Resultados para "Skin" en Novela negra

Detective Mary Hume is on the trail of a vicious serial killer. A killer who leaves a baffling code carved into the skin of his victims. The first victim, a young man, lies spreadeagled in his stylish Soho flat. Carved deep into his hairless chest—while he was still alive—are the numbers 1-4-3. The second victim is a vicar—murdered and mutilated in his own church, his body posed kneeling in the front pew. Etched into his torso are more cryptic numbers.

Marcy Kendrick is a cop with a body count. A successful detective in LAPD Homicide, she is infamous for one thing: killing three serial killers before they could be brought to trial. Marcy knows her actions were in self-defense, but her coworkers can't help wondering if she is on some kind of vendetta—because Marcy's own mother was brutally murdered by a serial killer. Is this her way of getting payback? Adding to the pressure on Marcy, her ex-husband, Jordan Brasswell, has just been promoted over her, and seems determined to keep her under a microscope.

LA homeboy Magdaleno Argueta is desperate for a fresh start out of gang life, but after doing time on a frameup, he finds the only door open to him is continuing with his clica, the Cyco Lokos. He figures he’ll stay in for a while to save money to get away from Los Angeles with his girl, but his archrival homie Rico sees him as a threat and schemes to get Mags out of the way forever. Mags plays right into Rico’s hands, only realizing what his homie is up to after it’s too late. Then Mags must make a difficult sacrifice to save his family and himself.

Swan is a tattoo artist new to a community in the California desert when a mourning desert dweller named Kurt requests a tribute tattoo to his dead wife. Swan agrees, but the locals warn her: don’t indulge Kurt in his tragic memories. No wonder. As Kurt returns for more tattoos, the truth about his wife’s death begins to emerge in the ink. And it isn’t pretty.

'The Butcher of Belle Vue' has struck again. Like the first two victims, the third has been partially skinned and dumped on waste ground. Only this time, her face has also been removed. Jon Spicer and his new partner, Rick Saville, are approached by a woman who insists she heard 'The Butcher' claiming his latest victim in the next-door room of a run-down hotel in Belle Vue. But all she has to back up her story is an Escort’s business card recovered from the empty room the following morning.

Als Christian den Link zu dem Video anklickt, ist er entsetzt über das, was er sieht: einen bis zur Unkenntlichkeit entstellten menschlichen Körper, der regungslos auf dem Wasser eines Swimmingpools treibt. Das ist nur der Höhepunkt einer ganzen Reihe von seltsamen Ereignissen, die sich in Christians sonst so geregeltem Leben plötzlich häufen. Doch als er sich der Polizei anvertraut, reagiert diese anders als erwartet. Christian hat das Gefühl, dass man ihm nicht glaubt.

Il fût un temps où cette ville était au centre du monde. Un temps où sa puissance se nourrissait du sang et du fer. Mais aujourd'hui elle n'est plus que rouille et elle attend la ruine. C'est un territoire parfait pour Willie Flambeaux et Randi Wade. Lui est agent de recouvrement, elle, détective. Mais lorsqu'une série de meurtres particulièrement atroces ensanglante cette ville qu'ils croyaient si bien connaître, ce n'est plus dans dans le labyrinthe des rues qu'ils auront à mener l'enquête, mais dans les recoins les plus sombres de leurs propres passés.

Randi Wade is a survivor. She followed in the footsteps of her father, became a cop, and now is working the P.I. trade. But her past still haunts her. And the vicious animal attacks that took her father's life have sprung up anew, claiming victims once again in this sleepy town. George R.R...

A new series from the New York Times bestselling author of the J. J. Graves Mystery Series... Mabel McCoy, a young and widowed tea shop owner in the quaint coastal town of Grimm Island, South Carolina, finds her life as calm as a perfectly steeped cup of tea. The highlight of her month is hosting the Silver Sleuths Murder Society at her charming shop—a group of spirited seniors with a penchant for mysteries. She loves the tranquility and wouldn’t have it any other way. But when a dashing new sheriff arrives in town with a backlog of baffling cold cases, Mabel's peaceful existence is upended.

В приморском городе Ташинск происходит череда зверских убийств. Психотерапевт Ольга Сербинова подозревает в этих преступлениях одного из своих клиентов. Вместе с местным полицейским она начинает вести параллельное расследование, в ходе которого выясняется, что за всеми этими страшными событиями стоит нечто большее, чем просто человек.

When a teenage boy is abducted from a Dundee street in broad daylight, DS Vicky Dodds and her team are put on the case. The drowned body is found with just one clue—an inscrutable code scratched onto his arm. Vicky must hunt across Dundee for the brutal killers, drawing on old friends and family to probe the deep corners of the dark web and Scottish gangs. As Vicky learns to doubt who she can trust, she connects with a new friend, someone who can maybe help her resolve her own murky past.

Brought to you by Penguin. IBA Crime Fiction Book of the Year Winner 2018 WINNER of the Dead Good Books Award for the Book That You Can't Put Down! She's not who you think she is . . . 'I could probably have been an actress. It is not difficult to pretend to be somebody else. Isn't that what...

Der neue Roman des dreifachen Deutschen-Krimipreis-Trägers. Der Dienst im Außenbezirk sollte Ruhe in das Leben der Kriminalpolizistin Romina Winter bringen. Doch georgische Einbrecher nehmen sich in täglichen Touren die Stadtvillen in Dahlem und Lichterfelde vor. Die Bewohner sind verängstigt. Und dann verschwindet Rominas kleine Schwester. Sie muss in eigener Sache ermitteln. Jacques Lippold wird aus dem Tegeler Gefängnis entlassen. Zwei Jahre hat er wegen Betrugs gesessen. Jetzt will er sich als Finanzberater in der Kunstszene etablieren.

On a spring morning in Manhattan, 1982, the newspaper headlines report the latest homicide: a young scion of finance found strangled in his elegant high rise. When Sheila Ross, copywriter by day, would-be stand-up comic by night, learns of Craig Vitale's murder, her blood runs cold. He was her client. As she reads the details of Vitale's killing, traumatic memories of her brother's death flood her. Ten years ago in their sleepy hometown Delmont, Iowa Sheila's brother was murdered; strangled like Vitale. His killer was never found.

Patrick Flint is about to make the most harrowing climb of his life. When the body of Patrick's beautiful young climbing partner floats up dead in the creek behind the Flint home, rumors about the two of them explode, thrusting Susanne into the role of the woman scorned and the crosshairs of the police.

In Skin and Bones, an original short story in the Paul Doiron's bestselling Mike Bowditch series, the killing of a bald eagle unearths ties to a tragic case from mentor Charley Steven’s past. When Maine game warden Mike Bowditch discovers a bullet-ridden bald eagle in the Maine woods, he is...

A gripping psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Lie With Me and Dead Heat. It's true what they say: one moment can change your life completely. I found a woman's body on the common. I touched her; that was all. But now the police won't leave me alone. Because all the evidence is...

Ich bin ein Serienkiller. Das hier ist meine Geschichte. Ich erzähle dir von meinen Taten, von meinen Ideen, davon, was mich zu dem gemacht hat. Ich möchte, dass du an meiner Seite bist, während ich mein nächstes Opfer finde. Und ich will, dass du dabei mitwirkst. Sieh nicht nur zu.

A new type of serial killer is stalking the streets of New York - one more devious and disturbing than ever before. They call this butcher The Skin Collector: a tattooist with a chamber of torture hidden deep underground. But instead of using ink to create each masterpiece, the artist uses a...

The Granite City's seedy side is about to be exposed.... A serial rapist is leaving a string of tortured women behind him, but while DS Logan McRae's girlfriend, PC Jackie 'Ball Breaker' Watson, is out acting as bait, he's trying to identify a blood-drenched body dumped outside Accident and Emergency. Logan's investigations suggest someone in the local bondage community has developed a taste for violent death, and he soon finds himself dragged into the twilight world of pornographers, sex-shops and S&M.