Résultats pour "Maria" dans Policiers et crimes internationaux

Alors que des nuages noirs s'amoncellent au-dessus d'une île au large de la Suède, la commissaire Sanna Berling découvre un jeune homme mourant dans une ferme abandonnée. L'image de son corps couvert de blessures et ses derniers mots se gravent dans sa mémoire : " La fille... " L'enquête plonge Sanna et sa partenaire Eir Pedersen dans un monde violent, sous l'emprise d'adolescents délaissés, qui terrorisent les habitants de l'île et font ressortir les fantômes du passé.

Attorney Craig Malcault’s special problem is a blessing in disguise: Colleagues in the intelligence community at times do not trust the mental faculties of the rogue, former special operations agent. He could have been Craig’s favorite client. The international spy rings with their own agendas need his expertise. Ara Pacis,’ the failed state’s notorious, covert leadership is preparing for another power grab, but now the complete destruction of Ara Pacis by any means is the spy rings’ ultimate goal.

When Washington D.C. human rights attorney Craig Malcault’s investigations uncover connections to U.S. military intelligence and the mysterious wife of an international biochemical conglomerate’s founder, the assassins are dispatched. Craig’s job is to extract evidence from the hellish pitfall while the top candidate is en route to face and pass his final test.

Attorney Craig Malcault has survived an assassination plot over his possession of top-secret intelligence. He thought he had rebuilt his life at his new law firm in New York City, with a tycoon's taboo divorce case to pay the bills. But when the provocative, hypnotic lady client refuses to desert her cruel, blood-thirsty husband, Craig knows his enemies are a step ahead in the game. Business has been lucrative in the code-named territory in Latin America that Craig saved from annihilation a decade ago.

Kommissarin Thea Molt reist nach Mallorca, um mit ihrem Freund, Sargento David Martinez von der Guardia Civil, in einer einsamen Berghütte im Tramuntana-Gebirge ein paar erholsame Tage zu verbringen. Doch mit der Idylle ist es schnell vorbei, als der romantische Rückzugsort zum Schauplatz eines Verbrechens wird. Zwei Leichen liegen inmitten eines Filmsets am Gorg-Blau-Stausee. Drapiert wie das Liebespaar aus der mallorquinischen Sage »Romeo und Julia von Almallutx« werfen die Toten Rätsel auf.

When a crime on a beautiful Italian island stumps the police, locals turn to the trusted elderly widow Nonna Maria in this transporting mystery from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lorenzo Carcaterra, “one of the all-time greats” (Jeffery Deaver). “An utterly delightful tale starring...

Kommissarin Thea Molt ist zurück auf Mallorca. Und kaum ist sie auf der Insel angekommen, wird sie schon wieder in einen mysteriösen Fall verwickelt. Ein deutscher Student ist verschwunden. Die mallorquinische Polizei glaubt nicht an ein Verbrechen. Doch seine Freundin ist vollkommen verzweifelt und bittet Thea um Hilfe. Entschlossen, die Wahrheit aufzudecken, stößt Thea auf ein tödliches Netz aus Lügen und Intrigen. 

Kommissarin Thea nimmt sich gerade eine berufliche Auszeit, als ihre Freundin sie um Hilfe bittet: Thea soll ihr in ihrem Feinkost-Laden auf Mallorca aushelfen. Die ersten Tage im malerischen Küstenort Paguera sind herrlich, doch dann wird ihr Nachbar ermordet! Thea ist schockiert und beginnt auf eigene Faust, Nachforschungen anzustellen. Dabei gerät sie mit dem spanischen Polizisten David Martinez aneinander. Doch Thea wird seine Hilfe noch brauchen. Denn sie ahnt nicht, was sie mit ihren Ermittlungen losgetreten hat...

Nonna Maria, “one of the most charming amateur sleuths ever created” (Tess Gerritsen), dodges assassins and hunts for hidden treasure in this transporting mystery from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lorenzo Carcaterra. As Nonna Maria’s longtime pal and sometimes colleague, Captain...

Noora Nieminen was destined to become a world champion. But when the sixteen-year-old skating sensation is found slain with her own skates, her promising career is unexpectedly cut short. Detective Maria Kallio is seven months pregnant, but that isn't going to stop her from putting everything she has into solving the murder. With a promotion on the line and her arrogant adversary, Pertti Ström, vying for the new job, Maria is determined to make an arrest.

When the well-known director of a women's retreat center goes missing, Espoo Police Detective Maria Kallio is called to investigate. As the missing woman's friends and family quickly become the pool of suspects, Maria must soften her tough interrogation style to uncover the information she needs to solve the crime. Meanwhile, a killer Maria put in prison escapes and sets out to take revenge.

For artist Gabriela Martinez, life has become complicated: She suspects her mentor and friend wants her as his mistress, her husband is neglecting her, and her latest illustration is ruined. Seeking peace, she visits her favorite thinking spot in La Marbriére, the mountain overlooking her home in the Côte d’Azur. Distracted, she winds up in an unfamiliar clearing, where she discovers a 1945 French coin half-buried in the ground. Delighted with its beauty, she has it set on her favorite bracelet.

A disused quarry. A suspicious death. A dark past bubbling to the surface . . . Detective Inspector Karen Eiken Hornby is one of the few female police officers on the remote island nation of Doggerland, situated in the North Sea between the UK and Denmark. Though she returned to her homeland...

A remote island. A brutal murder. A secret hidden in the past . . . In the middle of the North Sea, between the UK and Denmark, lies the beautiful and rugged island nation of Doggerland. Detective Inspector Karen Eiken Hornby has returned to the main island, Heimö, after many years in London...

El narrador y protagonista, Jacques o Jaime o Jacobo Deza, acaba por conocer aquí los inesperados rostros de quienes lo rodean y también el suyo propio, y descubre que, bajo el mundo más o menos apaciguado en que vivimos los occidentales, siempre late una necesidad de traición y violencia que se nos inocula como un veneno.

Mörderische Normandie. An einem Apriltag erhängt sich die vierunddreißigjährige Charline Lebreton in ihrer Zelle in der Haftanstalt Cherbourg. Ein halbes Jahr später wird auf Kommissar Ludovic Cleroc von der Kriminalpolizei Cherbourg ein Anschlag verübt. Er bittet seinen Freund, den ehemaligen Elitepolizisten Philippe Lagarde, um Hilfe. Bald darauf wird die Halbinsel Cotentin von einer Mordserie erschüttert. Eine Richterin und ein Anwalt werden ermordet. Gibt es da einen Zusammenhang? Lagarde ist sich ganz sicher.

From the outside, Bee Iverson and her fiancé, Aidan Shepard, look like any other happy couple - but looks can be deceiving. Not long into their engagement, secrets seep out of her past, lies surround them, and unwelcome surprises leak into their lives, breaking down Bee’s confidence not only in herself but in their relationship, too. Secret: Bee’s keeping a piece of her past from Aidan - for him. Aidan knows Bee’s a serial killer, preying on men as often as she can. In fact, their shared passion of such dark desires fuels their love for each other.

Venice, 1752. On a cold December night, a man is found strangled in a dark alley. High magistrate Marco Pisani is tasked with investigating the grisly murder. When two more bodies are discovered, it is clear there is a serial killer on the loose. Helped in his investigation by lawyer Zen, daring gondolier Nani and the cunning Chiara Renier, Pisani is determined to uncover the truth before the murderer strikes again. But to find answers, he must move among the city’s criminal underworld of spies, shady taverns and gambling halls.

The Euganean Hills golf community in northern Italy is a golfer's paradise. With a perpetual smell of freshly cut grass, rolling green plains, and bright blue skies, it seems nothing could go wrong for the tight-knit group that lives there. But the normally laid-back residents are shaken to their cores when one of their own turns up at the club brutally murdered. After discovering his friend's body, investigative journalist Riccardo Ranieri makes it his mission to track down the perpetrator of the heinous crime.

Al igual que en las grandes novelas de aventuras que se escribían a finales del XIX, y a las que Travesía del horizonte rinde cariñoso y también burlón homenaje, esta novela, publicada a los veintiún años, tiene como hilo conductor una atrevida expedición: el capitán Kerrigan, millonario y excéntrico, ha organizado un viaje a la Antártida para hombres de letras y científicos.