Resultados para "Sand" en Novela negra

Cuando Elizabeth Caspersen encuentra un DVD en la caja fuerte de su difunto padre, se pone en contacto con el detective privado Michael Sander. El disco contiene la grabación de una cacería humana brutal, sin escrúpulos y muy bien organizada en un paisaje ártico, con su padre como uno de los participantes, que termina con la muerte de un hombre joven. Elisabeth teme que la grabación pueda destrozar a su familia y la reputación de su padre y quiere que Michael Sander, ex policía y ex soldado, investigue el asunto.

Cuando un terrorista suicida detona un chaleco bomba en el Tivoli, el parque de atracciones del centro de Copenhague, el país entero queda conmocionado. Además, nadie reivindica el atentado, cosa que complica la investigación. Poco después, la inspectora Lene Jensen se ve implicada a título personal en la muerte de una chica y descubre que ambos sucesos están conectados, por lo que pide ayuda al investigador privado Michael Sander. Juntos, emprenden una investigación en la que pronto averiguarán que hay gente que sabe mucho más de lo que aparenta.

Ontspoord is het eerste deel in een suspense-serie over ex-detective Thomas Ravnsholdt, ook wel Ravn genoemd, die als privé-detective wordt ingehuurd om vermiste personen op te sporen. Ravn wordt uit zijn verdriet gerukt wanneer een goede vriend hem om hulp vraagt bij het vinden van een jong meisje dat een paar jaar eerder spoorloos is verdwenen. Het onderzoek dwingt Ravn om terug te gaan naar zijn oude werkplek en dus ook naar de Kopenhaagse onderwereld. Hier wijst alles erop dat het meisje is verkocht aan de grote crimineel Slavros, die een netwerk van bordelen in Europa heeft.

Als die junge Hamburger Nachlasspflegerin Friedelinde Engel zu dem Haus einer Verstorbenen geschickt wird, um das Erbe zu verwalten, scheint es ein Tag wie jeder andere. Doch dann entdeckt sie im Keller die Leiche eines Mannes. Während Hauptkommissar Nicolas Sander bei seinen Ermittlungen im Dunkeln tappt, führt Friedelindes Suche nach den Erben der Toten sie weit zurück in die Vergangenheit. Bald schon müssen Friedelinde und Sander widerwillig zusammenarbeiten, um die wahren Schuldigen zu finden.

A reporter on the rebound. An ex-cop with nothing to lose. A truth worth killing for. Crime reporter Will Finch doesn't believe Gianna Whitelaw jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge—no matter what the suicide note says. But when her powerful father, U.S. Senator Franklin Whitelaw, shuts down the investigation, Finch is forced to walk away. Until private investigator Eve Noon sends him a cryptic message. She knew Gianna. She knows what happened that night. And she knows Finch is tangled in it more than he realizes.

On a dark night in Lusaka, Zambia, a young girl is brutally assaulted and left for dead. Her identity is a mystery. Zoe Fleming, a human rights lawyer, is determined to find the perpetrator. Also investigating is Joseph Kabuta of the Zambian police. At first they are reluctant to work together, their cultures and upbringings radically different. Their task is not only to help the girl recover, but also to ensure justice doesn't fail her again.

Sam Ireland wants to raise his daughter in peace, but when he saves a woman and child from drowning, he's drawn into a dangerous web of human trafficking. Joining forces with Waleed, an Egyptian intelligence chief, Sam pursues the mastermind, Habid, who has been sending Gaddafi loyalists to their deaths. As innocent lives hang in the balance, Sam navigates treacherous waters to stop Habid and confront the evil lurking beneath the surface.

When his dying mother pleads with him to change his ways so they can meet in the afterlife in Heaven, a man in prison for murder struggles with his faith because he believes he is already beyond redemption.

Almost one year has passed since the earth shook up Matt Horning and his coastal village. Now, the world’s foremost scientists have flocked to the remote town to study the aftereffects on the sea and land. Turns out, one of them isn’t a nice man. Famous geologist British Lord Phineas Stuart goes missing. As the investigation into Stuart’s disappearance gets underway, Matt and his colleagues quickly realize they’re not hurting for suspects who wish the geologist harm. Has Stuart just taken off somewhere, or is a jealous competitor responsible for the missing scientist?

The discovery of a severed head in a golf course bunker triggers a frantic race to find a serial killer that brings the town of Burnham-on-Sea to a standstill. A connection is made with a series of unsolved murders harking back to the 1970s, and Detective Inspector Nick Dixon finds himself caught in a race against time that takes him the length and breadth of the country.

Die Fotografin Katrin Sandmann verschwindet nach einem Shoppingtrip mit einer langjährigen Freundin spurlos, als im Rheinland durch einen plötzlichen Wintereinbruch das Chaos ausbricht. Am selben Nachmittag flieht der brutale Frauenmörder Mario Brindi aus der Klink für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie. Die Polizei glaubt nicht daran, dass die beiden Fälle zusammenhängen, doch als kurze Zeit später die grauenvoll zugerichtete Leiche einer jungen Frau gefunden wird, ist es vielleicht schon zu spät für Katrin. Hat der Täter erneut zugeschlagen?

When paramedic Ashley Grant finds her boyfriend in bed with another woman, she moves out of her house (okay, his house), quits her job and takes a new one in a tiny Caribbean country, the Victoria and Albert Islands. Ashley is thrown into the deep end when she arrives. Her new colleague picks her up at the airport in the island's only ambulance, which is called to the discovery of a body floating off the beach at the exclusive Club Louisa. Before she can even unpack her bags or enjoy the view from her ocean-side apartment, Ashley is unwittingly dragged into a murder investigation.

Ein Anruf über sein Satellitentelefon reißt Michael Sander aus der Beziehungskrise. Golonins Lebensversicherung sind geheime Informationen zum Untergang der MS Estonia. Plötzlich steht Michael selbst auf der Abschussliste sämtlicher nationaler und internationaler Geheimdienste. Jetzt muss er nicht nur all seine operativen Fähigkeiten zum Einsatz bringen, sondern auch die Probleme mit Lene Sander lösen, wenn er überleben will.

Will Finch, a San Francisco crime reporter, is drawn to a small Oregon town where a murder exposes dangerous secrets. The local sheriff controls the town with an iron grip, determined to block Finch's investigation at every turn. At the center of the case is the victim's fiancée, a senator's daughter, whose silence only deepens the mystery. As Finch follows the trail, he uncovers a web of corruption and betrayal stretching far beyond the wilderness. The truth could cost him everything.

Guns & God: Lines in the Sand is an electrifying adult crime-thriller involving murder, conspiracy, and infidelities that jolt a community as two neighboring families collide over political ideas about gun laws...when patriarch Luke “Fuzzy” Rose learns that a family member will stop at nothing to overtake the family business, all hell breaks loose, sending the family on a manhunt to end the dark plot and exposing its plans for civil war.

Athos, Pearl and their two-leggeds are guests at a beautiful palais in Vienna, Austria. A grand ball is to be held there to celebrate the eighteenth birthday of the family's daughter, and recently Bella, a young Malamute just like Athos, has also moved into the grand historic mansion. But instead of fun and games with the puppy and a glittering night at the ball, a murder takes place—for which Victoria Adler, the Master Sleuths' very own human, is arrested!

A former Medal of Valor winner, Minnesota detective Alexander Rupert is now under subpoena by a grand jury on suspicion of corruption. So when he's asked to look into the false identity of a car-accident victim named James Putnam, a man who in fact died 15 years earlier, Rupert sees a potentially big case and an opportunity to regain his respectability. But the investigation puts him in the path of "the Beast", the nom de guerre of Drago Basta, a cunning veteran of the Balkan wars.

Direktören för en ledande, dansk läkemedelsfirma ligger död i sin bil på en parkeringsplats. Inte långt därifrån hittas även den ghostwriter som direktören har anställt för att skriva hans självbiografi i en pöl av sitt eget blod. Polisinspektör Lene Jensen tilldelas fallet och det visar sig snart ha anknytningar till hennes eget familjeliv på ett sätt som hon aldrig kunnat ana. Samtidigt har Michael Sander blivit insnärjd i ett nätverk där internationell brottslighet, kliniska likvideringar och en diskutabel syn på rätt och fel tvingar ut honom på riktigt djupt vatten.

Maanden na de dood van zijn vrouw en twee kinderen verschijnt er voor het eerst weer een glimlach op David's gezicht. Dit gebeurt wanneer David Zimmer een oude, stomme film op televisie ziet, die gemaakt is door de komiek Hector Mann. Voor het eerst tijdens het ongelofelijk zware rouwproces verschijnt er een klein lichtje aan het einde van de tunnel.

Tom Kendall, a down-to-earth private detective, is asked to investigate the death of a young newspaper reporter. The evidence shows quite clearly that it was an accident: a simple, dreadful accident. That is the finding of the coroner and the local police. Furthermore, there were two witnesses. They saw the whole thing. But was it an accident, or was it something more sinister? Against a backdrop of a viral epidemic slowly spreading from Central America, a simple case soon places Kendall up against one of the largest drug companies in the country.