Resultados para "The Business" en Policíaca, negra y suspense

Rain Christiansen, cold-case detective and reluctant medium, is very aware of that fact. But when infamous serial killer Thomas Kane wants to meet, there's no way Rain can say no. He also can't refuse Kane's offer - find his missing wife, Delilah, and he'll reveal the location of his victim's bodies. Rain has never turned down a good quid pro quo, and he doesn't intend to start. The hunt for Kane's wife leads to yet another cold case, three copycat murders, and an investigation where nothing is as it seems. Soon, Rain is dealing with a ghost unlike any he's ever dealt with before.

Dying is the only thing people do with any regularity, and Fiona makes her indecorous living cleaning up after the corpses are carted away. Her childhood best friend, Mary, was the last known victim of Jack the Ripper. It's been two years since Fiona scrubbed Mary's blood from the floorboards, and London is no longer buzzing about the Ripper, but Fiona hasn't forgotten. When she's called to a murder in the middle of the night, Fiona finds a victim mutilated in an eerily similar fashion to those of the Ripper, and only a few doors down from Mary's old home.

Some debts don't disappear. They wait. For seventy-one years, the Hollingsworth farm has kept its secrets. Gus Hollingsworth is sixty-three, widowed, sick, and determined to spend whatever time he has left on the land his family has owned for generations. Then Richard Conway arrives from the city, claiming to be a realtor interested in buying the property. Gus knows better. Conway's questions are too specific. His interest in the farm is too personal. And when he returns after dark with a gun, Gus realizes someone has come looking for something buried in his family's past.

Dubai is a city of breathtaking luxury, limitless ambition, and carefully guarded secrets. Hired to investigate a confidential matter, Sasha arrives in Dubai expecting to uncover answers. Instead, within hours of her arrival, she is forced to take drastic measures to protect Marcus, the company's CEO, setting in motion a chain of events that will change everything she thought she knew about her assignment. What begins as a discreet mission quickly spirals into a deadly web of deception where every clue points to someone willing to kill to protect the truth.

He was paid to clean up their mess. Now, he’s their biggest loose end. Nick Hunter is an old-fashioned bag ‘em and tag ‘em bounty hunter. His job is to track down people who don’t want to be tracked down and kill them for a price. The one golden rule that he has never broken is to leave...

The fog, the mystery, the intrigue of 19th Century London, the incomparable team of Holmes and Watson, the brilliant deductions, the twisting plots, and the unimagined solutions—all these elements are accounted for in The Business of Baker Street, a collection of five new Sherlock Holmes stories. Each tribute tale respects the renowned style of Arthur Conan Doyle, and every story lures the listener into the entrancing world of Sherlock Holmes.

Sam had closed his latest case, and now his biggest worry was his friend Harry, who had almost died. Doctors had actually pronounced him dead, in fact, but Sam was too stubborn to let them give up and the cantankerous old man came back. But was the case really closed? One of the perpetrators was being protected by the British government, and someone else had stepped up to replace the assassin who had been running the operation. When one of the clients from the case is kidnapped, Sam knows that it isn't really over yet. 

Meet frat boy Harrison Bloom. He’s a narcissist, but he loves his family. He’s spoiled, but he works hard. Naturally, he feels terrible about choosing a career path his father dislikes, but he makes up for it by dating women Dad would approve of. Hold on... he does what?? He can’t get a break. His brand-spanking new, one-day-old Mustang convertible is stolen and wrecked before he can purchase insurance. All he can afford is a haunted hearse.

Vegas Duncan's release from prison is right on time for his older brother Junior's engagement to the voluptuous Sonya Brown. Unfortunately Junior's attempt at happiness comes to a screeching halt when Sonya's husband, the mysterious Brother X, and his army of Muslim hit men declare war on the Duncan clan. Duncan family patriarch LC Duncan has gone up against many foes in his time.

After a life of pool hustling and living on the wrong side of the law, Ruby Elliott is living on the straight and narrow with sexy-as-all-hell NYPD detective, Troy Bennett. Now the only trouble Ruby has with the law is the naughty kind, pinned against the wall by Troy's strict and spectacularly hard body. But then her father returns with an offer she can't refuse: one last hustle in exchange for information. Information she'd die to have. As the pieces and the players reveal themselves, Troy feels the fine edges of his control slipping—control he can't channel without hurting Ruby.

'A gritty powerful story. A must read for fans of gangland crime' -Bestselling author Kerry Kaya Bold, daring and ruthless, Tony Lambrianu is now the main player in London’s sleazy but lucrative underworld. As the boss of a high-end nightclub in the West End and with a never-ending string of...

It's the Fiesta de San Juan in Spain, the national celebration of the Summer Solstice, and there's much excitement about a huge firework display in the village of St Marti. But Primavera Blackstone is more inflamed by the appearance of a mysterious writer, Duncan Culshaw, who is determined to rake through the ashes of her past. And when extortion and blackmail are mentioned, Primavera realises the heat is on.

A lifetime ago, brutally efficient fixer Phil Kubiak coldly cleaned up the messes of shady clients from Miami to Las Vegas by any means necessary - short of murder. Now he's one eye and one working leg short of the man he used to be, scarred beyond recognition, and with the feds and criminal organizations in hot pursuit. Throwing back sour beer in a dingy bar, Phil recounts the long story of his bitter life to the only person left to listen.

When they learn that the man named Brick has resurfaced in California, Tanner and Mr. White go in pursuit of the huge menace. In response, Brick sends a deadly crew of killers to stop Tanner and White, even as a third party seeks their deaths. Along the way, Mr. White and Tanner receive assistance from a mysterious man named Stark. However, Stark has his own agenda, and it remains to be seen if he'll prove to be a friend or a deadly new foe.

When Donald Woodlawn, an investment advisor from Lynchburg, is shot dead in their quiet town, Sheridan Hendley can’t help but wonder why. As the secrets of his questionable financial dealings with investment clients unravel, she discovers that a dangerous combination of gambling debts and alcohol drove him to target rich and powerful men.

There's been a murder at Belle's Cove Public Library. Except it's Sunday. The library is closed! That's never stopped the baddies in Belle's Cove before though. This purr-ticular case is Victoria's first locked-room mystery and involves more cat hair than she ever expected.

Peyote Trip has a pretty good gig in the deals department on the fifth floor of Hell. Sure, none of the pens work, the coffee machine has been out of order for a century, and the only drink on offer is Jagermeister, but Pey has a plan - and all he needs is one last member of the Harrison family...

Computer whiz Mat Briscoe is looking for a new start to escape a disappointing love afair and a stagnant career. A big city seems the perfect answer, a chance to start fresh and forget in the high-tech business world of the 1990s. Hired to replace someone who was killed in the office she now occupies, Mat has questions but they are met with silence, evasive answers and hostility. She shares her curiosity with Zorah, her housemate and a struggling artist who paints at night and is fascinated with the supernatural.

A high-powered Wall Street career, a beautiful family in a quiet suburban neighborhood―she seems to have everything. Which means she has everything to lose. Meredith Hansel should be having the best week of her life. After establishing herself as a portfolio manager at a prestigious Wall...

The mysteries enjoyed in books come to life, threatening four businesses. Amber's new bookshop and tearoom draws rare book collectors, but when one ends up dead in the mystery section, the shop's future is questionable. Lilly's pirate themed bookshop fits right into Harbor Inn, Maine, but she...