Resultados para "Jane" en Thriller criminal

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.

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.

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.

Before he became Shadow, he was just Sean. Though to the media, the FBI, and a hundred police agencies he was The New Jersey Devil, The Steel Samurai, The Saint Louis Slaughter, and dozens more. These stories are the tales of how Sean learned discipline and the martial arts skills that have served him so well: from his time in college, where a series of accidents leads to him finding his sensei, to his life at Boston Implantables as one of their most gifted and inspired engineers, to becoming one of the more successful serial killers of the superhero era.

Then: Linda has it all: a gorgeous home, a devoted husband, two loving daughters. But she throws it all away to chase an impossible dream. Now: Linda is alone and penniless, living in a shabby rented flat. With nothing to lose, she signs up to a dating app for the over 50s. But the one man who responds to her profile, a man calling himself Tony Fortin, is not who he says he is. Linda recognises him immediately. He’s Marcus, her second husband. But that’s impossible. Marcus died eight months ago. He drowned off the coast of Corfu.

Detective Rozlyn Priest never expected to find herself here. Teetering on the brink of an ancient grave. She takes a breath, willing herself to look down. Old bones, broken relics—that’s what should be buried here, not the dead man staring back at her now. He is Charlie Higgins, a petty criminal Roz once called on for help. Is she the reason he’s dead? Slashed with a spear that belongs in the Dark Ages? Roz won’t rest until she finds the truth. And now she’s seeing things—visions of a flame-haired Saxon warrior who shares her thirst for justice.

Rob has always loved Anna, but she never wanted him. He paints her portrait over and over again. Now one night, she phones him, desperate for help. He rushes to her place, but when he gets there she's dead—sprawled across her living-room floor, a crimson gash in her chest. Now he’s the prime suspect for her murder. Her face on his canvas. Her kiss goodbye on his lips. Her blood on his hands. No one believes him, and does he even trust himself?

Während die Menschenmassen andächtig dem Prolog des Christkinds lauschen, stürzt ein dicker Mann von der Fleischbrücke und ertrinkt in der Pegnitz. Der erste einer Serie mysteriöser Unfälle, die sich im vorweihnachtlichen Nürnberg ereignen und alle eines gemeinsam haben: Die Opfer haben vor ihrem Tod ein ungewöhnlich ausgeprägtes Interesse an dem großen Sohn der Stadt gezeigt - Albrecht Dürer. Spätestens als auch noch in seine Wohnung eingebrochen wird, mag Fotograf Paul Flemming nicht mehr an Unfälle glauben und bekommt es mit der Angst zu tun.

En spaendingsmaettet historie fra Caribiens kriminelle underverden. Narkobaron Micha Collaro er en magtfuld mand, der fra Haiti styrer sit caribiske imperium med hård hånd. Han aftvinger sine folk evig underkastelse, han skyr ingen midler for at opnå sine mål, og han eliminerer sine fjender efter behov. Hans mål er magt og rigdom, og hans midler er trusler og korruption. At komme på tvaers af denne magtgale mand med de ambitiøse planer kan vaere skaebnesvangert. Det gjorde danske Vicki Salling Landet ligger i ruiner efter at vaere blevet ramt af det vaerste jordskaelv i nationens historie.

Den norske krimiforfatter og sociolog Jan Mehlums tredje krimi er Madrugada - i serien om den lidt sære, men sympatiske og retfærdighedssøgende advokat og hovedperson, Svend Foyn, som alt for let lader sig hvirvle ind i indviklede krimigåder. En efterårsdag lander en ung, smuk, iransk kvinde i lufthavnen i Oslo. Alene, bange og jaget af Teherans hemmelige politi er Jasmin i sidste øjeblik sluppet væk fra en overfladisk retssag og sikker død. Hemmeligheden, hun bærer på, er uudholdelig.

Eleanor Blackwood discovers a woman's body in the same spot in the woods where her mother was strangled eighteen years previously. But before the police can get there, the body vanishes. Is Eleanor's disturbed mind playing tricks on her again, or has her mother's killer resurfaced? And what does the number on the dead woman's forehead signify?

Den tidligere politimand Frants Hjejle ekspederer i en vinhandel. Han har nu fået til opgave at vande blomster hos en af forretningens store kunder, mens denne er på ferie i udlandet. Uheldigvis er der ingen blomster at vande, da dagen oprinder, for lejligheden er raseret. Og kunden kom aldrig på ferie. Han ligger myrdet under en vaeltet sofa. Tortureret til døde. Politiet vaelger tilsyneladende at nedprioritere sagen, hvilket undrer Hjejle.

The past never really leaves us. Crime reporter Julia Gooden sees proof of this every day in her stories. A dark childhood, a negligent parent, early abandonment - any one of them can seal a person's fate as either a villain or victim. Julia, who experienced all three, seems to have beaten the odds, finding happiness raising her two sons and a blossoming relationship with detective Raymond Navarro. But now, after three decades of absence, Julia's conman father has resurfaced to throw her life into turmoil again.

Da familien Vehkasalos teenagedatter Sinikka forsvinder, går Kimmo Joentaa fra det finske politi i gang med sin efterforskning op opdager, at sagen til forveksling ligner en treogtredive år gammel sag om teenageren Pia Lehtinen, som blev voldtaget, myrdet og smidt i en sø. Joentaa beder sin nyligt pensionerede kollega Antsi Ketola om hjælp, for den gamle sag var Ketolas, og selv om den aldrig blev opklaret, kan sporene måske kaste lys over den nye forbrydelse.

The first book in an intense thriller series featuring Inspector Hannah Kaufman. On her way to work one ordinary Wednesday morning, Inspector Hannah Kaufman is unexpectedly called to Stockholm South Hospital, where she’s confronted by a far from ordinary event. Armed men are inside the children’s hospital, threatening to kill one child an hour if their demands aren’t met. Hannah and her colleagues face a dramatic hostage situation with enormous media attention. Meanwhile, inside the hospital walls, the clock is ticking for the innocent children imprisoned with the terrorists.

Late one night, a man calls the local emergency line. He's in a cemetery, and he's just discovered a freshly dug grave marked with a wooden cross bearing his name. The dispatcher thinks it's the ravings of a drunk - until the police find the man's body the next day. What seemed like a morbid prank soon becomes a living nightmare for Berlin detective Jan Tommen. Recently reinstated to the force after a harrowing case's tragic conclusion, Jan enlists his friends.

On a midsummer's night, a stolen car packed with teenagers crashes at high speed on the southern edge of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. DI Jan Talantire arrives at the scene to find the victims of the crash. It appears to be a tragic accident until a worried mother turns up at the scene of the accident. Her daughter, Rhiannon, a friend of the joyriders, hasn't been seen since the previous night. The account dovetails with the statement of the householder who claimed to see a girl running near the crashed vehicle the moment he emerged.

Berlin detective Jan Tommen expected to wake up with a hangover - not a murder charge. But a well-known judge has been brutally killed and hard evidence places Jan at the crime scene. When disturbing gaps in Jan’s memory make finding an alibi impossible, the case against him looks open and shut. Faced with life on the inside, Jan flees police custody to take refuge with an old friend deeply enmeshed in the capital’s seedy underworld.

Elusive online journalist Scott King examines the chilling case of a young vlogger found frozen to death in the legendary local ‘vampire tower’, in another explosive episode of Six Stories. In the wake of the 'Beast from the East' cold snap that ravaged the UK in 2018, a grisly discovery was made in a ruin on the Northumbrian coast. Twenty-four-year-old vlogger Elizabeth Barton had been barricaded inside what locals refer to as 'The Vampire Tower', where she was later found frozen to death.