Titoli in Noir

La petició d’un informe a càrrec de l’excel·lentíssim alcalde de Vilaclara és el tret de sortida que posa en marxa l’engranatge del torn de nit del cos policial d’aquesta vila de l’Empordà: un seguiment nocturn ple de tasques que, en el decurs d’una setmana, nit rere nit, s’entrellacen entre si, trencant la tranquil·litat de la població i posant-la potes enlaire; tot un retrat de les vicissituds de la vida nocturna policial, amb persecucions, anècdotes hilarants ratllant el surrealisme i uns personatges humans, extremadament humans. Si ho voleu viure, llegiu Torn de nit, tot un vodevil negre-policial a l’empordanesa.

Un periodista infiltrado en una banda de narcotraficantes, un portero de discoteca y un policía corrupto. El periodista Ignacio Escolar se sirve de estos tres personajes para plantear una trama de asesinatos y droga en la mejor tradición de la novela negra. Escrita con buen pulso y con final impactante, esta historia corta no deja indiferente al lector.

Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. En esta novela, Vázquez-Figueroa vuelve a la ambientación recreada en "La taberna de los cuatro vientos" al contar la historia de su dueña, Catalina Barrancos, mujer aventurera y empoderada. Catalina se embarca en una misión de venganza tras el asesinato de su marido Justino a manos de los poderosos esclavistas a los que se enfrentó en el pasado. Ahora Catalina no descansará hasta hacerles pagar por su afrenta.

Cumprindo licença paternidade por causa da filha de apenas cinco dias, Dornelas é tirado da cama no meio da madrugada para atender a um chamado urgente: um crime brutal fora cometido no Centro Histórico, em pleno Carnaval. Ao chegar ao local, o Delegado Titular da Polícia Civil de Palmyra se depara com uma cena sem precedentes na cidade. Tudo aponta para uma execução sumária.  

When honorable ex-con Jack attempts to repay an unstable criminal who saved his life, he finds himself and his new girlfriend caught in the middle of a mob war.

Woody was working on getting high when the phone rang. Dennis was on a date - it was a date he paid for, but a date all the same. Os had blood on his hands from a little extracurricular law enforcement. All three men picked up their phones because they were cops, and cops are never really off-duty - not even when they’re crooked. Detective Julie Owen was savagely killed in her own bed, and the unborn child she was carrying is nowhere to be found. The grisly crime has the brass breathing down the necks of the three detectives tasked with finding Julie’s killer.

A brooding fugitive hides out in a crumbling hotel that was once filled with celebrities enjoying the successes of postwar America. He is a racist with a criminal past, an anti-hero who reflects on the ruins of the South and simultaneously on the life of a German performance artist called “Jupp”. The fictional Jupp is a thinly-veiled cipher for the late real-life German artist, Joseph Beuys.

Condom dresses and space helmets have debuted on runways. A dead body becomes the trend when a coat made of human skin saunters down fashion’s biggest stage. The body is identified as Annabelle Leigh, the teenager who famously disappeared more than a decade ago from her boyfriend’s New York City mansion. This new evidence casts suspicion back on the former boyfriend, Cecil LeClaire.

A good story about a cop who discovers that he's living in the same building with a homicidal maniac.

A gang of conmen is selling machines that they say can manufacture genuine $1 bills. It's a neat scam, but it leads to murder! How did the traveling monogram illusion work? Frank Kent, an inmate of the state hospital, has been broken out. The hospital is actually a mental institution. Frank was there because his mind is permanently in another world. But the reason somebody wants him is because he is a mathematical genius.

John Blake seems to have committed the perfect crime. He has killed Thomas Evers, just as he told Blackie that he would. Blake also has a perfect alibi and seems to be making a fool out of Blackie! John Blake, a student of crime, has come urgently to see Blackie. He wants to know why a murderer is always caught? Blackie replies, “That’s easy because they always make a mistake.” John Blake would like to differ and informs Blackie that he is going to murder a man named Thomas Evers, he won’t tell him where or when but defies Blackie to prove it.

In his seventh hard-boiled tale, New York-based Private Eye Joey Mancuso travels to the lush, verdant shores of Miami Beach. But this is no vacation - Joey’s wading knee deep into a gritty cesspool of corruption, using his street smarts and industry connections to investigate a vast financial conspiracy. A young hedge-fund employee - a kid right out of college, green as can be - was killed by an anonymous sedan while on a motorcycle ride after hitting the South Beach clubs. Miami Beach police don’t seem interested, but Joey does - the kid’s dad is a friend of a friend. 

In the second book in the Dead Jack series, the zombie detective hits rock bottom, bingeing on fairy dust and formaldehyde 24/7. Reluctantly, he sets out with a fellow zombie, the narcissistic Garry, to find his long-lost soul. But a new threat emerges: a neo-Nazi group that hunts down the depressed corpse, believing his sidekick Oswald has the power to capture all the souls in Pandemonium. Again, the wicked world needs saving, but this time can Jack also save himself? 

Dylan Thomas, a former Maine State Police officer who obtained a private-investigator license to support himself while attending law school, receives a phone call from his sister, Caitlin, telling him that her youngest daughter, Sandra, has gone missing. 

Former bodyguard D Hunter has moved to Los Angeles to become a talent manager. Business is good: He has signed a hot Atlanta rapper named Lil Daye for management and negotiated a lucrative endorsement with a liquor band. However, when D learns of the liquor CEO's unsavory sexual habits and reactionary political views, he worries that he has sold his soul. Back in Brooklyn, a body has been found in the waters near the Canarsie Pier, a body that connects D and the retired hit man Ice to incidents from back in The Plot Against Hip Hop, the second book in the series.

Great War veteran and rising star Gene Hammons lost his job as a homicide detective when he tried to prove that a woman was wrongly convicted of murder to protect a well-connected man. Now a private investigator, Hammons makes his living looking for missing persons - a plentiful caseload during the Great Depression, when people seem to disappear all the time. But his routine is disrupted when his brother - another homicide detective, still on the force - enlists his help looking into the death of a young woman whose dismembered body is found beside the railroad tracks.

For budding writer and filmmaker Noah Spaeth, being a production assistant in director Dominick Bambach’s new avant-garde film isn’t enough. Neither is watching Dominick have an affair with the lead actress, the gorgeous but troubled Nevie Wyeth. For Noah’s dream is to get both the film and Nevie in the end, whatever the cost. And this obsession may soon become a reality once Dominick’s spurned wife, Isadora, reveals her femme fatale nature with a seductive plot to get rid of her husband for good.   

Rudiger doesn't kill because he wants to. He kills because he needs to. When the sadistic Preacherman stole the last bit of Rudiger's already troubled childhood soul, Rudiger lost himself forever. As an adult, Rudiger has committed atrocities even he cannot explain and he yearns for the End of Days to release him from his pain. God has told him he must crucify The One to bring about the Final Judgment, but Rudiger is left to his own special abilities to figure out who The One is.

Over his acclaimed career, Cook’s novels have haunted, riveted, and spellbound audiences across the world, and his short stories are equally acclaimed. They range from the intensely focused world of "Fatherhood", the Herodotus prize-winning title story, to the Edgar nominated "Rain", a dark, kaleidoscopic tale of Manhattan on a single, rain-swept night. "The Fix", the story of a famous boxing fix that was, well, not a fix at all, was selected for inclusion in Best Mystery Stories of the Year. "What She Offered", the gripping tale of a one-night stand, was included in The Best Noir Stories of the Century.

Jingo Hawks is out of luck when Mrs. Daggatt from the orphan house hires him out as a chimney sweep to the awful General Dirty-Face Scurlock. But it's gypsy luck that puts Jingo into the right chimney and then into the care of the mysterious Mr. Peacock, who claims to know Jingo's scoundrel father. Together they set out on a treasure hunt for buried gold. But they are not alone - those nasty gold diggers Mrs. Daggatt and General Scurlock are hot on their trail.