Résultats pour "Benjamin" dans Policiers et crimes internationaux

Die malerische Hafenstadt Barfleur ist berühmt für ihre Muscheln, die frisch aus dem Meer auf die Teller in ganz Frankreich gelangen. Jetzt aber kämpfen die Fischer um ihre Existenz: Denn die weltbekannten »Blondes de Barfleur« sind spurlos verschwunden und niemand weiß warum. Immer öfter entlädt sich die Verzweiflung der Seeleute in blindem Hass. Hat auch der Anschlag auf einen örtlichen Kapitän damit zu tun?

All his life, Matthew yearned to be somebody—anyone but the forgettable face in the crowd. Then came the day the sleek red car pulled up, and Mr. Lee offered him the world. It was everything Matthew ever wanted. Until it became everything he feared.

When the body of a radical protestor is found floating in one of Bologna's underground canals, it seems that most of the city is ready to blame the usual suspects: the police. But when private investigator Daniel Leicester, son-in-law to the former chief of police, receives a call from the dead man's lover, he follows a trail that begins in the 1970s and leads all the way to the rotten heart of the present-day political establishment.

La madrugada en que el cuerpo de Jimmy Minor aparece flotando en las oscuras aguas del canal, ni Quirke ni su hija Phoebe pueden intuir hasta qué punto esa muerte va a remover sus propias vidas. Mientras Phoebe abre los ojos a una sensualidad desconocida, la investigación arrastra a Quirke de regreso al infierno de su infancia en el orfanato católico de Carricklea. ¿Podrá descubrir qué callan los muros de Trinity Manor? Y si lo consigue, ¿será capaz de sobrevivir a la herida de los propios recuerdos y regresar a la superficie?

"Only in Bologna" reads the headline in the Carlino after a professor of music is apparently murdered leaving the opera. But what looks like an open-and-shut case begins to fall apart when English detective Daniel Leicester is tasked with getting the accused man off, and a trail that begins among Bologna's close-knit classical music community leads him to suspect there may be a serial killer at large in the oldest university in the world. And as Bologna trembles with aftershocks following a recent earthquake, the city begins to give up her secrets.

A famous Hollywood director arrives in Bologna to remake a cult film and the city's renown cinema archive decides to mark the occasion with a screening of the original, only to discover it has disappeared. After English detective Daniel Leicester follows the trail of Love Upon a Razorblade to an apparent murder-suicide, he begins to suspect there may be more at stake than missing negatives—could the film contain a clue to one of the city's most enduring mysteries?

On the brink of World War II, Jane Benjamin wants to have it all. By day she hustles as a tomboy cub reporter. By night, she struggles to raise her toddler sister, Elsie, and protect her from their mother. But Jane’s got a plan: she’ll become the San Francisco Prospect’s first gossip columnist and make enough money to care for Elsie. Jane finagles her way to the women’s championship at Wimbledon, starring tennis phenom Tommie O’Rourke. But then she witnesses Edith “Coach” Carlson, Tommie’s closest companion, drop dead in the stands of apparent heart attack.

In einer spannenden Rückblende wird Daniels Weg durch Goma nachgezeichnet. Nach der Drohung eines anonymen Anrufers macht er sich mit einem mulmigen Gefühl auf den Weg zu seinem Kontaktmann in der Stadt. Dort angekommen, wird seine böse Vorahnung bestätigt... In Boston beschließt Miles für die Ermittlungen in dem Mordfall eine alte Freundin zu Rate zu ziehen. Die bringt schon bald Licht ins Dunkel, sodass Miles und Sam beginnen, eine heiße Spur zu verfolgen. Doch die Zielperson führt das Ermittler-Duo aufs Glatteis.

Several goose hunters are found shot dead in rural Iceland, and detectives Gunnar Maríuson and Birkir Hinriksson are assigned to the case. Lead after lead goes cold before a mysterious letter arrives at the Reykjavik police department that reads, “My nature is to kill. I hunt men and never let go.” Gunnar and Birkir set a trap for the one they call “the Gander.” But the killer sends them on a deadly wild-goose chase, as lives hang in the balance.