Ergebnis für "fatal verleden" in Krimis & Thriller

Detective Samantha Holland steht unter Druck: Ihr letzter Fall endete in einer Katastrophe, da kommt ihr ein neuer Mord gerade recht. Der bekannte Senator John O´Connor wurde brutal in seinem Bett ermordet. Sam ist überzeugt: Mit diesem brisanten Fall wird sie ihren guten Ruf wieder herstellen und ihre Karriere retten – so viel sei sicher. Doch sie hat die Rechnung ohne den besten Freund des Toten, Nick Cappuano, gemacht, ihr wichtigster Zeuge – und Liebhaber, mit dem sie vor Jahren eine sehr intensive Nacht verbracht hatte.

Wenn die Liebe deines Lebens plötzlich deinen Tod will … Mit Romain in die USA auszuwandern, schien wie der Beginn eines Traums. Bis ich feststellen musste, dass ich mich in so ziemlich allen Punkten in meinem Verlobten geirrt hatte. Auf der Flucht vor ihm und gefangen in meinem persönlichen Albtraum laufe ich geradewegs in Jaxons Arme. Mit einer Waffe in der Hand steht er vor mir. Und ich weiß nicht, ob er mein Retter in der Not ist oder mich noch tiefer in den Abgrund reißen wird.

Beschütze was du liebst - egal wie viel Angst du hast.Gerade aus ihren Flitterwochen zurückgekehrt, freuen sich Nick Cappuano und Lieutenant Sam Holland auf ein wenig Alltag und Erholung von ihrer turbulenten Hochzeit. Doch die Ruhe hält nicht lange an: Sam findet unter den Hochzeitsglückwünschen eine Karte mit einer Morddrohung.

Gerade wurde sie zum Lieutenant befördert und ihre Beziehung mit dem attraktiven und charmanten Senator Nick Cappuano ist so prickelnd und leidenschaftlich wie am ersten Tag. Wären da nicht die Medien, die jeden einzelnen ihrer Schritte bewerten und kommentieren würden. Als sie zu einem neuen Tatort gerufen wird, bei dem ein Familienvater seine Frau erschossen und seine beiden Kinder brutal erschlagen hat, ahnt sie nicht, dass lang verborgene Geheimnisse drohen, ans Tageslicht zu kommen und ihre Beziehung mit Nick zu zerstören....

Washington, DC, Metro Police Detective Sergeant Sam Holland needs a big win to salvage her career - and her confidence - after a disastrous investigation. The perfect opportunity arises when Senator John O’Connor is found brutally murdered in his bed and she’s assigned to the case. Things get complicated when she has to team up with Nick Cappuano, O’Connor’s friend and chief of staff...and the man she had a memorable one-night stand with years earlier. Their sexual chemistry still sizzles, and Sam has to fight to stay focused on the case.

The story breaks as Metro PD lieutenant Sam Holland attends a dinner party with her husband, Vice President Nick Cappuano: President Nelson is accused of having an affair. More shocking still, campaign staffer Tara Weber claims the president fathered her newborn son - while the First Lady was undergoing secret cancer treatment.

A prominent member of the DC community has been murdered, pulling Lieutenant Sam Holland into yet another high-stakes homicide investigation that has her trying to connect the dots between a dead woman and the friends and family who’d turned against her right before her untimely death. With numerous scandals still fresh within the department’s ranks, Sam is asked to revisit a cold case from her first year on the job that will continue the department’s reckoning with the past well into the future.

From the authors of the best-selling series CHERRINGHAM. When Harry takes Kat to Venice for their wedding anniversary, he promises parties on the Lido, sunset dinners, and dancing in the moonlight. But when the US embassy in Rome quietly asks them to help investigate the mysterious death of an undercover Treasury agent, romance must wait. And within hours - in this great city of canals and bridges - they're caught in a dangerous and deadly race to expose a criminal conspiracy before another murder can be committed.

Someone's out to get Los Angeles bookseller Adrien English. His best friend has been viciously murdered, now he's getting weird phone calls and sinister gifts from a mysterious "admirer." The cops think he's trying to divert suspicion from himself - with the exception of sexy and homophobic homicide detective Jake Riordan. Is Riordan really such a great detective - or does he have a few secrets of his own? Is his offer to help Adrien on the level or is he out to nail his favorite suspect - to the wall?

When Sam discovers wedding cards containing thinly veiled death threats, she’s not sure if she or Nick is the target. Already on edge, Sam and her team start investigating a series of baffling murders. The victims are well-liked with no known enemies, and the murders are carried out in a clean and efficient manner. Unable to find a clear motive for the deaths, she feels like she’s chasing her tail. With no obvious connection between the victims, Sam soon suspects that she may be the ultimate prize in the killer’s clever game.

Fatal Vision is the electrifying true story of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, the handsome, Princeton-educated physician convicted of savagely slaying his young pregnant wife and two small children, murders he vehemently denies committing...

After the defeat of Charles Fraction, things are going well for Matthew Riker. His relationship with Jessica has never been stronger, he has a team he can trust, and QS-4 is focused on making the world a better place. But when Riker and his team take a seemingly simple job to hand off a briefcase in a luxury hotel in Monaco, he finds himself up against a thief who has planned for every eventuality and is always three steps ahead. Things quickly fall apart.

Actress Nora Kemp loves two men. One is Hugh Iverson, a philanthropic movie star who gives Nora security and respectability. The other is Hugh’s twin brother, Trent, a Hollywood bad boy who brings out Nora’s wild side. When Trent and an unidentified woman are found dead on the Iversons’ Beverly Hills property, more than Nora’s and Hugh’s reputations are at stake.

Decades earlier Appius Tranquillus Surus wrote his will: it freed his slaves and bequeathed his businesses to them. He left an orchard to the Prisci, a family he was friendly with, on the condition that his freedmen could still take its harvest. The convoluted arrangement has led to a feud between the two families, each of which has its own internal strife. Endless claims and counterclaims lead to violence and even death. Lawyers have given up in exasperation as the case limps on. The original will has disappeared, along with a falsified codicil - and might there be another one?

When the body of a doctor is discovered brutally murdered in local woodland, Detective Kim Stone is shocked to discover the victim is Gordon Cordell - a man linked to a previous case she worked on involving the death of a young schoolgirl. Gordon has a chequered past, but who would want him dead? As the investigation gets underway, Gordon’s son is involved in a horrific car crash which leaves him fighting for his life. Kim's sure this was no accident.

Psychologin Eva Henning stirbt eines qualvollen Gifttodes. Schnell steht fest: Sie wurde ermordet. Der Täter wird im familiären Umfeld vermutet. Es erfolgt eine erste Festnahme. Oberkommissar Fuß kommen Zweifel. Könnte die Tat nicht doch im Zusammenhang mit Eva Hennings Beruf als Gerichtsgutachterin und Psychologin stehen? Denn kurz vor ihrem gewaltsamen Tod ließ sie drei Aktenordner aus ihrer Praxis verschwinden. Die beiden Kommissare Fuß und Wagner durchkämmen diese Akten ohne Ergebnis und sind sich doch sicher: Irgendetwas müssen sie übersehen haben.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs takes forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan behind the scenes of a major commercial airliner crash in this pulse-pounding thriller. Temperance Brennan hears the news on her car radio: an Air TransSouth flight has gone down in the mountains...

Some years ago, Cyrus Barker matched wits with Sebastian Nightwine, an aristocrat and sociopath, and in exposing his evil, sent Nightwine fleeing to hide from justice somewhere in the far corners of the earth. The last thing Barker ever expected was to encounter Nightwine again - but the British government, believing they need Nightwine's help, has granted him immunity for his past crimes, and brought him back to London.

Oxford, 1960. As the city of Oxford prepares itself for the inaugural Miss Oxford Honey Beauty Pageant at The Old Swan Theatre, excitement is in the air. But when one of the leading contestants is found dead, suspicion hangs over the competition. Poisoned, the authorities assume her death was suicide. But after a malicious series of pranks and blackmail attempts are reported, WPC Loveday and Coroner Clement Ryder are called upon to solve the case. In an atmosphere of fierce competition, the list of suspects is endless....

Carolin Alberts, die Gründerin des Hamburger Start-ups Harmony, nutzt ihre gesteigerte geistige Leistungsfähigkeit, um ihr Unternehmen innerhalb weniger Monate in einen internationalen Konzern zu verwandeln. Dabei schreckt sie nicht davor zurück, die Übernahme ihres größten Konkurrenten Kruither & Voch zu planen. Moralische Bedenken wirft Carolin über Bord, nur persönlicher Ehrgeiz und Erfolg zählen. Ihr Geschäftspartner Noah Gunnason leidet unterdessen nach der Einnahme des Medikaments Sleepless an Nebenwirkungen.