Resultados para "Jane" en Novela negra

Rachel Goodchild tiene cuarenta y nueve años y es una doctora consumada y de prestigio. Ya no se entiende con Nathan, su marido, y su hija Lizzie está cada vez más distante. Cuando Luc, un nuevo paciente, acude a ella desesperado, Rachel se involucra tanto en su historia que decide darle su número de teléfono como recurso en caso de urgencia, pero en el fondo también porque la atracción entre ambos es inmediata. Sin embargo, lo que comienza como una simple aventura acaba arrastrando a Rachel a una red de mentiras, secretos y traiciones que pondrá en peligro todo lo que tiene.

FBI Special Agent Jane Cannon built her life on discipline, loyalty, and trust in the badge. Until the night it all burned down. When an undercover operation against Seattle's most powerful crime family implodes without warning, Jane's partner is found dead—and she's the one under investigation. Suspended, isolated, and smeared as the scapegoat, Jane knows one thing for sure: she's been betrayed. But who inside her own task force wants her silenced? And what secrets were they willing to kill to protect?

In the dark underworld of the Russian Bratva, I've finally claimed the object of my obsession: Lydia Ivanova. Beautiful and passionate, she's fire and ice, and I want her. I need her. Lydia is my prize. My spoils of war. Only she doesn't know that yet. Forced into marriage with me to protect her from those who would destroy us, I vow to keep her secure at all costs… even when she fights me tooth and nail. Can I protect Lydia without consuming her, or will our love story end in ashes? The stakes have never been higher and for Lydia… I will burn the world.

Lisa Airey presents book two in the Juile Hastings series.

Born into the ruthless underworld, I've been cast aside. I'm locked in a cage of lies and betrayal, now framed for a crime I didn't commit. But then he came for me. Ollie Romanov, the savage enforcer, believes I'm a traitor. He's ruthless, merciless, and prepared to make me pay for my sins. To him, I'm nothing more than a pawn to punish. A traitor to be broken. Yet beneath the cold, brutal exterior, I see something more—a darkness that calls to my own. I shouldn't crave the twisted connection we share. I swear the man has no conscience… Except when it comes to me.

My life is black and white. Every choice is designed to protect my family and crush our enemies. Trust is a luxury I can't afford. Then she comes—Isabella Morales, disguised as a boy, burning with defiance and danger. Forbidden fruit, the daughter of a rival cartel. She holds secrets that could unravel everything I've fought for. Letting her live could be my demise. But now she's mine.

Jan og Erling er taget til Vestjylland for at campere med deres ven Clondyke-Carl. De tre venner nyder tiden på Vejrs Strand - bortset fra at deres lejr hele tiden bliver ødelagt. Da Jan og Carl en dag får øje på en mand, der er ved at sætte ild til teltet, udvikler tingene sig hurtigt.

Still reeling from a life-threatening experience on the coast of Calais, daredevil climber Jen Shaw finds herself in Glasgow for a funeral—and in search of answers. As her dogged determination propels her closer to the criminal underworld than ever before, Jen becomes the target of some dangerous and powerful people. The fact that her estranged father is also present in the city, for reasons of his own, only adds greater confusion and risk.

Thirty years ago, gangland enforcer Archie Boothroyd was brutally slain in an apparent ritual killing. The case was never a high priority for the police—after all, it meant one less gangster on the streets—and his murderer was never caught. Now, almost three decades later, when Paul Bradley—a close friend of Boothroyd's—is murdered in exactly the same way, DCI Jane Phillips and the Major Crimes Unit are called in to investigate. Is Bradley's death the work of a copycat? Or has the original killer finally returned?

Jago Trevithick KC has been busy in London with the complicated and lengthy trial of an underworld criminal. After a disastrous result, he returns to Penbartha to be with Olivia, seeking refuge and peace and to reassess his life choices. The morning after the long-awaited and eventful launch party Jago and Olivia discover a dead body and he immediately fears that his troubles in London have followed him home. As their professional lives collide, will Olivia and Jago be able to work together again to uncover the dark forces that are threatening the success of her latest venture...

Eco -architect Olivia Wells returns from her successful life in New York to the Cornish village of Penbartha intent on fulfilling her god-father’s bequest to expand and oversee a co-working community of eco and creative entrepreneurs in a converted railway building.

Det är inte vilka pensionärer som helst som hamnar i kampen mot extrem och ytterst välorganiserad brottslighet. Den ene är journalistveteranen Erik Ponti, den andre hans gamle vän från förr, den forne underrättelseofficeren Carl Hamilton. Till synes ett mycket omaka par, som det dock vore oklokt att underskatta. De hamnar snart i ett mycket händelserikt äventyr där inte bara livet står på spel.

Stockholm drabbas av en rad egendomliga inbrott. Tjuvarna är märkligt skickliga och stjäl bara från de allra rikaste. Vanliga inbrott brukar polisen inte utreda. Men den här gången tillsätts en specialkommission på grund av de enorma värden som stulits. Medan polisen mödosamt arbetar i tjuvarnas spår pågår i en annan del av staden en helt annan tillvaro med en helt annan vardag.

Defense attorney Ethan Milner is well-paid for his ability to charm a jury while ruthlessly slashing the prosecution. He's living life in the fast lane, until he's slapped with a reckless driving charge and sentenced to forty hours of community service on a crime watch patrol. Now he's under the thumb of the chairman of the city's crime watch council—a no-nonsense woman determined to make him pay his debt to society.

Ein Killer hält Berlin mit grausam zugerichteten Leichen in Atem … Der fesselnde Kriminalthriller voller unerwarteter Wendungen. Berlin wird von einer grausamen Mordserie erschüttert, bei der die Opfer brutal mit düsteren Versen versehen werden. Leitender Ermittler Josef Winter steht vor einem Rätsel, denn die Zeilen lassen sich keinem bekannten Dichter zuordnen. Während er tiefer in die mysteriösen Botschaften eintaucht, kommt er dem Täter und dem erschreckenden Geheimnis der Morde auf die Spur.

At twenty-seven, I’m too young to be a widow. I’m trying my best to start over though: new city, new job running my own little shop. I try to fade into the background where I can, but the police won’t let me disappear completely. There are too many unanswered questions about the night my husband died.

Ex-detective Ray Flowers thinks that all he has to worry about is his overgrown honeysuckle until an unexpected phone call shatters his complacence. The drug supplier known as Angel Eyes is back on the streets. They called him Angel Eyes, after the insignia he left behind at every crime scene. A pair of innocent blue eyes on a shred of paper. Angel Eyes vanished without a trace. But the lives he destroyed are still in ruins.

Smash all the Windows won the inaugural Selfies Book Award in 2019. It has taken conviction to right the wrongs. It will take courage to learn how to live again. London, 22 August 2003. A day that began like any other would end in tragedy. Fifty-eight people set off for work, only to never return. For more than thirteen years, the search for truth has eaten up everything: marriages, families, health, careers and finances. A flawed justice system failed the victims' kin, but hope arises when a rookie law student scrutinizes the disaster and uncovers potential answers.

Ett dödsfall har skakat det prestigefyllda societetsområdet Ekvägen på södra Djurgården. När utredningen inleds paraderas den ena färgstarka karaktären efter den andra: bryggaränkan Sara Billgren, som har en fäbless för att spionera på sina grannar, grevinnan Maria von Schlieffen, som gärna och ofta har sexuellt umgänge med unga diplomater inför öppen ridå och inte minst domprostinnan själv, den soldyrkande Henrika Sellin.

Crime writer Julia Gooden has just completed the most important story of her life - a book about her beloved brother's childhood abduction and how she found his killer after 30 years. But that hasn't taken her focus off her day job - especially with what looks to be a serial killer terrorizing the city. Female runners are being snatched off jogging trails, then slaughtered in abandoned churches. As Julia begins investigating, with help from Detective Raymond Navarro, she realizes just how personal this case has become.