Showing results for "Rose" in Hard-Boiled

When a human skeleton, with an animal skull instead of a head, turns up in Copenhagen, investigator Christian Porsing is immediately drawn into the case, but there are no clues to go on. By chance, Sigga Freitag, the former star profiler of the German police, is in Copenhagen and he impulsively...

As an amateur PI with a bent moral compass, Ash McKenna is good at finding people - but not at staying out of trouble. Between his own violent tendencies, the shadow cast by his father's death, and a self-destructive revenge quest, he made a mess of his life in NYC. Figuring it was time for a change of scenery Ash relocated to Portland, taking a job as a bouncer in a vegan strip club. And he hasn't had to hit anyone in six months. So when one of the club's dancers asks Ash for help finding her daughter, he declines, content to keep the darkness in his past.

Rose Gold is two colors, one woman, and a big headache. In this new mystery set in the Patty Hearst era of radical black nationalism and political abductions, a black ex-boxer self-named Uhuru Nolica, the leader of a revolutionary cell called Scorched Earth, has kidnapped Rosemary Goldsmith, the...

Mysteriöse Todesfälle führen Van Veeteren auf die Spur literarischer Vorbilder: Håkan Nesser ist bekannt für packende Krimis. Mit "Die Schwalbe, die Katze, die Rose und der Tod" ist auch der neunte Fall des Kommissars Van Veeteren als Hörbuch erhältlich. Verschiedene Kriminalfälle deuten auf eine Verbindung hin: Ein Mädchen ist unauffindbar, ein Priester wird überfahren, eine verschwundene Mutter wird nicht einmal vermisst.

Mai fidarsi delle apparenze... La placida Villabosco – ispirata alla Mussomeli di Mistretta – è ora avvolta da un candido manto di neve. Il maresciallo Saverio Bonanno è a cena con una dolce assistente sociale, Rosalia, quando è chiamato nuovamente a svolgere il proprio dovere. In casa degli altolocati coniugi Marchiafava è avvenuto un gran fattaccio: la moglie, Agatina Barresi, sembrerebbe aver sparato al marito. Ma dietro una storia apparentemente banale sembrano celarsi altre cose.

Helen Appleby just wants a quiet life. Recently released from prison for the manslaughter of her partner, she's trying to forget her past mistakes—all of them—to rebuild her life and move on. When she decides to open a bookshop, she’s certain this is the perfect new start. Here, amongst the quiet shelves of her shop and between the covers of her books, she can hide away from the real world and begin again. But the past can never stay hidden…