Resultados para "Patricia Smith" en Novela negra

The Ancient Ones walk among the sacred rocks at Petroglyphs National Monument. But are they responsible for the body discovered there one night during the full moon? Multiple jurisdictions of law enforcement are at a loss to find the identity of the dead man. The FBI, National Park Service, and Albuquerque Police wait for answers from the Office of the Medical Examiner (OMI), but they're stumped too. The CIA, lurking in the background, seems no better at finding solutions.

Vegas Duncan's release from prison is right on time for his older brother Junior's engagement to the voluptuous Sonya Brown. Unfortunately Junior's attempt at happiness comes to a screeching halt when Sonya's husband, the mysterious Brother X, and his army of Muslim hit men declare war on the Duncan clan. Duncan family patriarch LC Duncan has gone up against many foes in his time.

When he graduates with his law degree, handsome and charismatic Langston Hudson is ready to hit the ground running as a lawyer with his family's firm, but a routine traffic stop during a night out with his friends quickly derails his plans and turns his world upside down. Langston and his friends are arrested after officers find half a million dollars' worth of drugs in his car. When Jacqueline Hudson learns of her son's arrest, she immediately begins to build her case. She is one of the top lawyers in the country, with a reputation for being a shark in the courtrooms.

As a formidable high-end thief in good standing in her community of renegades, Rayla Rousseau—aka Thief à la Femme and one of the 12 all-female Robins of the Hood—has complete knowledge of the heisting challenge known in her world as simply The Triple Crown. For one thing, she knows it’s not a challenge high-end thieves with any morals would consider perpetrating.

The murder of Jessica Devereaux is a whodunit that no one expects. There’s a lot of twists and turns in this book, and they will always keep you guessing.

The last thing newly married jewel thief Gregg Hadyn expects is to bump into a former girlfriend, especially one who also happens to be an exceptional thief. Now plying his talents for a premier espionage team, Gregg considers it one too many coincidences to learn fellow thief Derek Clayton is also in the mix. When Derek’s routine heist from a billionaire Greek recluse puts him on the run for his life, he heads directly to Gregg and the SIRU.

Justice is a word with which Master Thief Rayla Rousseau is very familiar. After all, as Thief à la Femme and one of the fourteen members of the all-female thieving crew known universally as Robins of the Hood, procuring justice for those who can’t get it through legal means is what she does. So, when one of the Robins’ own discovers the Arsenault Museum has stolen her ancestors’ artwork, the sisterhood is all over it. Unfortunately, the museum’s security has the lady thieves baffled—a first for the four-decades-old Robins.

On an otherwise typical Sunday night, infamous Thief à la Femme Rayla Rousseau-Keltry and her FBI husband have the grave misfortune of finding their across-the-hall neighbor shot to death in his condo. A diamond simulant—in truth, a superb specimen of an extraordinarily large natural moissanite gem—is perched near the fingers of his lifeless, outstretched hand. Without a shred of doubt the man has been murdered, the unlikely but eminently successful crime-solving duo of vigilante thief and federal agent set out to find answers. But the more they dig, the more questions they unearth.

He knows she’s a thief. She knows he’s a fed. they married each other anyway. And now that the honeymoon’s over, things are about to get interesting.

For artist Gabriela Martinez, psychopaths do hit twice. A manuscript, a sick obsession, and only a few hours to live. A new threat. When Arnold Wickham, an unscrupulous art dealer, catches a glimpse of Gabriela's new work, The Book of Hours, he is like a man possessed. Now, he will do anything in order to claim it, and nothing, especially not Gabriela, will stand in his way. A love tested. Richard Harrison has been gifted with a second chance to protect Gabriela, the woman he loves. In the shadow of this new threat, however, the stakes are now much higher.