Résultats pour "Maria" dans Policiers et crimes internationaux

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

While her colleagues enjoy the seasonal festivities, DI Karen Hornby is called to investigate a suspicious death on the northernmost island of Doggerland. But how close to home is the truth of the case.

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.

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.

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.

Lieutenant Pat Colberg, a nurse aboard the hospital ship, USNS Comfort, is found dead early one morning on a beach in Puerto Rico. The Comfort is in the country to assist after the devastation of Hurricane Maria. Law enforcement authorities soon zero in on the man who was last with the lieutenant, and he hires the law firm of Diaz and Hardy to defend him and investigate the killing. They soon find themselves enmeshed in a web of drug and weapons trafficking, alien smuggling, murder, and kidnapping, amid the chaos of the hurricane's aftermath.

A whole family has been murdered with a pickaxe. They were old Danner the farmer, an overbearing patriarch, his put-upon devoutly religious wife, and their daughter, Barbara Spangler, whose husband, Vincenz, left her after fathering her daughter, Marianne. Also murdered was the Danners' new maidservant, Marie, who was regarded as slightly simple. Despite the brutal nature of the killings and the small village where it has taken place, the police have no leads. Officially the crime is unsolved. And then a former resident returns home....

Una sorpresa frustrada, un vuelo inesperado, una huida y un encuentro fortuito que cambiará las vidas de dos desconocidos. Daniela Mendoza y Edward Dankworth coincidirán por casualidad en un vuelo de Londres a Madrid y dos años después, en Roma, se reencontrará...

Unha casa, unha nena morta e só seis sospeitosos. Xiana Alén, unha nena de quince anos aparece morta na súa casa nunha luxosa urbanización das aforas de Santiago de Compostela. Os seus pais, a súa tía, unha parella de veciños e a súa tía avoa son as únicas persoas que puideron matala. Con esa hipótese de partida, Ana Barroso e Santi Abad, policías da comisaría de Santiago mergúllanse de cheo na vida da familia Alén Somoza para descubrir que pasou esa noite.

A detective, conspiracy thriller. Some people can’t let go of a grudge. Homicide Detective Sean Trann is learning this the hard way. He made the mistake of interrupting the killing spree of Boston’s most notorious serial killer, Spider. Intent on finishing what he started and infuriated at Sean’s previous involvement, Spider has decided to use those closest to Sean as pieces in his twisted game. Sean is the only one who can stop this executioner, but can he stay professional when his loved ones are on the line?