Resultados para "dragon" en Crímenes de detectives aficionados

Mikael Blomkvist, un jurnalist căzut în dizgrație, este angajat să investigheze un caz neobișnuit. Însă când acesta face legătura între dispariția Harrietei și un lanț de crime terifiante, săvârșite cu 40 de ani în urmă, misiunea lui devine imposibil de finalizat fără ajutorul unui asistent. Lisbeth Salander, o tânără de 24 de ani, cu o înfățisare de hacker și o inteligență de geniu, pare a fi candidatul perfect pentru această poziție.

Victoria Defau Trahan, a reserved forty-year-old eccentric and recluse, has spent over two decades attempting to maintain a semblance of normalcy despite struggling with profound social anxieties. However, this fragile equilibrium is shattered and she is suddenly thrust into a nightmare after receiving distressing news concerning her estranged twenty-two-year-old daughter, London.

When his wife and the mother of his children goes missing, Jack Gamble doesn’t know what to think. Could Maddy really have fallen for one of her students and run off? That’s what the police think. Is she in trouble? Injured somewhere? Being held against her will? At first, there are no clues. She has simply vanished.

While investigating the murder of her longtime hairdresser, amateur sleuth Patricia Falcon stumbles into a crisis of epic proportions. Her city has been infiltrated and the roots go years deep. It feels like every case she’s worked has been leading to this one.

When skilled assassin Jackson Cole meets with a news reporter, he’s thrust into the position of detective and guild enforcer all rolled into one. Finding a missing musician whose life is in grave danger becomes his top priority. The deeper Jackson digs into the investigation, the more peril he and his family faces. Suddenly, his guild’s bar and headquarters are the setting for a shootout, putting his own mother’s life in danger. When Jackson discovers that one of his friends was also shot by the same gunman, Jackson knows time is running out for the missing woman.

Detective Mark Taber and his new bride Donna, an amateur sleuth, are ready to take a much-needed break from crime-solving and finally enjoy their long-awaited honeymoon in the quartz-rich mountains of Arkansas, but unfortunately for them, crime never takes a break. When their car breaks down at the site of the first murder the county has seen in a century, they find themselves in a bind. Will they temporarily forgo their plans to find a murderer, or will the possibility of netting quartz clusters and county fair-winning recipes pull them in another direction?

Shawn Crowley and his new bride join up with a cattle drive. After the past few months both need a break. But those hopes are shattered as rustlers attack the herd. In the aftermath they learn that the cattle were never the target. The rustlers were after the artifacts buried in a nearby Ute burial ground. Shawn hurries to investigate. What he finds floors him. The burial ground doubled as the nest of a pair of dragons. Now Shawn has just one week to find and return the egg. If he fails then the pair will drown the country in a sea of blood and fire.

Deandra Hendricks works her fingers to the bone at two jobs to keep her Los Angeles apartment. With a rapidly dwindling savings account, the prospects for her future are bleak. So when her cousin invites her to visit Axia—the hidden, magical hub their grandparents retired to—she agrees. Deandra doesn’t possess a stitch of magic herself, but a long weekend vacation in a strange, new town might be just what she needs. Her first day in Axia is so bizarre, though. Just when she thinks her day can’t get any stranger, she finds a baby dragon trapped in a dumpster.