Résultats pour "Sins" dans Policier

Lenka King voue sa vie entière à sa carrière dans la police. Alors le jour où l'agresseur de sa sœur est relâché pour bonne conduite, Lenka ne peut supporter de le savoir en liberté. Contre l'avis de sa hiérarchie, elle décide de partir en « mission » pour renvoyer coûte que coûte cet homme en prison. Animée par la vengeance, elle est loin de se douter des obstacles et des rencontres qui l'attendent.

En La reina sin espejo, quinta entrega de la serie de Bevilacqua y Chamorro, la densidad interior de los personajes sirve de contrapunto perfecto a una intriga rica en sorpresas y revelaciones. Una mujer es brutalmente apuñalada en su casa de campo en Zaragoza. Se trata de una célebre y atractiva presentadora de televisión, casada con un escritor catalán de culto.

Tras años oculto, el sicario sin nombre ha encontrado algo parecido a la paz en una casa frente al mar. Pero la muerte de un viejo aliado lo obliga a aceptar un último encargo: cerrar una cuenta pendiente con tres nombres en una lista. Mientras tanto, Clara Fité intenta reconstruir su vida en Barcelona. Un cuaderno robado y la desaparición de dos niños en 1992 la arrastran a una investigación que nadie quiere reabrir. El poder, la culpa y el miedo se entrelazan en una trama que conecta lo que ocurrió entonces con lo que está a punto de estallar ahora.

Jake Tillard is back in Egypt with his flame Libby Joyce. Their geologic training leads to a gold prospect in the shadows of St Catherine’s monastery. Once again the science is simple compared to problems created by Russian and Chinese partners. Greed, blackmail, activism, and murder conspire to derail Jake and Libby from producing gold in the shadow of the mountain where Moses received the Ten Commandments. Sinai Gold provides twists, turns, and rich descriptions from the Middle East to Moscow to Montana, with a surprise around every corner.

Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot both make appearances in Agatha Christie’s Double Sin and Other Stories, a sterling collection of short mystery fiction that offers double the suspense, surprise, and fun. In one of London’s most elegant shops, a decorative doll dressed in green velvet adopts...

On a sunny winter afternoon, Jarvis is doing nothing special when a new case walks into his life in the form of a beautiful blonde with flashing eyes. Jarvis doesn’t know it yet, but this new client is about to turn his life inside out. Audrey Lambert and her grandfather need Jarvis’ special brand of hardboiled help, and they need it fast.

Stanton 'Ace' Jacobs has always been catered to. Always been told how to act; how to dress; who to socialize with, by his grandfather who raised him after his parents were killed in an accident. When his grandfather passes away, he became the sole heir of the Jacobs fortune, and seized the chance to get away from the life of privilege. Seeking a sense of belonging and family he never had, he found the brothers of Sin City and sunk his money into something that was totally his, not attached to the Jacobs name.

The hooker was young, pretty...and dead, butchered in a Greenwich Village apartment. The prime suspect, a minister's son, was also dead, the victim of a jailhouse suicide. The case is closed, as far as the NYPD is concerned. Now the murdered prostitute's father wants it opened again--that's where Matthew Scudder comes in.

Tras la pérdida desgarradora de su hija, la vida de Patty se ha desmoronado en un abismo de alcoholismo y depresión, marcada por alucinaciones inquietantes. En busca de un faro de esperanza, se dirige a un retiro espiritual, enclavado en una antigua casa en el corazón de un bosque montañoso. Aquí, donde el tiempo parece detenerse, ella busca respuestas y la paz que tanto necesita. Pero la casa esconde más que silencio y sombras. Un perro malvado, un ser espectro que parece conocer sus pensamientos más oscuros, la acecha, prometiendo revelar lo que más anhela.

As the winter chill grips the Highlands, a body is discovered burned alive in a solstice bonfire, kicking off a harrowing Christmas season. When a retired businessman is found hanging from a tree and another associate is savagely murdered in his isolated home, the team is stretched to the limit. With DCI Helena Grant away for a romantic holiday with crime writer Bill Emsworth, McKay must navigate a series of baffling killings under mounting pressure—amidst staff shortages and the relentless Scottish winter.

Private investigator Jim Bean is a straightforward, to-the-point man. He likes his cases to follow suit. But when his latest client, Sophie Evers, asks him to find her brother Daniel, Jim has no idea how complicated his life is about to become. As he falls deep into a manipulative game of cat and mouse, Jim uncovers the horrible truth about Sophie. Now he must set things right before her plan leads to the loss of innocent souls...even more than it already has.

Hace tiempo que Irene Ochoa se siente atrapada en un callejón sin salida cuyos muros se estrechan a medida que los abusos por parte de Marcos, su marido, se convierten en una rutina. No tiene más armas que su instinto de supervivencia. No hay otra opción: la vida de Marcos o la suya. La oportunidad se presenta un miércoles, cuando él llega más borracho de lo normal y, tras un par de tragos, se queda profundamente dormido.

Hace tiempo que Irene Ochoa se siente atrapada en un callejón sin salida cuyos muros se estrechan a medida que los abusos por parte de Marcos, su marido, se convierten en una rutina. No tiene más armas que su instinto de supervivencia. No hay otra opción: la vida de Marcos o la suya. La oportunidad se presenta un miércoles, cuando él llega más borracho de lo normal y, tras un par de tragos, se queda profundamente dormido.

When investigators set out to question Marcus, he is nowhere to be found. In a jarring twist, Marcus dies in an apparent drug overdose. When Ellie and Detective Baxter search Marcus's residence after his demise, they find unsettling evidence linking him to a series of murders, including the death of Ellie's own mother. Despite the mounting evidence against Marcus, the case isn't sitting right with Ellie. Was Marcus a cold-blooded killer, or was he being set up for the perfect crime?

When her wealthy Scottish employer dies of an overdose of heart medication, Nurse Latterly is charged with murder and locked up in Newgate Prison. To save his friend from the gallows, Inspector Monk works feverishly to identify a cold-blooded killer in the victim's greatly admired - and coolly silent - family.

Thomas Berrington, emigre Englishman who has made the doomed city of Garnatah his home, is once again attempting to solve a series of mysterious deaths. Accompanied by his companion, the palace eunuch Jorge, Thomas struggles to discover the truth while those in power seek to distract him. As his investigation continues, his personal life splinters into chaos, and he finds the Spanish, once more, demanding his presence.

Decorated FBI Agent Emma Noble has made a career of uncovering the truth—but this time, the truth hits too close to home. A string of brutal murders has the FBI scrambling. All evidence points to one suspect: Emma's father, Sam Noble. A veteran CIA operative, Sam has vanished without a trace, leaving Emma torn between duty and loyalty. Determined to prove his innocence, she begins a relentless hunt for her father. As Emma digs deeper, she uncovers buried lies and family betrayal, threatening to shatter everything she believed about Sam—and herself.

When a Delaware real estate mogul is murdered, Reverend Candice Miller is called to minister to the grieving family. She quickly realizes that the killer has adopted the symbolism of sin eating, a Victorian-era religious ritual, as a calling card. Newspaper journalist Brian Wilder wants the scoop on the killing, including the meaning behind the mysterious loaf of bread left with the corpse. Is it the work of a religious fanatic, or something more sinister?

The homicide beat in Louisiana isn't just terrifying, it's demonic. Detective Kara Gilligan of the supernatural task force has the ability to summon demons to her aid, but she herself is pledged to serve a demonic lord. And now, people who've hurt Kara in the past are dropping dead for no apparent reason. To clear her name and save both the demon and human worlds, she's in a race against the clock and in a battle for her life that just may take her to hell and back.

Juan Galba se cree a salvo en su tranquilo empleo en un balneario. Hace ya una década que disolvió la sociedad criminal que formaba con su gran amigo, Pablo Echevarría, muerto en extrañas circunstancias. Pero un día se presenta en el balneario Claudia Artola, la viuda de este. Lleva consigo unas cartas que obligarán a Juan a volver, muy a su pesar, a los manejos ilícitos. Por una lealtad no exenta de culpa, deberá proteger a Claudia de una implacable persecución y resolver un escabroso crimen.