Résultats pour "The Crocodile" dans Policier, thrillers et œuvres à suspense

Cédric est totalement paralysé et muet à la suite d'un grave accident. Emprisonné avec ses souvenirs et ses regrets au fond de son lit, il n'a d'autre occupation que de regarder les pigeons par la fenêtre de sa chambre. Jusqu'au jour où il se retrouve propulsé dans la tête de l'un d'entre eux. Ivre de liberté, il vole avec lui … et assiste à un meurtre dont il est le seul témoin. Comment faire pour dénoncer le meurtrier dans ce nouveau corps emplumé ? D'autant plus qu'il a désormais un œuf à couver !

Les victimes du Corrupteur se font empoisonner à leur insu. Elles reçoivent un défi sordide, qui doit être accompli en 24 heures. Les victorieux se méritent l’antidote. Les autres subissent une mort atroce. Isabelle Fortin élève seule ses deux jumeaux dans l’amour de ses propres passions : l’art et le savoir. Vic Verdier joue au papa d’emprunt quand ça lui chante. Ils sont collègues à l’université et amis d’infortune.

Amelia Peabody inherited two things from her father: a considerable fortune and an unbendable will. The first allowed her to indulge in her life's passion. Without the second, the mummy's curse would have made corpses of them all.

This adventure transports Amelia Peabody and her husband Emerson to Amarna, the rustic desert site where the two archaeologists first met, beginning the 13-year association that would take them from mayhem to murder in the Egyptian outback.

Hypocrisy comes chaotically crawling from under every rock in town when a foxy rumor puts homelessness in the limelight.

The unshakeable Amelia Peabody embarks on an Egyptian adventure armed with self-confidence, a journal to record her thoughts, and, of course–a sturdy umbrella. On her way to Cairo, Amelia rescues young Evelyn Barton-Forbes, who has been abandoned by her scoundrel lover. Together the two women sail up the Nile to an archeological site run a pair of handsome brothers.

Detective Philip ‘Cato' Kwong is investigating the death of a retiree found hacked to pieces in his suburban Perth home. The trail leads to Timor-Leste, with its recent blood-soaked history. There, he reunites with an old frenemy, the spook Rory Driscoll who, in Cato's experience, has always occupied a hazy moral terrain.

Bodhi remains the simple, loving character we all adore. With his back turned on a precarious lifestyle, he stumbles into a deadly game, unearthing a ruthless entity that orchestrates the criminal underworld and makes previous rivals seem like puppets. This merciless power enforces street justice in the cruelest ways by abducting and torturing victims for days at a time, bending the very underbelly of the city to his will. To protect himself and those he loves, Bodhi will come face-to-face against this relentless evil while unleashing a powerful inner force he didn’t know existed.

Four years into Akhenaten’s new regime, the dissatisfaction of those who practiced the old religion of Amen-Ra is growing. Hani, a diplomat already under the king’s surveillance because of the disappearance of his firebrand Amen priest brother-in-law, gets drawn into an investigation for the beloved royal wife, who is being blackmailed over an infidelity. Meanwhile, the new vassal king of A’amu, lodged at Hani’s house until the king grants him an audience, is showing himself to be none too loyal. Hani must walk the line between his oath to the king and his conscience.

Coral, her lover, and a number of friends visit a regular haunt known as Serenity Island. Collectively, they’ve done this for the past few years in order to celebrate Coral’s birthday, but this trip will be different, and causes Coral to rename their favorite spot! Once they’ve settled in to enjoy their week’s secluded holiday and celebrate Coral’s 30th birthday, everything starts to go wrong. After many terrifying and tragic events, Coral begins to wonder if they’ll ever get off the island in one piece, or indeed, at all....

疑惑の女性を描いた直木賞候補作【第168回直木三十五賞候補作、待望の文庫化！】彼女の涙に、全員食われる――。「素顔の見えない女」をめぐる、衝撃のサスペンス。愛する息子が殺された。

Many strangers we pass by are nothing more to us than blurry faces in the background of our daily lives. Occasionally, one of those faces will catch our attention. We invite them into our world, and sometimes, their lost soul reminds us of what it's like to be innocent. Terrance Brown is a street-smart resident of a bad neighborhood who seeks an escape to a better life. Penny Lynn is a nurse who struggles to find her purpose after her dreams passed away with her closest patient.

Giant crocodiles exist—the man-eating Kaiju of the real world. Dr. Jennings plans on capturing one alive. Accompanied by a squad of hired mercs and an anti-poaching unit on loan from the local government, she sets out to locate and trap Tuwile, rumored to be the largest giant croc alive. Of course, things never go as planned....

Miquel O’ Malley, passat de voltes de gairebé tot, és acaronat pels antidisturbis durant la primavera valenciana, com un innocent vianant més, com un pulcre i perillós estudiant. Retirat del cos oficial, sense ofici ni benefici, es veurà involucrat en una conspiració de policies i serveis secrets que s'esdevé a València però té ramificacions, i arrels, en les primaveres africanes.

Shortly after the death of Judd, his son, Jed, inherits the run-down hotel in the swamps of rural East Texas, and he begins to reopen for business. The local people in the small city of Elmendorf begin to gossip about the murders that took place at the hotel - where Judd fed numerous guests to his pet crocodile.