Resultados para "Emerald" en Novela negra

The seamstress is found in the darkened docks, floating, silenced. Those who found her are sure it must be a tragic accident, probably the result of too many drinks in a nearby public house. But journalist Nelly Brooks recognises the dead woman immediately – Nelly has her emerald shawl in her bag. Because they had met just one day before, when the seamstress had begged Nelly to investigate the death of the woman who’d given her that same shawl – a wealthy man’s wife.

Recovering ancient relics for the Italian mob can be deadly. When Harry Fox narrowly outwits a thieving artifacts dealer to escape with his life, he quickly discovers he came away with more than he bargained for. The stone tablet with a strange tale etched on it tells of lost knowledge from the cradle of civilization--the ancient Persian Empire.

When tabloid camera girl Henri Fox pictures a Hollywood megastar making love on the back seat of a stretch limo, the star’s father, a ruthless Bogota emerald mine owner, must bury his daughter’s scandalous snapshot—and Henri Fox with it. He enlists the aid of left-wing FARC guerrillas, forcing the US President to join the hunt. Henri Fox is in mortal danger and will have to survive them both in a chase from London via Madrid to the notorious Boyaca Emerald Valley in Colombia.

From USA Today best-selling author Audrey J. Cole—the first five books in the Emerald City Thriller series.

Former exotic dancer, Emerald Vasquez, lived a lavish life running a dance studio for exotic dancers and being the wife of Dominic Vasquez, a billionaire and owner of the hotel and casino, Casa Vasquez Royale. She had everything a woman could desire, except for a man who understood how to be faithful. Despite her husband’s infidelity, Emerald turned a blind eye, overlooking the family he had created on the side. That was until she discovered divorce papers that could ruin everything she had worked hard for.

He’s a master of the human mind. But can he get away with murder? Dr. Eric Leroy hungers for literary fame. Exhausted after years of listening to his rich clients wallowing in their worries, the psychiatrist intends to pursue his true passion of writing murder mysteries. And with his most obnoxious patient in mind, he crafts a killer plot to write exactly what he knows.... The nation is shocked when a famous Seattle resident and his wife are found dead in their upscale Madison Park neighborhood. It looks like murder-suicide, but Detective Blake Stephenson isn't convinced.

Cassandra follows her ex-boyfriend, Mike. It's all she's ever done since their breakup. Some people have hobbies like tennis, or reading, but for Cassandra, stalking Mike brings her the most fulfillment. But now that Mike has found a new romantic interest in a woman named "Zoe," Cassandra worries he'll move on for good, and she'll never get the chance to win him back. She decides to break up the budding connection before the romance even has a chance to grow.

Attempting to leave her traumatic past behind, newlywed Zoe heads to a beautiful tropical island in the remote Seychelles to honeymoon with her husband, Mike. But when the pair wakes up stranded on an archipelago with their entire wedding party, it's clear the past has caught up with them. Someone in the group is working with figures from Zoe's past to betray them, confirming Zoe's worst fear: that she can never outrun what she thought she left behind.

She's stolen something precious. He'll do anything to get it back. The trap... is set. In this third and final installment in the Predator/Prey thriller trilogy, Zoe turns the tables by inviting Logan to play a game of her own design. She's stolen something precious to him. An important object he can't live without. To retrieve this item, Logan will have to solve a series of puzzles that will take him across Europe. On the way, he'll be forced to face the ghosts of his past.

Zoe doesn’t trust men easily. So when she heads to the remote backwoods of Yosemite on a horse tour with her new boyfriend— Mike— it’s a major step in their relationship. But when a stalker with a connection to Mike’s past follows them through the wilderness, killing members of their party, the trip suddenly becomes a game of survival. As new information about Mike’s past is revealed, Zoe begins to wonder if she can really trust the man she dared to brave the wild with.

It was the perfect summer job—until it turned into her worst nightmare. Bridgett is enjoying an idyllic summer as the nanny for Leo, the son of Paul and Emily Cooper—a famous actor and renowned charity founder. Not only is she generously compensated to care for Leo at the couple’s Seattle waterfront estate, she develops a special bond with the little boy. In addition to the financial perks of the job, Bridgett has fallen into a summer love affair with Chris, a landscaper who works at the property. It’s the Fourth of July.

A year after serial killer Michael Rhodes is executed and allowed to donate part of his brain as an organ transplant, Wade gets called to a murder scene that shares uncanny similarities to those of the late Michael Rhodes. Other similar killings happen around Seattle, and Wade seems to be the only person still alive who knows enough about Michael Rhodes’s murders to be able to replicate them. When evidence found at one of the crime scenes points to Wade as the killer, he races to find the real culprit before it’s too late to clear his own name.

When Malorie witnesses her best friend and roommate leave a campus bar with a mystery date driving a silver Mercedes, she suspects foul play, especially when Lani fails to return home the next day. Both women, med students in their final year at Elliott Bay University, have a lot riding on the line, but no one in her family is worried. When Malorie’s fears for her roommate deepen, she turns to her Uncle Wade, a sergeant at Seattle Homicide. Within 48 hours after Lani goes missing, the partial remains of a brutally murdered young woman wash up on Alki Beach....