Resultados para "Love" en Thriller criminal

The Exceptional Crimes Unit stopped another criminal: Lucy Speckle. The brilliant FBI agent, Christian Windsor, pushed her to suicide....watching as she cut her own throat. It changed Christian, though, and those around him are starting to notice. He's darker. Harsher. Crueler. His partner, Luke Titan, couldn't be happier because he engineered the whole thing. If anyone knew Titan's true intentions, they'd call him a psychopath. They'd lock him up. They'd put him in the electric chair. Too bad his genius keeps him hidden in the shadows.

Franklin B Goodman wants to spread love wherever he goes. But love is an emotion he doesn’t understand. In Franklin’s dangerously warped mind, a damaged relationship is like a sick animal. He is willing to take extreme measures to nurse it back to health. And if that doesn’t work… …the only option is to put it out of its misery. On the other side of the River Mersey, murder detectives Nathan Cody and Megan Webley have their hands full with a manhunt to locate the killer of a beautiful and wealthy woman.

The attractive redhead at the A&P checkout counter opens her checkbook and begins writing a check, unaware that she’s signing her own death warrant. The man behind her in the dark overcoat memorizes the address on her check. When she leaves the A&P, he follows her home. In the next few weeks he tracks her every move...and when she rebuffs his advances, he stabs her. Five women, chosen at random, fall victim to a man the press dubs the Hyena. The NYPD has no leads until young Babette Watson walks into homicide detective Max Segal’s office.

After the coldest night of the year, they find the man's body. He is dangling from the Hanging Tree on the outskirts of a village near Lydmouth, with his trousers round his ankles. Is it suicide, murder, or accidental death resulting from some bizarre sexual practice? Journalist Jill Francis and Detective Inspector Thornhill become involved in the case in separate ways.

Peter Marlin's wife is found strangled and he becomes the prime suspect. She'd only just returned from an unexplained absence of several months. And during that time, Peter had found a new lover. Everything points to the husband but there's no real proof. Inspector John Crow is called in to help the local police. But his new colleagues aren't keen on an outsider. And Crow must solve the case before anyone else dies.

A killer plays cat and mouse with a young widow against the snowy backdrop of an Alaskan winter. Branded a black widow after the suspicious death of her millionaire husband, Sarah Palmer flees Seattle for Anchorage. But the peace and quiet she hoped to enjoy in her hometown is soon shattered: The killer is murdering Sarah look-alikes on the 14th of each month, taunting Sarah with a valentine of evidence. After her experiences in Seattle, Sarah is slow to go to the police.

Cameron Winter was born with the ability to recreate detailed crime scenes in his imagination and dissect the motives and encounters that produced them. And after reading a puzzling news story about a wealthy family killed in a small town in the Chicago suburbs, he can't resist the chance to apply this deductive power in the pursuit of justice for the victims. Three members of the family, along with their live-in nanny, were pulled from their burning mansion, already dead from gunshot wounds. The only survivor is a young boy whose memory of the event raises more questions than answers.

Jess McAdams dotes on her four children and gives advice and suggestions to parents all around the world. No one would ever question her love and devotion to her children, let alone suspect her of murdering one. But Alex Mercer does. Alex has plenty of experience investigating crimes involving missing kids. So when he senses something is wrong, he trusts his instincts. The only problem is, he's a newly deputized officer of the law. If he's wrong about Jess, he'll destroy his career before it gets off the ground.

In these two short thrillers, best-selling author L.J. Sellers explores how the dark side of human nature takes over in crucial, fearful moments and leads to irreversible, life-changing repercussions.

What an exotic way to die in Chicago. When esteemed historian Elizabeth Lawrence is found in her car, killed by a cobra’s bite, only a brilliant professor of semiotics, Dr. Evan Wilding, can see the signs around her strange death. As he helps homicide detective Addie Bisset decipher the scene, the puzzles left behind offer Evan chilling passage into the mind of a killer.

Beautiful, bright-eyed Michelle Jackson, a loving wife and mother, has been killed. Her husband Paul is accused of murdering her. Their little girl Emily, numb with grief, is refusing to speak. You’ll hate Paul for what he’s done. Everyone said they were the perfect couple, always holding hands. They did everything together. But when you hear about their whispered arguments and the terrible lies they both told, you’ll be certain Paul is guilty. But everything you think you know is wrong. After all, behind closed doors every marriage has secrets. And some are deadlier than others.

Das Ermittlerteam der Spezialeinheit um Charlotte Bekker und Stella Meislow steht vor einem verstörenden Fall: Eine Frau wird erhängt in ihrem eigenen Haus gefunden, auf ihrer Brust ein rätselhaftes Brandzeichen. Die ersten Ermittlungen weisen auf Spannungen in der Ehe hin, und der Ehemann gerät ins Visier der Polizei. Doch der Fall entpuppt sich bald als weitaus komplexer. Denn als der Täter erneut zuschlägt, wird klar, dass die Ermittlerinnen es mit einem Mörder zu tun haben, der ihnen näher ist, als sie es jemals vermutet hätten…

"Чайка"—детектив про полицейские будни польского города: секс, насилие и тайны международного уровня. Выясняется, что перед смертью девушка пыталась связаться с редакцией местной газеты. Хотела ли она заручиться поддержкой прессы или обладала какой-то опасной информацией? На ее банковский счет поступали большие суммы денег, а среди подозреваемых оказался влюбленный в нее влиятельный бизнесмен.

When someone close to Lilah is murdered in what is clearly an assassination, Lilah finds herself looking to Ghost, one of the deadliest assassins in the world. But is Ghost a friend or an enemy? Lilah's about to find out. But Ghost isn't the only one close to Lilah who may well be an enemy. Apparently, the line between friendship and murder, is bloody thin.

Lilah's enemies love to taunt her. For some reason, they don't seem to understand how much such things amuse her. For the first time, she faces an opponent just as cold, and highly calculated. Lilah. Ghost. A battle between killers.

Sometimes a girl just has to get stabby . . . Lilah has sworn she's done with that side of her personality. Then again, maybe not.

Valérie se réveille peu à peu. Elle frisonne et cherche instinctivement à remonter la couverture. Elle ouvre les yeux et balaie la pièce du regard. Elle ne reconnait pas cette chambre. Elle frisonne un autre fois et cherche encore à se couvrir, mais ne trouve rien. Comme elle, le lit est nu.

Valérie réussira-t-elle à échapper au joug de son geôlier? Les policiers mettront-ils la main au collet du meurtrier en série qui les a fait courir d’un bout à l’autre de la ville? Le dernier volet de la trilogie de Suzan Payne dévoile dans toute sa splendeur la maîtrise du suspense de l’autrice, qui réussit une fois de plus à dérouter le lecteur, et ce, jusqu’à la toute fin!

Thirty years ago, Elise and Nathaniel shared a horrific trauma that united them in grief. Now, grown up and married with a young family, they feel their worst nightmares are behind them. Until the day their daughter is abducted and murdered. Both Elise and Nathaniel lost their mothers to a notorious killer who manipulated innocent victims into taking their own lives. Could it be that "the Watcher" has returned for another round of the same sadistic game? Why now? And why are Elise and Nathaniel being targeted again?

Tranquillement, la femme reprend connaissance. Son corps meurtri lui fait mal. Sans ouvrir les yeux ni bouger, elle écoute attentivement. Elle ne veut surtout pas qu’il sache qu’elle est réveillée. Pas tout de suite du moins. Elle a besoin d’un plan avant. En bruit de fond, une agaçante symphonie de petits bips à intervalles plus ou moins réguliers lui écorche les oreilles. Elle se demande s’ils ont une utilité ou s’ils servent seulement à l’énerver.