Resultados para "Sophie" en Procedimientos policiales

A gripping British lesbian murder mystery that asks what price we are prepared to pay to find out the truth. Outcast Ashley Spencer is in her second career as a rookie police constable in Cambridgeshire when she is rammed off the road one terrifying night. Forced to rescue her is undercover...

Brill Jessup just became the first female police chief in Sophie Trace, Tennessee, and is riding on the credentials of a stellar 18-year career on the Memphis police force. She may be a pro at finding clues, but she tends to ignore the obvious in her personal life. Her husband, Kurt, is weighed down by her unrelenting anger as he struggles to let God redeem the stupidest mistake he ever made.

From international bestselling master of suspense Nicci French comes a hair-raising locked-room thriller about a group of old university friends with a killer in their midst. Old friends, new secrets, one deadly reunion. Tyler Green, convicted of murdering his friend Leo at a student house party...

A fire. An informant. Five dead. Conclusive evidence. Will Brie trust the evidence, or listen to her informant? Was the fire an accident, or was there foul play?

From the co-host of chart-topping true crime podcast Morbid, a thrilling debut novel told from the dueling perspectives of a notorious serial killer and the medical examiner following where his trail of victims leads Something dark is lurking in the Louisiana bayou: a methodical killer with a...

Malerische Weinberge, alte Châteaus und eine Reihe mysteriöser Todesfälle - ein neuer Fall für den liebeswerten Ermittler Pierre Durand! Es ist Spätsommer in der Provence. Pierre Durand will seiner Charlotte einen Heiratsantrag machen und plant hierfür einen Ausflug in die malerische Weinregion Châteauneuf-du-Pape. Doch der romantische Kurztrip verläuft anders als erwartet. Wegen der Kochshow, die in dem Schlosshotel gerade aufgezeichnet wird, herrscht dort großes Chaos.

New Orleans Detective Quinn Conners is haunted by her father’s whiskey-soaked, last words—that he solved the Hudson murder and kidnapping. It wasn’t the first time he’d made that drunken claim, and she didn’t believe him. Twenty-four hours later she found him dead by his own hand.

Year 2160: It’s been ten years since the cataclysmic events of Eventide, Water City, where 99.97 percent of the human population was possessed or obliterated by Akira Kimura, Water City’s renowned scientist and Earth’s former savior. Our nameless antihero, a synesthete and ex-detective, and his daughter, Ascalon, navigate through a post-apocalyptic landscape populated by barbaric Zeroes—the permanent residents of the continent’s biggest landfill, The Great Leachate—who cling to the ways of the old world.

A young man's body is spotted in the stormy sea off Dancing Ledge in Dorset. Did he lose his footing in the gale force winds and fall in? Or is there a more sinister cause of death? Detective Sophie Allen's team discover some curious links to a suicide that happened six months earlier. A strikingly attractive female student connects the cases. Alarming facts slowly come to light as the team probes more deeply.

Twelve-year-old Amy Birkbeck is checking her bat boxes late one cold January evening in the woods by her house. She witnesses something no child should ever see—a group of men rolling a body into the deep pool of the disused old clay pit. Meanwhile, DCI Sophie Allen's team is falling apart. One of the members of the unit goes missing. Surely he couldn't be the body in the pool? Or is something much darker going on? Then a second body is found in the disused clay pit. And it seems the dead man is connected to a suspected arms dealer....

A man is found stabbed to death on the Southampton morning commuter train. But why can't Detective Sophie Allen's team find out anything about his history? And why was he staying in a house that seems to be owned by a government security unit? Then there is another stabbing, this time in a refuge for abused women. And again, Sophie can find very little about the victim's life.

Detective Sophie Allen's daughter discovers the body of a reclusive tramp in remote woodland in Dorset. He's been dead for a week. Sophie and her team try to piece together something about his life, but progress is slow. Then a hidden package is discovered near his rudimentary shelter. The police also find out that someone has been in the area asking about the tramp recently. A picture begins to emerge. He was an important member of a commune that had a three-year existence on a farm on the Quantock Hills in Somerset more than decade earlier.

Sylvia and Ted Armitage, a retired couple, attend the wrong funeral service by mistake. A month later, their daughter returns from holiday to find them missing. The police make little headway in tracing their whereabouts until their bodies are found in their car, abandoned in the middle of a copse in a tranquil nature reserve. They appear to have committed suicide, but some of the forensic evidence suggests otherwise. The police slowly make progress and find several links to a shady organization that owns a string of bars, clubs, and cafes.

Everyone thinks fourteen-year-old Violet is a murderer. After a summer-night swim with her best friend, Ainsley, Violet is found confused, wandering in the forest - and Ainsley’s never seen again. But without a body, murder charges won’t stick, so Violet is sent away. After more than a decade in a psychiatric ward, Violet returns to her broken-down hometown of Normal, Alabama, to claim her dead mother’s inheritance and help her overworked sister care for their unstable, alcoholic father.

Two women go away for the weekend, but only one comes back alive. Was it just the music they were into? And who was the man the victim met at the festival? DCI Sophie Allen is back after the emotional upheavals she suffered in Deadly Crimes, but is she really in control? And Detective Constable Rae Gregson joins the team and immediately faces challenges that put her life in peril. Discover a gripping and detailed mystery that will have you hooked from the start until the stunning twist at the end.

A young man's mutilated body is found on top of the Agglestone. It seems that he was involved in a human trafficking and prostitution gang. But why is DCI Sophie Allen keeping something back from her team? Is it linked to the extraordinary discovery of her own father's body at the bottom of a disused mineshaft, more than 40 years after he disappeared? Find out.

A young woman's body is discovered on a deserted footpath. It seems like a simple crime for DCI Sophie Allen and her team to solve. But not when the victim's mother is found strangled the next morning. The case grows more complex as DCI Sophie Allen discovers that the victims had secret histories, involving violence and intimidation. There's an obvious suspect, but Detective Allen isn't convinced. Could someone else be lurking in the shadows, someone savagely violent, looking for warped revenge?

From the New York Times bestselling author and cohost of chart-topping true crime podcast Morbid comes the thrilling book two in her national bestselling series, told from the dueling perspectives of a notorious serial killer and a medical examiner seeking justice. Destruction follows the...

Am Strand von Wangerooge wird die grausam zugerichtete Leiche einer Insulanerin gefunden. Der Täter hat das Gesicht der Frau so entstellt, dass sie zunächst nur anhand ihrer Kleidung identifiziert werden kann. Entdeckt wurde die Tote von dem bekannten Krimiautor Samuel Falkner, der auf die Insel gereist ist, um seine langjährige Schreibblockade zu überwinden. Besonders erschreckend: Die Frau wurde auf die gleiche Weise ermordet wie das erste Opfer in Falkners Schattenmann-Trilogie.

Die schlimmsten Monster hausen in goldenen Käfigen. Auf Juist verschwinden zwei Brüder im Alter von acht und elf Jahren. Ihr Stiefvater, ein arbeitsloser Alkoholiker, wird aufgrund einer Zeugenaussage verdächtigt, die Jungen am Hammersee ermordet zu haben. Die Inselpolizei nimmt den Mann fest, doch er schweigt zu den Vorwürfen.