Resultados para "Miles" en Novela negra

Durante la estancia de fin de semana en un complejo enológico, el grupo formado por cinco amigas muy dispares se ve envuelto en una peligrosa trama, que da comienzo cuando desaparece repentinamente una de ellas. ¿Será Samoa, la escritora pertinaz, o Ronda, la cientí...

Six severed arms are discovered in a forest clearing. They appear to belong to missing girls, but the rest of the bodies are nowhere to be found. Criminologist Goran Gavila is forced to work with Mila Vasquez, a specialist in missing children with a tragic history of her own. As they uncover more about the dark secrets in the forest, their lives are increasingly in each other's hands...

The killer is on death row. So why are women still disappearing? Five years ago, Kara Ellison vanished without a trace. Her car was found on a remote stretch of highway. No body was ever recovered. A local man, Carter Lyle, was convicted. In two weeks, he'll be executed. Now another young woman has disappeared the same way. Her car left behind, no sign of her. Weeks later, her body is found in the Adirondack woods. She's wearing a jacket that doesn't belong to her. In the pocket is Kara Ellison's university ID. An object that should no longer exist.

Tief in den Wäldern wartet die Erlösung – und das Grauen Mila Weiss ist auf der Jagd. Tief in den Bergen will sie endlich ein Phantom aus ihrer Vergangenheit stellen: Johannes Toblach. Doch am Tag ihrer Ankunft wird eine Leiche in den Bäumen gefunden, gefangen in einem Netz aus Seilen. Und...

Décembre 2012, Bretagne. Un nouveau meurtrier sévit au pays des contes et des sombres légendes, des vents qui malmènent les cœurs et de la brume qui étouffe les âmes. Un meurtrier sans pitié, un meurtrier sacrilège. Un meurtrier qui s’en prend à la source même de la vie : les femmes enceintes. Quatre ont été retrouvées éventrées, le fœtus arraché à leurs entrailles et porté disparu. Réquisitionné pour diriger cette sordide enquête, le commandant Gabriel Gerfaut de la Brigade Criminelle de Paris se rend à Guingamp pour tenter d’élucider ces crimes.

After the body of a brutally murdered young woman is recovered from the Gulf of Mexico far from shore, FBI Special Agent Tess Winnett is called in to assist with the profiling of the murderer. Although only one body has been found, every detail about the gruesome crime points to the work of a serial killer. Have there been others left to die far at sea, where no one will ever find them? Is there a connection to be found, or is Tess searching for evidence that doesn’t exist?

Etwas stimmt nicht, und Anna spürt, dass hinter Graces plötzlichem Verschwinden mehr steckt, als es scheint. Entschlossen, ihre Freundin zurückzuholen, begibt sich Anna auf eine aufregende und gefährliche Suche. Also macht Anna sich auf den Weg und riskiert alles, um die Wahrheit ans Licht zu bringen – koste es, was es wolle.

In early 1933, Rowland Sinclair and his companions are ensconced in the superlative luxury of The Hydro Majestic; trouble seems very distant indeed...until Harry Simpson vanishes. Croquet and pre-dinner cocktails are abandoned as Rowland begins the hunt. Stockmen, gangsters and a belligerent writer all gather to the fray, as the investigation becomes embroiled with a much darker conspiracy.

When college professor Ellie McKay walks into the Maverick Bar in Farmington, New Mexico, late one evening, she plans to get drunk, not engaged. But within 30 minutes, she’s met cowboy Al Robison, he’s proposed to her, and she’s accepted. Al only knows that Ellie is attractive, vulnerable, and single; he doesn’t know that she has been on the run for weeks from a sociopath who killed her surgeon boyfriend in Pennsylvania and raped and tortured her.

Joseph Wright, a young, alcoholic, mixed-race man, lives alone in a Peckham council flat earning a living by solving problems for people in his community. A chance phone call leads him on a tense trail from the poverty of London housing estates to gold mines in Ghana, and from the sinister underbelly of London’s global service sector to the gaudy riches of Mayfair. As Joseph struggles to make sense of his own story, he takes the listener on a dangerous journey of discovery towards a truth that should be as unpalatable as it is unacceptable for those who still want to believe in democracy.

When a legendary ex-cop is murdered in L.A., the pressure's on to find the killer. Lt. Frank Duffy needs his best detective on the case, but his best detective, Ash Levine, quit a year ago. A tenacious, obsessive detective, Ash resigned after Latisha Patton, the witness in a homicide case he was working, was murdered. Without his job, Ash is left unanchored - and consumed with guilt that he somehow caused Latisha's murder.  When he's asked to rejoin the force, Ash reluctantly agrees. Getting his badge back could give him the chance to find Latisha's killer. 

Provocations of the spirit world leave us no alternative but to welcome the modern Western prose of David Randall Shorey, and his story about the legendary anti-hero known as Mojave Miles. This tale tells us that the only war worth fighting is for the protection of wayward ladies and no-good horses! Never officially ordained as a vigilante, his vengeance on the Amargosa was accepted as having been handed down by sage angels.

When Carter McCoy learns he hasn't got long to live, it's time to take care of something he has wanted to do for years—kill the man responsible for his daughter's death. But Carter has no experience killing, and isn't even sure he can do it. Breanna needs to escape her toxic home life, or end up living a life of regret. When she happens upon the old man with a rifle, she sees a light at the end of her dark tunnel. Carter may be the answer to her problems, if he lives long enough to help her.

It’s a ticket to paradise. Flight 868 has nonstop service to San Juan, Puerto Rico. Over a dozen tipsy passengers are off to a destination wedding. A team of high school baseball players is headed to a tournament. The plane is packed with people eager to escape their lives, and others who can’t wait to return to their beloved home. But sweet anticipation turns to terror when a lightning strike short-circuits the avionics and plunges the plane into darkness.

Rebecca finally lives the peaceful life in Nevada that she's always dreamed of with her perfect husband Tom and two adorable boys. Until one morning an old friend shows up out of the blue. Danny disappeared the night of their high school prom. Now she's back. Danny is nothing but a reminder of everything Rebecca escaped - and all the secrets she's kept hidden from Tom. Danny claims she's just stopping by. Rebecca can't tell the truth from the lies. The only thing she can be sure of: Danny's arrival is going to ruin everything she's worked for - and she won't let that happen.

Two cousins, Derek and Nigel Burtell, famously detest one another. Derek Burtell stands to inherit £50,000 under the will of his grandfather at age 25—unless his drug-taking and dissolute lifestyle kill him first, in which case Nigel inherits instead. Dismayed by the latter possibility, Derek's many creditors insure his life with the vast Indescribable Insurance company, and Derek is advised to take a river trip for his health; and curiously it is Nigel whom he chooses to accompany him.

When DJ and the team get a mission to a dangerous part of the world, there is suspicion their new employer is not telling them the whole truth. Things become much harder than they were promised. Still, they pull off the job with the skills and cunning we have come to expect from Slaughter and crew.

Hundreds of eyes stare out from the missing persons board - people who have been gone too long and are being forgotten. But what if some of these people wanted to disappear, to hide in the shadows? This is the question Mila and her team must ask themselves as long-lost people begin to return. Clues are being left for Mila - clues she doesn't fully understand and which her colleagues are strangely dismissive of.

On a dark night in Lusaka, Zambia, a young girl is brutally assaulted and left for dead. Her identity is a mystery. Zoe Fleming, a human rights lawyer, is determined to find the perpetrator. Also investigating is Joseph Kabuta of the Zambian police. At first they are reluctant to work together, their cultures and upbringings radically different. Their task is not only to help the girl recover, but also to ensure justice doesn't fail her again.

MediMiracle Corporation manufactures Sophrosyne, a miracle cure for opiate addiction. Ellison Ricard, a research analyst for the company, claims to have uncovered data that proves Black users of Sophrosyne experience fatal side effects far more often than people of other races. When Ricard confronts MediMiracle’s charismatic founder and CEO, Peyton Burke, a violent confrontation ensues. The wheelchair-bound Ricard—a Black man who had been severely injured years earlier—is fired that very day.