Resultados para "William" en Thriller criminal

When the daughter of a powerful businessman dies as a result of her meth addiction, her father, strong-willed and brutal Buck Reinhardt, vows revenge. His target is the Red Boyz, a gang of Ojibwe youths accused of supplying the girl's fatal drug dose. When the head of the Red Boyz and his wife are murdered in a way that suggests execution, the Ojibwe gang mobilizes, and the citizens of Tamarack County brace themselves for war, white against red. Both sides look to Cork O'Connor, a man of mixed heritage, to uncover the truth behind the murders.

Drawing strong comparisons to the work of James Lee Burke and Tony Hillerman, William Kent Krueger’s Cork O’Connor mysteries never fail to please fans. Here Cork joins the search for a country-western singer who has disappeared in the wilderness along the American/Canadian border.

Henry, a brilliant but reclusive engineer, has achieved the crowning discovery of his career: he's created an artificially intelligent consciousness. He names the half-formed robot William. But there's something strange about William. It's not that his skin feels like balloon rubber and is the colour of curdled milk, nor is it his thick gurgling laugh or the way his tongue curls towards his crooked top teeth. It is the way he looks at Henry's wife, Lily. Henry created William but he is starting to lose control of him. 

A French diplomat is walking alone down a darkened Paris side street when a killer emerges from the shadows. He stuns the Frenchman, cuts his body into quarters, and leaves a note that reads: "This is for Brazil!" It is the ninth murder in this fashion in the last two months—a string of round-the-world killings that strikes fear into the hearts of all those connected with the bloody Brazilian wars of the past decade.

Il corpo massacrato di un poliziotto è ritrovato alle porte della capitale norvegese, sulla scena di un crimine rimasto irrisolto e su cui lui stesso aveva indagato. Qualche tempo dopo viene scoperto il cadavere di un suo collega: stesse modalità di esecuzione, stesse coincidenze. A questo punto non può essere un caso, ed è chiaro a tutti che l'assassino ha appena cominciato. Fermarlo è un lavoro per Harry Hole. Ma di Harry Hole non c'è traccia. Nesbø utilizza tutti gli ingredienti chiave di un thriller mozzafiato con saggezza e vivacità. Smettete di diffidare, immergetevi e godetevi la corsa.

Harry Hole è di nuovo a terra. Ha ricominciato a bere, e da quando Rakel lo ha cacciato di casa abita in un buco a Sofies gate. Nell'appartamento ci sono soltanto un divano letto e bottiglie di whisky sparse ovunque. Ma Harry non è mai abbastanza sobrio da curarsene. La maledetta domenica in cui si sveglia da una sbornia colossale, non ha il minimo ricordo di cosa sia successo la notte precedente. Quel che è certo, però, è che ha le mani e i vestiti coperti di sangue. Forse, si convince, è diventato davvero un mostro.

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Stavolta per Harry Hole non si tratta di tornare. Ma di resuscitare. «Harry abbassò lo sguardo sulla carta di credito. Conto svuotato. Missione compiuta: bersi tutto quanto. Niente soldi, niente giorni, niente futuro. Alla pensione, sotto il materasso, c'era la vecchia Beretta comprata dal senzatetto. Aveva tre proiettili. Restava da capire se avrebbe avuto abbastanza fegato per farla finita». Un amico spacciatore di coca, uno sbirro corrotto e uno psicologo malato di cancro. È questa la squadra che Harry Hole è riuscito a mettere insieme. E chissà se ce la farà a salvarlo dal precipizio.

Le prime vittime sono due donne. Ritrovate con ventiquattro ferite identiche in bocca. Morte soffocate nel loro sangue, dopo una agonia atroce. Omicidi studiati, efferati, che seguono un rituale. La polizia criminale di Oslo sa di avere un solo uomo che può risolvere il caso. Harry Hole, alcolista, uomo rude e solitario, inviso a molti. Ma Hole si è rintanato a Hong Kong, tra le fumerie d'oppio, per lavare via i ricordi.Sa fin troppo bene che, per risolvere l'ultimo caso, ha messo in pericolo di vita l'unica donna che ha mai davvero amato.

Una notte, dopo la prima neve dell'anno, il piccolo Jonas si sveglia e scopre che sua madre è sparita. La sciarpa rosa che lui le aveva regalato per Natale è avvolta al collo del pupazzo di neve che, inspiegabilmente, quel giorno è apparso nel loro giardino. Ma quando anche una seconda donna scompare nei dintorni di Oslo, i peggiori presentimenti dell'ispettore Harry Hole sembrano prendere davvero corpo. È evidente che si trova a fronteggiare un serial killer per la prima volta in Norvegia.

Vicestatsadvokaten, den velansete Andy Barber, som bor i Newton, Massachusetts, med sin kone, Laurie og deres 14-årige søn Jacob, bliver stillet over for sit livs mareridt, da den 14-årige Ben Rifken findes brutalt myrdet i byens park. Andy er overbevist om, at en lokal børnemishandler er den skyldige, men da internetanklager og uomstødelige beviser peger i retning af Andys egen søn, Jacob, tager sagen en uventet drejning.

Edward Royle is the head of a well-known chemical manufacturer in England, which he has inherited. He is engaged to the daughter of his father’s former partner, Phrida Shand, who lives with her mother. One night he is asked by his friend, Sir Digby Kemsley - a very famous railroad engineer, to come to his flat to discuss something although Kemsley is quite mysterious on the telephone. Royle visits, then returns home only to be summoned again by Kemsley, this time imploring him to return at once. Royle finds a gentleman in Kemsley’s place who is clearly not Kemsley, or is he?

Cold War Marseille is a city of shadowy alliances and loose morals, where a good man can lose sight of which side he is really on and evil men profit from the misery and confusion of others. It is therefore the perfect town for Ernst Ludwig, an East German terrorist who is sadistic beyond measure. But when Ludwig kidnaps and murders the wife of Alex Moran, the US intelligence agent hot on his trail, he sets off a blood feud whose violent shock waves will span decades and reach all the way across the globe.

Dragged from the dank, rat-infested prison cell where he has spent the past few months, Buonaparte Sartene is given a choice: join the French Resistance or rot in jail for the next seven years. The adopted son of a Corsican Mafia family, Sartene is a thief with a capacity for violence and a knack for subterfuge - valuable tools in the fight against the Nazis.

Nothing covers up a big secret faster than a fresh grave. Someone with a scalpel and embalming table is planting bodies under other people’s names. Pete Talbott, a harried Boston computer wonk, is still grieving over the death of his wife, when he finds himself at the wrong end of Gino Parini’s .45 reading his own obituary torn from the morning newspaper. Talbott figures it’s all a big mistake, until Parini shows him his wife’s obituary too; and that’s a mystery that Pete Talbott can’t leave well-enough alone.

After the teenage daughter of a prominent Minnesota politician goes missing, a huge manhunt is launched to find her. But when Cork O’Connor’s grandson Waaboo stumbles across the shallow grave of a young Ojibwe woman while hunting blueberries, nobody seems to care. Nobody, that is, except Cork and the newly formed Iron Lake Ojibwe Tribal Police Department. As Cork and the tribal officers dig into the circumstances of her murder, they discover a link to the missing girl that suggests these are not isolated incidents, but evidence of something much more sinister.

The ancient Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux has had a vision of his death. As he walks the Northwoods in solitude, he tries to prepare himself peacefully for the end of his long life. But peace is destined to elude him as hunters fill the woods seeking a woman named Dolores Morriseau, a stranger who had come to the healer for shelter and the gift of his wisdom. Meloux guides this stranger and his great niece, Cork O'Connor's wife, to safety deep into the Boundary Waters, his home for more than a century.

Intrepid hero Cork O'Connor faces the most harrowing mission of his life when a charter plane carrying his wife, Jo, goes missing in a snowstorm over the Wyoming Rockies. Months after the tragedy, two women show up on Cork's doorstep with evidence that the pilot of Jo's plane was not the man he claimed to be. It may not be definitive proof, but it's a ray of light in the darkness.

New York Times best-selling author William Kent Krueger has won numerous accolades for his books, including the Anthony Award for Best First Novel. In Trickster’s Point, the 12th suspenseful installment in Krueger’s Cork O’Connor series, Cork is framed for the murder of Minnesota’s first Native American governor-elect, Jubal Little. As Cork fights to clear his name and uncover the truth, he discovers that events from his own past may hold the key to the real killer’s identity.

During a houseboat vacation on the remote Lake of the Woods, a violent gale sweeps through unexpectedly, stranding Cork and his daughter, Jenny, on a devastated island where the wind has ushered in a force far darker and more deadly than any storm. Amid the wreckage, Cork and Jenny discover the body of a teenage girl. She wasn't killed by the storm, however; she'd been bound and tortured before she died. Nearby, underneath a tangle of branches, they also find a baby boy, hungry and dehydrated, but still very much alive.