Resultados para "persona" en Policíaca, negra y suspense

La Habana, 2016. Un acontecimiento histórico sacude Cuba: la visita de Barack Obama en lo que se ha llamado el "Deshielo cubano" —la primera visita oficial de un presidente estadounidense desde 1928—, acompañada de eventos como un concierto de los Rolling Stones y un desfile de Chanel, ponen patas arriba el ritmo de la isla. Por eso, cuando un exdirigente del Gobierno cubano aparece asesinado en su apartamento, la policía, desbordada por la visita presidencial, recurre a Mario Conde para que eche una mano en la investigación.

En plena época del colaboracionismo con Estados Unidos, España recibe una multitud de turistas y empresarios extranjeros que llegan al país tras la reciente apertura económica. Entre ellos se encuentra el joven Daniel Matheson, hijo de un magnate del petróleo de Texas que llega a Madrid junto a sus padres. El destino de Daniel, que aspira a convertirse en fotoperiodista, se cruza con el de Ana, una doncella del hotel Castellana Hilton que proviene de una familia devastada por la Guerra Civil. 

Un estudio sobre la naturaleza del mal, sus razones y sus mecanismos, vestido con el elegante traje de thriller psicológico que solo un maestro como Andreu Martín es capaz de confeccionar. El responsable del secuestro de un niño a finales de los años setenta en Barcelona es puesto en libertad tras cumplir condena. Una periodista decide volver a investigar el suceso que lo llevó a la cárcel, sin saber que se está acercando demasiado a una verdad que quizá sea insoportable.

Quinn Quicksilver was born a mystery—abandoned at three days old on a desert highway in Arizona. Raised in an orphanage, never knowing his parents, Quinn had a happy if unexceptional life. Until the day of “strange magnetism.” It compelled him to drive out to the middle of nowhere. It helped him find a coin worth a lot of money. And it practically saved his life when two government agents showed up in the diner in pursuit of him. Now Quinn is on the run from those agents and who knows what else, fleeing for his life.

Un parco nel Cambridgeshire. È un giorno di dicembre e un uomo si trascina in avanti, barcollando visibilmente. Qualcuno l'ha urtato: forse l'hanno derubato? Controlla le tasche, ma portafoglio e telefono sono lì. Però la camicia è bagnata... e non piove affatto. Non è acqua quella che sente su di sé. È sangue. Mentre si accascia, vede il viso di una donna e, tra le sue braccia, insieme all'ultimo respiro, sussurra un nome. O l'inizio di un nome: Sass.

At long last, Gaius Petreius Ruso and his companion, Tilla, are headed home - to Gaul. Having received a note consisting only of the words "COME HOME!" Ruso has (reluctantly, of course) pulled up stakes and brought Tilla to meet his family. But the reception there is not what Ruso has hoped for: no one will admit to sending for him, and his brother Lucius is hoping he'll leave.

Black girls and women disappear every day, but not without a trace. Join actress and activist Erika Alexander in a neo-noir, true crime drama as she searches for Tamika Huston, a 24-year-old Black woman from Spartanburg, SC who went missing in 2004. Her case became a rallying cry for other missing Black women in America and led to a growing demand to expose a system that ignores missing girls and women of color.  

Jake Cantrell tried to put his past behind him and settle down after suffering an unjust disgrace as an army officer. He works as a campus security officer at a small college in upstate New York. But things aren’t so placid in his leafy new environs. A mass opioid crisis threatens to devastate the campus. When two football players on the new drug attack Jake with bats, Jake is fired for the excessive force he has to use to subdue them. Newly unemployed, Jake is retained to find missing college student Deborah Chapman, a gifted young jazz vocalist who has performed at Carnegie Hall.

Pete Fernandez is a mess. He’s on the brink of being fired from his middle-management newspaper job. His fiancée has up and left him. Now, after the sudden death of his father, he’s back in his hometown of Miami, slowly drinking himself into oblivion. But when a coworker he barely knows asks Pete to locate a missing daughter, Pete finds himself dragged into a tale of murder, drugs, double-crosses, and memories bursting from the black heart of the Miami underworld - and, shockingly, his father’s past.

NYPD detective Jack McNeal is used to asking the tough questions. But a late-night visit from the Secret Service lands Jack on the other side of the table—as a suspect in the disappearance of his estranged wife, Caroline, a prominent reporter on the White House beat. When her body is found floating in the Potomac, Jack is overcome by disbelief and despair.

A decade ago, Emily Carlino vanished after her car broke down on a California highway. She was presumed to be one of serial killer Ronny Lee Jessup’s victims whose remains were never found. Writer David Thorne still hasn’t recovered from losing the love of his life, or from the guilt of not being there to save her. Then David meets Maddison Sutton, beguiling, playful, and keenly aware of all David has lost. But what really takes his breath away is that everything about Maddison, down to her kisses, is just like Emily. 

La Orpheus è un'agenzia investigativa fondata dai fratelli Carta: Enrico e Salvatore, il primo ex insegnante di religione insoddisfatto, il secondo ex poliziotto dedito al divertimento sconsiderato, con forti tendenze autodistruttive. La loro specializzazione è alquanto originale: rintracciare persone scomparse e date per morte, anche dopo tanti anni. Quando una donna, Monica Ghersi, si rivolge a loro per ritrovare il cadavere di Dario Spadafora, il pregiudicato che dieci anni prima ha rapito e torturato sua figlia Teresa, i Carta accettano l'incarico.

Medical-textbook illustrator Marilyn draws her husband, technical diving expert Rand, and her best friend, Jane, into a complex triangle of desire, loss, and guilt. Jane's death on a dive with Rand causes Marilyn to spin out of control in a pattern of escalating risk addiction. Marilyn drags Rand with her, endangering them both in their private underwater version of hell.