Résultats pour "Polaris" dans Policiers et crimes internationaux

472 jours : c'est le temps qu'a passé Flora aux mains de son bourreau. 472 jours plongée dans un abîme de ténèbres, à n'espérer qu'une chose : survivre. Sortie miraculeusement de cette épreuve, elle cherche depuis à retrouver une existence normale. Pourtant, les murs de sa chambre sont tapissés de photos de filles disparues. Quand, à la recherche de l'une d'elles, Flora se fait de nouveau kidnapper, le commandant D. D. Warren comprend qu'un prédateur court les rues de Boston.

Le corps enfoui d'une enfant, découvert dans la steppe par des nomades mongols, réveille chez le commissaire Yeruldelgger le cauchemar de l'assassinat jamais élucidé de sa propre fille. Peu à peu, ce qui pourrait lier ces deux crimes avec d'autres plus atroces encore, va le forcer à affronter la terrible vérité.

In Japan's high-pressure exam world, truth is the hardest test of all Eighteen-year-old Mana pulls an all-nighter at her juku, a private Japanese cram school that specializes in helping students pass the once-a-year exams. She failed the year before but feels sure she’ll get it the second time—if she can stay awake. The Japanese saying, “Four pass, five fail,” presses her to sleep just four hours a day, and study the rest. When she wakes up in the middle of the night, head pillowed on her notes, she takes a break down the silent hallway.

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.

When a body of a woman is discovered at a lighthouse in the Icelandic town of Akranes, it soon becomes clear that she’s no stranger to the area. Chief Investigating Officer Elma, who has returned to Akranes following a failed relationship, and her collegues Sævar and Hörður commence an uneasy investigation which uncovers a shocking secret in the dead woman’s past that continues to reverberate in the present day.

Bei einer glanzvollen Operngala im Château Savigny in Frankreich genießt Cass Lynch den Erfolg ihrer Mutter, der gefeierten Sängerin Eugénie. Doch als auf den Shetlandinseln ein alter Wikingerschatz entdeckt wird und Cass in ihre Heimat zurückkehrt, mischen sich Glanz und Gefahr.

It's nearly Christmas in Oxford, and Detective Inspector Bridget Hart is enjoying a rare day off at Oxford's Christmas Market. A ghost tour seems like a fun way to round off the day. Until, that is, a brutal murder brings the evening to a tragic close. Torn between work and family commitments over the festive season, Bridget soon discovers that the ghost of Christmas past is reaching out to the present with fatal consequences.

It’s Midsummer’s Eve, the celebration of the longest day of the year, and on Sandhamn it’s the longest party of the year. But the fun comes to a dead halt when a young reveler is murdered, a teenage girl is found drugged and dazed on the beach, and other young women vanish. So far, what links the victims is a mystery. For Nora Linde and her new boyfriend, Jonas Sköld, the crimes are personal: one of the missing girls is Wilma, Jonas’s daughter. And her disappearance could test Nora and Jonas’s relationship in ways they never expected.

Gaillac, southwest France. Gil Petty, America's most celebrated wine critic, is found strung up in a vineyard, dressed in the ceremonial robes of the Order of the Divine Bottle and pickled in wine. For forensic expert Enzo Macleod, the key to this unsolved murder lies in decoding Petty's mysterious reviews - which could make or break a vineyard's reputation.

Ride along with Abu, a sharp-tongued street cop, and his partner Chuks, an ex-soldier turned policeman, as they patrol their daily beat in Ikeja. Follow Nafisa and Ismahila, rogue commandos going deep undercover on a mission to break a sex trafficking ring.

When the brutalized body of the local counsellor’s son is discovered, posed on his knees in the forest surrounding Cargill’s Leap, DCI Ross Fraser turns to troubled Forensic Psychologist Dr Chrissy Ferguson for help. But Chrissy is not in a helping mood. Emotionally scarred from their last case together and devastated by Ross’s abrupt departure from her life, Chrissy wants nothing to do with him or the investigation.

The city of Tafuna may be located on a tropical paradise, but it's no stranger to crime. Just like anywhere else in the world, it has its fair share of murder, drugs, and robbery. Which makes Apelu Soifua the perfect man for his job. He's a cop of two worlds: San Francisco, where he started his career, and now his native Samoa. Following up on a routine burglary call, Apelu heads to a palangi, or Caucasian, neighborhood. The victim, a VP at SeaKing Tuna—the largest employer on the island—reports only a few items missing.

Special Agent Stan Powell of the Portland, Oregon office of the FBI is brought in to consult on a case involving human remains discovered in the remote wilderness near Mount Hood. Little does Powell know, but what follows is the case of his young career and a roller coaster ride through the dark underworld of the tennis industry, with more twists and turns than he can count.

When Sir Reginald Sinclair, one of Britain's greatest actors, is found dead at his country estate along with his housekeeper and the local vicar, the pressure is on Detective Inspector Malcolm Goode and his team to solve the case quickly. But with very few clues and no obvious suspects, the investigation just seems to uncover the many secrets hidden away by the Sinclair family. With every new line of inquiry leading to another dead end and no motive to be found, finding a solution seems impossible.

While attending a crime scene on the outskirts of Maidstone, DI Kay Hunter makes a shocking discovery. The victim has been brutally cut to pieces, his identity unknown. When more body parts start turning up in the Kentish countryside, Kay realizes the disturbing truth–a serial killer is at large and must be stopped at all costs. With no motive for the murders and a killer who has gone undetected until now, Kay and her team of detectives must work fast to calm a terrified local population and a scornful media. When a third victim is found, her investigation grows even more complicated.

Nachdem Commissario Montalbano eine Schussverletzung auskuriert hat, kann er es kaum erwarten, sein gewohntes Leben wieder aufzunehmen. Sein nächster Fall, die mysteriöse Entführung einer jungen Studentin, gibt ihm jedoch so manches Rätsel auf: Zu viele Details passen nicht zusammen, die Aussagen der Zeugen widersprechen sich. Doch das Netz der Verwirrungen, das hier ausgelegt wurde, scheint undurchdringbar und der stille Rächer geduldig genug, um in aller Ruhe abzuwarten, bis sein Opfer in die verhängnisvolle Falle tappt.

Detective Norman is out of retirement and back on the beat in a rainy Welsh seaside town. Llangwelli might be short on sunshine, but it's certainly not short on murders . . . Norman may seem a bit old-fashioned, but he's always willing to learn from his band of misfit recruits. A battered body. A missing handbag. A false confession? The call comes on Monday afternoon. About to demolish a row of derelict cottages, workmen discover a body in the bedroom of Number 9. A young woman, expensively dressed in designer clothes. It's a mystery what she was doing there.

Dennis Milne, były policjant skazany w Wielkiej Brytanii za morderstwo, zostaje po zmianie tożsamości płatnym zabójcą działającym na Dalekim Wschodzie. Właśnie wykonał zlecenie – zlikwidował na Filipinach dziennikarza, którego śledztwo było dla kogoś niewygodne. Komisarz Tina Boyd wbrew opiniom kolegów i przełożonych nie wierzy, że inny dziennikarz, jej były kochanek, popełnił samobójstwo. Jest przekonana, ża został zamordowany. Chce dopaść sprawcę, a jeszcze bardziej jego mocodawcę. Jedyny trop prowadzi na Filipiny. To tylko kwestia czasu, aż dojdzie między nimi do konfrontacji.

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When East-End gangster and 'frenemy' to the Last Chance Saloon, Johnny Lucas, is accused of murdering a London gangland rival in his boxing club, he claims his brother was the killer. The only problem though is that his brother, Jackie, is actually Johnny's multiple personality. Pulled in to prove the case, DI Declan Walsh and his team soon realize that Johnny might be as innocent as he claims, as a new player is in town, claiming to be Johnny's brother Jackie in the flesh, a man who shouldn't exist yet can prove he does, is starting to carve out his own empire.