Ergebnis für "London's Burning" in Krimis

A jewel-encrusted eye patch at a London auction seems like just another curiosity—until it triggers the return of the city's most vicious crime family. The Qupi gang is back, but this time there's new management. She's deadlier than her husband ever was. Smarter. More ruthless. And she's not just reclaiming territory—she's declaring war on everyone who brought down her empire.

Newlywed Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is awakened by an urgent midnight call summoning her to a suspicious fire in the woods. When she arrives at the scene, she discovers a charred body. According to the coroner, the deceased, an Amish man named Milan Swanz, was chained to a stake and burned alive. It is an appalling and eerily symbolic crime against an upstanding husband and father.

Die Bewohner von Cherringham sind am Boden zerstört. Otto Brendl, der nette alte Herr, der jeden Sommer das Kasperletheater für die Kinder veranstaltete, stirbt an einem Herzinfarkt. Doch schon bald stolpert Jack über ein paar Ungereimtheiten: War Otto wirklich der nette alte Herr von nebenan? Und steckt vielleicht mehr hinter dem Herzinfarkt? Jack und Sarah befinden sich auf der Spur eines besonders unheimlichen Mörders. Zusammen erkennen sie, dass es nicht nur eine Art von Gerechtigkeit gibt.

From the New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke comes another brilliant Dave Robicheaux novel—now available in ebook—featuring the Louisiana detective in a race to solve a murder before more blood is shed. The Fontenot family has lived as sharecroppers on Bertrand land for as long...

Ninety-one-year-old Alice Hoffman died alone in her top floor flat. Social services say she slipped through the cracks in a failing system. But detectives Arthur Bryant and John May of the Peculiar Crimes Unit have their suspicions. Mrs. Hoffman was not as innocent as she appeared. A former government security expert, she had once worked for their own unit, but there's no one left who can remember her. When they uncover a link between her and a diplomat desperate to leave the country, it begins to look as if someone might have committed an impossible murder.