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Derek Raymond

    Con lo pseudonimo di Derek Raymond, questo autore è noto per la sua esplorazione cruda e realistica degli aspetti più oscuri della psiche umana. Il suo lavoro si addentra spesso nelle profondità del crimine e dei suoi perpetratori, esaminando le motivazioni e i metodi che portano agli atti più terribili. Lo stile di Raymond è caratterizzato dalla sua immediatezza e dalla capacità di trascinare il lettore in un'atmosfera tesa dove i confini tra bene e male si confondono. I suoi scritti rivelano verità inquietanti sulla natura umana.

    Wie die Toten leben. Thriller
    Roter Nebel
    He Died with His Eyes Open
    I Was Dora Suarez
    The Devil's Home On Leave
    How the Dead Live
    • 2024

      Im London der 1980er Jahre ermittelt ein namenloser Detective Sergeant im Mordfall eines gescheiterten Schriftstellers. Er ignoriert Vorgesetzte und sein Privatleben, während er in die Abgründe des Verbrechens eintaucht. Derek Raymonds Noir-Romane reflektieren die Leiden der Opfer und das Leben in der Thatcher-Ära.

      Er starb mit offenen Augen
    • 2022

      Roter Nebel

      • 315pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      In Londons düsterer Unterwelt folgt die Geschichte von Gust, einem desillusionierten Schwerverbrecher, der nach zehn Jahren Haft ein letztes großes Ding drehen möchte. Nachdem er einen Lkw mit Blanko-Pässen für einen zwielichtigen Auftraggeber erbeutet, beginnt eine blutige Spur. Der Mord an seiner Ex-Freundin entfacht in ihm einen Rachefeldzug, während er von Wut und Verzweiflung überwältigt wird. Dieser britische Noir-Roman zeichnet ein eindringliches Bild eines gebrochenen Mannes, der in einer gnadenlosen Welt um sein Überleben kämpft.

      Roter Nebel
    • 2007

      How the Dead Live

      • 224pagine
      • 8 ore di lettura

      Raymond's nameless detective leave London for a remote village called Thornhill, where he's meant to be looking into the disappearance of a local doctor's wife.

      How the Dead Live
    • 2007

      The Devil's Home On Leave

      • 218pagine
      • 8 ore di lettura

      A man's corpse is discovered in a Rotherhithe warehouse, chopped up, boiled to avoid identification, and bundled into five Waitrose carrier bags. Our nameless narrator from A14 - the 'Unexplained Deaths' division of the Met - is put on the case. Operating, as usual, the narrator's investigations uncover much more than the murderer.

      The Devil's Home On Leave
    • 1992
    • 1991

      He Died with His Eyes Open

      • 211pagine
      • 8 ore di lettura

      When a middle-aged alcoholic is found brutally battered to death on a roadside in West London, the case is assigned to a nameless detective sergeant, a tough-talking cynic and fearless loner from the Department of Unexplained Deaths at the Factory police station.

      He Died with His Eyes Open
    • 1990

      I Was Dora Suarez

      • 201pagine
      • 8 ore di lettura

      An axe-wielding psychopath carves young Dora Suarez into pieces and smashes the head of Suarez's friend, an elderly woman. The unnamed narrator, a sergeant in the Metropolitan Police's Unexplained Deaths division, develops a fixation on the young woman whose murder he investigates and discovers that Suarez's death is more bizarre than suspected.

      I Was Dora Suarez