Ergebnis für "Leo" in Für Hartgesottene

In Frankfurt wurden auf einem Feld die vergrabenen Leichen von sieben Jugendlichen aufgefunden. Die Narben an ihren Körpern deuten auf ein Martyrium kurz vor dem Tod hin. Kommissarin Mara Billinsky will sich mit voller Kraft in die Ermittlungen stürzen. Doch mit ihrer Sturheit und ihren unkonventionellen Methoden verstört sie ihren Chef wie auch den neuen Staatsanwalt - und wird von dem Fall abgezogen. Als sie trotzdem weiterermittelt, kommt sie einem Verbrechen auf die Spur, das ihr das Blut in den Adern stocken lässt.

Tattoos, schwarze Kleidung, raue Schale: Kommissarin Mara Billinsky hat einen schweren Stand bei den neuen Kollegen der Frankfurter Mordkommission, die sie nur "die Krähe" nennen und erst Ruhe geben, als Mara auf Wohnungseinbrüche angesetzt wird. Doch dann erschüttert eine brutale Mordserie um einen Unterweltkönig die Main-Metropole. Mara wittert ihre Chance sich zu beweisen, und beginnt auf eigene Faust zu ermitteln. Dabei kommt sie dem Täter gefährlich nah.

Die ersten drei Fälle für die unverwechselbare Frankfurter Kommissarin Mara Billinsky - düster, atmosphärisch und hochspannend! "Blinde Rache": Tattoos, schwarze Kleidung, raue Schale: Mara Billinsky eckt an. Auch bei ihren neuen Kollegen in der Frankfurter Mordkommission, von denen sie nur "die Krähe" genannt wird. Niemand traut Mara den Job wirklich zu, schon gar nicht ihr Chef, der sie lieber auf Wohnungseinbrüche ansetzt. Aber dann erschüttert eine brutale Mordserie die Mainmetropole. Mara sieht ihre Chance gekommen. Sie will beweisen, was in ihr steckt.

Die Vergangenheit lässt der eigenwilligen Frankfurter Kommissarin Mara Billinsky keine Ruhe. Der Mörder ihrer Mutter wurde nie gefunden. Zudem halten der Mord an einer Edel-Prostituierten und ein Bombenanschlag auf der Autobahn das gesamte Kripo-Team in Atem. Eines Tages erhält Mara eine anonyme Warnung: Der "Wolf" sei in der Stadt und im Visier habe er: - sie! Als Mara endlich erkennt, dass sie und ihre Kollegen nur Spielfiguren in einem kaltblütigen Krieg sind, ist es fast zu spät...

Returning to Seattle after a business trip, retired PI Leo Waterman is shocked to find his girlfriend, Rebecca Duvall, unconscious on the bathroom floor, her house filled with gas. Officials believe it was a suicide attempt in the wake of a humiliating scandal. Under investigation for dereliction of duty, she'd been suspended from her job as medical examiner for King County. Leo knows Rebecca too well - and is determined to prove her innocence and clear her name. Most important, he wants to find out who tried to kill her.

At the end of an especially raucous day at his neighborhood bar, private eye Leo Waterman is surprised to see his old flame, Rebecca Duval, walk in the door. But King County's medical examiner is here on business, not pleasure. Two dead bodies, covered by an old coat that once belonged to Leo's father, have turned up in the trunk of a car. The only thing that seems to connect the men is a controversial local church and its charismatic pastor.

Hearing a dying stranger call you by name would leave anyone full of questions. When it happens to private eye Leo Waterman, the more he learns about the late lottery winner's rags-to-riches-to-ruination life, the more he wants not just answers but justice. That means a road trip to Idaho to find out how a good-hearted young man with millions got skinned - in more ways than one. It's all downhill from there as Leo gets roped into an ugly battle between elderly ranchers and a ruthless developer who knows how to make a killing.

Why would a teenager with no prior record suddenly assassinate a city councilman? Retired PI Leo Waterman wouldn’t have bothered finding out if an old pal hadn’t asked. But Leo’s girlfriend, Rebecca, thinks the investigation is too dangerous. Especially after Leo is beaten badly. Fortuitously, however, the attack leaves him with a lasting clue about the case that the attackers carved into his chest. Now, this new lead brings Leo into the woods just north of Seattle to infiltrate the dark heart of an impressionable young boy’s sudden violent turn.

After fastball phenom Prospero Stark's baseball career craters in a Mexican jail, he retreats to a trailer park in the scorching Arizona desert. He lives in peaceful anonymity with a collection of colorful outcasts until someone leaves his former catcher's severed hand on his doorstep. Beautiful, hard-living reporter Roxanne Santa Cruz, who keeps a .380 Colt and a bottle of Chivas in her car, joins Stark to help him uncover his friend's fate, a dangerous pursuit that pits them against a ruthless gang of drug-dealing killers.

It's Prohibition. It's Philadelphia. And Jersey Leo doesn't fit in. Jersey is an albino of mixed race. Known as "Snowball" on the street, he tends bar at a speakeasy the locals call the Ink Well. There, he's considered a hero for having saved the life of a young boy. But when his old grade school buddy, Aaron Garvey, calls from death row and asks for one last favor, all hell breaks loose. Jersey finds himself running from a band of crooked cop and hiding an escaped convict in the Ink Well....

Jersey Leo is the quintessential outsider - an albino of mixed race. Known as "Snowball" on the street, he makes a living as the bartender at a mob-run speakeasy in Prohibition-era Hell's Kitchen. Being neither black nor white, he has no group to call his own. His own mother abandoned him as a baby. And his father - a former boxing champ with his own secrets - disapproves of Jersey's work at a dive owned by one of New York's most notorious gangsters. So when he inadvertently purchases counterfeit moonshine ("sugar pop moon") with his boss's money - a potentially fatal mistake - he must go undercover to track down the bootlegger who took him in.

A darkly funny and profoundly moving new novel by award-winning author Patrick Cottrell. And who did I think I was, trying to teach the troubled youth how to write?... I would say I was Dan Moran, a Korean adoptee, single, approaching forty, once plain-in-appearance as a woman, now ugly as a man...

The social worker and the cop, an unlikely couple drawn together on a small, secluded Pacific Northwest island where nothing is as it seems. Protecting the innocent comes at a cost, and what seems to be a sleepy, quiet town is anything but. Includes The Trap, Above the Law, and The Stranger at the Door.

New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Lorhainne Eckhart brings you a new crossover series! The social worker and the cop, an unlikely couple drawn together on a small, secluded Pacific Northwest island where nothing is as it seems. Protecting the innocent comes at a cost, and what seems to be a sleepy, quiet town is anything but. Includes Nothing as it Seems, Hiding in Plain Sight, and The Cold Case.

NY Times and USA Today best-selling author Lorhainne Eckhart brings you a new crossover series! The social worker and the cop, an unlikely couple drawn together on a small, secluded Pacific Northwest island where nothing is as it seems. Protecting the innocent comes at a cost, and what seems to be a sleepy, quiet town is anything but. Includes The Children, The Last Stand, and The Charity.

Twenty-five years ago, Billy Jo was born to a meth addict and spent her first few months being weaned off the drug. Labeled a difficult baby, she was bounced from foster home to foster home. That was before she was adopted by Chase McCabe. Billy Jo feels resentment for the woman responsible for her 15 years of hell. That has her seeking out leads as to where her real mother is, her last known whereabouts based on the sealed file she isn’t technically supposed to access. Following the rules is not something Billy Jo is known for, especially not when she’s playing amateur detective.

Chief Mark Friessen is about to be a family man, with a baby on the way. However, he faces a choice: Either he breaks his word to his wife by taking on a job that will put him in danger, or he stays silent, which would haunt him forever.

On the eve of Police Chief Mark Friessen’s wedding, a fierce snowstorm blankets the island, knocking out power, and the body of a woman is discovered in the church. The only clue is the note in her hand, a list of names - all members of Mark’s family.