Ergebnis für "Red" in Krimis

Willkommen in Chipping Cheddar, wo übernatürliche Wesen im Verborgenen leben... Eine lästige, aber liebevolle Familie? Stimmt. Eine malerische Kleinstadt mit einem heißen Polizeichef? Richtig. Ein geretteter Höllenhund, eine aggressive schwarze Katze und eine Python, die sich für einen Welpen hält als Haustier? Dreifach korrekt. Meine Geschichte hat alle Merkmale einer netten und gemütlichen, übernatürlichen Geschichte, aber sie hat eine überraschende Wendung. Ich bin böse. Ich bin von Natur aus böse, aber ich kämpfe mit jeder Faser meines Wesens dagegen an.

A chance encounter with Autumn Moon, the most powerful courtesan on Paradise Island, leads magistrate Judge Dee to investigate the murder of a man who spent his last week alive with the infamous prostitute. When the lady herself is murdered, the mystery deepens, leading Dee through a tangled history of passion and betrayal.

When Muslim fundamentalists blow up a key Soviet oil complex, making an already critical oil shortage calamitous, the Russians figure they are going to have to take things into their own hands. They plan to seize the Persian Gulf, and more ambitiously, to neutralize NATO. Thus begins Red Storm...

Ich bin erst seit ein paar Wochen wieder zu Hause, und schon geschehen überall in der Stadt seltsame Dinge. Wünsche gehen in Erfüllung, zur Freude der Betroffenen. Trotz des scheinbaren Glücks muss ich mich als Agentin des föderalen Büros für Magie an die Arbeit machen. Ich kann nicht zulassen, dass übernatürlicher Unfug die natürliche Ordnung des Lebens hier stört, selbst wenn er scheinbar positive Auswirkungen hat. Als die erfüllten Wünsche anfangen eine dunkle Wendung zu nehmen, muss ich meine Bemühungen verdoppeln, denn nun ist es ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit.

A bomb explodes in a crowded New York subway station at exactly 11:59 a.m. The next day, a second blast rips through a busy department store—again at 11:59. As the bombs go off with clockwork precision, the death toll climbs and businesses shut their doors as the city hunkers down in fear. NYPD Red Detectives Kylie MacDonald and Zach Jordan face their most twisted case ever, as they race against the clock in search of one man who has vowed “to destroy New York City the way it destroyed my family.”

'Electrifying' - A.J. Finn, bestselling author of The Woman in the Window A Sunday Times Best Thriller Book of the Year. Shortlisted for the CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger. More than two million copies sold in Spain alone. Red Queen is the first in Juan Gómez-Jurado's internationally...

Sexual hunger; demonic violence; sinister logic - the lethal components of a deadly formula driving a psychopath in the grip of an unimaginable delusion; a boastful killer who sends the police tormenting notes; a tortured, torturing monster who finds ultimate pleasure in viciously murdering...

The runaway international No.1 bestseller that launched Tom Clancy’s spectacular career – became a blockbuster film – and introduced Jack Ryan. THE HUNT IS ON… Silently, beneath the chill Atlantic waters, Russia’s ultra-secret missile submarine, the Red October, is heading west. The...

Ich bin alles andere als begeistert, als das Bundesamt für Magie einen Ausbilder schickt, um sicherzustellen, dass meine Fähigkeiten auf dem neuesten Stand sind. Agent Quinn Redmond ist ein verklemmter Feenmann mit einer rigiden Einstellung zu Regeln und Vorschriften, die selbst ein Weltverbesserer wie ich als erdrückend empfindet. Als sich ein unheimlicher Nebel über die Stadt legt, reagieren die Einwohner auf sonderbare Weise. Das bedeutet Überstunden für Chief Fox und die örtlichen Polizeikräfte.

Ambitious Daily Sentinel journalist Lauren King is chaffing on LA’s vapid social circuit, reporting on glamorous A-list parties while sparring with her rival - the formidable, icy Catherine Ayers. Ayers is an ex-Washington political correspondent who suffered a humiliating fall from grace, and her acerbic, vicious tongue keeps everyone at bay. Everyone, that is, except knockabout Iowa girl King, who is undaunted and unimpressed and gives as good as she gets.

An epic Wild West detective story as a group is hired to clean up a corrupt town. A model for many later Westerns & Detective stories.

A quiet summer night...a neat suburban house...and another innocent, happy family is shattered -- the latest victims of a grisly series of hideous sacrificial killings that no one understands, and no one can stop. Nobody lives to tell of the unimaginable carnage. Only the blood-stained walls...

The Nobel Prize winner and one of today's most prominent contemporary Turkish writers delivers a novel that is a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, a brilliant symposium on the power of art, and a “modern classic … rich and essential” (Los Angeles Times Book Review)—set...

Turn to the first page. Disavow what you think you know about the so-called Red Scare. This is commie malfeasance and ’60s L.A. as you’ve never read it before. It’s late October 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis has just concluded. The Russkies blinked and pulled their ICBMs out of Cuba...

Der eigenbrötlerische Detektiv Thomas Malone wird nach einem schrecklichen Ereignis von Visionen und Albträumen geplagt, die ihn an den Rand des Wahnsinns treiben. Während er versucht, das Chaos in seinem Geist zu entwirren, enthüllt sich eine Welt verbotener Rituale, okkulter Mächte und uralter Schrecken.

In Istanbul, in the late 1590s, the Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and his empire, to be illuminated by the best artists of the day – in the European manner. But when one of the miniaturists is murdered, their master has to seek outside help. Did the dead painter fall victim to professional rivalry, romantic jealousy or religious terror?

Trapped in a relationship that has become her prison, Adelle Roberts has learned to survive by making herself invisible. Alonzo controls every aspect of her life—who she sees, where she goes, even what she wears. His charm conceals a monster who punishes the slightest perceived betrayal. When Alonzo forces Adelle to join a gym to lose weight, she stumbles across a kickboxing class and glimpses a possible escape. Except Latifa, her trainer, seems to be harder on her than Alonzo has ever been. What's more is that Latifa seems to be holding a few dark secrets of her own.

The Eastern Alliance has suffered multiple crushing defeats in the Pacific, and the tide seems to be turning against them. The Allies turn their attentions to the Russian Far East, but are they pushing ahead of themselves? After a series of tragic events in America, will the country come together or fracture apart? The US economy has now been fully retooled for war, but will it be enough to overcome the enemy forces that seek to destroy the nation? Battlefield Russia is the highly anticipated fifth book in the action-packed Red Storm military thriller series.

On a bloodstained mattress in a grimy flat, a man lies dead. A terrified girl kneels over his body. It doesn't take DS Katie Maguire long to identify the murder victim: he's a cruel and powerful pimp she's been trying to convict for years. It's Katie's job to catch the killer. But with men like this dead, the city is safer – and so are the frightened young women who are trafficked into Cork. When a second pimp is horrifically murdered, Katie must decide. Should she do her job, or follow her conscience and allow the killer to strike again?

It’s the start of the Hollywood on Hudson film festival, and New York City is swept up in the glamour. There’s a red carpet premiere every night; the most exclusive restaurants are filled with wealthy producers and pre-eminent directors; and thousands of fans gather with the paparazzi...