Resultados para "Pamela" en Policíaca, negra y suspense

In Pain Bleeds Crime, she shares twenty-three gripping true stories from her decades working in maximum-security prisons, courts, and forensic hospitals. The crimes are shocking—murder, rape, paedophilia, assault, fetishism, bestiality, and more—but what lies beneath is often even more confronting.

Lord Astley surprises his wife with a trip to America to see her family before they end their honeymoon adventures. But just as they arrive, they find Grace's sister, Lillias, is the prime suspect in her husband's murder. To add to the confusion a solicitor arrives to tell the sister's they are needed in Scotland immediately to claim their mother's inheritance.

Elise Carmichael is a court sign-language interpreter who reads lips all the time. As a widow with a young son who is deaf, lipreading is simply second nature, until the day she reads the lips of someone on the phone discussing an attempt to be made on a senator’s life - a senator who just happens to be her mother-in-law. Before she can decide what she needs to do, she receives the information that her son is rushed to the ER and that she must leave. Then she later sees the news report that her mother-in-law has been shot and killed.

Dreißig Jahre sind vergangen, seit der Fall Wilhelm Schweiger die Gerichte beschäftigte. Nun tritt Nina, seine 34-jährige Tochter und selbst Rechtsanwältin, in die Fußstapfen ihres Vaters. Zeitgleich taucht Nina tief in die alten Akten ihres Vaters ein und beginnt, sich mit ihrer eigenen Familiengeschichte auseinanderzusetzen. In zutiefst bewegenden Vater-Tochter-Gesprächen, kurz vor Wilhelms Tod, enthüllt er ihr die erschütternde Wahrheit über sein verstörendes Doppelleben. Wie viel kann eine große Liebe tragen, wenn sie auf Lügen und Geheimnissen aufgebaut ist?

On her way to Florida, Katy, a 54-year-old, faces some severe consequences of her negligence. The cost she had to pay is a visit to jail, something she wouldn’t ever wish upon anyone, let alone spend a few months there. However, it was her positivity that turned her unpleasant experience into some profound life lessons. So she had much to share and talk about when she returned to the normal world. This book presents the twists and turns of Katy’s life, and how a mistake causes her a severe loss in life that ends up turning her world upside down.

When DI Joe Burton and DS Sally Fielding are called to investigate a suspicious death in a care home, it is just the start of their problems. As further bodies are discovered, with playing cards placed beside their bodies, the Manchester police realise they have their work cut out. With the press closing in on the case, a criminal profiler is called in to help work out what the killer’s motive is. With the clock ticking and more victims uncovered, Fielding and Burton must race to track down a twisted killer before it’s too late.

When a young boy discovers a man’s body lying in a doorway, DI Burton and DS Fielding are called to the scene. Believing the man was homeless, the police are shocked to discover the true identity of the victim: a detective constable from London who was working undercover. But when the DNA from the victim is linked to a cold case, Burton and Fielding find themselves looking into another unsolved murder. And as the case unfolds, the detectives are faced with unpicking through a web of lies and deceit. But can they solve the murders before any more blood is spilt?

Former US Army Captain Mia Starr has built a new life for herself in Denver, far away from camel spiders and sand - and the terrible secrets of her first deployment to Iraq. She isn't looking for a relationship, especially not with an intrusive photojournalist. Joaquin Ramirez might be sexy, but in her experience, photojournalists only want to make a buck off other people's suffering. Still, the universe must have a sick sense of humor because it keeps throwing her together with Joaquin, making the desire she feels for him harder and harder to resist.

Jane Cho is a former legal investigator who was really good at her job, but she quit when someone she was investigating tried to have her killed. She returned to the seaside town of Waverly, Massachusetts, to run a takeout-food shop, Comfort & Joy, and to live a quiet, safer life. She thought everything was behind her as that person was convicted and is behind bars. But one peaceful morning, Jane stumbles over a dead body while taking out the trash. The dead woman ran a nearby bed and breakfast and had been threatened by Jane's thriving new business.

High-school teacher Lauren, 36, seems to have it all. Lauren's wedding is just a few weeks away when one of her students goes missing, and when his body is found a few days later, she suddenly becomes a person of interest. Her fiancé, David, is a former minor-league pitcher turned stockbroker who is excited to settle down with Lauren. But when the missing student is found dead and the media turns its attention even more closely on Lauren, David is surprised to discover that Lauren hadn't told him everything about her past.

Heartsick about her on-again, off-again boyfriend-werewolf, Fiona O’Malley is struggling to make the hardest decision of her life - if she should break up with him once and for all. Though she knows he loves her and is sweet, funny and kind, he’s just not the sort of guy you can depend upon, especially in the romance department. Immortal Matthew “Matty” Hyland is crazy in love with Fiona. He’d do anything to make her happy. Though he tries repeatedly to be there for her, things just keep getting in his way.

After the syndicated TV show Inquiring Minds airs footage of their resident ghost at Holly Grove, a converted antebellum plantation house, it seems as if half the state of Louisiana wants to book a room. There’s only one small problem: the ghost of her not-so-dearly-departed husband Burl has...departed. For the sake of business, Holly’s willing to keep up the pretense of still being haunted. But after an outspoken debunker challenges the show’s credibility, the TV crew returns to Holly Grove to prove the ghost is real.

Burl Davis checked out of this life a little earlier than expected - before Holly could serve him with divorce papers over his extramarital flings. Unfortunately, it was not before he nearly bankrupted her beloved B&B, Holly Grove, a converted plantation in her family for generations. Holly would never wish anyone dead, but three months later, she's feeling a lot more relief than grief. But then Burl's ghost appears as an unwelcome guest. Before his spirit can move on, her not-so-dearly departed needs Holly’s help to bust up the drug-smuggling ring he was involved with.

La giornalista investigativa Tessa Novak non poteva immaginare di trovarsi nel posto sbagliato al momento sbagliato. È sera, e una ragazza la supplica di aiutarla, ma lei non fa neanche in tempo a rendersi conto di quanto sta accadendo che un sicario in giacca di pelle nera fredda la giovane davanti ai suoi occhi. Tra la folla che si aggira intorno alla scena del crimine Tessa scorge un uomo con la stessa giacca che indossava il killer e, ancora sconvolta dall'accaduto, è convinta di riconoscere in lui l'assassino.

Il giorno in cui la giornalista Katherine James, una donna dalle radicate convinzioni e dai forti valori morali, incontra Gabriel Rossiter le manca letteralmente la terra sotto i piedi. Quasi uccisa in una frana durante un'escursione, trova la salvezza tra le braccia dell'affascinante ranger. Sebbene quell'uomo non le sia indifferente, è convinta che non lo rivedrà mai più.

Presa in ostaggio da un assassino condannato durante un reportage in prigione, Sophie Alton non può sapere che l'uomo che le punta la pistola alla testa è il "cattivo ragazzo" che fu il suo primo amore al liceo. Condannato all'ergastolo senza condizionale, Marc Hunter è costretto a fuggire dalla prigione dopo aver saputo che sua sorella minore è scomparsa con il proprio bambino.

L’omicidio di Pamela Genini, che altri chiama impropriamente “femminicidio” è un atto di inaudita barbarie che grida vendetta. E va da sé che viviamo in uno Stato di diritto e non di vendetta. Come tutto ciò che ci destabilizza e che assurge alle cronache, anche questo delitto è costituito da fatti e da narrativa.

She drank furniture polish. She was obsessed with the military. Then she shot up a shopping mall. Sylvia Seegrist is unique among female serial killers in that she is the only one to shoot random strangers in a public place. While other killers of her gender seemed to have a certain motivation in mind, Seegrist was a paranoid schizophrenic that adopted more of a "masculine" attitude toward killing. She was a woman on a mission as she entered Springfield Mall in Pennsylvania and attempted to kill as many people as possible.

Audrey Mae Scott has felt the sting of her mother's whipping stick far too many times. Unlike her little brother, Harry, she must do whatever she's told without question . . . or else. Her only solace from her fear and loneliness comes from writing about her plight. Though outwardly obedient, Audrey refuses to give up on her dreams, and she is determined to never become like her mother, Edith.

When Janine Scott was summoned by her sister Chris to visit her home in Devonshire, she knew that something was wrong. Indeed, strange things were happening. A man was visiting her sister’s room at night, terrifying her to the core. Janine, on the other hand, met a charming local man called Tim Hannaford, who also made unexpected visits and appeared altogether intriguing.