Resultados para "Just" en Novela negra

La familia de un joven juez se encuentra amenazada. ¿Por qué los Young tienen que elegir entre la vida o la muerte? Tucson, Arizona, 2015, Día de Acción de Gracias. Rex y Sarah Young reúnen a toda su familia en su nueva casa. Los Young acaban de mudarse a la ciudad para que Rex se incorpore como juez. El día del desfile de Acción de Gracias Salma, la hija de catorce años de la pareja desaparece durante veinticuatro horas. Tras una búsqueda angustiosa por toda la zona, encuentran a la chica que tiene una nota para su padre.

Andreu Martín, maestro del género negro en España, nos trae dos historias cruzadas que dejan un rastro de sangre y pólvora. Teresa busca la ayuda de un brutal expolicía para vengarse de los maltratos de su marido, Alexis. Sin embargo, Alexis colabora con la policía en la desarticulación de una trama de prostitución infantil. La colisión de ambas historias no dejará tras de sí títere con cabeza.

When a high-end hooker crashes the party and ends up dead, shameful secrets of prominent men hang in the balance. The kind of secrets that get folks killed. Chance Meridian and his murder squad soon learn that the dead woman had a penchant for playing dangerous games with the wrong people. Powerful people—including a United States Senator whose decades-old hatred of Chance still burns hot. As past and present converge to put him in a vise, Chance discovers a hard truth about his line of work. Some cases can only be solved at the point of a gun.

Attorney Nate Shepherd’s newest client stands accused of a fatal hit and run. While Nate doesn’t believe that the CEO of Carrefour’s largest charity would ever smash into a person and flee the scene, a blood-streaked van says otherwise. A freewheeling prosecutor is certain that Nate’s client did it, and more, that the killing wasn’t an accident at all. With help from old friends and an intriguing new one, Nate uncovers incriminating acts, secret relationships, and a massive motive that has him scrambling for answers.

In The Just Men of Cordova, written in 1917, the Four move into the treacherous, aristocratic world of gambling, horse-racing and high finance. It seems that police services, even governments, have no power to control this world, where blackmail, poison and murder are commonplace. The Four, working outside the law, take it upon themselves to clean things up in their own way.

Edgar Wallace’s classic vigilante detective series The Four Just Men – involving four wealthy and resourceful individuals determined to take the law into their own hands – has maintained its popularity for over a century In this, the opening volume, the mysterious Four Just Men punish by death those who are beyond the reach of the law. When Foreign Secretary Sir Philip Ramon’s proposed Aliens Extradition Bill threatens the safety of a Spanish resistance leader, the men warn Sir Sir Philip that he must either withdraw the legislation, or face death.

When Foreign Secretary Sir Philip Ramon receives a threatening, greenish-grey letter signed 'Four Just Men', he remains determined to see his Aliens Extradition Bill made law. A device in the members' smoke room and a sudden magnesium flash that could easily have been nitro-glycerin leave Scotland Yard baffled. Even Fleet Street cannot identify the illusive Manfred, Gonsalez, Pioccart, and Thery, the Four Just Men dedicated to punishing by death those whom conventional justice can not touch.