Resultados para "Perfect" en Procedimientos policiales

En una montaña remota de Escocia, el cuerpo de Elaine Buxton arde. Lo único que queda para identificar a la respetada abogada son sus dientes y un fragmento de ropa. En la parte trasera de una casa de Edimburgo, en una habitación oculta, la verdadera Elaine Buxton grita en la oscuridad… El inspector Luc Callanach apenas ha puesto un pie en su nueva oficina cuando le asignan el caso de Elaine.

Un thriller sobre la lucha a muerte entre un refinado psicópata y sus tres víctimas Solo unos kilómetros de distancia separan a tres mujeres que no se conocen entre sí. Una es doctora; otra, profesora; la tercera, estudiante. Las tres son pelirrojas y vulnerables. Las tres son el próximo objetivo de un psicópata obsesionado. Por llevar a cabo su obra de arte final. Crímenes que serán estudiados en las universidades, de los que se hablara durante décadas, crímenes perfectos.

With The Neighbor and Pray for the Girl, Joseph Souza proved himself a master of twisty and unpredictable psychological suspense. In this riveting new novel, a mother is unwittingly drawn into the dark underbelly of her picture-perfect Maine town . . . Shepherd's Bay has been home to generations...

How do you stop a killer no one believes exists? DS Kat Ballantyne wants to know why a perfect girl like Rosie Duggan would jump to her death from a multistorey car park. Everyone is saying she took her own life. But Kat is unconvinced. Girls like Rosie—bright, popular, well adjusted, and with her whole life ahead of her—don’t fall from tall buildings. Unless someone pushes them.

When the live-in nanny of a wealthy family goes missing and her body is found two states over. FBI Agent Ava James is sent on the road to investigate. The nanny, Lianna Reyes, left everything and everyone behind to work in the U.S. No one, not even her husband, had heard from her in over a year. The couple who employed the nanny became the prime suspects in her disappearance. They had accused her of stealing from them and running away. Police found no other leads, until her body was found.

When high-society women are found dead in their opulent California homes, Jessie Hunt is summoned to crack the case. With little to connect them—other than hidden scandal—Jessie is at a loss. Why are they being targeted? And who is next?

When wealthy suburban women are found murdered in their small town without rhyme or reason, Jessie soon realizes she is up against no ordinary killer. He is an unpredictable psychopath, beyond anyone she’s ever been up against—and she will have to enter the dark canals of his twisted mind if she has any chance of saving the next woman on his list.

London mobster and diamond enthusiast DB Parrish is on the hunt for a skilled safecracker. The right man for the job is proving hard to find. Genius locksmith Sean Freeman has fallen on hard times. Bankrupt and desperate, he's looking for a lucrative opportunity. When Freeman crosses Parrish's path, he gets an offer he can't refuse. But with great reward comes even greater risks.

As elite profiler Jessie Hunt delves into a series of bizarre marital homicides, she uncovers a shadowy world where affluent couples engage in a perilous game of "life swaps." In this twisted society, the rich trade spouses, homes, and even children for thrills—but someone's deadly agenda is rewriting the rules.

When LA's yacht-set elite begin dying in a potential pattern, profiler Jessie Hunt must navigate through their world of luxury and lies. Unearthing links to forgotten crimes on open waters, Jessie soon realizes that catching this killer may just put her directly in his crosshairs.

In a wealthy, competitive suburb where parents will do anything to get their kids into a top college, parents are turning up dead. With seemingly nothing to connect the murders, and yet with potential suspects everywhere, Jessie soon realizes that sometimes, in the most perfect of places, darkness lies…

In an exclusive, wealthy neighborhood, women are turning up dead, a killer amongst them in plain sight. Jessie must immerse herself in the world of the wealthy and look behind their delicate façade to uncover the secrets, lies, and truth before it’s too late....

When a woman is burned to death in Grandal Field in Devon, it seems like a case of mistaken identity. Until DI Wesley Peterson learns of a legend involving a French woman who burned to death there in the 13th century. And when he discovers that records of a previous excavation on the site have vanished, and that two archaeologists involved in that dig died in tragic circumstances, Wesley starts to investigate the possibility of a link between the legend and recent events.

Tom Garrison remembers everything. The rain. The headlights. The sound of impact. When a cyclist is killed in a late-night hit-and-run, Tom steps forward as the perfect witness—calm, precise, and certain of every detail. Police praise his clarity. The media calls him a good Samaritan. His testimony helps close the case. But Detective Mara Linwood hears something wrong in Tom’s voice. As inconsistencies surface and buried memories begin to crack, Tom’s carefully ordered reality starts to unravel. Nightmares bleed into waking life.

Rookie crime reporter Jason Wade, a troubled loner from the wrong side of the tracks, pursues the story of a murdered Seattle nun. The case leads him to a hermit nun who founded a mysterious religious order; and ultimately to the dark secret that has tormented his ex-cop father for decades. It culminates in a life and death struggle against the clock. With time running out, Jason and his father battle the odds to confront a terrible truth.

It is Inspector Ghote's bad luck to be landed with the case of the perfect murder at the start of his career with the Bombay Police, for in this most baffling of crimes there is the cunning and important tycoon Lala Varde to contend with. And as if this were not enough, he finds himself having to investigate the mysterious theft of one rupee from the desk of yet another very important person, the minister of Police Affairs and the Arts.

The body of the beautiful English girl is discovered months later - dumped behind the back of a department store. But who was the stranger she let into the safety of her home? As Detective Rachel Prince pieces together the mystery surrounding Phoebe’s death, another young, blonde girl is found brutally murdered and abandoned in the grounds of an old theatre. In the most dangerous case of her career, Rachel must track down the faceless individual to stop the body count rising.

Jen Garner tries her best to be ‘wife and mother of the year’. She helps organise school plays and accompanies her husband to company dinners, all with a big smile on her face. But Jen has started to receive strange gifts in the post...first flowers, then a sympathy card. It could just be a joke; that’s what she tells herself. But then the final ‘gift’ arrives, and Jen has to question why somebody is so intent on shattering her life into pieces....

FBI Special Agent Emily Slate is no stranger to tragedy. After losing her husband three months ago, then botching the biggest case of her career, she’s barely escaped a full suspension. Determined to get her life back on track or die trying, she takes a seemingly impossible case in hopes she can turn her fortunes around. But as Emily arrives in the small Virginia mountain town and dives into the mystery, she discovers the remains of a woman, buried, with her eyes sewn shut. 

Una misteriosa logia protege al Poema Perfecto en las catacumbas de un colegio. Hasta que lo roban. El juez del caso sospecha que el Poema fue a parar a la pequeña localidad de Totoral, un lugar aparentemente apacible pero marcado por la rivalidad entre los habitantes de dos casonas, llamadas "El Kremlin" y "El Vaticano". La intrigante novela de Rodrigo Agrelo, donde irrumpen escritores míticos de la talla de Pablo Neruda y Rafael Alberti (que efectivamente se hospedaron en ese pueblo), juega con el lenguaje y confirma el gran momento del policial cordobés.