Resultados para "Crow" en Novela negra

“No one does suspense better.” —Stephen King Ambitious young London police officer Philomena McCarthy returns in this “spectacular” (Booklist) psychological thriller by the author of When You Are Mine. Philomena McCarthy has defied the odds to become a young officer with the...

In den Gassen der Buchmessestadt Leipzig erwacht ein Schatten zum Leben, der flüstert, täuscht und tötet. Eine Frau eilt durch die Dunkelheit, ahnungslos, dass ein harmloses Treffen der Auftakt zu einem Albtraum ist, der die Grenzen zwischen Fiktion und blutiger Realität auflöst. Während der Messetage versetzt ein skrupelloser Mörder die Stadt in Angst. Er wählt seine Opfer bewusst aus und arrangiert sie mit der kalten Präzision eines Psychopathen – nicht nur, um zu töten, sondern um der Öffentlichkeit zu zeigen, dass er ein Meister seines grausamen Werks.

The system was never broken. It was designed. For one year, Dr. Eli Crowe has been stable. No killings. No fractures. No Shadow. Under the guidance of renowned psychiatrist Adrian Vale, Eli has rebuilt his reputation, regained control, and returned to consulting on violent crime investigations. The city believes he was saved. But peace negotiated is not peace earned. When a new wave of precision-engineered crimes begins to surface—crimes that feel less like chaos and more like calibration—Eli senses something is wrong.

Introducing Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope. The Crow Trap is the first book in Ann Cleeves’s Vera Stanhope series – which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn, Vera. Everyone has something to hide . . . Three very different women come together at an isolated cottage...

When Detective Inspector Robert Finlay is sent to a military barracks to investigate a connection to weapons discovered in the possession of London gangsters, he is given strict instructions not to get involved in a suicide enquiry into the recent death of a young, recruit soldier. The army...

Dr. Eli Crowe learned early that monsters don’t always look like monsters. When he was a child, his mother—a devoted teacher—was murdered. The case was never truly solved. The questions never stopped echoing. And the absence left behind shaped everything Eli would become.

Justice has a pattern. So does obsession. When violent offenders begin dying in meticulously staged scenes across the city, authorities are quick to believe they’re facing a vigilante—someone hunting the worst of the worst. To the public, it looks like justice finally catching up. To forensic psychologist Eli Crowe, it feels different. Each crime is too precise. Too deliberate. Not random retribution—but design. As Eli continues his work with a task force racing to stop the killer, the investigation accelerates into a dangerous cat-and-mouse game. Every step forward tightens the net.

Introducing Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope. The Crow Trap is the first book in Ann Cleeves’ Vera Stanhope series – which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn, Vera. Everyone has something to hide . . . Three very different women come together at an isolated cottage...

When Seattle's wealthiest families start turning up murdered inside their own homes, FBI Special Agent Jane Cannon is called in to hunt a killer with a taste for spectacle. The victims are staged. Their fortunes are stripped away. Their children are slaughtered. And somehow, the household pets keep disappearing. What begins as a string of savage home invasions quickly unravels into something far more sinister. A secret network of power brokers. Stolen financial secrets.

Rock climbers can’t afford to make careless mistakes. But Detective Inspector Nick Dixon’s former climbing partner, Jake Fayter, died doing just that. Or so it seems. Dixon suspects foul play, but his only leads are unreliable accounts of something odd happening in Cheddar Gorge seconds before Jake fell. The more Dixon learns about Jake’s life, the more he realises that Jake hadn’t been quite the man he remembered...and a lot of people could have wanted him dead. Once Dixon gets too close to the truth, those people will emerge from the shadows and kill to protect their secrets.

When the body of a man is discovered in woodlands outside Manchester, a ten-year missing-persons investigation can finally be filed away. But this was no ordinary death: gagged, bound and buried alive, he was the victim of a sophisticated and sadistic killer. And there is something else that has the National Crime Agency puzzled. A single character carved into a nearby tree.

A psychological drama set in semi-rural England, where life continues comfortably for its growing inhabitants. Neal Hawthorne, is a contented bachelor continuing his lifelong love of book restoration into retirement. Nosstaw has been his home since birth. He is friendly and well known in the area, sharing peaceful times in the local park with his friend, Jack.

An Irish mobster. A missing friend. Two loyalties, ripping me apart. I had a plan. Get in, get my information, and get out. Easy, right? Turns out, infiltrating the Irish mafia isn't exactly what I thought it would be. I just wanted a soldier. Someone I could flirt with to get me in the door. That's when Lachlan Crow noticed me. Problem was, he wasn't a soldier. No, he was next in line for the throne of the Irish underworld. And he was determined to hate me from the outset.

Back in the FBI's good graces but still carrying the scars of betrayal, Special Agent Jane Cannon thought she knew the difference between right and wrong. Then she watched a gang of violent criminals walk free—and realized justice doesn't always survive the paperwork. When a string of reckless bank heists tears through Seattle—leaving officers wounded and civilians dead—Jane is pulled into a manhunt that feels too chaotic to be random. But the deeper she digs, the more it's clear: the robberies are just a smoke screen. Something far bigger is brewing underneath.

Sometimes the greatest danger comes from the people who swear to protect you. FBI Special Agent Jane Cannon built her life on discipline, loyalty, and trust in the badge. Until the night it all burned down. When an undercover operation against Seattle's most powerful crime family implodes...

In this gripping stand-alone from bestselling author Mary Burton, an FBI agent must catch a copycat killer. The only difference this time: she’s the final victim. Catching monsters helps FBI agent Kate Hayden keep her nightmares at bay. Now an urgent call brings her back to San Antonio, the...

In this Printed Words anthology, the lines merge between crime and horror, fiction and poetry. So, you’ll be kept guessing whether the villain is human or monster. Sometimes, the worst monsters are those who pass as human.

Peter Marlin's wife is found strangled and he becomes the prime suspect. She'd only just returned from an unexplained absence of several months. And during that time, Peter had found a new lover. Everything points to the husband but there's no real proof. Inspector John Crow is called in to help the local police. But his new colleagues aren't keen on an outsider. And Crow must solve the case before anyone else dies. 

Charlie Rutland, a womanizing journalist, is found brutally murdered. He worked for a muck-raking gossip magazine and therefore had many enemies. Detective Crow is assigned to Yorkshire where he must eliminate a long list of suspects. And where does the German businessman Conrad Gunther fit in? Mysterious lights at Lockyer Tarn, a homeless man hiding out on the Yorkshire Dales, a stolen Volvo, and a former Gestapo officer are all seemingly linked in some manner. And then the British spy services get involved....

A young woman is found dead in a college while the students demonstrate. It turns out she was the principal's secretary, and there was more to her than meets the eye. Who wanted her dead and why? And what does it have to do with the student revolt led by a charismatic firebrand from Iraq? Inspector John Crow is called in and has little doubt who's responsible, but a series of surprises will make him reconsider everything. Many of the faculty seem to have things to hide.