Résultats pour "Animalis" dans Fiction criminelle

2 juillet 2022, deux malfaiteurs sont sur le point de dévaliser une grande bijouterie de Genève. Mais ce braquage est loin d'être un banal fait divers... Vingt jours plus tôt, dans une banlieue cossue des rives du lac Léman, Sophie Braun s'apprête à fêter ses quarante ans. La vie lui sourit. Elle habite avec sa famille dans une magnifique villa bordée par la forêt. Mais son monde idyllique commence à vaciller. Son mari est empêtré dans ses petits arrangements. Son voisin, un policier pourtant réputé irréprochable, est fasciné par elle jusqu'à l'obsession et l'épie dans sa vie la plus intime.

"Wild Animal ticks with the precision of a well-crafted wristwatch."—Wall Street Journal From the devious mind of New York Times bestselling author Joël Dicker —master of the plot twist—comes this gripping domestic thriller that transforms into an ambitious heist mystery involving a famed...

Two grisly murders are committed at a meatpacking plant by a person wearing a cow mask. Not long after, the CEO of a water park is brutally killed by someone wearing an orca mask. Interpol Agent An Chang believes these are the latest acts of a ruthless serial killer he has been chasing for more than 20 years...a killer who targets those who harm innocent animals.

Shelby works as a dog walker in northern California, and she’s just finished up her bi-weekly trip to the park with a husky named Pluto. When she brings him back to his house, she finds his owner - Todd Burke, a well-known local businessman and founder of an organic supplements company - lying on the bathroom floor, dead. A detective arrives on the scene. As she interviews Shelby, the body is inspected by a medical examiner, and more cops search Todd’s home, it becomes clear that the victim’s life was less picture-perfect than his clean-cut persona might lead you to believe.

In this final installment of the widely popular “Animal” series, we find our anti-hero on a hunt for the woman who forced him to pick his guns back up when she burned his entire world down. The traitorous Red Sonja. She alone holds the key to saving his children and avenging his murdered wife, Gucci, but first he has to find her.

After making a promise to leave the street life behind, a shocking revelation forces Animal back into the game to face his greatest opponent yet. When Animal's former lover, Red Sonja, shows up on his doorstep with a little girl, claiming Animal is the father, he and Gucci immediately fear it's a ploy for money. But Red Sonja has come to collect a debt of a different kind, one that can only be paid in blood. A powerful man is hunting Red Sonja and her daughter, and she calls on Animal to stop him.

Oliver Holmes is called in to consult on a case in which the only reliable source is a crazy bird lady and her pet pigeon. The threads of information he begins to unravel lead to another unsolved crime that has left the police guessing for years. When Iris vanishes, leaving a trail of blood to follow, Oliver realizes someone else has taken an interest in the case. Can he find Iris before the threads weave together into a deadly noose?

Oliver Holmes is summoned to help the police solve a case in which an old security dog is the only witness to murders in a museum. When nothing appears to have been taken, clues unite this crime to the previous one, creating dangerous conditions in which no one is safe.

As the sticky heat of August settles over Florence, Dan Armstrong is ready for a well-earned break—sightseeing with fiancée Anna, daughter Tricia and her fiancé Shaun. But when a British man is found dead inside the city's magnificent Duomo, Dan's plans quickly change. The victim, Tristan Angel, is a super-wealthy arms dealer with a saintly name and a devilish reputation. But what was he doing in the cathedral, and who decided to make it his final confession?

Oía su respiración, solo su respiración. Había ratos, incluso días, que ni siquiera existían para él. No había sonidos, no había tiempo, no había vida… En esas ocasiones intuía que llevaba varios días dormido y, cuando despertaba, con frecuencia pensaba que estaba muerto, que por fin había muerto, pero las bridas rodeándole los tobillos y las muñecas le recordaban dónde se hallaba y en qué estado.

A finales de los años ochenta, la designación de embajadores entre cárteles que ayudaran a solventar negocios y desacuerdos permitió establecer las reglas para el trasiego ilegal entre México y Colombia. Estos embajadores eran llamados emisarios. En esta novela un hombre finge ser su...

Midnight Rider Productions is a dark-web nightmare machine, headed by the one man who years ago drove Darby to hide in the seamy environs of Old Town and make his life there. But Darby left his own mark back in the day, and the shadowy head of production has a grudge to settle. Rider has found him at long last and plans to make an example of him.

Dora Holler ha tredici anni e le idee chiare su ciò che non va nel mondo. Adesso si è data una missione: salvare il nido di una lince. Perciò scappa di casa con Gert, uno che ha conosciuto su Internet. Solo che Gert è un adulto e, soprattutto, il movimento ecologista di cui dice di far parte non esiste. Gert le ha mentito; mente sempre, perfino a sé stesso. Una fuga che doveva essere un viaggio iniziatico si trasforma in un incubo, impigliandosi nelle maglie di un disegno spaventoso che parte da molto lontano.

Standing quietly at the elevator door to the North Tower of the Ultimo Hotel in Las Vegas, JW watches the numbers go down as the elevator descends to him. He thinks—sixty-five floors? There is a serial killer up there! If the mission is a success, it means a second career chasing serial criminals with a special FBI task force. If not, the Lieutenant will be going home defeated and outsmarted by a warped criminal mind. JW needs this to work; he needs another chance at the man who shot him. The elevator doors open, and the team steps aboard.

Three weeks on from that night and ChameleoMan & friends are riding high after their first vigilante victory... but Dan & his cats are about to face something far deadlier. Stopping a mugging was almost too easy, but when a body turns up in the industrial estate, Dan begins to wonder if the superhero life is really for him. Catman is missing, the police are asking questions, and shadowy figures stalk the street at night. With time running out, Dan, Andrew, and the Flash must race to uncover the truth—before the law starts pointing fingers at them. But something darker lurks in the shadows.

Read with warmth and humour by Imogen Church, narrator of Bridget Jones's Diary and Jill Mansell's Maybe This Time' Join Lulu Lewis, a retired detective with a knack for uncovering secrets, and Conrad, her extraordinary talking cat, as Christmas cheer gives way to festive fear . . . Hoping for a...

The BRAND NEW cozy mystery from Mary Grand, author of the NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A Christmas Murder

Susan never imagined herself an amateur sleuth, and she certainly never goes looking for trouble, preferring days spent walking her loyal dogs Libs and Rocco, and maybe even a dip in the sea to cool off after this interminable heatwave. When she hears of a break-in at the vet's where her new neighbour works, Susan's curiosity is piqued. And then, a few days later, the lead vet, Peter, mysteriously disappears. They assume it's business related until his body is washed up on the beach close to his clifftop home.

'A terrific read - murder, arson and a cat who is so much more than he seems!' – J. M. Hall, author of A Spoonful of Murder The Cat Who Solved Three Murders by L T Shearer is a charming cosy crime read for fans of Richard Osman and S. J. Bennett. Retired police detective Lulu Lewis’s life...

Bei einem Ausflug zum Strand führt Kater Brown sein Frauchen Alexandra Berger zu einem bewusstlosen Mann mit einer Kopfwunde. Der stellt sich als Jan Veerdijk heraus, ein früheres Mitglied einer berühmten Boyband. Als er aufwacht, erzählt er panisch, dass ihn jemand töten wollte. Ein Schuss habe ihn nur knapp verfehlt, und beim Sturz habe er sich den Kopf angeschlagen. Doch was den Niederländer nach Greyman's Hollow führt, will er nicht verraten. Ist er etwa in illegale Geschäfte verwickelt? Und dann gibt es den ersten Toten, und alle Spuren führen zu Veerdijk.