Resultados para "James" en Procedimientos policiales

En el hotel Metropole de Brighton, la noche de Nochevieja una mujer es brutalmente violada cuando regresa a su habitación. Una semana más tarde alguien ataca a otra mujer. El detective Roy Grace se da cuenta enseguida de que estos casos son muy similares a otros que quedaron sin resolver en 1997 en cuya investigación él participó. Al criminal se le apodó Hombre de los zapatos y se cree que violó a cinco mujeres antes de acabar asesinando a la sexta de sus víctimas y de desvanecerse.

Un acosador obsesionado por Gaia anda suelto, incluso parece que ha viajado desde California a Brighton y ahí está, esperando, vigilando, acechando… Para el detective Roy Grace todo esto es una pesadilla hecha realidad.

Katie Bishop, esposa de un multimillonario hombre de negocios, aparece asesinada de un modo brutal en su lujosa casa de Brighton. Su marido, Brian, está en Londres por asuntos profesionales cuando se produce el crimen; sin embargo y a pesar de una coartada aparentemente sólida, poco a poco las sospechas se ciernen sobre él hasta convertirlo en el único sospechoso. Al frente de la investigación se coloca el comisario Roy Grace, cuyo instinto, desde un primer momento, le dirá que algo en la historia de los Bishop no encaja.

Cuando el estafador Ronnie Wilson ve cómo se desmoronan las torres gemelas en Nueva York, sus pensamientos no están con los miles de víctimas, ni con la sobrecogida ciudad escenario de los atentados terroristas. En Brighton, el protagonista de esta serie de novelas, Roy Grace investiga la aparición del esqueleto de una mujer en las costas de Brighton, lo que no hace más que despertar sus propios fantasmas: la desaparición de su propia esposa nunca esclarecida. Cuando se descubre que el cadáver es el de la esposa del estafador Wilson, la investigación se complica para Grace.

Cuatro cadáveres. Un sospechoso. Ninguna pista … Primera novela de la serie de misterio del detective Roy Grace, un hombre atormentado por el recuerdo de su mujer muerta. A Michael Harrison pretenden gastarle una broma inolvidable en su despedida de soltero; algo que jamás pueda olvidar: enterrarlo vivo durante unas horas. Todo se complicará cuando sus amigos, que son los únicos que conocen el verdadero paradero de Michael, mueran esa misma noche en un accidente de tráfico.

Carly Chase está todavía traumatizada por el accidente de tráfico que tuvo hace unos diez días y en el que resultó muerto un estudiante de la universidad de Brighton. Roy Grace de la policía de Sussex advierte a Carly de la seriedad del peligro en el que se encuentra, porque ella podría ser la siguiente. Lo que desconoce, es que el asesino se ha anticipado y la observa, espera y se prepara.

FBI agent Sarah Cole is stunned to receive an invitation to the “Game of Nines,” the most secretive and longest-running murder puzzle in history. Thrust into a mystery that has confounded law enforcement for decades, she proves to be an unexpectedly formidable "player"—and might finally end the deadly game once and for all.

Gus Haddock never expected to take over as chief of police in tiny Little Penwick, Rhode Island—the smallest town in the smallest state—while his father Julius sat in jail, framed by the corrupt state Attorney General. Fresh off three tours with the Army Rangers and battling PTSD, Gus dives into his first case: the mysterious disappearance of a local fishing boat captain and his 40-foot trawler on a freezing January night.

Forty years ago, on a sweltering summer evening in southern Ohio, seven-year-old Michael Adkins vanished into thin air. Two years later, in the dead of winter, his case long gone cold, Michael's remains were found in a well-searched area, just one hundred yards from where he disappeared. The discovery provided no answers, only more questions. Last week, Michael's now elderly mother walked into Detective Jake Cashen's office with a tantalizing clue that just arrived on her doorstep. A handwritten letter filled with chilling details only someone close to the decades-old crime could know.

Chi è realmente Gary Soneji, timido e stimato professore di matematica in una esclusiva scuola di Washington? E perché, senza un motivo apparente, ha rapito Maggie Rose, figlia di una star del cinema, e Michael Goldberg, figlio del ministro del Tesoro? Un caso micidiale per Alex Cross, detective con una laurea in psicologia, che lavora nel ghetto di Washington.

Finally out of jail after tangling with a corrupt state Attorney General, Julius Haddock—the retired police chief of tiny Little Penwick, Rhode Island—is drifting through his days with a brand-new private investigator's license burning a hole in his pocket. Bored and restless, he decides to crack open the town's oldest cold case: the thirty-year-old murder of a sixteen-year-old girl who pedaled off on her bike one summer morning to work at the local farm stand… and never arrived. They found her body the next day, but the evidence was thin then and thinner now.

P.D. James und ihren Ermittler Adam Dalgliesh gibt es bei AUDIOBUCH nun im spannend-unterhaltsamen Dreierpack. In »Ein Spiel zu viel« wird auf Martingale Manor die Leiche des Hausmädchens Sally Jupp gefunden. Was hat es damit auf sich? In »Eine Seele von Mörder« wird ebenfalls eine Frauenleiche entdeckt, mit einem Meißel im Herzen, in einer vornehmen Nervenklinik. Diese stellt sich bald als Intrigennest heraus, das Dalgliesh einige Rätsel aufgibt. In »Ein unverhofftes Geständnis« freut sich Dalgliesh auf eine verdiente Pause.

Work together, live together, and play together is the name of the game for Royce Locke and Sawyer Key. But one of those things changes when Chief Mendoza taps Sawyer to lead the new cold case unit. His first task: solve the Magnolia Murders that spanned three decades and suddenly stopped in 2000. Chaos ensues when a fourth Magnolia Queen contender is murdered during a preliminary round. With the pageant's hundredth anniversary looming, the pressure is on to produce results. Royce and Sawyer, along with their new partners, have to team up to solve the Magnolia Murders—old and new.

Los Ángeles, Nochevieja de 1949. El cadáver mutilado de un hombre joven, los ojos arrancados, mordeduras por todo el cuerpo...es el primer asesinato de la oleada que sembrará el pánico en los entornos comunistas de la ciudad. Danny Upshaw, ayudante del sheriff, se obsesiona con el caso mientras se convierte en anzuelo contra los comunistas en Hollywood. Se sumarán a la caza de brujas Mal Considine, ambicioso teniente de la fiscalía del distrito, y Buzz Meeks, expolicía caído en desgracia.

When Helen and Sean Phillips go out for the evening, leaving their teenage daughter babysitting little Frankie, they have no idea that they are about to face every parent's greatest fear. Detective Inspector Patrick Lennon is hopeful that the three children who have been abducted in this patch of south-west London will be returned safe and well. But when a body is found in a local park, Lennon realizes that time is running out - and that nothing in this case is as it seems.…

In 1998 an Alku, Minnesota, family of five was brutally murdered in their sleep. The event shook the insulated community but, without any solid leads, was relegated to the cold case files, where it moldered for twenty-five years. Until today. Agent Harry Steinbeck hoped never to return to the northland, a place that holds terrible memories of his sister’s abduction. But when a recent homicide is connected to Alku’s unsolved mass murder, he and cold case agent Evangeline Reed have no choice but to investigate.

Born on the wrong side of the tracks, Royce Locke is no stranger to scrapping and fighting for the things he wants. What he desires most is Sawyer Key - his partner on the force and the man he's falling in love with. After asking Sawyer to take a chance on him, Royce will need to back up his words with fearless action instead of being his own worst enemy. Someone is harassing the mayor of Savannah, and Locke and Key are tasked with finding out who. The investigation quickly takes a twisted turn, leading them to an enemy who thinks purification by fire is the only way to save the city.

Emery Hazard and his partner, John-Henry Somerset, have solved their first case together. The brutal murders that rocked the quiet town of Wahredua have been put to rest. Hazard, however, finds his life has only grown more complicated as he adjusts to his new home. Living with Somers, whom he has been drawn to since high school, makes "complicated" the understatement of the year.

De New Yorkse politieagent John Stefanovitch heeft het spoor van zijn leven te pakken. Als hij Alexandre St-Germain te pakken krijgt, heeft hij meteen ook toegang tot de Midnight Club, een schimmige organisatie van zakenmannen die eigenlijk actief zijn in de misdaad. Maar Stef heeft het gevaar onderschat. Hij wordt neergeschoten en belandt in een rolstoel.

Detective Jake Cashen is called to a cul-de-sac on the edge of Blackhand Hills, where a teenage girl has discovered the victims of a murder-suicide. Newlyweds, shot in their own home. It looks open-and-shut. But something about the scene feels wrong—and Jake can't shake the parallels to his past. The case dredges up memories of his own parents' deaths under the same circumstances. His father snapped. His mother paid with her life. End of story. But as Jake digs deeper into the present-day investigation, he finds unsettling threads that lead straight to the tragedy that defined his childhood.