Resultados para "Mark Williams" en Novela negra

A children's book author finds his psyche and life unraveling as his books get banned, charges loom for an inadvertent crime and his 'fiction' erupts to alarming life. To stave off at least one of these, he's also drafted, against his will, to help solve a string of vicious murders in L.A.

Peace was always an elusive thing for Detective Carter Boyce, even before his wife died. Since then, living has become even harder. Now, investigating what looks like a murder suicide, Carter begins piecing back together a life he didn’t even know was broken. He stumbles back into his childhood neighborhood, where Old Man Kopchek is still missing a leg, but none of his acerbic wit. The old man begins teaching him the magic of savoring the mundane and the seemingly unimportant.

He survived the Great War and the Great Depression, but can he survive just one night in New York City?

Violent abductions, crippling obsessions, and a killer with a taste for the macabre. A vulnerable young man is attacked and thrown in the back of a van. It’s the latest in a string of attacks on those at the edges of society. But this time there’s a witness, and she knows DI Rob Loxley, and...

Two pulp adventure stories set in 1940s Chicago: In the first story, the city is under the control of a ruthless crime boss who seeks to unite all illegal activities under his control. Unexpected competition arrives in the person of a masked killer, The Inferno, who uses flame as a weapon. Opposing them both is The Eclipse, a masked vigilante. In the follow-up story, a new crime lord has stepped in to take the place of the fallen gang leader. He sets his sights on obtaining a powerful new weapon that will guarantee him a stranglehold on the city.

Odarko, Oklahoma, 1956. Scratch Williams is a Yardbird: someone employed to do menial jobs, legal or otherwise. After oil tycoon George Spiff hires him to break up the relationship between his daughter and her newest conquest, a fight breaks out. Later, Scratch wakes up in his car, with the body of the boyfriend lying next to him.

In twenty haunting, real-life cases, True Crime–Unsolved Murders explores those moments when a trail suddenly goes cold and the truth slips away forever. From Hinterkaifeck, the eerie Bavarian farmhouse where six people were brutally murdered, to the Zodiac Killer who taunted police with cryptic messages, to Elisa Lam, the young woman whose chilling elevator footage shocked millions—the stories are as real as they are disturbing.

Living in denial doesn't just make problems go away. Andrew Monroe is finally going to learn this when the past begins to call, reminding him of the murder of a child in his early years in Chicago. Firstly, after the mysterious disappearance of his wife one morning during their honeymoon and the police's refusal to take up their case, he would have to enlist the help of an old-time lover to help find her.

Luke Madson, an assassin with a private International Intelligence agency, experiences a chance meeting with the daughter of a man targeted for assassination during a flight to New York. The meeting evolves into a personal and business relationship that opens opportunities for Madson and his organization to destroy the gun running operations of this group.

What happens when South Florida’s most unscrupulous real estate salesman meets South Florida’s biggest con artist? And what happens when they meet on the roof of the Florida mansion belonging to the world’s most ruthless scrap dealer? Who knows? But sparks are bound to fly, especially with that hurricane coming straight at them.

Nicholas Lord, a university graduate and Afghanistan Army veteran, becomes part of the world of drugs when he accepts a position with a New York City drug baron. Cryptocurrency, stolen from the drug baron, forces Lord as the number two man, to move against the suspected thieves which include the Mexican supplier and the gangbangers who distribute the illicit drugs. To complicate his already precarious situation, Lord becomes involved in a love affair with the drug baron's woman.

Born to a prostitute in a place known as the City of the Dead, Raul “Luca” Mendroza begins a life-altering journey when he is purchased and then educated in the tradecraft of an Assassin. The Brotherhood of The Shaolin Covenant, into which Luca is ultimately initiated, exists for the sole purpose of protecting the powerful and moneyed elite of the world.

A collection of four blackly humorous crime mysteries featuring the fictional BBC Radio crime correspondent, George Cragge. Adapted from the novel by Mark Tavener, In the Red sees the anarchic George Cragge investigate a spree of bizarre murders in the world of City finance, a small political...