Resultados para "Lifer" en Misterios y delitos internacionales

Hannah Mills, local photographer, is struggling for work and to pay her rent. Great-aunt Dorothy comes to the rescue from beyond the grave after she leaves Hannah a first phase Indian Chief Navajo blanket, a very rare item worth at least a million dollars. That kind of money would set Hannah up for life. But, before she can take it to auction, her niece is kidnapped and a ransom demanded - the blanket. Hannah has to go to France to get her niece back, but she has no money to get there until she robs a bank.

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?

Morgan Campbell has built a life she loves—three sons, a devoted husband, a career she’s proud of, and a close circle of friends in a quiet Scottish town. But when Melinda moves in, everything changes. At first, Melinda is warm, helpful, and eager to fit in. She joins Morgan’s book club, charms her friends, and slowly weaves herself into Morgan’s world. But something feels wrong. Melinda copies Morgan’s clothes, her hair, even her mannerisms—and soon, Morgan’s friends start to pull away, convinced she’s hiding something.

When the CIA approaches celebrity chef Sebastian Pike about using his award-winning food and culture travel show as cover for espionage, the outspoken bad-boy host says no. They push. They'd embed their top agent in his crew to do the spy work. And when romantic sparks crackle between him and the female agent, Pike's all in, kicking off a romantic spy thriller in which the globetrotting celebrity chef uses his TV series to help sneak Putin's accountant out of Russia before he's exposed as a mole.

Life changes once again for British spy Miss Mary Bennet when Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from the Isle of Elba. Mary quickly departs England for Brussels, the city where the Allied forces prepare for war against the French. But shortly after her arrival, one of the Duke of Wellington’s best officers is murdered, an event that threatens to break the delicate alliance between the Allies. Mary will need to unmask the murderer before more people are killed, but can she do so and remain hidden in the background?

What would you do if someone threatened your family? Roy Cruise and his pregnant wife Susie barely survived an assassination attempt in their own home. The police now have them under surveillance. Meanwhile, Kristy Wise is a loose cannon - she knows too much and is trying to “set things right”. What goes around comes around.

The final chapter in the electrifying Stockholm Noir Trilogy, which has been translated into more than thirty languages worldwide: here is the no-holds-barred, rapid-fire tale of a supreme struggle for the legacy of the Swedish underworld, as the power, honor, and respect commanded by...

Luke Madson, an assassin with a private International Intelligence agency, experiences a chance meeting with the daughter of a man targeted for assassination during a flight to New York. The meeting evolves into a personal and business relationship that opens opportunities for Madson and his organization to destroy the gun running operations of this group.

Ian Wolfe is not your typical CIA officer. A former Olympic decathlete whose face once graced the covers of teen magazines and cereal boxes, he was disgraced by a doping scandal, and now he is seeking to reinvent himself within America's intelligence community. But Wolfe's first assignment could be his last, because it brings him face-to-face with April Gentry, world-renowned biologist. Seeking to fulfill her late father's legacy, she will stop at nothing to bring a life-altering medication she discovered in the Amazon to market.

In 1975, six young people stormed the West German embassy in Stockholm, taking the entire staff hostage. They demanded the immediate release of members of the Baader- Meinhof group being held as prisoners in West Germany, but twelve hours into the siege, the embassy was blown up, two hostages...

Detective Louise Rick must race against the clock to stop a violent killer targeting immigrants in this disturbing and timely thriller, perfect for readers of Lisa Gardner, Tami Hoag, Tess Gerritsen, or Jo Nesbo. It's clearly no ordinary drowning. When a young girl is pulled from the watery...

In the first part of The Romantic Travel Adventures of Stan & Jane, both are individually recalling their time with Guinevere, who was the mother of Jane and foster parent of Stan. But somehow both had different relations. In the past, Stan and Jane have been together. They were best friends but with opposing personalities. In their teenage years, Stan fell in love with Jane. But Guinevere's death distanced them. Now after years, he decides to follow the road map from Guinevere's diary as he had once promised her. For that, he finds Jane, and the adventure begins.

Colonel Dan Blake's 18-year career in the British Army comes to an abrupt end when he fails a psychiatric evaluation when in line for the top job in counterterrorism at MI5. Finding himself unexpectedly unemployed, Blake travels to Moscow to visit his one real friend, Edwin Mallory, himself a high-achieving Cambridge peer 18 years into a high-flying career with MI6. In Mallory's Moscow circle, Blake meets oil billionaire Sheikh Mohammad al Hussein. The meeting leads to a job offer for Blake's unique skill set.

Stockholm. Des corps figés dans la glace. La police se tourne vers l'entourage d'Ellie. Ellie pensait enfin pouvoir laisser derrière elle l'horreur de l'été précédent et recoller les morceaux avec Johan, mais le fragile équilibre qu'elle a réussi à trouver menace à nouveau de s'effondrer lorsque des cadavres aux allures de sculptures de glace apparaissent à Stockholm, plongeant la ville dans la terreur. Pendant que la police piétine, les drames du passé ressurgissent, menaçant tout ce qu'Ellie a construit.

Une jeune femme se ressource dans sa maison de campagne. Brillante ingénieure, la vie lui a toujours souri. Pourtant, elle va bientôt être assassinée... Son corps est retrouvé dans les eaux glaciales d'un étang à l'orée des Ardennes belges. Fait étrange, elle était revenue d'un voyage à Kinshasa sans prévenir son mari ni ses proches. Pourquoi ?

Multiple award-winning, New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author Peter Robinson returns with Children of the Revolution, a superb tale of mystery and murder that takes acclaimed British Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks back to the early 1970s—a turbulent time of politics...