Ergebnis für "The Rain" in Noir

In this first installment of the Miami Crime Trilogy, Don Donovan spins a sprawling noir tale of three hardened individuals whose lives are woven together in a web of money, betrayal, and murder. 

Miguel and Helena meet at a nursing home in Tarifa, at an age when they believe they have lived it all already. Miguel is afraid of flying. Helena is afraid of the ocean. Both have adult children and feel they are no longer needed. The dramatic suicide of one of the other residents opens their eyes. They don't want to spend their last days remembering and longing for supposedly better times. Together they decide to undertake the journey of their lives and confront the darkness in their pasts.

LA, 1946. Private eyes Katherine "Kit" Comfort and Henry Richman, operators of the struggling Comfort & Company detective agency, have their hands full when a simple missing person case turns into a deadly clash with traitors and killers. While trying to locate a wayward army doctor, notorious ex-cop Henry and his ambitious young partner Kit become entangled with both a Nazi underground and the government agents who are stalking them.

Ravens in the Rain is an unconventional noir love story between a woman with a past and a man with no future where love is no fairy tale, fantasy is foreplay, and sex is had on second dates. Carney and Pru, down on luck and down on love, meet over a game of chance, and the mystery of the other's intentions, compounded by their overwhelming attraction toward each other, compels them into a game of cat and mouse. They ante up and play this game of love or survival that has you wondering who's the villain and who's the hero and how it will all play out.

Edgar-nominated and bestselling author Lisa Turner’s hard-boiled Detective Billy Able returns in this dark Southern mystery about the murder of a dazzling Memphis socialite—and the scandals revealed in the wake of her death The heart can be an assassin. Detective Billy Able knows that from...

Der Broadway-Autor Harvey Parker und das Model Cassandra May sind seit wenigen Tagen ein Paar. Parkers vorherige Freundin Cathrin, mit der er zwei Monate zusammen war, ist vor wenigen Wochen bei einem Autounfall ums Leben gekommen. Parker arbeitet eifrig an einem Off-Broadway-Stück. Als er eines Abends sein Manuskript öffnet, findet er eine Textpassage, die er nicht geschrieben hat. Zumindest denkt er das, schreibt diesen Umstand aber einer durchzechten Nacht zu. Doch auch am nächsten Tag ist das Stück fortgeschrieben, ohne dass er daran einen Anteil gehabt hätte.

Privatdetektiv Paul Tyler erholt sich noch von seinem letzten Besuch in der Kitty-Bar, als die völlig aufgelöste Alison Blackwell in sein Büro stürmt. Die junge Frau ist verzweifelt, da die Polizei ihren Bruder Nathaniel festgenommen hat. Nathaniel Blackwell wird vorgeworfen, versucht zu haben, seine frisch angetraute Frau Pearl Blackwell zu töten. Alison Blackwell ist sich jedoch sicher, dass ihr Bruder nicht der Täter ist.

In 1987, Atlanta Crime reporter Carrie Sue Justice is engaged to marry powerful publisher Marcus Handley until she discovers his late wife is not dead. Marcus, a former bomber pilot during the Vietnam War, feels responsible for what happened to his wife, and with her reappearance, he's unable to desert her, despite his love and uncontrollable passion for Carrie Sue. Carrie Sue turns to her best friend Freemont Jackson for advice. Freemont is recovering from a near-fatal gunshot wound.

Private investigator Jim Knighthorse returns in "Easy Rider", a standalone short story where he discovers a female burglar sleeping in his office. Camry is a woman who knows too much. Down on her luck, she asks for Knighthorse's protection from her biker ex-boyfriend, Steel Eye, whom she says has murdered someone. She's a witness on the run and she also has problems of her own making. She wants to leave the biker gang, but no one ever leaves this one alive.