Résultats pour "Georgie" dans Fiction criminelle

Teo Bontempi, membre d'une brigade luttant contre les violences faites aux femmes, succombe à l'hôpital après avoir été retrouvée inconsciente dans son appartement londonien. Thomas Lynley et ses adjoints, Barbara Havers et Winston Nkata, découvrent bientôt lors de leur enquête que la policière, d'origine nigériane, avait été excisée dans son enfance. Teo s'intéressait d'ailleurs à une clinique qu'elle soupçonnait de mutilations génitales médicalisées, une pratique qui suscitait l'hostilité des exciseuses locales.

Avec ce livre audio, Elizabeth George fait de vous un auteur de roman policier. God save the Queen... du crime ! Par où commencer pour transformer une simple idée, souvent fugace, en un manuscrit redoutablement efficace ? Dans cet ouvrage, Elizabeth George - plus d'une vingtaine de romans à son actif et des millions d'exemplaires vendus - nous montre son envers du décor.

Una piccola città, La Rochelle, immersa in una gelida pioggia autunnale; borghesi all’apparenza insospettabili che giocano a bridge; una serie di strani delitti che viene improvvisamente a turbare la vita della città; e due personaggi si affrontano in una sorta di controcanto investigativo vibrante di tensione drammatica.

The career of George, the famed Greek mob boss, gets off to a bad start. As a teenager, he kills Joey, the man who might have been his father. Joey's twin brother, Lazarus, vows revenge. All George has to do to survive is to marry a Greek girl picked by his family. Unfortunately, George falls in love with Kelly, a girl who isn't Greek. She loves him. All she asks is that he leave his family. This is the first book in The Saga of George trilogy, a satire of mob novels. Set in the late 1960s, it blends Greek culture, mythology, and religious themes with sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

The vicious murder of a young socialite leads Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley into a web of false identities, hidden motives, and buried secrets that some might kill to protect—a thrilling novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Inspector Lynley series. Don’t miss the upcoming BritBox...

The producer of a troubled play invites the cast to spend the weekend in his remote Scottish Highlands estate to hash out the problems. When the housemaid finds the playwright murdered in bed, Thomas Lynley and his partner must unmask the villain.

DS George Cross can be rude, difficult, and awkward with people. But his unfailing logic and relentless pursuit of justice means his conviction rate is the best on the force. When a ravaged body is found in a local demolition site, it is up to Cross to piece together the truth from whatever fragments he can find. DS Cross has little to go on, but from the faint tan lines on the body and strange scars on his forearms, an identity gradually emerges. Cross mounts an investigation that will uncover jealousy, ambition and a family tearing itself apart.

Thomas Lynley torna a indagare affiancato dalla sua collega Barbara Havers e da Winston Nkata, da poco promosso detective, e il caso che devono affrontare richiederà tutte le loro abilità deduttive. Per le strade di Londra si muove un sinistro assassino. Sulla sua strada ha lasciato il corpo nudo e mutilato di un giovane adolescente e una serie di macabri indizi lasciano pensare all'opera di un serial killer. Lynley scopre presto che l'assassino ha già colpito altre tre volte, senza che la polizia sia arrivata a collegare i casi o a dare loro importanza.

The investigation of a young schoolboy’s murder leads Inspector Thomas Lynley into the sinister underbelly of an elite public school—a “spectacular” (Los Angeles Times) installment of the #1 New York Times bestselling Inspector Lynley series Don’t miss the upcoming BritBox streaming...

An eighty-year-old man is found murdered in his home. His age and standing in the community makes finding his killer difficult–why would anyone harm an elderly man? What threat could he possibly be to anyone? With no apparent motive, DS George Cross canvases the community for potential suspects but the man was known as generous, charitable, community-minded. Each interview about who the man is muddies the picture further. So Cross decides to look for who he was–revealing a past that is far less honourable than his present . . .

Depressed, lonely, and tired of life, George Thring leaves work one night but never makes it home. Before he knows it, he's driven over 200 miles in the wrong direction and finds himself in a strange little town, in the middle of nowhere, during their annual Elvis Presley appreciation festival. As he stumbles from one mishap to another, George meets the woman of his dreams, unwittingly aids in a bank robbery, and finds himself pursued by both the police and a gang of angry criminals.

Când în Pratoni de Vivaro, o localitate din apropiere de Roma, o mamă dispare împreună cu fiul ei, inspectorul-șef adjunct al Unității Mobile din capitala Italiei își cheamă în ajutor asistenta cea mai de încredere, pe Colomba Caselli. Împreună cu neobișnuitul Dante Torre, Colomba Caselli pornește fără voie o anchetă care le pune amândurora viața în primejdie. Ce încredere poate avea cu adevărat în ciudatul ei aliat? Ce legătură există între răpirea unui copil în urmă cu peste treizeci de ani, un atentat cu bombă la Paris și dispariția din Pratoni?

With her loving partner Rohan, her daughter Dixie-Lee, and a stunning new home, Georgie Deacon should at last be content–but she isn't. She senses she is being watched, and frightening flashbacks come back to haunt her. But worse is yet to come....

El cadáver de Kenneth Fleming, auténtica estrella del críquet en Inglaterra, aparece en la casa de campo de Miriam Whitelaw, una profesora retirada que años antes había sido mentora de Ken. Al principio, todo parece señalar que se trata de un desafortunado accidente, pero los indicios que encuentra la policía apuntan más bien hacia un homicidio premeditado.

La hija ilegítima de Dennis Luxford, director de un importante periódico londinense de la oposición, es secuestrada. La madre de la niña es Eve Bowen, miembro del gobierno conservador. Dennis y Eve mantuvieron una fugaz y pasional relación años atrás, cuando ninguno de los dos imaginaba el rumbo que tomarían sus vidas. Ahora, cuando ambos han guardado en estricto secreto la existencia de la niña y se enfrentan despiadadamente en la arena política, el secuestrador exige algo de consecuencias desastrosas: si quiere recuperar a su hija, Dennis deberá admitir públicamente, en la primera plana del periódico, su paternidad.

Quando il professor Azhar torna a casa e scopre che la figlia di nove anni è scomparsa insieme a quasi tutte le sue cose, non può che bussare disperato alla porta accanto e chiedere aiuto alla sua vicina e amica, il sergente Barbara Havers. Presto si scopre che a portar via la bambina è stata la madre, trasferitasi in Italia, a Lucca, per seguire il suo nuovo amore. In bilico tra i sentimenti e la ragione, Barbara si impegna a indagare ufficiosamente sul caso, ritrovandosi presto nei guai con i superiori a causa delle ingiustificate assenze dal lavoro.

Et teaterselskab fra London indlogerer sig på et koldt gods i Skotland for at blive præsenteret for deres nye og temmelig kontroversielle stykke. Næste morgen bliver stykkets forfatterinde, Joy Sinclair, fundet myrdet i sin seng, naglet til madrassen med en kniv gennem halsen. Scotland Yard sætter kriminalassistent Thomas Lynley og overbetjent Barbara Havers på opklaringsarbejdet med ordre om at holde sagen ude af pressen så længe som muligt.

VORHANG AUF FÜR EINEN MÖRDER. Zusammen mit Assistentin Barbara Havers soll Inspector Lynley die dunklen Machenschaften um die Ermordung einer jungen Londoner Theaterautorin aufklären. Seine Nachforschungen bringen Lynley zum ersten Mal mit den Prinzipien in Konflikt, die für ihn die Welt bedeuten: den festgefügten Regeln jener englischen Oberschicht, für die Tradition, Stolz und Familienbande wichtiger sind als ein Menschenleben.

Ein Elite-Internat: Tradition, Ehre und Leistung bestimmen das Leben der Schüler. Ausgerechnet hier wird eines Tages die Leiche des kleinen Matthew Whateley gefunden, und damit beginnt die Fassade von Moral und Kameradschaft zu bröckeln. Bei ihren Nachforschungen treffen Inspector Lynley und Sergeant Barbara Havers von Scotland Yard allerdings auf eine Mauer des Schweigens.

El Inspector Lynley, Deborah y sus amigos Helen y Simon pasan unos días en la casa familiar del primero, en Cornualles. Su visita coincide con un hecho que perturba la placidez de la vida pueblerina: el asesinato y castración de Mick Cambrey, un conocido donjuán local. Su muerte, y la posterior de Justin Brooke, biólogo y novio de la hermana de Simon, parecen deberse a las drogas. Pero la investigación de Lynley y Simon desvelará un universo de ambiciones más oscuras, más implacables.