Resultados para "the dover" en Novela negra

'Gorgeous writing and an unfolding plot rich in both menace and sensuality, Dove shows just how impactful the best psychological thrillers can be.' JACQUELINE BUBLITZ Dove was never afraid for her safety - until now. The question she painted on her fence has turned her quiet hinterland town...

Sul sito di un’antica fortezza medievale viene ritrovato il cadavere di una giovane donna: dall’abbigliamento pare una principessa venuta dai secoli bui. Un caso che si presenta fin da subito complicato per la tenente Valentina Redondo, anche perché la "principessa" non mostra alcun segno di violenza e stringe fra le mani una moneta cinquecentesca... Diventa difficile, stavolta, per la rigorosa Valentina e la sua squadra non smarrirsi nei meandri della Storia, quando una moneta del tutto simile viene ritrovata addosso a un uomo annegato in una vicina palude.

One February evening in northern England, a young woman is shot in the head and left in a coma. Eight months later she dies, thus becoming a welcome excuse to dispatch the odious Inspector Dover as far as possible from London. It soon appears that Isobel Slatcher could have been smothered in her...

Still mourning the murders of his wife and children, former Texas Ranger Arlo Baines now works security at a bazaar in Dallas. Grief-stricken, he’s invested his heart and hope in the welfare of Miguel - a street kid who’s become his surrogate son. But the wounds of a brutal past are hard to heal, especially when a new case threatens to rip them open all over again. Approached by a colleague now working for the DEA to investigate the seemingly random murders of prominent Latino businessmen, Arlo works to expose the common link.

Nel corso di una lunga carriera da magistrata, Alida Savich è riuscita nel difficile compito di inimicarsi tutti i colleghi della procura di Pavia. Le hanno affibbiato il nomignolo di Mostrino perché è burbera, irritante, supponente, ma geniale. È instancabile e pretende dalla sua squadra il massimo. Lavorare con lei è un incubo, ma risolvere un caso in sua assenza è impossibile. Sono giorni che non si presenta al lavoro.

Un vecchio giocatore incallito, una banda di balordi e una riviera Adriatica autunnale e dolente. È questo lo scenario che fa da sfondo alla storia di una rapina "sbagliata" in banca. Piccoli malviventi, biscazzieri, gangster malfidati, poliziotti corrotti e malati. Una "Giungla d'asfalto" di casa nostra, un vero noir, dove il destino dei protagonisti sembra già inevitabilmente segnato, ma nessuno di loro è in grado – o può rinunciare – a quell'ultima drammatica partita.

It seemed that everyone in the bleak little village of Thornwich had been honoured with the most obscene poison pen letters imaginable. And they showed no signs of letting up. So off goes Chief Inspector Dover of Scotland Yard, his unfortunate young colleague MacGregor in tow, to track down the...

For its own very good reasons, Scotland Yard sends Dover off to remote Creedshire to investigate the disappearance of a young housemaid, Juliet Rugg. Though there's every cause to assume that she has been murdered - she gave her favours freely and may even have stooped to a bit of blackmail - no...

Tra i capannoni dismessi della vecchia Genova operaia, all'ombra del grande ponte autostradale su cui s’infrange ogni occasione di riscatto, non c'è posto per la diciassettenne Blondi, solo un buco d'appartamento nel quartiere Certosa dove vive con la madre single che trascorre le serate a bere. Lei invece ha una storia con Cris, che sogna di comprarsi una moto e intanto passa da una canna a un "tirello" di ero. Ma di sogni Blondi ne ha altri: fuggire in Costa Rica per ricominciare.

The baby is in the middle of the road. Cocooned in a car seat, tiny face suddenly, violently, illuminated by the headlights. Detective Dove Milson swerves to avoid the car seat. Ten metres up the road, a car is crashed in a ditch. Detective Steve Parker rushes to the car, while Dove attends to...

Una sera, dopo aver partecipato a una festa d'addio ai piani alti dell'ospedale, l'anatomopatologo Quirke scende a cercare un po' di quiete nel proprio studio, dove scopre suo cognato, un famoso neonatologo, intento a compilare una cartella clinica. E nota, con altrettanta sorpresa, la presenza di un cadavere di cui non sapeva niente: si tratta di una giovane donna, il suo nome è Christine Falls. Quirke ancora non lo sa, ma da quel momento niente sarà più come prima. Siamo nella Dublino cattolica e perbenista degli anni Cinquanta, piena di pub dove annegare profonde solitudini.

The hilarious, heartwarming romantic comedy from bestselling author, Rachel Dove! Amber Fitzpatrick is about to hit thirty and has achieved none of the things she hoped to have done by now. Her dreams of owning her own business seem out of reach. Her boyfriend has just dumped her and now her...

Why would a killer ignore expensive jewellery and take a pair of turtledoves as the only bounty? This is only one of the questions that piques Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune's interest after a senior attaché with the Mexican Consulate is found murdered alongside the director of a local bird sanctuary. The fact that the director's death has opened up a full-time research position hasn't eluded Jejeune either. Could this be his escape from policing?

It's 1919. The Derbyshire village of Wenfield is still coming to terms with the loss of so many of its sons when the brutal murder of a young girl shatters its hard-won tranquility. Myrtle Bligh is found stabbed, her mouth slit to accommodate a dead dove. During the war Myrtle volunteered as a nurse, working at the nearby big house, Tarnhey Court. When two more women are found murdered, Inspector Albert Lincoln is sent up from London.

Set mainly in Louisiana during the years 1861-1868, this passionate novel of men, women and war tells the story of the author's ancestor, Confederate soldier Willie Burke, during the American Civil War. A classic Burke hero, Willie is soon in conflict with his superiors. The characters who...

Firefighters race to put out a blaze at a remote farmhouse. They discover two young girls alone in the house. Their mother is gone, and in her place is the dead body of a man, frozen naked in the fetal position. Two chess pieces made of ice have been left on the doorstep. Then it happens again. A missing woman. A frozen body. Chess pieces made of ice. Detective Dove Milson and her team are on the case, but time is running out to stop a serial killer. 

A teenage girl is found murdered, encased in glass. Detective Dove Milson is called out to a chilling murder scene by the coast. The murder is a replica of the work of a serial killer known as the Glass Doll Murderer, who entombed his victims in glass to watch them die. He would've be the prime suspect, but he's already dead. The kicker? Dove's own niece was one of the Glass Doll's original victims.

Partire dal fondo per arrivare in cima. New York, inizi del Novecento. Charlie Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel e Frank Costello sono soltanto dei ragazzini: figli degli ultimi, emigranti senza un soldo in tasca, rinchiusi a Ellis Island e poi risputati nel fango del Lower East Side, il quartiere più miserabile di tutti e cinque i distretti. I ragazzi hanno sete di riscatto, non vogliono assomigliare ai propri genitori che tirano a campare con un salario da fame. Decidono di diventare qualcuno a qualunque costo: onoreranno la Terra delle Opportunità a modo loro.

Dover "Collector" Ragnes rides with only five brothers at his back. Nomads with no place to call home, they never stay in one place too long. Together, they are the Devil's Due MC, and their only purpose is to serve justice their way for unsolved crimes everywhere they go. Emerson Flint still remembers the loss of her elementary school best friend. She is all grown up, but the memories still haunt her of the missing girl. Surrounding herself with men at the tattoo shop, she never questions her safety. Her life is her art.

County Prosecutor Burke Wyatt is called out to a baffling crime scene. Two men have been executed and left in a field of freshly fallen snow. Whoever did it left the bodies without leaving a trace themselves. Tortured by the ghosts of his past, Burke can’t help getting involved in the investigation, especially when the unlikeable local sheriff is unable to make headway.