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

The unshakeable Amelia Peabody embarks on an Egyptian adventure armed with self-confidence, a journal to record her thoughts, and, of course–a sturdy umbrella. On her way to Cairo, Amelia rescues young Evelyn Barton-Forbes, who has been abandoned by her scoundrel lover. Together the two women sail up the Nile to an archeological site run a pair of handsome brothers.

Amelia Peabody embarks on her first Egyptian adventure armed with unshakable self-confidence, a journal for her thoughts, and, of course, a sturdy umbrella. On her way, she rescues Evelyn Barton-Forbes, who has been "ruined" and abandoned on the streets of Rome by her lover. With a typical disregard for convention, Amelia promptly hires her fellow countrywoman as a companion and takes her to Cairo, where strange visitations and a botched kidnapping convince Amelia that there is a plot afoot to harm Evelyn.

¿Cuál es la terrible relación entre un hombre que salta al mar en Inglaterra y el incendio de un restaurante en el País Vasco? Si desconfías de tus amigos, aléjate de ellos. Una mujer recoge conchas en la costa inglesa cuando, al alzar la vista, ve la silueta de un motorista cayendo desde un acantilado. Seis días antes, un inglés de clase alta se presenta en una joyería londinense con un anillo que el joyero reconoce al instante, y que encierra un oscuro secreto. Mientras tanto, en Mundaka, Adolfo llega dispuesto a surfear las mejores olas.

Detective Philip ‘Cato' Kwong is investigating the death of a retiree found hacked to pieces in his suburban Perth home. The trail leads to Timor-Leste, with its recent blood-soaked history. There, he reunites with an old frenemy, the spook Rory Driscoll who, in Cato's experience, has always occupied a hazy moral terrain.

In the office at MI5 where he works, they call Jonas Merrick 'the eternal flame'. It isn't a compliment. It's because he never goes out. He never goes undercover, never does surveillance, never goes with the teams that kick down the doors or seize the suspects off the street. He commutes into work and sits at his desk and then he goes home. But Jonas has qualities the hot-shots fail to notice: a steely concentration, a ruthless ability to focus and find the enemy hiding in plain sight.

Amelia Peabody inherited two things from her father: a considerable fortune and an unbendable will. The first allowed her to indulge in her life's passion. Without the second, the mummy's curse would have made corpses of them all.

Hypocrisy comes chaotically crawling from under every rock in town when a foxy rumor puts homelessness in the limelight.

Cédric est totalement paralysé et muet à la suite d'un grave accident. Emprisonné avec ses souvenirs et ses regrets au fond de son lit, il n'a d'autre occupation que de regarder les pigeons par la fenêtre de sa chambre. Jusqu'au jour où il se retrouve propulsé dans la tête de l'un d'entre eux. Ivre de liberté, il vole avec lui … et assiste à un meurtre dont il est le seul témoin. Comment faire pour dénoncer le meurtrier dans ce nouveau corps emplumé ? D'autant plus qu'il a désormais un œuf à couver !

Les victimes du Corrupteur se font empoisonner à leur insu. Elles reçoivent un défi sordide, qui doit être accompli en 24 heures. Les victorieux se méritent l’antidote. Les autres subissent une mort atroce. Isabelle Fortin élève seule ses deux jumeaux dans l’amour de ses propres passions : l’art et le savoir. Vic Verdier joue au papa d’emprunt quand ça lui chante. Ils sont collègues à l’université et amis d’infortune.

This adventure transports Amelia Peabody and her husband Emerson to Amarna, the rustic desert site where the two archaeologists first met, beginning the 13-year association that would take them from mayhem to murder in the Egyptian outback.

疑惑の女性を描いた直木賞候補作【第168回直木三十五賞候補作、待望の文庫化！】彼女の涙に、全員食われる――。「素顔の見えない女」をめぐる、衝撃のサスペンス。愛する息子が殺された。

Miquel O’ Malley, passat de voltes de gairebé tot, és acaronat pels antidisturbis durant la primavera valenciana, com un innocent vianant més, com un pulcre i perillós estudiant. Retirat del cos oficial, sense ofici ni benefici, es veurà involucrat en una conspiració de policies i serveis secrets que s'esdevé a València però té ramificacions, i arrels, en les primaveres africanes.

Eve and Liza, Mother and Daughter, live a quiet life in their remote home; a rustic gatehouse of a country mansion. At first glance their lives appear quite ordinary, except that Liza has almost no knowledge of the outside world, has never played with a child her own age and has witnessed her mother commit murder, on multiple occasions.

Four years into Akhenaten’s new regime, the dissatisfaction of those who practiced the old religion of Amen-Ra is growing. Hani, a diplomat already under the king’s surveillance because of the disappearance of his firebrand Amen priest brother-in-law, gets drawn into an investigation for the beloved royal wife, who is being blackmailed over an infidelity. Meanwhile, the new vassal king of A’amu, lodged at Hani’s house until the king grants him an audience, is showing himself to be none too loyal. Hani must walk the line between his oath to the king and his conscience.

Bodhi remains the simple, loving character we all adore. With his back turned on a precarious lifestyle, he stumbles into a deadly game, unearthing a ruthless entity that orchestrates the criminal underworld and makes previous rivals seem like puppets. This merciless power enforces street justice in the cruelest ways by abducting and torturing victims for days at a time, bending the very underbelly of the city to his will. To protect himself and those he loves, Bodhi will come face-to-face against this relentless evil while unleashing a powerful inner force he didn’t know existed.

Many strangers we pass by are nothing more to us than blurry faces in the background of our daily lives. Occasionally, one of those faces will catch our attention. We invite them into our world, and sometimes, their lost soul reminds us of what it's like to be innocent. Terrance Brown is a street-smart resident of a bad neighborhood who seeks an escape to a better life. Penny Lynn is a nurse who struggles to find her purpose after her dreams passed away with her closest patient.

Part 3 of the Bodhi Crocodile series. A vested martyr and his followers have left the city in turmoil with a trickle of abductions and murder. Bodhi will face his most converse villain in a quest for revenge while struggling to overcome a battle with himself.

When a rapacious killer rises to power, the calm water between two rival mafia families begins to ripple. One side will secretly hire a third-party contract killer to take down this untamed menace. At the center of this war between syndicates, Bodhi’s inability to cope with previous loss and tragedy puts him in a position to play hunter instead of prey. For the villainous Enzo "The Sting" DiGiovanni and his crew, Bodhi Crocodile is a deadly force to be reckoned with.