Showing results for "the ritual" in Crime Fiction

Barrington University is home of the Lords, a secret society that requires their blood in payment. They are above all—the most powerful men in the world. They devote their lives to violence in exchange for power. And during their senior year, they are offered a chosen one.

Just after lunch on a Tuesday in April, nine feet under water, police diver Flea Marley closes her gloved fingers around a human hand. The fact that there's no body attached is disturbing enough. Yet more disturbing is the discovery, a day later, of the matching hand. Both have been recently amputated, and the indications are that the victim was still alive when they were removed. DI Jack Caffery has been newly seconded to the Major Crime Investigation Unit in Bristol. He and Flea soon establish that the hands belong to a boy who has recently disappeared.

The Crime Writers’ Association Historical Dagger Winning Author Winner of the 2024 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel ‘It’s hard to think of a better guide than D. V. Bishop to the brutality and glamour of Renaissance Florence’ – Andrew Taylor, bestselling author of The Royal Secret...

As they blunder towards doom, Warlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson find themselves inconvenienced by a variety of eldritch beings. Christmas brings a goose that doesn't let being cooked slow it down; they meet an electricity demon, discover why being a redhead is even trickier than one might imagine, and Holmes attempts an Irish accent. And, naturally, Moriarty is hanging around...in some form or other.

A Ritual of Innocence is a twisting international political crime story full of keen satire and rich character studies that paint a winding tableau that ranges from New York's crime-laden underbelly to the shadowed corruption of global businesses and political leaders. The assassination of the wife of the CEO of the world's largest energy company triggers intense interactions between a cadre of characters with diverse backgrounds, cultural norms, and motivations.

Siete pies, cortados y atados entre sí, aparecen flotando en el río Sena, cerca de la sede central de la Policía Judicial francesa. Se forma rápidamente un equipo de investigación, dirigido por el capitán Martin Vaas. La búsqueda de los cuerpos a los que pertenecen esos pies hace que se reabran casos de hace más de veinte años, crímenes en los que al cadáver le faltaba un pie, cometidos cerca del curso de un río. Sin embargo, las piezas no terminan de encajar. Una misteriosa inscripción (en uno de los pies se lee «ganador») podría encerrar la clave de todo.

Un peculiar detective del siglo XVII llamado Capablanca, junto con su inseparable ayudante Fray Hortensio, se verá envuelto en un misterio, justo cuando está a punto de embarcar rumbo hacia las Indias. Se han producido una serie de asesinatos, sus víctimas siempre son mujeres y las muertes parecen obedecer a una especie de ritual sangriento. Capablanca descubrirá que el Madrid barroco de los bajos fondos y las altas esferas del poder no están tan alejados como cabría pensar.