Ergebnis für "Luster" in Krimis

Zwei Morde und chronischer Personalmangel zwingen Hauptkommissar Sperber, seine wohlverdiente Auszeit vorzeitig abzubrechen. Zurück im Arbeitsleben stellt man ihm die unerfahrene, aber übermotivierte Kollegin Specht zur Seite. Zu allem Überfluss muss er für die Ermittlungen auch noch zurück ins Kinderzimmer bei seinen Eltern im Thüringer Wald ziehen. Dort wird der Fall schnell persönlich: Eines der Opfer war der Ehemann von Sperbers Jugendliebe. Ein dritter Mord macht den Täter zum Serienkiller.

»Lust kann töten. Doch was geschieht, wenn sie zur Strafe wird? « Dr. Mara Levin ist Polizeipsychologin und wird immer dann hinzugezogen, wenn Ermittlungen ins Stocken geraten und Täter nicht nur Spuren, sondern ganze Identitäten verwischen. Sie arbeitet dort, wo andere keinen Zugang mehr finden, in der Psyche von Serienmördern, in den Abgründen sexueller Vergewaltiger und moralischer Selbstrechtfertigung.

In Mechant Loup, Louisiana, a woman is dead and her son is missing. Clint Wolf’s first order of business is to figure out if the death was an accident or a homicide, but evidence is lacking and a motive is non-existent. A fingerprint recovered from the scene could provide some answers, but finding the matching individual proves to be a challenge. When the missing son is finally found, Clint is left with more questions than answers. Will he put the pieces of this investigative puzzle together, or will the case remain unsolved? Only time will tell.

Superstar FBI Agent Morgan Cross was at the height of her career when she was framed, wrongly imprisoned, and sent to do 10 hard years in prison. Finally exonerated and set free, Morgan emerges from jail as a changed person—hardened, ruthless, closed off to the world, and unsure how to start again. When the FBI comes knocking, desperately needing Morgan to return and hunt down a killer leaving bodies in movie theaters, Morgan is torn.

As a Knight, it was Edra’s job to cover up mytho crimes. Now, as Mythological Services Liaison, he must work with the police to keep his people safe. Partnered with Jordan, the pair team up to get the murderer off the streets. Yet as they follow the evidence towards a deadly man hellbent on vengeance, it becomes near impossible for them to keep up with their deceptions...or resist the magnetic connection pulsing between them.

In this story for readers of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and A Man Called Ove, when all seems lost, he finds what matters most. Walter Lavender Jr. is a master of finding. A wearer of high-tops. A maker of croissants. A son keeping vigil, twelve years counting. But he...

Agatha har äntligen fått napp hos investerare som vill vidareutveckla AI-verktyget Sherlotta. Till hennes förfäran tvingar de henne att sitta och jobba i ett trendigt öppet kontorslandskap. Hennes mamma Märta vänder också in och ut på sig själv när hon får uppdraget som bröllopskoordinator på ex-mannen Anders kommande vigsel med Christos. Hon gör sitt bästa för att styra upp festen, men det är inte lätt när prästen hittas död – och Anders blir en av de misstänkta. Strax efter dödsfallet får Märta en blöt bibel och ett hotbrev skickade till sig.

Since moving to Coventry Beach, Larissa Carpenter hasn’t found life in the small beach town to provide the tranquility she expected. Not wanting everyone in town to know that she’s the Larissa Carpenter who won one of the state’s largest lottery jackpots, she goes by LC. Being a person of interest in two murder cases, one of which still hasn’t been solved, is most unsettling and it’s not the only unsettling thing in LC’s life. Her attraction to Detective Angela Murdoch and the feeling that she’s being followed are the other disconcerting issues.

When Soviet agent Viktor Tronko defected to the US in 1964, he made two intriguing claims: he insisted that Russia had not placed a mole inside the CIA, and that Lee Harvey Oswald had not been recruited to assassinate the president. Convinced that Tronko was working as a disinformation agent, the CIA furiously did everything they could to break him. But Tronko had one more surprise for them: he refused to break.

When Monica Savage - the wife of one of the country's richest men, Tom Savage - becomes the apparent victim of abduction and her billionaire husband is later found brutally murdered and dismembered, it's Monica's ex-husband, Johnny Zen, who steps in to unravel the truth. Johnny's a washed-up radio DJ and part-time novelist with a nose for trouble. He finds plenty of it when he winds up on the list of suspects in the murder of Tom Savage.

On the tail of finding out Alaric, Levi, and Nate’s secret, the women of Virtuous Sin are spiraling. Finding that everything they thought about reality was a façade in a bigger game of cat and mouse than anyone ever knew could be the end of the road for these three; at the very least, the men they had trusted are on the outs with them for certain. As they find a way back in, a new evil lurks. Being called from the darkness, he seeks to claim a secret that will change all dynamics of this war for good.

Marissa Calhoun sits alone on a beach-like swimming hole nestled on Australia's foreshore. Tonight, the lagoon is hers and hers alone. Or, is it? A tall figure steps out from behind the tree, his face cloaked beneath a dark hoodie. His footsteps slap against the pavement, fast and hard. Twenty feet, then 15, then 10. Instinct kicks in, and Marissa breaks into a sprint, but she's too late. His hand claws into the back of her head. Grabbing a fistful of her hair, he plunges her face into the water.