Resultados para "Cassia" en Misterio

Mentre Catania è avvolta da una pioggia di ceneri dell'Etna, nell'ala abbandonata di una villa signorile alle pendici del vulcano viene ritrovato un corpo di donna ormai mummificato dal tempo. Del caso è incaricato il vicequestore Giovanna Guarrasi, detta Vanina, trentanovenne palermitana trasferita alla Mobile di Catania. La casa è pressoché abbandonata dal 1959, solo Alfio Burrano, nipote del vecchio proprietario, ne occupa saltuariamente qualche stanza.

Ai piedi del Castagno dei cento cavalli, un albero secolare che cresce sulle pendici dell'Etna, due guardie forestali ritrovano il corpo di una donna brutalmente assassinata. La scena del crimine è sconcertante. Per il vicequestore Guarrasi, della Mobile di Catania, l'indagine si presenta subito complessa, se non altro perché sulla vittima non esistono praticamente notizie, quasi non avesse un passato.

Solo un caso molto complesso può distogliere, anche se per poco, il vicequestore Vanina Guarrasi dalla caccia ai propri fantasmi e riportarla in azione. Anzi, qualcosa di più di un caso: un intrigo internazionale all'ombra dell'Etna. Esteban Torres, cubano-americano con cittadinanza italiana e residenza in Svizzera, viene trovato morto nel parcheggio dell'aeroporto di Catania; qualcuno gli ha sparato al cuore. L'uomo ha un passato oscuro, e girano voci che avesse amicizie pericolose, interessi in attività poco pulite.

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Un cadavere che scompare, poi riappare. Un duplice omicidio accompagnato da una macabra messinscena. Con il Capodanno alle porte, pasticcio peggiore non poteva capitare al vicequestore Vanina Guarrasi. Se poi una delle vittime è un prete, il caso diventa ancora più spinoso. Comincia tutto in una notte di neve, sull'Etna. Il custode di un vecchio albergo in ristrutturazione chiama la Mobile di Catania: nel salone c'è una donna morta.

Sono le quattro e trenta del mattino. Dalla loro barca il dottor Manfredi Monterreale e Sante Tammaro, giornalista di un quotidiano online, intravedono sulla costa un uomo che trascina a fatica una grossa valigia e la getta fra gli scogli. Poche ore dopo il vicequestore Vanina Guarrasi riceve una chiamata anonima: una voce femminile riferisce di aver assistito all'uccisione di una ragazza avvenuta quella notte in un villino sul mare. Due fatti che si scoprono legati e dànno il via a un'indagine assai più delicata del previsto.

Someone didn’t just want Megan Lewis dead. They wanted her obliterated. Even the most seasoned crime scene analysts were haunted by what they found. When Megan’s married ex-boyfriend admits to the murder, her family may at least get the mercy of swift justice. Defense attorney Cass Leary has every reason to steer clear of this case. Her client, Reed Karl might just be the most hated man in town. But one look at the police report and Cass knows something doesn't add up. And when Reed’s wife and young daughter beg her to help him, she can’t find the heart to say no.

Cass is stunned when a man she hasn’t seen or spoken to in twenty years wills his law practice to her. His client list contains a single name. Farrah Sibley. Accused of murdering her boss, Farrah has femme fatale written all over her. Beautiful. Smart. Cunning. But is she capable of such a cold-blooded killing? Shot once through the heart, the victim, prominent lawyer Terrence Dowd only had one enemy.

Impossible de braquer un casino pour empocher plusieurs millions de dollars ? Impossible surtout de résister à l'envie de tenter le coup pour un voleur légendaire qui risque la prison à vie pour son Casse ultime. Deux gangsters racontent une histoire Véridique autour d'un petit déjeuner au diner. La star de cinéma toxico que le surfeur et détective privé Boone Daniels doit surveiller pendant sa Pause déjeuner pose problème.

Catania. Nella grotta di un fiume sotterraneo usata come saletta da un locale molto noto viene ritrovato il cadavere di un uomo: lo hanno accoltellato. Una brutta faccenda su cui dovrà fare luce il vicequestore Vanina Guarrasi che, come se non bastasse, da qualche settimana è pure sotto scorta. "La migliore scrittrice di storie di poliziotte in circolazione". Vincenzo La Barbera, professore di filosofia presso il liceo classico, era un tipo solitario, che usava come casa una vecchia barca a vela ormeggiata nel porto ed era amatissimo dagli studenti.

To defend her client, she must dig up a town’s darkest secrets. Defense attorney Cass Leary thought she’d escaped her hometown for good. But after leaving her high-paying job in Chicago, she decides to revisit her troubled past. When someone murders the beloved high school basketball coach and Cass steps in to defend the girl accused of the crime, she doesn’t expect the death threats that follow.... Confronting the town that shunned her as a child, she unearths secrets that some would kill to keep buried.

When a visiting yachting couple go missing from the Shetland oil capital of Brae, sailing skipper Cass Lynch overcomes her mistrust of the land world to ask for help from her old adversary DI Gavin Macrae. He discovers a link to international art theft and warns Cass to steer clear - but when one of her sailing pupils goes missing, she goes alone to discover the secrets of the Neolithic tomb known locally as a ‘trowie mound’.... Ghosts, folklore and a nail-biting finale at the local show come together to make an atmospheric, fast-moving thriller.

As the story opens, Cass arrives in London, where she's arranged to meet her long-lost lover, Quinn O'Boyle. When Quinn fails to show at their rendezvous point, Cass meets the eccentric couple Mallo and Morven Dunfries. When Mallo catches Cass rifling through his medicine cabinet in search of drugs, he threatens to turn her in to the authorities then puts her to work as a runner for his illegal goods. Cass makes a delivery to Poppy Teasel, a famous singer from long ago.

Susan has always taken comfort in the peaceful rhythm of life on the Isle of Wight. But when her daughter Zoe invites her to a Halloween ghost walk at a remote castle, Susan has a sense of foreboding she can’t quite shake. It’s meant to be a bit of fun for the group of old school friends, the thrill of an overnight stay behind the castle’s ancient gates. But when one of them is found dead, the weekend away takes a sinister turn. With the castle locked down and the group trapped inside, it soon becomes clear the killer would have been amongst them.

Photographer Cass Neary, introduced in the underground classic Generation Loss, finds herself drawn into the shadowy world of crime in Scandinavia's coldest corners. As this riveting tour-de-force opens, the police already want to talk to Cass about a mysterious death she was involved with previously, but before they can bring her in, Cass accepts a job offer from overseas and hops on a plane. In Helsinki, she authenticates a series of disturbing but stunning images taken by a famous fashion photographer who has cut himself off from the violent Nordic music scene.

When she wangles the job of skippering a Viking longship for a film, Cass Lynch thinks her big break has finally arrived - even though it means returning home to the Shetland Islands, which she ran away from as a teenager. Then the 'accidents' begin - and when a dead woman turns up on the boat's deck, Cass realises that she, her family and her past are under suspicion from the disturbingly shrewd Detective Inspector Macrae.

Cass Neary made her name in the 70s as a photographer embedded in the burgeoning punk movement in New York City. Her pictures earned her a brief moment of fame. Thirty years later she is adrift, on her way down, and almost out when an old acquaintance sends her on a mercy gig to interview a famously reclusive photographer who lives on an island in Maine. When she arrives Down East, Cass stumbles across a decades-old mystery that is still claiming victims, and she finds one final shot at redemption.

Susan didn’t plan on being an amateur sleuth and, after two successful investigations, she’s looking forward to a quiet Christmas. So, when local businesswoman Meera is in desperate need of help, Susan agrees rather reluctantly. The task should be easy enough. The infamous press mogul Duncan Fern is coming back to the Isle of Wight, the scene of his family’s childhood holidays, to celebrate Christmas with his grown-up children and their partners, his new glamorous wife Kirsten who is forever dripping with diamonds, and the spikey editor of his paper the Morning Flame, Antoine.

The Isle of Wight has always felt like a safe place to live for keen dog-walker and reluctant sleuth Susan. But after being involved in the investigation of a troubling crime near her old home, Susan decides to move to the peaceful village of Bishopstone. Susan loves the sense of community and immediately throws herself into village life, volunteering at the local primary school and joining the choir of St Jude’s. So, when there is an altercation at the meeting of the choir committee, followed by a shocking accident, Susan is dismayed to realise her powers of deduction may be needed again.

Young governess Flora Maguire is on her way home from America on the maiden voyage of the S.S. Minneapolis with her young charge Eddy, Viscount Trent, when she discovers a dead body. Unconvinced when the death is pronounced an accident, Flora starts asking questions, but following threats, a near drowning and a second murder, the hunt is on for a killer. Time is running out as the Minneapolis approaches the English coast. Will Flora be able to protect Eddy, as well as herself?