Résultats pour "Rizzoli" dans Fiction

For the second time in his short life, Teddy Clock has survived a massacre. Two years ago, he barely escaped when his entire family was slaughtered. Now, at 14, in a hideous echo of the past, Teddy is the lone survivor of his foster family’s mass murder. Orphaned once more, the traumatized teenager has nowhere to turn - until the Boston PD puts Detective Jane Rizzoli on the case. Determined to protect this young man, Jane discovers that what seemed like a coincidence is one part of a killer’s mission.

A blessed event becomes a nightmare for pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli when she finds herself on the wrong side of a hostage crisis in this timely and relentless new thriller from the New York Times best-selling author of Body Double.

New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen knows how to expertly dissect a brilliantly suspenseful story, all the while keeping fascinated readers riveted to her side. By turns darkly enthralling and relentlessly surprising, The Keepsake showcases an author at the peak of her storytelling...

Boston Detective Jane Rizzoli is on the case of a big game hunter found dead in his apartment, alone with the body of a beautiful white snow leopard he had recently been commissioned to procure and stuff for a high-profile museum in the area. Medical examiner Maura Isles connects the case to a number of seemingly unrelated deaths where the victims have all been found hanging upside down, the hallmark of a leopard's kill.

In the murky shadows of an alley lies a female’s severed hand. On the tenement rooftop above is the corpse belonging to that hand, a red-haired woman dressed all in black, the body nearly decapitated. Two strands of silver hair — not human — cling to her body. They are Rizzoli’s only clues, but they’re enough for her and medical examiner Maura Isles to make a startling discovery: This violent death had a chilling prequel.

Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles - the crime-solving duo who inspired the smash hit TNT series - return to investigate the gruesome staged murder of a horror film producer in this edge-of-your-seat thriller.

In her most masterful novel of medical suspense, New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen creates a villain of unforgettable evil--and the one woman who can catch him before he kills again. He slips into their homes at night and walks silently into bedrooms where women lie sleeping...

Something terrible has happened in the snowbound village of Kingdom Come, Wyoming, where 12 eerily identical houses stand dark and abandoned. Meals remain untouched on dining room tables, cars are still in garages, and the town's residents have vanished into thin air. This is the disturbing setting where vacationing medical examiner Maura Isles and her traveling companions find themselves trapped during a ferocious snowstorm.

It is a boiling summer in Boston. Adding to the city's woes is a series of shocking crimes that end in abduction and death. The pattern suggests one man: "The Surgeon," serial killer Warren Hoyt, known for his partial dissection of his victims, and recently thrown behind bars. Police can only assume an acolyte is at large, a maniac basing his attacks on the twisted medical techniques of the madman he so admires.

Quando gli chiedono qual è il problema con gli adolescenti di oggi, il dottor Mauro Rolli non sa cosa rispondere. Alle diagnosi facili e alle etichette ha sempre preferito l'ascolto: leggere gli sguardi, interpretare il linguaggio del corpo. Dopo un inizio in ospedale, ha abbandonato la carriera in psichiatria, mettendone in discussione i metodi di cura. Per questo ha fondato a Roma il Centro La Ginestra, uno spazio di accoglienza e dialogo, dove i ragazzi si sentono finalmente visti. Mauro non cura dall'alto: si siede accanto a loro. Li ascolta.

Sie sind die einzigen Überlebenden schrecklicher Familientragödien. Erst wurden ihre Eltern und dann obendrein die Pflegefamilien brutal er mordet. In Abendruh, einem Internat in der Abgeschiedenheit Maines, sollen sie ihre Sicherheit wiedergewinnen und in ein normales Leben zurückfinden. Doch obwohl die Schule hermetisch gesichert ist, kommt es zu höchst beunruhigenden Vorfällen, und drei Jugendliche bangen um ihr Leben.

No one takes readers to the dark side and back with more razor-sharp jolts and sheer suspense than the storytelling master behind Ice Cold and The Keepsake. When New York Times best-selling author Tess Gerritsen has a tale to tell, put yourself in her expert hands and prepare for the shocks and thrills that are certain to follow.

Vor dem Haus von Maura Isles wird eine Frau erschossen. Detective Jane Rizzoli glaubt zunächst, ihre Kollegin selbst sei das Opfer, da kehrt Maura von einem Kongress zurück - erschöpft, aber lebendig. Schockiert erfährt Maura, die weder von einer Schwester noch von ihren leiblichen Eltern etwas weiß, dass es sich bei der Leiche um ihren Zwilling handelt.

Wohliger Schauer oder nackte Angst? Was, wenn die Geistergeschichten Ihrer Kindheit wahr würden? Jahraus, jahrein werden sie an den schrecklichen Tag erinnert, da in einem kleinen Restaurant in Chinatown ein Amokläufer ihre Angehörigen hinrichtete. Doch wer schreibt die Briefe, die besagen, dass der wahre Täter noch immer nicht gefasst sei?

Julia Hamill ist schockiert: Bei Gartenarbeiten stößt sie auf die Überreste eines menschlichen Skeletts. Dr. Maura Isles wird als Pathologin hinzugezogen und stellt schnell fest: Die Gebeine stammen von einer jungen Frau, die offensichtlich ermordet wurde – und zwar vor zweihundert Jahren. Wer ist die Tote, und wer hat sie heimlich im Garten des alten Herrenhauses verscharrt? Die Neugier lässt Julia keine Ruhe. Ihre Nachforschungen führen sie in die Vergangenheit der medizinischen Fakultät der Bostoner Universität. Boston 1830: Ein brutaler Mörder treibt sein Unwesen in der Stadt.

Chicago 1993. Elizabeth e Jack sono arrivati nella grande metropoli a vent'anni, due origini molto diverse, ma lo stesso obiettivo di costruirsi una vita. Elizabeth studia psicologia, Jack è fotografo. Una sera, a un concerto, Jack si fa coraggio e avvicina Elizabeth invitandola a bere qualcosa. Il periodo dell'università vissuto insieme è esaltante, ma a distanza di vent'anni, dopo il matrimonio, dopo un figlio, cosa resta?

Napoli, anni Cinquanta. Una città tanto piena di luce da sembrare quasi fatata. Ma anche devastata dalla guerra e dimenticata dalla storia. Da lì, all'improvviso, una ragazzina viene portata via, lasciando per sempre il padre nell'ombra di una casa elegante e fatiscente. Lei crede di dimenticarlo ma, molti decenni dopo, la morte di un amico e maestro amato, lo scrittore napoletano Raffaele La Capria, fa riemergere dal fondo della memoria l'immagine di lui. Della stessa generazione, i due uomini hanno avuto un diverso destino: l'uno realizzato nei suoi libri, l'altro murato nella sua solitudine.

Der erste Fall für Detektive Jane Rizzoli. In Boston dringt ein Unbekannter nachts in die Wohnungen von alleinstehenden Frauen ein, unterzieht sie einem gynäkologischen Eingriff und tötet sie. Auf Grund seiner brutalen, aber präzisen Vorgehensweise wird er von der Presse "Der Chirurg" getauft. Die einzige Spur führt Detective Thomas Moore und Inspector Jane Rizzoli zu der jungen Chirurgin Catherine Cordell, die drei Jahre zuvor nach ähnlichem Muster überfallen wurde, den Täter aber in Notwehr erschoss.

Der zweite Fall für Rizzoli & Isles. Wieder ein heißer Sommer in Boston - und erneut schlägt ein perverser Serienkiller zu. Am Tatort findet Detective Jane Rizzoli den Arzt Richard Yeager mit durchgeschnittener Kehle vor. Von seiner Frau Gail fehlt jede Spur. Einzig ihr penibel gefaltetes Nachthemd weist Blutspuren auf. Der Mord erinnert Jane an den »Chirurgen«, einen psychopathischen Serienkiller, den sie ein Jahr zuvor verhaftete – nachdem sie ihm beinahe selbst zum Opfer gefallen wäre.

Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles—the inspiration for the hit TNT series—continue their crime-solving streak. The bestselling author of The Surgeon returns—and so does that chilling novel’s diabolical villain. Though held behind bars, Warren Hoyt still haunts a helpless city, seeming to...