Resultados para "Book of Night" en Misterios y delitos internacionales

Ivan Kendall died in a train station restroom eighty miles from home in March, 2014. Why did the quiet family man travel to Westbury from South Wales so late at night? The Crime Review Team, headed by formerly retired policeman Gus Freeman to investigate cold cases in Wiltshire, England, now must tackle another cold case besides that of Ivan Kendall. As the team closes in on an assassin, from the previous cold case involving Grant Burnside’s death, an old adversary stands in their way.

When the body of elderly Mr Winter is found in his modest terraced home, still in his pyjamas, Detective Dave Slater quickly decides there’s nothing suspicious to report. The old man fell and hit his head. It’s sad, but these things happen. A few days later, Mr Winter’s home is ransacked—and Slater is forced to change his mind. This was no opportunist break-in. Someone was looking for something specific. But what did the lonely old man have in his possession that could cost his life?

October 1942: it’s been two years since Kate Rees was sent to Paris on a British Secret Service mission to assassinate Hitler. Since then, she has left spycraft behind to take a training job as a sharpshooting instructor in the Scottish Highlands. But her quiet life is violently disrupted when Colonel Stepney, her former handler, drags her back into the fray for a dangerous three-pronged mission in Paris.

London, 1941. Britain has endured the relentless bombing campaign of the Blitz and emerged, scarred but unbroken. Caitrin, too, strives to weather each challenge that comes her way, though her ever-ready banter belies deep heartbreak and loss. But now the war has entered another phase. Instead of indiscriminate bombing, the Luftwaffe is pinpointing historic targets, including cathedrals and ancestral homes. It's as if Germany plans to erase Britain's very essence and culture, destroying morale as it does so.

Elin Bertram und Thees Conrads von der Soko Mondschein wissen noch immer nicht, wer hinter dem grausamen Ritual steckt, dem bislang fünf Frauen zum Opfer gefallen sind. Eine Woche vor der Frist erreicht sie plötzlich eine unerwartete Nachricht: In Bremerhaven ist ein junger Mann verschwunden und die dortige Polizei hat Hinweise, dass der Serientäter verantwortlich ist. Elin Bertram vermutet, dass es sich um einen Nachahmungstäter handelt. Doch am Tatort finden sich Hinweise, die die Handschrift des Mondscheinmörders tragen.

Taipei is rocked by the back-to-back murders of a petty criminal and a police captain just as the city is preparing to host the big Austronesian Cultural Festival. The celebration is set to bring in indigenous performers from all around the Pacific Rim to the island nation of Taiwan. Jing-nan, the proprietor of Unknown Pleasures, a popular food stand at Taipei’s largest night market, is thrown into the intrigue. Is he being set up to take the rap, or will he be the next victim? T

When her employer, psychic detective, Quentin Black, calls from a Bangkok jail, asking for her help, forensic psychologist Miri Fox is forced to fly across the world to get him. She finds Black working undercover inside a gang of criminals, trying to discover who's murdering street children and burning their bodies inside Buddhist temples. Black isn't the only one interested in the crimes, however, and soon his investigations get the attention of a crime syndicate out of Russia that doesn't appreciate his meddling.

An Internet stalker turned serial killer. Jake Lassiter follows clues from Miami to London...and gets framed for murder himself.

In this Crime Writers Association John Creasey Dagger Award winner and Guardian Best Crime and Thriller of the Year, a former Marine sniper and a newly orphaned boy race across the Norwegian wilderness, fleeing demons both real and imagined. Sheldon Horowitz—widowed, impatient...

The vicious Mexican cartel war boils over into the Big Bend in the explosive new novel from the author of The Far Empty and High White Sun. In the Mexican borderlands, a busload of student protesters is gunned down in broad daylight, a violent act blamed on the Nemesio cartel. But its aging...