Resultados para "misterio" en Deportes

Starting for the first-place Cubs and hitting a career high of .274, for the first time in his life, Mickey Rawlings is feeling comfortable enough to buy furniture. But it is a time of mixed blessings; ominous battles are brewing at home and abroad. On the homefront, Major League baseball may be suspended for the duration of the war, anti-German sentiment is running high, and Mickey's best friend - a rookie named Willie Kaiser - has just been shot right on the diamond.

Reporting for his first day as a Boston Red Sox player, Mickey Rawlings discovers a faceless body in the empty stadium. When police name him as their suspect, he knows he must clear his name or give up baseball and his freedom. But nameless foes are trying to silence him with warnings that become increasingly dangerous. A member of the Society for American Baseball Research, Troy Soos creates delightfully authentic ballplayers and places them in believable, colorful settings.

Aspiring race-car driver Kate Reilly goes looking for a full-time ride in the American Le Mans Series—and stumbles over a dead driver. When she takes that driver’s job just hours later, she also takes pole position on the list of suspects in his murder. Suddenly she’s in the hot seat with little time to clear her name and get ready to race a Corvette at Lime Rock Park.

Roland Nilsson är utsänd av Svenska Fotbollförbundet för att hitta ett projekt att stödja inför VM i Brasilien 2014. På en ö stöter han på ett gäng ungdomar som just anlagt en plan och bildat ett lag. Förutsättningarna är goda. De får till och med ett uppmuntrande sms från landsmannen Daniel Alves, högerback i Barcelona. Problemet är bara att många i byn inte vill acceptera denna fotbollsplan, och konflikten blir snart våldsam. En bybo, Oscar Gama, hittas brutalt mördad.

September 2021: Das Internationale Olympische Komitee tagt in Shanghai, um die Sommerspiele 2032 zu vergeben. Kurz vor der Abstimmung wird der mosambikanische IOC-Funktionär Charles Murandi tot aufgefunden. Prompt wird der deutsche Journalist Thomas Gärtner festgenommen, denn er hat sich zuletzt im Hotelzimmer des Toten aufgehalten. Doch der will sich an nichts erinnern können. Und während die Polizei auf Ungereimtheiten stößt, die Kanzlerin im Flugzeug nach Shanghai von dem Mord erfährt und ein anderer Journalist die Chance auf eine große Story wittert, ahnt niemand, wo der Schlüssel zur Lösung des Falls wirklich liegt.

A puzzle takes shape as baseball's World Series unfolds, but the pieces don't fit: a string of missing women, strange threats, gambling problems, kidnappings, and relationships long dormant are all somehow connected, but Marshall Connors - major league umpire - may run out of time before he can solve the mystery. Marshall's season has ended, and he is looking forward to post-season plans that include time in Florida, first helping his mentor teach an umpire training class, followed by a lot of sun. Those plans are cut short when Marshall is given a surprise assignment....

Im Frühjahr 1972 wird der französische Profitennisspieler Louis Lasalle erschlagen im Schuppen des Clubs entdeckt. Gibt es eine Verbindung zu den Nachwuchstalenten, die dort trainieren? Oder geht es um die lukrativen Prämien im weltweiten Tenniszirkus? Commissaire Lucie Girard schnüffelt mal wieder in elitären Kreisen und schlägt dabei so manches Ass.

Iris Marshall never wanted to be anything more than what she is—an official for the European League of (American) Football. So, why had she said yes to being a courier for the CIA? She’s not sure, especially when it lands her in an international thriller that has her on the run from a killer. And worse, the person she’s on the run with? Arrogant, bossy, playboy Hudson Bly, a football player and the last person on Earth she wants to go into hiding with.