Noir Fiction

Il est des hommes est un roman noir, au sens où il ambitionne de dire quelque chose du monde social, de sa dureté, de sa folie, de sa barbarie. Un roman qui se confronte aux forces du mal, qui raconte l'enfance dévastée, l'injustice, le sida, la drogue, la violence dans une cité de Marseille entre les années 80 et 2000.

One of my guys has been kidnapped. I don’t know if the Anti Magick Alliance took him or if it was the Human Extinction League. But I do know I’ll do whatever it takes to get him back. My magick is growing stronger by the day. I can feel it surging beneath my skin. I just hope I can put thoughts of my past out of my head for long enough to focus on what needs to be done.

All Anna wants is to be able to sleep. But crushing insomnia, terrifying night terrors and memories of that terrible night are making it impossible. If only she didn’t feel so guilty. To escape her past, Anna takes a job at a hotel on the remote Scottish island of Rum, but when seven guests join her, what started as a retreat from the world turns into a deadly nightmare. Each of the guests has a secret, but one of them is lying—about who they are and why they're on the island. There's a murderer staying in the Bay View hotel. And they've set their sights on Anna.

Qui a dit que seuls les enfants ont droit à une histoire lue le soir pour les aider à s'endormir ? Les adultes aussi ont besoin de ce moment de détente afin de décompresser en douceur après leurs journées bien remplies. Ce livre audio propose 30 histoires contemplatives et méditatives pour adultes, qui ressemblent à des instants de vie, qui délivrent un message, et qui abordent les règles du bien-être psychique : accueillir ses émotions, comment cultiver la joie et sublimer le quotidien, sortir de sa zone de confort et se dépasser, le partage, la gratitude.

Touched by echoes of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, Nobody Move is at once an homage to and a variation on literary form. It salutes one of our most enduring and popular genres - the American crime novel - but does so with a grisly humor and outrageousness that are Denis Johnson's own. Sexy, suspenseful, and above all entertaining, Nobody Move shows one of our greatest novelists at his versatile best.

A young man with Down's syndrome has been convicted of burning down his care home and killing five people, but a fellow inmate at his secure psychiatric unit has hired Thora to prove Jakob is innocent. If he didn't do it, who did? And how is the multiple murder connected to the death of Magga, killed in a hit and run on her way to babysit?

After his son is convicted of capital murder, Vietnam War veteran Jeremiah Fitzjurls takes over the care of his granddaughter, Joanna, raising her with as much warmth as can be found in an Ozark junkyard outfitted to be an armory. He teaches her how to shoot and fight, but there is not enough training in the world to protect her when the dreaded Ledfords, notorious meth dealers and fanatical white supremacists, come to collect on Joanna as payment for a long-overdue blood debt.

The name's Fetch Phillips - what do you need? Cover a Gnome with a crossbow while he does a dodgy deal? Sure. Find out who killed Lance Niles, the big-shot businessman who just arrived in town? I'll give it shot. Help an old-lady Elf track down her husband's murderer? That's right up my alley. What I don't do, because it's impossible, is search for a way to bring the goddamn magic back.

2009, Bagdad. Emma Marsiac, agent du Mossad, disparaît pendant un attentat. 2016, Royaume-Uni. Julien Terreau, un agent israélien, agissant sous la...

This is a city that seduces dreamers - then eats their dreams. Matthew Scudder understands the futility of his search for a longtime missing Midwestern innocent who wanted to be an actress in the vast meat-grinder called New York City. But her frantic father heard that Scudder is the best, and now the ex-cop turned private investigator is scouring the hell called Hell's Kitchen looking for anything that might resemble a lead. And in this neighborhood of the lost, he's finding love - and death - in the worst possible places.

En el archipiélago de Estocolmo aparece una embarcación privada. Dentro, se halla el cuerpo sin vida de una mujer. Su pelo, su piel, sus ropas están secos. Y, no obstante, la autopsia revela que los pulmones están llenos de agua. La víctima murió ahogada. Al día siguiente, otro cadáver aparece en la ciudad, y también este encierra un misterio.

Freddy Otash was the man in the know and the man to know in '50s LA. He was a rogue cop, a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp - and, most notably, the head strong-arm goon for Confidential magazine. Confidential presaged the idiot internet - and delivered the dirt, the dish, the insidious ink, and the scurrilous skank.

Name's Kane, Kate Kane. I'm a paranormal private investigator, which is like a normal private investigator except - and stop me if you're having trouble following this - more paranormal. This business comes with a few basic rules: don't start drinking before noon, don't get your partner killed, don't sleep with the woman who killed him. Last year I broke all of them.

Séducteur, corrompu, sarcastique, Schiavone est aussi antipathique qu'attachant. Le genre de héros qu'on adore détester... Le commissaire Rocco Schiavone est romain jusqu'au bout des ongles : snob, macho et ronchon, il est doté d'un humour noir dévastateur. Muté à Champoluc dans le val d'Aoste, il vit son départ en province comme un exil. À son corps défendant, il doit quitter sa paire de Clarks adorée pour porter de répugnants après-ski et considère ses nouveaux collègues comme des ploucs.

Mike Romeo is an ex-cage fighter living off the grid in LA. Running from a dark guilt that dogs him, he's finally found a place where he can rest and even heal. Then a church blows up. And with it all of Romeo's hopes to be left alone. When he stops to help an injured woman whose kids are missing, someone decides to put a target on his back.

When successful mystery novelist and fledgling private detective Marius Quin is invited to speak at the Mystery and Detection Society he jumps at the chance of a luxurious weekend away on the English coast. But arriving at Torquay’s Grand Hotel with his sleuthing partner Lady Bella Montague, there is the definite sense that all is not well. When they wake the next morning to discover the body of a cantankerous local in the hotel pool, the things go from bad to worse. But how can the duo catch a killer when every piece of evidence they uncover is contradicted by two more?

Der Privatdetektiv Derek Adams wird von einer unbekannten Schönen beauftragt, nach einem gestohlenen Amulett zu suchen. Adams willigt ein. Damit beginnt seine Albtraumfahrt durch das Reich des Grauens. Raymond Chandler trifft auf H. P. Lovecraft. Ein düsterer Noir-Krimi.

Jonathan Roper is a key player in the elite Special Investigations Unit. His autism, and a relentless drive, have given him an extraordinary range of skills which make him a formidable detective. His reputation has grown to the point where he has been invited to join the digital fight against terror - but that's not working out as it means losing contact with his boss, Chief Inspector Brian Hooley. The pair formed a powerful bond while bringing down a gang of ruthless mercenaries running riot in London, and now events are throwing them back together.

Jessica Fletcher knows better than anyone that creativity is meant to be nurtured. So when a young lady from Cabot Cove shows promise as a country-and-western singer and songwriter, Jessica and a local citizens’ committee send the talented teen on a scholarship trip to Nashville, Tennessee, where she can benefit from professional instruction.

They thought they were safe. They were wrong. The murder of a young prostitute and a baby found abandoned on the same winter night signals the start of a disturbing investigation for Detective Kim Stone - one which brings her face to face with someone from her own horrific childhood. As more sex workers are murdered in quick succession, each death more violent than the last, Kim and her team realize that the initial killing was no one-off frenzied attack, but a twisted serial killer preying on the vulnerable.