Résultats pour "Max" dans Fiction criminelle

La Rochelle, mois de juillet. Une femme est retrouvée égorgée chez elle face à son fils de dix ans ligoté, qu'un bandeau et un casque audio ont préservé de l'intolérable spectacle. C'est la deuxième en l'espace de quelques semaines et les flics n'ont pas la moindre piste. Le commissaire Baccaro va alors faire appel à Victor Caranne, psychologue carcéral et oreille préférée des criminels multirécidivistes de la prison de l'île de Ré. Mais le tueur est une ombre insaisissable qui va bientôt faire basculer la ville dans la psychose.

A former Medal of Valor winner, Minnesota detective Alexander Rupert is now under subpoena by a grand jury on suspicion of corruption. So when he's asked to look into the false identity of a car-accident victim named James Putnam, a man who in fact died 15 years earlier, Rupert sees a potentially big case and an opportunity to regain his respectability. But the investigation puts him in the path of "the Beast", the nom de guerre of Drago Basta, a cunning veteran of the Balkan wars.

A lawyer is found dead at sunrise on a lonely clifftop at Dunnet Head on the northernmost tip of Scotland. It was supposed to be his honeymoon, but now his wife will never see him again. The case is linked to several mysterious deaths, including the murder of the lawyer’s last client—Scotland’s most notorious criminal...who had just walked free. DS Max Craigie knows this can only mean one thing: they have a vigilante serial killer on their hands.

Sanger Entertainment is more than an event planning business. It covers up many evils for another business, which is more profitable. There are four original partners of Sanger Entertainment. Are these men as evil as the business they conduct? Sanger Entertainment Event Planners: No party too big or too small. Max is the fourth partner this series explores.

Max and Angela are going down. When we last saw Max Fisher and Angela Petrakos, Max was being arrested by the NYPD for drug trafficking, and Angela was fleeing the country in the wake of a brutal murder. Now both are headed for eye-opening encounters with the law - Max in the cell blocks of Attica, Angela in a quaint little prison on the Greek island of Lesbos.

Max Ringo was once a courtroom star at an elite law firm. Then a car accident left her addicted to painkillers, and her life dissolved into shambles. Now fresh out of rehab and making a comeback as a mediator, she gets her shot at redemption when she is appointed to handle a high-stakes divorce. But as Max begins negotiations between the two notorious power players, the trap is already sprung. The husband kidnaps her teenage son, Nathan, and gives her a chilling ultimatum: settle the case on his terms…or the boy dies.

Max Bischoff, begnadeter Fallanalytiker, ermittelt in seinem 5. Fall – Der neue Thriller von Nr. 1-Bestseller-Autor Arno Strobel Fallanalytiker Max Bischoff und Handschriftenexperte Marvin Wagner stehen kurz vor der Eröffnung ihrer gemeinsamen Detektei WaBi Investigations, als in Düsseldorf der neunjährige Sohn eines Richters entführt wird. Ausgerechnet ein Häftling will nun, dass Max und Marvin in der Sache ermitteln. Rainer Klinke sitzt wegen Entführung einer Minderjährigen in U-Haft und fürchtet, dass er eine Mitschuld an dem aktuellen Fall tragen könnte.

They came for his family. Now he’s coming for them. Max Havok had the perfect life: a beautiful wife, twin daughters, and a thriving business built from scratch. He was a good man. A family man. But that’s not who he’d always been. For twenty years, he kept the door locked on a violent past—a past where he’d learned the only justice that mattered was the kind you took for yourself. On an ordinary Wednesday night, that locked door is blown off its hinges. A brutal home invasion destroys his world; a tragedy the police dismiss as a burglary gone wrong.

Auf einer Beerdigung steht Fallanalytiker Max Bischoff plötzlich einer Frau gegenüber, die seiner großen Liebe Jennifer Sommer zum Verwechseln ähnlich sieht. Aber Jennifer ist seit fünf Jahren tot. Und Max gibt sich noch immer die Schuld daran. Die Begegnung lässt ihm keine Ruhe, und er spricht die Unbekannte an. Sie ist ebenso erstaunt wie er, es gibt keine Verbindung zu Jennifer.

The delegates—or as Kirill thought of them, “The Seven Deadly Sins”—were not people who had brought happiness into the world. For the sake of his own survival and longevity, he had to remain on guard for the entire duration of the conference. Some periods in life are quite literally life-or-death moments, and this conference would be a long series of such moments.

Max Archer is a new kind of detective: Ex-Pro Wrestler, Ex-Custodian, Ex-Husband, and Ex-Toenail Fungus Sufferer. Nothing phases him except a good-looking gal named Sparkles and her dog Cuddles, the diamond-studded dog collar the mutt wears, and his boss, Derringer, and the chief of police Mick, and well, let’s say he is befuddled. Besides, he has an AI attached to him who wants to be his soulmate. Yeah, he falls in love and does whatever he can to find the mutt, the collar, and get Sparkles in the sack. Meanwhile, others search for the collar and find more blood than gleam.

Let the punishment fit the crime. No unit inside King’s Court Prison is more brutal than the newly refurbished “M” Division. Dubbed “Mayhem” by the inmates, the only ticket needed to gain entry is a life sentence, and cells are filling up fast. With death the only way out of this hell on earth, some are willing to risk everything for one final chance at freedom. After foiling an escape attempt by several prisoners, new guard Tyler White reaches out to the one man who saved him from certain death, the mysterious prisoner in Cell 9.

In a remote sea loch on the west coast of Scotland, a fisherman disappears without trace. His remains are never found. A young man jumps from a bridge in Glasgow and falls to his death in the water below. DS Max Craigie uncovers evidence that links both victims. But if he can’t find out what cost them their lives, it won’t be long before more bodies turn up at the morgue. Soon cracks start to appear in the investigation, and Max’s past hurtles back to haunt him.

DCI Max Wordsworth is called back to Ambleside in the English Lake District to handle a disturbing series of murders. It soon becomes apparent that these murders have an international dimension, and the professionalism of Wordsworth’s team is challenged when a senior officer from the Metropolitan Police is parachuted into the investigation.

The end of the world. MacDougall, a violent and ruthless prophet with visions of the apocalypse, returns to his old compound—and his old family. Sheriff Fitzroy, the man who put him behind bars, must protect Bentham County while protecting himself from the DEA. Meth cooks, biker gangs, and a corporation named Lokust should all say their prayers, because everyone knows: God is a killer.

One kid’s horrific journey behind the walls of maximum security and the price he paid for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Survival is just the beginning. Dylan is 18, scared, and sent to maximum security. The crime? Passed out drunk in the backseat of a car after his 18th birthday celebration. If he doesn’t fight, he dies. If he doesn’t run drugs, he dies. The Jesters have murdered his brother and recruited his cellmate, and this is now home. Welcome to MAX. There is no escape.

In remote Montana. Did Lucy Smith's husband deserve to die? She thought so; she killed him. Now she's on the run from his family - The Snakes. They are meanest band you will ever see - purveying "Snake Rock", gratuitous violence and drugs. Lucy makes it to San Francisco, but can her new friends, her new songs, or Skulk Rock save her? Can Jimmy "English" Smith (no relation) help her? Do they have Guardian Angels? Hell's Angels maybe? Pray for Lucy. Pray for James. Pray for San Francisco. Just pray; The Snakes are coming!

Long after leaving the trenches of combat, former soldier, Max Rossi, still did more before 5 AM than most people did all day. Only now as an elite operative for the military, his trenches are any part of the world his covert assignments take him. While as a fixer for his community his trenches are the many holes the dreads of society who prey on the innocent choose to dwell. No sooner had he returned from an assignment of the former had all hell broke loose in the latter. Now, fresh off the plane from a successful mission, Max finds himself needed on both sides of the Great Divide.

Tiberio Tanner wollte eigentlich nur den Südtiroler Frühling genießen. Doch als seine Lebensgefährtin Paula das geerbte Haus ihrer Tante in Naturns besichtigen will, finden sie im Keller die ermordete Leiche der Mieterin Ellie Dafatsch. Wer steckt dahinter? Und warum? Während Commissario De Santis in alle Richtungen ermittelt, stößt Tanner auf rätselhafte Zusammenhänge zwischen alten Feindschaften, dunklen Familiengeschichten und einem gefährlichen Glaubenseifer. Bald wird klar: Ellies Tod ist kein Einzelfall.

All Cynthia Webber has ever wanted was to keep her son safe. A career as a forensic accountant was supposed to help her do that, but Cynthia’s world is rocked to its core when four-year-old Luke goes missing from Chinook Centre, along with his grandmother.