Ergebnis für "killer" in Justiz

Als der notorisch erfolglose Anwalt Nicholas Meller die junge Nina empfängt, die sich bei ihm bewirbt, wird schnell klar: Nina sieht genauso gut aus wie auf dem Bewerbungsfoto, und – sie trägt einen körperlichen Makel. Ihr rechter Arm ist zurückgebildet. Ebenso schnell wird klar: Nina ist eine starke Frau, die kein Mitleid duldet und sich durchs Leben kämpft. Beide ahnen nicht, dass ihre Schicksale schon bald durch dramatische Ereignisse verschmolzen werden. Sie geraten in den Fall um einen unheimlichen Mörder, der seine Opfer mit chirurgischer Präzision einkreist und brutal umbringt.

This bestselling legal thriller follows the charismatic defense attorney, Mickey Haller, as he takes on a slam-dunk court case involving a Beverly Hills playboy—but as it spirals into a nightmare, he finds himself in a fight for his life. Inspiration for the #1 Netflix series The Lincoln...

Seit der junge Anwalt Nicolas Meller den Angstmörder zur Strecke gebracht hat, geht es für ihn bergauf. Er hat zahlungskräftige Mandanten, ein neues Büro in der Innenstadt von Köln und mehrere Angestellte. Privat ist er mit Nina zusammengezogen, einst seine Referendarin und jetzt Lebenspartnerin. Doch dann bringt Hauptkommissar Rongen eine beunruhigende Nachricht: Ein Paketbote wurde brutal ermordet – und das einzige Paket, das entwendet wurde, war adressiert an: Nicolas Meller. Die Schlinge um den Kopf von Nic und Nina zieht sich erbarmungslos zusammen!

A few short blocks from the safety of the museums and monuments on the National Mall, a ruthless killer prowls the streets of Washington, D.C. Federal prosecutor Jeff Trask joins a team of FBI agents and police detectives as they try to solve the series of brutal murders. As the body count rises, the investigation leads to a chilling confrontation with the leader of an international drug smuggling ring, and no one is safe, not even the police.

An assassin’s bullet. A deadly conspiracy. But who is calling the shots? When an attempted assassination sparks a chain reaction of explosive events across London, Britain’s elite security forces seem powerless to stop the chaos threatening to overwhelm the government. As the dark and deadly conspiracy unfolds, three strangers find their fates entwined: Joe Dempsey, a deadly military intelligence officer; Sarah Truman, a CNN reporter determined to get her headline; and Michael Devlin, a Belfast-born criminal barrister with a secret past.

Mickey Haller and Harry Bosch together take on a seemingly unwinnable case in blistering legal thriller from Number One bestseller Michael Connelly. When defence lawyer Mickey Haller is invited by the Los Angeles County District Attorney to prosecute a case for him, he knows something strange is...

It’s 2 A.M. in a Cleveland suburb when a woman is found murdered—ritually slain and left on the altar at St. Andrew’s Church. Reverend Howard Jamison is discovered covered in blood. A Satanic Bible lies open on his desk. And he isn't talking. Attorney Hunter St. James, already battling his own demons, is forced onto the case. His once-promising career is collapsing, his socialite girlfriend is pregnant, and now he’s saddled with a pro-bono defense he has no chance of winning. Raised by an infamous father, Hunter has spent a lifetime outrunning disgrace. But now he’s running straight into it.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER John Grisham’s first novel is a searing courtroom drama that probes the savage depths of racial violence and introduced the world to fearless lawyer Jake Brigance. “John Grisham may well be the best American storyteller writing today.”—The Philadelphia...

Psychiatrist Dr. Gwen Moore is an expert on killers. She’s spent a decade treating California’s most depraved predators and unlocking their motives - predators much like the notorious Bloody Heart serial killer, whose latest teenage victim escaped and then identified local high school teacher Randall Thompson as his captor. The case against Thompson as the Bloody Heart Killer is damning - and closed, as far as Gwen and the media are concerned. If not for one new development.

As war looms in the Middle East, only Mitch Rapp can deliver truth and justice. 2011. On a remote mountaintop overlooking the remains of the Iranian nuclear weapons programme, Azad Ashani witnesses a Quds Force demonstration of a capability meant to upend America’s war in the Middle East...

Thirty years since the release of the iconic film adaptation starring Matthew McConaughey and Samuel L. Jackson, revisit Clanton and the story that introduced the world to Jake Brigance. When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the hoodlums who have raped his ten-year-old daughter, the people of Clanton...

In this action-packed legal thriller, Defense attorney Mickey Haller and Detective Harry Bosch must either work together—or die—as they investigate a Hollywood lawyer's murder. Inspiration for the #1 Netflix series The Lincoln Lawyer. Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey...

The Dollmaker was the name of the serial killer who had stalked Los Angeles ruthlessly, leaving grisly calling cards on the faces of his victims. Now, with a single faultless shot, Harry Bosch thinks he has ended the city's nightmare.

Fourteen years ago, prosecutor Jessica Yardley's husband went to prison for a series of brutal murders. She's finally created a life with her daughter and is a well-respected attorney. She's moving on. But when a new rash of homicides has her ex-husband, Eddie, written all over them - the nightmares of her past come back to life.

Accused of murder. On the run. Who can you trust? Brimming with suspense, The Winner is a rollercoaster thriller from the bestselling author of The 6:20 Man, David Baldacci. LuAnn Tyler is a single parent striving to escape a life of endless poverty. Then a mysterious Mr Jackson makes her an...

LAPD Detective Harry Bosch crosses paths with FBI profiler Terry McCaleb while investigating the murder of a Hollywood actress, in this heart-pounding novel from New York Times bestselling author, Michael Connelly. Harry Bosch is up to his neck in a case that has transfixed all of celebrity-mad...

A Time to Kill The life of a ten-year-old black girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her father acquires an assault rifle–and takes justice into his own outraged hands. For ten days, with...

The #1 bestselling legal thriller that inspired the record-breaking television series of the same name, starring Jake Gyllenhaal. "Spellbinding. Relentless. The work of a profoundly gifted author." —New York Times New York Times bestselling author Scott Turow presents our worst nightmare: that...

FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she's dreaded for years, the one that tells her the Poet has surfaced. She has never forgotten the serial killer who wove lines of poetry in his hideous crimes--and apparently he has not forgotten her. Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets a call...

Jake Brigance, the protagonist of John Grisham's classic legal thriller, A Time to Kill, is back. This time he's at the epicenter of a sensational murder trial that bitterly divides the citizens of Clanton, Mississippi. John Grisham's A Time to Kill is one of the most popular novels of our time...