Resultados para "Lifer" en Misterio

Charlie Whitmore has finally found her rhythm as owner of Oak & Ink Bookshop in Leafwood Falls, Vermont. More than a year after leaving her Manhattan law career behind, she's settled into small-town life with her boyfriend, her sharp-tongued assistant Mia, and Hemingway, the imperious orange cat...

Behind the manicured lawns and guarded gates of Crestmore Estates lies a neighborhood built on secrets. Five years ago, three residents vanished without a trace. No bodies. No answers. Just rumors, whispered around the country club. Now, when human remains surface on the golf course, old suspicions rematerialize—and the spotlight falls on the women left behind.

A double murder confounds everyone in this mystery--but not the beloved detective Judge Dee, whom the Los Angeles Times ranked with Sherlock Holmes Judge Dee, the master detective of seventh-century China, sets out to solve a puzzling double murder and discovers complex passions lurking beneath...

El empresario de la construcción, Fabio Carcelén, sale de la prisión de El Dueso, en Santoña, Cantabria, tras diez años encarcelado. A los pocos días de su puesta en libertad, los inspectores María Pinta y Diego Olivares, investigan un accidente de tráfico, con tres fallecidos: el exsocio de Carcelén junto a su mujer, y una desconocida. Paralelamente los inspectores se presentan en el domicilio del expresidiario. Encuentran tres cadáveres. Pinta y Olivares inician una frenética búsqueda de Fabio Carcelén en lo que parece ser un estudiado acto de venganza. 

College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran-and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and murder.

Il est le débauché le plus célèbre de Londres ; elle, une intellectuelle qui se cache du monde. Forcés de s'unir par un odieux chantage, leurs fausses fiançailles deviennent le plus dangereux des jeux de séduction. Lord Richard Seaton, un célèbre coureur de jupons est prêt à tout pour retrouver son frère disparu. Mais le prix exigé par le criminel Thorne Blackmore en échange d'informations est impensable : épouser sa sœur, Mlle Jane Grant.

Laos, 1981: When an unofficial mailman drops off a strange bilingual diary, Dr. Siri is intrigued. Half is in Lao, but the other half is in Japanese, which no one Siri knows can read; it appears to have been written during the Second World War. Most mysterious of all, it comes with a note stapled to it: Dr. Siri, we need your help most urgently. But who is “we”, and why have they left no return address?    

Life Through a Mirror: When Murder Calls is book three in - and the conclusion to - the Life Through a Mirror romantic murder mystery trilogy. It revolves around suspense, murder, romance, and family. In this series, Allie and David lose a close friend. They become trapped in another web of suspense and murder, as they work with the FBI to find the killers. In this exciting conclusion, they try to save themselves and their family in a world that seems to be constantly trying to shatter their lives.

Life Through a Mirror: The Battle Rages On is the second in the three-part murder mystery series Life Through a Mirror. Allie and David continue to become trapped in a web of suspense and murder that will captivate your mind and your heart. They were two different people that came from two different worlds. They finally came together. Together, they are trying to save themselves and their family. Follow Allie and David as they attempt to save what they have in a world that seems to be constantly trying to shatter their lives, hopes, and dreams.

Forty-two-year-old Mia Thorne is settling into her new life in the small riverside town of Newberry, Pennsylvania. Part of her misses the bright lights of the big city, but Mia is determined to make the best of the cottage she inherited and its surrounding gardens, as well as her blossoming love life.

An elderly woman is found dead, her death peaceful but unexpected. Days later, a middle aged former television journalist dies in a similar manner. Both deaths prove to be murder, but with no obvious links between the two victims. When a former neurologist is also found murdered, it appears that DCI Kenny Murrain is dealing with a random multiple killer.

At seventeen, David "Lizard" Hochmeyer is nearly seven feet tall, a star quarterback, and Princeton-bound. His future seems all but assured until his parents are mysteriously murdered, leaving Lizard and his older sister, Kate, adrift and alone. In a mansion across the pond from their Connecticut home lives the world’s greatest ballerina, Sylphide, and her rock star husband, whose own disasters intersect with Lizard’s - and Kate’s - in the most intimate and surprising ways.

All Cookie James, FBI agent and Innkeeper extraordinaire, wants is a romantic date with her hot handy man… but what she gets is a corpse presented with a big red bow. When she and Dylan discover a boat with a dead body, not only is her picnic ruined, but a woman from Dylan's past returns to the island. The famous rock star appears to want a comeback tour with her former bodyguard. But Cookie doesn't have time to worry about that, because her oh-so-sexy ex-FBI partner has arrived, too. And he's ready to make a little music of his own.

When a young man is found lying on a station platform with a hole in his head, DI Kate Young is called in to investigate the grisly murder. But the killing is no one-off. As bodies start to pile up, she is faced with what might be an impossible task - to hunt down a ruthless killer on a seemingly random rampage.

Museum curator Pearl Davis always had a strained relationship with her mother, Sally. Growing up, she rarely felt her mother’s love. So many things about her mother’s behavior never added up. But when Sally dies unexpectedly, she leaves Pearl a letter from the grave…confessing to murder. Suddenly, Pearl has even more questions than she has answers. She suspects the letter is just a sign of her mother’s diminished state of mind—until she finds human remains in Sally’s garden.

Morgan and her ex-husband broke up on bad terms. But when he sends her a cryptic message, Morgan knows that whatever trouble he's in, it's likely her fault. Over Ruiner's protests, she ventures beyond Hollowbeck's borders to find him. But instead of finding him, she finds a dead body. Then she finds the Oubliette, an exclusive gambling club in the town of Darrowdale, which is a mirror image of Hollowbeck—only with a decidedly more dangerous population.

Cincinnati Cougars' Billy Parks was All-Pro…and he's missing. Harry Stoner's job was to find him and get him into shape for the season. But Billy's photo told Stoner he didn't like the man…or the shape he was in. The eye revealed a killer mentality - a player who crushed, mangled, and sacked with pleasure. Billy's disappearing act might be part of a contract dispute or something far more deadly. For Stoner suspected that Billy had become a mean machine who went on scoring in a sordid world of drugs and violence, where death hit with a blindside tackle…and life lasted only until the final cut.

Walter Whitman was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. His work was controversial in its time, particularly his 1855 poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sensuality. Whitman's own life came under scrutiny for his presumed homosexuality.

Craft shop owner Amelia Ryan has more than just a talent for giving old barn materials new life. She can see Life Shadows: Spirits of the dead. When she moves her Barnwood Builders store to downtown Briarton and scouts a new location for one of her projects, Amelia’s ability leads her to uncover a tangled tragedy 70 years in the making. As secrets of the past meet with threats of the present, Amelia must rely on her supernatural ability to discover the truth. But will it be enough to bring the perpetrators to justice?

Storms are brewing in peaceful Sunrise Bay as Charlie's boyfriend prepares to battle his vindictive ex for custody of their little girl. A night out at a fancy hotel with her book club pals is a ray of sunshine among Charlie's clouds—until a woman falls to her death from a hotel balcony. Was it a tragic accident or something more sinister? The woman's husband claims he was walking on the beach when she fell, but if that's true, why don't his shoes have any sand on them? And, speaking of footwear, why has one of the dead woman's own shoes gone missing?