Resultados para "man" en Novela negra

'One of the best British crime writers' – Lee Child It's a race against time as Detective Superintendent Roy Grace tries to stop a grieving mother from taking the law into her own hands . . . Read by Daniel Weyman (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power) A university student is killed in a...

Dos expertos criminólogos retratan la mente del psicópata en una novela negra adictiva. La esperada continuación de la serie protagonizada por Valentina Negro y Javier Sanjuán. La inspectora Valentina Negro lucha por superar los traumáticos recuerdos de su último caso, cuando estuvo cerca de perder la vida a manos de un asesino en serie. Pero la maldad no da tregua: pronto se ve envuelta en una nueva y escalofriante cadena de muertes.

Enter the fog-shrouded streets of Victorian London in The Man with the Twisted Lip, one of the most clever and psychologically intriguing cases of Sherlock Holmes. When a respected gentleman mysteriously vanishes and a grotesque beggar is suspected of foul play, Holmes uncovers a truth far stranger—and more unsettling—than murder.

A former dark-ops soldier, Amos Carver, protects a Texas ranch family after destroying a sextrafficking empire and redistributing its millions, only to find a hard-edged mercenary team (exDelta) hired to recover the money and silence loose ends. As federal investigations and political machinations converge, Carver and allies (NSA-aligned investigator Liana Cardoso and others) must outwit cartel proxies, corrupt local power, and ruthless veterans in a violent, escalating deadman’s war.

Sobre la Academia Ellingham debe de pesar una maldición. Ya han muerto tres personas. Una, víctima de una broma que salió mal o de un asesinato. Otra, por una fatalidad. Y ahora, un accidente en Burlington se ha cobrado una nueva vida. Y todo justo en el momento de mayor triunfo de Stevie Bell…. Sabe quién es Atentamente Perverso. Lo ha resuelto. El crimen del siglo. Al menos, eso cree. Con esta nueva tragedia, es difícil concentrarse en el pasado. No solo ha muerto una persona en la ciudad, sino que además David ha desaparecido por propia voluntad y está tramando algo.

La mano del muerto es una novela corta que trata, esencialmente, sobre la venganza. Si la justicia de los hombres no es capaz de calmar el vacío que deja la pérdida de aquello que más querías, y la de los dioses te resulta del todo etérea y lejana, quizá es el momento de que, al igual que nuestro protagonista, tomes las riendas del destino. Aunque para ello debas convertirte en juez, víctima, asesino o verdugo. Quizá en todos ellos a la vez.

As a member of a New York Mafia family, Levi Yoder's role is unique: He's a fixer, a solver of problems, a man whose code puts loyalty above all else, yet he's a man with a conscience. In the Inside Man, Levi's search for the kidnapped grandchild of a Japanese mob boss plunges him into a world filled with chaos. When he's falsely accused of a heinous series of crimes, the FBI makes Levi an offer he can't refuse: use his mob connections to help investigate the murders of several undercover agents or find himself in jail awaiting trial, without a way to clear his name.  

¿Qué relación hay entre un atraco a mano armada y un crimen nunca resuelto? Descúbrelo en una nueva entrega de la serie de Gotland. Protagonizada por Anders Knutas, Karin Jacobson y Johan Berg, esta trepidante novela policiaca se adentra en los traumas de la infancia y en cómo su sombra puede alcanzar el futuro. Una mañana de finales de verano tres encapuchados atracan un banco a mano armada en pleno centro de Klintehamn, una pequeña localidad en la costa oeste de la isla de Gotland. En su huida en un coche robado, los ladrones atropellan a una niña de seis años.

Alain Delambre, ex direttore delle risorse umane, ha cinquantasette anni, gli ultimi quattro passati come disoccupato, accettando lavoretti malpagati e in condizioni umilianti. Quando il destino sembra offrirgli una nuova possibilità - un lavoro nel suo campo, ben pagato e gratificante - Alain è disposto a tutto. Anche a degradarsi agli occhi della moglie e delle figlie, e persino a partecipare all'ultima prova di reclutamento: un gioco di ruolo che simuli una presa di ostaggi. Ma è un gioco in cui i dadi sono truccati...

Jo told him the phone call had been about a woman who wanted to have her husband declared dead. Smith thought for a moment and then said, 'Hmm. There must be a few million women in this country who feel like that. I take it her husband's been missing for a while and she's decided it's time to move on. In the absence of a body, which is always a nuisance, she wants Diver and Diver to confirm there's no proof he's alive. And I've told Jason a dozen times I'm not getting involved in anything matrimonial. I have enough trouble sorting out my own relationships.'

In this adventure from the pen of Sweden's master of crime and mystery, a disillusioned Inspector Kurt Wallander is thrown back into the fray when he becomes both hunter and hunted. Crestfallen, dejected, and spiraling into an alcohol-fuelled depression after killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Wallander has made up his mind to quit the police force for good. When an old acquaintance, a solicitor, seeks Wallander's help and later turns up dead, Wallander realizes that he was wrong not to listen.

Jesse McDermitt has returned to the Florida Keys. But things in the islands are different now. The locals are worried, but nobody can explain why. A sense of foreboding hangs in the humid July air. One of the locals, an investment banker, is waiting tables at the Rusty Anchor Bar and Grill. He seems a shell of the man he used to be—a hollow man whose fortune and wife are gone. Something very sinister is going on—Jesse smells it. He’s usually very good at rooting out the source of a problem, but is stumped this time.

There's a serial killer loose in Jacksonville Beach! Clayton Conway and his coworkers are thrust into the middle of a perplexing case when bodies begin to wash up behind the repo property. Is this the work of a maniac, or someone with a definite plan? From the author of the award-winning crime thriller series, Dirty Deeds, comes a new series set in the same world!

Neville St. Clair, a respectable businessman, has disappeared and his wife claims she saw him at the upper window of an opium den. Rushing upstairs to the room she found only a beggar who denied any knowledge of St. Clair – whose clothes are later found in the room, and his coat, laden with coins, in the River Thames outside the window.

ในยุคสมัยราชวงศ์โชซอนมีผู้พบศพจำนวนศพแล้วศพเล่าบริเวณนอกเมืองหลวงใกล้ๆ กับภูเขาอินวังซาน ศพเหล่านั้นมีสภาพไม่ต่างกัน ทุกศพตาเบิกกว้างและมีรอยกรีดลึกจำนวนห้าแถวบริเวณหน้าอก

Neville St. Clair, a respectable businessman, has disappeared and his wife claims she saw him at the upper window of an opium den. Rushing upstairs to the room she found only a beggar who denied any knowledge of St. Clair – whose clothes are later found in the room, and his coat, laden with coins, in the River Thames outside the window. The beggar is arrested, but a few days later St. Clair's wife receives a letter from her husband.

Neville St. Clair, a respectable businessman, has disappeared and his wife claims she saw him at the upper window of an opium den. Rushing upstairs to the room she found only a beggar who denied any knowledge of St. Clair – whose clothes are later found in the room, and his coat, laden with coins, in the River Thames outside the window. The beggar is arrested, but a few days later St. Clair's wife receives a letter from her husband.

It's the Joseon dynasty, and a series of corpses have been discovered in the outskirts of the capital near Mt. Inwangsan. All of them have wide open eyes and five long, deep cuts across their chests. But who could be responsible? Gyeong-ho, a body handler from the coroner's office, has no leads...

Frankie Machine (Sinatra), a recovering heroin addict and illegal card dealer, returns home to his squalid neighborhood in Chicago after six months in prison. He is hoping to go straight and find a job as a drummer, but when both his ex-drug pusher, Louie, and his ruthless former employer, Schwiefka, show up, Frankie is in trouble.

A scar from cheek to chin is all Marc Jordan remembers of the man kneeling over his dead mother. Now, 15 years later, Marc searches his memory for clues; he hopes to be the first to find the killer. Murder, blackmail, corruption, and betrayal leave a trail from the storied vineyards of Spain to the wineries of Southern California, where no one is who or what they claim to be.