Ergebnis für "Dark Life" in Krimis

Ein Mord – zwölf Verdächtige – vierundzwanzig Stunden Dunkelheit! Notärztin Kate North zögert nicht lang, als sie das Angebot erhält, auf einer UN-Forschungsstation in der Antarktis einzuspringen und den Stationsarzt Jean-Luc zu ersetzen, der bei einem tragischen Unfall im Eis ums Leben gekommen ist: Sie ist am Tiefpunkt ihres Lebens angekommen und will nur noch weg. Doch bald schließt der gnadenlose Winter die 13-köpfige Crew in der Forschungsstation ein, und die monatelange Dunkelheit bringt nach und nach alle an ihre Grenzen.

On New Year's Eve at the end of one of the hardest years in history, hundreds of revellers shoot their guns into the air in time-honoured LA tradition. But as the rain of lead comes down, a man is shot dead in the middle of a crowded street party. Detective Renée Ballard soon connects the bullet to an unsolved cold case last worked by legendary ex-LAPD detective Harry Bosch. As they investigate where the old and new cases connect, a new crime shatters the night shift.

DCI Mark Joesbury has been expecting this. Monitoring a complex network of dark web sites, Joesbury and his team have spotted a new terrorist threat from the extremist, women-hating, group known as 'incels' or 'involuntary celibates.' Joesbury's team are trying to infiltrate the ring of power at its core, but the dark web is built for anonymity, and the incel army is vast. Pressure builds when the team learn the snatched child was just the first in a series of violent attacks designed to terrorise women. 

Investigative reporter Sarah Newton specializes in debunking myths and superstitions—especially when they’re used to cover up horrific crimes. When a teenage girl is ritualistically murdered and another girl goes missing, Sarah heads to the coastal village of Youngstown, Maine, to find her next story. The locals are convinced these events are the work of a legendary curse. After all, no human in this close-knit community could do something so dreadful. But Sarah knows the truth—one of their own is a cold-blooded killer.

In the dead of night, he’ll find you… Jess Mayor has never been afraid of the dark. Until now. When a night out ends in tragedy and a body pulled from the canal, everyone apart the victim’s family moves on. It was just an accident, wasn’t it? But how many bodies will it take before a...

Who killed Gray Mitchell? Gray Mitchell’s body is found buried under fresh snowfall in the early hours of the morning outside Stromford Cathedral. DI Jim Neal and DS Ava Merry are called in to investigate. It seems that a number of people had motives to kill him, including Mitchell's partner. Then another shocking act of violence occurs, also connected to the cathedral. Detectives Neal and Merry’s investigation reveals an intricate web of secrets connecting the crimes. But there is something the detectives have missed, the dark secret which can break open the case. 

DCI Harry Grimm smells trouble brewing. As the chief inspector and his team prepare for a harsh winter storm, a call comes in from an old pal that a remote PI training session in the Dales he is attending has abruptly ended in a suspicious death. And while the gruff detective struggles through a blizzard to reach the crime scene, the residents of a nearby house come to a fatal end.

Deadly secrets lie beneath the murky waters of the Louisiana bayou in this pulse-pounding new romantic suspense novel from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Rose. There’s no safe place for a child to hide when danger comes from every direction. Public prosecutor J.P...

Assistant District Attorney Kaj Cordozo's life is thrown upside down when two masked men attempt to kidnap his son, Elijah. Given the high-profile case Kaj is working on, he's not about to take any more risks. When Val Sorensen of Burke Broussard Private Investigation Agency is assigned as Elijah's bodyguard, she realises she also has a very personal connection to the gang thought to be behind the attempted kidnap - a run in with Sixth Day cost her brother his life.

Laughton Rees is back in the latest novel from the bestselling author of the Sanctus trilogy—this time, with a case that hits uncomfortably close to home and threatens the thing Laughton values most: her daughter. When a body with no head or hands turns up in the river Thames Forensic...

Detective Peter Decker teams up with his wife and daughter to solve a crime rooted in both the past and present. While on routine patrol, LAPD Officer Cindy Decker rescues a newborn abandoned in an alley dumpster. But she can't call it a night until she sees the infant safe in a hospital, cared...

Homicide Detective Max Rupert never fully accepted his wife's death, even when he believed that a reckless hit and run driver was the cause. But when he learns that in fact she was murdered, he devotes himself to hunting down her killers. Most of his life he had thought of himself as a decent man. But now he's so consumed with thoughts of retribution that he questions whether he will take that last step and enact the vengeance he longs for.

'Clever, immersive and utterly engrossing, The Dark Hours is a triumph' Andrea Mara ‘Subverted my expectations at almost every turn… Jordan shows how the aftermath of violence affects all those who witness it’ New York Times ***** 1994: When Gardaí Julia Harte and Adrian Clancy are called...

Inspector Daniel Kohi of the Zimbabwean police force returns home one night to find his worst nightmare has been realised. His family dead, his house destroyed and in fear for his life, he is forced to flee the country he loves. Far away in Glasgow, DSI William Lorimer has his hands full. Christmas is approaching, the city is bustling and whilst the homicide rate has been relatively low, something much darker is brewing. Counter-Terrorism have got wind of a plot, here in Lorimer's native city, to carry out an unspeakable atrocity on Christmas Eve. 

In Still the Love of His Life, death stalks the corridors at Maggie’s hospital, and serial killer ex, Rob, begins to send her threatening letters from behind bars. As if that wasn't enough, someone is also killing her patients at the hospital where she works.

Luke Madson, an assassin with a private International Intelligence agency, experiences a chance meeting with the daughter of a man targeted for assassination during a flight to New York. The meeting evolves into a personal and business relationship that opens opportunities for Madson and his organization to destroy the gun running operations of this group.

A chilling ritual is being acted out by a sadistic killer – with a missing child at its centre. Dark Flight is the fourth novel in Lin Anderson's forensic crime series featuring Rhona MacLeod. 'One of the most satisfying characters in modern crime fiction' – Daily Mail Six-year-old Stephen...

"Dämonengeflüster". Etwas Böses geht in Nowback um. Studenten verschwinden spurlos. Mächtige Dämonen werden gerufen und blutige Rituale vollzogen.. Ein mysteriöser Mörder hinterlässt Blut, Verderben und Tod. Während sich die Vampirin Julie mit Ben auf die Jagd nach dem brutalen Killer begibt, muss sie mit Entsetzten feststellen, dass nicht nur Dämonen in Nowback ihr Unwesen treiben. Als ein alter Feind unerwartet wieder auftaucht und erneut ein Mädchen spurlos verschwindet, beginnt ein gnadenloser Kampf um Leben und Tod. Humorvolle Mystery.

Seit Jahrhunderten gilt das Siegel der Bocca di Capretto als verschollen. Als die Vampirin Julie Barks den Auftrag erhält nach dem Artefakt zu suchen, wird Ben Richards brutal entführt, um sie zu erpressen. Gemeinsam mit dem Magier Rick und dem Dämon Gordon gerät sie dabei zwischen die Fronten erbarmungsloser Gegner. Um ihren Freund zu retten, führt der einzige Weg in eine gefährliche Höllendimension. Die gnadenlose Jagd nach dem Siegel beginnt.

"Nowbacks Geheimnisse" - Jede Stadt hat ihre Geheimnisse. Doch in Nowback kann ein neuer Job zum Höllentrip werden. Ben Richards ist auf der Suche nach Arbeit, doch was er findet, zeigt ihm die dunkle Seite der Nacht. Mitten unter den Menschen leben Vampire und Dämonen. Die Ermittlerin Julie Barks folgt einer Spur ins Greenham Viertel und findet sich inmitten eines mörderischen Experiments wieder. Hier werden Retter zu Gejagten und Wesen der Nacht zu Opfern. In Nowback ist nichts, wie es scheint. Eine Stadt voller dunkler Geheimnisse. Humorvolle Mystery.