Resultados para "Alice" en Procedimientos policiales

Resignada, la inspectora Petra Delicado se ve obligada a ir de compras a un centro comercial. Entra en el lavabo, y, atónita, ve cómo una pequeña mano hace desaparecer su bolso. Tras descubrir que se trata de una niña, finalmente recupera su bolso con todo el dinero, el móvil y los documentos, pero sin algo esencial para una policía: su arma reglamentaria. Tras soportar las consabidas bromas de sus compañeros y tragarse la bronca de su jefe, Petra decide seguir la pista de la joven ladrona. Para ello contará con la colaboración de un único testigo, que resulta ser también una menor.

Un periodista del corazón especialista en divulgar las noticias más escandalosas es asesinado. La inspectora Petra Delicado y el subinspector Fermín Garzón se encargan del caso. La lista de sospechosos se extiende a todos los personajes que en algún momento se vieron perjudicados por sus publicaciones.

Valeria, una de las concursantes del reality show La Cárcel, aparece muerta en su celda. En medio del estupor y el caos inicial, Vera, la directora de producción, toma las riendas y piensa que, cueste lo que cueste, hay que mantener la noticia en secreto hasta que acabe el programa, un mes.

When an elderly couple is found dead in their own home, Chevy and Seneca are pulled into the case. But what's unusual is that it appears neither of them were killed; instead, they simply stopped existing. Even with Chevy's ability to go into the memories of the victims, he's unable to tell what happened to the seemingly normal couple. That is, until it happens again. This time, the victims are found alive, all of them kneeling and staring at a blank wall as if hypnotized by it. It's up to Chevy and Seneca to figure out what is drawing these people and who might be manipulating them.

Niente può fermarla. Perché scrivere è la sua missione. E solo i libri possono indicarle la strada. Per Vani Sarca fare la ghostwriter è il lavoro ideale. Non solo perché le permette di restarsene chiusa in casa a scrivere, in compagnia dei suoi libri e lontano dal resto dell’umanità, per la quale non prova grande simpatia. Ma soprattutto perché così può sfruttare al meglio il suo dono di capire al volo le persone, di anticipare i loro pensieri, di ricreare il loro stile di scrittura. Una capacità intuitiva innata che fa molto comodo all'editore per cui Vani lavora.

A beast prowls the night...mauling, but not devouring its victims. The crime scene points to a brutal animal attack. Except for one detail. Could the test results really be accurate? The police department chalks it up to compromised evidence. Detective Alice Bergman can easily get the truth; she just needs access to the body. But the body goes missing. Why would someone steal it from the morgue?

All The Tranquil Dead is the second book in the hit series about Detective Inspector Maria Wern. A man has been reported missing. Rosmarie Haag, his wife, seeks out Detective Inspector Maria Wern. What initially appears to be a routine matter develops with frightening speed into one of the...

Callum is lured to an isolated boathouse by an attractive older woman. When she gets him alone, she knocks him out with a single blow. Surrounded by hills and lakes, Still Waters is home to a close-knit community of wealthy retirees. It's an unlikely setting for violence. The police don't take Callum's disappearance seriously: he's 24-years-old, after all. But Callum's mother, a Still Waters resident, knows that something is very wrong. Then a body is discovered floating in the lake. Head bashed in. But it's not Callum. And someone tweets: Come out to play one last time, Alice.

Maridos y mujeres. Madres e hijas. El pasado y el futuro. La autora del afamado Flores cortadas vuelve con un electrizante thriller, muy complejo emocionalmente y que sumergirá a su protagonista en las oscuras profundidades de un caso que puede destruirle. El descubrimiento de un asesinato en...

Tess O'Rourke dreams of becoming the first female chief of police in Long Beach, California. As commander of the East Division, she is well on her way...until the night she responds to an officer-needs-assistance call and fatally shoots an unarmed teenager. Despite being cleared of wrongdoing by a grand jury, Tess is so hounded by the public that she takes a job in Oregon to escape the bad press.

Palermo. Un'estate caldissima. E tre poliziotti che più diversi non si potrebbe: il questore Lobianco, severo e forte, Rosario D'Alessandro detto Sasà - amante del cibo e delle donne, affetto da un curioso disturbo della lacrimazione che fa sì che pianga quando si eccita - e Marò Pajno, affascinante e volitiva, relegata in un noioso commissariato di quartiere. I tre sono uniti sin dai primi anni di servizio da un'amicizia più forte di tutto. Tanto che Marò, attratta da entrambi, ha finito per non concedersi a nessuno dei due.

As usual, 17-year-old Alice Teale walked out of school at the end of a bright spring day. She's not been seen since. Alice was popular and well-liked, and her boyfriend, friends and family are desperate to find her. But when the police start asking questions, it becomes clear that almost everyone has something to hide. Torn between a host of suspects, Detectives Beth Winter and Lucas Black don't know which way to turn. But then they receive a disturbing package: pages from Alice's precious diary. Who could have sent them? And have they done with Alice?

EDGAR AWARD WINNER In this powerful new thriller, Alice Vega and Max Caplan return, uncovering a network of white supremacists in their search for a long-lost counter-culture hero. "Alice Vega is sensational—I want to see lots more of her." —Lee Child, #1 New York Times best-selling...

Die ehrwürdige Oxforder Lewis-Carroll-Bruderschaft ist einer Sensation auf der Spur: Aus dem Tagebuch des weltberühmten Schöpfers von Alice im Wunderland ist eine bis dato verschollene Seite aufgetaucht, die Brisantes offenbart. Doch bevor die Bruderschaft den Fund veröffentlichen kann, geschehen mehrere Morde, die durch das literarische Universum von Lewis Carroll inspiriert zu sein scheinen. Auch in ihrem zweiten Fall müssen Logik-Professor Arthur Seldom und sein junger argentinischer Mathematik-Doktorand scharf kombinieren, um den rätselhaften Fall zu lösen.

Jahrelang hat Detective Chief Inspector Robert Kett die gefährlichsten Entführer und Serienmörder des Landes aufgespürt und sich den Ruf erworben, der Beste in diesem Metier zu sein. Doch nun wendet sich das Blatt. Jemand beginnt, die Kriminellen, die Kett hinter Gitter gebracht hat, brutal zu ermorden. Und auch die, die er nicht fassen konnte. Ein Fall von Selbstjustiz? Als Kett damit beauftragt wird, einen weiteren verurteilten Schwerverbrecher vor dem gleichen Schicksal zu bewahren, muss er feststellen, dass die Gefahr noch größer ist als vermutet.

Une enquête doublée d'une quête intime, au coeur des montagnes, pour une jeune capitaine de police aussi brillante que décalée. Un commissariat morne que seul un délit de conduite en état d'ébriété peut sortir de sa torpeur, de nouveaux collègues plus calmes qu'un pré suisse à l'heure de la sieste, un voisin envahissant : voilà ce que Charlie, jeune capitaine de police angoissée et obsessionnelle, découvre alors qu'elle se retrouve parachutée dans un village de montagne après une enquête criminelle douloureuse qui lui a coûté son poste.

Der Hexenmörder aus dem Nebelwald Ein düsteres Mysterium, das den Atem raubt. Im dichten Nebelwald tauchen immer wieder die Leichen junger, rothaariger Frauen mit grünen Augen auf. Alle tragen dieselbe seltsame Hexenkleidung und eine mysteriöse Kette mit Hexagrammanhänger. In der Hand – ein rätselhafter Briefumschlag, dessen Inhalt viele Fragen aufwirft. Die Leichen hängen an Bäumen, um den Hals geschlungen ein Henkerstrick - aber das ist nicht die Todesursache. Unter den Opfern: ein zerbrochener Hexenbesen – und doch war keine dieser Frauen eine Hexe.

For more than a century, the small town of Haddan, Massachusetts, has been divided, as if by a line drawn down the center of Main Street, separating those born and bred in the village from those who attend the prestigious Haddan School. But one October night, an inexplicable death thrusts the two worlds together, and the town's divided history is revealed in all its complexity.

On a rainy afternoon, Beth Haldane accompanies her elderly mother, Wendy, to the funeral of her boyfriend and local councilor Len. But as they gather in the church, Beth can’t help but notice how many women are there who look just like her mother.

It’s a crisp spring day in Dulwich Village when Beth arrives at the intricate iron gates of Wyatt’s School for her new job as the historian’s assistant. But on a lunchtime stroll admiring the pristine grounds of this 500-year-old institution, Beth is shocked to stumble over the body of her new boss, Alan Jenkins, spectacles askew, his mustard-yellow tweed jacket covered in blood. Gossip about outsider Beth spreads like wildfire. The parents in the playground are all whispering: Did she bump him off to get her hands on his job?