Résultats pour "Terror" dans Fiction criminelle

Book 18 in the acclaimed and number one-bestselling Three Pines series featuring the beloved Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. Soon to be a major TV series. It's spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying...

After surviving a gunshot wound to the head, San Francisco homicide detective Kurt Farin is placed in a medically induced coma. In his unconscious state, he can't shake the vivid image of a mysterious woman—Genevieve Lucas—who appears to be summoning him. How does he know her name, and is she even real? Kurt's unshakable quest to find her leads him to Puget Sound, where he discovers a shipwreck and a shocking secret that cant possibly be true.

During a hospital visit, Lady Violet Thorn overhears a young woman accusing a married couple of her parents' murder and stealing their home, Maccabee House. From body parts scattered around town igniting rumours about a cannibal to a sex worker found brutalised, macabre events soon unfold culminating in Violet receiving a mannequin, resembling herself, stabbed through the heart. With the town of Montford in meltdown, Violet knows that the answers wait at Maccabee House, which lies in the shadow of the old tannery. But with the killer's sights firmly on her, can she make it out alive?

When the body of a local church leader is recovered from the Grand Canyon, the Navajo reservation coroner calls it suicide. The family suspects murder, but the remains are cremated before they can bury their loved one. Out of caution, church headquarters sends out Orson Kincaid and Haley Parker to find out if this is the beginning of hardcore prejudice against church members or an isolated crime…or is it something more?

Thirteen-year-old Mylee is killed during a slave auction, while five other young Asian girls flee from the men who profit from selling them as slaves in the ballroom of an upscale San Francisco hotel. Inspector Kate Dawson is called to investigate the heinous crime. From what appears to be the simple murder of a sex worker, she follows the clues to human trafficking, organ harvesting, and ultimately the Asian sex trade. Then, as the date of the G-20 Summit in San Francisco draws closer, Dawson struggles to connect the lives of five young Asian women with that of the Morag Tong.

1996, the American Midwest: Zach Coleman is beginning to suspect the nineties aren't all they're cracked up to be. His fledgling private investigation career is sinking fast, his band just broke up, and even his boring day job isn't paying off. But when a chance audition with a long-lost, legendary rock star leads to the opportunity of a lifetime, will Zach turn his back on everything he's known and pray both his worlds don't burn down around his ears?

It's just past six a.m., and the Rutledge family is gathering for breakfast, unaware of the two bombs that have been planted outside their home. They're about to start eating when a fireball bursts through the windows, and the house is blasted to dust, leaving only one survivor. In the last six weeks, the Rutledges are the seventh family to be attacked - and the onslaught is just beginning. A terrorist group is intent on bringing the citizens of Washington, D.C. to their knees.

A mysterious "fear disease" is scaring to death the citizens of Longzhou, China. Literally. Victims go insane or die frozen in terror, while survivors rant maniacally about demons infiltrating the city. But what's really behind the sudden epidemic? To find the answer, Chief Inspector Luo Fei teams up with a controversial historian and a brilliant psychologist to track down the true source of the illness and halt the wave of horror that threatens the metropolis.

Serial killer Frank Haid, dubbed the Painkiller by Chicago police and media, murders 18 people - all paralytics. Commanded by an unseen presence that he calls ''Father'' and that speaks in the voice of an uncle whose rotting corpse he keeps in the living room, Haid destroys his victims (what's left of them) and evidence in a way that puzzles police. Hardest hit are residents of Marclinn, a home for the handicapped, where survivors decide they must track down the madman themselves.

Dominick Maxwell had an average life...with one exception. Everyone he was close to ended up dead. When Dom's sister - his last living relative - is attacked and dying, Dom thinks he has lost it all, until he realizes that he is the prime suspect. Fearing he is next - and possibly about to end up in jail - Dom disappears and urgently tries to find out the answer to the question that has been haunting him for years.

The good news is that public defender Summer Neuwirth just won her first case, which involved a brutal rape and kidnapping. As Summer pursues her next case, this time to keep an innocent woman off death row, elements of that past--a mysterious case of childhood amnesia, her police officer father's involvement with a serial killer, a terrifying attack she survived just months earlier--entwine with her present legal work, her missing mother, and her rocky relationship with a private investigator, all of which culminate in a thrilling trial... and terror.

Nell`anno 2000 il vecchio questore emerito Vittorio D’Aiazzo, affiancatosi al commissario Sordi suo ex dipendente, investiga in funzione di consulente della Questura torinese su una serie di omicidi che si presentano sì come l`opera nichilista d`un sadico assassino seriale o quali sacrifici al diavolo d`una delle sette sulfuree della Torino macabro-stregata, ma potrebbero avere, anche o soltanto, cause legate a quel terrorismo che aveva imperversato in Italia fino a una ventina d`anni prima e si trascina ancora a fine millennio.

Pubblicato nel 1922, questo “giallo” che fa parte della prolifica vena di Edgar Wallace dimostra, di fronte al lettore di oggi, tutta la sua età. Incoerenze, ingenuità, colpi di scena improbabili e sopra le righe, fino al surrealismo, che, però, fanno venire il dubbio (più che giustificato, se confrontato con le altre opere dello scrittore) che Wallace stesso abbia voluto ironizzare sullo stereotipo della donna “bellissima e spietata”. Ma soprattutto, dietro queste pagine, c’è tutta Hollywood, per cui Wallace ha scritto molte sceneggiature.

In Wiltshire, England, the Crime Review Team is headed by Gus Freeman, pulled back to the police force after three years in retirement. With old witness statements plus fresh clues, the hunt can be on again. Freeman and his team now have several successful cold-case investigations behind them. Ursula Wakeley, a seventy-eight-year-old spinster, was murdered in 2013. Why did the former librarian become a victim? Was it a robbery or something more sinister? Returning to the Crime Review Team is Alex Hardy, and Blessing Umeh is a new member, giving Gus Freeman new hands and new issues.

The gunshots sounded like fireworks, but the bodies in the Louisiana river mud were all too real. When a festive bonfire on the St.James Parish levee turns into a massacre, the world sees a tragedy. Jonathan Hunt sees a signature. Hunted by his own agency and accompanied by Grace Hadley, a brilliant but disgraced analyst who knows too much, Hunt must navigate a kaleidoscope of betrayal. From the swampy depths of the Atchafalaya Basin to the sterile kill-rooms of DC, they are the only things standing between a shadow government and its endgame.

Frühling der Wunder. Deutschland erlebt das Unfassbare. Ein Blinder kann plötzlich wieder sehen, ein Terroranschlag wird verhindert, und eine Prophezeiung erschüttert das ganze Land. Verantwortlich dafür ist ein Mann, der aus dem Nichts kam. Ein Mönch, unscheinbar und bescheiden, das Volk glaubt an einen neuen Messias. Nur David Bronski und seine Kollegin Svenja Spielmann zweifeln. Sie machen sich auf die Suche nach der Wahrheit und decken den ungeheuren Plan eines Wahnsinnigen auf.

Santa terror is on hell time. Will Santa gift wrap your soul and leave you a lump of coil. Discover as Santa check his victim off his naughty List.

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Holmes and Watson face treachery and danger in the latest full-length thriller by Bonnie MacBird, author of the bestselling Sherlock Holmes novel Art in the Blood. Murder, jealousy, and deceit underscore three interlocking mysteries as Holmes and Watson take on a high profile case at Windsor...

It's a "three-pipe problem"! Holmes and Watson are in for another rousing adventure in classic Holmesian style. They are joined by their erstwhile friend, Inspector Lestrade, and aided by the Baker Street Irregulars; Holmes' brother, Mycroft; and Mrs. Hudson, who is always there with a hot cup of tea. Holmes and Watson are also joined by some new friends, including English royalty, the Fenians, an Indian illusionist, and the beautiful Susan Spaulding, whom Watson finds devastatingly alluring.