Ergebnis für "Arms" in Krimis & Thriller

Eine Klima-Allianz - unsere letzte Chance? Der Klimawandel - eine Katastrophe ungeahnten Ausmaßes steht uns bevor. Verändert unsere Erde. Verändert unser aller Leben. Das Fiasko scheint unaufhaltsam. Bis die drei Supermächte China, Russland und die USA einen radikalen Weg einschlagen. Doch wird diese starke Klima-Allianz das Ruder noch herumreißen?

Mitten in der Nacht trifft bei der New Yorker Polizei der ängstliche Notruf eines kleinen Mädchens ein. Eve Dallas macht sich sofort auf den Weg, doch sie kommt zu spät: Die ganze Familie Swisher ist tot und anscheinend waren hochprofessionelle Killer am Werk, die keine Spuren hinterlassen haben. Nur ein Familienmitglied - die neunjährige Nixie - entging dem Blutbad. Als Eve das zitternde Mädchen erblickt, ist es um sie geschehen. Um jeden Preis will sie das Kind schützen, denn Nixie schwebt als einzige Augenzeugin in höchster Gefahr.

Virginia ist Journalistin und liebt das Leben in New York. Daher ist ihr Entsetzen groß, als ein Auftrag sie in die Wildnis von Alaska führt. Sie soll einen Bericht über die blauen Bären drehen, aber Virginia ist nicht der Typ, der gerne in Wanderstiefeln durch den Matsch stapft. Das wird jedoch schnell zu ihrem kleinsten Problem, denn in der Wildnis trifft sie nicht nur auf gefährliche Tiere, sondern auch auf den verschlossenen und zudem sehr attraktiven Wildhüter Colin, der seine geliebte Natur schützt und keine Fremden duldet.

Port Marie’s Veteran’s Day celebration and parade reunites Reverend Margot Quade with her old army buddy Derek Nesbit. He’s finally at peace with the death of his uncle, and both believe they’ve put their past overseas behind them. But fate has other plans....

Millie und Eliza haben ihren ersten Fall gelöst und sind frisch gebackene Roommates. Ein merkwürdiger Herr namens Arthur Biggs beauftragt sie, ein verschwundenes Baby zu finden. Ist der kleine Percy Opfer von Menschenhändlern geworden? Die Uhr tickt: Bei der Suche nach dem Neugeborenen zählt jede Minute. Doch sind Millie und Eliza der Aufgabe gewachsen?

Grace Ward's sterile existence is thrown into chaos when a baby is abandoned in her ER. From the instant a strange woman thrusts the infant into her arms and disappears, Grace's life is transformed. She names the baby Johnny. His identity is shrouded in secrecy, and even with a trained staff treating him, his life hangs in the balance. As Grace grows more devoted to him, major events threaten their bond and his life.

Jerusalem and the Sinai desert, AD 55. In the turbulent aftermath of the crucifixion of Jesus, agents of the Roman Empire receive information about a pilgrim bearing an incendiary letter from a religious fanatic calling himself Paul the Apostle to insurrectionists in Corinth. What's in the letter could bring down an empire. The Romans hire a former legionary, a solitary man-at-arms named Telamon to intercept the letter and destroy the courier. But once he meets the courier, Telamon experiences an extraordinary conversion.

Zwanzig Jahre ist es her, dass die talentierte Jungschauspielerin Susan Dempsey abends zum Vorsprechen aufbrach - aber nie ankam. Am nächsten Tag wird sie ermordet im Park gefunden, mit nur noch einem Schuh an den Füßen. Zu den Verdächtigen gehören einflussreiche Hollywoodgrößen, aber der Mordfall wird nie aufgeklärt. Bis Laurie Moran, die als TV-Journalistin auf Cold Cases spezialisiert ist, sich des Falls annimmt - und sie sich zur Zielscheibe des Täters macht.

Whilst en route to investigate an assassination threat, Drake and Mai Kitano are blown out of the skies and cast adrift in a storm-tossed ocean before being marooned on a deserted island. Back home, the clock is ticking, but the deadly jigsaw puzzle of events refuses to fit together. Assassins stalk the streets of Washington DC. Civilians are being murdered by ordinary-seeming Americans turned expert killers, for no apparent reason.

Six weeks ago, Gideon Ryker awoke from a coma in the French chateau where veterans of the Foreign Legion live out their final days in peace. His body is a torturer’s canvas, his mind an empty slate—except for haunting dreams of a young girl’s face. He doesn’t even remember his name. But he knows that a legionnaire’s life is a brutal struggle. The only reward: a new identity and passport. A fresh start. You’d only take that deal if you needed to forget your past life.

The attack on Pearl Harbor swept America into the raging heart of the war. The stormy South Pacific presented a daring new challenge, and the men of the Corps were ready to fight. An elite fraternity united by a glorious tradition of courage and honor, the Marine Raiders were bound to a triumphant destiny.

The prize possession of former football hero, part-time media personality, and full-time blowhard BJ Baker has been stolen from his palatial Palm Beach home. Baker has called in the mayor, the police, the sheriff, and everyone else he can co-opt into the search. But if he really wants the person who can find it, one name keeps coming up: Miami Jones. Problem is, he can't stand Jones. And the feeling is mutual.

Such is the life of a six-hundred-something whose best years are in the rearview mirror—and Vlad can't even see himself in a mirror. Now living in Upton Arms, a retirement community for once-powerful supernatural beings, Vlad and his eccentric neighbors are learning a painful truth: life, even for immortals, is terminal.

Robbery Under Arms, together with Marcus Clarke’s For the Term of His Natural Life, is considered to be one of the seminal Australian novels of the nineteenth century. It is a barnstorming yarn, delivered in the first person by one Dick Marston, a vigorous and basically honourable young man, who is lured into crime due to unfavourable circumstances.

A beautiful con artist insinuates herself into a wealthy socialite’s life . . . with deadly consequences, in this serpentine thriller about identity and obsession, from—and narrated by—actress, director and bestselling author Krysten Ritter. Liz Dawson weaves through a crowd with the ease...

It is 1347 and the French, after a crushing defeat at Crécy, are licking their wounds while their king raises a new army. Locked into a fruitless siege, the English are camped in the marshes around Calais. Among them is foot soldier and archer Martin Kemp, whose dreams of serving his king and reliving the chivalrous adventures of King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table are tempered by the gory and brutal reality of siege warfare. Having narrowly escaped death in a surprise attack from the French, Kemp sees a chance for a reprieve when a shaky truce is signed.

Nat Turnbull, a history professor who specializes in the German resistance, is only mildly surprised when his estranged mentor, Gordon Wolfe, is arrested for possession of stolen World War II archives. But what's in the archives is staggering: a spymaster's trove missing since the end of the war, one that Gordon has always claimed is full of "secrets you can't find anywhere else...Live ammunition."

The battle lines have been drawn. China has unleashed a new weapon of mass destruction on the world, and the US-led Coalition has no way to counter it. Sheltering in bunkers in the mountains south of Taipei, Taiwan's government considers suing for peace. Taiwanese fisherman, Lin Hungyu, may have the answer. But his neighbors think he is mad, and the military won't take his calls. Who will listen to him? After losses in the Taiwan conflict, the 68th Aggressor Squadron is stood down to rest and refit. Where will the war take them next? Or will war come to them instead?

A new home under threat... Family and friends in mortal danger... Will Richard be able to save everyone? Can Richard survive being plunged into the cut-throat world of medieval campaigning, complete with sieges, pitched battles and more. Book Two in The Legend of Richard Keynes series follows Richard as he struggles to assert authority over his new land, as well as his new wife. He will have to battle against bad omens, prejudice and the consequences of his actions.

Detective Aaron Bergstrom didn't consider himself a player… he just wasn't sure he believed in love. Belinda Crowder was a wedding photographer… she firmly believed in happily ever afters. Insta-love when they met? No way. Second-chance romance? Nope, not this either. When it was finally their time… disaster struck. And now that he'd found the person who put the ‘real’ in real love, he wasn't about to let someone threaten her.