a scheme to make Natalie Mannheim, the kids' mother, look bad in an upcoming divorce trial. Natalie needs Lock's expertise to help her win custody - and a multimillion-dollar divorce settlement.

David Winters likes Cloak and Dagger Novels, but never thought he would be in an actual mystery. That is until his law partner, Tinsley, asked him to do a simple little favor and he finds himself swept away in intrigue, death, and women.