Results for "Silence" in Modern Detectives

On ne choisit pas la famille dans laquelle on naît. Mais certains héritages refusent de rester enterrés. Charlie Murphy pensait connaître son histoire. Jusqu’au jour où sa grand-mère lui révèle le secret qu’elle a gardé pendant des décennies : son propre père a été condamné...

C'est une maison dans laquelle les femmes ne se sont jamais senties bien, les familles n'y sont jamais restées longtemps. Une médium dit même y avoir perçu une sensation d'étouffement. Pendant des travaux de modernisation, le mur de la cave s'écroule et un corps apparaît. Konrad enquête et met au jour des mystères anciens. Dans le même temps il presse la police d'élucider le meurtre de son père mais il a oublié qu'à l'époque, l'enfant qu'il était avait menti, et il se retrouve soupçonné.

France. Il y a 25 ans. Le petit Thomas, 11 ans, disparaît lors d'une sortie en forêt. Londres. De nos jours. Une fillette, Maggie, est enlevée à son tour. Sur le pas de sa porte, une fleur de lotus blanche est retrouvée, et Meredith Williams, profiler de renommée, en est certaine : il s'agit bien là de la signature de L'Ogre, un psychopathe réputé pour des crimes sacrificiels. Pour retrouver la petite Maggie à temps, Meredith va devoir replonger dans un passé qu'elle avait préféré effacer, et affronter le monstre incontrôlable qu'elle n'a jamais réussi à intercepter.

Tiksi, ville portuaire oubliée aux confins de la Sibérie, accessible par avion ou par bateau deux ou trois mois l'an. C'est là, à 700 kilomètres derrière le cercle polaire, qu'Anna rejoint une équipe de scientifiques qui s'apprête à hiverner sur la banquise à bord d'un voilier. Mais dans cet extrême bout du monde, où la fonte des glaces fait resurgir des virus millénaires, où rôdent les ours et les loups, où s'affrontent chasseurs de mammouths et militaires corrompus, les avaries et la tempête retardent le périple.

As Autumn deepens into darkness in Lidingö, on the Stockholm archipelago, the island is plunged into chaos: in the space of a week, two teenagers, the son of the island's mayor and that of a powerful businessman, are brutally murdered. Their bodies are left deep in the forest, dressed in white tunics with crowns of candles atop their heads, like offerings to Saint Lucia. Maïa Rehn has fled Paris for Lidingö, where her husband has grown up, trying to come to terms with the death of their only daughter in a car accident...

A killer so clever, nobody hears the screams . . . When the mutilated body of a woman is discovered in her home, DCI Bishop from the Met murder squad is called in to oversee the case. The horrific killing bears a striking resemblance to three other murders years before, but the cases were never...

Bloomsbury presents Suffer In Silence by Graham Masterton read by Lucianne McEvoy. YOU CAN’T KEEP A GOOD WOMAN DOWN Revenge waits patiently for the wicked. In Cork, the young female employees of the glamorous cosmetics counter at Green Matthews are too scared to report what happens during...

Thirty-three years ago two little girls disappeared from a notorious run-down neighborhood in south London. One was found dead within a few days; the body of the other was never discovered. Today, the man convicted of murder three decades ago is back on the streets, and another girl vanishes. Hard-nosed investigative journalist Angela Tate reported on the old case and is back to cover the new story, determined to persuade the mother of the missing girl, Trisha Collins, to reveal a secret she’s been keeping about the original killing. But Trisha is terrified and refuses to talk.

So terrifying it'll leave readers breathless... When a Minnesota teen is kidnapped, Doc Ford is given an unthinkable ultimatum, and only 36 hours to act on it. But there's something unusual about the boy that his captors don't even know, twisting this deadly game out of control in ways no one...

On the Cleveland waterfront, rookie FBI Agent Merit Reid is ready to prove herself among the seasoned agents on her squad. When a macabre trophy room is uncovered in the basement of a historic home in the affluent Merriman Valley, Merit gets her first taste of action. Teaming up with her boss and reluctant mentor, Sean Everett, they’re hard at work identifying the victims from cold cases and missing persons – until a fresh body turns up.

Edward Royle is the head of a well-known chemical manufacturer in England, which he has inherited. He is engaged to the daughter of his father’s former partner, Phrida Shand, who lives with her mother. One night he is asked by his friend, Sir Digby Kemsley - a very famous railroad engineer, to come to his flat to discuss something although Kemsley is quite mysterious on the telephone. Royle visits, then returns home only to be summoned again by Kemsley, this time imploring him to return at once. Royle finds a gentleman in Kemsley’s place who is clearly not Kemsley, or is he?

Ex-DCI Luke Sackville is asked to investigate celebrity parties by a whistleblower at GNE, a global news and entertainment company. Two of his Ethics Team go undercover and piece together a frightening picture of depravity and wickedness. Luke is shocked to discover that celebrities are using their fame to exploit and abuse fans. He takes the evidence to GNE’s executive management but they refuse to take action.

February 1922. Hollywood is young but already mired in scandal. When a leading movie director is murdered, Irish American investigator Tom Collins is called in by studio boss Mack Sennett, whose troubled star, Mabel Normand, is rumoured to be involved. But Normand has gone missing. And, as Collins discovers, there's a growing list of suspects. His quest leads him through the brutal heart of Prohibition-era Los Angeles, from speakeasies and dope dens to the studios and salons of Hollywood's fabulously wealthy movie elite, and to a secret so explosive it must be kept silent at any cost....

Who killed Sophie Washington? Early one cold November morning in the run-down seaside resort of Whitley Bay, the body of a young girl is discovered. Found abandoned five minutes walk from her home, her face has been mutilated beyond recognition. DI Jack Brady, just back on active duty after recovering from a vicious shooting incident, is on the edge.

Rea Carlisle has inherited a house from an uncle she never knew. It doesn't take her long to clear out the dead man's remaining possessions, but one room remains stubbornly locked. When Rea finally forces it open, she discovers inside a chair, a table - and a leather-bound book, its pages filled with locks of hair, fingernails: a catalogue of victims. Horrified, Rea wants to go straight to the police but her family intervenes, fearing that scandal will mar her politician father's public image.

Private eye Travis McGee outwaits and outwits a deranged killer as he searches for a missing wife on a remote Caribbean island, where he also tangles with a baby-faced businessman with a taste for murder.

A bell rings at a quarter past two in the morning. Three nights running. From a room that has been locked for ten years. When Mrs. Honoria Vexley arrives at 221B Baker Street in the bitter December of 1894, she brings a riddle that defies every rational explanation. Her daughter Clara died a decade ago; the drawing room was sealed in her memory; no key exists, no window stands open, and no wire appears disturbed. Yet the bell has sounded—with force and precision—at the same impossible hour.

There is a serial killer going around the city killing blind people. A teenage boy and his dog follow numerous strange men around the town, and he begins to suspect that one of his neighbors is the killer. Then the boy realizes he is starting to become blind himself and fears for his own life.