Showing results for "Moral" in Crime Fiction

Laura is a perfectionist and extremely capable air ambulance doctor. As part of the ethics committee at the hospital, she is also the person who chooses whether critical care patients live or die. She's worked hard to get here. And then, one night, life overturns in a moment and the past threatens to shatter everything they hold dear in the present. Can even those we trust with our lives be dangerous in the right circumstances? And is there a limit to what we would do for those we love?

In the follow-up to best-selling Blood Defense, Samantha is hired as the legal advocate for Cassie Sonnenberg after a brutal stabbing left her father and brother dead, and her mother barely clinging to life. It's a tabloid-ready case that has the nation in an uproar - and Sam facing her biggest challenge yet. Why did Cassie survive? Is she hiding something?

Fisheries officer Simone Lord is transferred to Quebec's remote Magdalen Islands for the winter, and at the last minute ordered to go aboard a trawler braving a winter storm for the traditional grey seal hunt, while all of the other boats shelter onshore. Detective Sergeant Joaquin Moralès is on a cross-country boat trip down the St Lawrence River, accompanied by Nadine Lauzon, a forensic psychologist working on the case of a savagely beaten teenager with Moralès' old team in Montreal.

Estamos en pleno siglo XXI, en una Nicaragua en la que se están viviendo unas revueltas populares que son reprimidas brutalmente por el gobierno, apoyado en el siniestro brazo ejecutor del jefe de los servicios secretos. El inspector Dolores Morales debe enfrentarse en la distancia con ese ser terrible apodado Tongolele, responsable último de su exilio en Honduras, quemueve con frialdad y cinismo, en parte gracias a los consejos adivinatorios de su madre, muchos hilos de la desquiciada política del país.

Growing up in the streets of Rockford, Illinois. Two brothers are soon separated by force, forcing them to have to live apart. In which, brought Rome to be rebellious towards his mother after his fall out with her over the fact that she had his older brother Ricardo aka Rico, sent away to live at a boy's home facility, because he was running the streets and getting caught up with the law.

Two homicide detectives Turner Hahn and Frank Morales. One looks like a matinee idol out of the 1930s. The other a modern day version of a Neanderthal. Both extremely skilled in their chosen professions. They're the ones who catch the cases no one else want to touch. The hard ones; the ones with few clues. The ones which have no suspects. Or the ones which have a thousand suspects. It doesn't matter. If a killer or killers are out there waiting to be found. Bank on it. Turner and Frank will find them.

"Ich stehe jetzt über Euch und ihr müsst begreifen, dass es so nicht weitergehen wird... " Nach einem perfiden Anschlag in Berlin geht die Polizei zunächst von Terrorismus aus. Doch schnell deuten die Umstände der Tat darauf hin, dass etwas ganz anderes dahintersteckt. Zahlreiche Menschen verlieren ihr Leben, aber die Schlagzeilen sind schnell wieder vergessen. Hauptkommissar Lewis Schneider wird eher zufällig in die Ermittlungen involviert und steht vor einem Rätsel. Die einzig brauchbare Zeugin scheint ziemlich unter Druck zu stehen und trotzdem ihr eigenes Spiel zu spielen.

It’s 2025. Tanner Moore is at the top of his game in the high-stakes world of big technology. As C.T.O. of Paragon, the largest corporation in the world, Tanner is about to release the greatest convenience innovation in the history of eCommerce - drone delivery services to every inch of the globe. But when an interview with journalist Amy Noral is secretly recorded and published by the clickbait media, Tanner’s fall from grace is swift and brutal.

After his brother's tragic death, Detective Captain Juan Morales decides to take a well-deserved vacation. But as he stands at the Avenue of the Dead, staring at a corpse with its heart ripped out, he realizes this is not the peaceful retreat he had in mind. When Morales meets the beautiful archaeologist Sophia Kanakarides, he is instantly drawn to her.

A serial killer is on the loose in Chicago. With a morbid signature, the murderer must be stopped before he kills again. Social worker Cassandra Welton and Detective Logan Trenton team up to find the killer. With every twist and turn, they wonder if they are on the right trail. How long will it take to make sure they have the right man?

Ten stories from the case files of homicide detectives Turner Hahn and Frank Morales, these are tales of murder, deception, greed, and mayhem only this duo can solve. Murder is the operative word in this collection, from hardened criminals to deceitful damsels, to the cold minds of serial killers. Come along for the ride as Turner and Frank face off with the crazies, the cunning, and the brilliant as they try to get away with murder.

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.