Resultados para "Das Wesen" en Policíaca, negra y suspense

Il est resté mystérieux et charismatique... mais maintenant, il est surtout brisé. Elle ne vit toujours que pour les quelques minutes où elle peut l'apercevoir... mais cette fois-ci, uniquement en rêve. Oublier. C'est ce que s'efforcent de faire Ella et Wes... mais maintenir la distance n'est pas aussi facile qu'il y paraît, en particulier lorsque le destin s'en mêle. Entre secrets, douleur, passion et incertitudes, ils vont devoir se battre... mais à présent, pour les bonnes raisons.

In a rural Appalachian town, a man reckons with the violence and lassitude of his neighbors after a dark and confusing encounter in the woods. His life, as dull and steady as the weather hanging over the town where he lives, becomes a phantasmagoria when he is haunted by waking nightmares about a dead girl no one else can see. In this short work of Appalachian magical realism, a man is plagued by the ghosts of murders he didn't commit.

Ein kleines Mädchen stirbt, und der Hauptverdächtige wandert in den Knast - unschuldig? 15 Jahre später...

For the first time in her life, DCI Emma Gardner finds herself unable to concentrate on the job she loves. Her thoughts are now always with her old colleague Paul Riddick, who lies desperately ill in hospital - a tortured man in life, now facing death. When a young woman dies from seemingly natural causes, Emma can’t help feeling that something isn’t quite right with the case, but she needs her team to pick up the slack whilst she focuses on Paul. The case proves more complex than anyone imagined and will test the team like never before.

When the body of a young girl is found exhumed from her grave, DCI Emma Gardner knows there’s more to this grisly find than just misadventure. Penny Maiden was killed in a hit and run accident forty years ago, and her killer was never found…Could someone be trying to right an old wrong?

DI Paul Riddick is a man tormented by his own actions and determined to right the wrongs of his past any way he can. But when his instincts lead him to follow a child he believes to be in danger, Riddick gets in deeper than he ever imagined...especially when the child is found dead. DCI Emma Gardner doesn’t believe Riddick has blood on his hands, but he’s off the case until she can clear his name. If she can clear his name. Because Riddick seems determined to chase ghosts that only get him into more trouble.

When the body of a young local girl is found next to an isolated lake, the main suspect is the old recluse who has lived next to the lake for many years – especially when the young girl’s purse is found on the old man’s doorstep. But DCI Emma Gardner and her partner DI Paul Riddick aren’t so sure. Why would the old hermit leave such an obvious clue? And who would want to set the old man up?

As winter settles over Yorkshire, DCI Emma Gardner is hoping that work will calm down for everyone. Distracted by the continued disappearance of DI Paul Riddick Emma can’t seem to get her head back in the game. But when a human skull is discovered in a local pub, Emma knows it’s time to get a grip. With no one local reported missing, and with no body to be found, the team have their work cut out and no obvious clues to follow. Who could the skull belong to and what message is the killer trying to leave them? And then the first body is found…

Still grieving from the tragic death of her colleague, DCI Emma Gardner continues to blame herself and is struggling to focus. So, when she is seconded to the wilds of Yorkshire, Emma hopes she’ll be able to get her mind back on the job, doing what she does best - putting killers behind bars. But when she is immediately thrown into another violent murder, Emma has no time to rest. Desperate to get answers and find the killer, Emma needs all the help she can. But her new partner, DI Paul Riddick, has demons and issues of his own.

Ein unerwartetes Erbe führt die ungleichen Schwestern Alana und Olive zurück in ihr Heimatdorf an der Weser – und mitten in eine dunkle Vergangenheit. Der plötzliche Tod ihrer Großmutter wirft Fragen auf, die niemand im Dorf zu beantworten scheint. Stattdessen begegnen ihnen Schweigen, Misstrauen und Gerüchte über alte Verbrechen, die nie aufgeklärt wurden. Während die Schwestern versuchen, Licht ins Dunkel zu bringen, geraten sie immer tiefer in ein Netz aus Geheimnissen und Bedrohungen – bis sie erkennen, dass die Gefahr näher ist, als sie je geahnt hätten.

Denna kriminalklassiker skriven av bohuslänningen Torsten Sandberg kom ut första gången 1936. Pensionatet Granliden ligger i Värmlands djupa skogar. Platsen är mytomspunnen sedan länge, men nu verkar sägnerna ha blivit sanna. Man säger sig ha sett jättelika fotspår efter jätten i Ljunga klätt. I byn och på pensionatet blir människorna alltmer skräckslagna. Journalisten Stellan Werne får till uppgift att spåra den mystiska gärningsmannen efter mordet på notarie Wallmark.

DCI Michael Yorke and Emma Gardner are still plagued by guilt over their failure to catch the murderous psychiatrist known as the Conduit, and the loss of their former colleague to insanity. On Christmas Day, following a brutal massacre in Leeds, Yorke and Gardner find themselves once again chasing the ruthless puppeteer, believing that they have the initiative.

When Senator George Hearst taps Neville Stryker for another off-the-books job, it leads him straight to the gutted remains of the Mark Hopkins Mansion—once a crown jewel of Nob Hill, now a crime scene soaked in silence. The tenants, the Bosworth family, have vanished, their blood staining the marble, their bodies nowhere to be found. Locals whisper the place is cursed. Haunted. But Stryker knows better. Evil wears many masks, and not all of them are dead. Inside the mansion’s decaying splendor, strange things stir—phantoms of the past, secrets buried deep beneath velvet and stone.

When a body is found floating in the North Sea, it seems to be an open-and-shut suicide. But the victim is Dr Richard Firth—a renowned psychiatrist who allegedly took his own life in 1995 after a fall from grace and a malpractice investigation. Only, Dr Firth never died. He vanished—only to resurface under a stolen identity. As DCI Frank Black and DI Gerry Carver unravel the mystery of Firth's life, they uncover a disturbing legacy: a man who offered healing but left only ruin. His past patients and colleagues are hiding secrets of their own—and someone will do anything to keep them buried.

Für Detective Chief Inspector Frank Black sind es nicht nur vergessene Knochen. Es sind vergessene Hoffnungen. Vergessene Träume. Die vergessene Stimme eines Engels. Als ein Sturm im malerischen Küstenstädtchen Whitby in North Yorkshire vergrabene Knochen freilegt, wird Frank in eine Ermittlung hineingezogen, die ihn zurück in die späten Achtziger und zum feurigen Untergang eines beliebten Pubs führt. Frank ist mit Verletzlichkeit vertraut. Mit einer zerbrochenen Tochter lebt er damit. Mit einem Außenseiter wie Detective Inspector Gerry Carver arbeitet er damit.

Prez, eldest daughter of Chinese Triad leader Chin, is on a mission to go legit. She’s spent years building up connections and is ready to convert her network to a casino empire, on the backs of a struggling Native American tribe. That is unless family’s nemesis Noah Reid can stop her first. Definitely not an easy task as Prez will bribe, sleep with or kill anyone to establish her heartless criminal dynasty…including Noah’s unborn child.

Detective Chief Inspector Frank Black has always believed that no life should be forgotten. While consumed by the search for his missing daughter, Frank is called to the North York Moors when a decades-old body is discovered behind the cellar wall of the derelict Rusty Anchor pub. With the help of unconventional Detective Inspector Gerry Carver, Frank delves into seedy past of the pub and its notorious poker nights, where the town's most notorious locals gathered.

When buried bones are unearthed by a storm in North Yorkshire’s picturesque coastal town of Whitby, Black is drawn into an investigation that takes him back to the late eighties and the fiery demise of a popular pub. Frank is no stranger to vulnerability. With a shattered daughter, he lives with it. With an outsider in Detective Inspector Gerry Carver, he works with it. And in Charlotte Wilson, a young, eighteen-year-old musician discarded and buried near the old whalebones of Whitby, he recognizes it.

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Following the brutal events of the past months, the Maine State Police cannot stem the rising tide of violence sweeping through Blue Falls and its neighboring towns. At the heart of this discontent, Jake Pettman hides from men he betrayed back in England. Savage men who now know where he is. But Jake has more pressing concerns. Kayla MacLeoid. A kidnapped 14-year-old girl. And Jake cannot turn his back on a child. Even if it kills him.