Showing results for "Marina, Marina" in Crime Thrillers

The stakes are high, and time is running out... When a charred body is discovered on a burning boat at Horsea Marina, Detective Inspector Andy Horton is called to investigate. The victim is identified as Tom Brundall, a wealthy financier from Guernsey, who was terminally ill. Puzzled, Horton wonders why a dying man would return to his hometown of Portsmouth and who would want to kill him. As Horton digs deeper, another body surfaces, forcing him to grapple with not just the victims' pasts but also the unresolved mystery of his own mother's disappearance three decades earlier.

The man is found on the icy streets of Boston, vomit in his beard, alcohol in his system, and ice in his veins. The police assume he is just another in the dozens of derelicts whom the urban winter claims each year, but Brady Coyne knows better. Attorney to New England's upper crust, he was the dead man's lawyer, and he knows that Stuart Carver was no bum: He was a senator's nephew.

Detective Inspector Stanley Low is having a really bad day. His bipolar condition is already ruining another session with his psychiatrist when a sadistic sex murder-suicide at Singapore’s most prestigious hotel plunges him back into a sordid underworld he was desperate to leave behind. Marina Bay Sands represents Singapore’s attempt to become the Monaco of Asia, a sparkling, physical embodiment of the island’s devotion to economic growth at any cost. A murdered prostitute and a dead expatriate ask questions of a society no-one is particularly keen to answer.

Rebecca and Brian Unsworth appear to have it all. A nice house in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Two well-behaved, healthy teenage children. Important government jobs - Rebecca working in counterterrorism for the FBI, Brian serving as a coder for the NSA. Seeking to revive their strained relationship, they decide for their 20th wedding anniversary to take their two kids, Kira and Tony, on a European getaway. They have a blast…until one night in Barcelona when Kira doesn’t come home from a dance club. She’s gone. Abducted.

Il vicequestore Giulia Ferro torna a Milano, attratta dalla città che sa di odiare, ma che al contempo non può fare a meno di amare. Dovrà indagare sull’enigmatico omicidio di un’anziana vedova, suocera di un assessore regionale celebre per il suo cinico trasformismo politico. In occasione di questo suo ritorno nel capoluogo lombardo, Giulia farà i conti col passato: in particolare, col ricordo di una vecchia amica e compagna di università, uccisa in modo altrettanto misterioso...

Marco Duarte está en el punto de mira del asesino en serie más despiadado al que se ha enfrentado jamás. El secuestro de una policía es solo el comienzo de una feroz cacería en la que la sed de venganza amenaza las vidas inocentes que se cruzan en su camino.

Un intenso thriller que tiene lugar en las calles y los juzgados de la isla de Ibiza y que atrapará al oyente desde las primeras frases. Eduardo Ribas es juzgado y condenado por el homicidio de una enfermera (Ana López Demichellis). Raúl Ballesteros, un prestigioso abogado políticamente incorrecto, y la hermana de la víctima, Raquel, están convencidos de la inocencia del hombre que acaba de ser condenado. Ambos deciden contratar a un extravagante detective, pero dotado de grandes facultades deducción, para intentar esclarecer los hechos.

Una Milano come non ve l'hanno mai raccontata. Pietro Mai, coriaceo ex pugile con burrascosi trascorsi, e l'ispettore Liana Sestini sono più che un istruttore e un'allieva. Uniti da vincoli d'onore e di passioni inconfessate, sono al centro di una guerra. La mala vecchia contro quella nuova. L'Antico, il Truce, il Riccio, il Serpente, Roxy, Milky Sex, mafiosi ucraini, russi e turchi: un girone infernale che schiera tutti contro tutti per il potere, la vendetta e un favoloso malloppo che riemerge dopo anni. Milano è lo scenario vibrante di un "nero criminale".

Sie beobachtet ihre Opfer. Sie plant ihre Morde. Nichts will sie dem Zufall überlassen. Der Weg der Gewalt ist nicht grundlos. Ihr Leben lang bemühte sie sich um ein normales Leben. Doch die Hülle umschloss eine tiefe Verzweiflung, die sie zu verbergen wusste. Bis zu einem nebligen Donnerstag im November. Der Tag, an dem sie eine Mörderin wird. Sie will die Dämonen vernichten. Sie will Rache. Sie empfindet kein Mitleid. Sie sollen leiden. Genau wie sie.

Amazing Grant has kept her distance from her mobster family, while entombing her own less-than-savory past. Until now. With her fugitive grandfather on the lam, the clan's attention focuses on Amazing (Maze) and the ancient journal her great-grandfather secretly passed down to her. Maze's relatives are convinced she's hiding the precious book, and now that they're no longer under the watchful eye of their patriarch, they summon her to Paris for an interrogation.

Charmian Karslake, bella e famosa attrice americana, viene trovata morta il giorno dopo un ballo organizzato da Sir Arthur Penn-Moreton. La donna, ospite nell'aristocratica dimora di campagna di Hepton Abbey, è stata uccisa con la propria pistola nella sua stanza, chiusa dall'interno. L'unico oggetto mancante dalla stanza è uno zaffiro prezioso da cui Charmian non si separava mai ma che era considerato un autentico porta sfortuna. Il furto del gioiello è stato il movente dell'omicidio?

Noirceur des tourments sous la pureté de l'enfance. Paris, porte de la Chapelle. À quelques heures d'intervalle, deux hommes sont retrouvés défigurés, scarifiés, empreintes effacées. L'affaire s'annonce compliquée pour le commandant de la Crim', Marie Tebert. Et elle vire au cauchemar lorsque la légiste succombe à une fièvre hémorragique après l'autopsie. Que cache le rituel autour de ces crimes ? Quel lien unissait les victimes aux profils si différents...

Los habitantes de un pequeño pueblo minero de Malmberget, al norte de Suecia, están siendo trasladados ya que la mina que alguna vez dio vida al pueblo se derrumba lentamente. Cuando dos trabajadores están recogiendo sus pertenencias escuchan un sonido procedente del sótano de una casa. Rompen la ventana, entran y descubren a un hombre aterrorizado y acurrucado en un rincón. Mientras tanto en Ådalen, la inspectora Eira Sjödin investiga la desaparición de un hombre cuya exmujer denuncia como perdido. El hombre no se ha llevado nada, no tenía razones para huir y su móvil no responde.

Jake Longly, ex-pro baseball player turned restaurateur, is back where he belongs: relaxing on the beach in front of his restaurant in Gulf Shores, Alabama. His peace is interrupted, however, when he receives a call from his private investigator father—April Wilkerson has gone missing from Lindemann Farms, the rustic, yet posh, resort built by self-help and financial guru Jonathon Lindemann.

Boston star-prosecutor-turned-corporate-attorney Jack Marino has risen fast and far from his upbringing in the Mystic housing projects. But after he's savagely beaten in retaliation for his work as head of the District Attorney's Urban Gang Unit, he's fired because his powerful boss is running for governor and fears the beating may have shaken Jack's formidable confidence. When he is given a chance to get back into criminal law, he finally feels alive again. But to save his client from death row, he'll face a criminal network far more organized and powerful than he could have imagined.

L'ultimo capitolo della serie "Factory", il ritratto imparziale e rivelatore di un criminale legato indissolubilmente al proprio destino. L'esistenza che Gust ha scelto per sé è quella del criminale solitario, indurito dalla strada ma non estraneo a una propria regola morale, che gli impone di cercare la linea sottile che separa il bene dal male. Proprio come il sergente della sezione Delitti irrisolti, ma dall'altra parte della barricata.

Todo empieza con un hecho imprevisto, un homicidio involuntario. Un hecho absurdo, un accidente que poco a poco, inexorablemente, irá marcando la vida de los personajes de la novela. Héctor, el protagonista masculino, es un hombre incapaz de asumir verdaderos compromisos y responsabilidades, de involucrarse a fondo en sus relaciones. Las mujeres, sus mujeres, son tres.

Linda and her family was having a very good time together, when one night she found herself in the garden, lying on the grass with the body covered with blood. Now she is afraid whether her bad habit of sleepwalking may have made a crime. That is why she runs away by going back to town, cancelling the holidays.

La última persona que vio a Silvia Blanch, desaparecida sin dejar rastro el verano de 2017, está muerta. Silvia era joven, guapa y estaba destinada al éxito. Alex, una joven periodista, será la encargada de ir hasta el pueblo de Montseny, donde vivía Silvia y donde se le perdió la pista, para hablar con su familia y escribir un artículo cuando se cumple un año de la desaparición.