Criminal Mystery

On August 15, 1965, the life of Nils Henrik Ellefsrud is forever changed when two police officers show up at his door with bad news. His cabin on Patricia Lake in Alberta, Canada, has exploded and burned down, two people are missing, and the only survivor is his daughter, TJ. A short time later as he sits by his daughter’s hospital bed, Nils has no idea what has happened to his wife and TJ’s nine-year-old twin brother.

Chiara è magrissima, ha un'aria buffa, calza degli zoccoli e porta lunghi capelli scuri che contrastano col suo nome. Ogni tanto le sembra di incepparsi mentre i pensieri scorrono fuori sincrono. Per crescere ha solo la scuola della strada e le lezioni che le impartirà un destino beffardo.nDa Bari a Torino, passando per Bologna, la trilogia "Atlante freddo" è un racconto di formazione in nero, un "giro d'Italia" da Sudest a Nordovest scandito da fughe rocambolesche, incontri sorprendenti e perdite che fanno malissimo.

It’s been four months since Janelle Tenner stopped the Earth’s destruction with the help of Ben, the boy who resurrected her after she died. Ben is gone now - disappeared through a portal to his home world. Even though Ben broke her heart, Janelle refuses to believe it when Interverse Agent Taylor Barclay tells her Ben is suspected of running a human-trafficking ring across several universes. She vows to uncover the true culprit and rescue the people who have been sold into slavery on alternate Earths - not to mention find Ben and prove his innocence.

Two days before the start of her junior year, 17-year-old Janelle Tenner is hit by a pickup truck and killed - as in blinding light, scenes of her life flashing before her, and then nothing. Except the next thing she knows, she's opening her eyes to find Ben Michaels, a loner from her high school whom Janelle has never talked to, leaning over her. And even though it isn't possible, she knows - with every fiber of her being - that Ben has somehow brought her back to life.

Alexandra Destephano, a registered nurse and legal counsel for CCMC is concerned about inadequate staff and safety issues in the Pavilion and enlists former husband, dashing surgeon Robert Bonnet to assist her to battle Lester Whitset, the odd and often bizarre Pavilion administrator. In the meantime, staff and patients are being brutally beaten and killed at Crescent City Medical Center and Alex must set aside her feelings about the chronic under staffing at the hospital and work with Jack, Robert, and others to bring the perpetrators to justice.

Christmas Eve, 1890. Thanks to the tireless pursuit of Sherlock Holmes, Professor Moriarty’s criminal empire stands on a knife edge. Still, three ghostly visitors may yet convince the Napoleon of Crime that his destiny lies in another direction.

Recently returned from a harrowing vacation, FBI Special Agent Megan Luchek tries to settle into her day job in sunny Hawaii. But practically before her feet hit Oahu, a crisis catapults her back to the mainland. The Popularity Contest: Somebody kidnaps Megan’s sister to star in an online gambling contest. The Hero Contest: When the Club seeks to run a contest for heroes only, Megan tops their list of candidates. The Criminal Contest: Megan’s recent adventures have put her in the Club’s crosshairs again.

Meet disgraced ex-DI Ellie Reckless, a self-proclaimed "cop for criminals", and the person the underworld calls when they can't call the police. When a truck owned by the Italian Luccesi family is hijacked in Kent, Ellie and her team are brought in to locate it, but Ellie knows there's more going on, as nobody fights this hard over extra-virgin olive oil.

1909. Kiel ist für Josef Rosenbaum lediglich eine Provinzstadt. Der Kriminalobersekretär wurde gerade von Berlin an die Ostsee versetzt. Sein erster Fall führt zu einem erschossenen Kranführer der Germaniawerft. In unmittelbarer Nähe des Tatortes werden Unterseeboote für die Kaiserliche Marine produziert, die das Deutsche Reich zu neuer Größe erstarken lassen sollen.

La storia travolgente e sanguinosa della mala milanese nel "romanzo criminale" della metropoli lombarda. Milano, 1972-1984. Un romanzo noir che racconta la lotta di tre banditi per il controllo di Milano e di uno sbirro che cerca di arginare la malavita. Faccia D'Angelo, il bandito dagli occhi di ghiaccio e il Catanese si contendono la supremazia di una città criminale fatta di bische e di gioco d'azzardo, di cocaina ed eroina, di bordelli di lusso, di rapine e rapimenti, di bombe e morti ammazzati.

A murder committed by somebody who had never before met the victim, has no criminal record, steals nothing, and tells no one, might be a perfect crime. According to criminologists and scientists, this casual definition of a perfect crime does exist. Faction is a term used in creative writing to describe a work that blends elements of fact and fiction in a seamless manner. By combining factual information, with fictional elements, the writer can create compelling narratives that entertain, inform, and challenge listeners.

In the audiobook Criminal Activity in the Hoosier Heartland, author David Boyer offers up tales that have no happy endings, no Prince Charming or fairy-tale romances. Truth is much stranger than fiction, as these tales will prove beyond the shadow of a doubt. In the author's world, deep, dark secrets lie beneath the friendly, normal facade known as Knox County, Indiana.

Lester Caine, a highly decorated New York City Detective Lieutenant, retired after twenty-five years now in the Private Eye cop business, living in West Palm Beach Florida. He thought it was the perfect place for him, his Cadillac convertible and the tanned socialites of Palm Beach. The murder of Palm Beach Judge Desmond Vanderbilt (from book one, Lester Caine Private Eye-Murder on Palm Beach) drew Lester into the dark side of hunting a Nazi war criminal.

At 11 years old, Gabriel Naumann is witness to a horrific crime. Twenty-nine years later his girlfriend is taken. Then the messages begin. 'If you want to find her, then you'll have to find me.' Somebody knows the truth. Somebody knows what he did. And now his girlfriend will pay for it - unless he can find her in time. When you've spent decades running from your past, what do you do when it finally catches up with you?

The SCI team is called in to investigate when a group of teens are murdered by what appears to be wild animals during a camping trip. As the team delves deeper, they discover zealot vampire Cain Abrams's alliance with the werewolves is responsible for the attacks. His goal? To control the narrative of the vampires' emergence into the public eye and convince humans that only he can be their savior from the werewolf scourge.

Werewolf attacks are increasing. The Supernatural Criminal Investigation team is called in when one occurs in broad daylight in the upscale Chicago suburbs. Vampire Katherine Troy and her team are assigned the investigation into how a band of werewolves can turn without a full moon. The evidence trail leads them to Midwest werewolf alpha Quinn McCall and her pack. But the wolves are not working alone. Kat's vampire enemy Cain Abrams has given Quinn access to witches and their magic. The alliance spells disaster for both the humans and every supernatural creature in the city.

Caroline von Steinberg är tjugo år ung, vacker, nygift och djupt förälskad i sin make och de väntar sitt första barn. Hon tar en promenad på godset ägor och vandrar genom fälten av solgul raps tillsammans med sin älskade hund. Himlen är sommarblå och för Caroline är lyckan total. Plötsligt blir allting svart och hon är fånge i en ond mans armar. Hon kan inte andas. När hon vaknar till för ett ögonblick är hon bunden till händer och fötter och försedd med munkavle. Nästa gång hon vaknar ligger hon på sjukhus. Barnet hon bar på är förlorat.

Nineteen-year-old Patty has a lot of baggage. Abusive parents. A horrible boyfriend. The stifling cocoon of her Podunk town. She longs to become a travel writer—visiting exotic lands far, far away….

Special Agent Ana Grey (familiar to Smith's readers from North of Montana) becomes both criminal investigator and criminal when she shoots her own partner during a Santa Monica kidnappiDid ng investigation.

Detta är den 3: dje och avslutande delen av trilogin Kriminalkommissarie Leah Quiller skipar rättvisa två gånger, Uppgörelsen. Leah Quiller har vid ett flertal tillfällen varit hemma på sitt gods på Österlen, där hon alltid är känd under sitt rätta namn, grevinnan Caroline von Steinberg, och för varje gång får hon en allt större längtan att återta sin rätta identitet. Men hon är också väl medveten om att för att återfå friheten måste hon hitta mannen som både våldtog och misshandlade henne brutalt och lämnade henne att dö i ett dike.