R.J. Ellory

'Broedertwist' van R.J. Ellory, een prachtige roman met thrillerelementen. Intens en hartverscheurend, dit is Ellory op zijn best. Henry Quinn doorstond zijn tijd in de gevangenis dankzij zijn vriendschap met Evan Riggs, een countryzanger die een moord beging en nu levenslang uitzit. Op de dag van zijn vrijlating belooft Henry dat hij Evans dochter zal opsporen en haar een brief zal overhandigen. Een dochter die Evan zelf nooit heeft ontmoet. Henry gaat op weg naar het kleine stadje in Texas waar Evan opgroeide en waar diens broer Carson inmiddels sheriff is. Er is geen spoor van het meisje en Carson beweert niets te weten van haar woon- of verblijfplaats. Maar Henry geeft niet zomaar op; beloofd is immers beloofd. Wanneer Carson zich steeds vijandiger gaat gedragen, realiseert Evan zich dat er veel broeit onder het oppervlak va nhet rustige stadje. Wat dreef de broers ooit uit elkaar en wat is er met Evans dochter gebeurd? Voor de liefhebbers van het werk van Joël Dicker en Cormac McCarthy

Broedertwist

R.J. Ellory kreeg al drie jaar op rij vijf sterren in de VN Thrillergids Een nieuwe spannende thriller van de schrijver R.J. Ellory, de auteur van oa `Bekraste zielen , `De helden van New York , en `Een stil geloof in engelen . Vincent Madigan zit tot zijn nek in de schulden bij drugsbaron Sandià. De oplossing lijkt simpel: jat wat drugs bij een rivaliserende bende waarmee je je schuld kunt voldoen en zet je leven weer op de rit. Maar het loopt mis; bij de overval komt een kind om het leven. Nu zit niet alleen Sandià maar ook de gehele NYPD achter hem aan. Kan hij ontkomen aan de politie en berechting of zal zijn eigen geweten zijn ondergang worden? De pers over R.J. Ellory: R.J. Ellory is een van de origineelste misdaadauteurs van dit moment. Steeds opnieuw schrijft hij boeken die verrassen en overdonderen. Niets is wat het lijkt en niemand is te vertrouwen. Een meesterwerk van R.J. Ellory. Daily Mail Ellory heeft het talent lezers naar de verste uithoeken van de menselijke geest te lokken. De Volkskrant

Een inktzwart hart

In 1984 stopte John Costello's leven. Maar zijn hart bleef kloppen... Hij en zijn vriendin Nadia waren het slachtoffer van een van de beruchtste Amerikaanse seriemoordenaars aller tijden. Nadia was op slag dood, maar wonderbaarlijk genoeg overleefde Costello de brute aanval. Door die gebeurtenis is hij ernstig geestelijk beschadigd en wordt zijn leven beheerst door angsten en neuroses. Desondanks is er niemand die méér weet over seriemoordenaars dan hij. Twintig jaar later overspoelt een nieuwe golf van moorden New York, schijnbaar willekeurig, tot Costello een complex patroon ontdekt dat de delicten onderling verbindt. Maar deze duistere kennis brengt zijn leven opnieuw in gevaar.

Een mooie dag om te sterven

Collectif

Bernard Minier

Cédric Sire

Nicolas Beuglet

Pierre Bordage

Ian Manook

Jacques Expert

Nicolas Jaillet

Sonja Delzongle

Jeremy Fel

Yvan Fauth

Patricia Delahaie

Christian Blanchard

Anouck Langaney

Vous n'en ferez qu'une bouchée ! Nicolas Beuglet, Christian Blanchard, Pierre Bordage, Patricia Delahaie, Sonja Delzongle, R. J. Ellory, Jacques Expert, Jérémy Fel, Nicolas Jaillet, Anouk Langaney, Ian Manook, Bernard Minier et Cédric Sire : treize auteurs prestigieux, maîtres incontestés du frisson, nous entraînent dans une cinquième exploration sensorielle inédite autour du goût. Autant de nouvelles originales, singulières et terrifiantes à la rencontre de personnages succulemment cruels ; autant d'histoires délicates qui satisferont papilles et méninges les plus affûtés. Un recueil plein de vengeance, de coups bas et mortels, à savourer froid au chaud, avec tous les sens en alerte.

Déguster le noir

Comprises: CANDLEMOTH GHOSTHEART A QUIET VENDETTA CITY OF LIES A QUIET BELIEF IN ANGELS A SIMPLE ACT OF VIOLENCE THE ANNIVERSARY MAN SAINTS OF NEW YORK

The R. J. Ellory Collection

R.J. Ellory pits his cunning anti-hero against East Harlem’s drug kingpin and the NYPD. Detective Vincent Madigan is a good cop—he’s charming, effective, and knows how to look after himself. The only problem is that he’s up to his neck in debt to Sandia, a notorious East Harlem drug lord. When Madigan devises a scheme to eliminate his debt by robbing Sandia and then repaying him with his own money, he thinks his heist is foolproof. But things go horribly wrong when Madigan is forced to kill his co-conspirators and a child is shot in the crossfire. Now both sides of the law are hunting him down, and the cop assigned to lead the case is the very last person he could have expected. Employing every deception and ruse he can think of, Madigan must stay one step ahead in a battle of wits that will test him to his limits. Can he evade justice for his crimes, or will his own conscience be his final undoing? The ultimate story of self-loathing and unlikely redemption, A Dark and Broken Heart is a brutal and confronting read that will leave you reeling long after turning the final page.

A Thriller

A Dark and Broken Heart

NYPD Detective Frank Parrish barely notices the death of a young heroin dealer—just another casualty of the drug war. But when the dealer's sister turns up as the first of many corpses, Frank must try desperately to make sense of the disturbingly uniform deaths—all while battling his own demons. Frank is the son of a legendary NYPD detective and one of the original “Saints of New York” who cleaned up the Mafia in the 1980s. As the murders accelerate, Frank struggles to fulfill the legacy of his father and piece together not only his case, but also his life. Dark and intense, Saints of New York is a novel of corruption and redemption, of the relentless persistence required to find the truth, and of one man’s search for meaning amidst the ghosts of his own conscience.

Saints of New York

Annie O'Neill has it all: a cozy Manhattan apartment, a beautiful bookshop and a network of supportive friends. But at the heart of her life is a hole—a place vacated by her father when he died in her childhood. So when a mysterious man named Forrester enters the shop and claims to be her father's oldest friend she jumps at the chance to find out more of her own past. But Forrester's not being free with the answers she needs. He's much more interested in telling her a story about a ruthless ganglord and a fifty-year-old betrayal. A betrayal that she will realize far too slowly, has something very much to do with her. Praised by Alan Furst as "a uniquely gifted, passionate, and powerful writer, R. J. Ellory returns with another expertly crafted thriller.

Ghostheart

An epic novel of gangland intrigue from 'one of crime fiction's new stars' [Sunday Telegraph] When Catherine Ducane disappears in the heart of New Orleans, the local cops react rapidly - she is the daughter of the Governor of Louisiana after all. But the case gets very strange, very quickly. Her bodyguard turns up horribly mutilated in the trunk of a beautiful vintage car and when her kidnapper calls he doesn't want money: he wants time alone with Ray Hartmann, who works for a Washington-based organised crime task force. All Ray wants to do is get this over with quickly, and go home to try and repair his broken marriage. Instead he must listen to the mysterious kidnapper, an elderly Cuban named Ernesto Perez, who wants to tell him his life story. It's only when he realises that Ernesto has been a brutal hitman for the Mob since the 1950s that things start to come together. But by the time the pieces fall into place, it's already too late...

A Quiet Vendetta

The serial killer to end all serial killers is out there and only one person in the whole city knows it... Twenty years ago John Costello's life, as he knew it, ended. He and his beautiful girlfriend, Nadia, were victims of the deranged 'Hammer of God' killer who terrorised New Jersey City throughout the summer of 1984. Nadia was killed instantly. John survived, but withdrew from society, emerging only to work as a crime researcher for a major newspaper. Damaged he may be, but no one in New Jersey knows more about serial killers than John Costello. Then a new spate of murders starts - all seemingly random and unrelated - until John discovers a complex pattern that links them. But could this dark knowledge be about to threaten his life?

The Anniversary Man

A superb thriller from the acclaimed author of A QUIET BELIEF IN ANGELS. Orphaned by an act of senseless violence that took their mother from them, half-brothers Clarence Luckman and Elliott Danziger have been raised in state institutions, unaware of any world outside. But their lives take a sudden turn when they are seized as hostages by a convicted killer en route to death row. Earl Sheridan is a psychopath of the worst kind, but he has the potential to change the boys' lives for ever. As the trio set off on a frenetic escape from the law through California and Texas, the two brothers must come to terms with the ever-growing tide of violence that follows in their wake - something that forces them to make a choice about their lives, and their relationship to one another.

Bad Signs

In America, kings are not born, they are made. Danny McCabe isn't his real name. America certainly isn't his real home. But now Danny finds himself fleeing Ireland for the bright lights of 1930s Hollywood with two virtual strangers, Nicky Mariani and his beautiful sister, Lucia. As Lucia pursues her dream of stardom, Nicky finds his calling in the violent underbelly of the city of dreams. Torn between his love for Lucia and his desperate fear for their safety, Danny is drawn into a chain of events that will pit brother against sister, friend against friend, and lover against lover.

Kings of America

R. J. Ellory's latest paperback is his most timely, menacing serial killer novel yet, and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year.. As in his globally acclaimed A Quiet Belief in Angels, it is a stunning work of suspense guaranteed to keep the reader awake at night. Set in Washington, embroiled in elections, it follows Detective Robert Miller as he is assigned to an unsettling murder case. He finds a serious complication: the victims do not officially exist. Their personal details do not register on any known systems. And as Miller unearths ever more disturbing facts, he starts to face truths about the corrupt world he lives in --truths so far removed from his own reality that he begins to fear for his life.

A Simple Act of Violence

Originally published: London: Orion, an Hachette UK Company, 2013.

The Devil and the River

Daniel and Nathan were six years old when they first met and became best friends. Thirty years later Dan is convicted of Nathan's murder . . . Daniel Ford has thirty-six days to live. Accused of the horrific murder of his best friend Nathan twelve years before, he has exhausted all appeals and now faces the long walk to the electric chair. All he can do is make peace with his God. Father John Rousseau is the man to whom the last month of Daniel's life has been entrusted. All the two men have left to do is rake over the last ashes of Ford's existence. So he begins to tell his story. Daniel's story takes him from his first meeting with Nathan, aged six, on the shores of a lake in 1952, through first loves, Vietnam, the death of Kennedy and finally their flight from the draft which ends in Nathan's brutal murder. But meanwhile the clock is ticking and the days are running out . . .

Candlemoth

Just a teenager, Joseph becomes determined to protect his community from the killer, but he is powerless in preventing more murders-and no one is ever caught. Ten years later one of his neighbors is found hanging from a rope, surrounded by belongings of the dead girls; the killings cease, and the nightmare appears to be over. Desperate and plagued by everything he has witnessed, Joseph sets out to forge a new life in New York. But even there the past won't leave him alone-for it seems that the murderer still lives and is killing again, and that the secret to his identity lies in Joseph's own history.

A Novel

A Quiet Belief in Angels

Jasperville, Quebec. A small town a thousand miles from anywhere. For Jack Devereaux, it's a thousand miles too close. Running from a troubled childhood, Jack left home as soon as he could and never looked back - until the day a stranger calls, begging him to return to Jasperville. Jack's brother Calvis - the little boy he left behind all those years ago - has viciously attacked a man and left him for dead. Nobody knows why he did it, though Jack suspects it has something to do with the Jasperville girls who were lost all those years ago. As he begins the long journey home through the frozen, unforgiving landscape, Jack isn't wondering why his little brother lost his mind. He's wondering why it took so long...

The chilling new suspense thriller from an award-winning international bestseller

The Darkest Season

Schatten sind nur Schatten. Bis man anfängt zu glauben, sie seien mehr als das. Dann vernichten sie dich. Detective Frank Parrish scheint für die Polizeiarbeit geboren. Sein Vater ist eine Legende unter den Gesetzeshütern von New York, denn er befreite die Stadt aus dem Würgegriff der Mafia. Nur Frank weiß, dass der postume Heiligenschein seinem alten Herrn nicht gerecht wird und rebelliert gegen dessen Saubermann-Image. Doch es wird Zeit, aus den Schatten herauszutreten: Ein 16-jähriges Mädchen wird grausam ermordet aufgefunden, mit abrasierten Haaren und lackierten Fingernägeln. Und bald darauf verschwinden weitere junge Frauen. Ein Serienmörder bringt das Grauen zurück auf die Straßen New Yorks ...

Thriller

Der Schrei der Engel

Most cops are trying to right grievous wrongs. Few, however, have to deal with the horrific crimes of their own father... Frank Parrish had a famous father: a Saint of New York, an NYPD detective who helped rid the city of Mafia control in the 1980s. John Parrish is a tough act to follow - a legend in his own right - and Frank already has an insubordination rap to beat. Summoned for daily Police Department interviews, he's also trying to work out how the death of a young heroin dealer might connect to his innocent teenage sister, who's just been found dead. There are more questions than answers, not just as the homicides escalate, but as Frank battles with his own demons. He must find the truth, and bring the trail of murder to an end.

In debt to a notorious drug lord, NYPD Detective Vincent Madigan hatches a scheme to rob the kingpin and use his own money to repay him, but when the plan goes horribly wrong, Madigan must use every deception he can think of to evade both sides of the law.

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