Résultats pour "Nick" dans Fiction criminelle

After private investigator Art Blakey is hired to find Gisela - the sister of femme fatale Inge Schwartz - dead bodies start to accumulate at an alarming pace. When Art discovers a shocking link to the kidnapper, he gets tangled in a web of lies, deceit, and passion. Soon, Art finds himself navigating a maze of ex-lovers, mafia gangsters, reporters, and art dealers

In Melbourne for a passing visit for a friend's birthday, Detective Sergeant Nick Vada meets the beautiful Evie Gibson. Twenty-four hours later, he is sitting in the lock-up of the Victorian police headquarters, arrested for murder. Detective Sergeant Eli Roberts is brought onto the case to investigate just what would cause the detective to snap and commit such a horrible crime. Detective Joanna Gray is sent in to assist the investigation and soon finds that not all is what it seems.

Detective Sergeant Nick Vada is sent to Blarnie with his partner Joanna Gray, two years on from Darcy's murder, to investigate the cold case, and uncovers further unsettling connections between the murder and the town's shadowy past. With the line between reality and the occult blurring, Nick and Joanna must confront the sinister forces and unravel a chilling conspiracy that threatens to engulf the town in darkness.

Introducing Punk Rock Private Eye, Nick Paras. He has to work on Christmas. He's got a new client, but taking care of the case isn't what he expected it to be, and it turns out he isn't who he expected to be.

In Knuckle Sandwich, years of drought come to a crashing end, but when it rains in New York, people get wet -- when it rains in L.A., people get killed. Ne’er-do-well punk rocker, Nick Paras accidentally becomes a private detective and has to find a missing goth girl. From ivory office towers to no-name clubs, the rain slick streets of Los Angeles won’t give Rachael up without a fight. Her family wants Nick to find her • But someone wants to kill him for trying.

When Kiwi backpacker Cody Short goes missing on one of the biggest cattle stations in Australia, the local police in the town of Secret find themselves out of their depth and forced to ask for assistance. Detective Sergeant Nick Vada is sent with his new partner, Probationary Detective Joanna Gray, to the harsh environment to search for Cody. He's also been asked to investigate the disappearance of another woman who went missing on the same station in mysterious circumstances a year ago.

My husband is planning to leave me soon, and he thinks that I don't know. Can you believe that after fourteen years of marriage and three kids, he simply wants to discard me like I am trash? Not going to happen. Throughout our entire marriage, he lied and I ignored it, he cheated and I still stood by his side. But now, he has double-crossed me, and dragging him through a messy divorce simply won't cut deep enough. No. I want my pound of flesh. Not literally, of course, because I'm no killer, but then again, thanks to my husband, I've developed a knack for lying.

Detective Silas Mercer comes home to a nightmare—his wife and son brutally murdered, their bodies arranged with an unsettling precision. He’s seen this before. The Ashfall Killer is back. But something about this case is different. The city feels hollow, abandoned. The rain falls in a steady, rhythmic pulse, never letting up. And no matter where he looks—his watch, his phone, the clocks on buildings—they all read 6:00. As he chases the killer through the desolate streets, the murders grow more grotesque, the patterns more twisted.

When 17-year-old Belle Smith is reported missing, the Darfield police are busy fighting one of the worst bushfires the region has ever faced. Twenty years later, the case that gripped the nation is resurrected when a smash hit podcast Into The Flames is released, posing the question: just what happened to Belle Smith? With public interest increasing in the cold case, DS Nick Vada is tasked with returning to Darfield to once again look into Belle's disappearance.

In this frantic thriller from acclaimed author R. J. Jagger, an up-and-coming associate attorney discovers that she's on a murder list and frantically searches for answers, not only to save her life but also to find out whether she was tricked into participating in a murder herself. Jim Michael Hansen, sometimes also writing as R. J. Jagger, is the author of over 25 hard-edged mystery and suspense thrillers, including the Nick Teffinger thrillers, the Bryson Wilde thrillers, and the Nicole Stone thrillers. In addition to his own books, he also ghostwrites for a well-known, bestselling author.

Five years ago, Jori-Ray Rose was Senator John Stone’s very beautiful and very secret lover. She was also the person who broke into his house one night and killed his daughter. It was one of Nick Teffinger’s first homicide cases. Every shred of evidence pointed to her—blood, DNA, surveillance, all of it. Teffinger never even had to seriously consider any other persons. The jury agreed and convicted her. Now, five years later, she has escaped from prison and is on the run. Instead of disappearing into the recesses of the world, however, she’s back in contact with Teffinger.

The British government is being blackmailed by criminals who got their hands on a quantity of plutonium left over from the Cold War. There is only one man who knows their identity and can prevent a disaster, but he is on the run for a murder he didn’t commit and has no intention of being found. As the authorities attempt to track him down, the clock is ticking, and they are running out of time. They pin their hopes on the fact that a bunch of amateurs won’t have nuclear technology and the worst they will manage is a dirty bomb.

A mysterious hanging in Helena takes Nick on a historical journey. A cowboy game in Bismarck turned deadly. Family gone wrong led to parricide in Pierre. The carnage of an unsolved mystery in Cheyenne leads to a shocking solution. He witnessed defenestration in Denver, and his photos held a critical clue.

In this riveting novella that will keep you guessing until the very last word, Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger is dragged into an impossible effort to save a beautiful TV correspondent who is chasing a deadly story that is now chasing her back.

When his sister goes on the run with a charismatic Indian rights activist wanted for murder, Loq risks everything to find her. He teams up with a beautiful police officer tracking a member of her own tribe who joined the fugitive too. Danger, desire, and treachery test the pair as they follow a trail through the wilds of Oregon, Idaho, and Montana made famous a century before during a legendary and bloody flight for freedom.

An NPR and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A Library Journal Best Thriller of the Year “A gamechanger. Nick Mason is one of the best main characters I've read in years.”—Harlan Coben From New York Times-bestselling, two-time Edgar-award-winning author Steve Hamilton comes an...

Eine unbekannte Tote wird auf dem Friedhof von Glansterville gefunden. Schnell ermitteln Inspektor Nick Foley und sein Team, dass es sich um eine Prostituierte aus einem anderen Ort handelt. Augenscheinlich ist sie an einer Überdosis gestorben. Bevor die Ermittlungen weiter vorangehen, wird Nick von dem Fall abgezogen. Stattdessen soll er nun Elisabeth McAllistor suchen, die in Dublin spurlos verschwunden ist. Dabei dringt er in die Geschichte der McAllistors ein und stößt auf ein langgehegtes Geheimnis der prominenten Familie.

Peter English can finally relax and enjoy a much-earned rest from murder, mayhem and everything else he went through in The Frame. Or, at least that's what he thought. A leisurely round of golf on a crisp fall Saturday morning with his dad and a couple of old friends. But when they arrive at the club, everything is shut down. Police cars, ambulances, the coroner's meat wagon, and his old partner from his days on the Memphis Police Department, Rudy Tobias, are on the scene. Scene? What scene?

Tired of the tales of vampires, werewolves, and fairies, and her part in them, Allison Petrovsky struggles to find her place in the world of the supernatural. She longs to be normal. With the deaths of family members and friends and a mysterious group on the rise, Allison’s boyfriend, Connor DeSalvo, is implicated in a murder. After Connor is forced to go into hiding while he struggles to prove his innocence, Allison discovers her best friend Scarlett is seemingly dead. Allison isn’t sure how much more she can handle.

In his 31st novel in the Jesse McDermitt Caribbean Adventure saga, Stinnett once more unites old characters with new, mixing cutting-edge technology with history in a tale of untold wealth, greed, and conflict.