Resultados para "Richard III." en Policíaca, negra y suspense

No remuevas el pasado, hay verdades que es mejor ignorar. El tercer caso del policía islandés Ari Thór. 1955: Dos hermanas y sus parejas se trasladan a un fiordo aislado y deshabitado. Su estancia termina abruptamente cuando una de las mujeres fallece en circunstancias misteriosas. Sin testigos, pistas ni sospechosos, el caso nunca se resuelve. Cincuenta años más tarde, en Siglufjörður, aislado por un extraño virus, sale a la luz una vieja fotografía de la época que parece indicar que no eran los únicos habitantes del fiordo.

When attractive American Jacqueline Kirby is invited to an English country mansion for a weekend costume affair, she expects only one mystery. Since the hosts and guests are all fanatic devotees of King Richard III, they hope to clear his name of the 500-year-old accusation that he killed the little princes in the Tower of London. Jacqueline is amused by the group's eccentricities until history begins to repeat itself.

Richard Ramirez, el temido asesino en serie conocido como el Acosador Nocturno, lleva ocho años preso en la cárcel californiana de San Quintín. Su única distracción es la correspondencia que recibe a diario de cientos de mujeres obsesionadas con él, cuya devoción traspasa cualquier límite moral. Pero para Richie, el estado natural de un serial killer es la libertad: merodear por las calles, escudarse en las sombras de la noche, acechar almas inocentes hasta aterrorizarlas.

Charlaine Harris, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels and the Harper Connelly Mysteries, and New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden present The Cemetery Girl trilogy. She calls herself Calexa Rose Dunhill—names taken from the grim surroundings where she awoke, bruised and bloody, with no memory of who she is, how she got there, or who left her for dead. She has made the cemetery her home, living in a crypt and avoiding human contact. But Calexa can’t hide from the dead—and because she can see spirits, they can’t hide from her.

When children go missing, and the Humans have no leads, I'm the one they call. I am their last hope in bringing home the lost ones. I salvage what they cannot. The FBI wants me on their team. Bad enough that they are dangling bait they know I can't resist. The catch? It’s on the other side of the ocean. And if I want what they’re offering, I have to help them with a salvage gone terribly, terribly wrong. But this time, I have no back up. I have no Plan B. And I have no O’Shea. 

Crimebusting duo DI Jackman and DS Evans are back, solving another crime that will make your skin crawl. Police detective Carter McLean is the only survivor of a plane crash that kills his four best friends. He returns to work, but he is left full of guilt and terrible flashbacks. So for each of his four friends he decides to complete something that they left unfinished....

Deep below a desolate Utah mountain lies the largest platinum deposit ever discovered. A billion-dollar find, it waits for any company that can drill a world-record three-mile-deep mine shaft. EarthCore is the company with the technology, the resources, and the guts to go after the mother lode. Young executive Connell Kirkland is the company’s driving force, pushing himself and those around him to uncover the massive treasure.

Fresh from a high-profile case in the Paris fashion world, elite forensic psychologist and criminal profiler Dr Alexander Gregory receives a call from the New York State Homicide Squad. The wife of a notorious criminal has been admitted to a private psychiatric hospital and can no longer testify in his upcoming trial. Without her, their case will collapse, but amid reports that the staff are as unpredictable as their patients, who can the police trust? 

A mysterious signal from deep space may hold humanity’s last chance of survival. And could reveal the ultimate truth of human origins. The race to unravel the secrets of the Atlantis world has begun.

On a cold morning in early spring, the body of a young woman is found trapped in the ice of Dundurn Bay. The next day at dawn, a homeless man discovers an unconscious school teacher in a public park. Gagged and bound with duct tape, the man is rigged to an elaborate bomb that's been set to blow if anyone attempts to free him. Detective Superintendent MacNeice and his team are called in to investigate the two seemingly unrelated crimes, and quickly find themselves venturing into the dive bars and rooming houses of Dundurn.

Inspired by an old crime novel called The Kill, two brothers travel to Naples. They abduct an American student, take him to a basement – and cut him to pieces. An investigation begins. The crime becomes a media sensation because of its fictional inspiration. And then another student disappears.

A brutal murder occurs in Memphis, near Franklin City’s limits. But all is quiet in the city itself as Franklin City celebrates Independence Day, until among the festival crowd, Wendy claims she sees a man Bill Doolin’s compatriots put behind bars. A check of prison rosters shows the man remains in prison. Then, two young women are murdered in town.

While an ugly war with its neighbouring realm continues to rage, the insulated members of Ruritania’s upper class laugh and dance their way through their superficial lives. Some people, increasingly disillusioned by the pointless conflict, start to consider how the king might be persuaded - or forced - to end it. Meanwhile, an increasing number of items of great value are going missing from those attending these high society gatherings. At whom will the finger of suspicion point? Who can be trusted?

The Biloxi Crowns need a place away from the coast to produce drugs. The Dixie mafia owns the sites and the political influence the Crowns need. A raid on the county’s first meth lab kills a deputy and reveals this sinister alliance. It also prompts Hector’s family to coerce him back into the criminal underworld. Meanwhile, a crooked politician uses the botched raid as an excuse to hamstring the sheriff’s department.

The darkness is spreading. A blanket of thick fog has descended on Strelsau, and the health of the King is failing. While Ruritanian citizens huddle inside to keep warm, discovering the identity of the heir to the throne has become a race against time. Why is the sinister Lord Marek so interested in the outcome of the search? Shadowy forces are at work, seeking to change the course of history. Will any ray of light be able to pierce through this shroud of darkness?

When a celebrated music impresario is found dead in Venice—his body slumped in the hot house of a remote palazzo, a cryptic musical interval in his hand—rumours swirl around a rediscovered manuscript: the original score for The Four Seasons, penned in Vivaldi's own hand. But is it a masterpiece lost to time or a masterful forgery? Arnold Clover, a reclusive British archivist seeking peace in the city on the lagoon, is reluctantly drawn into the mystery. Hired to authenticate the deadly manuscript, Arnold finds himself at the centre of a chilling conspiracy.

In the third Richard Hannay novel, the Brigadier-General finds himself pulled from the warfront to hunt down a German agent whilst undercover as a conscientious objector.

When two federal agents are found shot dead and their prisoner, corrupt ex-cop Jesse Nichols, escapes, he has only one goal in mind: exact revenge on Sam Laska for his capture. Leaving a trail of bodies in his wake, Nichols closes in on his target. Laska, working alongside the Feds, believes he has Nichols cornered, but realizes too late that he's been outmaneuvered.

There is a treasure high in the Colorado Rockies waiting for someone to find it. Jake Martin couldn't care less. Since the death of his wife, all Jake wants is to be left alone in his mountain cabin where he and his dog, Fred, can get on with life. But when it becomes known that the location of the treasure is encrypted in a message left by a 19th-century miner, people begin to die, and Jake's good friend and neighbor becomes the number one suspect.

In their battle to save Earth from becoming another conquest of the alien Kasari Collective, Mark and Heather Smythe have struck crucial blows against the enemy. But their best efforts have still failed to derail the completion of the wormhole gateway that would give the insidious extraterrestrial invaders access to the planet - and doom humankind as helpless slaves of the Kasari hive mind.