Resultados para "Brennen" en Policíaca, negra y suspense

A collection of stories capturing what it means to be a cowboy.

In der Mecklenburgischen Schweiz hat Hans Brenner die Gastwirtschaft Brenner’s Welt in Langhagen neu eröffnet und arbeitet hart für seinen Erfolg und die Anerkennung im Dorf. Dann findet er gleich neben seinem Lokal zuerst Drogen und dann eine Leiche. Mit seiner geliebten Frau Cleo, einem ehemaligen Fotomodell aus Hamburg, der abergläubischen Köchin Kathrin, seinem besten Freund, dem Fleischermeister Mike aus Teterow und dem befreundeten Polizeihauptmeister Ronald Bratzke muss er diesen Fall möglichst rasch lösen, um seine Gastwirtschaft aus den Schlagzeilen zu bekommen.

It’s early July and across the United States, people are preparing for the upcoming Independence Day holiday. Millions of children are on summer break from school. One of them is Isabel Vargas. At a fair on Long Island, New York, Isabel avoids death by a millimeter when a knife buries itself into a wall behind her. Only NYPD Detective Sam Archer and his small circle of colleagues know why she may have been targeted; Isabel is the daughter of a former Manhattan mafioso, killed three years earlier along with his entire family apart from the girl.

Sam Archer is out of town on a break from his duties in the NYPD when he receives a call from his detective-sergeant back in New York. A former foe of theirs currently serving a life term has repeatedly been getting attacked by other inmates, so the Bureau of Prisons has arranged for him to be transferred from a US Penitentiary in Virginia to another facility seven hours away. Not only was the man responsible for the death of a fellow detective of Archer’s, he’s now saying he has some important information to share.

A commercial plane carrying almost two hundred people crashes into the Atlantic Ocean. Eyewitnesses on a yacht say the flight, bound for the United States from Portugal, was on fire as it fell from the sky. The search is on to find the wreckage. Seventy two hours later, another plane goes missing, American Airlines 44, bound for New York from Paris, France; with terrorism now suspected, the NYPD’s Counter-Terrorism Bureau are asked for their assistance. The scale of the case and the distances involved are factors Sergeant Matt Shepherd’s team have never encountered before.

HMS Poseidon, the Royal Navy’s newest submarine is hijacked. An elite team of terrorists now control this deadly warship. Can the hijackers be stopped before they release Poseidon’s missiles? Will the British government pay the three billion ransom? Or, will they destroy the most powerful nuclear submarine ever built?

In August 1939, Duncan Morant, the only son and heir of the second Lord Eversham, is enjoying life as a man-about-town, skippering his racing schooner Kristin. But Duncan is also a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and as the war clouds gather, he is called up.

Searching for case-law for a present matter, an attorney is eerily drawn to a 1890's gold-rush paternity litigation. Mid-trial, he realized he is essentially retrying a haunted spirited complicated case of injustice.