Resultados para "Stoner" en Novela negra

Ella les arruinó la vida. Ahora quieren destruir la suya. "Alguien está recreando cada punto traumático de tu vida. Lo hace para provocarte sufrimiento, para hacerte daño, y el único final posible es la muerte. Tu muerte". En la cuarta planta del edificio Chaucer, dos adolescentes aparecen encadenados a un radiador. El chico está muerto, pero la chica está viva. Para la detective Kim Stone, cada detalle de la escena es un reflejo de su propia experiencia aterradora con su hermano Mikey, cuando vivían en el mismo edificio, treinta años atrás.

¡Pito, pito, gorgorito! Yo decido si tu vida quito... Cuando se descubre el cuerpo de un médico brutalmente asesinado en un bosque local, la detective Kim Stone se sorprende al descubrir que la víctima es Gordon Cordell, un hombre vinculado a un caso anterior en el que murió una joven colegiala. Gordon tiene un pasado accidentado, pero ¿quién querría que muriera? A medida que avanza la investigación, el hijo de Gordon se ve involucrado en un horrible accidente automovilístico que lo deja luchando por su vida. Y Kim está segura de que no fue un accidente.

¿Cuán lejos estás dispuesto a llegar para proteger tus secretos más siniestros? La adolescente Sadie Winters es encontrada muerta tras haber saltado desde el tejado del edificio de su colegio. Todo apunta a que fue un suicidio, el devastador acto final de una niña cargada de problemas. Pero, cuando en el mismo colegio aparece el cuerpo maltrecho de otro chico, para la detective Kim Stone se hace evidente que estas muertes no han sido trágicos accidentes.

¿Cómo se puede atrapar a un asesino que no deja rastro? La víctima ha recibido una sola puñalada, precisa, en el vientre; y, a primera vista, cualquiera diría que ha sido un robo frustrado. Una trabajadora social, madre cariñosa, se ha perdido en un acto de violencia sin sentido. Pero, para la detective Kim Stone, las cuentas no cuadran. Cuando una drogadicta local aparece asesinada con una herida idéntica, Kim intuye que se enfrenta al mismo homicida.

Mientras más grande es el mal, más letal es el juego. Cuando un violador aparece mutilado tras un ataque brutal, se exige que la detective Kim Stone y su equipo resuelvan el caso de inmediato. Pero salen a la luz más y más asesinatos por venganza, y eso hace evidente que, detrás de esos trabajos, hay alguien muy siniestro. La investigación cobra impulso rápidamente y, de pronto, Kim se encuentra expuesta a un terrible peligro. Está en la mira de un individuo dispuesto a emprender su propio y muy retorcido experimento.

Ni siquiera los secretos más tenebrosos pueden permanecer enterrados para siempre Cinco figuras se reúnen alrededor de una sepultura poco profunda. Se han turnado para excavar. La fosa de un adulto les habría tomado más tiempo. Una vida inocente ha caído en sus manos, pero han hecho un pacto. Sus secretos quedarán enterrados, sellados con sangre... Años más tarde, la directora de un colegio aparecerá brutalmente estrangulada, y ella será solo la primera de una serie de horribles asesinatos que conmoverán Black Country.

La verdad estaba muerta y enterrada... Hasta ahora. Con la aparición de un conjunto de huesos humanos, desenterrados durante una excavación arqueológica de rutina, un campo de Black Country se convierte, de pronto, en una compleja escena criminal para la detective Kim Stone. A medida en que los huesos son clasificados, se hace evidente que la tumba contiene más de una víctima. En esos esqueletos, los agujeros de bala y las marcas de trampas para animales insinúan un horror inimaginable.

A violent encounter forces Kane to emerge from a life in hiding, where he had hoped his wife and children would be safe. He must go on the run and fight for the lives of those he holds most dear. The forces out to kill him are skilled, well-armed, and his former colleagues in the Mjolnir Agency, a black-ops shadow section of MI6.

When teenager Sadie Winter jumps from the roof of her school, her death is ruled as suicide - a final devastating act from a troubled girl. But then the broken body of a young boy is discovered at the same school and it’s clear to Detective Kim Stone that these deaths are not tragic accidents. As Kim and her team begin to unravel a dark web of secrets, one of the teachers could hold the key to the truth. Yet just as she is about to break her silence, she is found dead.

Despite what the old children's rhyme says, words can cause grievous harm. It’s a lesson ex-con Hollis Morgan, a casualty of her deceased ex-husband’s white-collar crimes, knows all too well. Now that she has received an official pardon, she’s free to pursue her dreams of moving up in the world from paralegal to attorney. While awaiting the results of the bar exam, she hopes to clear the name of a friend accused of libel by philanthropist Dorian Fields, a man whose charitable giving looks a lot like money-laundering.

Leo’s boyhood hero, Henry “Heck” Sundstrom, was larger than life. Lately, however, Heck’s life has been spiraling out of control. First there was the honeymoon boating accident that killed Heck’s son and new daughter-in-law, Allison. And now the big man himself is dying — struck down by a delivery truck in a seedy section of Seattle. As he investigates, Leo begins to wonder if Allison went down with the ship. And whether, with the aid of his aging legmen, “the Boys”, he can prove the “late” Mrs. Heck is more alive — and lethal — than anyone ever suspected.

There’s bad stuff out there. Folks reckon things like vampires don't exist, but they does - Jock from the burger van told me. Plus I found an actual one of ’em, sleeping at the time in the back of a hearse I nicked that first morning. That's how me and Jock got to setting out freeing the world of ’em, using his bag o’ wooden stakes and special bottles of whisky. Course, I knowed that vampires didn’t exist, not when I stopped and done some thinking. And I knowed Jock had mental wossnames, what with his son falling off that roof and him reckoning them immigrants pushed him.

Jess Harper has spent her whole life trying to make her mum, Abigail, happy and proud. And everything Jess does, from the clothes she wears, the job she has, to the men she dates, are all approved by Abigail first. So when Jess announces that she has a new man in her life - plumber Adam - Abigail is less than impressed. Jess, caught in the middle, doesn’t know who to believe or trust. And then Adam vanishes without trace. Now Jess is the police’s prime suspect, and they want to know if Jess really is as perfect as she seems.

Spanish journalist and art historian Jaime Azcárate has always been a magnet for trouble. So when the authorities call on him to help investigate a museum heist while he's enjoying a rare vacation, he is more annoyed than surprised. Jaime brushes off the detectives' pleas to find a missing and reportedly cursed Medusa sculpture, until an attempt on his life pulls him into the investigation.

On his way back to Duluth, Stride stops to visit the grave of his mother in a small Wisconsin town. After a shocking occurrence in the cemetery, Stride becomes enmeshed in a gruesome and suspenseful search for a killer who knows things no one else alive should know.

Chas is a detective who doesn't stake out cheating husbands, track down missing persons, or match wits with femmes fatales. Instead of pounding the pavement, he taps a computer keyboard. He can get the goods on anyone, and it's all to make sure superstar Las Vegas mind reader Wallace the Amazing stays amazing. Thanks to Chas's steady stream of stealthy intel, Wallace's mental "magic" packs houses every night.

Almena Guillory, better known as the Grizzly Queen of the West, has plenty to recommend her for the noose, but US Marshal Apostle Richardson enforces the law, he doesn't decide it. When a posse tries to lynch Almena ahead of her trial, Apostle refuses their form of expedited justice - and receives a bullet for his trouble. Before escaping, however, Almena unexpectedly saves his life by absorbing his wound through the use of dangerous flesh magic.

Thirty-five years now. Through American invasions and wars, and famines and genocides, and tsunamis and earthquakes and volcanoes, George Waite’s red, white, and blue mail truck has lurched from mailbox to mailbox with the utter predictability of a brightly painted figure on a cuckoo clock.

When retired police detective Joe Heller is called in to investigate what might be Antarctica's first murder, he quickly discovers that winter at McMurdo Station comes with a unique set of challenges: darkness, isolation, and the eccentric behavior of the research facility's 157 inhabitants. But a difficult investigation turns much tougher when all communication with the outside world is suddenly cut off.

Stress is a constant in Detective Miriam Rome's life due to her heavy caseload. Now she's facing an especially gruesome crime: a pediatrician's wife has been brutally murdered, and a Bible verse written in her blood is found at the scene. As the tranquil city of Union Park, Texas, is left reeling, Detective Rome pursues every possible lead in her search for the murderer.