Showing results for "Vendetta" in Crime Fiction

Captain Sannie van Rensburg and safari guide Mia Greenaway are caught in the crossfires of a decades-old feud between five veterans of South Africa's apartheid-era Border War. Haunted by the deadly mission that shaped their lives forever, the ex-paratroopers must finally confront their demons, and each other, at the funeral of a comrade in the red dunes of the Kalahari Desert. But their scars run deep, and as the truth emerges, each man must ask himself: When serving your country, what makes you a hero and what secrets are worth dying for?

With his dying breath, Carl Venable, head of the CIA task force on terrorism and Jude Brandon's final link to terrorist ringleader Max Huber, gives Brandon a mandate: to keep his daughter, Rachel, safe at any cost. But Rachel Venable has a shocking, twisted past of her own, one that comes rushing back after her medical clinic in Guyana is attacked by Huber - the same man who murdered her father and kept her imprisoned for months.

Ace hacker, former sex worker and vigilante, Lexi Winter is now a cop and not keen to revisit her criminal past. But when old friends invoke the wrath of a local motorcycle club – the same club Lexi herself used to work for – she races to help them the only way she can: undercover. If Lexi is to save a child's life, she is going to have to go back – back to a life she thought she had outrun. Back to the person she used to be. But her timing isn't great. Former club president Arthur Cronin has finished his long prison sentence and is out for revenge for the death of his wife and child.

When Adele's brother, Peter, gets banged up for GBH, she reluctantly agrees to run his nightclub, The Golden Bell. Strong opposition from Peter's thuggish number two, Glynn, who isn't best pleased about answering to a woman, isn't the only challenge she faces. The Manchester club scene of the 1990s is a dangerous place, at the mercy of illicit protection rackets and rampaging gangs, and, despite Adele's efforts to keep everything legal, the club is beginning to feel like a poisoned chalice.

Once bitter enemies, Samantha Reynold and Seb Stoker's powerful alliance enables their firms and casinos to go from strength to strength. With the families no longer in opposition, it seems that Sam and Seb are untouchable. But not everyone is happy with the new power couple of the club world. Unbeknownst to everyone, someone new wants to see Sam’s perfect life ruined. And they will stop at nothing to seek their revenge—even if it means destroying everything—and everyone—in their path. With tensions high, Sam and Seb must put their trust in each other completely.

Emanuela Ciafrei, Manuela Fucci, Maria Carolina Guidotti, Giovanni Mandruzzato, Franca Pellizzari e Claudio Righenzi. Sei autori per sei racconti noir sul tema della vendetta.

When Daniel Leicester goes in search of his late wife's missing bicycle in the oppressive heat of a Bologna summer, he is transported to her final days. But as unfinished business bleeds - quite literally - into the present, Daniel begins to suspect Lucia's accidental death may not have been an accident after all. With characters ranging from the Bologna branch of Italy's Right and Acknowledged Masons to an activist group trashing tourist lets, Tom Benjamin takes the listener on another colourful excursion to one of Italy's most mysterious locations

There’s a fine art to murder… Hal Mulberry has long dreamt of owning the iconic painting, Buttermere at Dawn. And now the entrepreneur has got his hands on it, he’s determined to bring it back to the Lakes where it belongs and put it on show, turning Penrith Village Hall into a cultural...

Il Cicala ammazza chiunque, soprattutto gli innocenti. La Balena persuade le vittime a suicidarsi. Lo Spingitore agisce ai semafori o nelle stazioni. A Tokyo sono i migliori in circolazione. A chi verrebbe in mente di sfidarli? Dall'autore rivelazione de I sette killer dello Shinkansen un thriller indemoniato sullo sfondo di una Tokyo di cui nessuno sospettava l'esistenza. Suzuki è un tranquillo insegnante di matematica. Fino al giorno in cui sua moglie non viene travolta e uccisa da un'auto pirata.

Roberto Cherchi è stato con­dannato all'ergastolo per quattro omicidi ed è ricercato dalle forze dell'ordine. Quando, durante la sua latitanza, scopre che l'avvocato Antonella Deme­las è in coma in seguito a un ag­guato, decide di trovare il responsabile. Un sentimento di profonda gratitudine, infatti, lega il fuggiasco alla donna e il deside­rio di vendetta è più forte di qua­lunque rischio.

C'è un filo conduttore che, superando lo Stretto dalla Calabria alla Sicilia, unisce una serie di cinque omicidi: un prete, giovani ragazze ritrovate con indosso delle maschere mortuarie, vittime mummificate. E se si vuole prestare l'orecchio alle dicerie, c'è anche una profezia che viene dalle strade di Roma, dove un mendicante avrebbe predetto esattamente le morti, l'ordine, e le dinamiche.

Reeling from the news dropped on his desk days earlier, Sheriff Elven Hallie is left questioning everyone and everything in his life. But when a former deputy is burned to death, Elven must push aside the turmoil in his personal life to catch the killer. As if that wasn’t enough, new faces from the Starcher clan enter his county with vengeance in their eyes for Corbin’s death. Paranoid, angry, and directionless, Elven must lean on those closest to him to bring a ruthless murderer to justice. But that’s easier said than done when it’s those closest to him who he trusts the least.

The Saint is on holiday in Naples when a brawl interrupts his lunch; a tweedy English tourist has casually addressed an Italian as Dino Cartelli - provoking the paunchy individual so named to set his hulking henchman on the bewildered Briton. The Saint intervenes, and soon the disagreement is all but forgotten...until the following morning’s newspaper headlines reveal that the Englishman has been murdered.

Sono gli anni Ottanta. Alessandro Loggia si mantiene all'università lavorando come cameriere. Aspira a un futuro diverso da quello dei suoi genitori, da costruire insieme a Diletta, il suo grande amore. Ma il sogno si infrange quando Gaetano Santoliquido, figlio di un ricco imprenditore edile di origini siciliane, irrompe nella sua vita portandogli via tutto, compresa Diletta. Le umiliazioni, l'arresto, la vita che si sbriciola pezzo dopo pezzo. Alessandro cade in un abisso profondo. Il buio e poi più nulla.

Firenze, 1971. Un uomo sembra essersi suicidato lanciandosi dal Campanile di Giotto. Il commissario Bisagno, tuttavia, nutre dei seri dubbi sulle modalità della sua morte. Nel frattempo, il cadavere viene identificato: si tratta di un ex detenuto, fuggito dal carcere durante l'alluvione del 1966. Ben presto, Bisagno capirà che quello che appare come un suicidio è, in realtà, un omicidio. Basterà scavare un po' più a fondo per capire come l'evento sia proprio collegato a un fatto di sangue consumatosi anni e anni prima.

Inspector Zen has a problem: an impossible murder, recorded on the closed-circuit video of Oscar Burolo's top-security Sardinian fortress. As Zen gets to work, he is once again plunged into a menacing and violent world where his own life is soon at risk.

When amiable Italian immigrant Pigeon Tony discovers that local drug dealers are pressuring his young neighbor into joining their ranks, he resolves to put an end to the crime wave before it can take over the community. Pigeon Tony knows the law isn’t always on the right side, but it takes only one person to rally a revolution.