Noir Anthology

Vous n'en ferez qu'une bouchée ! Sabine partage un grand repas, entourée de plusieurs connaissances. Les plats et les boissons s'enchaînent sans retenue, jusqu'à inspirer du mépris à Sabine, persuadée que l'assemblée qui se moque de sa pudeur en a après sa vertu. Sa tentative d'échapper à l'événement prend alors une tournure dramatique.

Vous n'en ferez qu'une bouchée ! Raymond, après 20 ans de prison au Brésil, retrouve à Paris son ancien complice Cotentin. Ils préparent un plat brésilien, la feijoada, et discutent de leur passé criminel commun de braqueurs. Raymond, emprisonné car trahi par Abidjan, un autre de leurs anciens associés que Cotentin avait aidé, souhaite se venger.

Vous n'en ferez qu'une bouchée ! Joé est un colosse souffrant d'un retard mental. Le narrateur, son ami, l'inscrit dans à des combats et ensemble, ils vivent de l'argent des paris. Joé aime beaucoup Des souris et des hommes et ressemble au personnage Lennie, roman dont son ami lui cache qu'il finit mal. Lorsqu'un combat met en péril la vie de Joé, les deux amis choisissent de s'enfuir et de réaliser le rêve du colosse : voir la mer.

Books four, five, and six in the Eli Marks mystery series all in one volume. This audiobook includes: The Linking Rings, The Floating Light Bulb, and The Zombie Ball.

Killing Me Softly introduces Key West private eye Gideon Lowry, who moonlights as a piano player at a local jazz club. When Virginia Murphy shows up one night to ask him to investigate her sister's death 40 years earlier, Gideon is led down the darker side of memory lane where secrets linger. Some are buried as deeply as the paradise that was once Key West, now entombed in concrete. Key West's Hemingway Days is in full swing in Night and Day, when Gideon is pulled into the world of a famous nightclub singer known only as Asia.

Vous n'en ferez qu'une bouchée ! Lors de l'anniversaire de sa fille Léa, Mathilde reçoit par drone un colis contenant du chocolat, denrée devenue rare. Sa belle-sœur Juliette, avec qui elle ne s'entend pas, soupçonne un lien avec l'arrestation de son fils Bastien, qui avait caché une famille de réfugiés. Juliette accuse Mathilde d'avoir dénoncé Bastien et le soir même, Léa meurt empoisonnée.

The social worker and the cop, an unlikely couple drawn together on a small, secluded Pacific Northwest island where nothing is as it seems. Protecting the innocent comes at a cost, and what seems to be a sleepy, quiet town is anything but. Includes The Trap, Above the Law, and The Stranger at the Door.

The crime fiction canopy's a broad one, with room to give shelter to writing of all sorts, as editor Lawrence Block shows with At Home in the Dark.

Sara non vuole esistere. Il suo dono è l'invisibilità, il talento di rubare i segreti delle persone. Capelli grigi, di una bellezza trattenuta solo dall'anonimato in cui si è chiusa, per amore ha lasciato tutto seguendo l'unico uomo capace di farla sentire viva. Ma non si è mai pentita di nulla e rivendica ogni scelta. Poliziotta in pensione, ha lavorato in un'unità legata ai Servizi, impegnata in intercettazioni non autorizzate. Il tempo le è scivolato tra le dita mentre ascoltava le storie degli altri.

Marta Sanz cierra la trilogía del detective Arturo Zarco diseccionando los relatos sobre la memoria: una novela negra que prolonga la posibilidad de la novela política. Paula Quiñones llega a Azafrán para localizar fosas de la Guerra Civil. Nada más poner su pie cojo en el pueblo siente que el cielo se encapsula sobre ella y una goma invisible tira de su cuerpo para alejarla de su destino: el hotel de los Beato, ubicado junto a un cartel en el que se lee "Azufrón".

Since his debut novel, the modern classic The Ghosts of Belfast, was published a decade ago, Stuart Neville has published eight other critically acclaimed novels and achieved international recognition as one of crime fictions great living writers. Now for the first time Neville offers listeners a collection of his short fiction - 12 chilling stories that traverse and blend the genres of noir, horror, and speculative fiction and which bring the history and lore of Neville's native Northern Ireland to glittering life.

Colección de relatos de Juan Ramón Biedma en la que el autor vuelve a hacer gala de su prosa descarnada y sin tapujos, su gusto por la truculencia y lo macabro y su afilada disección de los rincones más oscuros de nuestra sociedad actual. Los cuentos aquí recogidos son tan turbios como el crimen, tan negros como la literatura más peligrosa y tan afilados como unas fauces ensangrentadas.

Old Wounds: A Nick Shelby Case and Other Crime Stories is a collection of 15 short crime stories from dark detective noir to domestic murder, crossing time periods as far back as the Victorian era and into the near future—some with a twist of horror, science fiction, or the supernatural. Each story revolves around intriguing characters with twists and turns and on occasion a sting in the tail.

Nel suo ambiente di scrittori e giornalisti lo chiamavano "macchina per scrivere storie". Infatti, nella sua vita non lunga, Scerbanenco ne scrisse qualche migliaio, disparati e dispersi per genere e formato, dal rosa al poliziesco, dal racconto per il rotocalco al volume romanzesco.

In this new anthology offered by Blunder Woman Productions, you’ll take a trip down twisty roads into forests, back alleys, and even across the border between life and death. Together these tales are funny, creepy, weird, contemplative, traditional, and speculative. The characters in these stories might take a wrong turn, but it’s the right move for any fan of thrillers and mysteries.

Di aspetto poco appariscente ma dotato di un acume straordinario, Padre Brown è di nuovo all'opera in un appassionante lavoro di analisi e decifrazione di crimini ed enigmi in apparenza insolubili, con le sue ironiche e talvolta assurde confutazioni, rigoroso e lucido nell'osservazione e nelle deduzioni e nel contempo profondamente umano. Personaggio molto amato anche in Italia, questo curioso prete cattolico si rivela un segugio insuperabile grazie alla capacità di riconoscere e affrontare il male, per assicurare i colpevoli alla giustizia ma soprattutto per salvarne le anime.

In the weeks before hosting the 1976 Summer Olympics, the Montreal police are tightening security to prevent another catastrophe like the '72 games in Munich. But it isn't tight enough to stop nearly $3 million from being stolen in a bold daytime Brink's truck robbery. As the high-profile heist continues to baffle the police, Constable Eddie Dougherty gets a chance to prove his worth as a detective when he's assigned to assist the suburban Longueuil force in investigating the deaths of two teenagers returning from a rock concert across the Jacques Cartier Bridge.

Soneri è un poliziotto in forza alla Questura di Parma. Amante della buona tavola e del vino, non è più giovanissimo, ha un passato sentimentale triste e un presente dove l'amore ha i lineamenti irregolari e il temperamento brusco di Angela, temibile e focosa avvocatessa. È alle prese con due morti misteriose: due anziani fratelli, con un fosco passato di attività ai tempi del fascismo e di Salò, vengono uccisi.

From Ian Rankin to Joe Lansdale, Seanan McGuire to David Morrell, each author reveals the dark truths and buried secrets that make institutions of higher learning such a hotbed of controversy. You'll encounter plagiarism, sexual misconduct, and brutal competition - not to mention secret societies, cover-ups of murder, and one near-future course of study that makes The Handmaid's Tale look like Mother Goose. So: collect your supplies, plan your schedule, and prepare to pull an all-nighter, because The Darkling Halls of Ivy is required listening.

Bayshore Noir is the newest release from John David's critically acclaimed Noir De Jure imprint. Detective Frank Geddy is on the case again, this time in the trendiest of Tampa neighborhoods, the Channelside District. Since pizza and booze aren't free, Frank does what it takes to survive, as unpleasant as it may be.