Résultats pour "August" dans Policier

They call him el Carnicero—the Butcher. He is the most powerful drug lord on the planet, and when the city of New York incurs his wrath, he utters a single word: “¡Venganza!” With military precision, he strafes Central Park with 4,000 pounds of cocaine, killing hundreds of innocent people enjoying a summer afternoon.

It is 1914, and the storm clouds of war are building on the horizon. In Sydney, Josiah Steele is the new head of the family and grappling with his two very different sons - David, upstanding, decent and heir to the family enterprises; and Benjamin, wayward, restless and a magnet for trouble. To...

Der Inselpolizist Enrico Rizzi hat es auf Capri zumeist mit kleineren Delikten zu tun und daher genügend Zeit, seinem Vater in den Obst- und Gemüsegärten hoch über dem Golf von Neapel zu helfen. Bis mitten im August ein Toter in einem Ruderboot an den felsigen Strand getrieben wird: Jack Milani, Spross einer Industriellenfamilie und Student der Ozeanologie. Es ist der erste Mordfall für den jungen Rizzi, ein Fall, bei dem es neben der Aufklärung eines Verbrechens auch um die Zukunft der Weltmeere geht.

Bombenalarm an der Algarve. Es ist Hochsommer in Fuseta, dem kleinen portugiesischen Fischerort. Nach dem erfolgreichen Schlag gegen einen spanischen Drogenboss ist Soraia Rosado endlich zu Leander in die Villa Elias gezogen. Die beiden genießen ihre Zweisamkeit und lernen, was es bedeutet, wenn Aspie und Normalo zusammenleben. Doch die sommerliche Idylle wird jäh gestört, als eine Autobombe eine Bankfiliale in die Luft jagt und zwei Tage später drei Thunfisch-Trawler im Hafen von Olhão explodieren.

When an old acquaintance, finance magnate Eleanore Paget, hears August is back in town, she tries to hire him to investigate suspicious goings-on at her investment bank. August declines - detective work is no longer his beat. When Eleanore is found dead the next day of an apparent suicide, August doesn't buy it for a minute. His search for her killer will drag him into a rat's nest of Detroit's most dangerous criminals.

While Augusta Hawke is a successful author of eighteen crime novels, since her husband's death, she's been living vicariously through her Jules Maigret-like detective Claude and his assistant Caroline. Then a handsome police detective appears investigating a real-life mystery. Where are her neighbors, the Normans? No one has a clue what's happened—except Augusta. Although she isn't nosy, spending all day staring out the windows for inspiration means she does notice things. Like the Normans arguing. And that they've been missing a week.

The first four books in the Amazon best-selling Mackenzie and Manny killer mystery series. Mackenzie August's new life doesn't suit him. When he quit the LAPD to open up a private shop, he expected to settle into a quieter lifestyle, hiring out to law firms, home by dinner. Now, however, the feisty detective is bored and missing the action of a hot homicide investigation. It's a good thing, because the sleepy city is about to erupt...

Lady Eva Brackwell, qui doit se marier au comte de Dovercourt, demande à Sherlock Holmes de récupérer certaines lettres compromettantes actuellement entre les mains de l'odieux maître-chanteur Charles-Auguste Milverton.

What appears to be a random act of violence in Augusta, Georgia, has Detective Margo Bailey calling the number found on the body. When the voice on the other end of the line insinuates the crime may involve her family and be linked to another recent case, will Margo play the game to protect the ones she loves before time runs out and another person is harmed?

Following the tragic death of his brother, in addition to the impending failure of his marriage, Nathan Jones finds himself back in the same small town in which he grew up. Struggling to discover a new direction for his life, he copes by recreating high school antics with his buddies and dancing around a romance with an old family friend.

Die großen Detektive: Le Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin und Sherlock Holmes. 15 Kriminalgeschichten von Edgar Allan Poe und Sir Arthur Canon Doyle, gelesen von Richard Heinrich und Alex Bolte. Wenn es um das Genre der Kriminalerzählung geht, kommt man am Namen Sherlock Holmes nicht vorbei. Dabei wurde die Figur des genialen, exzentrischen Detektivs bereits viel früher von niemand Geringerem geprägt als dem Meister des Schaurigen und Mysteriösen: Edgar Allan Poe. Mit seinen Geschichten um C. Auguste Dupin legte Poe den Grundstein für das gesamte Kriminalgeschichtengenre.

Six suicide bombers have slipped into Singapore. Their mission: to set off explosives on the country's 55th National Day. They were sent by Tun, an Afghan with a tragic past. Trying to stop them is Inspector Rahim, who is tracking a new terror group. And caught up in the plot is Henry, a single parent whose wife revealed a terrible secret on her deathbed.

Mira James has had it up to here with Battle Lake, Minnesota. After her latest romantic prospects go bust, she’s ready to move back to the Twin Cities and get a lapful of cats. Funny how murder can stall the best-laid plans. Days before the August Moon Festival, high school cheerleader Lucy Lebowski, Mira’s library assistant and an all-around sweetheart, is murdered.

Mackenzie is a private investigator, and the first client at his new office is a knock out. Trouble is, she's also the Sheriff. A dangerous criminal has moved into Mackenzie's hometown, and to help identify him the Sheriff wants Mackenzie to accept a job teaching at an inner city high school. He'll be a bull in a china shop, so to speak. A china shop full of angry gang members.

When a sexy nudist hires him to protect her from whoever is threatening her life, Nick Bancroft becomes the target. Someone tries to burn him alive, beats the hell out of him, and, since that didn't run him off, uses him for target practice. Meanwhile, two people are murdered, Nick's true love, Maggie Atley, is more than somewhat perturbed by his relationship with his client, and a mysterious club seems to hold the answer. Nick survives another losing season by his beloved Chicago Cubs, a vicious attack by a couple of huge dogs, and eventually puts the finger on the bad guys.

Kommissar Häberles neuer Fall scheint klar: Der in einem abgeschiedenen Tal am Rande der Schwäbischen Alb tot aufgefundene Berater der Agentur für Arbeit wurde von einem seiner "Kunden" ermordet...

With its compelling portrayal of a paranoia-ridden Moscow and blockaded Berlin, The Moscow Defector sees Duchene and Sabine, torn apart by opposing ideologies, risk their lives to try to save one another. Evocative, gripping and full of twists, this taut thriller asks if lovers can reunite against an all-powerful regime.

“Dark August is a tightly-paced cauldron of a thriller about small town corruption, murder and mayhem, in the vein of Sharp Objects and All The Missing Girls. A macabre and confidently twisty debut.” — Lisa Gabriele, internationally bestselling author of The Winters An electrifying...

Eine verkohlte Leiche kann weder identifiziert werden, noch gibt es Anhaltspunkte, wer sie ausgerechnet neben einer militärischen Funkanlage auf der Hochfläche der Schwäbischen Alb abgelegt hat...

Ein Sommermorgen auf dem Sportflugplatz Hahnweide bei Kirchheim/Teck. Als die Sekretärin der Motorflugschule zu ihrem Büro fährt, packt sie das Entsetzen...