Resultados para "John Reed" en Policíaca, negra y suspense

Las obsesiones pueden acelerar tu caída. Al inspector John Rebus le gustaría solucionarlo todo, pero para eso debe adentrarse en la oscuridad. En apenas unos días, se tiene que enfrentar a un pederasta reincidente, al inexplicable suicidio de un colega, a la enigmática desaparición del hijo de unos amigos y, sobre todo, a un peligroso psicópata deportado a Edimburgo por las autoridades estadounidenses.

As Lord Chamberlain, John spent his days counseling Emperor Justinian while passing the small hours of night in conversation with the solemn-eyed little girl depicted in a mosaic on his study wall. He never expected to meet her in a public square - or afterwards, to find her red-dyed corpse in a subterranean cistern.

In January 532, mobs rule Constantinople, capital of the Roman Empire. Against a murderous backdrop lit by raging fires, John, chamberlain to Emperor Justinian, must find those seeking to use the Nika riots to dethrone the emperor.

The year is 548, and Empress Theodora is dead of disease. Such is the belief of everyone in Constantinople, capital of the Roman Empire - everyone except Emperor Justinian, who orders John, his Lord Chamberlain, to find her murderer or suffer the consequences. There is no sign of foul play, but many of the aristocrats at the imperial court had good reason to want Theodora dead.

When a retired colleague dies of an apparent suicide, ex - Secret Service agent Joe Reeder knows there must be far more to the story. Why did the man leave a desperate message for Reeder moments before dying? And what could possibly make such a seasoned veteran fear for his life? FBI Special Agent Patti Rogers has a mystery of her own to solve: she's leading a task force investigating a brutal series of similar but seemingly unconnected murders across the DC area.

FBI agent Patti Rogers finds herself paired with the unpopular former agent on a task force investigating the killing of Supreme Court Justice Henry Venter. Reeder - nicknamed "Peep" for his unparalleled skills at reading body language - makes a startling discovery while reviewing a security tape: the shooting was premeditated, not a botched robbery. Even more chilling, the controversial Venter may not be the only justice targeted for death.

Former Special Forces Operative Ion Frost has one job left before he vanishes off the grid for good: Deliver his dead comrade’s dog tags to a boy named Lincoln. It should have been a quick easy stop. But for wanderer Ion Frost, things have a way of getting complicated. Upon meeting Lincoln, Ion learns that his older sister, Taya, has been missing for over a week. Ion's plans to disappear get put on hold. Then an assassin takes out Lincoln in a brutally efficient murder.

Intrigue, crime, and murder create suspense in this edge-of-your-seat collection of cat mystery stories whose plots are all centered on a beloved feline, written by some of the finest, best-selling mystery writers of all time.