Resultados para "Hard Times" en Misterio

¿Dónde está Megan? La adolescente de diecisiete años Megan Carver ha desaparecido. No parecía el tipo de persona que se escaparía de casa: era una estudiante de excelentes calificaciones, provenía de un hogar feliz y rara vez se metía en problemas. Seis meses después, aún no la han encontrado. Desesperados, los padres de Megan contratan al investigador de personas desaparecidas David Raker para averiguar lo que sucedió. Raker, que no es ajeno al dolor y la pérdida, sabe que para encontrarla tendrá que adentrarse en un mundo oscuro que podría costarle la vida.

It starts with a few near-accidents: A car almost swipes Mike Hammer when he’s crossing the street. A junkie robs the notoriously hardboiled detective at knifepoint. A fight on a subway platform comes close to pushing him in front of a train. While any one of these could be a coincidence, together they make a conspiracy—one that Hammer will have to end in order to survive. And when it comes to finishing something—or someone—nobody does it better than Hammer.

Johns are dying in Barnstow. It was bound to happen eventually, in a city where legal prostitution is a big part of the tourist industry, but not so many so fast. And of course, if there are dead bodies in Barnstow, Detective Jimmy Delaney isn’t far away.

While driving home after celebrating friend Murray Ryerson's big break into TV hosting, V.I. almost collides with a fatally wounded woman lying in the street. The deceased is Nicola Aguinaldo, former employee of security giant B.B. Baladine and recent prison runaway. Taking on the case, V.I. finds herself plunged into a sinister network of corruption that pits her against the police, the prison and the entertainment industry - with potentially lethal results.

Small-time stoolie Jake "The Spinner" Jablon made a lot of new enemies when he switched careers from informer to blackmailer. And the more "clients," he figured, the more money - and the more people eager to see him dead. So he's greedy but scared, and he turns to his old acquaintance Matthew Scudder, who used to pay him for information back in Scudder's days as a cop. Scudder's his insurance policy - if anything happens to "The Spinner," Scudder can check up on the people who wanted him dead. No one is too surprised when the pigeon is found floating in the East River....

Two witnesses see the man drag the old woman into a canyon while brandishing a rifle. As night falls, detective Jill Smith and the Berkeley police department set up a perimeter. The canyon is a hostage negotiator’s nightmare - dark, rough, and full of escape routes - and when she finally opens communication, the gunman doesn’t respond. Rather than wait for dawn, Jill leads her team into the darkness. At the bottom of the canyon they find a battered old mannequin and a box of stolen parking tickets.

Auf dem Gelände eines Beachclubs am Ufer des Essener Baldeneysees wird die Leiche einer jungen Frau entdeckt. Wer ist die Tote, die niemand zu vermissen scheint? Ihre Identität gibt den Ermittlern ein zunächst unlösbares Rätsel auf. Das Team des K3 steht vor einer mehr als kniffeligen Aufgabe. Nicht nur, dass die jüngsten Ereignisse in seinem privaten Umfeld Hauptkommissar Karrenberg alles abverlangen - zu allem Überfluss wird er nach dem Ausfall seines Chefs zum kommissarischen Leiter der Ermittlungseinheit ernannt.

Die Worte des Mörders hallten in seinen Ohren wider: "Auge um Auge. Zahn um Zahn. Leben um Leben." Der brutale Mord an einem renommierten Psychiater hält das personell noch immer geschwächte Team des Essener K3 in Atem. Als das Team schließlich erste Hinweise auf den vermeintlichen Täter entdeckt, geschieht ein weiterer, nicht weniger grausamer Mord. Ist das Team einem Serienkiller auf der Spur oder handelt es sich um die Taten zweier Einzeltäter? Je weiter die Ermittlungen voranschreiten, desto klarer wird den Beteiligten, dass es einen roten Faden geben muss.

This drive through the dark streets of the Motor City “is one of the best in Akashic Books’ noir series. You cannot go wrong with this anthology.”—Reviewing the Evidence From cri….

Edgar and Macavity Award-nominated author Timothy Hallinan throws his erudite Los Angeles private eye into the middle of a global human-trafficking operation in this fifth book in the series. Simeon Grist does a favor for the family of his sometimes-girlfriend, Eleanor Chan, and goes looking for two children who vanished in Chinatown. He quickly learns that he's gone straight through the looking glass and into a world where grieving parents are afraid to contact the police, where fear is the teacher and power is the law.

One of the reasons Mark Banning had become a private detective was to help those with seemingly "lost cause" cases no one else would take. The case Diedre Hammond begged him to take seemed hopeless - DNA evidence proved her brother had raped and killed a six-year-old. Months had passed since Diedre's brother, Sam, had been executed, protesting his innocence up to the moment of execution.

Stone Barrington allies with a former foe when his west coast vacation turns into a dangerous situation in this riveting novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. When Stone Barrington embarks on a trip to Bel-Air to check in on some business and personal concerns, he expects a...

Brought to you by Penguin. Late at night in a New York café army-cop-turned-drifter Jack Reacher orders coffee in a cup made of foam, not china, so that he can move on at a moment's notice. He owns nothing, carries less, has never encountered a female colleague he can't bed, or a case he can't...

In this epic showdown from writer and story editor for the acclaimed and award-winning US crime series, The Wire, police officer Derek Strange hunts his brother's killer through a city erupting with rage. Derek Strange is a rookie cop, the job he's dreamed of since he was a boy. His brother...

Bloomsbury presents The Doorman by Chris Pavone, read by Edoardo Ballerini. 'Sensationally good.' LEE CHILD A pulse-pounding novel of class, privilege, sex, and murder, from the New York Times bestselling author of Two Nights in Lisbon and The Expats. Chicky Diaz is everyone’s favourite...

Mr. Saltz—known only as The Undertaker—runs a funeral parlor with secrets hidden beneath every floorboard. Emotionless, tasteless, and cold by nature, Saltz disposes of bodies for the city's most powerful crime boss, Manford Van Johnson. But when a relentless detective begins to connect the dots, and rival families move in to clean house, the quiet shadows start to stir.

When Daily News reporter Mike McGovern finds himself targeted as the suspect in the killing of the dead man McGovern discovered in his own apartment, he calls on Kinky, a street-smart country singer to help him beat the rap.

"Die Akademie des Todes". Düster. Blutig. Spannend. Mariella und Dominik verdienen ihr Geld als professionelle Trickbetrüger und Diebe. Der Einbruch in eine Villa am Bodensee scheint Routine zu sein, doch dabei stoßen sie auf einen Geheimgang, der in die Tiefe führt. Qualvolle Schreie dringen empor. Bevor sie dem Ganzen auf den Grund gehen können, müssen sie fliehen. Doch wer sind ihre Verfolger und was treiben sie im Keller unter dem Keller?

A decade ago, it had been unthinkable when Joe Turner's life-long friend, Owen Prescott, was charged with a grisly murder. Then Owen disappeared, leaving behind a brilliant career and budding romance to live as a fugitive from justice. Now, haunted by the memory and clinging to a belief in Owen's innocence, Joe dives in to solve the cold case as the FBI closes in on his friend. The award-winning Joe Turner Mystery series returns with a haunting, serpentine tale that pushes the snarky defense attorney to the brink.

Kirusk hat sich für Jarek nach dem Mordanschlag zu einem Alptraum entwickelt und die große Stadt ist fremder und bedrohlicher für ihn als je zuvor. Er muss sich der Frage stellen, ob er unter diesen Umständen seinen Kontrakt als Memo Ebangas weiter erfüllen kann – und ob er das überhaupt noch will. Denn er fühlt sich nach den blutigen Vorfällen im Siebten Kreis überhaupt nicht mehr willkommen. Doch dann geschieht etwas, das wieder einmal alles verändert und völlig unerwartet finden Jarek und seine Freunde und Gefährten eine Spur zu Ollo, wo sie diese als letztes vermutet hätten.