Résultats pour "Das Echo" dans Fiction criminelle

In 1993, Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket. Harry Bosch worked the case but couldn't crack it, and the 22-year-old was never found. Now, more than a decade later, with the Gesto file still on his desk, Bosch gets a call from the district attorney. A man accused of two heinous murders is willing to come clean about several others, including the killing of Marie Gesto.

For maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal...because the murdered man was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who had fought side by side with him in a hellish underground war. Now Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam. From a dangerous maze of blind alleys to a daring criminal heist beneath the city, his survival instincts will once again be tested to their limit.

After a party in New York, Lieutenant Eve Dallas rides home with her billionaire husband, Roarke, happy to be done with cocktails and small talk. After another party, not far away, a woman retires to her bedroom with her husband - and walks into a brutal nightmare. Their paths are about to collide....

Echoes is the debut novel by Haiden Charles. It is a quietly haunting story set in the small town of Keaton, Indiana. Through the perspective of an unnamed observer, ordinary nights and familiar country roads take on an unsettling, almost otherworldly quality, as events unfold through a lens that feels both distant and alien. Reality and imagination blur, leaving an eerie sense of detachment and quiet dread.

A serial killer has resurfaced. Or is it a copycat killer in the north country woods this time around? The two grown children of the previous serial killer victim, and married park ranger, from Echoes of the Past return to battle the apparent cause of the suitcase killing spree, but appearances may be deceiving.

Told from two different perspectives, Leah and her brother Jake, this suspense novel tells about when a forty-two-year-old married park ranger and mother of two grown children goes missing during the suitcase killer spree; everyone believes the serial killer is at fault. A serial killer known to decapitate and dismember his victims, stuffing most of the body parts in a suitcase but leaving the head or a limb around town to frighten unsuspecting passersby.

Still reeling from a brutal case in Guatemala, forensic accounting investigator Sam Halloran throws himself into what should be a routine Chicago Public Schools fraud investigation—and walks straight into a nest of political greed, mob pressure, and buried secrets powerful enough to destroy lives.

When a tenement block erupts in flames on Langdon Rise, six lives are lost—including a disgraced MP under investigation for corruption. To DCI Naomi Cresswell, the blaze is anything but random. The survivors are terrified. The evidence is vanishing. And scrawled into a soot-stained wall is a symbol Naomi thought she’d left behind in childhood nightmares. As she digs deeper into the ashes, whispers of a rogue police unit—the Grey Watchmen—begin to surface. Disbanded. Denied. Buried. But not forgotten.

Former NYPD detective Bart Sullivan has built a sanctuary for his family in the peaceful hills of North Carolina. Nobody can bother them here. But no matter how hard he tries, Bart is unable to silence the ghosts of his dark past; indeed, these ghosts are determined to track him down and make him answer for what he’s done. When a mysterious letter arrives, Bart learns a devastating secret: Maria, the woman who once saved his life during his undercover years, is dead—and she left behind a shocking secret.

FBI Special Agent Dom Walker has worked cold cases before. But when Mila Pascale—the reclusive, razor-sharp researcher—uncovers a new lead in her brother's seven-year disappearance, this one hits different. Officially, the trail went cold. Mila never stopped chasing it. Now, with analyst Lea Peck—sharp-tongued and sharper-minded—and forensic accountant and unshakable ally Owen Whyte by their side, Dom and Mila follow the thread west to the windswept silence of Wyoming's open range.

Fifteen years ago, I fled Oria, Texas in my prom dress like the town’s ghosts were chasing me. Turns out… they were. After a near-death experience in L.A., I’ve come home with a “gift” I never asked for: I can hear the dead. Loud and clear. The first ghost to find me? My childhood nemesis. He’s very dead, very annoying, and very determined that I solve his murder. Now I’m tangled in Oria’s dark history, haunted by snarky spirits, dangerous secrets, and an infuriatingly hot sheriff I should definitely not fall for.

It’s 20 years since Alice went missing. There’s never been any trace. Until now. Until some bones are found in a shallow grave on the cold, bleak North York Moors. But is it Alice? Or Becky? The other girl–who disappeared a month earlier…

In Echoes of the Lost: The Guardian of the Forgotten, Chandraish Sinha spotlights an engrossing tale of strength, mystery, and the tenacious pursuit of justice.

After a summer spent off the grid in the Colorado Rockies, Detective Jack Martin returns to Telluride and finds the sheriff looking for him. Local school boys have found a body in an abandoned mine with a long history of betrayal and greed. Law enforcement needs Jack’s help to find the killer. But when the number of murder suspects mounts, Jack finds himself in the dark, struggling to piece together the clues. And as his investigation intensifies, so does the danger. Will an avalanche of small-town secrets bury him alive?

In 1993, Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood. Harry Bosch worked the case but couldn't crack it, and the 22-year-old woman never turned up, dead or alive. Now Bosch is in the Open-Unsolved Unit, where he still keeps the Gesto file on his desk, when he gets a call from the DA. A man accused of two heinous killings is willing to come clean about other murders, including the killing of Marie Gesto.

In this gripping, unforgettable thriller for fans of James Patterson and Lisa Gardner, someone is recreating infamous unsolved murders… and the killer is closer than anyone could imagine. Fall in Philadelphia. A man’s corpse is found in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. It’s...

In a city where shadows hide secrets and danger lurks at every corner, Detective Mia Sullivan is determined to uncover the truth. With keen intuition and a personal vendetta against the darkness haunting her past, she will stop at nothing to protect her city. When a series of gruesome murders linked to a mysterious vampire threatens to unravel society's very fabric, Mia finds herself racing against time. As she delves deeper into the underworld of supernatural beings, she must confront her own fears and the haunting echoes of her past.

Auf einer fröhlichen Hochzeitsfeier beobachtet die 49-jährige Marie eine gruselig verkleidete Gestalt, die die Braut entführen will. Zuerst denkt sie noch an einen misslungenen Scherz, doch als ein Gast dazwischen geht, tötet ihn der Vermummte kaltblütig und entkommt. Danach ist für sie und die 26-jährige Lena nichts mehr, wie es war. Was bleibt, ist Angst: Wird der Mörder mit der lila Rose wieder zuschlagen? Georg Krammer, der ermittelnde Polizeibeamte, kann es nicht ausschließen, nachdem die dünngesäten Spuren im Sand verlaufen.

1992. Ein kleiner Junge wird Zeuge eines schrecklichen Verbrechens. Jahre später begleitet die 28-jährige Lena ihren Jugendfreund zu einer Preisverleihung. Dort lernt sie den skrupellosen Filmproduzenten Konrad Felsinger kennen und trifft eine fatale Entscheidung. Zu spät erkennt sie die Gefahr, in die sie nicht nur sich selbst begibt. Die 50-jährige Marie hat indes ihren Frieden gefunden, denn sie trauert nicht mehr um Christian Gottlieb. Dieser außergewöhnliche Mann, der ihr so viel bedeutet hat und dessen plötzliches Verschwinden sie einst völlig aus der Bahn geworfen hat.

"I'm really getting exhausted from people forcing me to kill them. My plea for mercy is quite simple — don't cheat on your partner." Secrets linger like shadows in Joplin, Missouri, where the sins of infidelity have a deadly consequence. When a serial killer terrorizes the town, preying on those who break their vows, one woman manages to escape, aiding in the capture of this ruthless killer. But when new threats start appearing and her abusive ex resurfaces from the dead, Angela's world spirals into a web of deceit.