Ergebnis für "Stoner" in Für Hartgesottene

People go to Alaska to escape something. Rob Stone is escaping his past and the FBI. Until he can clear his name, he will use the two things Alaska has to hide - the wilderness and an understanding that everyone has their own reasons for being there. A chance meeting with a woman, a shared smile, and Stone is ready to move on. But when someone tries to run Stone out of town, things take an unexpected turn. 

One August afternoon, eight-year-old Grace Lennard skips into the garden of the childcare center she attends and vanishes into thin air. Rushing to the scene of Grace’s disappearance, Detective Kim Stone finds a chilling piece of evidence: the engraved heart bracelet belonging to Melody Jones - the little girl who was taken from a playground exactly 25 years ago. Hours before, Steven Harte had walked into Halesowen police station and confessed to having information that would lead Kim to Melody. And he told Kim she’d have a more urgent problem to deal with first. 

A Nor’easter blows into Paradise and churns up the past—in the stunning new addition to Robert B. Parker’s New York Times–bestselling series featuring Police Chief Jesse Stone. In the wake of a huge storm, three bodies are discovered in the rubble of an abandoned factory building in an...

When Detective Kim Stone and her team are sent to Westerley, a forensic research facility, they discover the body of a young woman, her mouth filled with soil. But she doesn’t belong there. It seems a killer has discovered the perfect cover for their crime. Kim breaks the devastating news of Jemima’s murder to her parents, who speak of a gentle soul with no enemies. Yet when Jemima’s sister confides in Kim that she was afraid to leave the house, Kim is certain that Jemima knew her killer, and is determined to find this brutal murderer before he strikes again.

Waking naked and alone on a deserted island, Rob Stone has no recollection of how he got there, or who he is. His memory is one of snapshots, each one building a picture of what he does and who he truly is. He discovers he has both the skills and will to survive. But survival is one thing, being hunted is another. A beautiful journalist in desperate need of help. The dark web, the dumping ground for the evil of the Internet. An enemy from his past. Murder, abduction and betrayal. Stone must try to remember the time before the island changed everything.

When Public defender Alex Stone wins an acquittal for her client, Dwayne Reed, accused of murdering a fellow drug dealer, Alex fears that Reed may murder an entire family in retribution for damaging testimony at his trial. If that weren't enough, the man she put it on the line for in court threatens to attack her lover, Dr. Bonnie Long. With surprising twists and gut-wrenching suspense, this riveting story will keep you on the edge of the precipice as you see just how far Alex will go to protect the innocent.

Tiene 36 horas. Si sigue las instrucciones, nadie saldrá herido… Cuando la periodista Tracy Frost despierta a la inspectora Kim Stone de madrugada con un mensaje urgente, a Kim no le hace ninguna gracia. Pero, al leer la nota que ha recibido la periodista, se le hiela la sangre. Tiene 36 horas para seguir el rastro marcado por un adversario anónimo. Si falla, habrá muertos. Su instinto le dice que no es una broma y reúne a su equipo, determinada a hacer todo lo posible para evitar lo que se avecina.

Ausgerechnet im Finale der deutschen Meisterschaft verliert Robert Stein seinen ersten Box-Kampf. Dabei zieht er sich eine schwere Kopfverletzung zu, die das Aus seiner Karriere bedeutet. Durch Zufall erfährt er von einem Auswanderer, der in Nordamerika Schaukämpfe veranstaltet und damit jede Menge Geld verdient. Stein nimmt den Namen Rob Stone an und geht den Deal seines Lebens ein, der sein Leben für immer verändert.

Drew Maclane was a star agent - until the day the killing had to stop. He withdrew, and for six years lived the life of a hermit in a monastery. But someone has tracked him down, leaving a trail of corpses...someone who knows all about him, who knows how to draw him back into that electrifying world where no one is as he seems, and where life's most horrifying and harrowing game is played.

“Commissario Guido Brunetti’s fourteenth case may be his best yet.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a street vendor is killed in a scuffle in Campo San Stefano. The closest witnesses to the event are the tourists who had been browsing...

The body in the trunk was just the beginning. Turns out the stiff was a foot soldier for local tough guy Reggie Galen, now enjoying a comfortable “retirement” with his beautiful wife, Rebecca, in the nicest part of Paradise. Living next door are Knocko Moynihan and his wife, Robbie, who also...

Äntligen är leken igång. En lek som jag har valt. Jag ger lekplatskarusellen en sista kraftig knuff och tar ett steg tillbaka. ”Du borde ha lekt med mig”, säger jag igen, trots att jag vet att hon inte längre kan höra mig. Sent en sommareftermiddag anländer kriminalkommissarie Kim...

At a US research facility funded by the military and clandestine agencies, a super-virus has been created as a first-strike military weapon. During its conception, the anti-virus has furthered the possibilities of medical research by decades. Such is its potential, treachery has struck from within. If the virus is released, then the anti-virus will be worth billions to the pharmaceutical industry. Isobel Bartlett worked on the project and knows its potential.

*New York Times bestseller* The brilliant new novel in Robert B. Parker’s New York Times–bestselling series featuring police chief Jesse Stone. All is quiet in Paradise, except for a spate of innocuous vandalism. Good thing, too, because Jesse Stone is preoccupied with the women in his...

Police chief Jesse Stone has received his share of unusual calls, but none can top the one from the local junior high school. When reports of lewd conduct by the school’s principal, Betsy Ingersoll, filter into the station, Jesse is faced with a particularly delicate situation. Jesse, of...

Kuolleet eivät kerro salaisuuksia... ellet kuuntele tarkkaan. Westerleyn tutkimuslaitos ei sovi heikkohermoisille. Se on ”ruumisfarmi”, joka on tunnettu ihmisruumiiden hajoamista koskevista tutkimuksistaan, ja sen asukkaat ovat eri maatumisvaiheissa olevia ruumiita. Mutta kun...

Miten saadaan kiinni murhaaja, joka ei jätä jälkiä? Murha, jossa uhri tapetaan yhdellä tarkalla veitseniskulla sydämeen, vaikuttaa ensi näkemältä epäonnistuneelta ryöstöltä. Ystävällinen ja hyvämaineinen sosiaalityöntekijä on menettänyt henkensä järjettömän väkivallan...

Totuus oli kuollut ja haudattu... tähän päivään saakka. Kun rutiininomaisen arkeologisen kaivauksen yhteydessä kaivetaankin esiin kasa ihmisluita, Black Countryn pellosta tulee yhtäkkiä rikoskomisario Kim Stonen monitahoinen rikospaikka. Kun luita lajitellaan, on selvää, että...

Stoner is a private eye in the classic tradition: A loner with a history of failed relationships with women and all-too-successful relationships with bottles of scotch, he's unable to look away from the world's corruption, and unable to avoid trying futilely to do something about it. His latest hopeless cause is Cindy Ann, a teenage hooker. She's not very pretty or bright or engaging. She doesn’t have much to offer at all, in fact, and somehow that makes her disappearance all the more disturbing for Stoner.

De döda berättar inga hemligheter ... om du inte lyssnar. Forskningsanläggningen Westerley är inte för känsliga personer. Det är en plats där kroppar i olika stadier av förfall används för att studera mänsklig nedbrytning. Men när kriminalkommissarie Kim Stone och hennes team...