Resultados para "Hard Times" en Novela negra

¿Dónde está Megan? La adolescente de diecisiete años Megan Carver ha desaparecido. No parecía el tipo de persona que se escaparía de casa: era una estudiante de excelentes calificaciones, provenía de un hogar feliz y rara vez se metía en problemas. Seis meses después, aún no la han encontrado. Desesperados, los padres de Megan contratan al investigador de personas desaparecidas David Raker para averiguar lo que sucedió. Raker, que no es ajeno al dolor y la pérdida, sabe que para encontrarla tendrá que adentrarse en un mundo oscuro que podría costarle la vida.

It starts with a few near-accidents: A car almost swipes Mike Hammer when he’s crossing the street. A junkie robs the notoriously hardboiled detective at knifepoint. A fight on a subway platform comes close to pushing him in front of a train. While any one of these could be a coincidence, together they make a conspiracy—one that Hammer will have to end in order to survive. And when it comes to finishing something—or someone—nobody does it better than Hammer.

Johns are dying in Barnstow. It was bound to happen eventually, in a city where legal prostitution is a big part of the tourist industry, but not so many so fast. And of course, if there are dead bodies in Barnstow, Detective Jimmy Delaney isn’t far away.

While driving home after celebrating friend Murray Ryerson's big break into TV hosting, V.I. almost collides with a fatally wounded woman lying in the street. The deceased is Nicola Aguinaldo, former employee of security giant B.B. Baladine and recent prison runaway. Taking on the case, V.I. finds herself plunged into a sinister network of corruption that pits her against the police, the prison and the entertainment industry - with potentially lethal results.

Two witnesses see the man drag the old woman into a canyon while brandishing a rifle. As night falls, detective Jill Smith and the Berkeley police department set up a perimeter. The canyon is a hostage negotiator’s nightmare - dark, rough, and full of escape routes - and when she finally opens communication, the gunman doesn’t respond. Rather than wait for dawn, Jill leads her team into the darkness. At the bottom of the canyon they find a battered old mannequin and a box of stolen parking tickets.

The mage Frank "Half Dead" Johnson is a marked man. Literally. A drunken decision fueled by tragedy has left him with half a soul, sorcerous powers, and two centuries to work off his debt to Scratch (a.k.a. the Devil) himself.   

Auf dem Gelände eines Beachclubs am Ufer des Essener Baldeneysees wird die Leiche einer jungen Frau entdeckt. Wer ist die Tote, die niemand zu vermissen scheint? Ihre Identität gibt den Ermittlern ein zunächst unlösbares Rätsel auf. Das Team des K3 steht vor einer mehr als kniffeligen Aufgabe. Nicht nur, dass die jüngsten Ereignisse in seinem privaten Umfeld Hauptkommissar Karrenberg alles abverlangen - zu allem Überfluss wird er nach dem Ausfall seines Chefs zum kommissarischen Leiter der Ermittlungseinheit ernannt.

This drive through the dark streets of the Motor City “is one of the best in Akashic Books’ noir series. You cannot go wrong with this anthology.”—Reviewing the Evidence From cri….

Edgar and Macavity Award-nominated author Timothy Hallinan throws his erudite Los Angeles private eye into the middle of a global human-trafficking operation in this fifth book in the series. Simeon Grist does a favor for the family of his sometimes-girlfriend, Eleanor Chan, and goes looking for two children who vanished in Chinatown. He quickly learns that he's gone straight through the looking glass and into a world where grieving parents are afraid to contact the police, where fear is the teacher and power is the law.

A comic vignette in which a carnival barker's valuable watch gets stolen during an illegal poker game. The local sheriff seems in no hurry to apprehend the thief, until a reward is offered.

Brought to you by Penguin. Gripping, terrifying, an unputdownable read. Discover Graham Greene's most iconic novel. A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is...

Brought to you by Penguin. Late at night in a New York café army-cop-turned-drifter Jack Reacher orders coffee in a cup made of foam, not china, so that he can move on at a moment's notice. He owns nothing, carries less, has never encountered a female colleague he can't bed, or a case he can't...

In this epic showdown from writer and story editor for the acclaimed and award-winning US crime series, The Wire, police officer Derek Strange hunts his brother's killer through a city erupting with rage. Derek Strange is a rookie cop, the job he's dreamed of since he was a boy. His brother...

Veteran pilot Tyler Zahn is finally recovering from the tragedies that cost him his family and drove him from the Air Force, when his best friend, Kristee Li, disappears on a remote search and rescue mission. A massive effort to find her fails. No clues. No body. Kristee is presumed dead. A fellow team member claims the disappearance is no accident and Zahn begins to question what really happened in the mountains. Who would have wanted Kristee dead? More importantly...why? Plagued with grief, Zahn probes for answers.

Mr. Saltz—known only as The Undertaker—runs a funeral parlor with secrets hidden beneath every floorboard. Emotionless, tasteless, and cold by nature, Saltz disposes of bodies for the city's most powerful crime boss, Manford Van Johnson. But when a relentless detective begins to connect the dots, and rival families move in to clean house, the quiet shadows start to stir.

"Die Akademie des Todes". Düster. Blutig. Spannend. Mariella und Dominik verdienen ihr Geld als professionelle Trickbetrüger und Diebe. Der Einbruch in eine Villa am Bodensee scheint Routine zu sein, doch dabei stoßen sie auf einen Geheimgang, der in die Tiefe führt. Qualvolle Schreie dringen empor. Bevor sie dem Ganzen auf den Grund gehen können, müssen sie fliehen. Doch wer sind ihre Verfolger und was treiben sie im Keller unter dem Keller?

A decade ago, it had been unthinkable when Joe Turner's life-long friend, Owen Prescott, was charged with a grisly murder. Then Owen disappeared, leaving behind a brilliant career and budding romance to live as a fugitive from justice. Now, haunted by the memory and clinging to a belief in Owen's innocence, Joe dives in to solve the cold case as the FBI closes in on his friend. The award-winning Joe Turner Mystery series returns with a haunting, serpentine tale that pushes the snarky defense attorney to the brink.

Brought to you by Penguin. A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE MONTH 'A wonderfully haunting debut.' JANE HARPER, author of The Dry 'Irresistible, compelling.' PAULA HAWKINS, author of The Girl on the Train When seventeen-year-old Emma leaves her best friend Abi at a party in the woods, she believes, like...

Stone Barrington is back. Stuart Woods has created no better known or loved character than the ex-cop, Manhattan attorney and investigator whose work treads the thin line between the respectable practice of law and the dark side of humanity. In Dead in the Water, Stone has hardly arrived in St...