Noir Mystery Thriller

It’s been a year since Poppy’s husband, Jack, was brutally murdered during his morning run through Manhattan’s Riverside Park. In the immediate aftermath, Poppy spiraled into an oblivion of grief, disappearing for several days only to turn up ragged and confused wearing a tight red dress she didn’t recognize. What happened to Poppy during those lost days? And more importantly, what happened to Jack? The case was never solved, and Poppy has finally begun to move on. But those lost days have never stopped haunting her.

Ex-detective superintendent Brandt has turned against society. The first kill was a stab in the dark, but now he's got a real taste for it. But his pursuer, DCI Stella Johnson, has rankled him. She has leaked to the press the idea he is impotent, and it has taken hold. Brandt wants to prove himself. Who better a victim than the woman who has embarrassed him? Johnson's strategy backfires, and she is in trouble with her superiors. Yet she now has a very personal reason to hunt down Brandt. Will going solo put her at even greater risk than before? And just what has he in mind for her?

Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is a compulsive do-gooder who can’t say no when someone asks for help—even when she knows better. When her estranged friend Karin leaves her a key to a public locker in the Copenhagen train station, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous project yet.

Non loin de Rome, un homme affolé tente d'arrêter les voitures. Son fils de huit ans a disparu et le corps de sa femme gît, décapité, au fond d'une clairière. Le commissaire Colomba Caselli ne croit pas à l'hypothèse du drame familial et fait appel à un expert en disparitions de personnes : Dante Torre. Kidnappé enfant, il a grandi enfermé dans un silo à grains avant de parvenir à s'échapper. Pendant des années, son seul contact avec l'extérieur a été son mystérieux geôlier, qu'il appelle "le Père".

It's a fine day for a sail, and Victor Delahaye, one of Ireland's most successful businessmen, takes his boat far out to sea. With him is his partner's son—who becomes the sole witness when Delahaye produces a pistol, points it at his own chest, and fires. This mysterious death immediately engages the attention of Detective Inspector Hackett, who in turn calls upon the services of his sometime partner Quirke, consultant pathologist at the Hospital of the Holy Family. The stakes are high: Delahaye's prominence in business circles means that Hackett and Quirke must proceed very carefully.

Mon assassin n’est pas un Pennac de plus, c’est tout Pennac dans un roman. C’est le portrait de l’assassin que l’auteur cherche en lui depuis qu’il a conçu Pépère, le redoutable tueur de "Terminus Malaussène". C’est aussi le portrait de toutes les personnes réelles devenues les personnages principaux de la tribu Malaussène. Daniel Pennac interprète avec jubilation ce formidable préquel de la saga Malaussène, où il dévoile tout à la fois son processus créatif et l'enfance de Pépère.

Onze grands noms du thriller français nous font toucher le noir, jusqu'au creux de l'âme... Solène Bakowski, Éric Cherrière, Ghislain Gilberti, Maud Mayeras, Mickaël Mention, Valentin Musso, Benoît Philippon, Jacques Saussey, Laurent Scalèse, Danielle Thiéry, Franck Thilliez. Ces onze auteurs prestigieux, maîtres incontestés du frisson, nous entraînent dans une exploration sensorielle inédite autour du toucher. Avec eux, vous plongerez dans les plus sombres abysses, effleurerez la grâce et l'enfer d'un même geste, tutoierez l'horreur du bout des doigts.

1955. Two young couples move to the uninhabited, isolated fjord of Hedinsfjörður. Then one of the women meets her death in mysterious circumstances. The case is never solved. Fifty years later an old photograph comes to light, and it becomes clear that the couples may not have been alone on the fjord after all. In nearby Siglufjörður, young policeman Ari Thór tries to piece together what really happened that fateful night, in a town where no one wants to know, where secrets are a way of life. Things take a sinister turn when a child goes missing in broad daylight.

Ordell Robbie and Louis Gara hit it off in prison, where they were both doing time for grand theft auto. Now that they're out, they're joining forces for one big score. The plan is to kidnap the wife of a wealthy Detroit developer and hold her for ransom. But they didn't figure the lowlife husband wouldn't want his lady back. So it's time for Plan B and the opportunity to make a real killing - with the unlikely help of a beautiful, ticked-off housewife who's hungry for a large helping of sweet revenge.

Everyone says the Elders family are nothing but cheats, thieves, and convicts - a fact 19-year-old Jamie Elders has been trying desperately to escape. She may have the natural talent of a poker savant, but her dreams of going pro and getting the hell out of the tiny town of Blind River, New York, are going nowhere fast - especially when she lands in a huge pile of debt to her uncle Loyal. At Loyal's beck and call until her debt is repaid, Jamie can't easily walk away - not with her younger brother Toby left at his mercy.

Pelirrojo. Pendenciero. Afirma ser "feo, pero de buen cuerpo". Es el detective Malasuerte, que regresa en la edición definitiva de las aventuras que dibujaron, con tinta indeleble, su delirante y psicodélica Tijuana: Malasuerte en Tijuana, La mujer de los hermanos Reyna y Juan Tres Dieciséis. Entre personajes carnavalescos como el comisario Nicolás Reyna, el Boticario Jarocho Nazi, un psicópata apodado el Duende y la hermosa alcaldesa de la ciudad, destaca el detective más rudo de la frontera, quien le planta cara a poderosos capitalistas, políticos sin escrúpulos, peligrosos criminales.

A completely revised edition of the first Henry Rios mystery, The Little Death, Lay Your Sleeping Head introduces Michael Nava’s singular protagonist, gay Latino criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios. Rios, beset by personal and professional problems, begins a passionate affair with the black sheep heir to a great California fortune who tells Rios an improbable tale of murder and sexual predation in his wealthy family. When the young man is found dead of an apparent drug overdose, Rios begins an investigation that ultimately reveals much more than murder.

Francis est un écrivain à succès, meurtri par l'existence. Sa femme et l'une de ses deux filles sont mortes tragiquement devant ses yeux. À soixante ans, il est maintenant installé au Pays basque où il a mis de côté ses derniers remords en se remariant. Mais voilà que sa fille Alice, qu'il chérit plus que tout, disparaît brutalement et brise ce fragile équilibre. De la forteresse mentale qu'il se construit pour ne pas s'effondrer, il va découvrir un monde sans pardon possible.

Detective John Druitt is new to homicide. His first case is a young woman found in an urban bayou. He immediately sees clues that lead him places he doesn't want to go. But his own demons may be the clue to solving the mystery of the woman's death. And as the case widens, so do his new partner's suspicions about his past and motivations.

Phnom Penh, Cambodia: The end of the line. Lawless, drug-soaked, forgotten - it's where bad journalists go to die. For once-great war photographer Will Keller, that's kind of a mission statement: he spends his days floating from one score to the next, taking any job that pays; his nights are a haze of sex, drugs, booze, and brawling. But Will's spiral toward oblivion is interrupted by Kara Saito, a beautiful young woman who shows up and begs Will to help find her sister, June, who disappeared during a stint as an intern at the local paper.

What marks life in Addis Ababa are the starkly different realities coexisting in one place. It's a growing city taking shape beneath the fraught weight of history, myth, and memory. It is a heady mix. It can also be disorienting, and it is in this space that the stories of Addis Ababa Noir reside....

As Montrealer Catherine Day sets foot in a remote fishing village and starts asking around about her birth mother, the body of a woman dredges up in a fisherman's nets. Not just any woman, though: Marie Garant, an elusive, nomadic sailor and unbridled beauty who once tied many a man's heart in knots. Detective Sergeant Joaquin Morales, newly drafted to the area from the suburbs of Montreal, barely has time to unpack his suitcase before he's thrown into the deep end of the investigation.

Five valuable lessons you can learn by listening to Bust: When you hire someone to kill your wife, don't hire a psychopath. Don't use Drano to get rid of a dead body. Those locks on hotel room doors? They're not very secure. A curly blond wig isn't much of a disguise. Secrets can kill.

The quiet northern Swedish town of Kurrajakk is rocked when a popular teenager is found dead, mounted on a sacrificial altar, body covered in strange cuts, a crow shoved down his throat. Rumors begin to swirl. A local ghost story, Krakornås Kung, The King Of Crows, is back. Jamie left the Violent Crimes department in Stockholm to rebuild her life. Her body. Her mind. To get away from cases like this. But Jamie can’t let injustice go unpunished – and now, she’s all out of compassion. The King may think Kurrjakk is his for the taking, but he’s never met Jamie Johansson.

When social worker Jax receives nine missed calls from her older sister, Lexie, she assumes that it’s just another one of her sister’s episodes. Manic and increasingly out of touch with reality, Lexie’s mental state has pushed Jax away for over a year. But the next day, Lexie is dead: drowned in the pool at their grandmother’s estate. When Jax returns to the house, she learns that Lexie was researching their family’s and the house’s history. And as Jax dives deeper into that research, she discovers that the land holds a far darker history than she could have ever imagined.