Résultats pour "The Streets" dans Fiction criminelle

The new Kings Lake Central murder squad is about to spend its first morning on team-building exercises and reviewing cold cases when the call comes in that the body of one of the city's rough sleepers has been found in a shop doorway. It happens, someone says, he isn't the first to die on the streets and he won't be the last, but the story the new team begins to uncover is far from routine.

As the new owners of the local village pub, Alex and Maggie Silva and their two children, are the picture of respectability…but looks can be deceptive. Because the Silva family is keeping deadly secrets. Alex Silva is a man with a dark past and a bounty on his head – one he knows will only be paid with his life. He’ll do anything to protect Maggie and the kids, but one wrong move could cost them everything…

Anna and Peter desperately need to escape London for a fresh start. And they’ve found just the place: a perfect house on a perfect street in a perfect new development on the Scottish coast. But before they’ve even unpacked, they discover that the community they’ve moved into might be keeping secrets of its own…

The streets of London's Soho hide a multitude of secrets in this hard-hitting gangland thriller from bestselling author Jacqui Rose. Ten years ago, Jo Martin was released from prison after serving twelve years of a life sentence – but she isn’t Jo anymore. Given a new identity by the courts...

They say the streets don't love nobody—but what if they're the only place you've ever been loved? When Lingo, a wordsmith with a checkered past, returns home from a prison bid, he's faced with a choice: go legit or dive back into the game that nearly destroyed him. Tempted by fast money and unfinished business, he reunites with his day one homies-Jerz and Gotti-for one last come-up. What starts as a calculated heist turns into a blood-soaked catalyst for chaos, sparking street wars, betrayal, and a race for power.

Detective Peter Decker teams up with his wife and daughter to solve a crime rooted in both the past and present. While on routine patrol, LAPD Officer Cindy Decker rescues a newborn abandoned in an alley dumpster. But she can't call it a night until she sees the infant safe in a hospital, cared...

You can buy anything in Atlanta. Especially sex. When a serial killer brutally murders one of the lost girls of the city, Chance Meridian and his murder squad dive deep into the dark underbelly of human trafficking, only to learn that money has no conscience. With the clock ticking on yet another victim, Chance must risk everything to stop a madman. But faced with his most dangerous foe yet, will he be too late to save even himself?

Dies ist Buch 2 der Reihe und baut auf Teil 1 auf. Winter ist nun wieder Teil ihrer Familie und fällt langsam in alte Muster zurück. Was ihr zunehmend Probleme bereitet. Dass der Mann, den sie liebt und der, dem sie "gehört", Gegner sind, macht die Sache nicht einfacher. Detective Levi Hofmann versucht die Hintergründe des "Party Crashs" aufzuklären. Zu viele Unstimmigkeiten lassen das Ereignis in einem seltsamen Licht erscheinen. War es nur eine Show? Auch der Anführer des größten Clans der Stadt zweifelt, muss aber auf den Überfall reagieren, wenn er nicht das Gesicht verlieren will.

The City of Floria has a tragic history. Something haunts its streets, something dark, something evil. For centuries, thousands of peasants and merchants have vanished without a trace, with no explanation or motive. Out of fear, the port’s inhabitants have never investigated what is happening, merely accepting this curse that plagues their city. Not until a troubled man running from his past calls the forsaken city his new home.

Man ist, wer man ist. Nach der hastigen Flucht aus LA hat es Winter Green ein Jahr lang geschafft, unbehelligt in der tausende Meilen von ihrer Vergangenheit entfernten Stadt unterzutauchen. Gerade als sie zu glauben beginnt, ein neues Leben - ohne ständig über die Schulter zu schauen - wäre möglich, wird sie eines Besseren belehrt. Eine junge Frau, die jemand anderes sein will und scheitert. Zwei Clan-Chefs, deren Waffenstillstand ins Wanken gerät und die Entscheidungen treffen müssen, die keiner von ihnen vorausgesehen hat. Eine neue Macht, die von außen kommt und jeden überrascht.

In einem kleinen Cottage außerhalb Londons verbringen die Heldars den ersten Frühling mit ihrem Sohn Peter. Doch als die Verlobte von Johnnys Cousin, Prudence, des Mordes verdächtigt wird, eilt das Buchhändlerpaar zurück nach London, um die Ermittlungen aufzunehmen. Mit überraschenden Twists führt uns Henrietta Hamilton auf die Spur eines Verbrechens, das die Urfrage stellt, wem wir wirklich vertrauen können. In Mr. Frodshams Haus in der Willow Street spielen sich geheimnisvolle Treffen und verbotene Liebschaften ab, Identitäten werden ausgetauscht, Erpresserbriefe verfasst und Plagiate vertuscht.

Eccentric twin brothers Cedric and Ambrose retire from MI6 to make honey and tackle crosswords at Tanglefoot Farm in England's Surrey Hills. The unsolved brutal murder of their long-lost friend drags them back into the secret life they left behind. Can Cedric and Ambrose, along with Charlie, their dead friend's daughter, and the seventy-five-year-old mystery woman who lives in a campervan, unravel the clues and crack the cold case before the killer strikes again?

Nicola never imagines herself as a widow in her mid-thirties. Losing her husband to a sudden illness shatters her world, but then she unexpectedly meets up with Matt, her childhood love. As they reconnect after years apart, Nicola finds herself drawn to his easy charm and gentle demeanour. Despite the guilt she feels for moving on so quickly after her husband's death, she can't help but fall for him. Their affair is passionate and all-consuming, but just as Matt finally decides to leave Michelle his wife, Michelle disappears without trace.

The grave on the football field is shallow, and easy to spot from a distance. It would have been found sooner, had most of the residents in the black half of Birmingham not been downtown, marching, singing, and being arrested alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. Police detective Ben Wellman is among them when he gets the call about the fresh grave. Under the loosely packed dirt, he finds a young black girl, her innocence taken and her life along with it. His sergeant orders Wellman to investigate, but instructs him not to try too hard.

The queen of the street lit genre, De’nesha Diamond pens tales about the toughest ride-or-die chicks ever to roam the streets of the Dirty South. In Street Divas, four powerful women vie for total control of the Memphis hood, and they aren’t about to let past loyalties get in their way. While Lucifer is hitting the streets to get her revenge for a deadly shooting, Essence is hitting the sheets - with her best friend’s man. And Yolanda knows her path to power lies with her baby’s hustler father, but Queen G Leshelle is dead set on keeping this game all to herself.

Should a wicked man get the same justice as the righteous? When a violent pimp is murdered, Major Crimes Detective Dallas Nash is assigned the case. With no witnesses and weak evidence, he must make a choice—vigorously investigate the killing or go through the motions before casually sweeping it into an unsolved file. Plenty of people want Nash to stop—the prostitutes abused by the deceased, a do-gooder with a shadowy past, and a cop with his thumb on the scales of equity. Yet no one is pushing for him to continue the investigation.

Grace Midwinter is at breaking point. Following a dreadful mistake at work, her career as a probation officer is hanging by a thread. Then her clients start dying in grotesque and premeditated ways. When one ex-offender is beaten and dumped in the harbor, and another grisly corpse is discovered soon afterwards, Grace can’t help but dredge up her recent past. Rumors swirl about conspiracies and vendettas—some involve Grace and her colleagues. Grace discovers that the deaths have been made to look like the sordid results of a gangland turf war but are hiding something else.

It is May 1963, in Birmingham, Alabama. As Martin Luther King, Jr.’s civil rights demonstrations begin to fill the streets, prejudices awaken and tempers flare. Amid the violence and confusion, a deaf black girl is found raped and murdered. Veteran homicide detective Ben Wellman pursues the murderer through the throngs of protesters, the pool halls of the black district of Bearmatch, the white mansions of Mountain Brook, and, finally, even in his own department. As he did in Sacrificial Ground, Cook has created a novel of uncommon force and resonance.

Post Office Street drops its listeners into the red-light district of Galveston, where crooked cops and down-on-their-luck prostitutes dwell. Yet, in this seedy part of town, Carden paints a picture of hope as his main characters seek to break free from the ruts that their lives have fallen into.

Eighteen-year-old Starry is destined to take over her father's powerful drug syndicate. But when she finds out he has kept her only sister a secret from her, she can't trust him anymore. Furious, Starry vows to find Emma, even though she knows her defiance could lead to losing the position she's worked so hard to inherit. But Emma isn't quite the sister Starry hoped for. She's a straight-laced good girl who wants nothing more than to take down the syndicate that destroyed her family.