Ergebnis für "Vendetta" in Krimis

Book 49 in the bestselling In Death series - Eve Dallas takes on a serial killer dispensing their own form of justice. When a family man is tortured, killed and left in front of his family home for all the world to see, Eve Dallas knows she is on the hunt for a particularly dangerous killer. But...

2006, La Nouvelle-Orléans. Catherine, la fille du gouverneur de Louisiane, est enlevée. Confiée au FBI, l'enquête prend un tour imprévu : son kidnappeur se livre aux autorités et demande à s'entretenir avec Ray Hartmann, un obscur fonctionnaire qui travaille dans une unité de lutte contre le crime organisé. Alors qu'une course contre la montre s'engage pour retrouver Catherine, dans l'ombre, la mafia et les autorités s'inquiètent du dialogue qui s'établit entre les deux hommes.

With his dying breath, Carl Venable, head of the CIA task force on terrorism and Jude Brandon's final link to terrorist ringleader Max Huber, gives Brandon a mandate: to keep his daughter, Rachel, safe at any cost. But Rachel Venable has a shocking, twisted past of her own, one that comes rushing back after her medical clinic in Guyana is attacked by Huber - the same man who murdered her father and kept her imprisoned for months.  

"Superbly performed by Susan Ericksen, Vendetta in Death is mesmerizing to the very end, and a "must" especially for connoisseurs of the genre...Highly recommended." — Midwest Book Review The predator becomes the prey in J. D. Robb's Vendetta in Death, the newest thriller in the #1 New York...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “All the Steve Berry hallmarks are here: scale, scope, sweep, history—plus breathless second-by-second suspense. I love this guy.”—Lee Child Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone wakes to find an intruder in his Copenhagen bookshop: an American...

Cyrus Shelton has spent the last twenty-three years locked up in the Huntsville State Penitentiary with only one thing on his mind - revenge on the arresting detective, Frank Windom, and his lousy defense attorney, Jonell Simone. Now paroled and having learned Windom had the nerve to die, he sets his sights on Windom's former partner, Jack West.

In a case steeped in blood and memory, It will take a stroke of brilliance to save Pigeon Tony. But if anyone can see justice done, it may be this gutsy young attorney. She'll risk everything for her client...including her life. In The Vendetta Defense, Lisa Scottoline, New York Times...

Lenore växer upp i ett hem som för varje år blir mer och mer främmande. Sir Francis och Lady Sallonger har fyra andra barn som de håller av mycket högre. Lenore förlorade sin mor vid födseln och fadern har hon aldrig träffat. Men Lenore har åtminstone sin mormor, en fransk sömmerska, som bor i huset tillsammans med familjen. Lenore tar över mormoderns kunskap om hanterandet av siden, och med tiden gifter hon sig med en man, Philip. Men deras liv tillsammans kommer att kantas av blod och död. På deras bröllopsresa mördas en kypare på hotellet där de bor.

When Daniel Leicester goes in search of his late wife's missing bicycle in the oppressive heat of a Bologna summer, he is transported to her final days. But as unfinished business bleeds - quite literally - into the present, Daniel begins to suspect Lucia's accidental death may not have been an accident after all. With characters ranging from the Bologna branch of Italy's Right and Acknowledged Masons to an activist group trashing tourist lets, Tom Benjamin takes the listener on another colourful excursion to one of Italy's most mysterious locations

Ace hacker, former sex worker and vigilante, Lexi Winter is now a cop and not keen to revisit her criminal past. But when old friends invoke the wrath of a local motorcycle club – the same club Lexi herself used to work for – she races to help them the only way she can: undercover. If Lexi is to save a child's life, she is going to have to go back – back to a life she thought she had outrun. Back to the person she used to be. But her timing isn't great. Former club president Arthur Cronin has finished his long prison sentence and is out for revenge for the death of his wife and child.

London, 1558. Queen Mary is dead, and twenty-five-year-old Elizabeth ascends the throne. Summoned to court from exile abroad, Elizabeth's intimate spy, Brendan Prescott, is reunited with the young queen, as well as his beloved Kate, scheming William Cecil, and archrival Robert Dudley.

When Adele's brother, Peter, gets banged up for GBH, she reluctantly agrees to run his nightclub, The Golden Bell. Strong opposition from Peter's thuggish number two, Glynn, who isn't best pleased about answering to a woman, isn't the only challenge she faces. The Manchester club scene of the 1990s is a dangerous place, at the mercy of illicit protection rackets and rampaging gangs, and, despite Adele's efforts to keep everything legal, the club is beginning to feel like a poisoned chalice.

Best-selling author, Lisa Scottoline, has been hailed as "the female John Grisham" by people magazine. She is a successful trial lawyer with a well-known law firm. Vendetta Defence, delivers a rich, vivid story of past sins, love, and justice. 'Pigeon Tony' as his neighbours know him, is an...

Courtney Seabrook is about to turn 40. It has been quite a year for the Seabrooks, but it can only get worse. Doctor Thomas Seabrook is caught up in a robbery of a jeweler. Can former detective Sergeant Steven Potter convince the desperate thieves to give themselves up and release their hostages? Will Thomas' father-in-law, Darren Hunter, save the day, as he has a habit of doing? Or will Thomas pay the ultimate price for choosing his wife's birthday present on that particular day? 

Random House presents the audiobook edition of NYPD Red 5 by James Patterson. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ____________________________ The one who knows the secrets is the one who holds the power. The richest of New York's rich gather at The Pierre's Cotillion Room to raise money for those less...

In Via delle Streghe, Marilù Oliva mette al centro quattro donne: Zulmira, la «maga» del quartiere, Serena, appassionata di kung fu e fidanzata con un poliziotto, Magalie, docente universitaria con un passato tormentato, e Iside, brillante informatica confinata su una sedia a rotelle. Quattro...

Some debts can’t be buried. Some vendettas never die. After escaping the Mob’s deadly grip in New York, retired undercover cop Steve Regan and his son Marco vanish into the chaos of Bangkok. But their fresh start becomes a nightmare when Marco is nearly killed in a targeted attack.

As the Civil War raged and goldfields beckoned, a gunman stalked the territories on a mission to kill American settlers. He would elude governors and armies, bounty hunters, and posses, until his demise at the climax of a fierce high-country manhunt. By then, Felipe Espinosa had claimed more than 30 lives to quietly become one of the nation's first serial killers and foreign terrorists.

17 Dicembre 2010. L’ispettore Andrea Pantaleo dorme profondamente nel suo letto. Una telefonata squarcia il cuore dell’alba che sta sorgendo. È il suo amico americano Henry Domonte, consulente dell’FBI in materia di serial killer con cui l’ispettore ha già più volte collaborato in passato, a chiedergli aiuto. L’uomo è sconvolto, fuori di sé. La moglie, Elisabeth Darrell, valente psichiatria e direttrice della Teamsters Care Hospital di Boston, una delle strutture psichiatriche più conosciute della capitale del Massachusetts dove i due vivono, è stata da pochi minuti decapitata nel loro appartamento.

John Candish è un criminale dedito principalmente allo spaccio di sostanze stupefacenti. La persona che lui ha sempre amato sopra ogni cosa, sua moglie Adrien, muore senza che lui potesse salutarla. Da quel momento in avanti John perde la lucidità di un tempo e inizia a combinare un disastro dopo l'altro. L'occasione giusta arriva quando Henry gli chiede di fare da guardaspalle a una donna dalla bellezza folgorante e dal passato oscuro, che lui ha intenzione di spedire in Italia con una precisa missione.