Resultados para "Blue" en Novela negra

En varias casas de Sevilla se han producido una serie de robos que preocupan a toda la ciudad. El ladrón, al que apodan "Chopin" porque siempre deja una partitura del famoso compositor para firmar el robo, se lleva dinero, joyas y diferentes artículos de valor. Una noche aparece un cadáver en el salón de una de esas viviendas y la tensión aumenta.

Hace unos meses que abrió sus puertas la Piccola Farmacia Letteraria, el lugar donde los libros se transforman en remedios para la tristeza, los miedos y cualquier otro estado de ánimo. Para la propietaria, Blu Rocchini, las cosas parecen ir finalmente bien: la librería se ha convertido en un punto de referencia en Florencia y acaba de comenzar una nueva aventura, el grupo de biblioterapia de los jueves por la tarde. Pero una mañana, al amanecer, después de una noche de fiesta como en los buenos tiempos, Blu recibe una llamada telefónica.

Un crimen terrible, un detective profesional y una chica misteriosa ocuparán a Flanagan en esta aventura. Una noche es asesinado el párroco del barrio, un anciano tan bondadoso e inofensivo que resulta inconcebible que alguien pudiera tener algo en su contra. Oriol Lahoz, detective y culpable a los ojos de todos, contratará a Flanagan como ayudante para desenmascarar al auténtico asesino.

Primera entrega de la original serie de crímenes y jazz del afamado autor Andreu Martín. Óscar Bruch, joven músico que va tirando como puede con su grupo de jazz en la Barcelona contemporánea, ve cómo su suerte cambia cuando una misteriosa mujer los contrata para tocar en su bar. Sin embargo, pronto Óscar se verá envuelto en la desaparición del detective privado Pepe Orvallo. Para salir del atolladero tendrá que hacer lo que mejor se le da: improvisar.

Un detectiu professional que li ofereix feina al Flanagan, una noia misteriosa que va de femme fatale, un assessinat esgarrifós i incomprensible, que és com un ressó en el present d'una història terrible que va conmoure el barri ja fa una pila d'anys.

Two bodies found in a lagoon. A promising FBI special agent. A crime that occurred almost 20 years ago. A convoluted mystery novel that grabs you. If you enjoyed novels like The Silence of the Lambs or TV series such as Twin Peaks and True Detective, this is the story that you have been waiting for.

Curzio Malanotte, aspirante suicida fuori dal comune, decide di compiere l'estremo gesto in modo, diciamo così, "sociale" per farla pagare alla sua famiglia, colpevole di essere indifferente al suo malessere esistenziale. Ma proprio all'Isola, quartiere di Milano dove progetta di mettere in scena la sua pantomima suicida, imperversa un maniaco che uccide le prostitute seguendo uno strano rituale. Per il commissario Musante, le tracce del killer incrociano spesso, troppo spesso, il cammino di Malanotte, che diventa il sospettato numero uno.

1830, Accademia militare di West Point: la calma di una sera di ottobre viene sconvolta dal ritrovamento del corpo di un giovane cadetto appeso a una corda. La mattina dopo, arriva la scoperta di un dettaglio ancora più macabro, qualcuno ha prelevato il cuore dal cadavere. Augustus Landor, che ha acquisito una certa fama durante i suoi anni come detective nella polizia di New York, viene chiamato per indagare in segreto.

Quando era più piccolo, Tom Pasmore ha quasi perso la vita in un incidente d'auto sull'isola di Mill Walk. Le ferite riportate lo hanno costretto a casa per più di un anno, periodo in cui trascorre molto tempo leggendo romanzi polizieschi. E per qualche oscura ragione, il suo bizzarro vicino di casa, l'anziano di nome Lamont von Heilitz, sembra interessarsi a lui. Tom ha infatti un atteggiamento distaccato nei confronti della vita e delle situazioni. Non è mai stato un ragazzo popolare, semplicemente perché la maggior parte dei suoi amici non lo capisce.

Meet Janine Lewis. A single mom of three and Manchester’s newest detective chief inspector. Her cheating husband walked out the day she got promoted. Now she’s six months pregnant with his baby and in charge of her first murder case. The body of a deputy head teacher is found on a lonely allotment. Gutted—his stomach sliced open—and left for dead. The only witnesses are a dying elderly man and a seven-year-old girl. And now the prime suspect has disappeared.

When former detective Trevor “Finn” Finnegan became a PI, he adopted a new mandate: catch the LAPD’s worst in the act. While on surveillance in Venice Beach, Finn tails two potentially dirty cops: Detective Martin Riley and Finn’s ex-partner, Detective Sally Munoz. Things take a deadly turn when an unknown assailant executes Riley and wounds Munoz. In an instant, Finn goes from private eye to eyewitness. Munoz needs Finn to help find Riley’s killer, but doing so could blow his cover. 

When paramedic Ashley Grant finds her boyfriend in bed with another woman, she moves out of her house (okay, his house), quits her job and takes a new one in a tiny Caribbean country, the Victoria and Albert Islands. Ashley is thrown into the deep end when she arrives. Her new colleague picks her up at the airport in the island's only ambulance, which is called to the discovery of a body floating off the beach at the exclusive Club Louisa. Before she can even unpack her bags or enjoy the view from her ocean-side apartment, Ashley is unwittingly dragged into a murder investigation.

Detective Chief Inspector Nick Dixon arrives late for Bridgwater’s winter carnival. He’s come to see the squibbing, the traditional firework display that brings the town’s November festivities to a dramatic close. But when the squib of Avalon Carnival Club president Richard Webb is lit, it explodes, engulfing him in flames. Dixon knows he’s just witnessed a killer making a very public statement. And he can’t help feeling it’s only the beginning.

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.

Daniel Erickson has the blues. There’s a Russian mobster wearing his finger on a necklace, two hit men hot on his trail, an FBI agent obsessed with his capture, and a rogue motorcycle gang hunting him down as he desperately races cross-country following musical clues he hopes will lead him to the stolen million dollars that might not be enough to save him. Or his son. His only hope for saving them both is to find the spirit of the blues: “Been pushed ’round all your life. Be a push back man.”

Watson visits Sherlock Holmes at Christmastime and finds him contemplating a battered old hat, brought to him by the commissionaire Peterson after it and a Christmas goose had been dropped by a man in a scuffle with some street ruffians. Peterson takes the goose home to eat it, but comes back later with a precious carbuncle that his wife found in the bird's crop.

At the age of twenty-four, Griselda Satter lee has already lived two lifetimes. A star of the silver screen, she gives up Hollywood after a year and moves to New York to become a designer. While her ex-husband, Con, is out of town, she is staying in his apartment. Walking back one night, she meets two cheerful young men who want to go home with her - and won't take no for an answer.

Her daughter, Dakota, is safe, but her cancer is threatening a comeback, and Lori needs JT - Dakota's daddy and the man who taught Lori everything - alive and kicking. Problem is, he's behind bars and heading for death row. Desperate to save him, Lori does a deal, taking on an off-the-books job from shady FBI agent Alex Monroe. Bring back on-the-run felon Gibson 'The Fish' Fletcher and JT walks free.

Sandrone accetta una vacanza di lavoro sul lago Maggiore, come sorvegliante di un piccolo luna park, perché è stanco di avere sempre a che fare con la violenza. Ma per il Gorilla-Sandrone le cose non vanno esattamente come si aspettava: qualcuno cerca di fare una strage durante un matrimonio in costume, e lui si trova a dover proteggere una giovane soprano, Lidia, prima dalle fiamme, poi dalle violente attenzioni di un maniaco.

Marla Bernstein is a pretty, dark-haired teenager who also happens to be the ward of Ben Morningstar - a semi-retired mobster who prefers to keep family business out of the newspapers. When Marla suddenly disappears, the gang boss is forced to call in private eve Amos Walker, who quickly learns his new employer doesn't take "no" for an answer when he offers a job opportunity. Unfortunately, the only clue to Marla's whereabouts is a pornographic photograph that clearly proves that she's become part of a world that disgusts even her criminal guardian....