Ergebnis für "John" in Weibliche Detektive

Lacy Stoltz ermittelt wieder. Lacy Stoltz hat als Anwältin bei der Rechtsaufsichtsbehörde in Florida schon viele Fälle von Korruption erlebt. Seit sie einen Richter, der Millionen abkassiert hat, zu Fall brachte, ist sie sogar zu gewisser Berühmtheit gelangt. Doch nun wird sie mit einem Fall konfrontiert, der jenseits des Vorstellbaren liegt: Denn der Richter, gegen den sie ermittelt, nimmt anscheinend keine Bestechungsgelder von Leuten. Er nimmt ihnen das Leben.

Wenn das Ende erst der Anfang ist ... Kim Ribbig hat den Schockdoktor Martin Rudbeck gekidnappt und hält ihn im Keller seiner Villa fest. Er will verstehen, was es ist, das einen Menschen dazu bringt, unter dem Vorwand der Wissenschaft junge Menschen zu quälen. Derweil recherchiert die Ex-Polizistin Julia Malmros im Milieu der "Wahren Schweden", einer rechtsextremen Partei mit Kontakten in die kriminelle Szene. Und plötzlich steht Julia vor der schwersten Entscheidung ihres Lebens: Muss sie Kim, der zu einem Teil von ihr geworden ist, verraten?

Blendend helles Licht und Meeresrauschen, sanftes Gläserklingen: Mittsommer auf einer Schäreninsel. Während Astrids Vater, der erfolgreiche Unternehmer Olof Helander, seine Gäste unterhält, schwankt sie zwischen Scham und Langeweile. Da nähert sich lautlos ein Schatten von der offenen See. Innerhalb von Sekunden wird die ganze Festgesellschaft ausgelöscht. Wie durch ein Wunder überlebt das Mädchen. Aber jetzt ist sie allein. Und in Gefahr.

Schleswig-Holstein, kurz vor Weihnachten. Auf der Halbinsel Holnis wird in einem hohlen Baumstamm eine verweste Frauenleiche gefunden. Für Hauptkommissar John Benthien, den ermittelnden Beamten, ist dieser Fall besonders, denn der Baum mit der Leiche steht im Garten der Eltern seiner Exfreundin Karin. Und es kommt noch schlimmer: Ein paar Tage später wird Karin im selben Garten erschlagen, und alle Hinweise deuten ausgerechnet auf Benthien als Täter hin. Für den Kommissar stehen zwei Dinge fest. Erstens: Er ist unschuldig. Zweitens: Er wird den wahren Mörder finden.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER An exclusive thriller writer’s retreat hosted on a private island turns lethal when one of the authors is found murdered. “Twisty and fabulously fun . . . This debut is not to be missed!”—Amy Tintera, New York Times bestselling author of Listen for the Lie...

Lacy Stoltz ermittelt wieder. Lacy Stoltz hat als Anwältin bei der Rechtsaufsichtsbehörde in Florida schon viele Fälle von Korruption erlebt. Seit sie einen Richter, der Millionen abkassiert hat, zu Fall brachte, ist sie sogar zu gewisser Berühmtheit gelangt. Doch nun wird sie mit einem Fall konfrontiert, der jenseits des Vorstellbaren liegt: Denn der Richter, gegen den sie ermittelt, nimmt anscheinend keine Bestechungsgelder von Leuten. Er nimmt ihnen das Leben.

Every year in the United States there are fifteen thousand murders, give or take a few hundred. Of those, nearly forty percent go unsolved. In this six-part audio series, Christina Walsh is determined to change that. After struggling with the loss of her father, she sets out on a journey to bring the justice that has eluded her to the families of other victims. And she starts with a particularly strange case. The murder of world-renowned violinist Leona McPherson who mysteriously disappeared years ago after a concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.

Nineteen-year-old Sally is battered and bruised, and lying in the hospital once again. It’s nothing new, it’s happened before and it’ll happen again. But when DI Laura Kesey introduces Sally to a new social worker, she finds hope at a local women’s domestic violence refuge, where she’s surrounded by women just like her. But then a man is mowed down in a hit and run. Soon a second suspicious death follows. Both deaths link back to the refuge. Has Sally found a safe place or a new danger?

Philippa Watson, a good-natured yet troubled 17-year-old, has just moved to Washington, DC. She’s lonely until she meets Judy Peabody, a brilliant and tempestuous classmate. The girls become unlikely friends and fashion themselves as intellectuals, drawing the notice of Christine Martins, their dazzling English teacher, who enthralls them with her passion for literature and her love of noirish detective fiction. When Philippa returns a novel Miss Martins has lent her, she interrupts a man grappling with her in the shadows.

On a stifling afternoon at police HQ in Algiers, Superintendent Taleb, coasting towards retirement, with not even an air-conditioned office to show for his long years of service, is handed a ticking time bomb of a case that will take him deep into Algeria's troubled past and its fraught relationship with France. To his dismay, he is assigned to work with Agent Hidouchi, an intimidating representative of the country's feared secret service, who makes it clear she intends to call the shots.

Dennis Lehane meets Megan Miranda in this “dark beauty of a novel” (William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author) about the first female sheriff in rural Bad Axe County, Wisconsin, as she searches for a missing girl, battles local drug dealers, and seeks the truth about the death...

A car submerged in a remote pond. The bodies of two girls strapped into their seats. The mystery of their mother, vanished without a trace, leads Gwen Proctor and Kezia Claremont into dangerous territory. On the surface, Gwen’s life is good - two children approaching adulthood, a committed partner, and a harrowing past dead and gone. That past is attracting the attention of someone invisible and unstoppable. Trouble’s just beginning. So is the body count in this backwoods Tennessee town. As threats mount and Gwen’s hunted by an enemy who pulls all the strings, Kezia has her back.

A gripping mystery perfect for fans of Amy Tintera following one man's investigation into the death of his sister years earlier, forcing him to confront old faces, a strong-willed detective, and a string of new murders in his remote small town. Welcome to Meander, where truths are best left...

Fiona Mahoney’s past returns to haunt her present as a prizefighter from her hometown becomes the only suspect in a gruesome, high-society murder. No one in London knows what befell Fiona’s family back in Ireland. At least, no one left alive. That is until her late brother’s best mate arrives in the city for the bareknuckle bout of the century.

This atmospheric and sinister mystery will have you “hooked from the very first page” (Kyle Mills, #1 New York Times bestselling author) as it follows a brilliant female detective investigating the darkest side of humanity. Detective Leonore Asker seems to have the leading position at...

No es un viaje normal por carretera, pues él se dedica a secuestrar, matar y, después, fotografiar a sus víctimas; ella, a escribir sobre lo ocurrido y asegurarse de que ha plasmado correctamente la historia, porque sabe que luego su captor lo revisará todo. La detective Mercedes Barren, de la policía de Miami, tiene motivos de sobra para perseguir a ese psicópata desconocido: su sobrina es una de sus presuntas víctimas. También el psiquiatra Martin Jeffers, especialista en delitos sexuales, está interesado en el caso.

He married for money, she wed by force. On the brink of losing everything, the Duke of Summerton marries heiress Caroline Howlett, but at what cost? She wants neither his crumbling estate nor his title, and what is he, as a man, without them? Before he can resolve this dilemma, something more dangerous than doubt threatens their marriage. When Caroline said she'd rather be dead than married to the duke, she hadn't meant it literally.

Fiona Mahoney stands in the ashes of her hopes, facing her tempting adversary, Inspector Grayson Croft. Her sins are about to spill from her lips, when he says the one thing that could dispel all thoughts of revelation or redemption. Someone is leaving the corpses on London's cobbled streets, and a name is being whispered in the fearful shadows. The name, against which Fiona would sell her very soul for vengeance: Jack the Ripper. Old enemies and new friends join Fiona, as she chases a relentless evil through the streets of Victorian London.

Father Tom Greer and Detective Helen Parr are deeply in love. Unwilling to break his vows of celibacy and chastity, they’ve been determined to forge a relationship based on friendship and affection only, never giving in to their physical attraction to each other. But God, it seems, has another plan . . . After receiving news that the Church has decided to allow priests in certain circumstances to request a dispensation to marry and remain in the priesthood, Father Tom and Helen are patiently waiting to hear if he’s been given permission by the Pope.

First come the letters, threatening Helen with divine justice if she persists in her plans. Then, on live television, someone takes a shot at Tom and Helen. It soon becomes apparent that someone’s decided to stop them at any cost. But Helen already knows who wants her dead. It’s someone from her past as a Detective in Washington, D.C. A serial killer who sees himself acting as God’s instrument to kill impure women.