Showing results for "The Promise" in Crime Thrillers

When troubled teen Connor moves to Exeter from the US after a horrific school shooting, he finds himself embroiled in a world of popular kids and easy girls. Everyone wants to be his friend, but they don’t know about what he did...and they don’t know about his father. As Connor’s life in England begins to unravel, DS Adrian Miles and his partner, Imogen Grey, are working up against the clock to catch a serial killer who dates his victims before he kills them. Determined to uncover the truth, Imogen is forced to act as bait - but will she take it too far and risk her own life?

The job: infiltrate a militia amassing illegal firearms in an isolated forest community. FBI agent Mercy Kilpatrick is the ideal candidate. She knows Oregon. She’s near the compound. And having been raised among survivalists, Mercy understands the mind-set of fanatics. Lay low, follow rules, do nothing to sound an alarm, and relinquish all contact with the outside world. She’s ready to blend in. As Mercy disappears into the winter hills, something just as foreboding emerges. Mercy’s fiancé, Eagle’s Nest police chief Truman Daly, is faced with a puzzling series of murders....

The morning it all started, newspaper reporter David Harwood had plenty to worry about. A single parent with no job, forced to return with his young son to the small town of Promise Falls to live with his parents, the future wasn't looking too rosy. So when his mother asked him to look in on his cousin, Marla, who was still not quite right after losing her baby, it was almost a relief to put the disaster his own life had become to one side. The relief wouldn't last long.

Even the dead like to keep their secrets.... When William Gove, a dying millionaire and patriarch of a vast estate in Essex, asks Daniel Connell to execute his will, Daniel has no idea what he's getting himself into. Rather than leave his fortune to his three children, Gove has chosen 10 names at random from the phone book. When he dies, Daniel sets out to track down the recipients.

Detective Jenna Alton surveys the charred remains of the large suburban home, stopping to pause at the three lifeless bodies of the Woods family. Jenna knows she’s looking for a serial killer, but her priority is finding the missing teenage daughter last seen on the night of the inferno. Days later, Sophie Woods’s body is discovered floating in a shallow pool of crystal-clear water - known locally as Dead Man’s Drop - but Jenna still doesn’t know who would target the quiet family in such a brutal attack.

Imogen Clark wakes up on her 16th birthday to find her parents dead at the breakfast table, along with a message from their killer. Detectives Jazzy Solanki and Annie McQueen join the investigation, but the more they discover, the more Jazzy suspects that the killing is a twisted message for her. Jazzy shares the same birthday as Imogen, and believes that this is more than a coincidence. When Jazzy discovers the connection between the killer and the stalker who has been following her for years, she is forced to confront the dark past she was desperate to keep hidden.

The Limekiln Estate has witnessed many a dark crime over the years. When DI Allie Shenton is called out to a suspicious death, she isn't surprised to see it's a local she knows only too well. While the slaying of Billy Whitmore is on everyone's lips, a woman is stabbed in her home. A day later and a third victim turns up. Three known associates brutally murdered—the bodies are piling up quicker than the forensic evidence is coming back. Yet Allie senses there's something more disturbing going on. She's sure Fiona Abbott, Billy's partner, is involved too.

On a dark night, on a mountain road, a young couple, Matthew and Stacey, are on their way home from a night out. Their car breaks down, and Matthew leaves to look for help. By the next morning, Stacey is found murdered in the car and Matthew is missing, presumed guilty of her murder. Called to the scene, Detective Alex King and her team soon see some terrifying links - to another local young man who is missing and to the discovery of a body from 30 years ago.

John and Crystal, a Bonnie & Clyde-esque young couple, become stranded in the desert while in the midst of a spree of carnage and mayhem. As they lie in wait for their next victim, a car approaches over the horizon. Will it prove to be their salvation or has fate sent its own brand of justice into their trap?

Clyde Barker, a down-on-his-luck pro bono lawyer, inherits his late uncle's land in the small town of Hartwell, Georgia. While exploring the property, he uncovers clues pertaining to his uncle's demise and the secret investigation he was running out of his home. Driven to learn the truth, Clyde forces himself to uncover dark secrets within the town and himself. Little does Clyde know, he possesses a gift that will change his life forever.

A Promise Falls, il crollo dello schermo di un drive-in causa la morte di quattro persone. Sembrerebbe una tragica fatalità, ma qualcosa nelle indagini non torna: molte le circostanze spiegabili solo riducendole a casualità, troppe le coincidenze sospette.

David Harwood sta assistendo impotente allo sgretolarsi inesorabile della propria vita. Dopo la morte della moglie e la chiusura del giornale per cui lavorava, rimasto solo con il figlio di nove anni è costretto a trasferirsi a casa dei genitori a Promise Falls, la cittadina in cui è cresciuto. Quella che sembra essere un'esistenza destinata a un anonimo fallimento intraprende però una direzione inaspettata quanto tragica.

The killer’s hand with the razor-sharp knife came down in a lightning strike…. the target is Nikhil Nanda, a college professor, who is catapulted into a dangerous quest for a secret buried decades ago. Nikhil makes a promise to his dying father to right a terrible wrong. A chance encounter with a beautiful woman, Tina Kohli, years ago in Spain, when he worked for Formula One, provides him with a path forward. Little does he know that his odyssey will result in multiple attempts on his life, and he will question Tina and her father’s involvement in the conspiracy.

Revenge was a dish that was best served cold and he had a score to settle. He had waited five painstakingly long years to do what he was about to embark on. His nemesis needed to be brought down. Killing him will not do the job. What is the best way to bring about his demise? A demise that he can experience....

I byen Promise Falls er det lige så let at få hævn som at tælle til 1, 2, 3... Dagen begynder som en helt almindelig lørdag – et bad, en kop kaffe, morgenmad. Men pludselig bryder helvede løs i Promise Falls. Folk falder døde om på gaden, hospitalerne og beredskabet bliver lagt ned af det høje antal ofre. Er det massemord gennem madforgiftning, en virus eller noget endnu mere dystert? Er der mon nogen, der står bag?

Alle forbrydelser har konsekvenser. Alle byer har hemmeligheder.

En ung pige bliver dræbt af en spritbilist. Lokalsamfundet er rystet over tragedien og kræver retfærdighed. Det betyder ikke noget, at den anklagede selv kun er et barn. Da han får en mild dom, lyder der et ramaskrig.

Da David Harwood bliver bedt om at køre forbi sin kusine, Marla, der er traumatiseret af at have mistet sit barn ved fødslen, tror han, at det bliver et hyggeligt afbræk i sit ellers håbløse liv. Men da han ankommer, er der blod på Marlas hoveddør. Og hvad værre er, så har Marla et lille barn hos sig, som hun hævder, "en engel" har afleveret til hende. Kort efter findes en kvinde dræbt, stukket ihjel, og hendes lille dreng er forsvundet. Alt tyder på, at Marla har gjort noget ganske forfærdeligt.

I byen Promise Falls er det lige så let at få hævn som at tælle til 1, 2, 3 ...

Dagen begynder som en helt almindelig lørdag – et bad, en kop kaffe, morgenmad. Men pludselig bryder helvede løs i Promise Falls.

Folk falder døde om på gaden, hospitalerne og beredskabet bliver lagt ned af det høje antal ofre. Er det massemord gennem madforgiftning, en virus eller noget endnu mere dystert? Er der mon nogen, der står bag?

Alle forbrydelser har konsekvenser. Alle byer har hemmeligheder. En ung pige bliver dræbt af en spritbilist. Lokalsamfundet er rystet over tragedien og kræver retfærdighed. Det betyder ikke noget, at den anklagede selv kun er et barn. Da han får en mild dom, lyder der et ramaskrig. Under truslen om hævn hyrer drengen og hans desperate familie privatdetektiv Cal Weaver til at beskytte ham. Men der er øjne overalt, og gengældelsen kan komme fra alle sider … Der er noget ved hele sagen, der ikke stemmer, og Weaver spekulerer over, hvad det er, han overser.