Ergebnis für "Enigma" in Krimis

Un fine settimana di dicembre, il Palace de Verbier, lussuoso hotel sulle Alpi svizzere, ospita l'annuale festa di una importante banca d'affari di Ginevra, che si appresta a nominare il nuovo presidente. La notte della elezione, tuttavia, un omicidio nella camera 622 scuote il Palace de Verbier, la banca e l'intero mondo finanziario svizzero. L'inchiesta della polizia non riesce a individuare il colpevole, molti avrebbero avuto interesse a commettere l'omicidio ma ognuno sembra avere un alibi:

Le indagini del tenente Roversi Febbraio 1963. Un giornalista torinese, Francesco Gallo, viene trovato privo di vita alle pendici di Monte Forte, nella Nurra. Le indagini condotte dal tenente Roversi sembrano indicare che il movente sia legato a un reportage che il giornalista stava ascoltando nella zona e abbia a che fare con le tensioni per la crisi mineraria in atto in tutta l'isola. A capo dell'inchiesta subentra il Nucleo Investigativo Regionale di Cagliari, mentre il tenente, estromesso dal caso, chiede e ottiene di occuparsi di un'indagine in apparenza secondaria.

A Wall Street Journal ""Best Mystery of 2022"" A September 2022 Amazon Best of the Month Pick “Dicker salutes Agatha Christie even as he drops the reader through one trapdoor into another, so that by the end, we doubt we’ve ever read another novel quite like it. (We haven’t.) Fans of Ruth...

Într-o noapte de decembrie, la Palace de Verbier, în Alpii elvețieni, are loc o crimă, iar anchetatorii nu reușesc să ajungă la nicio concluzie. După mulți ani, în vara lui 2018, un scriitor venit în vacanță se cazează la același hotel, fără să-și imagineze că va ajunge să se lase absorbit de acest caz. Ce s-a petrecut în camera 622 de la Palace de Verbier? Cu precizia unui ceasornicar elvețian, Joël Dicker își duce cititorii în inima orașului său natal.

Milano, ancora euforica per il successo dell'Expo, si prepara a brillare sotto le luci di Natale. L'8 dicembre, però, un'ombra scura cala sulla città: Giovanni Ferri, noto e stimato antiquario di Brera, viene ritrovato senza vita in Duomo, al termine della messa dell'Immacolata. Un infarto, a prima vista. Luca Botero, il commissario insofferente alla tecnologia e dotato dello spirito di osservazione del miglior Sherlock Holmes, è invece certo che sia stato ucciso. Quando l'autopsia conferma i suoi sospetti, l'indagine si accende, perché in tanti potevano volerlo morto.

Anne Wallace es la mejor pianista del mundo, pero también es una mujer excéntrica e impredecible. Famosa por su inteligencia sublime y por su gusto por lo ancestral, toca un piano especialmente fabricado para ella, con todas las teclas negras. A menudo lo hace bajo la lluvia, en esas tardes de tormenta que azotan los acantilados de la costa vasca que hay cerca de su casa.

Jason Bourne is back in this "rollicking roller coaster ride of spy games" as a riddle leaves Bourne with less than four days to prevent a cataclysmic international war" (BookReporter.com). On the eve of Russian general Boris Karpov's wedding, Jason Bourne receives an enigmatic message from his...

When librarian Patton Harcourt comes under sniper fire in her rural North Carolina home, she is thrown together with professional assassin Nemo and into a web of international deceit. On the run from two German killers, Patton and Nemo discover a 75-year-old Enigma message, which leads them to Bletchley Park in England and a code breaker named Ruthie Drinkwater, an old flame of Patton’s. Unable to complete the job of code breaking at Bletchley, the trio leaves and is pursued by the Germans, who support a white-supremacist agenda.

In the dangerous waters of the Caribbean, one man reigns supreme as the most cunning and elusive criminal of them all: Julian, the last remaining brother of a notorious dynasty. With a vast fortune, Julian's power and influence know no bounds. But now, the Enigma Heirs, R-Group, and CATS team have set their sights on bringing him down, determined to dismantle his entire operation and put an end to his illegal drug and human trafficking enterprises.

Caspian Anderson, once a black-ops assassin known as Elias, now works for the Defense Clandestine Service. But unfinished business dies hard. Glimpsing a familiar face while tying up loose ends overseas, he swears it’s his lover, Liesel Bergmann—a German spy and erstwhile collaborator. But back stateside, he can’t ask her without giving himself away.

An artist, Mr Ruxton, is seeking an ideal model for a planned sculpture of Antigone. He travels to the Beech Grove estate in search of his model and encounters Miss Hurd, who is employed at the house. He is overwhelmed by her beauty and feels compelled to pursue her. However, he quickly finds that he has a rival for the lady's affections, a man of great wealth and power. Miss Hurd takes flight, but Ruxton is unable to forget her. When he later sees her again on a streetcar in New York he finds himself drawn into a mysterious web of tragedy and evil.

In Trotterdown, Cornwall, a boat, The Enigma, washes in to the harbour. The skipper is dead, and Harriet Taylor is brought in to investigate. But one dead body is not the only crime the team have to deal with. Meanwhile, further up the coast in Whitby, a boat washes up on the rocks just outside the harbour. Everyone on board is dead. Whitby Police are out of their depth, so DS Jason Smith is called in to help. It soon becomes clear the cases are connected and the teams from York and Trotterdown settle down to work with each other.

Dr. Xavier Pekoni, a rich evil scientist, is working on his underground Fountain of Youth project. Using nanotechnology and DNA mapping, he is desperately close to extending life 10-fold, which has driven him to extreme research methods. The R-Group is called in by government agencies to locate Pekoni, verify his unethical practices, and stop him at all costs.

Una mattina di aprile del 1978, a Milano, Sebastiano, un bambino di soli cinque mesi, scompare nel nulla. Sua madre Anna ha accettato l'aiuto di una donna che si è presentata col nome di Laura e si è offerta di comprare dei vestitini per il neonato. La famiglia di Anna fatica a tirare avanti, ha bisogno della generosità degli altri e ogni sostegno è ben accetto. Ma basta un attimo, e tutto cambia. Laura e Sebastiano, infatti, svaniscono. Le indagini sul rapimento del minore non portano a nulla. Il caso viene archiviato, l'esistenza di Anna e del marito Gianni diventa un inferno.

Despite their best efforts, Melody and Rat found themselves powerless to prevent the crisis in Morocco from spiraling out of control, threatening to ignite the powder keg of tensions between Germany, France, and Britain. With the specter of war looming, Britain is determined to expand its influence across Europe. After the Agadir Crisis, the preservation of Dutch neutrality, crucial for Britain’s access to Dutch ports, becomes an even more pressing concern.

Mike and Marge control ePETRO, an oil shipping business with offices in London and New York, but they don't have the same business goals in mind. Marge intends to sell the North Koreans uranium in addition to oil obtained illegally from the government sanctioned Middle East. But Mike may have other plans, mainly, keeping the profits of these sales for himself. Then there is the mysterious Steven Christopher, who oversees the AIMs, and is working several angles behind the scenes. Steven is the only one trusted by both Marge and Mike, but why?

Inexplicable drops in world commodities markets are destabilizing nations to the point of economic collapse. A conspicuous increase in production numbers for primary oil-producing companies results in a call for help from governments and a large oil distributor, ePetro. The R-Group, Jacob and Petra, are quietly engaged by ePetro amid fears that further drops in commodity values could devastate multiple economies of first-world countries.

Random events at a Brazilian hydroelectric plant, Irish financial institution, and Texas winery seem connected by an insidious virus hack which attacks system vulnerabilities then vanishes without a trace. Are these all a glimpse of the new viral danger of the Ghost Code designed for devastation on a personal and industrial level? A new mysterious pair of cyber pirates, known only as Mephisto and Callisto, seems to be behind the plot to deliver these destructive payloads for computer domination.

In the not-so-distant future, the world is drowning in an ocean of data. Every click, every purchase, every heartbeat monitored by a wearable device contributes to an ever-expanding digital universe. Amidst this chaos, a sinister force is at work, threatening to steal the very essence of our future. Gretchen, a mathematical prodigy and the spoiled heiress, has harnessed the power of supercomputers and Big Data to bend the world’s economic landscape. As a direct descendant of the infamous Nazi Werewolf Clan, Gretchen is driven by a dark legacy and an insatiable desire to control the future.

Elvis is alive - and he's missing! Except he's not exactly Elvis. And he's not alive...in the traditional sense. But the man with a personal connection to the King and currently known as Patrick is definitely missing. Mallory won't let the confusing nature of Patrick's background stop her from investigating, not when there's a mystery to solve. And who better to crack a case involving the weird and wondrous than the best (and hungriest) sleuthing vamp around?