Ergebnis für "Das Aquarium" in Krimis & Thriller

La vita di Eriko sembra perfetta. Una famiglia amorevole, un appartamento impeccabile e un prestigioso lavoro nella divisione di prodotti ittici di una delle più grandi aziende del Giappone. Il suo ultimo progetto, reintrodurre il controverso pesce persico del Nilo nel mercato giapponese, è ambizioso quanto lei. Ma sotto la superficie immacolata si nasconde una solitudine divorante. Eriko non è mai riuscita a stringere un’amicizia vera ed è per questo che è affascinata da Shōko, una popolare blogger di lifestyle che segue ossessivamente.

Tanaka Institute, Monterey, CA: Angel, the recaptured 76-foot, 100,000-pound Megalodon, has birthed a litter of pups - five females - far too numerous and aggressive to keep in one pen. One solution: a Dubai royal prince is building the largest aquarium in the world and seeks to purchase two of the "runts". The deal hinges on hiring Jonas Taylor's 21-year-old son, David, to be their trainer. Jonas reluctantly agrees, and David is off to Dubai for the summer of his life.

No sooner has Detective Erin O’Reilly moved in with her lover, gangster-turned-informant Morton Carlyle, than she gets a call about a body in a fancy downtown hotel. She’s expecting a run-of-the-mill homicide, until she finds herself face-to-face with a beautiful young woman floating in the hotel’s aquarium. Below the smooth surface of the luxury hotel, she finds a rotten world of bribes, voyeurism, coercion, and murder. Everybody has something to hide. Erin and her faithful K-9 Rolf will have to plunge into the murky depths to hook their quarry.

Zero Hour in Phnom Penhis a brilliant detective story that portrays - with no illusion - Cambodia’s adventurous transition from genocide and civil war to a free-market economy and democratic normality. Zero Hour in Phnom Penh is a rare stroke of luck and a workof art, from which one can always draw more stories and levels of meaning....an all too human, timeless, historical and philosophical novel.