Resultados para "LIKE" en Thriller criminal

A new homicide case raises a question with no clear answer: Who is the victim? When a charred body is recovered inside a burned-out car, before Malcolm and Seong-Jae can solve the case they must first trace the victim's identity. False plates. ID missing. Teeth pulled from the skull. The...

Billy Maguire, on his way to Scotland for a reunion with his university friends, stops for a few drinks en route. Then, on the deserted roads leading to the remote location, he manages to run over a pedestrian. The man is alive, and Billy puts him in the back seat of his car, planning to leave him outside the nearest hospital. But then the man dies—and Billy panics.

Ace Criminal Attorney Cash McCahill makes two potentially fatal mistakes. First, he agrees to represent a cartel kingpin, who lays down an ultimatum of win or else. Not even an acquittal will save Cash if his second mistake surfaces. His affair with the client's wife turns him into the perfect pawn to take a fall for the cartel. Falsely convicted of jury tampering, he must survive a prison teeming with enemies and navigate the more dangerous world on the outside in order to clear his name, regain his law license, and return to his only real home - the courtroom.

When three small-time country gangsters break out of jail, they return to the only life they know - small-town bank robbing. When Bowie, the youngest of them, falls in love with Keechie, one of the older gangster's cousins, it becomes a classic tale of love with nowhere to hide and no hope of reprieve.

Kristen Conner goes undercover to catch a serial killer who chooses his victims in the most unlikely of places...only to discover she is his new target. Chicago has a new resident: a soulless killer on a decade-long murder spree. When a young woman is found dead in her fashionable townhome, the FBI is convinced an elusive, organized killer is at work again - a man the local press has dubbed the Cutter Shark. Detective Kristen Conner is a good cop and tough as they come - but she’s never faced an adversary like this.

When former detective Trevor “Finn” Finnegan became a PI, he adopted a new mandate: catch the LAPD’s worst in the act. While on surveillance in Venice Beach, Finn tails two potentially dirty cops: Detective Martin Riley and Finn’s ex-partner, Detective Sally Munoz. Things take a deadly turn when an unknown assailant executes Riley and wounds Munoz. In an instant, Finn goes from private eye to eyewitness. Munoz needs Finn to help find Riley’s killer, but doing so could blow his cover.

Nora Feller har brutit helt med Sektion M och Charlotte Victorin. I Malmö hoppas hon få en nystart, såväl privat som i jobbet. Hon blir tilldelad ett uppmärksammat mordfall, där offret tillhör den innersta, rika kretsen i en välbärgad ort söder om stan. Men det är något med fallet som inte stämmer, Nora får en kuslig känsla av att en mäktig hand styr allt. Och snart får hon veta att Sektion M ska ta över utredningen. Mot chefens uttryckliga order börjar hon göra egna efterforskningar. Men Charlotte kommer knappast tyst se på när Nora sabbar för henne.

The heart-hammering thriller from the queen of the London crime scene. 'Spine-tingling suspense!' LISA GARDNER A serial killer is being closely watched by one young boy. Barney knows the killer will strike again soon. The victim will be another boy, just like him. He will drain the body of blood...

Imogen Brown is a normal 16-year-old girl. She's obsessed with beach volleyball, she occasionally enjoys the company of her younger sister, Jemima, she's saving for her first car...and she feels like she doesn't belong. She thinks that her parents, Kat and Dylan, are hypocrites, playing the perfect family when she knows they really argue all the time. One Friday evening, Kat and Dylan have their biggest fight yet - the next day, Imogen is missing.

Every Thursday at midday Audrey Brooks cleans the Petrov house. Until the morning she finds a corpse in the back bedroom, the pristine walls and floor covered in blood, and flees the house in panic. Fifteen minutes later, the police arrive... and find nothing. No body. No blood. With no victim, the police are convinced there was no murder, but Audrey knows better.

As Sheriff Clayton Burroughs tries to juggle fatherhood, his job, and his recovery from being shot in the confrontation that killed his two criminally inclined brothers last year, he’s doing all he can just to survive. Yet after years of carefully toeing the line between his life in law enforcement and his family, he finally has to make a choice. When a rival organization makes a first foray into Burroughs' territory, leaving a trail of bodies and a whiff of fear in its wake, Clayton is pulled back into the life he so desperately wants to leave behind.

"In a sardonic tone, Joe Lewis delivers this captivating, bloodstained, deeply twisted, hard-boiled thriller following a day in the life of Argentinian oligarch Luis Machi." -- AudioFile Magazine The first novel to appear in English by the "subway janitor by night, novelist by day," who began...

INSTANT #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER An elite secret society of killers has controlled the world’s treasures for hundreds of years…until one member tears himself free to salvage his soul and protect his daughter’s life in this “astoundingly original, relentlessly paced, and purely...

'Come home.' Vera's mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of the memories—she's come back to the home of a serial killer. Back to face the love she had for her father and the bodies he buried there, beneath the house he'd built for his family. Coming home is hard enough for Vera, and to make things worse, she and her mother aren't alone. A parasitic artist has moved into the guest house out back and is slowly stripping Vera's childhood for spare parts. 

Based on a true serial killer case, ripped straight from the headlines. In the blink-and-you-miss-it town of Sula, Montana, the bones of a long-dead victim are discovered in a pigsty, which launches the case that unravels two decades of unsolved murders...along with a load of dark secrets the whole town has been hiding. Every serial killer has a telltale signature that makes them unique. But this is a kind of vicious unsub no one has ever seen before, one who’s managed to terrorize innocent victims and evade law enforcement for years.

They stood in a rough circle looking at what lay on the floor at their feet. One cleared his throat, hawked and spat. The spittle fell beside the dead man's shoe. The other three exchanged glances. Swift, furtive. The fourth stood tall. "So perish all traitors," he said.

When unsolved crimes resurface, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace faces a possible copycat killing in Dead Like You, by award winning crime author Peter James, read by actor William Gaminara. The Metropole Hotel, Brighton. After a heady New Year's Eve ball, a woman is attacked as she returns to...

The story follows the exploits of three desperate escaped convicts. They rob banks and have a string of successes. They buy guns, nice clothes, and fast cars and read about themselves in the newspapers. Bowie, the central figure of the three thieves, had been serving time for a murder he committed when only 16. Bowie falls in love with Keechie, the cousin of one of his partners, and she joins him on the run.

Everything started one Saturday in July.... Anna and Constant Guillot and their two daughters live in the remote mountain village of Carmac. Everyone in Carmac knows each other, and most of its residents look alike – that is until Bakary and Sylvia Langlois arrive with their three children.

'Groundbreaking and gripping' Sunday Times A BLOODY MESSAGE As DI Nicola Tanner investigates what appears to be a series of organised killings, her partner Susan is brutally murdered, leaving the detective bereft, and vengeful. A POWERFUL ALLY Taken off the case, Tanner enlists the help of DI...