Resultados para "Moral" en Negra y suspense

Después de casi dos siglos, un precioso códice iluminado vuelve a un monasterio femenino situado a los pies de la cordillera Cantábrica. El Beato de San Andrés de Arroyo -hoy propiedad de la Biblioteca Nacional de Francia- regresa al cenobio que lo poseyó durante seiscientos años. Han sido incontables las gestiones necesarias para que las autoridades galas lo autoricen. Todos los esfuerzos se dan por bien empleados porque la obra es la pieza estrella de una exposición sobre la que descansan muchas esperanzas.

Todo empieza con un hecho imprevisto, un homicidio involuntario. Un hecho absurdo, un accidente que poco a poco, inexorablemente, irá marcando la vida de los personajes de la novela. Héctor, el protagonista masculino, es un hombre incapaz de asumir verdaderos compromisos y responsabilidades, de involucrarse a fondo en sus relaciones. Las mujeres, sus mujeres, son tres.

In this quick-hitting thriller set in Baltimore, during the waning years of the Cold War, Lussi Sim, a Norwegian physician, is the medical director of a newborn intensive care unit. Lussi had practiced pediatrics near her parents in Oslo until her father suffered a stroke. Growing up, Lussi experienced chronic mental trauma in the self-assigned role of her mother’s bodyguard. Ironically, her father’s stroke removed the physical threat to her mother and enabled Lussi to pursue her long-suppressed goal to train as a newborn intensive care subspecialist in the United States.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) is capitalizing on the neglect of war-weary world leaders. No one in Iraq is safe. Christians are herded like cattle. Whole communities are torn apart. Marine Cal Stokes has had enough. With the quiet support of US President Brandon Zimmer, Stokes and his closest friends return to the Middle East to take the battle to the enemy, even if it means being cut off from ever coming home. This is a about what's right, not what's popular, a moral imperative....

In the follow-up to best-selling Blood Defense, Samantha is hired as the legal advocate for Cassie Sonnenberg after a brutal stabbing left her father and brother dead, and her mother barely clinging to life. It's a tabloid-ready case that has the nation in an uproar - and Sam facing her biggest challenge yet. Why did Cassie survive? Is she hiding something?

È il primo giorno dell'ultimo anno di liceo alla San Moris e Sky Miller non vede l'ora di realizzare il suo sogno di scappare da New York, lontano da quel palazzo fatiscente del Bronx in cui è cresciuta. La vita, con lei e i suoi fratelli, Jake, Dean e Will, non è stata clemente: abbandonati dai genitori quando erano ancora piccoli, hanno dovuto rimboccarsi le maniche. Le cose si complicano quando tra i corridoi della scuola Sky rincontra Trevor De Marco.

After his brother's tragic death, Detective Captain Juan Morales decides to take a well-deserved vacation. But as he stands at the Avenue of the Dead, staring at a corpse with its heart ripped out, he realizes this is not the peaceful retreat he had in mind. When Morales meets the beautiful archaeologist Sophia Kanakarides, he is instantly drawn to her.

It is the summer of 1989, and a controversial Supreme Court ruling has opened the door for states to enact stricter abortion laws. Pro-Life Florida Governor Michael Romano, who has built his political platform on morality, is determined to lead the nation in exploiting this first crack in Roe v Wade. But when his extramarital affair results in an unintended pregnancy, Romano is faced with the frightening prospect of losing all that defines his life—a beautiful, loving wife, a brilliant political career, and enormous wealth.

La infancia de Naomi Bowes terminó bruscamente la noche en que siguió a su padre hasta el bosque que bordeaba la casa familiar y descubrió el oscuro secreto que ocultaba. Mantenía cautiva a una joven. No era la primera a la que había privado de su libertad ni la primera a la que pensaba matar.

"Ich stehe jetzt über Euch und ihr müsst begreifen, dass es so nicht weitergehen wird... " Nach einem perfiden Anschlag in Berlin geht die Polizei zunächst von Terrorismus aus. Doch schnell deuten die Umstände der Tat darauf hin, dass etwas ganz anderes dahintersteckt. Zahlreiche Menschen verlieren ihr Leben, aber die Schlagzeilen sind schnell wieder vergessen. Hauptkommissar Lewis Schneider wird eher zufällig in die Ermittlungen involviert und steht vor einem Rätsel. Die einzig brauchbare Zeugin scheint ziemlich unter Druck zu stehen und trotzdem ihr eigenes Spiel zu spielen.

En avril 1957, lors de la première visite officielle d'Elizabeth II à Paris, une série d'événements laisse à penser à un sabotage. Au même moment, deux morts atroces ont lieu à proximité de Buckingham Palace. Lorsque l'un de ses proches est impliqué dans l'affaire, la reine mène l'enquête depuis Balmoral avec l'aide de sa secrétaire particulière adjointe, Joan McGraw.

As a climate catastrophe swallows south Florida and the Keys, psychic Mira Morales watches the obliteration of her past on live TV. She is losing her former bookstore and home where she lived for decades. Tango Key itself disappears as she witnesses the catastrophe in stunned disbelief. But when she’s recruited by the FBI to go undercover at a government-controlled animal rescue facility, she’s drawn into an even darker storm. She discovers the facility actually weaponizes animals. Dogs, cats, even wild animals are enhanced in ways that defy science.

Detective Jack Lefleur of the Camp Simmons Indiana PD has had a difficult year. After returning to the job from suspension, facing an impending divorce and financial ruin, he receives a phone call from an enigmatic recluse, who passes on a dire warning of a history-changing event and a clue to mystery. Acting on the tip, Lefleur discovers a body and evidence that puts the dead man in Dallas, Texas, in 1963, on the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

In the woods of North Carolina, it awaits, ready to unleash a shocking plan of revenge. Soon, the victims will understand what it is to be helpless and alone. They will wish for mercy, but there will be none. Because actions have consequences, and someone must always pay.

Estalla el golpe militar y, entre otras figuras políticas y militares de la época, Augusto Pinochet decide defender el gobierno de Salvador Allende. Estalla el golpe militar y, entre otras figuras políticas y militares de la época, Augusto Pinochet decide defender el gobierno de Salvador Allende. La oposición fracasa y, para fortalecer las comunicaciones y los sistemas de vigilancia, surge el innovador proyecto Synco: una red cibernética que dice optimizar el manejo del Estado y la economía chilena.

These 10 short stories feature some of the homicide cases investigated by the South Side Precinct’s best homicide detectives Turner Hahn and Frank Morales. In this riveting collection, you'll find cases of murder, revenge, greed, and insanity, with a hint of the supernatural thrown in as a bonus.

Two homicide detectives Turner Hahn and Frank Morales. One looks like a matinee idol out of the 1930s. The other a modern day version of a Neanderthal. Both extremely skilled in their chosen professions. They're the ones who catch the cases no one else want to touch. The hard ones; the ones with few clues. The ones which have no suspects. Or the ones which have a thousand suspects. It doesn't matter. If a killer or killers are out there waiting to be found. Bank on it. Turner and Frank will find them.

Fisheries officer Simone Lord is transferred to Quebec's remote Magdalen Islands for the winter, and at the last minute ordered to go aboard a trawler braving a winter storm for the traditional grey seal hunt, while all of the other boats shelter onshore. Detective Sergeant Joaquin Moralès is on a cross-country boat trip down the St Lawrence River, accompanied by Nadine Lauzon, a forensic psychologist working on the case of a savagely beaten teenager with Moralès' old team in Montreal.

Joey Morales was the last recruit of the government's full black operation, the Orphan Program. Trained to be an assassin until she washed out, she was rescued by Evan Smoak, the former agent known as Orphan X. Now Joey, a world-class hacker, starts training for one of her biggest challenges yet...

A serial killer is on the loose in Chicago. With a morbid signature, the murderer must be stopped before he kills again. Social worker Cassandra Welton and Detective Logan Trenton team up to find the killer. With every twist and turn, they wonder if they are on the right trail. How long will it take to make sure they have the right man?