Resultados para "Ron" en Procedimientos policiales

Wolfram Köpke, Kriminalhauptkommissar bei der Polizei in Essen, fast Alkoholiker und ausgebrannt erbt ein kleines Haus in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Das nimmt er zum Anlass sein Leben neu zu ordnen. Er kündigt seinen Job und zieht um. Dort lernt er Nachbarin Silvia und ihre Familie kennen. Eine Investmentgesellschaft möchte aber genau an diesem Ort einen Ferienpark bauen und setzt alle Mittel ein ihn und seine Nachbarn zu vertreiben. Schnell steckt er mitten in einem Kriminalfall. Dazu ist da noch diese Nachbarin.

In this second book in the Frank Yakabuski Mystery series, Yakabuski is called in to investigate a gruesome crime scene. A body has been left hanging from a schoolyard fence. On closer inspection, Yak finds a large diamond in the murder victim’s mouth. Two criminal gangs - the Shiners and the Travellers - are fighting with each other, and Yakabuski turns to his father, a now-retired detective who has a long history with the gangs, for advice in the interrogation. And as if this weren’t enough for one detective, a serial killer is taking a deadly road trip through the United States.

While working one afternoon on the Northern Divide, a young tree-marker makes a grisly discovery: in a squatter's cabin near an old mill town, a family has been murdered. An army vet coming off a successful turn leading a task force that took down infamous biker criminals, Detective Frank Yakabuski arrives in Ragged Lake, a nearly abandoned village, to solve the family's murder. But no one is willing to talk. With a winter storm coming, Yakabuski sequesters the locals in a fishing lodge as he investigates the area with his two junior officers.

In the final scene of Cape Diamond, millions of dollars’ worth of diamonds went missing, which is where Ron Corbett’s latest novel begins. When rumors spread that they were buried on Mission Road, an old logging trail outside the town, people swarm to the area, setting up temporary camps and searching for fortune. But when a known murderer shows up, the real mystery begins.

Retired to a small Colorado mountain town, former Denver homicide detective Woodrow “Mountain” Bell yearns only to fade away. He has failed in so many ways—as a father, a husband, friend, and cop—he fears he wasted his chance at a meaningful life. When Bell stumbles across a long-forgotten, unsolved child murder, his first impulse is to let it lie—but he can’t. He is drawn into the macabre mystery when he realizes the killer might still be near.

In StreetWhys, underground detective Dickie Cornish faces a vindictive murder rap from his past if he doesn’t agree to help prove that the fentanyl ravaging the streets of DC is bankrolled by shadowy donors of a certain former president. Broke and desperate, Cornish soon finds himself on a collision course with shady public defenders and corrupt police officers, forcing him to use his street connections to flip their plan. Or die.

Writing in England at the turn of the 20th century, G.K. Chesterton was dubbed the "prince of paradox" for addressing serious questions with his light, whimsical style. In this classic allegory, which has captivated generations since it was first published in 1908, Chesterton tackles such profound concepts as honor, truth, and God with insightful humor and colorful enigma.

Ils n'auraient jamais dû mourir ainsi. Ils se croyaient à l'abri de la haine et de la violence qui régnaient dehors. À l'abri derrière leurs clôtures, sous la protection de la police, ils ne couraient aucun danger. Mais ils baignent à présent dans leur propre sang, elle éventrée comme un animal, lui, le député, abattu d'une balle. Leurs enfants ont disparu. Les gendarmes convoquent le capitaine Alaric Autier, de la crim' de Versailles. Ils veulent comprendre pourquoi le tueur a laissé dans la bouche de la femme une coupure de journal évoquant une affaire du policier.

Incandescent, comme l'incendie d'un entrepôt entre Argenteuil et Cergy. Incandescent, comme le cadavre d'un pendu que les flammes vont anéantir. Incandescent, comme la haine d'un chef envers son meilleur enquêteur. Incandescent, comme la jalousie, comme le désir, comme la brûlure d'un viol. Incandescent, comme la passion du policier poursuivant inlassablement la vérité. Le capitaine Alaric Autier, chef de groupe à la crim' de Versailles, tente de résoudre deux affaires, alors que sa vie s'embrase, et que son patron cherche à le réduire en cendres.

Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman is dozing in his cruiser near parklands in Nation County, Iowa when he hears popping sounds. Immediately, his radio screams to life with a call for assistance. What started as a simple raid on a marijuana patch has erupted into high-power gunfire. As the air clears, two men are known dead. But who was firing, and what else are they protecting? Houseman will find few heroes as he follows a convoluted trail that leads from the marijuana plants to an elusive international operator.

Une jeune fille écrasée, trois suspects, pas de scène de crime. Deux pêcheurs autour d'un cadavre, la forêt de Rambouillet pour seul témoin. La victime n'est pas une jeune femme ordinaire, mais la fille d'un politicien sulfureux. Son corps a été littéralement broyé.

Recovering from the emotional and physical damage of his last case, Ronan McCullough is trying to put his life back together. But when a federal agent's charred remains surface, linked to a professor's encrypted money laundering scheme, Ronan becomes embroiled in a high-stakes game of life and death with someone who is willing to kill everyone that knows anything about the encryption codes.

Danny Barrett is caught between a family of criminals and the psychopath who is tracking them in the latest novel of the series the New York Times calls, "Dynamite." The FBI has a hundred undercover agents who can work in the city, but Danny Barrett is the one they call when they need someone to...

In this thrilling new series from Edgar-nominated author Ron Corbett, the most dangerous predator in the Maine wilderness walks on two feet—and it is Danny Barrett's job to bring him down. Something is not right in the North Maine Woods. A small family-run lumber company should not have...

A survivor of childhood trauma, two marriages, twenty hard years with the Seattle P.D. and the bottle, Jonas Piedmont Beaumont has spent far too much time trolling the darker waters of human nature. In the wake of a devastating professional tragedy, he has decided, at long last, to pull the pin...

All at once, Fat Ollie Weeks had a truly brilliant idea... But as any real writer could tell you, that's how inspiration strikes -- with the sudden force of a violent crime. Known more for his foul mouth and short temper than his way with words, Detective Weeks has written a novel. But just as...

It is Christmas in the city, but it isn't the giving season. A retired Gulf War pilot, a careless second-story man, a pair of angry Mexicans, and an equally shady pair of Secret Service agents are in town after a large stash of money, and no one is interested in sharing. The detectives at the...

Ed McBain concocts a brilliant and intricate thriller about a master criminal who haunts the city with cryptic passages from Shakespeare, directing the detectives of the 87th Precinct to a future crime -- if only they can figure out what he means. The 87th Precinct gets a visit from one of the...

The kidnapping was audacious, and there were plenty of witnesses... But no one attending the dazzling launch party for up-and-coming pop idol Tamar Valparaiso knew what they were seeing when, halfway through her performance, masked men whisked the sexy young singer off a luxury yacht and into a...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Defending Jacob Former D.A. William Landay explodes onto the suspense scene with an electrifying novel about the true price of crime and the hidden corners of the criminal justice system. Only an insider could so vividly capture Boston’s gritty...