Inquisition
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A brilliant thriller to rival CJ SANSOM and RORY CLEMENTSIn 14th-century Italy, Mondino is a university anatomist - a man of science in a land governed by the brutal Inquisition.
Alfredo Colitto est un auteur dont l'œuvre littéraire est profondément ancrée dans une passion pour le voyage et la découverte. Ses récits explorent souvent des thèmes tels que la dépendance, la quête de sens et les rencontres culturelles, se déroulant dans les décors vibrants de lieux qu'il a expérimentés de première main. Colitto possède une voix narrative distinctive, mêlant réalisme brut et prose évocatrice pour créer des histoires immersives et captivantes. Son écriture plonge dans les complexités de la psyché humaine et des relations, dans le cadre d'une vie en constant mouvement et exploration.






A brilliant thriller to rival CJ SANSOM and RORY CLEMENTSIn 14th-century Italy, Mondino is a university anatomist - a man of science in a land governed by the brutal Inquisition.
Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. He agrees to represent a woman in prison for killing her husband, a sheriff's deputy. Despite her conviction four years earlier, she still maintains her innocence. Haller enlists his half brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, as investigator. Reviewing the case, Bosch sees something that doesn't add up, and a sheriff's department intent on bringing a quick search for justice in the killing of one of its own.The path to justice for both the lawyer and his investigator is fraught with danger from those who don't want the case reopened. And they will stop at nothing to keep the Haller-Bosch dream team from uncovering what the deputy's killing was really about.CRIME DOESN'T COME BETTER THAN CONNELLY:'The pre- eminent detective novelist of his generation'IAN RANKIN'The best mystery writer in the world'GQ'A superb natural storyteller'LEE CHILD'A master'STEPHEN KING'America's greatest living crime writer'DAILY EXPRESS'One of the great storytellers of crime fiction'SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
"A year has passed since LAPD detective Renée Ballard quit the force in the face of misogyny, demoralization, and endless red tape. But after the chief of police himself tells her she can write her own ticket within the department, Ballard takes back her badge, leaving "the late show" to rebuild and lead the cold case unit at the elite Robbery-Homicide Division. For years, Harry Bosch has been working a case that haunts him--the murder of an entire family by a psychopath who still walks free. Ballard makes Bosch an offer: come volunteer as an investigator in her new Open-Unsolved Unit, and he can pursue his "white whale" with the resources of the LAPD behind him. First priority for Ballard is to clear the unsolved rape and murder of a sixteen-year-old girl. The decades-old case is essential to the councilman who supported re-forming the unit and who could shutter it again--the victim was his sister. When Ballard get a "cold hit" connecting the killing to a similar crime, proving that a serial predator has been at work in the city for years, the political pressure has never been higher. To keep momentum going, she has to pull Bosch off his own investigation, the case that is the consummation of his lifelong mission. The two must put aside old resentments and new tension to run to ground not one but two dangerous killers who have operated with brash impunity."--
Bologna soll brennen … Bologna im Herbst 1312: Mondino de‘ Liuzzi, Medicus und Anatom, wird vom Bürgermeister mit der Aufklärung eines seltsamen Todesfalls beauftragt: Ein Mitglied des Ältestenrats wurde völlig verkohlt in seinem Haus gefunden. Doch im Zimmer, in dem sich die Leiche befindet, deutet nichts auf einen Brand hin. Mondino bringt die sterblichen Überreste in seinen Sezierraum, um sie zu untersuchen. An einem Arm des Toten entdeckt er eine Tätowierung: ein Monster mit Flügeln und einem Löwenkopf, dessen Körper von einer Schlange umringt wird. Wenig später wird ein Franziskanermönch im Bordellviertel tot aufgefunden. In seiner Tasche findet man eine Zeichnung, die der Tätowierung auf dem Arm der ersten Leiche sehr ähnelt. Gemeinsam mit dem ehemaligen Templer Gerardo del Castelbretone kommt Mondino einer Sekte auf die Spur, die dem Gott der Sonne und des Feuers Mithra huldigt – und die eine ungeheuerliche Verschwörung plant …
Once a cop. Ex-NYPD detective Dave Gurney is supposed to be retired. But people with problems keep knocking on his door. Like the police, who are baffled by a gruesome murder they just can't seem to solve. A young bride has been killed in the middle of her own wedding reception. The prime suspect - her new husband's Mexican gardener - is missing.
Lorsque, dix ans après les faits, le mariachi Orlando Merced succombe à ses blessures, l'inspecteur Harry Bosch hérite d'un vrai cas d'école à enseigner à la jeune inspectrice Lucia Soto. Hormis une balle retrouvée à l'autopsie, les pistes sont inexistantes. Plus ennuyeux, et dangereux pour Bosch, Lucia semble beaucoup s'intéresser à un autre dossier, et mettre son nez là où il ne faut pas. Très ébranlé par la nature de cette deuxième affaire, Bosch décide de passer outre au règlement et de mener les deux enquêtes de front, malgré les risques encourus dans une ville où la passion politique l'emporte sur tout.
Dave Gurney, pluridecorato poliziotto del NYPD ora in pensione, non rinuncia di tanto in tanto a interessarsi a qualche caso apparentemente senza soluzione - provocando le ire della moglie, che lo vorrebbe impegnato in attività meno rischiose. Ma ci sono tentazioni a cui è impossibile resistere, e per Gurney il pericolo è una di queste. Stavolta, è alle prese con l'omicidio di Carl Spalter, candidato al posto di governatore dello stato di New York, freddato mentre pronunciava il discorso funebre al funerale della madre. Omicidio per cui è stata ingiustamente condannata sua moglie una sentenza che appare chiaramente pilotata. Ma il caso è tutt'altro che chiuso e, come scoprirà ben presto Gurney, la posta in gioco tutt'altro che bassa: perché là fuori c'è il vero colpevole, qualcuno che, protetto dall'anonimato, è deciso a colpire ancora. E Gurney arriverà molto presto a seguirne le tracce, scoprendo un nemico diabolicamente intelligente, che viene da molto lontano, e ha un insolito soprannome: Peter Pan. Un assassino talmente scaltro che per il poliziotto l'unico modo per fermarlo sarà diventare il suo prossimo bersaglio.
Beginning his witness-protection job at a doughnut restaurant in the week before the 1980 presidential election, small-time thief Vince Camden finds himself unwittingly embroiled in a local politician's troubles.
Hap Collins and Leonard Pine head to Mexico to seek revenge for the murder of a beautiful young lady who had been involved with a Mexican mobster and who, along with her elderly father, had rescued them both from armed attackers.
Part-time environmentalist and philanthropist Ben and his ex-mercenary buddy Chon run a Laguna Beach-based marijuana operation, reaping significant profits from their loyal clientele. In the past when their turf was challenged, Chon took care of eliminating the threat. But now they may have come up against something that they can't handle -- the Mexican Baja Cartel wants in, sending them the message that a "no" is unacceptable. When they refuse to back down, the cartel escalates its threat, kidnapping Ophelia, the boys' playmate and confidante. O's abduction sets off a dizzying array of ingenious negotiations and gripping plot twists that will captivate readers eager to learn the costs of freedom and the price of one amazing high.