Resultados para "Lucien" en Novela negra

"A crisp, twisting tale in the hands of a writer in the bloom of his abundant talents." — Graydon Carter A gifted yet financially disadvantaged artist falls victim to the manipulative control of his wealthy, enigmatic Harvard roommate in this incendiary novel from the author of Beautiful...

Nate Burke, ex poliziotto di Baltimora, accetta il posto di capo della polizia di Lunacy - un paesino dell'Alaska che conta 506 abitanti - per fuggire alla crisi causata dal fresco divorzio e dal trauma della morte del suo compagno di lavoro, per la quale si sente in parte responsabile. I primi giorni nella cittadina scorrono tranquilli, a parte qualche piccolo problema di ordine pubblico e una relazione un po' movimentata con l'umorale Meg Galloway, bella e sfacciata. All'improvviso, però, in una grotta nascosta viene ritrovato il corpo del padre di Meg, scomparso sedici anni prima.

Yurika is a freelancer in the Tokyo underworld. She poses as a prostitute; carefully targeting powerful, high-profile men - who she then drugs and takes incriminating photos of to sell for blackmail purposes. She knows very little about the organisation she's working for and is perfectly satisfied with the arrangement, as long as it means she doesn't have to reveal anything about her identity. But when a figure from Yurika's past emerges, she finds herself in a trap that she can’t seem to find a way out of....

The Bell vibrated with a low, guttural tone—too deep for the ear, but heavy in the ribs. It wasn’t ringing. It was gathering. Calloway turned as Graves and Thorne crossed the threshold. Her eyes didn’t show fear—just fatigue sharpened by defiance. Calloway (dryly): Took you long enough. Graves (already at her wrists): Traffic was hell. Her shackles were lined with symbols—sacramental, but wrong. Graves worked the lock with a practiced flick. Thorne: We stopping a ritual or robbing a bank? Graves: With these bastards, it’s the same thing. Click.

When 18-year-old Ben Renshaw is found dead in city woodland, DCI Robin Lyons is plunged into one of Birmingham's most controversial cases. Months earlier, Ben and his best friend gave testimony that sent a former classmate, Alistair Heywood, to prison for a vicious sexual assault. Before the trial, the boys and their families endured months of brutal witness intimidation, for which the Heywoods, a privileged and influential local family, faced no legal repercussions. Instead, they vowed revenge.

Robin Lyons is back in her hometown of Birmingham and now a DCI with Force Homicide, working directly under Samir, the man who broke her heart almost 20 years ago. When a woman is found stabbed to death in a derelict factory and no one comes forward to identify the body, Robin and her team must not only hunt for the murderer, but also solve the mystery of who their victim might be.

Ein Hund ist schuld, dass Lila Ziegler auf der Straße landet: Ein Obdachloser, der Fliege genannt wird, verschwindet aus Molles Kneipe und lässt sein Tier zurück. Der dicke Wirt bittet Privatdetektiv Ben Danner und Lila, den rechtmäßigen Hundebesitzer zu suchen, um den kleinen Kläffer wieder loszuwerden. Ein Freundschaftsdienst, der sich nebenbei erledigen lässt, so glauben alle drei. Doch Danner und Lila stoßen mit ihren Fragen in der Szene nur auf Ablehnung. Nachdem Danner sogar Prügel einstecken musste, mischt sich Lila unter die Straßenkids und freundet sich mit Engel und Dicke an.

Lieutenant Sheila Worthy has been viciously slain, and it's up to Major Kara Guidry, the top lawyer in the Judge Advocate General's office, to track down her killer. But Guidry finds she must tread lightly. Rumors have linked the dead lieutenant to General William Beckwith, who was Kara's instructor at West Point and is now on the short list to become the Army's next Chief of Staff. Guidry must also contend with Beckwith's rivals, who would like nothing more than to see the general discredited.

Dismissed for misconduct from the Met’s Homicide Command after refusing to follow orders, unable to pay her bills (or hold down a relationship), Detective Inspector Robin Lyons has no choice but to take her teenage daughter Lennie and move back in with her parents in the city she thought she’d escaped forever at 18. In Birmingham, sharing a bunkbed with Lennie and navigating the stormy relationship with her mother, Robin works as a benefit-fraud investigator - to the delight of those wanting to see her cut down to size. 

After the suicide of his uncle, Lucas Heathfield inherits Stoneborough Manor in Oxfordshire. He imagines it as a place where he and his tight-knit group of friends can spend time away from London. But from the beginning, the house changes everything. It begins to have a strange effect on Lucas and he becomes haunted by the death of his uncle, obsessed by ciné films of his uncle's friends at Stoneborough 30 years earlier. Within the claustrophobic confines of the house over a hot, decadent summer, secrets slide out of the past and sexual tensions escalate, shattering the group's friendship and changing their lives irrevocably.

Eight years ago, a vicious lie cost Eddie Weaver everything—his job, his friends, his family, his entire life. Branded a monster, he was left to rot alone. Today, he returns to his hometown with nothing but a list of names—and a plan for revenge, eight years in the making.

In this sparkling debut novel imbued with the rich intrigue of Kate Atkinson s literary mysteries and the spirited heart of Major Pettigrew s Last Stand, a disparate group of Londoners plunge into a search for a missing American actress. In the dreary days of November 1965, American actress...

Life for Easy is uncharacteristically...easy. He's set up his own agency and is about to propose to his sweetheart, Bonnie. But all that changes when his old friend, Mouse - one of the deadliest men in America - appears at his door, asking for a small favour. The favour is to help the son of a friend of Charcoal Joe who has been wrongly imprisoned. Charcoal Joe is a mythical figure in LA, a man who pulls all the strings but is known to very few.