Resultados para "Cascadia" en Misterio

During a routine patrol along the Yakima River, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife officer Luke McCain encounters a terrified young woman fleeing a man she believes killed two people in a homeless camp in Seattle. Her story convinces Luke to contact his wife, FBI Special Agent Sara McCain, who goes to work with Seattle Police to identify and locate the killer before he finds the woman and makes the potential witness his next victim. Meanwhile, Luke uncovers a group illegally excavating prehistoric mammoth bones on state land.

Luke's week in the mountains goes from pleasure to business in an instant when he is called upon to help find two teenage boys–one the son of a multi-millionaire Starbucks VIP–who have been abducted at gunpoint during a wilderness survival school expedition. Their captors and the foreigners calling the shots behind the scenes are desperate for their ransom money and willing to do almost anything to get it.

After helping solve the Cascade Killer case, Washington State Fish and Wildlife officer Luke McCain thinks life will return to normal: hunting with his Labrador named Jack, policing Eastern Washington's wilderness, and spending time with his girlfriend, FBI agent Sara Sinclair. But when dead bodies are discovered in illegal marijuana fields hidden in the Cascade Mountains, McCain and Jack are thrust into a new investigation.

As a Fish and Wildlife police officer, Luke McCain and his partner - a yellow Lab named Jack - spend their days patrolling the rivers, lakes, and forests of the wild and scenic Cascade Mountains in Eastern Washington. After hunters discover human remains inside a bear's stomach, McCain is thrust into the investigation. As more dead women are found in McCain's region, authorities suspect a serial killer is prowling the mountains he knows best. McCain will need his knowledge as an outdoorsman, and his instincts as an investigator, to track the psychopathic predator.

With two major investigations now closed, Fish and Wildlife Police Officer Luke McCain is called upon for his most high-profile case yet. En route to the Washington State Fair, an exotic cat show’s trailer is stolen. After some of the big cats are released into the Cascade Mountains, McCain and his dog, Jack, try to locate the show’s most menacing member: a Bengal tiger. Meanwhile, there are rumblings that a wild cougar has killed a dirt biker in the region.

When WDFW officials receive an anonymous tip that poachers might be taking young falcons and eagles from nests around eastern Washington and shipping them to a Russian oligarch, Washington State fish and wildlife officer Luke McCain and his colleagues must go to new heights to save the federally protected raptors. Meanwhile, domestic animals are going missing in the region, and Luke investigates the gruesome remains. As details of the animals’ mysterious deaths emerge, rumors explode that a mystical creature—the ever-elusive bigfoot—may be responsible.

This is a short novel about a troubled, retired police officer struggling with PTSD. Detective Saverio has been living off the grid in Upstate New York since he retired, trying to forget the travesties of his military and police careers. When he thinks he has finally buried some of his past and learns to deal with his nightmares, a car shows up unexpectedly and changes his life.

When trappers begin encountering illegal bear traps near their traplines, it seems that someone may be purposefully attempting to trap trappers—but why? As one trapper attempts to remove himself from a potentially lethal snare, two major snowstorms start pummeling the Central Cascades. Stranded hunters and a fugitive killer looking for a place to ride out a blizzard have Luke McCain and his yellow Lab, Jack, working overtime to help get everyone safely out of the mountains.

A peaceful mountain getaway turns deadly as John and Sara Todd hike in the high desert of Central Oregon during the spotted owl and War on Drugs controversies of the 1990s. Stumbling upon a deserted shack, the Todds find a wallet stuffed with hundred-dollar bills. In their attempt to return the money, they unwittingly stumble into a web of missing persons, illicit drugs, and murder. John’s military police training and Sara’s love of mysteries keep them one step ahead of Sergeant Hansen and the FBI, but make them targets of a drug cartel.

January means ice wine season in the Niagara Falls region, but the festivities leave Charming Books owner Violet Waverly cold, still reeling from a past heartbreak. Little do either Waverly women know, the ice wine festival will turn colder still when Violet finds her friend Lacey's estranged sister Belinda in the middle of the frozen vineyard - with a grape harvest knife protruding from her chest.

When Russia invades Ukraine, a top Ukrainian virologist vanishes with a deadly gain-of-function viral formula locked in his memory. He escapes to Europe with his wife and young daughter, ready to sell the formula to the highest bidder. As nations scramble to secure the weapon, FROG, a secretive intelligence agency, has one mission: assassinate the scientist before the formula goes global. But when his daughter is kidnapped by a rival force, the mission spins out of control. Now, FROG's elite operatives must navigate a shadow war of mercenaries, spies, and bio-terrorists.

During a lucid moment, an Alzheimer’s patient tells amateur sleuth BIodina d’Angelo that 40 years ago he killed his lumberyard partner in the Cascades of Washington state. Biodina begins searching historical records, and a clever fraud scheme is uncovered, along with news articles about a missing lumberyard owner. Along the way, her intuitive nature and nosiness helps her uncover another murder of a well-respected record producer. Will the murderess be a starstruck performer, a jealous wife, or a vindictive assistant?

Lieutenant Colonel Eric West is the clinical director of the Combat Casualty Research Center (CCRC), an elite group of emergency physicians who provide operational medical support for the United States military, the FBI, the DEA, the ATF, and the Secret Service. Deployed throughout the world on a moment's notice, Eric begins to note a series of unusual deaths. Federal agents are dying from massive thromboses, their bodies solidifying into a mass of necrotic tissue.

Comment résoudre un meurtre si personne ne l’a commis ? Le commissaire Forestier est appelé en urgence par Yves de Montalabert, un aristocrate qui a reçu des lettres de menace et craint pour sa vie. Le policier se rend chez lui, au cœur de la campagne normande, pour démasquer le corbeau. Mais à sa grande surprise il découvre que le comte a invité quatre personnalités à se joindre à eux : un jeune journaliste en vogue, la femme d’un riche industriel, un médecin des beaux quartiers et un général ayant l’oreille du pouvoir.

Un soir d'hiver, Elín S. Jónsdóttir, la romancière de polars la plus célèbre d'Islande, disparaît sans laisser de trace. Chargé de l'enquête, Helgi Reykdal, jeune inspecteur passionné de littérature, doit plonger dans l'univers de l'autrice pour résoudre le mystère. Ses romans, son passé, ses proches – un éditeur, un comptable, un juge à la retraite – deviennent les pièces d'un puzzle complexe.

Hildur Rúnarsdóttir, devenue inspecteur de police, nourrit toujours l'espoir d'élucider le mystère qui entoure la disparition de ses petites sœurs, Rosa & Björk, survenue vingt-cinq plus tôt. Alors que les traumatismes de son enfance se réveillent et la rongent doucement, son stagiaire et coéquipier Jakob Johanson s'oppose à son ex-femme pour obtenir la garde partagée de leur fils.

Vingt-cinq ans après la disparition non-élucidée de ses jeunes sœurs Rosa et Björk, Hildur Rúnarsdóttir vit toujours à Ísafjörður, en Islande, où elle est inspecteur de police. Depuis cet événement traumatisant, elle surfe dans les eaux glacées des côtes islandaises pour tenter d'oublier. Après quelques années passées dans l’unité des enfants disparus de Reykjavik, la jeune femme est en poste dans le petit commissariat de cette région désolée des Fjords de l'Ouest. Elle accueille bientôt un stagiaire finlandais, Jakob Johanson, qui lui-même porte les stigmates d'une vie personnelle compliquée.

Est-il un rêve plus doux et plus luxueux qu’un séjour au Savoy, le mythique hôtel de Londres ? Excepté peut-être pour l’extravagante Priscilla Tempest, attachée de presse de l’hôtel, qui semble semer les meurtres partout sur son passage. Quand Miss Kane, une jeune danseuse du cabaret de l’hôtel, est retrouvée morte, étranglée dans les loges à la fin d’une représentation, un nouveau scandale menace l’établissement. Qui a pu commettre un tel crime ? L’assassin n’est peut-être pas qui l’on croit entre le producteur américain, l’actrice la plus en vogue du moment et les frères Kray, des gangsters notoires.

L'extravagante Priscilla Tempest est l'attachée de presse du très prestigieux hôtel Savoy à Londres. Au cœur des fringantes années 1960, l'établissement accueille des invités célèbres : Elizabeth Taylor et Richard Burton se crêpent le chignon dans le lobby, des membres de la famille royale folâtrent dans les couloirs… Rien qui ne saurait entacher la réputation du lieu. Rien, sauf peut-être ce cadavre retrouvé dans la suite 705 ? Un meurtre au Savoy ? Shocking !