Resultados para "Memoria" en Novela negra

Una autora prometedora y una nueva voz en la novela de misterio. Los enigmáticos bosques de Asturias se convierten en tierra de leyenda y en el escenario ideal para una novela negra. Colombres, capital del concejo de Ribadedeva. Oriente de Asturias. La plácida vida de Berta Vega se ve trastocada cuando secuestran a su hija durante cuarenta y ocho horas y luego la liberan a más de cien kilómetros de su casa. Todo se complica cuando se perpetra un segundo secuestro que pone en jaque a la policía.

Siempre he tenido unos intereses particulares, pero, a la edad de quince años, cuando murió mi abuela, despertó uno que se convirtió en obsesión. Esa tarde, de pie en la puerta de la habitación, mientras mis padres lloraban, vi su alma abandonar su cuerpo. Desde ese momento me he pasado la vida intentando coleccionarlas. Porque las almas tienen diferente color. En estas memorias quiero contarte cómo lo descubrí, por qué hice lo que hice y por qué es tan importante para mí que me leas y lo comprendas. ¡Juntos podemos hacer historia!

"La noche sin memoria" solo puede describirse como el trabajo de un maestro en literatura criminal; una trama deliciosa a la vez que impactante contada a tres voces y en tres líneas temporales que envuelven el misterio de un asesinato doble en una ciudad costera. Con una prosa con el sabor de las miserias del mediterráneo y una sensibilidad amarga como el crimen, el autor nos regala una obra tan arraigada en lo social como en lo personal.

Mariano piensa hacer un recorrido en motocicleta con sus amigos; sin embargo, es secuestrado en un llano junto con otras personas. Los criminales exigen un cuantioso rescate por cada liberación, y poco a poco van soltando a los cautivos hasta que unicamente queda él. Deberá caminar del Estado de México a Guerrero en un secuestro duplicado.

Sono mesi che Romeo Calandri è stato ucciso - o meglio, giustiziato, considerata la brutalità dell'omicidio. A valle di una rapida indagine, dietro le sbarre è finito Carmelo Musci, killer professionista al soldo della 'ndrangheta, incriminato anche per il probabile assassinio di Luciano Orsi, socio di Calandri e scomparso lo stesso giorno dell'esecuzione. E invece, per una curiosa, grottesca e vagamente macabra coincidenza, proprio mentre si sta celebrando una messa in suffragio per la sua presunta morte, Orsi ricompare su una barca al largo di Cesenatico. Dove è stato per tutto questo tempo?

Chi è in grado di fare luce sulle morti avvenute da più di un decennio di un uomo e di una donna? Solo lui, Hercule Poirot, il geniale investigatore belga dall’istinto insuperabile, perspicace e astuto come nessun’altro. Lo trascina in questo vero è proprio cold case la sua amica, l’imprevedibile scrittrice di romanzi polizieschi, Ariadne Oliver. E lui non si tira indietro... grazie al suo metodo investigativo e alla sua tenacia, ridona il sorriso a una ragazza e un ragazzo che si amano.

A Milano, nei pressi di Lambrate, viene assassinato l'ennesimo extracomunitario. Semplice resa dei conti o vero e proprio crimine d'odio? La giovane Layla vuole sapere la verità su suo marito, un richiedente asilo barbaramente ucciso. Fra depistaggi e falsi indizi, questa volta il commissario Lorenzi avrà bisogno di aiuto per far emergere l'inquientante verità. Parola-chiave: memoria.

Al processo c'è un'atmosfera surreale. Non sembra vero, eppure Emiliano Bardanzellu, cameriere con una laurea in scienze politiche, ha veramente ucciso sua moglie per una bottiglia di plastica riciclata male. Lui non si difende nemmeno. Non ha memoria di cos'è successo. Non parla, fissa il vuoto. Quello che aleggia in aula è un silenzio esterrefatto. Cosa si potrà mai nascondere dietro quel momento di follia, dietro quel black out omicida?

Marla McDonnell is a private eye in 1954 but that is not the most difficult challenge she faces. She is also a woman of color. And she must face down the one that murdered her partner and find out why every mobster in town is being systematically bumped off.

Ted Bundy, un noto serial killer statunitense attivo negli anni ’70, fu l’autore di numerosi omicidi di giovani donne in sette Stati. Bundy era considerato un tipo affascinante e sfruttava questa qualità per avvicinare le sue vittime. La sua storia si snoda tra inganni e brutalità, rivelando un’anima tormentata e una mente perversa. Cronache di Serial Killers è una serie audio che racconta le menti più oscure degli assassini seriali, con una combinazione di musiche suggestive, suoni inquietanti e ricostruzioni dettagliate, ogni episodio getta luce su un diverso criminale e sui suoi orrori.

Beautiful, shrewd, and lethal, Daria Villalobos is on a mission. Determined to be the first woman to take the reins of her father's notorious organization, she hatches a plot to eliminate Veranda, framing a rival to take the fall. Veranda Cruz is on a mission of her own. Intent on destroying the powerful Villalobos criminal empire, Veranda battles her department and her personal demons as she takes on Daria.

I was known as the traitor's daughter. When I was five years old, my father was tortured, branded with the letter Z, then beaten and left for dead. The grueling punishment for his crime was a reminder to all others who dared threaten the Russian's reign. I was the young girl left behind. A living piece of the traitorous puzzle the Russian leader tried so diligently to ignore - until I grew up. No longer could he deny how much my existence had always been intertwined with his. And in order to survive the life I was thrown into, I was forced to learn my place inside of it.

When Sergeant Charlie McCabe returns from fighting in Afghanistan, she hopes to leave the war behind. Instead, she comes home to a father whose gambling has put him in deep trouble with a violent loan shark. She finds work as a professional bodyguard, but to save her father, she needs to get serious cash together fast. However, her father isn’t the only one who needs saving. When Charlie’s first client - a wealthy executive with a shady past - narrowly escapes a bomb plot, Charlie’s investigation leads her into the heart of Boston’s criminal underworld.

Everything I've done, everything I will do, there will be no regret. The world is a vicious place for a woman. It's even crueler to the daughter of the Ceann na Conairte - discarded, married off, left powerless. But I am no ordinary daughter of the mafia. Unlike every other mafia family, my mother was Melody Callahan, Bloody Mel, the Don of the Italian Mafia, and the Don didn't raise some precious mafia princess. Bone by bone she broke me first, so no one else could - and bone by bone, I pieced myself back together.

For two months, journalist Peter Heller rode aboard the vegan pirate ship Farley Mowat as it stalked its prey, a Japanese whaling fleet, through the storms and ice of Antarctica. The ship is black, flies under a jolly roger, and carries members of the Sea Shepherd Society, a radical environmental group who are willing to die to stop illegal whale hunting.

Lolly has always known her mum was different. Sometimes Angela Bruce was ill in a quiet sort of way, but other times she roamed the Mansfield estate shouting about whatever had wormed its way into her head that day. Either way, Lolly was on her own, so she learned how to look after herself pretty quickly. Mal Fury has never got over the disappearance of his daughter all those years ago, but there's still hope because the police never found Kay's body.

Sharon Simpson spent 15 of her younger years in Morgan City, Louisiana, a small, blue-collar town along the Atchafalaya River Delta. Morgan City was living large during the big oil days in the 1970s, yet no one expected what was about to happen to the town. The booming oil industry was desperate for workers to fill positions and used a “trawling net approach” to hire any warm body - as long as the work was getting done on schedule. The heart of the issue - money and greed - led to the hiring of a damaged man who went on a spree, raping and murdering several local teens...

Amelia Gardner is a new graduate for the police academy and for the past year, life has been good. Really good. However, when Amelia and Charlie begin to receive cards again in the same MO of Shadow they begin to realize the game isn’t quite over yet. It soon becomes apparent that Shadow intends to finish what he started.

At a dive bar in San Francisco’s edgy Tenderloin district, drug-hustling Emily Rosario is drinking whiskey and looking for an escape from her desperate lifestyle. When she is approached by a Russian businessman, she thinks she might have found her exit. A week later - drugged, disoriented, and wanted for robbery - Emily finds herself on the run for her life. When cop Leo Elias - broke, alcoholic and desperate - hears about an unsolved bank robbery, the stolen money proves too strong a temptation.

A savage murder, committed the same day Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech. A young black man is falsely accused. In the style of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, Erik German's Kindle Single Dead Girls picks up where the reporters left off - just in time for the 50th anniversary of a crime that captivated the nation. On August, 28, 1963, two young white women were found slain and mutilated in their apartment on New York's Upper East Side.