Resultados para "the dover" en Misterio

Attaccarsi alla bottiglia è il miglior modo con cui Gary Thorn riesce a ottenere qualunque risultato, che sia passare una serata o risolvere casi impossibili. Ma andiamo con ordine: Gary, il nostro protagonista, non è proprio un tipo anonimo, ma è anche vero che raramente qualcuno si sofferma più di tanto a guardarlo. Una sera, va a bere una birra con il suo (unico) amico Brendan. Il quale, però, lo molla a metà pinta; a quel punto una brunetta si avvicina a Gary (strano!), comincia a flirtare (ancor più strano!), finché, appena lui si volta dall'altra parte... anche lei sparisce.

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.

Carlo Monterossi, il protagonista di Questa non è una canzone d'amore, trova a casa sua, nella baraonda di una festa, un giovane orientale in stato confusionale che somiglia in modo impressionante a un architetto giapponese acclamato come una star all'Expo, ma non ricorda nemmeno il proprio nome e non vuole che si chiami la polizia. Il giorno dopo, il giovane orientale sparisce e Carlo Monterossi trova il suo appartamento devastato da una perquisizione.

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.

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...

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.

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.

On a summer night in 1932, 12-year-old Joel Fitchett wanders into an East Texas diner badly beaten and carrying his unconscious brother, Clancy. Although both boys claim they have no memory of what happened, the horrific details are etched into their minds as deep as the scar left across Joel's face. Thirteen years later, both men still struggle with the aftershocks of that long-ago night and the pact they made to hide the truth. When they find themselves at the center of a murder investigation, they make a decision that will change everything: a second lie, a second pact...

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. 

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.

Indiana DNR Officer Beth Morrison returns as terror strikes the community of King County once again. When domestic terrorists release the residents of the Panthera compound, several large predatory cats threaten the population. The incident coincides with opening day of bow hunting season. Several hunters find themselves stranded and stalked as tigers, leopards and lions roam the vast stretches of woods and residential areas. Working with multiple departments to contain the disaster, Beth finds herself thrown back into the chaos of navigating even more male-dominated agencies.

On a tiny island off Paradiso, Florida, in 1970, neighbors gather to toast two new arrivals: shy Catherine and her taciturn husband, Dr. Frank Overbrook, who is taking over an old friend’s medical practice. It’s an intimate welcoming for the newlyweds, who have abandoned city life for swaying palms and an ocean breeze. But the morning after is anything but peaceful when Frank is found dead on the beach.

A short story from British Library Crime Classic The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories. A Christmas Eve party at Clevere Hall ends in tragedy when the host is found stabbed to death. Major Ceely certainly wasn’t short of enemies, but who hated him enough to commit the crime?

Liverpool, 1539. A pregnant novice nun, Agnes Moore, ejected from her convent, claims to have been attacked in the ancient chapel of St Mary del Quay by Satan himself. Her former abbess, Lady Katheryn Lukeley, comes to her aid, but Agnes refuses to identify her lover.

‘Dark and dramatic, with an explosive ending’ Diane Saxon One wrong choice... Every time Kate Duggan looks in a mirror she's reminded of the night her life changed forever. Kate managed to walk away from the car accident that ruined the lives of her siblings, but questions still remain about...