Ergebnis für "An Ill Wind" in Krimis & Thriller

It is 1793. John Pearce and his Pelicans are going home - to gain their freedom and put the treacherous Captain Ralph Barclay in the dock. Emily Barclay discovers Pearce has papers that would ruin her husband’s career and her future security. And then comes that dread thing, a fire aboard a wooden ship of war! Cast adrift, Pearce and his Pelicans find help from an unlikely source.

It’s the largest oil spill in history: a crashed supertanker in San Francisco Bay. Desperate to avert environmental damage—and a PR disaster—the multinational oil company releases an untested “designer microbe” to break up the spill. It's an “oil-eating” microbe, designed to consume anything made of petrocarbons: oil, gasoline, synthetic fabrics, and of course plastic. What the company doesn’t realize is that their microbe propagates through the air....

Ex-police officer, JJ Jenson, is a good man who has led a colourful but turbulent life. He’s seen death and destruction in its many forms. When personal tragedy strikes, JJ turns his back on his former life, and returns to his childhood home in search of peace, preferring to view life through the lens of his camera. But when his camera captures the death of local woman Amber Wilton, the world of murder and deceit drags JJ back into its fold. Working with an old adversary, JJ is determined to prove Amber was murdered and to catch her killer.

After witnessing by chance the recovery of a mysterious, mutilated body in a public park in Northern California, San Francisco reporter Arnold Rednapp becomes embroiled in an ongoing investigation involving drugs, gangs, pedophilia, political corruption and murder and follows a trail of clues that extends the full length of California and deep into Mexico. As he closes in on the villains, their desperate efforts to escape capture result in a climactic finale that brings the lives of Arnie and several of his closest friends to within a whisker of extinction.

Hard-hitting veteran reporter Deuce Mora is awakened in the pre-dawn hours and called to the scene of a gruesome hanging to identify the body of a dear friend, an FBI agent on the verge of taking down one of Chicago’s biggest Mob operations. Deuce knows it’s murder, but the authorities have no choice but to call it a suicide—the scene was triple-locked from the inside. The ill wind sweeping the Windy City has also whipped up two more unexplainable deaths—of perfectly healthy, able-bodied young mobsters, key witnesses about to flip on the leaders of the Mob operation.

Ein alter Leuchtturm. Ein Toter. Ein tief verborgenes Geheimnis. Auf dem Leuchtturm Falshöft an der Flensburger Förde wird die Leiche des Standesbeamten Ole Hansen gefunden. Auch sonst steht die Polizei vor einem großen Rätsel, denn Feinde scheint Ole Hansen keine gehabt zu haben. Dafür aber großes Interesse an dem geschichtsträchtigen Gebäude, in dem er hinterrücks erschossen wurde. Die Kriminalhauptkommissare Birte Lohse und Rainer Speckmann übernehmen die Ermittlungen.

First in the Drake Sisters series from the "reigning queen of the paranormal romance"--#1 New York Times bestselling author of the Carpathian and Sea Haven novels. The story of Sarah, the eldest of the extraordinary—and magical—Drake sisters, now rewritten and expanded, in this very special...

I fell in love with my best friend's dad when I was seventeen. He seemed like some kind of heathen god, big enough to kill a man with his bare hands, tattooed with bright, bold images, and weathered by time and a short stint in prison. Blind to the consequences, I made a mistake that ran him out of town and ruined his life. Now, he's back after all these years––hating me more than the day he left.

When Theo and Auggie return home—safe and sound and miraculously alive after being dragged into a murder investigation—all Theo wants is for life to get back to normal. No more murders. No more investigations. Nothing, in other words, that might put Auggie in danger. But when a girl from school goes missing, Theo finds himself reluctantly drawn into looking for her. Shaniyah was his former student, for one reason. And, for another, no one else seems interested in where she’s gone. Worse, her disappearance seems to be linked to a break-in at Theo and Auggie’s house.

அன்பான குடும்பம் அதில் உறவுகளின் காதல் நுழைந்து விரிசல் ஏற்படுத்துகிறது. குடும்ப உறவுகள் அவளுக்கு அன்னியமாய் போக அக்காவின் கணவனின் வக்கிரப்பார்வைகளை சுமந்தபடியே அவள்.

Too hot to handle . . . Tabitha Allen grew up in the thick of Chaos-the Chaos Motorcycle Club, that is. Her father is Chaos' leader, and the club has always had her back. But one rider was different from the start. When Tabby was running wild, Shy Cage was there. When tragedy tore her life apart...