Resultados para "Max" en Novela negra

Meet Max Starkey—disgraced CIA operative turned underworld fixer—whose past loves, rivals, and indiscretions close in on him in the jungles of Southeast Asia. Seven years after a CIA mission in Laos went sideways, Max lives in the gray spaces between criminals and justice, recovering stolen...

Exclusive audio collection. Eleven Max Carrados stories - narrated by national treasure Stephen Fry. Max Carrados featured in a series of mystery stories that first appeared in 1914. Carrados featured alongside Sherlock Holmes in The Strand magazine, in which they both had top billing. The character often boasted how being blind meant his other senses were heightened. This exclusive audio collection features 11 Max Carrados stories.

FBI agent Sarah Cole is stunned to receive an invitation to the “Game of Nines,” the most secretive and longest-running murder puzzle in history. Thrust into a mystery that has confounded law enforcement for decades, she proves to be an unexpectedly formidable "player"—and might finally end the deadly game once and for all.

When Russian terrorists seize control of New York's iconic Empire State Building, FBI crisis negotiator Theo Requa is thrust back into action. Still reeling from an incident that left his FBI partner dead just months ago, Theo faces a shocking revelation: the terrorists' spokesperson is none other than Christine Travers, his former FBI partner, who he’s sure he watched die in the line of duty. The terrorists claim they want $119 million from a prominent senator, but their true target may be something far more valuable.

A prisoner in a psychiatric ward confesses to killing two children and leads the Berlin police to their bodies. The police are certain he is also the kidnapper of a six-year-old boy, Max, who disappeared a year ago. But they only have circumstantial evidence, and the murderer is now refusing talk. In the many months since Max vanished, his father Till’s life has spiraled out of control. His wife has left him, he’s lost his job, and all he can do is obsess about what happened to his son.

An epic NEW historical crime story of treachery and bitter rivalry between Yorkshire's tough smuggling gangs 💥 Perfect for the fans of Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series, House of Guinness and Peaky Blinders 🩸⚔️ 'A thrilling adventure of high stakes and high seas.' - MJ Porter Can one...

Sanger Entertainment is more than an event planning business. It covers up many evils for another business, which is more profitable. There are four original partners of Sanger Entertainment. Are these men as evil as the business they conduct? Sanger Entertainment Event Planners: No party too big or too small. Max is the fourth partner this series explores.

Joyce Lackey was a classic baby-boomer. She had it all: a high-paying position, a beautiful condo, a BMW. But there was one thing she didn’t have any more—her youth, and that was what she needed most. Her boss fired her because he wanted someone with “young blood and young ideas.” Joyce was forced to start all over again. But could she compete with all the beautiful young kids who were so hungry for what she had?

Max and Angela are going down. When we last saw Max Fisher and Angela Petrakos, Max was being arrested by the NYPD for drug trafficking, and Angela was fleeing the country in the wake of a brutal murder. Now both are headed for eye-opening encounters with the law - Max in the cell blocks of Attica, Angela in a quaint little prison on the Greek island of Lesbos.

Homicide Detective Max Rupert never fully accepted his wife's death, even when he believed that a reckless hit and run driver was the cause. But when he learns that in fact she was murdered, he devotes himself to hunting down her killers. Most of his life he had thought of himself as a decent man. But now he's so consumed with thoughts of retribution that he questions whether he will take that last step and enact the vengeance he longs for.

When justice walks the edge of a knife, only one man holds the line. Detective Max Holland thought he’d seen it all: clever thieves, twisted plots, shadowy masterminds. But nothing prepared him for Joel Scotts—a manipulative genius with a taste for psychological warfare. From city streets to international conspiracies, Max fights to protect the people he loves while unraveling the dark web of a global criminal network. Alongside his wife Eve, his loyal partner Barry, and a team of brilliant allies, Max faces betrayals, bomb threats, and a new player known only as the Knight.

#taken in the night: They thought they were kidnapping the mistress of one of London’s most powerful gangsters. But they’ve taken the wrong woman. And crossed the wrong detective. #taken underground: Detective Max Wolfe's hunt for the missing woman takes him from New Scotland Yard’s...

Max Archer is a hard-boiled private investigator with a broken past, a filthy office, and zero patience for modern technology. A former professional wrestler turned gumshoe, Max scrapes by on cheap cases, bad coffee, and stubborn pride—sleeping on his office couch while trying to stay out of trouble. That ends when a city councilwoman turns up dead—and the police quietly pull Max into a case no one else wants. At the same time, a beautiful stripper known as Sparkles hires him to track down her missing Saint Bernard and a diamond-studded collar worth a small fortune.

Zwei irrwitzige japanische Gangster-Thriller von Kotaro Isaka in einer Sammelausgabe. "Bullet Train" Fünf Killer, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten, sitzen zusammen mit dem Opfer einer Entführung und einem Koffer voller Geld im japanischen Hochgeschwindigkeitszug Shinkansen, der auf die Endstation zurast, an der sie einer der Bosse von Tokios Unterwelt erwartet. Erst kommt der Koffer abhanden, dann verstirbt das Entführungsopfer auf mysteriöse Weise. Die Reise wird zu einer mit aberwitzigen Dialogen gespickten Höllenfahrt, an deren Ende nur einer den Zug verlassen wird.

As dawn breaks on a snowy February morning, a refrigerated lorry is found parked in the heart of London's Chinatown. Inside, 12 women, apparently illegal immigrants, are dead from hypothermia. But in the cab, DC Max Wolfe finds 13 passports. Twelve dead women. Thirteen passports. The hunt for the missing woman will take Max Wolfe into the dark heart of the world of human smuggling, mass migration and 21st-century slave markets.

Max Ringo was once a courtroom star at an elite law firm. Then a car accident left her addicted to painkillers, and her life dissolved into shambles. Now fresh out of rehab and making a comeback as a mediator, she gets her shot at redemption when she is appointed to handle a high-stakes divorce. But as Max begins negotiations between the two notorious power players, the trap is already sprung. The husband kidnaps her teenage son, Nathan, and gives her a chilling ultimatum: settle the case on his terms…or the boy dies.

Lorsqu’un corps est retrouvé couvert de peinture blanche sur une plage de Finlande, une pièce d’échecs dans la gorge, Milo, profileur, est appelé en renfort par la police. Un soir de novembre, un corps est découvert sur le rivage d’une île finlandaise, la peau couverte d’une...

Twenty years ago seven students became friends at their exclusive private school, Potter's Field. Now they have started dying in the most violent way imaginable. Detective Max Wolfe follows the bloody trail from the backstreets and bright lights of the city, to the darkest corners of the...

A former Medal of Valor winner, Minnesota detective Alexander Rupert is now under subpoena by a grand jury on suspicion of corruption. So when he's asked to look into the false identity of a car-accident victim named James Putnam, a man who in fact died 15 years earlier, Rupert sees a potentially big case and an opportunity to regain his respectability. But the investigation puts him in the path of "the Beast", the nom de guerre of Drago Basta, a cunning veteran of the Balkan wars.

Sulle rive ventose di Seurasaari, un'isola al largo di Helsinki, viene ritrovato un cadavere: la pelle ricoperta di vernice bianca, un pezzo degli scacchi incastrato in gola. I crimini seguono una logica precisa e gli indizi rimandano a simboli e strategie che sfuggono ai protocolli investigativi. L'omicida non si limita a colpire: provoca, anticipa e orienta l'indagine come su una scacchiera. Per fermare il killer, Milo è costretto a collaborare con Stanislav, campione europeo di scacchi e suo patrigno, l'unico in grado di interpretare il linguaggio strategico dell'assassino.