Ergebnis für "The List" in Privatdetektive

Privatdetektiv Georg Dengler, früher Zielfahnder beim BKA, ist einem Fall auf der Spur, der fast zu gefährlich für ihn wird und zurückführt in die Zeit der Wende und der großen Gier ... Georg Dengler ist im Unfrieden beim Bundeskriminalamt BKA ausgeschieden. Sein erster Fall als Privatdetektiv verspricht leicht verdientes Geld zu werden. »Es geht um meine Freundin«, sagt der Anrufer. »Ihr Vater kam vor zwölf Jahren bei einem Flugzeugabsturz ums Leben. Merkwürdig ist nur, er rief sie vorher an und sagte, er habe die Maschine verpasst.

THINGS ARE ABOUT TO GET SERIOUS FOR HARRY DRESDEN, CHICAGO’S ONLY PROFESSIONAL WIZARD, in the next entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files. Harry has faced terrible odds before. He has a long history of fighting enemies above his weight class. The Red Court of vampires. The...

Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson werden von einem armen, alten Mann in der Bakerstreet aufgesucht und um Hilfe gebeten. Seine Frau soll sich in der Küche erhängt haben. Doch für den Mann steht fest, es war Mord! Kurz darauf werden Holmes und Watson schon an einen weiteren Tatort gerufen. Die alte Frau General Greens liegt ermordet in Ihrer Kammer. Alle Spuren deuten auf den Neffen der reichen Lady, doch Holmes verfolgt seine eigenen Hinweise. Gilt es doch gleich zwei Mordfälle zu lösen.

Lily Ellsworth--erect, firm, white-haired, and stylish--is the grand dame of Dowling, Massachusetts, and possesses an iron will and a bottomless purse. When she hires Spenser to investigate her grandson Jared Clark's alleged involvement in a school shooting, Spenser is led into an inquiry that...

Nero Wolfe's last recorded case! Wolfe never works without a well-heeled client and a sizable fee, but when a bomb racks his brownstone, killing his favorite waiter from his favorite restaurant, the world's greatest gourmet takes it as a personal affront. What kind of unsavory killer commits...

Holmes und Watson erhalten eine Audienz bei Kardinal Ferrata, der im Konklave den Vorsitz führt. Er präsentiert den beiden eine Liste der aussichtsreichsten Kandidaten bei der Papstwahl, die dementsprechend besonders gefährdet sein könnten.

The first new Henry Rios novel in 20 years from six-time Lambda Literary award winner Michael Nava is a brilliantly plotted mystery that weaves together the gripping story of two gay men against the backdrop of 1980s San Francisco as the tsunami of AIDS bears down upon the city.

Ali Reynolds and High Noon Enterprises face the dangerous consequences of one man’s desperate search for revenge in this unputdownable thriller from J.A. Jance, the New York Times bestselling author who “has been delivering must-read books for a long time” (The Real Book Spy). After...

When a woman is found murdered in the marshes near Pawleys Island, suspects and motives prove elusive as Deputy Alex Frank leads the investigation to find the killer. A quirky new neighbor next to Hanna's beach house on Pawleys Island, and a new partner for Alex with a troubling past, raise the tensions as the murder case remains unsolved and the body count begins to rise. With fears that a serial killer is on the loose in the Low Country, Sheriff Pepper Stokes calls in the FBI to assist. An FBI profiler is assigned and dives deeper into the troubling investigation.

After Sharon McCone's father dies of a sudden heart attack, she immediately heads to San Diego to scatter his ashes and clear out his house. In a box of legal papers, she finds a 1959 petition for adoption of a child called Baby Girl Smith - an infant who, from the day of adoption, has been known as Sharon Elizabeth McCone. No one in Sharon's family will discuss the adoption, so she begins her own search for the truth. Her quest takes her deep into Indian country, to the Flathead Reservation in Montana.

The Federal Witness Protection Program has been hacked and the current information of the witnesses in the program is being auctioned to the highest bidder on the internet. A murderous crime spree ensues as witnesses are turning up dead. Marshal Kevin Wayne, the program manager, becomes the prime suspect since the hack was made from his work station. To clear his name and uncover the auctioneer, Kevin goes undercover, assuming the identity of a witness who died years earlier. Kevin is hiding in plain sight as he attempts to rescue the next victim.

At police headquarters in steamy, tropical Darwin, a cop is brutally slain - right under the noses of his colleagues. The equally savage murder of select members of Darwin's legal fraternity follows, leaving investigating officers completely baffled. Is there a serial killer at large, and what connects the victims? These are the questions lead homicide investigator Russell Foley struggles with, while facing his own personal demons brought about by a failed marriage and the disintegration of his relationship with his best friend.

PI Jake Longly and Nicole Jamison head to New Orleans at the behest of Nicole's uncle, movie producer Charles Balfour, when his megastar, A-list actor Kirk Ford, awakens in his hotel bed with the body of Kristi Guidry, a local college coed. Ford, in the Big Easy for a location shoot, remembers little of the evening and nothing of the murder. And, to make matters worse, Kristi is the niece of a local mafioso-type who will do whatever is necessary to avenge her death. Balfour is losing money every day the filming is stalled - he needs his actor cleared, and quickly.

A casual walk on the beach and a game of Frisbee with her dog lead private investigator Eva Winters and her innkeeper friend, Jasmine Towns, to the discovery of a body washed up on New Haven’s idyllic shore. When Eva and her fellow investigator, husband Troy Winters, join Sergeant Mike Stevens in the hunt for the killer, other bodies begin to show up. The husband-and-wife team soon realize that they’re on the trail of a brutal serial killer, who has a nefarious reason for revenge.

Sherlock Jones, a modern-day hard-boiled detective, is an aging dysfunctional cynic whose major food groups are bourbon, caffeine, nicotine, Vicodin, and bar food. He supplements his army disability check by advertising as a private investigator on Craig’s List, offering divorce tails and missing person traces. At first, when he’s offered a retainer to investigate an actual murder, he sees it as an easy way to pad his meager income, but he quickly realizes reclaiming his own self-worth through the eyes of his client with the sexy European accent is worth much more than $500.

When Marlene Cowley hires Spenser to see if her husband Trent is cheating on her, he encounters more than he bargained for: not only does he find a two-timing husband, but a second investigator as well, hired by the husband to look after his wife. As a result of their joint efforts, Spenser soon...

"Mr. Prichard," the note said, "the people you see in the photos will be killed within the next 48 hours, unless you stop me. I have been following your exploits closely, and I think that you are the one I need to make sure I stop doing this. I've been trying for more than 15 years to kick this habit, but I can't. Normally, I don't strike so many times so close together, but in order to get you interested, I'm going to up the odds. I need you to do only two things: discover who each of my victims is, and then do all you can to stop me before I can kill each one.

Detective John Jordan thought he had put murder investigation behind him for good — his own good. Leaving Atlanta, he returns to Florida in search of the serenity that has so long eluded him. Until he witnesses the shocking and bizarre death of an inmate in state prison custody and is asked to find a missing mom by her young children. John realizes he can't run from his true calling any longer.

What would you do to stop a school shooting? An active shooter leads John Jordan on a riveting chase into a stunning mystery. While attempting to prevent a school shooting, sheriff’s investigator John Jordan must confront a cold, cruel killer the likes of which he's never seen before. When the echoes of the gunfire cease and the smoke clears the biggest mystery of all still waits to be solved. Who planned and perpetrated this devastating deed and how did he hide his identity? But a cunning killer isn’t the only thing John is battling.

Was the troubled young Tammy Taylor a victim of an exorcism gone horribly wrong or cold-blooded murder? John Jordan must exorcise his own demons to find out. Following a particularly brutal and costly case, John Jordan goes to a secluded retreat center and encounters one of the most bewildering and haunting cases of his career: the suspicious death of a troubled and sexualized young woman undergoing exorcism.