Resultados para "The Fall" en Procedimientos policiales

A fifty-five-gallon drum washes up in the Malibu Lagoon stuffed with the corpse of Gene Dent, the key player in a bribery scandal that ensnared several local politicians. LASD detectives Eve Ronin and Duncan Pavone know the case—and all the likely suspects—well. Just as they begin their investigation, the sheriff publicly reveals evidence linking the crime to LA’s mayor. But Eve and Duncan realize the bombshell allegation, true or not, arises from corruption within the sheriff’s own office…because they helped cover it up years ago. If the sheriff goes down, so will they.

On Good Friday, the verger of St Albans cathedral was supposed to be preparing the Easter service. Instead he discovers a man lying dead, fallen from the famous 50-foot-high spire. Did he jump, or was he pushed? For DCI Maarten Jansen, it's a simple case of suspected suicide. Until a stranger, Willow, who witnessed the jump, prompts a deeper investigation into a long-buried past, involving a mental hospital, a pregnant woman and 50 years of silence. As Willow's own family history entwines with the case, Jansen starts to wonder how everything is connected.

The Chicago PD is on high alert when two city aldermen are found dead: one by apparent suicide, one brutally stabbed in his office, and both with thirty dimes left on their bodies—a betrayer’s payment. With no other clues, the question is, Who else has a debt to pay? Detective Harriet Foster is on the case before the killer can strike again. But even with the help of her partner, Detective Vera Li, and the rest of their team, Harriet has little to go on and a lot at risk. There’s no telling who the killer’s next target is or how many will come next.

One chance encounter, one murder, will change everything. DI Thomas Ridpath is in the process of getting his life back together when everything goes wrong. Caught in a gruesome motorway incident, one question remains: why did nobody else see what happened? Ridpath's investigations soon pulls the police force itself into question, and hints at something even more sinister. With Manchester on the brink of violence unlike anything seen in decades, Ridpath must battle this unprecedented conflict alongside his own demons...

Bei einem verbotenen Ausflug in die Dünen vor St. Peter-Ording entdecken Urlauber zwei leblose Körper. Aus Angst, selbst in Schwierigkeiten zu geraten, wenden sie sich statt an die Polizei lieber an Torge Trulsen, den Hausmeister der Weißen Düne. Der stellt den Tod der beiden Teenager fest und erkennt in dem weiblichen Opfer die Tochter einer Kollegin. Jessi Kramer ist attraktiv, selbstbewusst und unabhängig - darüber hinaus auf ganz Eiderstedt für ihre zahlreichen Männerbekanntschaften bekannt, wogegen ihre alleinerziehende Mutter machtlos ist.

Emir 'Eddy' Muravic, a young Detective Sergeant with the Australian Federal Police (AFP), takes long service leave to visit his family in the former Yugoslav state. Eddy's holiday is abruptly cut short when Avigail Iversen, an Australian backpacker, is found dead in Krka National Park, Dalmatia. As the daughter of Australia's Attorney General, her death becomes a political flashpoint, forcing Eddy to navigate a delicate investigation in a country grappling with its fascist past, the scars of its recent homeland war, and its inauguration as a member state of the European Union.

Detective Nic Costa faces his hardest case yet. When the sins of the past echo the crimes of the present... When British academic Malise Gabriel falls to his death from a Rome apartment, detective Nic Costa suspects more than a simple accident. Nic is sure Malise's family are hiding vital information. As the investigation deepens, Rome’s seedy side is uncovered, revealing a web of deceit, treachery and corruption. The key to the truth lies with the Gabriels.

When the broken body of a seventy-one-year-old woman is found beneath the Humber Bridge, a sign around her neck with the words ‘Pure Evil’ spray-painted in red, Detective Hollie Turner can’t help but wonder–who would want this frail elderly woman dead? As she starts to delve into the victim’s personal life, Hollie discovers that the woman, Sister Brennan, ran a local mother and baby home at the Church of St Mary and the Angels. The unit may have shut down years ago, but the pain and anguish of those who were forced to give up their babies remains.

A high-end stolen car is discovered in Vermont. A car filled with stolen items from a far-flung two stage burglary spree. But it’s what is in the trunk that brings Joe Gunther and his team from the Vermont Bureau of Investigation. In the trunk is the body of burglar in question—one Don Kalfus. Complicating matters, while the body was found in Vermont, it appears he was probably killed in the next state over, New Hampshire.

Der Anblick des Tatorts ist verstörend – selbst für erfahrene Detectives wie Rick Bentz und Reuben Montoya. In der Kirche St. Marguerite ist eine Nonne, bekleidet mit einem vergilbten Brautkleid, erdrosselt worden. Die Obduktion ergibt, dass Schwester Camille schwanger war. Schon wenige Tage später stirbt eine weitere Nonne. Eine Mordserie, die Detective Bentz an den Rosenkranzmörder erinnert, den er vor zehn Jahren erschossen hatte.

Skandi-krimi für Jussi-Adler Olsen Fans! Nach einem Partyabend mit Freunden im Nachtleben von Aarhus verschwindet ein junger Mann spurlos. Bei seinen Untersuchungen stößt Inspektor Roland Benito in der Familie des Gesuchten auf grausige Geheimnisse. Benito kommt in diesen Ermittlungen zunächst nicht voran, bis eine junge Frau unter unheimlichen Umständen in einem Kloster tot aufgefunden wird. Auch privat hat Benito mit Dämonen zu kämpfen. Seine Frau wird im Sozialamt von einem Klienten bedroht, ein Fall, in den auch die Journalistin Anne Larsen verwickelt wird.

Detectives Barry Gilbert and Joe Lombardo return after their highly praised debut, Cold Comfort. This time the two are plunged into Toronto's Chinatown district where they are called to investigate the death of Edgar Lau, a man whose history and connections take the detectives on a ride across continents and cultures, deep into the story of one family's struggle to survive against terrible odds

When David Perry confides the sordid details of his bitter divorce to a sympathetic stranger, he never imagines the nightmare he would unleash. Now his socialite wife is dead, brutally murdered by a man who will stop at nothing to get what he wants…Veteran San Francisco homicide detective Jane Candiotti never allows her personal feelings to interfere with the job - until Jenna Perry is found strangled in the hills of Marin County.

When Bergen PI Varg Veum finds himself at the funeral of a former classmate on a sleet-grey December afternoon, he’s unexpectedly reunited with his old friend Jakob – the once-famous lead singer of 1960s rock band The Harpers – and his estranged wife, Rebecca, Veum’s first love. Their rekindled friendship come to an abrupt end with a horrific murder, and Veum is forced to dig deep into his own adolescence and his darkest memories, to find a motive...and a killer.

When Transom Shultz goes missing shortly after returning to his sleepy hometown of Fallen Mountains, Pennsylvania, his secrets are not the only secrets that threaten to emerge. Red, the sheriff, is haunted by the possibility that a crime Transom was involved in 17 years earlier - a crime Red secretly helped cover up - may somehow be linked to his disappearance.

When John Frankel's ex-wife is discovered dead on the floor of his Manhattan studio apartment, the NYPD detective instantly becomes the prime suspect in her murder. Then more information surfaces, linking his gun to the fatal bullet, a motive is discovered, and Frankel flees the city, all of which further convinces his colleagues of his guilt.

When the body of a beautiful and wealthy doctor is discovered in her high-rise apartment – all alone with the doors locked from the inside – nobody can understand how or why her life has been so brutally cut short. Detective Jacqueline “Jack” Kent may have never worked a murder case before, but that’s not going to stop her trying. It seems Ana’s murderer may have scaled the ten-story building to get in – and Jack should know.

Kate Marshalls detektivbyrå får ett lyft när hon och partnern Tristan anlitas för att utreda ett gammalt ouppklarat fall. Tolv år tidigare avslöjade den unga ambitiösa journalisten Joanna Duncan en politisk skandal, något som fick stora konsekvenser. I efterdyningarna försvann Joanna spårlöst och återfanns aldrig. När Kate och Tristan får tillgång till den gamla förundersökningen har alla spår kallnat sedan länge, men de hittar namnen på två unga män som försvann ungefär samtidigt som Joanna.

Now that Alexandra "Alex" Donavan is finally free of her troubled upbringing, she's able to live out her childhood dream of working for the FBI. But soon after she becomes a member of the FBI's elite Behavioral Analysis Unit, authorities in Kansas and Missouri contact them about bodies found on freight trains traveling across the country - all killed in the same way.

After a glamorous model plunges to her death from a Miami high-rise, investigative reporter Veronica Lee receives a horrifying video that reveals the killer's ruthless quest for vengeance. State Prosecutor Riley Odell is suddenly drawn into the murder investigation when her estranged sister seeks refuge in the small Florida town of Willow Bay. And as the town's new chief of police scrambles to catch the killer before he claims another victim, the trail leads to a faraway grave that holds the clue to the twisted predator's shocking past.