Risultati per "N" in Narrativa di crimini

La banda dei tre si riunisce ancora una volta per fuggire alla calura di agosto e concedersi un rilassante ferragosto tra le Dolomiti. Come meta scelgono il meglio, la Regina delle Dolomiti: Cortina D'Ampezzo. Assieme a Tony il Nano, Claudio Bambola e Silvano Magagnin il "Boa" ci sono le loro compagne storiche, con l'aggiunta di Iris, figlia di Silvano, e dei figli del Nano e delle Gemelle Biologiche. Ma il lupo perde il pelo ma non il vizio. I nostri tre non riescono a stare lontano dai guai e la vacanza si trasforma ben presto in un'indagine che sembra non avere né capo né coda.

Tommy och Tuppence Beresford är två av den brittiska underrättelsetjänstens främsta spioner. Men när andra världskriget bryter ut börjar det gå upp för dem att deras liv som spioner kanske är över. Jobben sinar, de känner sig satta ur spel av yngre förmågor och deras tillvaro blir alltmer händelselös och fattig. Saker får dock sig en rejäl spinn när de blir tillfrågade att utföra ett sista - och mycket farligt - uppdrag för underrättelsetjänsten. Den här gången handlar det om en läcka innanför organisationen som måste hittas.

Pappy tries to break out of the game before the head of his crew, Black, gets them all killed. Against his better judgment Pappy agrees to do one last job, but only because it’s the price of his freedom. He knows Black can’t be trusted. He knows his “brother” would rather see him dead than let him walk away. Yet he still agrees to do the job because Black isn’t the only one who can’t be trusted. Sometimes you have to kill for what you want. Further developing the stark realism and uncompromising streetwise narratives of his lyrics, H.N.I.C. cements Prodigy’s position as one of the foremost chroniclers of contemporary urban life.

A história de "A Faca" gira em torno de uma faca antiga e aparentemente comum, encontrada por Odilon e que desperta um estranho fascínio nele. À medida que a faca passa pelas mãos de diferentes personagens, revela-se que possui um rubi incrustado em seu cabo, o que a torna uma relíquia valiosa. No entanto, a faca parece ter uma influência sinistra sobre aqueles que a possuem, levando a acontecimentos trágicos e mortais. A trama se desenrola com mistério e tensão, culminando em uma série de eventos que desafiam a lógica e revelam a natureza obscura da faca e daqueles que a buscam.

Dilluns al matí. La setmana comença per al sergent dels Mossos d'Esquadra Jaume Fuentes i el seu company, Santi Planes, amb el cas del cadàver d'un home jove esbudellat en un petit despatx del centre de Barcelona. Al llarg dels set dies següents, el que en un principi semblava un cas...

Heavy is the head that wears the crown, and Caesar King feels weighted to the ground. The Five Families are in complete disarray, and Caesar realizes too late that stepping down was the wrong thing to do. It’s up to him to make the puzzle whole again. But when another war comes to their doorsteps and a past mistake comes back for blood, death rips through the boroughs like a tornado. In the end, there might not be any pieces left to put back together.

When police officer Fiona MacLeish stumbles upon a group of fellow hikers in dire trouble in the dramatic peaks of the Scottish Highlands, she has no choice but to help. One of the party has fallen off the path, lying below with the crisp white snow around his head starting to turn scarlet. Fiona soon learns the potential accident is actually a deliberate murder. But who would want to hurt this man and why? With visibility worsening and the snowstorm getting worse, Fiona and the group of hikers make it just in time to a nearby shelter.

The flood waters are rising. And so is the body count… Police officer Fiona MacLeish has been ordered to step back from her role in Police Scotland. Haunted by the murder of her parents, she’s dangerously close to breaking point: and is back in her remote childhood home nestled in a valley on the Scottish border. But there’s a terrifying storm coming…

When eight-year-old Cait Yorke goes missing on a remote island off the coast of the wild Scottish Highlands, PC Fiona MacLeish is quickly sent to investigate. But a gale is gathering force, and Fiona becomes increasingly concerned for a little girl braving the strong winds alone. As Fiona questions the locals, she soon realizes that they are hiding many secrets. What is this island, and who really lives here? Then a boat violently crashes off the coast of the island. On board, Fiona discovers the body of a man who has clearly been murdered.

January 1941. The Luftwaffe continues its assault on Britain from the sky, but ATA pilot Lizzie Hayes is grounded after a crash. Itching to be of use, she hears that DI Kember is investigating the death of a coal miner in Kent and sees her chance to help. They discover the miner died from carbon monoxide poisoning but Kember instinctively suspects foul play. Was it an accident, or murder?

C. N. Phillips returns with the next tale in the saga of five crime families that run the streets of New York’s five boroughs. The uneasy alliance they once shared has been compromised, and now no one is truly safe from retribution. Caesar knew the peace he started had an expiration date, but he never thought the end would be so explosive. With the Pact completely dissolved and the Chinese angered beyond measure at the loss of their leader, they want Boogie’s head bloody and served on a stick. Caesar is willing to protect him at all costs.

A city full of lies, deceit, and cold-blooded murder, Detroit plays widow to drug cartel after drug cartel, and the Last Kings are the latest to take over the throne. It seems that nothing can crumble their empire, but when an unexpected series of events take place and blood is shed, everything spirals out of control. Can Sadie and Mocha survive the game as the head women in charge, or will disloyalty and treachery threaten to end them for good?

Amrapali Anna Singh is an historian and analyst capable of discerning the most cryptic and trivial details from audio recordings. One day, a mysterious man appears at her office in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, having traveled a great distance to bring her three Type IV audio cassettes that bear the stamp of a library in Buenos Aires that may or may not exist. On the cassettes is the deposition of an adventure journalist and his obsessive pursuit of an amorphous, legendary, and puzzling "City of Dreams."

When two bodies wash up on a river bank in the Balkans, Simo Subotic is called in to investigate. It soon becomes clear that their deaths were the result of torture not seen since the Bosnian War. Meanwhile, after a drug bust prematurely ends the Tour de Balkans, former Olympic cyclist Heather Bishop is in freefall after her journalist boyfriend Ryan Mackinnon goes missing. Her desperate search for him uncovers not only Ryan's dark past, but that of a region still reeling from the trauma of war.

The public labels me a Mafia monster, a man without a soul, and one hated by many. They're not wrong, and I'm not sorry for it. When my father orders me to marry a longtime enemy's daughter to settle a score between our families, she did what any smart woman with a beating heart would do. She ran. So, I hunted her down. She tries to negotiate for her freedom, but despite being inexplicably drawn to the deviant woman, I refuse her pitiful bribes with pleasure. I'll promise her freedom to get the answers I need, but I'll burn this city to the ground before I let her go.

While most young people are just getting their footing in life, 24-year-old Bryshon "Boogie" Tolliver is already being groomed to be a boss by his father, Barry Tolliver. At first, he's not so sure he wants to take his father's place in the family business. He has dreams of being the most prominent chef in New York. However, things change when Barry is murdered in cold blood and everything he built is left at Boogie's feet. Gone are those chef dreams, replaced with a new resolve to prove himself worthy of upholding his father's legacy.

Tomás Cruz swore he would never be like his father, an abusive cocaine junkie whose gangland exploits are notorious throughout the underbelly of northern Argentina. When Samuel Cruz is sentenced to thirteen years in prison, he leaves a laundry list of unfinished cartel business. Seba, Tomás’s revered older brother, has no choice but to abandon his straight life and take over his father’s underworld debt. Now fifteen years has passed, Seba has been arrested, and the ruthless cartel boss is holding his wife and daughter as collateral—just in time for the holidays.

Carla Kovach veroverde met detective Gina Harte binnen een paar maanden een trouw publiek. Een jonge vrouw valt uit een busje dat met hoge snelheid over een afgelegen weg raast. Haar lichaam is gekneusd en beurs en met haar laatste kracht wendt ze zich tot de persoon die haar te hulp schiet. "Help haar," fluistert ze voordat ze haar ogen voorgoed sluit. Een paar dagen later wordt in een ondiep graf, slechts enkele kilometers verderop, het lichaam van een ander meisje gevonden. De gelijkenissen tussen de twee meisjes zijn verontrustend - dezelfde leeftijd, hetzelfde fragiele lichaam en tot slot dat felrode haar.

Zwölf gruselige Kriminalgeschichten von zwölf Autoren über zwölf reale Orte in München, angelehnt an Ereignisse und Legenden von der Eisenzeit bis in die Gegenwart: Warum die Kelten ihre Heimat verloren und wie grausam sie ihre Feinde behandelten. Auf welche Weise eine Hebamme und der Scharfrichter die Faust Gottes entlarvten. Wie eine Frau trotz ihrer Unschuld in die erbarmungslosen Fänge der Inquisition geriet. Oder weshalb der Türmer von Sankt Peter vor Angst fast wahnsinnig wurde.

Private investigator Kinsey Millhone is back, sassy and self-reliant as ever. Visiting a small town in the Sierras, Kinsey aids a recent widow, Selma Newquist, who believes that her detective husband did not die of a heart attack, as reported, but from foul play. Kinsey sifts through the paper...