Résultats pour "Art" dans Polars

Das THRILLER-Ereignis des Jahres! Im morgendlichen Schneegestöber an der Berliner Siegessäule steht ein verlassener Kleinlaster. Auf der Ladefläche findet die Polizei eine halbnackte tote Frau. Jemand hat ihr mit roter Farbe etwas auf den Körper geschrieben – die Adresse des Bundeskanzlers. Am Tatort trifft die unerfahrene und ehrgeizige Kommissar-Anwärterin Nele Tschaikowski auf den berüchtigten Ermittler Artur Mayer. Was sie nicht wissen: Das ist kein Zufall.

Du hast mein Leben aufs Spiel gesetzt. Und verloren. Art Mayer sucht nach Dana Karasch, der Mutter seiner kleinen Nachbarin Milla. Ohne jeden Erfolg, seit Monaten schon. Bis er einen anonymen Hinweis bekommt. Er führt ihn und Nele Tschaikowski zu einer Wohnwagensiedlung im Wald, fernab der Zivilisation. Doch statt der Verschwunden finden Art und Nele die Leiche eines der angesehensten Richter der Stadt. Wie ein Gekreuzigter hängt er von der Decke, den Bauch aufgeschlitzt.

Former police chief Katherine Sullivan has been called brilliant, brave, compassionate, and quirky, but after decades of crime fighting, this resilient grandmother with an artist's soul is discovering that retirement can be just as deadly as being on the job. When Katherine returned to her hometown, her only thought was to comfort her recently divorced daughter. That was before a young woman was found murdered on the estate of the town's richest family.

Bon appetit en Alsace! Laurent Wendling, ein junger Elsässer Landwirt, liegt erschlagen auf seinem Acker in der Nähe des idyllischen Örtchens Pfaffenhoffen. Noch am selben Abend verunglückt seine Frau mit ihrem Auto. Ex-Commissaire Jean Paul Rapp kennt die Familie persönlich und ist mit den Ermittlungen seines Nachfolgers Rimbout keineswegs einverstanden. Entschlossen macht er sich selbst daran, dem mysteriösen Fall auf den Grund zu gehen, und stößt dabei auf brisante Verwicklungen jeglicher Couleur.

Der Preis war ihr Tod – die packende Fortsetzung von Marc Raabes Der Morgen Eine Jägerin entdeckt im Königswald eine an einen Baum gefesselte Frau. Der Name der Toten alarmiert das BKA und wühlt die Öffentlichkeit auf. Charlotte Tempel ist eine gefeierte Wohltäterin. In Kürze sollte ihr der wichtigste europäische Medienpreis »Der Hirsch« verliehen werden. Art Mayer und Nele Tschaikowski ermitteln im Umfeld der Toten. Schnell gerät ihre 21-jährige Tochter unter Verdacht: Leo Tempel ist angeblich psychisch auffällig und unberechenbar.

FBI agent Ava James has made it her life mission to destroy the disturbing crime network that runs this world. After her best friend, Molly, was taken by traffickers, and her miraculous escape from their clutches. She dedicated her entire life to dismantling their evil wide-reaching web. Unfortunately, it seems there is no end to this enormous global enterprise. One that extends its claws from the nation’s capital to small villages. While Ava is wrapping up the Teagan Reese case, she receives surprising news.

When art conservator Alix London spots a forgery, she knows trouble will follow. So she’s understandably apprehensive when her connoisseur’s eye spots something off about a multimillion-dollar Jackson Pollock painting at Palm Springs’s Brethwaite Museum - her current employer. Alix is already under fire, the object of a vicious online smear campaign. Now the Brethwaite’s despicable senior curator, obsessed with the "maximization of monetized eyeballs," angrily refuses to decommission the celebrated Pollock piece.

Monty is a struggling, unknown artist, living in a loft in Soho. From his third floor walk up, he watches his beautiful neighbor as she comes and goes. Too shy and reclusive to ask her out, he paints her again and again. Suddenly the police are at his door. His goddess, his dream woman, is dead, and the police like him for the crime.As time passes, several other suspects come to the attention of the detective, Roarke, and the case is now not so open and shut. As the detective immerses himself in her life, it turns out that she has more than one secret.

In this sequel to Nine Hours to Kill (Book 13), Attorney R. Sloan is fighting to keep his client sane and sober as the police investigate the murder of her brother artist Steve Spaulding. The police believe she did it. She is the sole beneficiary of his multimillion-dollar estate. It gets worse. The police find that she has an ex-felon fiancé who they suspect may be her accomplice.

Following his recovery from a personal and professional trauma, DCI Cyril Bennett returns to discover a complex case involving the art world. Soon, he unearths a dark side of the industry where greed and dubious practices thrive and, where there is money to be made, violence and murder abound. Working their way through a maze of galleries, museums and the Internet, can Bennett’s team differentiate between real and fake?

In the past two months a thief has broken in to 18 markets in Los Angeles. There is no lead to his whereabouts and no clue to his identity.

An unidentified young girl, Jane Doe number 17, has committed suicide with a .22 caliber rifle. Or has she?

A string of safe burglaries breaks out in LA. For the past two months 35 safes have been broken in to. The police know that there is more than one man in the operation, but they do not have any leads to the thieves’ identities.

A bank robber using a sawed-off shotgun is traced through the first three digits of his license plate number.

A man posing as a doctor is burglarizing homes in the city. Marla Hutchins commits suicide after being robbed by the phony Dr. Schulte, owner of the Los Angeles College of Psychotherapeutics. The police have his description and must find him.

In four months, 15 food markets in Los Angeles have been held up and robbed. The bandit is well-dressed and well-armed, and a bright red Pontiac looks like a clue for the police.