DICK LOCHTE Bücher

Ein düster komödiantischer Leitfaden durch New Orleans – mit Essen, Musik und Hitze, unterbrochen von Kugeln. Dick Lochte, dessen Debütkrimi den Nero Wolfe Award gewann, wirft einen düsteren Blick auf die Big Easy in dieser rasanten Geschichte von Verbrechen, Sex und Rache. Terry Manion, ein Privatdetektiv, der gerade aus der Reha kommt, bezweifelt, dass der Tod seines Mentors J.J. Legendre ein Suizid ist. Gemeinsam mit einer ehemaligen Bordellwirtin nimmt Manion es mit korrupten Polizisten, einer lokalen Verbrecherfamilie und einem opernliebenden Auftragskiller in einem wilden Abenteuer durch New Orleans auf.

Professional chef turned amateur sleuth Billy Blessing finds himself in hot water when a brutal killing cancels a TV show—and its host—during its debut. Billy has reluctantly agreed to fly westward and play second banana on a new late-night talk show hosted by comic Desmond O’Day in Los Angeles, a city that brings up bad memories. Twenty years ago, Billy had accused obnoxious chef Roger Charbonnet of murder there. A tricked-up alibi freed Roger, who vowed vengeance—and Billy’s arrival in the City of Angels just may give Roger his chance. When a deadly explosion during a TV taping kills more than Desmond’s chance at high ratings, Billy is convinced that he was the intended target. With politics, infidelity, and high finance sprinkled in, the case turns out to have more ingredients than Billy could ever have imagined. And when a beautiful female TV producer convinces Billy to find the culprit himself—on camera—the table’s set for a conspiracy with too many cooks and far too many killers.

Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage series For the unlikely crime-busting duo Leo and Serendipity, a missing dog is only the start of their troubles... Leo Bloodworth, 'the Bloodhound', is a world-weary L.A. gumshoe with a reputation for finding anything - and a low tolerance of precocious teenagers. Serendipity Dahlquist is a precocious teenager. When the headstrong, roller-skating fourteen-year-old asks Bloodworth to help track down her lost dog Groucho, it leads this oddest of odd couples into the dark criminal underworld of the Mexican mafia, and into more trouble than they'd bargained for.