Showing titles in Dark Humour

After the performance of a lifetime at the sold-out Stade de France, comic Édouard Bresson decides to vanish. Très drôle. His estranged son Arthur isn’t laughing. Édouard has sent him a letter and instructions to a puzzle - a treasure hunt for the son he ignored and misses and loves. If Arthur is willing to find out everything there is to know about his father and to understand the choices he made, all he has to do is put the pieces together. As the trail of clues winds its way through the past, what unfolds is a surprising journey of forgiveness, family, and self-discovery.

Incendiary Girls explores our baser instincts with vivid imagination and humor. In these stories, our bodies become strange and unfamiliar terrain, a medium for transformation. In "Fundamental Laws of Nature", a doctor considers her legacy, both good and bad, when she discovers that her mother has been reincarnated as a thoroughbred mare. In the title story, a mischievous angel chronicles the remarkable life of a girl just beyond death’s reach.

Franz Eberhofer ist im Stress, denn an allen Ecken und Enden seines Lebens brennt es gleichzeitig: erst die Zwangsbeförderung, die ihn nach München führt, dann die Susi, die endlich einmal die Hochzeitsglocken läuten hören will. Und als wäre das nicht genug, taucht zu allem Unglück im alten Auto von Franz' Vater die Leiche einer Frau auf. Das Filmhörspiel zu Rita Falks Bestseller "Sauerkrautkoma", in gewohnt grandioser Besetzung mit Sebastian Bezzel, Lisa Maria Potthof und Simon Schwarz - was für eine Gaudi!

America's most beloved writer, Lilian Jackson Braun, author of twenty-four Cat Who... mysteries is now the subject of a mystery herself. In this spoof by one of her most ardent admirers, her beheaded body has been discovered in the men's room of a gay bar in Lower Manhattan. The police are baffled, and so it is up to Braun's eccentric writer friend, James Q. (Qafka), and his Siamese cats Ying-Ton and Poon-Tang to solve the ghastly mystery.

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds...and remembers.

Sitzen vier Omas im Knast. Klingt wie ein Witz, aber Humor haben die Damen gerade keinen, dafür ein Problem. Schwere Körperverletzung, wahrscheinlich mit Todesfolge. Ursprünglich war das anders gedacht: Ferien für immer im Altenheim. Die Idee war gut, die Wirklichkeit nicht so. Club Tropicana hat zwar keine erwartet, aber diese Endlagerstätte für senile Altlasten auch nicht: tölpelhafte Zivis, verrückte Mitinsassen, sadistische Oberschwestern.

There is a distinct surreal quality to some (including "Exposure" and "And Now Let's Have Some Fun"), a strong sense of irony (as in "You Too Can Graduate in Three Years with an Advanced Degree in Contextual Semiotics"), and moments of awkward and therefore very real grapplings with sex and romance (most especially in "The Rescues" and the title story, "Welcome Thieves").

When Bea Hanlon follows her preacher husband, Max, to a remote island in the Pacific, she soon sees that their mission will bring anything but salvation.... Advent Island is a place beyond the reaches of Bea's most fitful imaginings. It's not just the rats and the hordes of mosquitoes and the weevils in the powdered milk. Past the confines of their stuffy little house, amidst the damp and the dust and the sweltering heat, rumours are spreading of devil chasers who roam the island on the hunt for evil spirits. And then there are the noises from the church at night.

The Floating Opera and The End of the Road are John Barth's first two novels. Both concern strange, consuming love triangles and the destructive effect of an overactive intellect on human emotions. Separately they give two very different views of a universal human drama.

Begravningsentreprenör Fridlund gör så gott han kan, det blir bara lite fel ibland. Som till exempel vid Anton Bengtsons begravning. På heder och samvete var det inte meningen att det skulle bli som det blev. Är det då så konstigt att han behöver en sup. Dödgrävare Eriksson blir misstänkliggjord för både det ena och det andra, trots att han inte har med någonting av det att göra. Längtan, kärlek och prövningar gör det svårt för de inblandade.

In a famous but declining Hollywood bar works A Barman. Morbidly amused by the decadent decay of his surroundings, he watches the patrons fall into their nightly oblivion, making notes for his novel. In the hope of uncovering their secrets and motives, he establishes tentative friendships with the cast of variously pathological regulars.

Invitado a pasar dos meses en una residencia de escritores en un puerto francés, un novelista argentino treintañero haragán, narcoléptico y celoso recalcitrante, emprende el viaje junto a su mujer como si fuera un programa turístico. No sabe hasta qué punto esa vacación europea se convertirá en la peor y más aleccionadora de las pesadillas.

Un uomo gravemente malato decide di anticipare i tempi della dipartita affidandosi all'esperienza di una professionista. Straniera sensuale e misteriosa, la donna senza nome che si presenta al capezzale per portare a termine il compito si rivela presto controparte tragicomica di un dialogo ambiguo e sospeso in cui il ruolo della vittima si confonde inesorabilmente con quello del carnefice. Ma solo fino all'ultimo momento, l'attimo più breve: quello in cui ogni cosa si chiude. In sottofondo, venti secondi di ottimo jazz.

Gli sdraiati è un romanzo comico, un romanzo di avventure, una storia di rabbia, amore e malinconia. Ed è anche il piccolo monumento a una generazione che si è allungata orizzontalmente nel mondo, e forse da quella posizione riesce a vedere cose che gli "eretti" non vedono più, non vedono ancora, hanno smesso di vedere.

When hordes of people descend on the picturesque village of Nasely for the annual celebration of its most famous resident, murder mystery writer Agnes Crabbe, events take a dark turn as the festival opens with a shocking death. Each year the residents are outnumbered by crowds dressed as Crabbe’s lady detective, Millicent Cutter. The weekend is never a mild-mannered affair as fan club rivalries bubble below the surface, but tensions reach new heights when a second Crabbe devotee is found murdered. Though the police are quick to arrive on the scene, the facts are tricky to ascertain as the witnesses, suspects and victim are all dressed as Miss Cutter.

Aspiring actress Elizabeth Smart lands her centre stage role: her mutilated body is found dumped in North London’s red light district. Clasped in her hand is a piece of human hair belonging to an unidentified body of a woman murdered two weeks ago. Aspiring actress Elizabeth Smart lands her...

Mutée disciplinairement à New York, Colorado, un petit village raciste du fin fond de l'Amérique, sans couverture mobile et où il ne se passe jamais rien, la lieutenant de police de couleur noire, à forte corpulence, Agatha Crispies a trouvé un échappatoire à son désœuvrement dans l'animation d'un club de lecture au sein du commissariat. Mais alors qu'elle désespérait de pouvoir un jour enquêter à nouveau sur un meurtre autre que celui d'un écureuil, une série d'effroyables assassinats et disparitions viennent (enfin) troubler la tranquillité des lieux.

A palm reader notifies Lord Arthur that murder is in his future. But not his murder - he’s the murderer. This really throws a wrench into his wedding plans, for Lord Arthur is soon to be married to the most beautiful lady in London. In fact he loves her so much, he decides to postpone the wedding until his business is done. Now, for a tasteful homicide....

Eine Revue für mehrere Witwen, kongenial interpretiert von Katharina, Anna und Nellie Thalbach. Jenseits aller Schicksale, die hinter dem Begriff "Witwe" lauern, von der Witwe Bolte bis zur Lustigen Witwe: Um die Witwe ranken sich zahlreiche Sprichwörter, Dramen und Geschichten, deren Szenen zwischen Komik und Tragik oszillieren. Fitzgerald Kusz hat sich um die Befindlichkeit von Witwen seine heiteren, ironischen und traurigen Gedanken gemacht und sie zu Witwendramen zusammengefügt.

Daniel McEvoy hat ein Problem. Der Mob ist hinter ihm her. Die Polizei auch. Dabei will der Ex-Soldat und frischgebackene Club-Besitzer doch nur gemütlich mit seiner neuen Freundin auf dem Sofa sitzen. Aus ihm völlig unbegreiflichen Gründen findet er sich plötzlich in einem Auto auf dem Grund des Hudson wieder - und muss zudem die Sprachfehler und grammatikalischen Schnitzer seiner Verfolger ertragen. Aber ein Feingeist wie er ist Kummer gewohnt.