Ergebnis für "killer" in Noir

Although Tina Alvarez escaped a trafficking ring, her newborn daughter wasn’t so lucky. Sold on the black market, the baby vanished without a trace. Most people would’ve given up, but Tina never stopped searching. When Ari Wilburn offers to help, it sounds easy enough: Find the child. It should be simple. It isn’t. Because the deeper Ari digs, the more twisted the threat becomes. People connected to the case are turning up dead. And the clues point to one disturbing truth: This isn’t just about a missing child—it’s about Ari. Her past. Her secrets. And a killer who is watching. Waiting.

Ein Serientäter vergeht sich auf grausame Weise an Frauen. Zuerst dringt er in ihre Wohnungen ein und vergewaltigt sie. Ein paar Wochen später verschafft er sich erneut Zugriff auf seine Opfer und tötet sie - egal, wie gut sie von der Polizei bewacht werden. Als die Journalistin Eva Haller in ihrem erfolgreichen Blog der Kölner Polizei vorwirft, nicht genug zum Schutz der Frauen unternommen zu haben, gerät sie selbst ins Visier des Täters. Statt an die Polizei wendet sie sich jedoch an einen Mann, den sie im Zuge ihrer Recherchen kennengelernt hat: den Leibwächter Stefan Trapp.

Ein grausiger Leichenfund schreckt das beschauliche Jütland im Süden Dänemarks auf. In die Brust des Toten, der aus dem Leichenschauhaus entwendet wurde, ist "Grandberg" eingeritzt, der Name der mächtigsten Familie im Dorf – und des örtlichen Polizeichefs. Und neben der Leiche steckt eine Schaufel im Boden, die ein mörderisches Geheimnis enthüllt: das Massengrab eines Serienkillers, der seine jungen Opfer mit kochender Milch verbrühte.

When the shadowy circumstances of a relative's death are brought to light, Jane and Lila are plunged into the recesses of an underground drug operation with links to a burgeoning fascist movement. The Pool sisters have gone into business together: a down-home if unequal P.I. enterprise. That is...

In a sleepy Devon village, a woman is taken from the streets. Local vet Jenny is horrified. This kind of thing doesn’t happen here. But it’s not the first time she’s been so close to a crime scene. The daughter of a prolific serial killer, she’s spent her whole life running from who she really is. And the crime is harrowingly similar to those her father committed all those years ago.

James Ellroy's deep dive into the psyche of a serial killer who recounts his life in the shadows, a tale of American madness and obsession. "The scariest book I've ever read." —Jason Kellerman Even as a child, Martin Michael Plunkett was no ordinary boy. Extreme parental indifference marked...

A ruthless serial killer stalks the streets of Mumbai, leaving behind a gruesome trail of tortured victims. As the city reels in terror, the authorities grapple with a vital question: what links these seemingly random targets?

In this thrilling mystery from an Edgar Award winning author, a fearless black-bag publicist exposes the belly of the L.A. beast. “The best mystery novel I've read in years.” —James Patterson, #1 bestselling author Welcome to Mae Pruett’s Los Angeles, where “Nobody talks. But everybody...

Monsters aren’t born. They’re refined. The Rose Killer has perfected her work. Thirteen victims. Thirteen flawless scenes. Each one precise. Controlled. Beautiful. A white paper rose left behind like a signature no one else can read. She does not kill in chaos. She waits. She plans. She folds herself into normality and lets the world forget she exists. Until someone touches the pattern.

A victim killed with a single, precise stab to the heart appears at first glance to be a robbery gone wrong. A caring, upstanding social worker lost to a senseless act of violence. But for Detective Kim Stone, something doesn't add up. When a local drug addict is found murdered with an identical wound, Kim knows instinctively that she is dealing with the same killer. But with nothing to link the two victims except the cold, calculated nature of their death, this could be her most difficult case yet.

Una serie de asesinatos asolan la ciudad de Londres. Las víctimas, muertas de forma vengativa y sádica, son mujeres que viven solas y no parece que guarden ninguna relación entre sí. La policía busca a un psicópata, un hombre que odia a las mujeres, pero casi no hay pistas y el caso no avanza.

Just when DI Tom Mariner seems to be settling down with his new girlfriend...everything kicks off. First, a badly decomposed body of a young woman is found in a Birmingham sewer. The police can't identify her and dub her "Madeleine". Then, an important politician and his wife are shot on an isolated road. "Vengeance is mine" is scrawled in blood at the scene. Finally, a bomb explosion in the busy city kills five people, causing chaos and panic. Can Detective Mariner and his team get to the bottom of crimes that will come very close to home for him and his team?

THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER The tenth Logan McRae novel from the No. 1 bestselling author. ‘Top drawer … his most epic outing yet’ Independent Trouble is coming… Sergeant Logan McRae’s team find a body dumped in the woods – but is it the missing businessman they’ve been...

Inspector Kenneth Stafford wird zu einem Tatort gerufen, der in ihm seltsame Erinnerungen weckt. An exakt derselben Stelle, in derselben Straße, wurde bereits vor 20 Jahren eine Tote gefunden. Sein Vater, Chief-Inspector Anthony Stafford, hat den Fall damals bearbeitet, konnte ihn aber nicht aufklären. Dennoch lässt Kenneth der Gedanke nicht los, dass der Fall von damals etwas mit dem Fall von heute zu tun haben muss. Akribisch versucht er die Ermittlungen seines Vaters von damals aufzurollen und den Faden an der entscheidenden Stelle wiederaufzunehmen.

Nel tranquillo borgo di Petraura, il ritrovamento di un corpo murato nella sacrestia della Chiesa di San Giovanni riporta a galla segreti sepolti da venticinque anni. Jack Del Giudice, ex poliziotto e investigatore privato, insieme alla sua eccentrica famiglia, si immerge in un'indagine che collega la vittima a un oscuro passato di droga, scomparse e poteri occulti. Mentre il maresciallo Giannetti cerca di tenere la verità sotto controllo, vecchi fantasmi tornano a tormentare il paese. Ma chi ha voluto seppellire il passato e perché?

Gritty, hilarious, moving, and full of secrets and mystery, an irresistible novel from the #1 internationally bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe and Lola in the Mirror. It’s the story of a murder. It’s the story of a marriage. It’s the story of a lifetime. Noah Cork has just...

The stunning new thriller from No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller Stuart MacBride. One down… A dark night in the isolated Scottish countryside. Nicholas Wilson, a prominent professor known for his divisive social media rants, leaves the house with his dog, as he does every night. But this time he...

From one of America’s most renowned storytellers—the bestselling author of Blonde—comes a novel about love and deceit, and lust and redemption, against a backdrop of shocking murders in the affluent suburbs of Detroit. "Hannah’s unreliable, elliptical narrative is seductive and...

Двое студентов медиков влюблены друг в друга и свою профессию. Они оба ненавидят женщин. Эта ненависть делает из них не спасителей жизней, а наоборот. Маньяки выискивают женщин отвергнутых своими мужчинами проникают в их жилища и хладнокровно препарируют ещё живых. Одной жертве чудом удаётся выжить.

Once Joe Kurtz needed revenge -- and revenge cost him eleven years in Attica prison. Now Kurtz needs a job, and the price is going to be higher. Out of prison, out of touch, Kurtz signs on with the Byron Farino, Don of a Mob family whose son Kurtz had been protecting on the inside. Farino...