Ergebnis für "Impostors" in Krimis & Thriller

The FBI calls on former agent Jessica Blackwood to look at a puzzling crime. A wildlife officer has found the body of a popular YouTuber encased in an obelisk made of salt in a remote refuge. When the agency is tipped off to a second body, that of a TikTok star chained to the bottom of Nevada’s Pyramid Lake—her hands clasped in prayer—Jessica recruits a trusted colleague of her own: Floridian underwater investigator Sloan McPherson.

After an elite criminal profiling unit is shut down amid a storm of scandal and mismanagement, only one person emerges unscathed. Forensic psychiatrist Doctor Alexander Gregory has a reputation for being able to step inside the darkest minds to uncover whatever secrets lie hidden there, and soon enough he finds himself drawn into the murky world of murder investigation. In the beautiful hills of County Mayo, Ireland, a killer is on the loose. Panic has a stranglehold on its rural community, and the Garda are running out of time.

While investigating a man claiming to be the long-lost heir to a noble family, Veronica Speedwell gets the surprise of her life in this new adventure from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–nominated author Deanna Raybourn. London, 1889. Veronica Speedwell and her natural...

En 'Los impostores' podrán disfrutar de una de las obras más representativas del escritor Santiago Gamboa; una novela detectivesca, cosmopolita, divertida y llena de erudición. En el centro de esta historia, unos personajes que buscan desprenderse de lo que son para intentar ser lo que su...

A sharp and prescient novel about women in the workplace, the power of Big Tech, and the looming threat of foreign espionage from Kathy Wang, “a skilled satirist of the northern California dream” (Harper’s Bazaar) In 2006 Julia Lerner is living in Moscow, a recent university graduate in...

In the third book of the Nebula Award–nominated Arcadia Project series, which New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire called “exciting, inventive, and brilliantly plotted,” Millie Roper has to pull off two impossible heists—with the fate of the worlds in the balance. Three...

Carmen Posadas se embarca con Doña Emilia Pardo Bazán en una aventura detectivesca. En abril de 1912, la adinerada viuda de Peñasco tuvo un mal presentimiento mientras almorzaba en su palacete de Madrid. Algo les había pasado a su único hijo y su nuera, a quienes en ese momento creía en París, disfrutando de su luna de miel. La dama no se equivocaba: a pesar de las advertencias que les había hecho, los recién casados se habían embarcado en el que se creía el barco más seguro del mundo y sin duda era el más lujoso: El Titanic.

A sordid scandal rocks the Glass household and threatens to ruin Matt's family unless he can suppress it. But after word gets out, and a rare magical coronet is stolen, he and India find themselves scrambling to recover the heirloom and suppress the gossip before reputations are ruined. To make matters worse, someone is sending threatening letters to the magicians of London, stirring up trouble between the artless and magicians. Tensions are rising, but India and Matt choose not to investigate - until the author of the letters is assaulted.

When a fishing boat is wrecked off the treacherous North Sea coast and the body of a young woman washes up on the beach beside the iconic ‘Marsden Rock’, DCI Ryan cannot ignore the call to duty. With one already dead and more human cargo missing from the wreckage, Ryan and his team race to find the remaining souls - before it’s too late and their investigation turns to murder. As they uncover the seedy underbelly of Tyneside, cold and calculated opportunism clashes with the rock-hard arm of the Law, but there’s one thing that proves stronger than stone.

Master of suspense and New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers delivers an exhilarating page-turner where the disappearance of a federal prosecutor launches the latest high-stakes case for FBI agents Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan. Newlyweds Emma and Colin are suspicious when prosecutor...

Celeste is devastated when she learns of her arranged marriage to the notorious Ferrante degli Spini. Raised in a convent by the esteemed Sister Assunta, she has little contact with the outside world. Moved by love for her ward, the crafty nun convinces Celeste's only friend, Valentina, to assume the identity of the bride. Marriage to the harsh nobleman poses difficult challenges. Ferrante's friend and mentor, the fascinating Prince Raimondo di Sangro, offers the naïve Valentina valuable insight on how to overcome these obstacles.

Against all odds, Aydin Torkal - aka Sleeper 13 - broke free from the terrorist group that took him as a child and raised him into a life of violence and hate. In the two years since, he's been tracking and killing all those responsible. But he's not done yet. Now living a secret life in London, he receives a surprise visit from Rachel Cox of MI6. She needs his help to infiltrate a sinister new terrorist cell who've taken root in the USA. Aydin is initially reluctant.

While on a business trip to Las Vegas, Lauren Bradley’s coworker is murdered - and she’s identified as the police’s number one suspect. With a shaky alibi and the evidence mounting against her, she places a desperate call to her boss. She and Brent set out to find the real killer, but nothing is as it seems in this city. Their only lead is a chance encounter with a troop of entertainers. Together, Lauren and Brent uncover an illegal operation that stretches all the way back home to Atlanta. Can they expose the desperate killer before one of them becomes the next victim?

La vita di Evan Birch, docente universitario di filosofia, scorre tranquilla tra la sua adorata famiglia e le lezioni ai suoi studenti a cui cerca di inculcare l'amore per la verità. Tutto cambia il giorno in cui la polizia si presenta alla sua porta, ritenendolo responsabile del rapimento di una ragazza. Sembra un'accusa assurda, ma quando nella sua auto viene ritrovato il rossetto della giovane scomparsa, tutti i sospetti sembrano convergere su di lui. Anche la moglie e i figli di Evan cominciano a nutrire dubbi sulla sua innocenza.

Tras No digas nada y El imperio del dolor, Patrick Radden Keefe explora los límites, a menudo imperceptibles, entre lo legal y lo ilegal, a través de doce retratos reales protagonizados por maleantes de medio mundo.

Regola numero uno: per avere successo non occorre fare i fatti, basta inventarli e poi convincere gli altri che siano veri. È stata questa la folgorazione che ha portato alla ribalta l'impostore più visionario della storia italiana. Nato nei quartieri di Milano dove imperversavano Renato Vallanzasca e le Brigate rosse, a diciassette anni fugge dalle combriccole criminali di via Padova e dai primi bucomani del Parco Lambro per vendere enciclopedie porta a porta nella provincia bergamasca.

England, 1952. A body washes up on Brighton beach, and lawyer Toby Whitby’s secretary swears she knows the corpse’s identity. One woman claims the man with no hands is the father of her child. Another woman swears that he is her son. Toby’s search leads him from a child stolen by gypsies in the First World War, to a faded film star who lies for a living, to London gangsters, and on to a notorious member of the British royal family.

I was in the middle of a con when I met Sienna Santiago. Fiery. Beautiful. Utterly seductive. A justice-seeker and a job-aholic, the gorgeous brunette suddenly finds herself with none after a political scandal that rocks the entire country. Her biggest problem? The only person who can help her within a thousand miles is me - a liar...and one of the most wanted men in all of America. But she needs a job, and I’ve got just the one for her. Except every old con I’ve ever pulled has come back from the past to catch us in our hotbed of lies.