Resultados para "Ode" en Policíaca, negra y suspense

Duchowny – psychopatyczny morderca – od początku swojej posługi trwa w przeświadczeniu, że jest narzędziem w rękach Zbawiciela. W Jego imieniu, pod pozorem wiary i dobroduszności, oczyszcza ziemię z grzeszników. Oddziela ziarno od plew. Niesie uzdrowienie światu. Swoje ofiary skazuje na najokrutniejsze cierpienie, wierząc, że w ten sposób płacą one za swoje grzechy, a on chroni je przed wiecznym potępieniem. Przekonany o słuszności swoich czynów, perfekcyjnie wykonuje powierzone mu przez Stwórcę zadanie.

"The first concern of an author is to do down his colleagues." In the long, hot Roman summer of AD 74, Falco, private informer and spare-time poet, gives a reading for his family and friends. Things get out of hand, as usual. The event is taken over by Aurelius Chrysippus, a wealthy Greek banker and patron to a group of struggling writers, who offers to publish Falco's work.

Millions of Americans are violently protesting; many more are refusing to pay federal income tax. States are threatening to secede from the United States of America; the president is desperately trying to avoid a civil war. While Tucker is offering a solution, his family is under attack from the most intelligent person in the world - a person self-diagnosed as a sociopath and psychopath.

In the early 1980s, Brian O'Dea was operating a $100 million a year, 120-man drug smuggling business, and had developed a terrifying cocaine addiction. Under increasing threat from the DEA in 1986 for importing seventy-five tons of marijuana into the United States, he quit the trade - and the drugs - and began working with recovering addicts in Santa Barbara. Despite his life change, the authorities caught up with him years later and O'Dea was arrested, tried, and sentenced to ten years at Terminal Island Federal Penitentiary in Los Angeles Harbor.

When newspaper owner and editor Bernadette “Bernie” O’Dea’s house burns down on New Year’s Eve with an unidentified body in the charred rubble – who may or may not be her missing tenant – it’s clear the new year won’t be nice and quiet after all. Bernie is already navigating boyfriend and police chief Pete Novotny’s increasingly challenging struggle with PTSD, so when the arson and murder investigation narrows its focus on her, she plunges into work trying to find an oasis of normalcy. Getting to the bottom of the local college’s plans for expansion is just the ticket. Or not.

Sitting alone in his apartment, nursing a drink and the weight of past regrets, Walter Regin barely registers the sudden blare of the Emergency Alert System. But when the message sinks in—nuclear war is underway—time takes on a terrifying new meaning. With just 90 minutes until impact, he’s faced with a choice: stay put and accept his fate, or fight for a chance to see his estranged wife and son one last time. As chaos erupts around him and the clock winds down, every decision could be his last.

When Appalachian Trail thru-hiker Lydia Manzo becomes lost in the woods of Maine and then found dead, it sets off a chain of events that upsets the fragile peace of Redimere, Maine. While state investigators are sure Lydia killed herself, some in Redimere are sure someone killed her. As newspaper editor Bernadette “Bernie” O’Dea tries to sort out the truth, Police Chief Pete Novotny also disappears into the woods.

The snowbanks in a small Maine town start to melt, and the town's secrets begin to emerge. Bernie O'Dea, the editor of the Peaks Weekly Watcher, is jazzed to finally have a big story to cover when a body is found in a melting snowbank. But as spring turns into a long, hot, explosive summer in Redimere, Maine, the story gets bigger - maybe too big for Bernie to handle.

A grisly discovery in the woods of Redimere, Maine, resurrects Police Chief Pete Novotny's old case of a missing boy - just one of the ghosts that haunts the town in the second of the Bernie O'Dea mystery series.