Résultats pour "Villains" dans Fiction criminelle

Detective Constable Bailey Morgan is back doing what she does best - working undercover. This time she has to infiltrate the inner circle of a notorious underworld family. Posing as a fellow villain, she is on a one-woman mission to bring the family to their knees. But things are never that simple. Bailey finds that she is forced to confront shadowy wraiths from her past and will come face-to-face with a set of devastating revelations that will shatter her world and threaten her very existence.

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.

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.

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.

Oliver Marks bekommt immer nur die Nebenrollen. Trotzdem ist der junge Schauspieler glücklich am renommierten Dellecher College, einer abgeschiedenen Welt mit flackernden Kaminfeuern und ledergebundenen Büchern. Die sieben Studenten seines Jahrgangs sind eine eingeschworene Gemeinschaft, besessen von der Schauspielerei und von Shakespeare. Die Typen, die sie auf der Bühne verkörpern, legen sie auch privat nicht ab: Mitläufer, Verführerin, Held. Der charismatische Richard gibt die unberechenbaren Tyrannen. Doch eines Tages treibt einer der Freunde tot im Collegesee.

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.

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.

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.

The World Series of Poker Main Event—a battleground where legends are made, fortunes are won, and careers are shattered. But this year, something is different. Something is wrong. A mysterious villain has stormed the tournament, his dominance is borderline supernatural.