Resultados para "Dahlia" en Novela negra

Un fatídico viernes 13, el anticuario Reidar Folke Jespersen decide poner orden en su vida: se niega a vender el negocio familiar por una importante suma de dinero, contradiciendo así la opinión de sus hermanos; telefonea a casa del amante de su mujer, en el momento en que sabe que ambos...

Roman Grady is the sole reporter for the local newspaper in a tiny Hudson Valley town – a town so small that every store opening is considered newsworthy. But when Roman's longtime girlfriend Ashley, the mother of his four-year-old son, is found dead, he realises he had no idea what was really...

Summer, 1943. Daniel Berkåk works as a courier for the Press and Military Office in Stockholm. On his last cross-border mission to Norway, he carries a rucksack full of coded documents and newspapers, but before he has a chance to deliver anything he is shot and killed and the contents of his rucksack are missing. The Norwegian government, currently exiled in London, wants to know what happened, and the job goes to writer Jomar Kraby, whose first suspect is a Norwegian refugee living in Sweden, whose past that is as horrifying as the events still to come.

De gruwelijke, maar waargebeurde moord op Elizabeth Short drijft de agenten Bleichert en Blanchard van afschuw tot complete waanzin. Een absolute misdaadklassieker. In 1947 wordt Los Angeles opgeschrikt door de vondst van het zwaar verminkte lijk van een jonge actrice. 'De Zwarte Dahlia’ beheerst wekenlang de krantenkoppen, net als de levens van rechercheurs Bucky Bleichert en Lee Blanchard – collega’s, vrienden, rivalen. De zoektocht naar Elizabeth Short's moordenaar voert ze langs de schaduwkanten van het naoorlogse Hollywood, en de zwarte randen van hun eigen duistere verlangens.

A neo-noir crime novel from the legendary crime novelist James Ellroy. Los Angeles, 15th January 1947: a beautiful young woman walked into the night and met her horrific destiny. Five days later, her tortured body was found drained of blood and cut in half. The newspapers called her 'The Black Dahlia'. Two cops are caught up in the investigation and embark on a hellish journey that takes them to the core of the dead girl's twisted life....

When a fisherman cuts a hole in a frozen lake and sees a face staring back from the ice, Stockholm detective Avril Dahl is sent north to a town that keeps its sins under snow. Norrdal has three cops, long nights, and a body pulled from Frostsjön. The victim is a young reporter who knew too much and trusted the wrong person. With the autopsy days away and evidence vanishing under fresh snowfall, Avril has to rebuild the woman’s last hours from scratch, one small-town secret at a time.

Seattle, 1994. Douglas Shea is a college student groomed to go into the family business. That family business is doing the dirty work for a faction of shadowy government operatives. As he is drawn into their world where noble, altruistic ideals are used to conceal crimes on a societal level, Doug discovers the dark reality behind official narratives. When there is no plan to trust and Doug must choose his fate, will he meet an untimely end, like his father before him, or remain a pro with zero deaths?

A dark, twisty Scandinavian thriller from CWA-shortlisted author, Alex Dahl. You are her therapist. Kristina is a successful therapist in central Oslo. She spends her days helping clients navigate their lives with a cool professionalism that has got her to the top. She is your client. But when...

From the critically acclaimed author of Invisible City and Conviction, The Missing Hours is an audiobook about obsession, privilege, and the explosive consequences of one violent act. From a distance, Claudia Castro has it all: a famous family, a trust fund, thousands of Instagram followers, and...

The heart-breaking, heart-pounding new thriller from the author of The Boy at the Door. How do you mend a broken heart? It's been three months since Alison Miller-Juul's world fell apart when her six-year-old daughter, Amalie, died in an accident. Three months of sympathy cards, grief...

What would you do for the perfect life? Would you lie? Would you cheat? Would you kill? Cecilia Wilborg has the perfect life. A handsome husband, two beautiful daughters and a luxurious house in the picture-postcard town of Sandefjord. But Cecilia also has a dark secret. A secret so damaging it...

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.

JESTEŚ JEJ TERAPEUTKĄ. ONA JEST TWOJĄ KLIENTKĄ. ALE TUTAJ, W LESIE... NIC NIE JEST TAKIE, JAK SIĘ WYDAJE. Kristina jest odnoszącą sukcesy terapeutką, która pracuje w centrum Oslo. Z chłodnym profesjonalizmem, dzięki któremu dotarła na szczyt, pomaga klientom rozwiązywać ich życiowe problemy. Ale kiedy jej pacjentka, Leah, znana pisarka, błaga Kristinę, by przyjechała do jej domku w lesie, równowaga zaczyna się chwiać. Terapeutka niechętnie wyrusza w dzikie ostępy, by odnaleźć kobietę, która może być w niebezpieczeństwie. Znajduje niedokończony rękopis Leah, a czytając go, uświadamia sobie, że główna bohaterka jest zatrważająco znajoma.

JEJ CÓRECZKA MIAŁA PIERWSZY RAZ W ŻYCIU NOCOWAĆ U KOLEŻANKI. DZIECIĘCA ZABAWA ZMIENIŁA SIĘ JEDNAK W TRAGEDIĘ… Lucia Blix po szkole poszła się pobawić z nową przyjaciółką Josie. Wieczorem mama Lucii, Elisa, przywiozła do Josie piżamkę i wypiła kieliszek wina z jej mamą. Pocałowała córeczkę na dobranoc i pojechała do domu. Więcej nie zobaczyła już swojego dziecka. Następnego dnia dom świecił pustkami. Nie było mebli, rodziny. Nie było Lucii. TO BYŁA SZCZĘŚLIWA RODZINA.

Suspended from duty, Detective Frølich is working as a private investigator when his girlfriend's colleague asks for his help with a female asylum seeker who the authorities are about to deport. She claims to have a sister in Norway and fears that returning to her home country will mean instant death. Frølich quickly discovers the whereabouts of the young woman's sister, but things become increasingly complex when she denies having a sibling, and Frølich is threatened off the case by the police.

When a dead man is lifted from the freezing waters of Oslo Harbour just before Christmas, Detective Lena Stigersand's stressful life suddenly becomes even more complicated. Not only is she dealing with a cancer scare, a stalker and an untrustworthy boyfriend, but it seems both a politician and Norway's security services might be involved in the murder. With her trusted colleagues, Gunnarstranda and Frølich, at her side, Lena digs deep into the case and finds that it not only goes to the heart of the Norwegian establishment, but it might be rather too close to her personal life for comfort.

It wouldn't be a country house weekend without a little murder. . . Three rival actresses team up to solve a murder at the stately home of Lettice Davenport, the author whose sleuthing creation of the 1930s, Dahlia Lively, had made each of them famous to a new generation. A contemporary mystery...

The latest page-turning thriller from the dagger-shortlisted author of The Boy at the Door and The Heart Keeper. WHO TOOK LUCIA BLIX? Lucia went home from school with her new friend Josie for a playdate. Later that evening, Lucia's mother Elisa dropped her overnight things round and kissed her...

When a woman is found dead in her car in a Norwegian parking garage, everyone suspects an overdose...until a forensics report indicates that she was murdered. Oslo Detectives Frølich and Gunnarstranda discover that the victim's Kenyan scientist boyfriend has disappeared, and their investigations soon lead them into the shady world of international pharmaceutical deals.

Oslo, 1938. War is in the air and Europe is in turmoil. Hitler’s Germany has occupied Austria and is threatening Czechoslovakia; there’s a civil war in Spain and Mussolini reigns in Italy. When a woman turns up at the office of police-turned-private investigator Ludvig Paaske, he and his assistant – his one-time nemesis and former drug-smuggler Jack Rivers – begin a seemingly straightforward investigation into marital infidelity.