Resultados para "Das Echo" en Novela negra

In the shadow of California's Sierra Nevada mountains lies Darkness, a town where secrets run as deep as the valleys and some families' roots are stained with blood. Interim Sheriff Izar Llewellyn has enough on her plate, trying to prove herself worthy of her badge while battling small-town politics and her own painful past. But when a local mechanic is found hanged in the library's historical reading room, what looks like suicide soon reveals a darker truth.

It’s 20 years since Alice went missing. There’s never been any trace. Until now. Until some bones are found in a shallow grave on the cold, bleak North York Moors. But is it Alice? Or Becky? The other girl–who disappeared a month earlier…

In Echoes of the Lost: The Guardian of the Forgotten, Chandraish Sinha spotlights an engrossing tale of strength, mystery, and the tenacious pursuit of justice.

Detective David Wolf’s slow winter in the Colorado Rockies is interrupted by two events: a mountain lion attack in a remote trailer park, and a wealthy man coming into headquarters to report the robbery of three valuable paintings. Leaving the big cat incident to animal control, Wolf follows his duty and pursues the two thieves, even if the victim is a cagey billionaire with his hands in the pockets of an equally shady newcomer in town running for sheriff.

During a vicious heat wave, a county maintenance worker stumbles upon two suspicious suitcases abandoned by the side of the road. Sheriff Bree Taggert responds to find two bodies stuffed inside the luggage. The press demands action. The community is on edge. Suddenly, Bree is at the center of a media firestorm. In Oregon, a senator’s daughter goes missing. FBI Special Agent Mercy Kilpatrick agrees to keep the politically sensitive case on the down-low.

A brand new Nikki Galena mystery where echoes from the past haunt the twistiest, most complex investigation of her career.

1992. Ein kleiner Junge wird Zeuge eines schrecklichen Verbrechens. Jahre später begleitet die 28-jährige Lena ihren Jugendfreund zu einer Preisverleihung. Dort lernt sie den skrupellosen Filmproduzenten Konrad Felsinger kennen und trifft eine fatale Entscheidung. Zu spät erkennt sie die Gefahr, in die sie nicht nur sich selbst begibt. Die 50-jährige Marie hat indes ihren Frieden gefunden, denn sie trauert nicht mehr um Christian Gottlieb. Dieser außergewöhnliche Mann, der ihr so viel bedeutet hat und dessen plötzliches Verschwinden sie einst völlig aus der Bahn geworfen hat.

Auf einer fröhlichen Hochzeitsfeier beobachtet die 49-jährige Marie eine gruselig verkleidete Gestalt, die die Braut entführen will. Zuerst denkt sie noch an einen misslungenen Scherz, doch als ein Gast dazwischen geht, tötet ihn der Vermummte kaltblütig und entkommt. Danach ist für sie und die 26-jährige Lena nichts mehr, wie es war. Was bleibt, ist Angst: Wird der Mörder mit der lila Rose wieder zuschlagen? Georg Krammer, der ermittelnde Polizeibeamte, kann es nicht ausschließen, nachdem die dünngesäten Spuren im Sand verlaufen.

Rachael Schlank is a straight-talking detective who’s always felt like a fish out of water, bouncing between departments over the years. Now she’s finally found a home in Victoria Police's Cold Case Unit. When a vigilante starts targeting hunters, leaving clues about a long-ago cold case, Rachael is asked to join a task force investigating the crimes...along with a former colleague whose dangerous temper has already made an impact on her life.

Judge Dee has been appointed emergency governor of the plague and drought ridden Imperial City. As his guards help the city fend off a popular uprising, an aristocrat from one of the oldest families in China suffers an "accident" in a deserted mansion. In The Willow Pattern, the illustrious judge uses his trademark expertise to unravel the mysteries of the nobleman, a shattered vase, and a dead bondmaid. Along the way he encounters a woman who fights with loaded sleeves, a nearly drowned courtesan, and an elaborate trap set for a murderer.

It's spring in Lake Holly, New York, a time of hope and renewal. But not for immigrants in this picturesque upstate town. Raids and deportations are on the rise, spurring fear throughout the community. Tensions reach the boiling point when the district attorney's beautiful young bride is found hanging in her flooded basement, an apparent victim of suicide. But is she, wonders Vega? If so, where is her undocumented immigrant maid?

Phoenix detective Veranda Cruz is dead set on taking down the Villalobos crime family, but the ruthlessness of her quarry demands a ruthless edge of her own. Targeted by an increasingly unstable foe, Veranda must protect her family and navigate adversaries within the force while she sets a trap for Bartolo. As the action heats up, Veranda and her new Homicide team - along with an arson investigator who kindles a flame of his own - are all drawn into a deadly gambit.

Echoes is the debut novel by Haiden Charles. It is a quietly haunting story set in the small town of Keaton, Indiana. Through the perspective of an unnamed observer, ordinary nights and familiar country roads take on an unsettling, almost otherworldly quality, as events unfold through a lens that feels both distant and alien. Reality and imagination blur, leaving an eerie sense of detachment and quiet dread.

Kidnapped and raised by serial killers, Charlotte Rowe suffered an ordeal that made her infamous. Everyone in the world knew who she was. But no one in the world has any idea what she’s become…Charlotte is an experiment. And a weapon. Enabled by a superpower drug, she’s partnered with a shadowy pharmaceutical company to hunt down and eliminate society’s most depraved human predators. But her latest mission goes off the rails in a horrifying way. Unsettled by her own capacity for violence, Charlotte wants some time to retreat so she can work on her new relationship with Luke.

Worthington County's coldest case heats up when ground-breaking on a new luxury subdivision comes with a grisly surprise. In full view of the media and half the town, a local politician uncovers the remains of a young girl, gone missing for decades. The victim’s bones speak from the grave, telling a horrifying tale of her last moments on earth. Her death was no accident. She did not die peacefully. And she had a secret not even those closest to her knew. But was it worth killing for?

Trick or treat? Don’t answer the door. The blood-red leaves are falling all around Carolyn Ryder as she takes the last steps of a journey that has come to an end. All the pain, the suffering, and loss she has had to witness and endure along the murderous road Sam Pritchard has traveled; all leads to here. Ravenwood. But this time, Carolyn will not be alone. New allies will be forged, and she’s brought along some old ones too who have shared in the same plight in finding and killing monsters just like Pritchard.

Told from two different perspectives, Leah and her brother Jake, this suspense novel tells about when a forty-two-year-old married park ranger and mother of two grown children goes missing during the suitcase killer spree; everyone believes the serial killer is at fault. A serial killer known to decapitate and dismember his victims, stuffing most of the body parts in a suitcase but leaving the head or a limb around town to frighten unsuspecting passersby.

Carolyn Ryder made a choice that she may come to regret. It’s been three months now since her near-death encounter with the country’s most wanted Sam Pritchard, and still no sign of him. Returning to the coastal haven of Erin’s Bay, she soon catches the unwanted attention of the new Chief of Police, Clayton Morelli. He’s more than a little curious about the woman who lives in the beach house high on the clifftops.

A serial killer has resurfaced. Or is it a copycat killer in the north country woods this time around? The two grown children of the previous serial killer victim, and married park ranger, from Echoes of the Past return to battle the apparent cause of the suitcase killing spree, but appearances may be deceiving.

The winters in Willow Falls, Iowa are cold, brutal and unforgiving. And so is the town’s newest visitor. Except he’s not passing through. He’s here on vacation, for some fun and he’s going to stay for a while. They call him “Robin Hood”, a winter serial killer who has left a gruesome trail of horror and d ath across four Midwestern states. His grisly trademark is skewering his victims to tree trunks using a hunting crossbow. Now he’s here.