Showing results for "Tooth" in Suspense

Charged with spotting terrorist threats, the top-secret "Campus" has its hands full when Middle East thugs and Colombian drug lords join forces. New Campus recruits include Jack Ryan Jr., son of master spy John Patrick Ryan, now President.

All that was left of the garage was a heap of charred and smouldering beams. In the driving seat of the burnt-out car were the remains of a body.... An accident, said the police. An accident, said the widow. She had been warning her husband about the danger of the car for months. Murder, said the famous detective Lord Peter Wimsey - and proceeded to track down the killer.

Against all his expectations, Dr Siri Paiboun has rather enjoyed his first five months in office. Now, as hot-season nights close in, Siri is spirited away from Laos' steamy capital on a Matter of National Security. Arriving in Luang Prabang, he's a busy man, examining carbonized corpses, dining with the deposed king, attending a shamans' conference and being rescued by the ghost of an elephant. Not that Siri's complaining … Luang Prabang is in mountains and a good fifteen degrees cooler.

Peter Diamond, head of Bath CID, takes a city break in Vienna, but everything goes wrong and his companion, Paloma, calls a halt to their relationship. Meanwhile, strange things are happening to jobbing musician Mel Farran, who finds himself scouted by methods closer to the spy world than the concert platform. The chance of joining a once-famous string quartet in a residency at Bath Spa University is too tempting for Mel to refuse. Then a body is found in the city canal, and the only clue to the dead woman's identity is the tattoo of a music note on one of her teeth.

It's homecoming in Absaroka County, but the football and festivities are interrupted when a homeless boy wanders into town. A Mormon " lost boy", Cord Lynear is searching for his missing mother but clues are scarce. Longmire and his companions, feisty deputy Victoria Moretti and longtime friend Henry Standing Bear, embark on a high plains scavenger hunt in hopes of reuniting mother and son. The trail leads them to an interstate polygamy group that' s presiding over a stockpile of weapons and harboring a vicious vendetta.

A rogue grizzly bear has gone on a rampage—killing, among others, the fiancee of Joe's daughter. At the same time, Dallas Cates, who Joe helped lock up years ago, is released from prison with a list of six names tattooed on his skin. He wants revenge on the people who sent him away: the people he blames for the deaths of his entire family and the loss of his reputation and property.

DCI Mark Lapslie suffers from a rare neurological condition that ‘cross-wires’ his senses. The sickening clamour of sounds he can taste has smothered his marriage and stifled his career...and it’s getting worse. His colleagues have written him off as a drunk – or worse – and Lapslie has quarantined himself in an isolated Essex cottage. Carl Whittley has got his own problems to deal with too: he’s just tortured a minor TV celebrity to death and blown an apparently anonymous commuter to pieces.

FBI crime analyst Kili Brennan has come to Boone Creek, in the Appalachian foothills of Kentucky, looking for her missing brother…looking for answers. Instead, she finds a world of suspicion and superstition. Locals say her brother, and a string of others, may have been killed by One-Eyed Jack—the fabled giant guardian that protects the fantastic archaeological monument he was researching.

I’m rather used to the crazy cases, because let’s face it, most cops can handle the run-of-the-mill with their eyes closed. I’m only called in when the situation is weird or they need to solve the case fast. This case is a little of both. Someone’s attacking women as they get off of work, hitting them in the back of the head. What started as a case of battery has steadily built up to homicide. With three murders, six victims, and no leads, the Clarksville PD are desperate to catch the assailant.

What would you do? What would you do if you got away with murder? Would you stop there? Could you? Susie and Roy thought that they committed the perfect crime. Their planning was meticulous. Their execution was flawless. But, there is always a loose end, isn’t there? Always a singing bone. Now, while enemies multiply and suspicions abound, their perfect world begins to crumble. The hunters have become the hunted. In this blisteringly relentless sequel to his debut shocker, Eye for Eye, J.K. Franko takes listeners on a breathtaking journey of cat and mouse.

Eccentric multimillionaire Cadmus Cole hires Ellery Queen to investigate a case but won't say what it is. When Cole dies mysteriously at sea, Queen and his partner, Beau Rummell, must navigate a thicket of complications that includes a fifty-million-dollar legacy, two beautiful but avaricious women vying for the inheritance, a will with some odd provisions, and even a phony Ellery Queen.

Doug Perkins; his partner, Gerry; and their cat, Pandora, have one job to do: spin gaffes into gold. But this cozy little London PR agency - a better environment for Pandora than profits - is about to be involved in a disastrous affaire dentaire. Endicott Zayle, dentist to the rich and famous - as well as to Doug and Gerry - has a problem of royal proportions. He just killed a beautiful woman with an experimental anesthetic. Or did he?

În încercarea de a afla mai multe despre enigmaticul Vlad Lupu, arheologul care dezgroapă – uneori la propriu – scheletele unui trecut nefast, Corina le ia interviuri altor doi membri ai cercului de umor absurd Parazitul prietenos: Olimpiu "Pilu" Pop și Gabi Ionescu. În tinerețe, Pilu a fost prins și "reeducat" de Securitate, iar acum vorbește despre sine la persoana a treia. Misiunea pe care a primit-o de la Vlad e simplă: să iscodească activitățile Muzeului Județean de Istorie din Brașov.

“The Vigilante” was my case. He killed killers. Rapists. Drug-dealing scum. All the ugly crumbs that fell through the cracks of willfully blind justice. I spent five years hunting him until I realized I didn’t really want to catch him. So I walked away - from the case, from my failure, from my big-city life in Detroit to start over with my husband in Merryn, Kansas.

When a plane crashes at the base of Black Tooth Mountain during a wicked summer storm, Patrick Flint’s moral compass leads him away from a trail ride with his family and to the wreckage in a search for survivors. But what he finds may teach him that not everything is what it seems, and not every life is worth saving.

>A young man, relatively new to Fox Creek and living with his elderly grandmother, is discovered dead in his bed after having been severely beaten. Unfortunately, the first person to see the body is Carver Ellis; and the first police officer on the scene is already convinced that young Ellis not only found the body but murdered the victim. It's up to Victoria Sears and her new best friend from down-mountain, Lynn Hanson, to join together a tortuous series of clues to uncover precisely how and why Eric Johansson died.

Kona, Hawaii. A stunning tropical paradise steeped in cultural heritage. But in this idyllic setting a psychopath twists Hawaii's past to fulfill his obsessions. Two young women have been brutally murdered, one month apart and each on a full moon's night. Hawai'i County Police Officer Alana Lee has vowed to find their killer. But can she catch the murderer before the next full moon rises, or will Alana become another victim in a deadly ritual.

Er war ein alter Freund. Sein Tod war verdächtig. Das Mindeste, das Ex Spezialeinheit Soldat Jason Green tun konnte, war, nach Afrika zurückzukehren und sein Beileid auszudrücken. Er hatte nie vor, in der dunklen, barbarischen Welt des illegalen Elfenbeinhandels involviert zu werden.Welche Geheimnisse hatte sein Ex Militärkumpel aufgedeckt, die er mit dem Leben bezahlt hatte? Könnte Green das Rätsel um seinen Tod lösen?In der glühenden Hitze des Zambesi-Tals schaut jemand zu.Die Korrupten und Mächtigen schrecken vor nichts zurück, um ihr Geschäft zu schützen.

Noir: femme fatale seduces men, marries them, then slays them for insurance money.