Resultados para "1" en Misterios y delitos internacionales

Elena creía que no volvería a verla, pero se equivocaba: Tricia ha regresado.Creía que ese pasado lo había podido dejar atrás pero se equivocaba. Las apariciones son mucho más que un mensaje de advertencia. Elena debe hacer algo para resolver lo ocurrido...

El detective alemán Leander Lost, que se convierte en colaborador de la Policía Judicial de Faro, en Portugal, posee muchos atributos que lo convierten en un detective ideal: tiene memoria fotográfica, una mente infaliblemente lógica y la capacidad de mantener la calma en cualquier situación de crisis. Sin embargo, también convive con el síndrome de Asperger, y esto lleva a una serie de malentendidos en las primeras etapas de su estancia. Participa en un innovador programa de intercambio, sin saber que sus colegas en Hamburgo estaban más que deseosos por deshacerse de él.

Una gélida mañana de invierno, el cuerpo sin vida de una monja, que aparentemente ha sido atropellada por un coche, aparece en las afueras de Lipowo, una localidad situada al norte de Varsovia. Pero pronto queda fuera de duda que primero fue asesinada y luego simularon un accidente...

Newcrest has always believed its stability came from good leadership. It didn’t. It came from ordinary people quietly doing the right thing. When a series of escalating crises begin to hit the city—infrastructure failures, political pressure, financial irregularities, and decisions no one wants to own—the people inside City Hall discover how fragile public trust really is. Every choice now carries consequences, and every delay makes the next problem worse.

In need of a good adventure, Delaney Nichols takes the leap and moves to Edinburgh, Scotland, to start a job at The Cracked Spine. She doesn't know much about what she's gotten herself into other than that the work sounds exciting and that her new boss, Edwin MacAlister, has given her the opportunity of a lifetime.

The flood waters are rising. And so is the body count… Police officer Fiona MacLeish has been ordered to step back from her role in Police Scotland. Haunted by the murder of her parents, she’s dangerously close to breaking point: and is back in her remote childhood home nestled in a valley on the Scottish border. But there’s a terrifying storm coming…

Deep Del Toro, an Iniquus special operative on the Strike Force Team, listened to the radio as the announcer gave details of Lacey Stuart's upcoming press conference. He had watched video of her fighting off the FBI agent and escaping from a murder scene the night before, and now she was turning herself over to the police. What Deep's practiced eye saw in the video was a highly choreographed crime. But somehow Lacey had thwarted the professionals' plans. She was in imminent danger. 

Yorkshire Dales, Summer 1997. Vicky Mott slips out the door of her remote cottage, and into the pale dawn light. She scrawls a note for her friends. Gone to see the sunrise. V xxx That's the last anyone ever hears from twenty-year-old music lover Vicky. Another victim of the Fellside Strangler? That would make Vicky the fourth young woman to lose her life this summer. Snatched by a mysterious killer who stalks the fells . . . But Vicky's body is never found.

A groom-to-be is cut down at his engagement party, and solving the case won't be a piece of cake. . . Shilpa Solanki's talent is making sure that special occasions are accompanied by special cakes, and her first booking after her move to Devon, England—where she's inherited a house in Otter's...

Bertram e seus três amigos, Jack, Kasper e Felix, acabaram de se formar na escola e formaram uma pequena gangue chamada Os Falcões. Eles trabalham para o Supervisor, que paga por roubos encomendados por clientes anônimos—especialmente de móveis de ponta. Bertram mora com a mãe, que trabalha como garçonete em um restaurante. Ela acha que Bertram está ganhando dinheiro entregando o jornal local. Bertram não tem muitas lembranças do seu pai. Ele tinha apenas sete anos de idade quando seu pai foi preso por assassinato e condenado a prisão perpétua.

As the current head of the family firm, Jimmy Carter has decided it’s time for him to step down and for one of his other brothers to lead the family. Except only one of his brothers wants the job – the youngest Carter brother - reckless hot-head Jonny. Carla Carter has never forgiven her tramp of a mother for cheating on her beloved dad, Sonny and she’s determined to avenge him in the most perfect way: by stealing from the man who stole everything from her. Her Uncle Jimmy would never consider Carla’s plan – it’s way too risky and dangerous. But Jonny needs to prove himself.

Ausgerechnet am glücklichsten Tag ihres Lebens, dem Tag ihrer Hochzeit, wird Mirja Johannsen von ihrer Vergangenheit heimgesucht. Und zwar in Person von Gert Vossen, jenem Kieler Staatsanwalt, der 28 Jahre zuvor die Ermittlungen im Mordfall Katrin Ahrens, Mirjas bester Kindheitsfreundin...

Tokyo, 1995. Five men meet at the racetrack every Sunday to bet on horses. They have little in common except a deep disaffection with their lives, but together they represent the social struggles and griefs of post-War Japan. Intent on revenge against a society that values corporate behemoths more than human life, the five conspirators decide to carry out a heist: kidnap the CEO of Japan’s largest beer conglomerate and extract blood money from the company’s corrupt financiers.

April 1284. As a newly widowed lady-in-waiting to the very pregnant Queen Eleanor of England, Catrin never expected to return to Wales again. She was definitely unprepared to be confronted with murder when she got there - or to find herself face-to-face with Rhys, the childhood friend she lost 20 years before. Rhys had never intended to return home either, but a lifetime of war has deposited him right back where he started - impoverished and owing service to Catrin's older brother.

After being imprisoned for two years, a former teacher enrols in a course to learn how to become a Private Detective. What begins out of curiosity, turns into a serious business, until she is being threatened by someone who doesn't want her to continue her investigation…...

When a young woman is attacked walking home from her local supermarket, Bea Jordan, a smart but unfulfilled checkout girl, is determined to investigate. Colleagues and customers become suspects; secrets are uncovered. While fear stalks the town, Bea finds an unlikely ally in Ant, the seemingly gormless new trainee, but risks losing the people she loves most as death comes close to home. 

When renovation workers from Yukiko Curiosity Design uncover a body in a locked bedroom at Sibson Hall, a recently purchased estate outside Royal Tunbridge Wells, the scene looks like suicide—except for a handful of odd details that refuse to fit. The victim clutches a wooden mallet, there's no key to the locked door, and questions about ghosts and yakuza ties ripple through the household. DI Pat Hound, called away from her favourite coffee spot and less than thrilled at mixing menopause symptoms with crime-scene coveralls, senses there is more to the scene than meets the eye.

Marcus Sinclair is a history teacher whose life is stuck in neutral when he inherits a papyrus scroll from his antiquarian uncle. The mysterious scroll might contain a lost masterpiece from ancient Rome or perhaps an ancient recipe for personal tranquility, but it’s unreadable unless Marcus can figure out a way to unroll the scroll without destroying it. His quest takes him to Naples, where he befriends a Google software engineer days before the man is found dead.

A child’s body surrounded by candles in misty woodland, scripture stuffed in his mouth. A jockey pinned down by horseshoes on desolate fenland, linked to a secret society called The Horsemen. A university student in black robes drifting on a river, dead, Satanic symbols carved into their flesh. As head of the Ritualistic Behavioural Crime unit, Harrison specialises in murders others can't solve. Secret societies. Occult practices. Religious obsession turned deadly.

CASE FILE #18–June 2008. Katherine Alford was found dead in her car at a local beauty spot. The devoted mother had received an urgent phone call late in the evening, and asked a neighbor to babysit for ten minutes. She never returned. Gus Freeman and his team uncover failings in the initial police investigation, but every eyewitness they re-interview can’t offer fresh clues, they only add to the mystery. Who did Katherine dash out of the house to meet?