Resultados para "Ink" en Novela negra

THE INK DOESN’T LIE A Novel (The Ink and Silence Series, Book 1) In Hollow Brier, people don’t disappear. They’re rewritten. When forensic document examiner Elena Vance returns to her Appalachian hometown to bury her father, she expects grief. What she finds is something far more dangerous. A town built on silence. Graves prepared for people who never died. And a single, undeniable truth— the ink doesn’t lie. Ten years ago, Elena’s sister vanished, leaving behind a goodbye note that never made sense.

I got stabbed, joined an MC far from home, and nearly got shot to death protecting another man's woman. All to get as far away from Julie, the woman I will always love, as I could to try and forget her. The choice they gave me was leave, or watch her get hurt. It was a simple choice, but far from an easy one. I can't forget her, and I can't live without her. The year since I last saw her has taught me that. Convincing her to take me back might not be easy, but if she gives me a second chance, I'll never leave her again, no matter what.

Legendary editor, Maxim Jakubowski, delivers another chilling anthology collecting stories of cold-blooded murder, revenge and crimes-gone-wrong from the best of the best in crime fiction. Spine-chilling and gripping, these tales will grip you with their devious narrators and crafty twists.

World-renowned cellist Celeste Morgan has spent her life performing perfection on the world's grandest stages-while carrying out assassinations no government will ever admit to ordering. But when her mother's hidden files reveal the inner machinery of Eidolon, the shadow network that built her...

Some valuable books have been stolen from Master John Wyclif, the well-known scholar and Bible translator. He calls upon his friend and former pupil, Hugh de Singleton, to investigate. Hugh’s investigation leads him to Oxford where he again encounters Kate, the only woman who has tempted him to leave bachelor life behind, but Kate has another serious suitor. As Hugh’s pursuit of Kate becomes more successful, mysterious accidents begin to occur. Are these accidents tied to the missing books, or to his pursuit of Kate?

Betrayal cuts deep, but redemption cuts deeper. In the electrifying sequel to the bestselling Black Rose, Stella LaRosa returns, embroiled in a dark web of secrets, vengeance, and justice. This time, Stella's fight against the sinister body parts trade thrusts her into the heart of a conspiracy that challenges her every belief. With her lethal skills and unwavering determination, she navigates through a maze of betrayal and deceit. Every step closer to the truth exposes the fragility of her alliances and tests her resolve.

Veronica Blackstone has been hired to write an end-of-life book for a woman whose wedding vows she completed only a year earlier. Saddened by the task and confused by the seemingly callous reactions of family members, Veronica sets forth to create the booklet the woman’s mother desires. But not everything is as it seems, and the more Veronica digs the more she comes to realize that maybe the young woman’s death wasn’t the accident her wealthy family keeps insisting it was.

London, present day. Art recovery specialist Zoe Andrews really needs a break. And all that stands in the way of a well-deserved romantic getaway is an open-and-shut case tracking down a valuable painting’s origin. But Zoe’s vacation plans unravel when the priceless piece is lifted from the gallery, throwing her headlong into a media frenzy.

Who loses, wins. The owner of an illegal micro-casino must deal with the murder of a former business partner and the fine print of an old AI contract as she races to recover her life from other versions of herself.

While Valentine’s Day is supposed to be full of romance and flying hearts, this year, Anna finds herself defending a misplaced Cupid, dodging a gang of thieving arrow shooters, and assisting Nick Bassaneli, her stubborn potential brother-in-law, with a bogus murder charge. Meanwhile, she’s trying to find her sexy boyfriend the perfect gift, when all he wants is for her to show up to Valentine’s dinner without danger on her heels.

Thirty boxes. Thirty body parts. Eighteen turned in to authorities. A forensic technician from a quiet Massachusetts suburb does the unthinkable: Stalks a local woman, abducts her, divides her body into 30 pieces, and mails the sections to random Americans across the country. Each white postal box that Dennis Sweeney prepares contains an ambiguous note and a piece of Julie Piedmont. Most of Sweeney’s intended recipients contact the authorities about their gruesome packages, but 12 of the parcels go unreported.

When frantic, dishevelled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn't know quite what to make of the situation. The co-creator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie's true identity. Robin decides that the agency can't help with this—and thinks nothing more of it until a few days later, when she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery.

A strange case takes Dr. Jessica Coran and her team on a 70-foot dive off the Coast of Nantucket Island to do a crime scene investigation inside a sunken yacht, the Promises Fulfilled. Within the eerie confines of the underwater sepulcher, Jessica and the others discover more questions than answers. Even with the help of the famous undersea explorer, Dr. Bob Ballard of Titanic fame, on raising the yacht, more questions mount as there is no evidence whatsoever as to precisely how the ship went down, and later, on autopsy, Jessica discovers no one on board had saltwater in their lungs.

A scribe repairing an old scroll uncovers a buried secret—and is murdered for it. The police call it suicide. The community calls it murder. Jake Cooper isn’t a cop, but he’s the only one who can unravel the deadly secrets hiding behind closed doors. In a world of greed, betrayal, and ruthless calculation, finding the truth may be the only way to survive.

The first time somebody tried to kill him was an accident. The second time was deliberate. Now Paul Mulchrone finds himself on the run with nobody to turn to except a nurse who has read one-too-many crime novels and a renegade copper with a penchant for violence. Together they must solve one of the most notorious crimes in Irish history. Or else they’ll be history.

Brought to you by Penguin. Six friends gather at a country house for a birthday weekend. They decide to play a game. All six names go in a hat. Choose two, and imagine one murdering the other. Write it down. Type it up. Read it out. Points are given for making the murders sound convincing. Of...

Jack Nyx is down on his luck. Demons bound to his flesh, his ex's soul in a jar, and on his last dime, he takes the one job he shouldn’t. But a quick buck never comes easy, and Jack is in the deep end of the fecal pool. Desperate, he enlists the help of street witch, Ivy Sosye. In over their heads, trapped between the demons they know and the devil they don't, the last thing Jack needs is to fall for his best friend. Hunted, cursed, and in love is no way to go through life. Then again, it's better than dead.

Crime-fighting duo Tilly and Poe solve a mystery from inside a pantomime horse in a short story that first appeared in the Halloween anthology Afraid of the Shadows.

US exchange student Hieronymus Beck is Professor Jack Griffen's biggest fan. Why else would he inveigle himself into the English Literature course that Jack is running; or devote so much time to chatting with Jack after hours about the anatomy of crime fiction, the roles of heroes and villains, and his favourite true-crime book of all time, In Cold Blood? But everything changes when Jack Griffen picks up a list of five templates for murder that has been written by Beck.

Amber’s life was shattered when her twin brother, Peter, disappeared twenty-five years ago. But now, driven by a burning desire to find him, she sets out on a quest that will lead her to discover the shocking truth behind his disappearance. As Amber’s investigation progresses it begins to cause tension within her family and so to keep the peace she yields to their wishes, focussing instead on the story contained within a set of exercise books which she has come across in an antiques and collectibles centre, the green writing reawakening her journalist’s instinct for a good story.