Showing results for "Lang Lang" in Crime Fiction

Le tueur parfait n'a pas de nom, il a plusieurs visages. Kylar Stern a renoncé à sa vie d'assassin. Son maître Durzo et son meilleur ami Logan Gyre, l'héritier du trône, ont trouvé la mort au cours de l'invasion brutale du pays par les armées du Roi-dieu. Kylar part s'installer dans une autre ville, fait de nouvelles rencontres et change de métier. Mais lorsqu'il apprend que Logan est toujours vivant, prisonnier dans une prison infâme où il doit cacher son identité, Kylar est confronté à un terrible dilemme.

Summer, 1976. Jesse and his brother, Edgar, are on the road in search of victims. They’re rovers, nearly indestructible nocturnal beings who must consume human blood in order to survive. For 70 years they’ve lurked on the fringes of society, roaming from town to town, dingy motel to dingy motel, stalking the transients, addicts, and prostitutes they feed on. This hard-boiled supernatural hell ride kicks off when the brothers encounter a young woman who disrupts their grim routine.

Beneath the sands of the Egyptian desert lies treasure beyond imagining. And when a professor of archeology finds clues to the location of a Pharaoh's lost tomb in ancient hieroglyphs, he hatches a plan to find the burial site - and plunder it.

The company chairman lay on the cold ground of the woods, his eyes unseeing, his orange hunting jacket punctured by a rifle bullet at close range. Around him stood the four executives with whom he had been hunting, each with his or her own complicated agenda, each with a reason not to be sorrowful about the man's death.

When Jordie Bennet and Shaw Kinnard lock eyes across a disreputable backwater bar, something definitely sparks. Shaw gives off a dangerous vibe that makes men wary and inspires women to sit up and take notice. None feel that undercurrent more strongly than savvy businesswoman Jordie, who doesn't belong in a seedy dive on the banks of a bayou. But here she is...and Shaw Kinnard is here to kill her.

American radiologist Peter Ross just wanted a vacation. But when he meets the beautiful Angela Locke on a Spanish beach, he soon finds himself caught in a murderous crossfire between rival gangs seeking a precious artifact. From Barcelona to the rain-swept streets of Paris, from the towers of the Alhambra to its darkest catacombs, Peter Ross is an ordinary man in desperate circumstances: racing to uncover a secret lost for centuries, before he becomes its next victim.

It's a fear more paralyzing than falling. More terrifying than absolute darkness. More horrifying than anything you can imagine. It's the one fear you cannot escape, no matter where you run...no matter where you hide. It's the fear of yourself. It's real. It can happen to you. And facing it can be deadly.

As an expert handler of venomous snakes - and a smuggler of rare artifacts - Charles Raynaud is accustomed to danger. So the job body-guarding an old acquaintance about to come into a fortune shouldn't make him break a sweat. But when the attempts on the man's life nearly get Raynaud killed, he's left wondering: is he the killers' real target...?

Joe Hustle is a survivor. A Gulf War vet and ex-con always one stumble away from catastrophe, he manages to scrape together enough money from various jobs to eke out a precarious existence on the darker fringes of Los Angeles. When he meets Emily, the black-sheep daughter of a wealthy family, the two spark an instant connection—she seems like the best thing to happen to him in a while. But their whirlwind romance is put to the test when what starts out as a simple favor for a friend leaves Joe homeless, unemployed, and on the wrong side of a vengeful drug dealer.

Crawford Hunt wants his daughter back. Following the death of his wife four years ago, Crawford, a Texas Ranger, fell into a downward spiral that left him relegated to deskwork and with his five-year-old daughter, Georgia, in the custody of her grandparents. But Crawford has cleaned up his act and met all the court-imposed requirements, and now the fate of his family lies with Judge Holly Spencer.

Diver James McGregor is used to exploring sunken ships. But there's something strange about the wreck of the Grave Descend. No one aboard tells quite the same story about what happened. Then there's the mysterious cargo they were carrying....

Dave Elliot is about to have a very bad day at the office. This morning, just as Dave has finished knotting his tie, his boss comes into the office with a gun in his hand, prepared to murder him. From this moment onward, everyone Dave Elliot runs into today will be trying to kill him. And he has no idea why...

Flere badegæster havde dagen igennem set ham sole sig i klitterne, men nu lå stranden lå fuldstændig øde hen, hyllet i havgus. Kun manden i de blå badebukser lå stadig i gryden i klitterne. En flue kravlede frem og gik på vingerne igen, og næsten samtidig slog vinden en flig af håndklædet til side. Manden rørte sig overhovedet ikke. Under hans hoved var sandet farvet brunrødt. Noget var helt galt! Hvem var han? Hvem havde dræbt ham - og hvorfor? Det skulle vise sig, at der var mange, som havde god grund til at ønske ham død.

Sie kennen sich seit der Kindheit und beginnen gerade, ihre eigenen Wege zu gehen, als plötzlich einer von ihnen als Mörder festgenommen wird. Er soll seinen Onkel aus Habgier erschlagen haben. In einem schier endlosen Indizienprozess wird das Unterste zuoberst gekehrt. Die Freunde kämpfen für den Angeklagten, denn er kann, er darf kein Mörder sein. Doch als 15 Jahre nach dem Urteil eine Journalistin sich der Sache noch mal annimmt, stellt sich die Frage der Loyalität wieder neu.

Playboy Roger Carr is handsome, wealthy, and connected. As an occasional lawyer, he’s the right man to send to the French Riviera to secure a villa for an important client. It’s the perfect assignment, complete with fast cars and fast women, until strange things begin to happen and Roger realizes that someone is trying to kill him.

Eigentlich wollte Chief Inspector Armand Gamache mit seiner Frau ein paar ruhige Tage in einem Hotel inmitten der kanadischen Wildnis verbringen. Doch aus dem gemeinsamen Urlaub anlässlich ihres 35-jährigen Hochzeitstags wird ein Albtraum, als die zutiefst zerstrittene Familie Finney eintrifft. Sie wollen zu Ehren des kürzlich verstorbenen Familienpatriarchen eine Statue errichten - die nach der Zeremonie umkippt und eine der Töchter unter sich begräbt. Der Drahtzieher hinter dem Anschlag muss in dem abgelegenen Hotel wohnen.

Eigentlich wollte Chief Inspector Armand Gamache mit seiner Frau ein paar ruhige Tage in einem Hotel inmitten der kanadischen Wildnis verbringen. Doch aus dem gemeinsamen Urlaub anlässlich ihres 35-jährigen Hochzeitstags wird ein Albtraum, als die zutiefst zerstrittene Familie Finney eintrifft. Sie wollen zu Ehren des kürzlich verstorbenen Familienpatriarchen eine Statue errichten - die nach der Zeremonie umkippt und eine der Töchter unter sich begräbt. Der Drahtzieher hinter dem Anschlag muss in dem abgelegenen Hotel wohnen.

Terry Lennox ist ein Säufer, und das ist nicht sein einziges Problem: Seine millionenschwere Frau wurde ermordet...

In a starred review, Publishers Weekly calls The Thieves of Manhattan a “delicious satire of the literary world.” Here Adam Langer introduces Ian Minoit—an aspiring writer who just can’t seem to get published. When Ian’s successful girlfriend leaves him for the talentless hack Blade Markham—whose acclaimed memoir Ian is convinced is a fake—he can’t understand why he always gets the short end of the stick.

Dominik Weiß ist auf grausame Art zu Tode gekommen. Wie es aussieht, ist der Mörder mehrfach zwischen dem Toten und der Wand hin- und hergelaufen, um seine Fingerspitzen in Blut zu tauchen. Dann hat er sie über die geweißte Strukturtapete geführt, um sich dort zu verewigen. Zu Beginn der Ermittlungen ahnt Kriminalhauptkommissar Niklas Steg noch nicht, dass dieser Mord der Auftakt zu einer ganzen Serie ist.