Titres dans Roman noir

Le mardi, il y eut quatre brebis égorgées à Ventebrune, dans les Alpes. Et le jeudi, neuf à Pierrefort. Un loup solitaire ? Roué, cruel, avec son cul bas sur ses pattes grises ? La Bête du Mercantour. Mais au village de Saint-Victor-du-Mont, tous n'y croient pas, à la Bête. Ce n'est pas une Bête. C'est un homme. Un loup-garou.

When a man careens off the road into the frigid waters of the Chautauqua River, Chief Detective David Wolf risks his own life to bring the man to shore. News of Wolf's bravery travels fast through the burgeoning ski town of Rocky Points, Colorado, and before long he's pulled into the political grinder, where candidates are eager to exploit Wolf's character for their own gain.

From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and John D. MacDonald got their start in Black Mask. The urban crime stories that appeared in Black Mask helped to shape American culture. Modern computer games, films, and television are rooted in the fiction popularized by “the seminal and venerated mystery pulp magazine” ( Booklist).

Harry Bosch, retraité du LAPD malgré lui, tente de tuer le temps en remontant une vieille Harley lorsque Mickey Haller, son demi-frère avocat de la défense, lui demande de l'aide. Il ne voit en effet que Bosch pour l'aider à innocenter Da Quan Foster, un ex-membre de gang accusé d'avoir battu à mort la directrice adjointe des services municipaux de West Hollywood. Même si la preuve est accablante, Haller en est sûr, son client est innocent. Dilemme pour Harry ! Passer du côté de la défense quand on a travaillé avec passion pour la police de Los Angeles toute sa vie ?

Guido Brunetti faces a heinous crime committed outside his jurisdiction. He is drawn in innocently enough: two young American women have been badly injured in a boating accident, joyriding in the Laguna with two young Italians. However, Brunetti's curiosity is aroused by the behavior of the young men, who abandoned the victims after taking them to the hospital. If the injuries were the result of an accident, why did they want to avoid association with it?

A macabre grave is found at the foot of the Italian Dolomites. The body is found to be Roberto Lorenzoni's, only son and heir of one Venice's oldest, most aristocratic families. Commissario Guido Brunetti must move in the highest circles of power and corruption to unravel the mystery behind the young man's disappearance and murder.

Martin Terrier était pauvre, esseulé, bête et méchant, mais pour changer tout ça, il avait un plan de vie beau comme une ligne droite. Après avoir pratiqué dix ans le métier d'assassin, fait sa pelote et appris les bonnes manières, il allait rentrer au pays retrouver sa promise et faire des ronds dans l'eau... Mais pour se baigner deux fois dans le même fleuve, il faut que beaucoup de sang passe sous les ponts.

Un club de prédateurs sexuels sévit sur un campus... Une nouvelle enquête pour Will Trent, le héros de Karin Slaughter à retrouver sur Disney +. Il y a quinze ans, l'existence de Sara Linton a changé à jamais lorsqu'une soirée de fête s'est terminée par la violente attaque qui a bouleversé son monde. Depuis, Sara a refait sa vie. Pédiatre reconnue, fiancée à l'agent spécial du GBI Will Trent, elle a réussi à laisser le passé derrière elle. C'était sans compter ce procès qui la ramène à une autre nuit éprouvante, trois ans plus tôt, où, de garde aux urgences, elle s'est évertuée à sauver Dani Cooper.

Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three LAPD detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careers.

War in Cuba isn't Ben Tyler's concern. Still, sailing mares and guns into Havana harbor in 1898 - right past the submerged wreckage of the U.S. battleship Maine - may not be the smartest thing the recently prison-sprung horse wrangler ever did. Neither is shooting one of the local Guardia, though the pompous peacock deserved it. Now Tyler's sitting tight in a vermin-infested Cuban stockade waiting to face a firing squad....

Naples, Italy, during four fateful days in the fall of 1943. The only ones left in the bombed-out city are the abandoned children whose only goal is to survive another day. No one could imagine that they would become fearless fighters and the unlikeliest heroes of World War II.

Until he disappeared, Peter Black was Azrael. Master assassin. Now he spends his days hiding on a remote farm in northern Alaska. The same farm he was sent to at age 11 to be trained by the CIA. Peter only ever wanted a normal life and to be left alone. But the world refuses to leave men like Peter Black alone. An enemy like no other is coming. An enemy that has no mercy. No compassion. Only sheer ruthlessness of will.

Quel rapport entre deux morts égorgés porte de la Chapelle, un cerf éventré en Normandie, un vol de reliques, une infirmière évadée de prison et le fantôme d'une nonne ? Pour sa dixième enquête, le commissaire Adamsberg doit pister, au travers de ce ténébreux inventaire, un tueur en quête d'immortalité. Or Adamsberg ne va pas fort : à la brigade, un nouvel arrivé aux cheveux bicolores et ne parlant qu'en vers, ne semble pas l'apprécier.

Rachel Hatch closes a major chapter in her life. A new one begins with an offer from an old friend. This offer puts Hatch at odds. The agency responsible for her father’s murder and who nearly took her life in the mountains of Colorado is now offering her a job opportunity. Lives hang in the balance as Hatch sets out to honor her code. She quickly finds that things are not what they seem in the small town of Breakneck, Alaska. Hatch finds an ally in the most unlikely of places.

Qui connaît vraiment Alex ? Elle est belle. Excitante. Est-ce pour cela qu'on l'a enlevée, séquestrée, livrée à l'inimaginable ?

The police don't show up on Easy Rawlins's doorstep until the third girl dies. It's Los Angeles, 1956, and it takes more than one murdered black girl before the cops get interested. Now they need Easy. As he says: "I was worth a precinct full of detectives when the cops needed the word in the ghetto." But Easy turns them down. He's married now, a father -- and his detective days are over.

Travis McGee never shies away from damsels in distress. But this Eurasian beauty was different. When Travis and Meyer rescued her from the water, she had a block of cement wired to her feet, and she wasn't so much grateful as ready to snare them in a murder racket to end all murders.

In 1930, young Archie Goodwin comes to New York City hoping for a bit of excitement. In his third week working as a night watchman, he stops two burglars in their tracks - with a pair of hot lead slugs. Dismissed from his job for being “trigger-happy”, he parlays his newfound notoriety into a job as a detective’s assistant, helping honest sleuth Del Bascom solve cases like the Morningside Piano Heist, the Rive Gauche Art Gallery Swindle, and the Sumner-Hayes Burglary. But it’s the kidnapping of Tommie Williamson that introduces Goodwin to the man who will change his life.

What do you do? Whenever people asked him, Eric Cash used to have a dozen answers. Artist, actor, screenwriter...But now he's 35 years old and he's still living downtown, still in the restaurant business, working night shifts and serving the people he always wanted to be. What does Eric do? He manages.

Spenser's girlfriend Susan goes away with another man, Jerry Costigan, the son of a very rich and dangerous criminal. Spenser and his friend, Hawk, go to find Susan. Soon they are in the world of the CIA, guns and murder.