Résultats pour "identity" dans Fiction criminelle

Former Army brat Morgan Albright has finally planted roots in a friendly neighborhood near Baltimore. Her friend and roommate Nina helps her make the mortgage payments, as does Morgan's job as a bartender. But after she and Nina host their first dinner party—attended by Luke, the flirtatious IT guy who'd been chatting her up at the bar—her carefully built world is shattered. The back door glass is broken, cash and jewelry are missing, her car is gone, and Nina lies dead on the floor.

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A literary psychological thriller set on a sailboat in The Bahamas and the North Atlantic islands, Identity Crisis will take you on a journey into dark nights at sea and the dark recesses of the mind. Jake Masters is sailing alone in The Bahamas when he picks up Sonia Temple, a sailing hitchhiker. When he is lost overboard, and Sonia fails to rescue him, she is overcome with guilt, and when Jake’s phone begins receiving texts from his family, she must decide to fess up, or to impersonate him and pretend all is well.

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Last summer, the FBI and Brenington PD worked together to arrest Anderson Stenoway for multiple homicides. Detective Genevieve Viacorte disagreed with closing the case. She’s convinced he wasn’t acting alone and has worked on her own time to find proof of his accomplice. Meanwhile, Cari’s wedding is days away when she gets a call from an old acquaintance whose cousin is missing. Her cousin was traveling to the Midwest, but missed her connection and no one can get in touch with her. Cari feels inadequate; she’s only a journalist, not an investigator.

Josh is an eminent professional in the world of finance, managing ultra-wealthy clients at a hedge fund in Mayfair, London. The stakes are always high. His savvy clients invest millions with his firm in the expectation of lucrative returns. However, a business meeting with a very important client goes horribly wrong! Josh becomes the centre of a fraud case and its prime suspect. Suddenly, his comfortable lifestyle changes for the worse. Pursued by the police, he has no choice but to operate above the law in order to prove his innocence.

It was his responsibility to fight for those who could not fight, punish those who needed punishing, and righting the world of all the wrongs—to Captain Vicarelli, that was his mission even out of the Corps. Once separated from the Marines, he took his mission to his home, New Orleans, rife with murder, rape, and crime. The Corps had trained him and trained him well. He was a skillful killing machine of unusual propensity.

Six women—mothers, daughters, sisters—gone missing. Inspired by the unsolved murders of the Chillicothe Six, this harrowing novel tells the story of two sisters, both of whom could be the next victims, from the internationally best-selling author of Betty. "Capture[s] what goes horribly...

An FBI agent becomes a suspected serial killer's next-door neighbor in this heartpounding thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown. FBI agent Drex Easton is driven by a single goal: to outmaneuver sociopath Weston Graham, who's responsible for the disappearance of eight...

Kenny Elliot has decided to quit his job as a police detective with a knack for perceiving things beyond the scope of ordinary people. He dreams of leading a normal life with Carmen, the woman he loves, and the mother of his child. But when the pastor of his church asks for his help, he discovers that a fellow police officer, David Yates, has gotten himself into a jam that only someone like Elliot can handle.

X is an identity thief extraordinaire who steals the identity of the worst possible person! He soon becomes a fugitive, hunted by every intelligence agency in the world. The international adventures of this sardonic and amoral anti-hero combine the irony of The Third Man with the fast-paced thrills of The Bourne Identity. To survive, X must use his talent for deceit and his chameleon-like ability to adopt one persona after another, as his predicament becomes steadily more harrowing and the stakes mount.

Duchess of Cornwall Close: sheltered accommodation, a mix of bungalows and flats, newly built and not quite finished. Despite the bitterly cold weather, elderly residents are moving in. Then, one snowy night, an old lady is murdered - dragged from her bed and strangled with a length of flex. DCS Simon Serrailler and his team are aware of bizarre circumstances surrounding her death, but keep some details secret while they desperately search for a match. All they know is that the killer will strike again, and will once more leave the same tell-tale signature.

Pardoned after serving time for her then-husband's white-collar crime, Hollis Morgan knows something about the workings of the criminal mind, but her first criminal case quickly gets complicated. Her client is a young man initially accused of identity theft, but his charge soon includes murder. Hollis has a knack for detecting lies, and although Justin Eastland lies with every breath, she doesn't believe he is a killer.

A simple domestic abuse case turns deadly when the alleged abuser is killed and Stephanie Ann "Sam" McRae's client disappears. When a friend asks Sam to find Melanie Hayes, the Maryland attorney is drawn into a complex case of murder and identity theft that has her running from the mob, breaking into a strip club and forming a shaky alliance with an offbeat private investigator to discover the truth about Melanie and her ex-boyfriend.

Except for their faces, identical twins Mercedes and Marcie Calder are nothing alike. Mercedes is a movie star in LA, with a sexy husband and a glamorous lifestyle; Marcie is an art teacher in Minnesota, with a shy disposition and a quiet life alone. But when Mercedes is found dead, Marcie is the only person who can step into her shoes. On a Hollywood soundstage, she will take on her sister's greatest role. But there is one part of Mercedes' life that Marcie isn't prepared for - until it's too late....

A clever thief with a sinister calling card has invaded Braxton campus. Meanwhile, a string of jewelry thefts, remarkably similar to an unsolved eight-year-old-case, is taking place in town. When a body is discovered at the campus, Kellan is called in to investigate. And if the latest murder isn’t enough to keep him busy, Kellan partners with April to end the Castigliano and Vargas crime family feud.

In the third book in the Lucinda Pierce mystery series, the detective unravels a labyrinth of evidence to track down a double murderer while exploring the depth of childhood scars and the price of irresponsible parenting. When the victim's son is kidnapped, Pierce's FBI friend Jake Lovett joins in the investigation, helping Pierce cope with two deaths in her own dysfunctional family and a case involving mysticism, warped genetics and an unusual motive for murder. Does everyone hide a dark secret?

“The ultimate ‘be gay, do crime’ thriller!”—Layne Fargo, bestselling author of The Favorites “Slick and sexy, with a delightful cast of characters and the eat-the-rich vibes we’re all craving.”—Alison Cochrun, author of Every Step She Takes Two rival conwomen team up on a...

In 'James Penney's New Identity', in the dry desert of Southern California, James Penney is laid off from the plant after seventeen loyal years of service. With the threat of the bank repossessing his treasured red Firebird, he goes on the run. But why are the cops so hot on his trail? And who...

Days of Feasting and Rejoicing is a haunting literary crime novel by award-winning author David Bergen When her friend Christine drowns under suspicious circumstances, Esther Maile—who has always longed to be someone else—slips almost effortlessly into Christine’s life. With a new name...