Résultats pour "The Tree" dans Fiction criminelle

Lo chiamano Polpo, perché ha sempre vissuto mutando forma all'occorrenza. Truffe, furti, raggiri. L'agenda Proteo, uno dei tanti servizi segreti italiani, l'ha costretto a mettere a disposizione le sue abilità e ad abbandonare tutte le sue vite precedenti. Sono passati sette anni. Ora è stanco, confuso. L'agenda lo incarica di distruggere Louise Calemmi, ecologista in politica. Ma non è facile, perché dal passato i nemici di ogni se stesso lo braccano e minacciano. Dovrà imparare a essere cattivo. Ma avrà una legione dalla sua parte. Tutta nella testa.

Un hombre rememora la experiencia que lo inició en el amor y en el crimen, transformándolo para siempre. El misterioso Millhouse Pascal lo contrata para formar parte de una agencia que brinda servicios secretos a personajes implicados en la política mundial. Mientras el joven empieza a...

While Senior History Master of Queen's School, Newminster, Carolus Deene has a troubling hobby as a criminologist and sometime sleuth. Even more troublingly, he has jaundice. But with the papers shouting of the crime wave sweeping the seaside resorts of England, sending him to the coast to recover is too risky for the Headmaster – he will be much further from trouble in the inland spa resort of Buddington.

This winter, fear comes gift-wrapped. *FROM THE KINDLE TOP 20 BESTSELLING AUTHOR* In the dead of winter, the Pennine Way is treacherous. As snowstorms hit, hikers have been told to stay away. But not everyone has heeded the warning: a lone walker finds a parcel in the snow, addressed to her. But...

Former prosecutor Penn Cage and his fiancee, reporter and publisher Caitlin Masters, have barely escaped with their lives after being attacked by wealthy businessman Brody Royal and his Double Eagles, a KKK sect with ties to some of Mississippi's most powerful men. But the real danger has only begun as FBI Special Agent John Kaiser warns Penn that Brody isn't the true leader of the Double Eagles.

IF TREES COULD TESTIFY... is a historical mystery novel based on the true story of the infamous Madison County NC Gahagan murders. The homicides occurred near the Appalachian mountain town of Marshall, North Carolina, known by locals to be “a block wide, a mile long, sky high and hell deep.” On a quiet summer night in 1983, two elderly siblings were tragically murdered in their colonial, Georgian-style home across from Big Laurel Creek. Known for their distrust of banks and collection of antiques, gold, and silver coins, it was assumed that robbery was the principal motive.

Considerato uno dei capostipiti del legal thriller all'italiana, "Tre giorni nella vita dell'avvocato Scalzi" non è solo un giallo avvincente per quanto atipico ma anche un percorso illuminante nel labirinto della giustizia e burocrazia italiane. Seguendo le vicissitudini del burbero avvocato fiorentino Corrado Scalzi, veniamo immersi in una storia al cardiopalma fatta di terrorismo e carceri di massima sicurezza sullo sfondo di una Toscana tanto bella quanto complessa.

Join former sheriff Jessie Townsend as his journey takes him across a nation that is a mere shell of its former self after suffering numerous devastating blows from an orchestrated collapse and the attacks that followed.

There has been a major tragedy in the Cooper family and no one's sure if they can get past this one and go on with their lives. But still they try. Meanwhile, Matt takes the case of a man who wants to locate a former inmate of San Quentin prison - a man he shared a cell with for nearly three years. Matt has warned this client that if he wants to find his former cellmate to do him bodily harm, then he'd better find himself another private investigator.

After his father passes, James returns home and finds out that his younger brother has become ensnared in a deadly race against the mafia and needs his protection. 

September 1791. Newly promoted Lieutenant General Jacques Lacroix is transferred from Paris to Amiens, tasked to solve crimes and arrest criminals. But in these days of revolution, it’s increasingly tricky for him to identify the criminals amongst all the agitators, rabble-rousers and counter-revolutionaries. And his job is about to get even harder as he finds himself investigating a slew of grisly murders.... 

The fears of four young men are realized when the shrinking water level of Cypress Lake exposes a dark secret, hidden under the lake’s surface for 16 years. Long ago, when they were best friends, they made a pact to never speak of the secret to anyone. Now their livelihoods, their marriages, and possibly their very lives, hinge on keeping a childhood promise.

Brendan Foley has worked to balance the responsibilities of a demanding job and a troublesome family. He’s managed to keep these two worlds separate, until the discovery of a mass grave sends them into a headlong collision. When one of the dead turns out to be a familiar face, he’s taken off the case. Iona Madison keeps everything under control. She works hard as a detective sergeant and trains harder as a boxer. But when her superior, DI Foley, is removed from the case, her certainties are tested like never before.

When Emily's boyfriend walks out, she is devastated. As she is puzzling over what to do with the rest of her life, she is surprised to learn that her great aunt has died, leaving Emily her cottage in the picturesque Wiltshire village of Ashton Mead. This inheritance comes with a condition – Emily must take care of her great aunt's pet. Not knowing what to expect, Emily sets off for the village. In the village, she soon makes friends with and meets other residents of the village where she decides to settle. All is going well...until her unknown pet arrives.

Una lettera anonima trovata in questura suscita l'interesse del commissario De Vincenzi. È un avvertimento: qualcosa di brutto accadrà all'Albergo delle Tre Rose. De Vincenzi viene successivamente informato di una morte sospetta avvenuta durante la notte nello stesso albergo citato nella lettera. Una volta recatosi sul luogo del delitto, il commissario troverà al suo interno un gruppo di loschi figuri dediti al gioco d'azzardo e un'atmosfera fosca e annebbiata dai fumi e dall'alcol. La vittima è un ragazzo inglese, apparentemente morto impiccato.

When Alicia Bryson returns to her estranged father’s home in a tiny Yorkshire village, she feels burdened by his illness. Her hometown brings back memories of a miserable and violent childhood, and Alicia worries that her young daughter Jenny’s summer will be filled with a similar sense of unhappiness. The town is exactly as she remembered it - the people, the buildings, even the woods. But her arrival has not gone unnoticed. There is someone watching her every move.

1936 in the Crown Colony of Singapore, and the British abdication crisis and rising Japanese threat seem very far away. When the Irish nanny looking after acting governor Palin's daughter dies suddenly - and in mysterious circumstances - mission school-educated local girl Su Lin - an aspiring journalist trying to escape an arranged marriage - is invited to take her place. But then another murder at the residence occurs and it seems very likely that a killer is stalking the corridors of Government House.

Singapore is agog with the news of King Edward VIII's abdication to marry American heiress Wallis Simpson. Chen Su Lin, now Chief Inspector Le Froy's secretarial assistant in Singapore's newly formed detective unit, still dreams of becoming a journalist and hopes to cover the story when the Hon Victor Glossop announces he is marrying an American widow of his own, Mrs Nicole Covington, in the colony. But things go horribly wrong when Victor Glossop is found dead, his body covered in bizarre symbols and soaked in betel nut juice.

When a handsome and mysterious stranger arrives in Crooked River, the town is consumed by rumors. Although a deeply private young man, Dieter befriends everyone from deckhands to shopkeepers. But what is he running from? On the rebound from a disastrous relationship, Maggie Paterson falls in love with Dieter. But Dieter's secretive personality only inflames rumors throughout the town. Maggie's recently estranged ex, who moonlights as a drug runner, jealously works to convince the local drug lord that Dieter is a narc and must be handled - no matter the cost.

Luego de las consecuencias desastrosas de su último empleo en Inglaterra, todo lo que quiere Cassandra Vale, de 23 años, es una oportunidad para rehacer su vida. Una madre divorciada de la alta sociedad en la soleada Italia parece ser la respuesta. Pero ¿lo será? Con una nueva familia vienen nuevos niños, reglas y expectativas. Cassandra está decidida a hacer que esto dure, hasta que un descubrimiento espeluznante la lleva al límite. Y cuando ocurre lo inimaginable, ¿será demasiado tarde para retroceder del abismo? ¿En quién, se pregunta ella, se estará convirtiendo?