Résultats pour "Villains" dans Fiction criminelle

Die beiden Sonderermittler Capitaine Armand de Varenne und Lieutenant Margaux David werden vom Innenministerium gebeten, einen Fall in Paris zu übernehmen. Vor einer verschlossenen Kammer in den ehemaligen Steinbrüchen von Paris, nur wenig Meter von den Katakomben entfernt, wurde die Leiche eines städtischen Vermessungsingenieurs gefunden. Auch wenn der Fall nicht in den Arbeitsbereich von Armand de Varenne fällt, kann er nicht widerstehen, an diesem außergewöhnlichen Ort zu ermitteln.

At just 17 years old, Jacob had it all—wealth, intelligence, and a bright future. But all that changed in a single, devastating moment, when he witnessed the brutal murder of his parents. Suddenly, Jacob finds himself in the crosshairs of the infamous crime boss Marco Koruza, forced to confront a truth about himself that he never could have imagined.

I was a murderer. One of the cruelest, wealthiest men in New York City. Dante Salvatore, capo of capos. Yet I had one weakness. Elena Lombardi. Cold as ice, sharp as the edge of broken glass, and more beautiful than any woman should have the right to be, she stormed my defenses and razed my life as I knew it to the ground. For her, I would once again play the hero and prove myself worthy of her unconquerable heart. For her, I would change everything. I could have left her to the enemies hounding me, but instead, I made the unforgivable decision to take her with me to the old country.

Sean O'Donnell, small-time villain and loyal family man, walked out on his family nineteen years ago and hasn't been heard of since. Now his daughter Iris has returned to the East End in the hope of finding out what happened. But it isn't going to be easy. Everyone close to Iris, including her mother, seems intent on keeping the truth hidden. With the rest of her life in a mess, Iris struggles to make sense of her murky family history. But a chance meeting with the mysterious Guy Wilder changes everything.

Shortly after her arrival at Brooklyn North Homicide, Detective Kim Brady is assigned a seven-month-old rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl. While the initial investigation focused on a teen suspect, DNA evidence, as well as the killer's signature, establishes that the killer was also responsible for several older crimes, including the 1963 case Kim's grandfather was working when he was killed. She is chasing a killer who's been on the loose for fifty-five years.

Odebrał jej wszystko, co znała, aby dać jej to, czego nawet nie przypuszczała, że potrzebuje. Fię nie bez powodu nazywano „dziką księżniczką”. Trudno jej było odnaleźć swoje miejsce na dworze wuja, po śmierci rodziców czuła się jak wyrzutek. Kiedy przypadkiem w pałacowych lochach natrafiła na więźnia, z którym nawiązała niewiarygodną przyjaźń, pozwoliła, aby jej serce przejęło kontrolę. Pomogła mu uciec, nie wiedząc, kim tak naprawdę jest. Została oszukana. Mężczyzna z lochów nie był tak łagodny i szlachetny, jak sądziła. Był potworem. Krwiożerczą bestią.

A lying ganglord. A troubled cop. A masked vigilante. Working a strategic investigation, DS Scott Cullen of Police Scotland’s Edinburgh Major Investigation Team closes in on a long-time adversary. Dean Vardy, Edinburgh’s latest kingpin. Before, every time they thought they had him, his lawyer got him off. Campbell McLintock, another of Cullen’s adversaries. But this time Vardy goes too far, murdering someone under his control. Or does he? After a witness dies, Cullen is soon desperately trying to hold the case together, with Vardy’s conviction dangling by a thread.

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My life is one long fevered dream, balancing between being killed or killing. The name Harley Crow is one to be feared. I am an assassin. A killer. The villain. I own it. I choose this life. Hell, I crave it. I hunger for it. The smell of fear makes me hard and is the very reason the blood...

It started with a dare: steal a kiss from the pretty, green-eyed girl with the Irish mobster father. Turns out, Ada O'Sullivan was a much better thief than me. In the span of one night, I lost my head, my senses, my loyalty to my own crime family.... At 18, she was the only thing worth fighting for. Dying for. Loving. But I was a boy playing a man's game.

When Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired police detective Alan Nesbitt, decide to visit the beautiful island of Alderney in the English Channel, they hope for a pleasant, peaceful holiday. It’s not to be. Taking a walk on their very first day, they discover a body, apparently the victim of an unfortunate accident, on a precipitous hill path.