Resultados para "The Swim" en Novela negra

Nod Blake, the wisecracking private eye, is back. He's an aging throwback to a bygone era of detecting on the mean streets; a dinosaur of a private eye who never got the memo that he was extinct. And thanks to his over-eager secretary, he's been dumped in the midst of a murder most foul.

Briar County is in Southern Ohio—the gateway to Appalachia. People there move at their own pace. They hunt, they fish, they farm—but their secrets run deeper than the fishing holes that dot the countryside. And Dalton Edwards, DEA agent, is about to uncover a few after his boss sends him to Briar County on a low-priority assignment as punishment. His boss says it's a pot-growing operation, but Dalton thinks it's much bigger. Before his assignment ends, eight family members will be murdered under circumstances that Dalton knows have nothing to do with a hydroponic weed operation.

When she witnesses a small child tumbling from a ferry into Lake Champlain, Troy Chance dives in without thinking. Harrowing moments later, she bobs to the surface, pulling a terrified little boy with her. As the ferry disappears into the distance, she begins a bone-chilling swim nearly a mile to shore towing a tiny passenger. Surprisingly, he speaks only French. He'll acknowledge that his name is Paul; otherwise, he's resolutely mute.

Lorilee Marple returned to her native town of Jefferson after an expansive education up north, only to find she had outgrown the quaint ways of her fellow townspeople. Tag along with detective Todd McVean as he takes you into his confidence on this, his first, notorious case of MURDER. Who Shot Ms. Marple by Dana Hayward takes listeners on a journey through rural America, bringing intrigue and humor into a delightful novella. Deputy Todd McVean navigates Ms. Marple’s quirky complaints, highlighting the eccentricities of her neighbors, which the sheriff cannot personally handle.